** AUSTRALIA. 17840, April 1 at 0535, R. Australia at VG level here after local
``midnite``, and the OSOB; with some hum which turns out to be just from the
phoner clip at the moment, goes away showing how clear the signal is. Also good
on // 15240, poor on 15415, in accordance with different azimuths. May 17840
keep up like this! It`s the one at 21-09 on 70 degree azimuth aimed right at us,
like 9580 at 09-21; just needs agreeable propagation (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** AUSTRALIA. 11590, April 2 at 1325, 1330, 1337, 1406,
1458 chex, no signal from RBA, where it`s supposed to be now with English after
1445 to S Asia. I tuned in at 1325 expecting to hear their hymn medley prélude.
What happened to it? (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1767, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** AUSTRIA. 6155, April 1 at 0538, Ö1 is still playing some lite
classical wake-up music which makes it onto the token 75-minute SW broadcast,
now shifted one UT hour earlier, so a little more darkness on path and a little
better reception, soon to be lost as we progress further into summer. Only poor
signal not enough to enjoy, plus a LAH presumably from Fides, Bolivia, always
off-frequency to hi side. Yet the Moosbrunn SW transmitters are run for many
foreign clients, following in the footsteps of Uzbekistan, dissing its own
broadcasts (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** BANGLADESH. 15505,
April 1 at 1359, BB open carrier, poor with flutter: time for less than one
complete IS before mistimesignal intervenes ending at 1359:33.5 (Glenn Hauser,
OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** BRAZIL. 4885, April 2 at 0540, music audible
under CODAR and local storm noise, so R. Clube do Pará is active for a change
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** BRAZIL. 11710 & 11745
& 11815, April 2 at 0513, crackling spurs from 11780.1v RNA/RNB, the closer
ones stronger (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CHINA [and non].
19000, April 2 at 1338, JBA signal here, matching the Thursday 13-14 HFCC and
Aoki schedules for RFA Tibetan via KUWAIT, and thus surely jammed (Glenn Hauser,
OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** EGYPT. 13850, April 2 at 0514, VG signal
level, from R. Cairo to North America, but presumed Arabic is suptorted; and
splatter up to 20 kHz above and below (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** HAWAII [and non]. 15000, April 1 at 1308, WWVH is very good
such that the YL voice announcements are slightly overmodulated/distorted, while
only a trace of WWV underneath. But there is a third station with second tix of
a different pitch, and they are not a semi-second out of synch. BPM China would
be most likely if they are now on time (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** INTERNATIONAL INTERNET & VACUUM. As I mentioned before, we
have been relying on the Smithsonian Channel (Suddenlink cable 328 in Enid), for
CBS Sunday Morning, once we discovered it was being repeated there Sunday
afternoons, Monday mornings, and at least one more time during the week; since
there is too much else going on at 1300-1430 UT original airtime. We would never
have known about this except checking out the S.C. schedule, as it was never
mentioned on CBS itself. Osgood would do a different opening (?) and closing,
and the final Nature Segment would always play much longer on S.C. than CBS
itself – close to 2 minutes instead of maybe a semiminute, as disposable filler
to round out the time.
So on March 29 we skipped the CBS airing, and
were all set for it on S.C. at 1800 UT --- but NOT --- something else was on,
and searching its schedule, all the CBSSM airings are gone, without notice. On
CBS website it does appear most or all of the SM segments may be viewed
individually, but it`s a pain to have to mess with it. At least the ``extended``
nature segment, at least this week, ran about another minute even longer than on
TV. CBS is part owner of S.C., so obvious how this came about, but why quit?
Most of the CBS commercials had been replaced by Smithsonian promos. The bottom
line rules (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** KURDISTAN [non].
11510, April 2 at 0511, poor signal with heavy flutter, presumed Denge
Kurdistane with Kurdish music on A-15 channel ex-9400. Registered as
PRIDNESTROVYE site 03-19, but at least part of it later is Bulgaria. Same type
of heavy flutter on 9700, ROMANIA in French, tho K index at 03 was only 1 (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** NEW ZEALAND. 11725, April 2 at 0513,
no signal from RNZI, so must be another Thursday maintenance period; propagation
OK, as Australia is in (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
**
OKLAHOMA. 90.1, April 2 at 2036 UT, KUCO Edmond with tristation ID including
95.9 Woodward now as ``KCSC`` which was the original call on 90.1, now preserved
for posterity on ex-KZCU; presumably started April 1 when not checked (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** OKLAHOMA. Why do you not allow your
countless viewers outside storm areas to continue watching CBS? You`ve been
interrupting Letterman. Yet on 9.2 you are still showing hours-old
news/weather!!!!!! Useless. And what about KSBI? You were supposedly going to
put CBS on there, but it isn`t. In tornado season, at least, any evening likely
to be stormy, just put CBS on one of the extra channels and be done with it ---
without weather interruptions. If we need the wx, we`re smart enough to watch
the main channel (Glenn Hauser, Enid, contact form to News9 = KWTV OKC, 0357 UT
April 1, via DXLD)
Glenn, CBS programming is now available on KSBI, Cox
Channel 7 or 707 or 52.1 over the air. Thank you, (Jen Billings, Executive
Producer, KWTV News9, 0426 UT, e-mail reply to gh, via DXLD)
Yes, but not
until 11:00, after missing the first half of Letterman.
