** BRAZIL. 11747 & 11813, Feb 17 at 0125,
crackling spurs from 11780.1v, RNA/RNB, now edging against legit AM signals on
11810, 11750 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CHINA. CNR1 jammers, 16 of them, mid-morning in China Feb 17, mostly arriving here with very heavy flutter, u.o.s.:
11500, Feb 17 at 0128, CNR1 jammer, good
11430, Feb 17 at 0128, CNR1 jammer, very poor with flutter
12910, Feb 17 at 0129, CNR1 jammer, fair with flutter; has an accurate 1+1 (2-pip) timesignal on the half-hour
12430, Feb 17 at 0132, CNR1 jammer, poor with flutter, not synch 11500
12190, Feb 17 at 0133, CNR1 jammer, very poor with flutter, and CODAR
13980, Feb 17 at 0134, CNR1 jammer, fair with flutter, // 12910
13820, Feb 17 at 0135, CNR1 jammer, poor with flutter; not synch 12910
14800, Feb 17 at 0137, CNR1 jammer, very good, // 12910
16100, Feb 17 at 0140, CNR1 jammer, good // 12910
16320, Feb 17 at 0141, CNR1 jammer presumed, good but dead air
16920, Feb 17 at 0142, CNR1 jammer, very good // 12910
17200, Feb 17 at 0143, CNR1 jammer, good // 12910
17535, Feb 17 at 0144, CNR1 jammer, good // 12910
17550, Feb 17 at 0144, CNR1 jammer, poor // 12910
17730, Feb 17 at 0145, CNR1 jammer, poor, and usual het from off-frequency secret Mongolian transmitter of RFA Tibetan until 0300
17890, Feb 17 at 0145, CNR1 jammer, poor // 12910; none in the 18s
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CUBA. 6000 & 6060, Feb 17 at 0110, RHC English and Spanish both with flutter, but nonesuch on 6165 or R Rebelde 5025, while 5040 RHC has some flutter but less. There must be somewhat of a propagation disturbance; close to transpolar signals are heavily fluttering but it`s unusual for Cuba, maybe depending on different azimuths and signals bouncing back off the disturbed auroral zone area. WWV reported at 0000:
``Geophysical Alert Message
#Solar-terrestrial indices for 16 February follow.
Solar flux 118 and estimated planetary A-index 5.
The estimated planetary K-index at 0000 UTC on 17 February was 3.
No space weather storms were observed for the past 24 hours.
No space weather storms are predicted for the next 24 hours``
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** EGYPT. 9860, Feb 17 at 0120, R. Cairo good signal but open carrier/dead air
9965, Feb 17 at 0121, R. Cairo, good signal with flutter, lite whine, but just barely modulated. This one usually has best modulation
12080, Feb 17 at 0123, R. Cairo, fair with very heavy flutter, dead air
12035, Feb 17 at 0123, R. Cairo, fair with less flutter, JBM
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** GREECE. 9935, Feb 16 at 2204, ERT with humwhine // clear 9420 as ``ERA Spor`` is announced. Feb 17 at 0121, 9935`s whine is louder than the modulation (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** INDIA. 9380, Feb 17 at 0116, AIR VBS good with heavy flutter, and for the morning broadcast, Aligarh manages to modulate with S Asian vocal music // 9870 Bengaluru but slightly behind it, similar signal. While the same 9380 transmitter from 1320 when it carries the National Channel at night has been caught more than twice broadcasting dead air as late as 1350.
