** ALBANIA. 7425, Feb 14 at 0230, no signal from R. Tirana for next few minutes
at least, tho 7420 Iran is audible (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** BANGLADESH. 15505, Feb 14 at 1359, BB IS, mistimesignal of 5+1
pips ending at 1359:36, fair with flutter, opening Urdu (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** BRAZIL. 11747 & 11813, Feb 14 at 0216, crackling
spurs from 11780.1v RNA/RNB are audible. By 0629 next check they are quite
louder, and also audible the weaker second-order one around 11714 (Glenn Hauser,
OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CHINA. CNR1 jammers, morning of Feb
14:
13920, Feb 14 at 1327, CNR1 jammer, but gone after 1330
15540, Feb 14 at 1334, CNR1 jammer, good with flutter, cuts off at
1335.5*. Must have been against Voice of Tibet, 15542, via Tajikistan at
1314-1335 per Aoki, altho I did not notice a 15542 het/carrier
15570, Feb
14 at 1336, weak carrier here, must be a CNR1 jammer against 15568 V of Tibet
via Tajikistan, which I am hearing, q.v.
13890, Feb 14 at 1338, CNR1
jammer, VG with flutter; none in the 14s
13530, Feb 14 at 1339, CNR1
jammer, VG with flutter // 13890
12560, Feb 14 at 1340, CNR1 jammer, VG
with flutter // 13890
12980, Feb 14 at 1340, CNR1 jammer, VG with flutter
but a split second behind the above ones
11580, Feb 14 at 1345, CNR1
jammer, good and way over WRMI with Brother Scare, tsk2; // 13890. Aoki shows
it`s here because of a 0.1 kW Sound of Hope, Taiwan relay of R. Free Asia which
could be active any time between 2300 and 1610; not necessarily on a daily
schedule
11430, Feb 14 at 1346, CNR1 jammer, good with flutter; None in
the 17s, 16s or 10s
13920, Feb 14 at 1441, CNR1 jammer, good with heavy
flutter (no longer on 13890 as previous hour)
12500, Feb 14 at 1443, CNR1
jammer, good with heavy flutter
12910, Feb 14 at 1443, CNR1 jammer, very
good with heavy flutter
12980, Feb 14 at 1443, CNR1 jammer, good with
heavy flutter
15745, Feb 14 at 1444, CNR1 jammer, good with heavy
flutter; no 16s
17585, Feb 14 at 1447, CNR1 jammer, fair with flutter, //
13920 but an echo apart.
15745 and 17585 are vs VOA Tibetan via Thailand
and Lampertheim, Germany, respectively, this hour only, daily, and not jumping
frequencies (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CUBA. 4765, Feb 14
at 0308, R. Progreso quite undermodulated and hummy, also suffering from CODAR
QRM. This once adequate transmitter is ailing. Meanwhile we`re still waiting for
Arnie`s 3365 to activate with RHC. Has he said anything about that lately on
DXUL? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CUBA. 11840, Feb 14 at
0628, very poor in Spanish, so now it`s the turn of this RHC transmitter to run
overtime past 0600 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** EGYPT [and
non]. 9860, Feb 14 at 0218, R. Cairo is axually modulating sufficiently to copy
during news in English! and only lightly distorted. Yet I`m just making a quick
check and don`t have time to keep listening, missing the chance of a lifetime.
Then:
9965+, Feb 14 at 0218, R. Cairo Arabic resembles the situation on
9860, but with added whine.
9905, Feb 14 at 0220, R. Cairo`s other Arabic
is minus any modulation, but that means less QRM for the OTH radar pulses
(Cyprus?) spanning 9898-9923 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
**
FRANCE [non]. 9395, UT Sat Feb 14 at 0622, RFI via WRN via Global 24 via WRMI, I
happen to catch `The Sound Kitchen` again with Susan Owensby, with winners of a
previous quiz, in Nigeria, Denmark, Gambia, something about naming the American
hostage recently released by Cuba.
Next quiz is to name the top two
presidential contenders in Nigeria and their parties. Good luck! Deadline for
entries is 23 March, and results to be announced 28 March. It seems these
quizzes are weekly, but with 5+ week deadlines ahead. She reminds us times for
this segment are Saturdays at 0452, 0622 and 0752 (UT), even tho it was already
underway when I tuned in at 0622. Closes with a requested Valentine tune, partly
talked over, `Annie`s Song` by John Denver. VG signal now from G24 as habitual
this late, unlike earlier (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
**
GUYANA. 3290-, Feb 14 at 0617, Voice of Guyana, talk in English in BBCWS relay,
seems same as on 9460 Ascension, but a few words out of synch. Very poor signal
as we wonder if still running 1 kW. Presumably Jamie is waiting for replacement
parts to arrive, and he may have gone home to NY in the meantime (Glenn Hauser,
OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** KUWAIT. In my remark about the only 18-19 MHz
band activity, R. Azadi at 0430-1130, WTFK? 19010 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** MEXICO. Correxion: call of this station on 900 is
XEDT, not XEDP as I erred in original report (XEDP is the 710 in same city). Tnx
to Bruce Conti for catching this. I also must have mis-spoken it on WOR.
