** BANGLADESH. 15505, Feb 12 at 1355, Bangladesh Betar carrier is already on,
very poor; 1359 barely audible IS, and mistimesignal ending at 1359:33.5 (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** BRAZIL. 11747 & 11814 approx.,
Feb 12 at 0628, crackling spurs are audible from 11780.1v, RNA/RNB (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CHINA. CNR1 jammers, morning of Feb
11, total of 14 heard:
15940, Feb 11 at 1435, CNR1 jammer, very poor with
flutter
15745, Feb 11 at 1436, CNR1 jammer, fair with flutter
16920, Feb
11 at 1439, CNR1 jammer, poor with flutter, stronger than 15940 and not
synchronized
14870, Feb 11 at 1440, CNR1 jammer, good with flutter //
15940
14980, Feb 11 at 1441, CNR1 jammer, fair with flutter //
14870
12045, Feb 11 at 1442, CNR1 jammer, good with flutter, not synch with
others; and none in the 13s
11500, Feb 11 at 1444, CNR1 jammer, poor, not
synchronized with 14870
10870, Feb 11 at 1445, CNR1 jammer, good with
flutter, ditto
9680, Feb 11 at 1447, CNR1 jammer, not synch with
10870
9530, Feb 11 at 1448, CNR1 jammer, not synch with 10870, and
*Firedragon* music also mixed in with VOA Chinese
9200, Feb 11 at 1449, CNR1
jammer, poor, not synch 10870
7445, Feb 11 at 1450, CNR1 jammer, good with
CCI, not synch 10870
7385, Feb 11 at 1450, CNR1 jammer, good with flutter,
ditto
6145, Feb 11 at 1451, CNR1 jammer, fair, ditto; so 10870 the odd
one
CNR1 jamming Feb 12 morning:
15745, Feb 12 at 1440, CNR1 jammer,
good with heavy flutter; none higher
12045, Feb 12 at 1445, usual CNR1 jammer
mixed with target here; none in the 14s, 13s, low 11s or 10s
12980, Feb 12 at
1446, CNR1 jammer, good with flutter
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** CHINA. 5915, Feb 11 at 1316 poor signal with a song. Nice if
it were Myanmar, but fat chance of that with CRI Russian via Hohhot also here
this hour, even tho aimed 345 degrees, with 100 kW.
5925, Feb 11 at 1318,
poor signal in Chinese with hum, not // 6125 CNR1. Aoki shows 5925 is CNR5 at
1000-1705 in Chinese, 100 kW, 163 degrees from Beijing 491 site. WRTH identifies
fifth program as Zhonghua News Radio or Voice of Zhonghua (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** CUBA [and non]. 13800-13840, Feb 12 at 1443, pulse
jamming spike spurs out to this range from 13820 where wall-of-noise fails to
block R. Martí which is well atop it, promoting also via Radio Caracol, WSUA
1260, daily at 10-pm to 12 [= 03-05 UT; WSUA`s 20 kW night pattern is broad,
centered ESE from Miami, so maybe gets better into eastern Cuba; we`d not be
surprised if they happen to run 50 kW day power. WRTH lists only one Cuban on
1260, 2.5 kW R. Progreso relay in Granma] (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** CUBA. 9710, Feb 11 at 0640, good and steady signal with open
carrier/dead air; what else but RHC, not turned off at 0600? 15230, which alone
is scheduled to run until 0700, has been very poorly audible in Spanish (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** KOREA SOUTH. 15575, Feb 12 at 1345,
KBS World Radio is struggling to get its 1300 English broadcast into North
America, now a fair-good signal, but with *very* heavy flutter, news about North
Korea. The signal weakens during the following hour in Korean (Glenn Hauser, OK,
DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** KUWAIT [and non]. 21540, Feb 11 at 1433 and
later, no signal from R. Kuwait. Must be off, as Sa`udi 21505 is still
audible.
21540, Feb 12 at 1402, R. Kuwait is back on today with good
signal, mixture of music and Arabic talk but with frequent IADs [intermittent
audio dropouts], very annoying; 21505 BSKSA is also audible, and by 1407 I
notice that it`s // 21540! But running about 4 seconds behind Kuwait. No IADs on
the Sa`udi version. These two running // has happened before, perhaps something
to do with the GCC. Also // 17705 BSKSA. But by 1438 they`ve split again, 21540
with Qur`an, 21505 with something secular.
Speaking of Kuwait, currently
there is zero activity on the 18-19 MHz band, but in A-15, R. Free Asia in
Tibetan plans to resume at 11-14 UT, switching frequencies every hour and every
day of the week, ranging from 18930 to 19010; so the ChiCom jammers will be back
too, only needing to refer to HFCC to keep up with RFA jumps, so why bother?
Because they can. Never mind that this forces any listeners to try to keep up
with them too, lacking handy HFCC schedules. Sound of Hope could also appear on
18970 or so, for jammer-pouncing (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** MEXICO. 650, Feb 12 at 1300 UT, noticiero `Altavoz` opening,
mentions Grupo Chávez, Sinaloa, so XETNT Los Mochis, a regular here on sunrise
skip; dominant signal now. Our Enid sunrise today: 1323 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** MEXICO. 660, Feb 12 at 1302, DJ mentions ``La Lupe
98.9`` at least thrice, with phone numbers, presumably for requests, i.e. XEACB,
Ciudad Delicias, Chihuahua, another AM demoted to a mere FM simulcast (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MEXICO. 680, Feb 12 at 1304, birthday
greeting to several people, looping WSW, but no locations mentioned or caught,
except ``allá en San Pedro`` which is an ejido/ranchito in Guasave; 1308 a
Sinaloa PSA, so XEORO in Guasave. Tuning on up, no doubt the usual ones on 700,
710, 730 also in (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MEXICO. 970,
Feb 12 at 1313, I have a fair and steady signal in Spanish, so is it XEJ Juárez?