11710-11715-11720, Feb 17 at 0126, very ragged DRM noise is already on for the AIR Nepali service at 0130 from Delhi-Aligarh site, disaudiblizing Argentina on 11711v. One wonders if at least in target Nepal this mess morphs into a loud & clear signal, and, if anyone is there with a DRM receiver to decode it (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** KOREA SOUTH. 15575, Feb 17 at 0139, open carrier, good with heavy flutter, much like all the ChiCom jammers above and below it; presumably KBSWR already on the air prior to 0200 Spanish service (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MEXICO. 1370, Feb 17 at 0155, Mexican NA is in progress, by children`s choir, followed by three more verses at 0156, 0157 and 0158, finally stops at 0159 with no announcement but steady carrier which has been dominating frequency stays on a while. As the only 1370 XE listed by IRCA to sign-off at 0200, and the closet one, this is surely XEGNK in Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas. IRCA shows as 5/0.5 kW, Fiesta Mexicana, Mariachi Estéreo (but no FM attached). Cantú agrees, no FM, so must we conclude it`s AM stereo? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MEXICO. 6185, Feb 17 at 0109, XEPPM is lamentably just barely modulated, but does a nice job of quieting the frequency compared to the noisy adjacents (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** NORTH AMERICA. 6950-USB, Feb 17 at 0107, pirate music, 0111 brief announcement but missed it, pause and 0112 more music; 0115 another ID as X-L-R-8 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** OMAN. 15140, Feb 17 at 0138, very poor signal with Qur`an, instead of the zero signal on 11650 where RSO is supposed to be now (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. WORLD OF RADIO 1760 monitoring: confirmed Monday Feb 16 at 2201 on Global 24 via WRMI 9395, sufficient. Next:
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. 9975, Feb 17 at 0122, KVOH in the IMF block, pending a real KIMF SW station, James Planck preaching in English, YL sidekick consecutively (not simultaneously) interpreting sentence by sentence into Spanish; but when another person speaks Spanish, she translates into accented English (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 15825, having been off the air earlier today, and before that on the wrong frequency, 15795, as in my previous report, WWCR-1 is found to be back on the air and on the correct frequency, Feb 16 at 2015, still at 2156, and off for regular QSY to 6115 by 2203, when `Frecuencia al Día` should be running (Glenn Hausere, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 9475 & 9930 & 12105, Feb 16 at 2203, WTWW is AWOL from all three transmitters. Next check at 0118 Feb 17, only WTWW-1 is back, on 9475 as PPPP is dissing homosexuals, Jews and snakes. At 0203, pops up on night frequency 5830 in progress after a break from 9475 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 11852-11888, Feb 17 at 0124, WEWN Spanish is extremely strong, expanding the spurfield from 11870 always accompanying this transmitter out to 18 kHz either side, much worse within plus/minus 9 kHz.
11520, Feb 17 at 0128, WEWN English is not as strong or wide, but does suffer from that squeal (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 1210, Feb 17 at 0153 UT, dominant signal is not KGYN Guymon OK, but romantic music in Spanish looping N/S. Altho there are 5 XEs listed in deeper Mexico, this is surely KUBR in San Juan, RGV, TX, which is really religious, so if I had listened longer may have detected a revered object of affexion, but it fades a bit so when nulled I can hear country from KGYN 90 degrees off, not the bigsig it often provides when on day pattern at night (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
This report dispatched at 0409 UT February 17
** CHINA. CNR1 jammers, 16 of them, mid-morning in China Feb 17, mostly arriving here with very heavy flutter, u.o.s.:
11500, Feb 17 at 0128, CNR1 jammer, good
11430, Feb 17 at 0128, CNR1 jammer, very poor with flutter
12910, Feb 17 at 0129, CNR1 jammer, fair with flutter; has an accurate 1+1 (2-pip) timesignal on the half-hour
12430, Feb 17 at 0132, CNR1 jammer, poor with flutter, not synch 11500
12190, Feb 17 at 0133, CNR1 jammer, very poor with flutter, and CODAR
13980, Feb 17 at 0134, CNR1 jammer, fair with flutter, // 12910
13820, Feb 17 at 0135, CNR1 jammer, poor with flutter; not synch 12910
14800, Feb 17 at 0137, CNR1 jammer, very good, // 12910
16100, Feb 17 at 0140, CNR1 jammer, good // 12910
16320, Feb 17 at 0141, CNR1 jammer presumed, good but dead air
16920, Feb 17 at 0142, CNR1 jammer, very good // 12910
17200, Feb 17 at 0143, CNR1 jammer, good // 12910
17535, Feb 17 at 0144, CNR1 jammer, good // 12910
17550, Feb 17 at 0144, CNR1 jammer, poor // 12910
17730, Feb 17 at 0145, CNR1 jammer, poor, and usual het from off-frequency secret Mongolian transmitter of RFA Tibetan until 0300
17890, Feb 17 at 0145, CNR1 jammer, poor // 12910; none in the 18s
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CUBA. 6000 & 6060, Feb 17 at 0110, RHC English and Spanish both with flutter, but nonesuch on 6165 or R Rebelde 5025, while 5040 RHC has some flutter but less. There must be somewhat of a propagation disturbance; close to transpolar signals are heavily fluttering but it`s unusual for Cuba, maybe depending on different azimuths and signals bouncing back off the disturbed auroral zone area. WWV reported at 0000:
``Geophysical Alert Message
#Solar-terrestrial indices for 16 February follow.
Solar flux 118 and estimated planetary A-index 5.
