** AFGHANISTAN [non]. 7560, Jan 9 at 0129-0130*, talk in Farsi? Fair with flutter: no, it`s Dari, after Pashto, the second half of VOA Radio Ashna, 0030-0130, 250 kW, 334 degrees from Iranawila, SRI LANKA, per Aoki (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** BURMA [non]. 12115, Jan 9 at 0114, Burmese is poor with flutter, i.e. RFA via SRI LANKA, 0030-0130, 250 kW at 57 degrees. SLBC 11905 is better, q.v. R. Australia is about to cancel its Burmese service, but the Myanmarianese will still have RFA (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CANADA [and non]. 800, Jan 9 at 0140 UT, `Clark Howard Show` advising us how to shop --- avoid a cart and buy less if you are lugging products in your arms. Then advising a caller about her daughter. I have KQCV OKC nulled, which maintains a fairly strong groundwave signal here at night; pattern protects XEROK but aims at CKLW! Clark Howard is live in the afternoons, but CKLW Windsor Ont sked confirms they have him on now:http://www.am800cklw.com/Shows/Schedule
Meanwhile, just a trace of XEROK, which is odd but sometimes happens; co-city station KAMA 750 is also hardly making it past WSB for a change (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CHINA. 11530, Jan 9 at 0120, CNR1 with sounders, Chinese, fair with flutter, jammer? Of course: Aoki shows vs 0.1 kW Sound of Hope from Taiwan, any time between 2110 and 1650 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CUBA. 4765, Jan 9 at 0135, 0149, 0203 chex, R. Progreso is still AWOL, and RHC still hasn`t shown up on 3365. A search of Progreso website http://www.radioprogreso.icrt.cu finds nothing about 4765, but then there is nothing about their multiple MW frequencies either (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CUBA. 5890, Jan 9 at 0124, pulse jamming against nothing --- it`s a few years since VOA Spanish was here, but the Dentro Cuban Jamming Command keeps on it anyway; this is before WWCR comes up with Brother Scare.
Exactly same pitch and type of irregularly-spaced pulses on 5955, but not synchronized. In that case it`s against a long-gone R. República transmitter in Costa Rica (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CUBA. 11670, Jan 9 at 0118, RHC Spanish has VG signal but just barely modulated and somewhat distorted/suppressed, unlike // 11760.
6165, Jan 9 at 0126, RHC English is instead open carrier/dead air, while // 6000 is OK. This causes much weaker leapfrog mixing product 6270 temporarily to be in Spanish only from its 6060 component. By next check at 0414, modulation on 6165 has resumed (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** EGYPT. 12035, Jan 9 at 0116, R. Cairo, poor with flutter and JBM during scheduled Spanish. Nothing on 12080 --- both frequencies have been heard on different dates in the B-14 season, but registrations are not identical: both Abis, at 282 and 241 degrees respectively.
9860.0, Jan 9 at 0120, presumed Cairo Spanish, JBA and JBM
9965.0, Jan 9 at 0120, R. Cairo Arabic, fair with flutter, whine (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** INDIA. 11620, Jan 9 at 0119 fair signal with S Asian vocal music, but 11905 SLBC is better. 11620 is the Urdu service of AIR, 0015-0430, 500 kW, 240 degrees from Bengaluru, and a regular here (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MEXICO. 900, Jan 9 at 0145, Spanish dominant talking about Veracruz, so maybe XEWB? But then goes on to travel promo for Cancún (Mexicans axually go there?), federal IFT PSA, 0146 Informéxico (?) with espacio deportivo. Loops about N/S which fits for Vcz, but still more likely to be news/talk XEOK Monterrey NL which is usually atop anything else including super-powered(?) XEW in the DF. XEWB is listed as Top-40. Then looping further west I am getting another Spanish talker with federal PSAs, Banco de México ad, maybe Chihuahua (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MEXICO. 