Corrected here:
900, Feb 9 at 1313 UT, Spanish music, then DJ greets `la
comunidad de Mojita`` [? no such place found in Tejas or México], then
tear-jerker country music in English! Loops NE/SW. Time check for 6:15 so UT -7,
temp in F and C, somewhat Spanglish, and mentions ``Radio Caballo`` (Radio
Horse??) 1316 ad for a sorteo; then INE and other federal PSAs, so it`s
definitely Mexican, and another from the Instituto Electoral de Chihuahua about
urnas electorales, so that clinches it as XEDT in Ciudad Cuauhtémoc. DJ resumes
``música cowboy`` with ``Cotton Fields``. Yet this is deep in the heart of
Chihuahua, not on the border. Have heard XEDT several times before, not with
this format, so maybe a recent change, and maybe not full-time. Cantú has XEDT
as 5/1.5 kW, ``Hits FM`` // 98.3 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1760, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** NAVASSA. 21300-USB, Feb 14 at 1450, K1N making quick
contacts, pileups on the hi side, but as I tune in, another clueless ham tries
to call him on same frequency. DX-pedition has been running almost two weeks,
how much longer? Check the updates at http://www.navassadx.com/
Today they
are contacting only ``ATNO`` All Time New Ones; see the detailed rules. They are
already dismantling with some of the team departed, and will finish on Sunday
Feb 15, QRT at daybreak (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** NEW
ZEALAND. 11725, Feb 14 at 0620, very poor carrier detectable, so I guess RNZI is
still on but not really propagating, preventing us from enjoying the RNZN
Saturday-night request show this week, sob. Could have been on wrong frequency
9700, but that`s still occupied by Turkey (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** OKLAHOMA. 1210, Feb 14 at 0640 UT, KGYN ID in passing during
US Country music, VG signal, obviously on ND day pattern from Guymon instead of
protecting Philadelphia. This is a very common situation with KGYN which I
hardly bother to log, but so strong tonight there can be no doubt (Glenn Hauser,
Enid, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** OKLAHOMA. 91.1, Feb 13 at 2019 UT, KKRD
Enid is off, uncovering weak signals, no doubt including more gospel huxters,
100 kW KCFN Wichita, and/or 100 kW KJRF Lawton OK, unfortunately less likely 100
kW KANZ, High Plains Public Radio, Garden City KS.
Very unusual. Only
200 watts, but from the Broadway Tower in central Enid at 97 meters up makes for
bigsig in the area, with Air One, Christian rock, just like its 90.9 neighbor
from OKC/Edmond, KOKF. KKRD is back on by 0615 UT check Feb 14. This station
started out from a local church as KBVV, including some local programming, Moody
net, then probably sold at a big profit to Air One.
88.3, K202BY Family
Radio translator in Enid remains off Feb 14.
94.3, KLGB-LP Enid, after a
*few days* of dead air, is remodulating by 1630 UT Feb 14.
105.5, K288FX,
has remained on the air whenever checked, after some outages previously reported
uncovering inside Enid, public radio from OU, 105.7 KROU Spencer OK (Glenn
Hauser, Enid, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** TIBET [non]. 15568, Feb 14 at 1336,
presumed V. of Tibet, poor in non-Chinese as scheduled in Aoki via TAJIKISTAN
until 1337, with het on the hi side, unusually stronger than its CNR1 jammer
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. WORLD OF RADIO 1760
monitoring: confirmed Friday Feb 13 after 2130 on WRMI 7570 & 15770.
Next:
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. 7490-, UT Sat Feb 14 at 0221, not Allan Weiner, but
Pirate Joe, about to wrap up a show. Not listening earlier from 0100, don`t know
if he substituted for AW the entire span, but probably. He`s plugging program
sales for WBCQ, contact shortwave @ WHVW.net which is his own 500/57 watt
station on 950 in Hyde Park NY. WHVW programming is sometimes relayed by WBCQ as
a backup/default. 0225 says he will be back Saturday at 6 pm [23 UT] for
`Shortwave Saturday Night``. 0227 pause, WBCQ canned jingle, and JIP Brother
Scare before 0228. Meanwhile, 5110 was in other programming, and 9330 still
AWOL. VG signal now circa 7490 with the ex-9330v transmitter (Glenn Hauser, OK,
DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 910, Feb 14 at 0650 UT as I am dozing off,
rock music from the NW/SE, 0713 UT awaken to hear a Radio Disney ID. Can`t be
WFDF in Michigan, wrong direxion and no longer Disney, so has to be KWDZ Salt
Lake City UT, which however, NRC AM Log 2014-2015 notes had been silent since
Aug 2013 (as of Aug 2014). But NRC AM Switch reported 8/22/14: ``Formerly silent
stations informing the FCC that they are no longer silent: 910 KWDZ UT Salt Lake
City – Silent since 8/17/2013, returned to the air 8/14``.
Yet I don`t
get any other hits on the NRC website as if no one had really logged it. There
is a log in IRCA of KWDZ by Nigel Pimblett, Alberta, on Oct 16, 2014. I had
heard it in Oct 2011. Now it`s steady with KVIS Vinita OK from the east nulled.
5/1 kW, KWDZ day pattern has a good lobe toward us, but not its night pattern;
hmmm. It sure is taking a long time for Disney to divest itself of all those
unwanted stations (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 940,
Feb 14 at 0646 UT, ``AM 940, The Legendary WN##`` YL ID, then classic rock. I
assumed this would be easy to trace, but no such slogan for a 940 in the NRC AM
Log. DF-wise, far most likely is WMIX Mt Vernon IL. At their website http://www.wmix94.com/ I don`t find any
``legendary`` branding, however. Night pattern is tight slightly clockwise from
E-W so not very favorable for us; day pattern is 90 degrees from that, almost
N-S; 5000/1500 watts. As name implies, format is a mix, basically
news/talk/music day, music overnight (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
This report despatched at 1809 UT February 14