From music to an INE PSA about a sorteo (drawing: is that a euphemism for
elexion?); then the Tribuna Estatal Electoral de Chihuahua; ad for the PAN
party; another different INE PSA, and yet another, finally back to DJ giving two
phone numbers, one of which I copy as 652-57-200-84, 1316 into music.
Cantú now linx 970 XEJ to http://www.pancho991.com/ i.e., just
simulcasting this FM now? Watch out for that slogan, unheard yet. I can`t find
any phone number on the site except for boilerplate at the bottom, sales office
of Grupo Radio México, ``Ventas Juárez (656) 6131314`` so at least that area
code looks close. The other Chihuahuan on 970, XESW in Ciudad Madera, per its
website has a 614 prefix.
BTW, my local 960 KGWA splatters very little
upon adjacents day or night, unlike 1390 KCRC (Glenn Hauser, Enid OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** SAUDI ARABIA. BSKSA // KUWAIT: q.v.
**
SOMALILAND. 7120-, Feb 11 at 1321, JBA carrier, vs CW QRM from a KC7 et al.,
1323 maybe a trace of music, so presumed reactivated R. Hargeisa via long path.
It`s slightly on the lo side compared to 6120 and 1120 stations. Ron Howard in
California was listening at the same time, but says ``Unable to confirm if they
still have English from 1320 to 1340, as signal was far below threshold level;
by 1356, I seemed to have their open carrier that went off about 1401``. And he
had it much better after the carrier came back on at 1453, programming from
1500. Again Feb 12 at 1354, I have a JBA carrier on 7120 (Glenn Hauser, OK,
WORLD OF RADIO 1760, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** SUDAN [and non]. 15550, Feb
11 at 1455, R. Tamazuj carrier via VATICAN is already on helping to modulate
WJHR-USB. At 1530, once R. Dabanga has succeeded Tamazuj, I find the Sudanese
tone jammer still on 15555, the temporary clandestine frequency for 2+ weeks. So
RT & RD shifted back here once the jammer caught up with them; expect a
cat-and-mouse game to continue in this area.
I first heard 15550
reactivated Feb 10, not having checked on Feb 9, but Dan Sheedy in California
says they were there by then, while the 1 kHz tone jammer after 1530 was on
15560 Feb 9; we`re not aware the clands were ever on 15560, so maybe the jamming
command guessed wrong, but today Feb 12 at 1532 check, the tone jammer is again
on 15560 while Dabanga is on 15550, big clash with WJHR, as R. Tamazuj also was
at 1515 check. I wonder if SMG ever jumps these frequencies *during* broadcasts?
(Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1760, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A.
WORLD OF RADIO 1759 monitoring: confirmed Wed Feb 11 at 1415 on WRMI 9955, good.
Also Wed Feb 11 at 2200 on WBCQ 7490v, and at 2201 on Global 24 via WRMI 9395,
both fair.
WORLD OF RADIO 1760 monitoring: confirmed first airing UT
Thursday Feb 12 at 0430 on WRMI, 9955, sufficient. Also Thu 1330 on 9955, good
but with Cuban pulse jamming underneath; tnx a lot, Arnie! Next:
Thu 2201
on Global 24 via WRMI 9395 [MISSING the last two weeks, but still on the
schedule; due to Dialogos Greece running over? Check one more time]
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. 9955, Wed Feb 11 at 1400, European News Network via WRMI is not news but a
long feature about Dame Vera Lynn, preceding 1415 WORLD OF RADIO. Then after
WOR:
9955, Wed Feb 11 at 1446, Echo of Europe, introduced in English
claiming it`s on 5930 for Europe. N Africa, Mideast [from Bulgaria], and on 1368
[from Italy], with beeping SFX but transmitter break at 1446*-*1447 by when it`s
in French instead.
9955, Wed Feb 11 at 1329 & 1359, flanking WORLD OF
RADIO, Bruce Baskin plugging WRMI as the ``leader`` in sports coverage, the
first one promoting the second one ``at 9 am and 9 pm``. Yet these spots of one
minute or less are hardly enough to do anything justice; I just don`t get it,
tho I am hardly eager for WRMI to waste any more time on silly
ballgames.
17790, Feb 12 at 1348, WRMI already on with prélude of
extremely repetitive music with a heavy beat, like looping from an automatic
keyboard, then adding some vocalizations. By 1357 it has slowed down but still
looping; 1359 sign-on of R. Africa mentioning 17790 and 15190, but the latter
not to be used until 2003; 1401 into `Unshackled` (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 9395, Feb 11 at 1448, Global 24 via WRMI has
defaulted to Bach fill music, and at 1453 to Tschaikowsky`s 1812 Overture. The
1430-1600 sesquihour on Wednesdays is scheduled only as World Radio Network
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 17775, Feb 12 at 1437,
zero signal from KVOH, which by now has normally built up to VG daytime level,
more than an hour after sunrise here, so it`s off. Still absent at 1511 and 1532
chex. Maybe this means progress in installing their replacement transmitter
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** VANUATU [non]. 3945, Feb 11 at
1312, jazz song in English, i.e. R. Nikkei 2, not // stronger Nikkei 1 on 3925
with classical music. I`m checking for signs of another signal on 3945, i.e. R.
Vanuatu which is reported running 24 hours on this frequency only, but no trace.
After 1401* of RN2, still not even a JBA carrier left. Yet Ron Howard in
California says this was ``one of their better days``, heard past 1445 (Glenn
Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1760, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
This report
despatched at 1736 UT February 12