1300, Jan 9 at 0152, Elvis song segué to Beatles` ``Hey Jude``, both in English with good signal from E/W. Presumed XEP Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua, surely on 38 kW day power rather than 200 watts night. The US stations around here on 1300 are talk, except Marshall MO listed as C&W and surely no such bigsig (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MEXICO. 1430, Jan 9 at 0154, norteña music from N/S up to 0200. Don`t see how it could be anything but XEWD, Ciudad Miguel Alemán, Tamaulipas, listed in IRCA Log as REG/NOR format, as none of the Texans or Nebraskans in NRC AM Log are Spanish (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MEXICO. 1510, Jan 9 at 0155, from N/S, with WLAC nulled, but not much of a factor tonight, speaker in an echoey venue, then losing to music station, presumably Colorado. 0201 back up to outro talk show with 800 number, and 0201.5 FINALLY definite full ID partially copied: ``XEQI, 15-10 AM . . . Monterrey, Nuevo León . . . 10 mil watts de potencia`` . . . and some slogan, www. sites and e-mails I can`t copy, all by YL with reverb (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** PERU [and non]. 5980, Jan 9 at 0104, two weak carriers on slightly different frequencies, and some modulation from one of them. Listening carefully, with an eye on the watch, one of them cuts off at 0105:09.5* so that`s R. Chaski; and the remaining one has the modulation, i.e. BBC via UAE. This is 30 seconds later than last check five nights ago at 0105:39.5* so averaging 6 seconds later per, within the margin of error to the 5.83 spacing calculated over longer ranges (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** SRI LANKA. 11905, Jan 9 at 0114:47.5 musical prélude starts on good but fluttery SLBC carrier already on; timesignal ends at 0115:20, sign on and nice S Asian music (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 3299.5-USB, Jan 9 at 0112, MARS net, AFF4AL in contact with AFA4PM, and then calling stations in Georgia, Kentucky. This roster shows AFF4AL as State Mars Director in Alabama; AFA4PM in Tennessee. http://www.marsregionone.org/NCS/Net-Log-V-03-01-2013-Build-001-CS.xls
Many other calls could have been logged. I`d rather hear Belize. I now notice the arrow-down at the end of the URL in Google search which will lead to cache or similar (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 13565 approx., Jan 9 at 0131, HIFER beacon K6FRC with CW ID over and over, weak but clearly copiable, mixed with CODAR swishes, no other beacons audible now than this one in California duplicating a real ham call (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. WORLD OF RADIO 1755 monitoring: confirmed on Global 24 via WRMI 9395, both at 2201 Thursday Jan 8 and 0001 UT Friday Jan 9; fair signals. Next:
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 0400 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
Podcasts:http://www.rmrc.de/index.php/rmrc-service/2014-07-17-12-23-03
http://shortwave.am/wor.xml
http://shortwave.am
also provides comprehensive updated SW schedules sortable in a variety of ways; opening defaults to BBC listings
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 9930, Jan 9 at 0108, music at very poor level, and 9475 talk is also very poor, no doubt the WTWWs failing to propagate, and even more so 12105 if on, no signal at all. Nothing on 5085 or 5830 yet where they surely would be audible (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 7505+, Jan 9 at 0203 and later, WRNO is AWOL again, for how long this time? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 820, Jan 9 at 0141 UT, another try at the other talk station in English I have been hearing mixing with WBAP, and rather readable with WBAP nulled: it`s `The Savage Nation` and tonight the SAH is only 32/minute = 0.53 Hz which is closer to the offset of WWBA Largo FL for a couple years ago on the mwoffsets list.
Does The Savage Nation website list WWBA as an affiliate? http://www.michaelsavage.wnd.com/wp-content/themes/savage-theme/affiliatesmap.php
NO, altho it does have WBAP but at a totally different time, as the only 820 affiliate anywhere, anywhen.
At least this anti-American, puke-inspiring talkshow lists all affiliates on one page making it easy to search, altho outdated.
