** BANGLADESH. 15505, March 31 at 1358 open carrier, 1359 BB IS, very poor with
flutter; timesignal almost hits the mark today!!! 5+1 ending at 1359:59;
probably a fluke (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** BRAZIL.
11745 & 11815, March 31 at 0531 check, crackling spurs from 11780.1v RNA/RNB
are still audible, poor-fair level (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** CHINA [and non]. 15115, March 31 at 1315, CNR1 jammer, heavy
CCCCCCI, at least two programs in Chinese. This in A-15 is vs IBB
Chinese-Mandarin at 13-15: first hour via Thailand, second via
Philippines.
17735, March 31 at 1316, CNR1 jammer, good with flutter //
15115. Victim here is BBC Uzbek via Thailand during this semihour only, China
continuing to interfere in the internal affairs of Uzbekistan, and no doubt all
the //s are jammed too: listed as: 15330 & 17510, both Oman. Signal on 17735
strongly resembles in strength and fading the CRI EAST TURKISTAN channels 17560
& 17650 in French, 17630 in English.
18990, March 31 at 1326, JBA
signal with flutter. Probably a CNR1 jammer, as RFA Tibetan via Kuwait in A-15
is again on this almost-dead band! HFCC and consequently Aoki show 18990 at
13-14 only on days 4 and 7 = Wed & Sat, but this is Tue. Other jumparound
frequencies depending on which day of the week and which hour between 11 and 14
are: 18930, 18980, 19000, 19010.
15540, March 31 at 1339, CNR1 jammer,
fair with het, off at 1340*. Very poor signal, presumed V. of Tibet continues on
15542. Preliminary Aoki A-15 shows jammed *15543 at 1200-1208 & 1306-1337,
via TAJIKISTAN
http://www.geocities.jp/binewsjp/ic/userlist1.txt
(Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CUBA [and non]. 13820, March 31 at
1308, the incompetent DentroCuban Jamming Command for the third day is still
wall-of-noise on the B-14 frequency which R. Martí quit for 13605, still loud
and clear there (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** FRANCE [and
non]. 21580, March 31 at 1320, open carrier/dead air on good signal, better than
anything else on 13m: cuts on French modulation at 1321:50, cuts off the air at
1322:40*. 21580 is a major frequency of RFI, in A-15 registered in French at
07-09, 12-13, 17-20 daily via Issoudun --- and a new relay for them: IBB SAO
TOME also/alternatively at 12-13! 21580 also for Persian at 1430-1500 from
Issoudun. So this test could have been Issoudun or São Tomé, but considering the
signal level, I`d lean toward the latter. Only other 13m signals are 21505
Saudi, at usual poor level, and 21780 DW UAE very poor (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** GERMANY [non]. 21780, March 31 at 1324, very poor
signal with talk, flutter. HFCC shows DW in Hausa via UAE at 13-14 (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** INDIA. 11620, March 31 at 1344, AIR
GOS in English, poor-fair but better than usual, sports talk but outro merely as
Comment`ry, then program previews for rest of sesquihour. // 13710 is slightly
better; // 9690 is much better, fair signal into music break. Unchecked, but I
see in HFCC A-15 that CRI English via Kashgar is still ruining 13710 after 1400
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** IRAN. 21750, March 31 at 1320,
IRIB IS very poor, gone at 1323 recheck, so this was the tail rather than the
head of a broadcast, i.e. per HFCC A-15, Indonesian at 1220-1320, 500 kW, 107
degrees from Sirjan (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** OKLAHOMA.
RF 50, KOPX OKC, Ion on its 62.2 subchannel, qubo, kidvid mostly animated, I am
again checking the SAP sound channel in Spanish, which can be accessed by the
remote of the Zenith STB DTV converter. As before, it`s mostly silent, but
leaving it on one set for a few hours, a pattern emerges: it cuts on for a few
seconds around the hour and half-hour, sometimes quarter-hour, why???? Timed
thusly in approx. UT on March
31:
1444:26-1444:40
1458:42-1459:21
1529:16-1529:45
1544 –
not
1559:31-1600:01
1614 & 1629 – not checked
1644 -
not
1659:51-1700:05
1729:31-1729:44
1743:41-1744:08
1758:15-1758:44
The
Spanish matches the programming during the bits we can hear it, so obviously it
is running fulltime originally.
Ion DTV stations are all over the
country, so could others check whether this happen elsewhere on their qubo
subchannels? This bit of Spanish is the only ``reliable`` second-language on OKC
DTV channels tho as in my previous report a few of them have it enabled if not
funxioning all or any of the time.
BTW, when I tune away from 62.2 and
back to it, defaults to English again unless I repress the SAP button. Again,
this is not due to local signal level issues, as the video is in solid, and the
SS spots are obviously on some kind of timer schedule.
Guess what? As I
am wrapping this report, Spanish cuts back on as a new program has just started,
at 1800:18, and stays on! Until 1804:14 when the first ad break comes. Resumes
after ads for promo at 1808:15, off again during some ad, back on when program
resumes without breaks.
BTW2 if I turn on the TV set`s closed captioning
during Spanish audio, the captions are in English. Then I start trying the
captioning button on the remote, i.e. direct from the DTV signal. Of all the
options, the only one displaying anything is Service 1, which is in English
while the audio is Spanish, but not during the breaks (Glenn Hauser, Enid, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** SUDAN [and non]. 13800, March 31 at 0535, talk in
Arabish with heavy tone jamming; in fact, one loud hi-pitched tone, and another
weaker low-pitched. So the Dentro-Sudanese Jamming Command has found the new
A-15 frequency for R. Dabanga. However, HFCC shows PNW via MADAGASCAR on 13800
at 0400-0530 only, strange. (In B-14, R. Farda was on 13800 during this period.)
Meanwhile // Dabanga 11650 via VATICAN is not jammed at all (Glenn Hauser, OK,
DX LISTENING DIGEST)
This report dispatched at 1821 UT March 31