The estimated planetary K-index at 0000 UTC on 17 February was 3.
No space weather storms were observed for the past 24 hours.
No space weather storms are predicted for the next 24 hours``
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** EGYPT. 9860, Feb 17 at 0120, R. Cairo good signal but open carrier/dead air
9965, Feb 17 at 0121, R. Cairo, good signal with flutter, lite whine, but just barely modulated. This one usually has best modulation
12080, Feb 17 at 0123, R. Cairo, fair with very heavy flutter, dead air
12035, Feb 17 at 0123, R. Cairo, fair with less flutter, JBM
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** GREECE. 9935, Feb 16 at 2204, ERT with humwhine // clear 9420 as ``ERA Spor`` is announced. Feb 17 at 0121, 9935`s whine is louder than the modulation (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** INDIA. 9380, Feb 17 at 0116, AIR VBS good with heavy flutter, and for the morning broadcast, Aligarh manages to modulate with S Asian vocal music // 9870 Bengaluru but slightly behind it, similar signal. While the same 9380 transmitter from 1320 when it carries the National Channel at night has been caught more than twice broadcasting dead air as late as 1350.
11710-11715-11720, Feb 17 at 0126, very ragged DRM noise is already on for the AIR Nepali service at 0130 from Delhi-Aligarh site, disaudiblizing Argentina on 11711v. One wonders if at least in target Nepal this mess morphs into a loud & clear signal, and, if anyone is there with a DRM receiver to decode it (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** KOREA SOUTH. 15575, Feb 17 at 0139, open carrier, good with heavy flutter, much like all the ChiCom jammers above and below it; presumably KBSWR already on the air prior to 0200 Spanish service (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MEXICO. 1370, Feb 17 at 0155, Mexican NA is in progress, by children`s choir, followed by three more verses at 0156, 0157 and 0158, finally stops at 0159 with no announcement but steady carrier which has been dominating frequency stays on a while. As the only 1370 XE listed by IRCA to sign-off at 0200, and the closet one, this is surely XEGNK in Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas. IRCA shows as 5/0.5 kW, Fiesta Mexicana, Mariachi Estéreo (but no FM attached). Cantú agrees, no FM, so must we conclude it`s AM stereo? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MEXICO. 6185, Feb 17 at 0109, XEPPM is lamentably just barely modulated, but does a nice job of quieting the frequency compared to the noisy adjacents (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** NORTH AMERICA. 6950-USB, Feb 17 at 0107, pirate music, 0111 brief announcement but missed it, pause and 0112 more music; 0115 another ID as X-L-R-8 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** OMAN. 15140, Feb 17 at 0138, very poor signal with Qur`an, instead of the zero signal on 11650 where RSO is supposed to be now (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. WORLD OF RADIO 1760 monitoring: confirmed Monday Feb 16 at 2201 on Global 24 via WRMI 9395, sufficient. Next:
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. 9975, Feb 17 at 0122, KVOH in the IMF block, pending a real KIMF SW station, James Planck preaching in English, YL sidekick consecutively (not simultaneously) interpreting sentence by sentence into Spanish; but when another person speaks Spanish, she translates into accented English (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 15825, having been off the air earlier today, and before that on the wrong frequency, 15795, as in my previous report, WWCR-1 is found to be back on the air and on the correct frequency, Feb 16 at 2015, still at 2156, and off for regular QSY to 6115 by 2203, when `Frecuencia al Día` should be running (Glenn Hausere, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 9475 & 9930 & 12105, Feb 16 at 2203, WTWW is AWOL from all three transmitters. Next check at 0118 Feb 17, only WTWW-1 is back, on 9475 as PPPP is dissing homosexuals, Jews and snakes. At 0203, pops up on night frequency 5830 in progress after a break from 9475 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 11852-11888, Feb 17 at 0124, WEWN Spanish is extremely strong, expanding the spurfield from 11870 always accompanying this transmitter out to 18 kHz either side, much worse within plus/minus 9 kHz.
11520, Feb 17 at 0128, WEWN English is not as strong or wide, but does suffer from that squeal (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 1210, Feb 17 at 0153 UT, dominant signal is not KGYN Guymon OK, but romantic music in Spanish looping N/S. Altho there are 5 XEs listed in deeper Mexico, this is surely KUBR in San Juan, RGV, TX, which is really religious, so if I had listened longer may have detected a revered object of affexion, but it fades a bit so when nulled I can hear country from KGYN 90 degrees off, not the bigsig it often provides when on day pattern at night (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
This report dispatched at 0409 UT February 17