But what do they know? WWBA itself DOES list Savage at 6-9 pm ET = 23-02 UT:http://www.newstalkflorida.com/820-news-program-schedule/
So I`m quite sure it`s WWBA as the DF also fits, but the night power and pattern do not: 1 kW to the SE with a null toward WBAP and pretty much toward us too! While 50 kW day pattern has two major lobes, one to the N and another to the SSE, so if that`s what`s running now, long after sunset, we are still way off the peaks, but at least not in a deep low-power null. Florida stations of any power are quite rare here (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 870, Jan 9 at 0144 UT, with WWL nulled I hear --- Vietnamese! Not Can Tho, now 500 kW on 873, but Fort Worth TX, KFJZ, supposedly a 1 kW daytimer. NRC AM Log shows ETHnic, but all I ever hear is Viet, and slogan as R. Fortaleza which isn`t Vietnamese either. FCC AM Query shows January SR/SS times for it are 1330-2345 UT. It might have been on an extra two hours with a few watts on a PSSA, except FCC correspondence file shows that was denied (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 21460, just after posting my last log, heard back from Jeff White that it was not WRMI which I heard with big open carrier until 1345* Jan 8. That leaves WHRI or Greenville (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
This report despatched at 0506 UT January 9
** BURMA [non]. 12115, Jan 9 at 0114, Burmese is poor with flutter, i.e. RFA via SRI LANKA, 0030-0130, 250 kW at 57 degrees. SLBC 11905 is better, q.v. R. Australia is about to cancel its Burmese service, but the Myanmarianese will still have RFA (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CANADA [and non]. 800, Jan 9 at 0140 UT, `Clark Howard Show` advising us how to shop --- avoid a cart and buy less if you are lugging products in your arms. Then advising a caller about her daughter. I have KQCV OKC nulled, which maintains a fairly strong groundwave signal here at night; pattern protects XEROK but aims at CKLW! Clark Howard is live in the afternoons, but CKLW Windsor Ont sked confirms they have him on now:http://www.am800cklw.com/Shows/Schedule
Meanwhile, just a trace of XEROK, which is odd but sometimes happens; co-city station KAMA 750 is also hardly making it past WSB for a change (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CHINA. 11530, Jan 9 at 0120, CNR1 with sounders, Chinese, fair with flutter, jammer? Of course: Aoki shows vs 0.1 kW Sound of Hope from Taiwan, any time between 2110 and 1650 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CUBA. 4765, Jan 9 at 0135, 0149, 0203 chex, R. Progreso is still AWOL, and RHC still hasn`t shown up on 3365. A search of Progreso website http://www.radioprogreso.icrt.cu finds nothing about 4765, but then there is nothing about their multiple MW frequencies either (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CUBA. 5890, Jan 9 at 0124, pulse jamming against nothing --- it`s a few years since VOA Spanish was here, but the Dentro Cuban Jamming Command keeps on it anyway; this is before WWCR comes up with Brother Scare.
Exactly same pitch and type of irregularly-spaced pulses on 5955, but not synchronized. In that case it`s against a long-gone R. República transmitter in Costa Rica (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CUBA. 11670, Jan 9 at 0118, RHC Spanish has VG signal but just barely modulated and somewhat distorted/suppressed, unlike // 11760.
6165, Jan 9 at 0126, RHC English is instead open carrier/dead air, while // 6000 is OK. This causes much weaker leapfrog mixing product 6270 temporarily to be in Spanish only from its 6060 component. By next check at 0414, modulation on 6165 has resumed (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** EGYPT. 12035, Jan 9 at 0116, R. Cairo, poor with flutter and JBM during scheduled Spanish. Nothing on 12080 --- both frequencies have been heard on different dates in the B-14 season, but registrations are not identical: both Abis, at 282 and 241 degrees respectively.
9860.0, Jan 9 at 0120, presumed Cairo Spanish, JBA and JBM
9965.0, Jan 9 at 0120, R. Cairo Arabic, fair with flutter, whine (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** INDIA. 11620, Jan 9 at 0119 fair signal with S Asian vocal music, but 11905 SLBC is better. 11620 is the Urdu service of AIR, 0015-0430, 500 kW, 240 degrees from Bengaluru, and a regular here (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MEXICO. 900, Jan 9 at 0145, Spanish dominant talking about Veracruz, so maybe XEWB? But then goes on to travel promo for Cancún (Mexicans axually go there?), federal IFT PSA, 0146 Informéxico (?) with espacio deportivo. Loops about N/S which fits for Vcz, but still more likely to be news/talk XEOK Monterrey NL which is usually atop anything else including super-powered(?) XEW in the DF. XEWB is listed as Top-40. Then looping further west I am getting another Spanish talker with federal PSAs, Banco de México ad, maybe Chihuahua (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MEXICO. 1300, Jan 9 at 0152, Elvis song segué to Beatles` ``Hey Jude``, both in English with good signal from E/W. Presumed XEP Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua, surely on 38 kW day power rather than 200 watts night. The US stations around here on 1300 are talk, except Marshall MO listed as C&W and surely no such bigsig (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MEXICO. 