mercoledì 11 marzo 2015

Glenn Hauser logs March 9 & 11, 2015


** ANGUILLA [non]. 6090, March 11 at 0600 no signal; 11775, March 11 at 1342, Caribbean Beacon remains off, clearing the latter for weak AIR signal. Meanwhile, circa 0610 we could still hear PMS both on 9975 KVOH, and 34 seconds earlier on 5935 WWCR (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** BANGLADESH. 15505, March 11 at 1359, BB IS, very poor; mistimesignal ending at 1359:19.5 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** BRAZIL. 11710 & 11745 & 11815, March 11 at 0538, crackling spurs from 11780.1v RNA/RNB remain unmistakable here, somewhat weaker on 11710 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** CHINA. CNR1 jammers, morning of March 11:

14920, March 11 at 1350, CNR1 jammer, good with flutter; no 12s or 13s

14870, March 11 at 1351, CNR1 jammer, fair with flutter; out of synch with the others by several words; none in the OOB 15s

16750, March 11 at 1353, CNR1 jammer, poor, ahead of 14920

16530, March 11 at 1353, CNR1 jammer, good

16450, March 11 at 1353, CNR1 jammer, good with flutter

17170, March 11 at 1354, CNR1 jammer, fair, almost // 16530

17200, March 11 at 1354, CNR1 jammer, poor

16920, March 11 at 1424, CNR1 jammer, fair with flutter; no 13s, 15s

16530, March 11 at 1424, CNR1 jammer, // 16920, fair with flutter
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** CUBA. 5040, March 11 at 0600, RHC is off this frequency, neither Spanish nor English: need to check it earlier. Now the others are all in overkill English: 6000, 6060, 6100, 6165: or rather jazz music at the moment (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** CUBA [and non]. 7405, March 11 at 0608, Cuban music, R. Martí VG with no jamming audible; but pulse jamming vs nothing on 7365, and 6030 beneath wall-of-noise jamming. Seems the DentroCuban Jamming Command is confused as usual by the DST time shifts, even tho both Cuba and US do it in lockstep (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** INDIA. 9690, March 11 at 1329, miscellaneous pop music, never IS, 1330 opening AIR GOS in English announcing 9690, 11620, 13710; poor but clear, into news; 1340 Comment[a]ry about India-Sri Lanka relations: Tamils need to coöperate. At 1347 I have bandscanned up to 13710 and find a much better signal here during vocal music, good with flutter (but to be ruined by CRI in a few minutes) (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** NEW ZEALAND. 9700, March 11 at 1323, RNZI `Dateline Pacific` with news from island after island, now about Cook Islands getting some new coinage, including one that`s triangular. Only fair signal, not as good as usual (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** OKLAHOMA [and non]. 1650, March 11 at 0639 UT, KCNZ Iowa ID in passing; even when aimed toward Sallisaw I get KCNZ and no trace of KYHN. But at 1258 UT March 11, KYHN poor signal promoting Iphone and Android access, ``Arklahoma`s conservative talk radio``. Must be underpowered and/or sporadic (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** OKLAHOMA. (RF 13, virtual 13.2), OETA OKLA channel, March 9 at 1700 UT is really screwed up. `Charlie Rose` is supposed to replay now, but instead we`re getting `Antiques Roadshow`, then for a few minutes video if not audio replaced by `Technical Difficulties` slide in the style of traditional circular test patterns, photoed: 
This screenshot is from a tape and loses a lot of resolution; fine print at bottom are IDs for the four main stations of the network. But the tool icons in the middle show up nicely.

Finally gets this unravelled and joins Charlie Rose in progress a few minutes later. May have something to do with current `Festival` fundraiser disrupting normal programming. (Axually I was watching this on Suddenlink cable 140, but could have seen it directly, with constant breakup as both my external antennas can`t pull in OETA reliably, unlike OKC full-power stations on UHF.)

The Oklahoma Network claims it is the medium most trusted by Oklahomans, and has the most (proportional?) viewership of any PBS sub-network; yet The Oklahoma Observer, March Observerscope column says: ``Dart: to the Republican-dominated Legislature, starving the state`s crown jewel, OETA --- now the lowest-funded public television network in America``. That`s Oklahoma for you! (Glenn Hauser, Enid, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A [and non]. WORLD OF RADIO 1763 monitoring: confirmed Wed March 11 from 1315:40 on WRMI 9955, rather weak with ACI on both sides, persistent RTTY on hi, Japanese clandestines via Taiwan to N Korea on lo side. 

Also confirmed via the Wide-band WebSDR Utwente tuned to 7265-USB at 1535 UT Wed March 11, quite sufficient, but by 1540 I`m hearing some CCI singing underneath, which per Aoki would come from CRI via Kashgar in Hindi, or CNR2 via Baoji-Sifangshan 724 site. Clear again a few minutes before 1600, then total takeover by CRI in Russian, Beijing site listed to the northwest, as Hamburger Lokalradio is over. Next WOR:

Wed 2100 [new shifted time] on WBCQ 7490v. We hope to have the new 1764 ready to go by UT Thursday 0330 on WRMI 9955 (but don`t always make it in time). Consider subscribing to podcast, three linked via http://www.worldofradio.com (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A [and non]. 12105, March 11 at 1348, RFA Burmese via SAIPAN (until 1430) is underneath a somewhat stronger carrier causing fast SAH; must be WTWW-3 stuck on the air. Wake up, Ted! Ivo Ivanov was hearing the dead air carrier at 0200-0600+. He imagines it`s really programming from 17 until 02 after DST shifts, in English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, Arabic, Yoruba, Russian and English (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 760, March 11 at 1300 UT, ID for KMTL, Little Rock-North Little Rock, ``Inspiration Radio`` with CCI from KC. Is 10 kW daytimer, COL Sherwood AR, address in Clarksville (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** VATICAN [non]. 11695, March 11 at 1429, VR IS, very poor with flutter, mixing with something talking, but clear 1430 opening with South Asian music, ``Laudetur Iesus Christus``. Aoki shows VR is via Palauig, PHILIPPINES, due west in Hindi, while the overlap was NHK World Radio Japan in English via UZBEKISTAN (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

This report dispatched at 1630 UT March 11