1430, Jan 9 at 0154, norteña music from N/S up to 0200. Don`t see how it could be anything but XEWD, Ciudad Miguel Alemán, Tamaulipas, listed in IRCA Log as REG/NOR format, as none of the Texans or Nebraskans in NRC AM Log are Spanish (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MEXICO. 1510, Jan 9 at 0155, from N/S, with WLAC nulled, but not much of a factor tonight, speaker in an echoey venue, then losing to music station, presumably Colorado. 0201 back up to outro talk show with 800 number, and 0201.5 FINALLY definite full ID partially copied: ``XEQI, 15-10 AM . . . Monterrey, Nuevo León . . . 10 mil watts de potencia`` . . . and some slogan, www. sites and e-mails I can`t copy, all by YL with reverb (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** PERU [and non]. 5980, Jan 9 at 0104, two weak carriers on slightly different frequencies, and some modulation from one of them. Listening carefully, with an eye on the watch, one of them cuts off at 0105:09.5* so that`s R. Chaski; and the remaining one has the modulation, i.e. BBC via UAE. This is 30 seconds later than last check five nights ago at 0105:39.5* so averaging 6 seconds later per, within the margin of error to the 5.83 spacing calculated over longer ranges (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** SRI LANKA. 11905, Jan 9 at 0114:47.5 musical prélude starts on good but fluttery SLBC carrier already on; timesignal ends at 0115:20, sign on and nice S Asian music (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 3299.5-USB, Jan 9 at 0112, MARS net, AFF4AL in contact with AFA4PM, and then calling stations in Georgia, Kentucky. This roster shows AFF4AL as State Mars Director in Alabama; AFA4PM in Tennessee. http://www.marsregionone.org/NCS/Net-Log-V-03-01-2013-Build-001-CS.xls
Many other calls could have been logged. I`d rather hear Belize. I now notice the arrow-down at the end of the URL in Google search which will lead to cache or similar (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 13565 approx., Jan 9 at 0131, HIFER beacon K6FRC with CW ID over and over, weak but clearly copiable, mixed with CODAR swishes, no other beacons audible now than this one in California duplicating a real ham call (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. WORLD OF RADIO 1755 monitoring: confirmed on Global 24 via WRMI 9395, both at 2201 Thursday Jan 8 and 0001 UT Friday Jan 9; fair signals. Next:
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 0400 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
Podcasts:http://www.rmrc.de/index.php/rmrc-service/2014-07-17-12-23-03
http://shortwave.am/wor.xml
http://shortwave.am
also provides comprehensive updated SW schedules sortable in a variety of ways; opening defaults to BBC listings
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 9930, Jan 9 at 0108, music at very poor level, and 9475 talk is also very poor, no doubt the WTWWs failing to propagate, and even more so 12105 if on, no signal at all. Nothing on 5085 or 5830 yet where they surely would be audible (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 7505+, Jan 9 at 0203 and later, WRNO is AWOL again, for how long this time? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 820, Jan 9 at 0141 UT, another try at the other talk station in English I have been hearing mixing with WBAP, and rather readable with WBAP nulled: it`s `The Savage Nation` and tonight the SAH is only 32/minute = 0.53 Hz which is closer to the offset of WWBA Largo FL for a couple years ago on the mwoffsets list.
Does The Savage Nation website list WWBA as an affiliate? http://www.michaelsavage.wnd.com/wp-content/themes/savage-theme/affiliatesmap.php
NO, altho it does have WBAP but at a totally different time, as the only 820 affiliate anywhere, anywhen.
At least this anti-American, puke-inspiring talkshow lists all affiliates on one page making it easy to search, altho outdated.
But what do they know? WWBA itself DOES list Savage at 6-9 pm ET = 23-02 UT:http://www.newstalkflorida.com/820-news-program-schedule/
So I`m quite sure it`s WWBA as the DF also fits, but the night power and pattern do not: 1 kW to the SE with a null toward WBAP and pretty much toward us too! While 50 kW day pattern has two major lobes, one to the N and another to the SSE, so if that`s what`s running now, long after sunset, we are still way off the peaks, but at least not in a deep low-power null. Florida stations of any power are quite rare here (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 870, Jan 9 at 0144 UT, with WWL nulled I hear --- Vietnamese! Not Can Tho, now 500 kW on 873, but Fort Worth TX, KFJZ, supposedly a 1 kW daytimer. NRC AM Log shows ETHnic, but all I ever hear is Viet, and slogan as R. Fortaleza which isn`t Vietnamese either. FCC AM Query shows January SR/SS times for it are 1330-2345 UT. It might have been on an extra two hours with a few watts on a PSSA, except FCC correspondence file shows that was denied (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 21460, just after posting my last log, heard back from Jeff White that it was not WRMI which I heard with big open carrier until 1345* Jan 8. That leaves WHRI or Greenville (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
This report despatched at 0506 UT January 9