You have all these
extra channels (and could create more, like 9.3 or 52.2) so please just put CBS
on one of them when there is any weather which will disrupt 9.1) (Glenn, reply,
ibid.)
I understand... I asked for the programming to be flipped over
earlier. I apologize my engineers were slow to react. I promise we'll work to be
better. Thanks for watching... (Jen Billings, 0502 UT April 1, ibid.) See also
INTERNATIONAL INTERNET & VACUUM: Smithsonian/CBS
** OKLAHOMA [and
non]. We habitually watch NHK TV News at the only time available, via OETA OKLA
13.2 subchannel, M-F 1600-1630 UT. Previous time references indicated it was one
or two hours delayed, but April 2 at 1600 the anchor opens saying it`s 7 pm
Thursday in Tokyo! That was 1000 UT, entirely too long to delay a world news
program. Is no later one available, as 5 am CDT would not have much of an
audience here? By now it`s 1 am in Tokyo (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** ROMANIA. 13740, Wednesday April 1 at 1344 as I tune across
this AM frequency, startled to hear a ``CQ`` in Morse code amid music and
announcement in Russian, poor. Aoki shows this is RRI from Tiganeshti during
this semihour only, so was this a DX program? Or like in English merely a
mailbag. BTW, in Russian, there is no C or Q as we know them (Glenn Hauser, OK,
DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** SPAIN. 17855, April 2 at 2033, REE is still
missing from what had been its strongest frequency, on 290-degree N American
beam, but audible on 17715 poor, 15490 fair, 15450 poor. Maybe it`ll be back if
they get a fourth transmitter operational again. Supposedly some of the several
units are back in Spain after a visit to America for repairs --- still find it
hard to believe they shipped the entire transmitters back and forth rather than
components such as exciters (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1767, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** SUDAN [and non] 11650, April 1 at 0538, R. Dabanga, poor via
VATICAN with tone jammer; // 13800 via MADAGASCAR is JBA, can`t tell if there is
a tone jammer too.
11650, April 2 at 0512, R. Dabanga poor with tone
jammer atop it; 13800, April 2 at 0515, R. Dabanga fair signal but with
double-tone jamming, the hi whiner and the low audible heterodyne (Glenn Hauser,
OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1767, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** TIBET [and non]. 4820,
April 1 at 1246, poor signal with het on hi side, 1248 could be in
Chinese.
4920, April 1 at 1248, poor broadcast signal. Both these could
be Lhasa, the latter in Tibetan; or both could be AIR INDIA, Kolkata and Chennai
respectively, all scheduled on air at this time, as the two giant neighbors
cannot or will not agree to use non-conflicting 60mb frequencies. The 4820+ het
could be India, which typically wanders off-frequency (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** TIBET [non]. 15525, April 1 at 1406, presumed V. of
Tibet via MADAGASCAR, poor-fair, and as expected, jumps to 15530 at 1407:04 to
avoid Chicom jamming; but none heard here before or after on either frequency.
So no change in this from B-14 to A-15. No OOB CNR1 jammers found propagating
before 1400 in a 12-18 MHz scan (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** U S A. WORLD OF RADIO 1766 monitoring: confirmed Wednesday
April 1 at 1315 on WRMI 9955, sufficient, no jamming, but usual RTTY on hi side
to avoid. Also confirmed Wednesday April 1 at 2100 on webcast of WBCQ; a few
minutes later can detect a JBA carrier on 7490v. Also confirmed UT Thursday
April 2 at 0350 on WRMI 9955, good signal, as 1767 is not yet ready. Also
presumed one more repeat on 9955, April 2 at 1230 as 1767 is still not
ready.
WORLD OF RADIO 1767 monitoring: finished and uploaded by 2118 UT
April 2, so first SW airing will be Friday 2130:
Fri 2130 WRMI 15770 &
7570
Sat 0630 HLR 7265-CUSB Hamburger Lokalradio [time shift for
DST]
Sat 1000 WRMI 5850
Sat 1530 HLR 7265-CUSB Hamburger
Lokalradio [time shift for DST]
Sat 1930v WA0RCR 1860-AM
Sat 2130 Global
24 9525 via BULGARIA
[last week; but unconfirmed for this week;
time/frequency may change]
Sun 0315v WA0RCR 1860-AM
Sun 2300 WRMI
11580
Mon 0300v WBCQ 5110v Area 51 [SW not on air last week but
webcast]
Tue 1100 WRMI 9955
Wed 0630 HLR 7265-CUSB Hamburger
Lokalradio
Wed 1315 WRMI 9955
Wed 1430 HLR 7265-CUSB Hamburger
Lokalradio
Wed 2100 WBCQ 7490v
Thu 0330 WRMI 9955 [or 1768 if
ready in time]
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED.
11425-SSB, April 1 at 1350, intermittent music, singing and 2-way contacts, very
poor here, again at 1358, and meanwhile several similar signals below this
frequency. Presumably Indonesian QSO pirates, as also heard here last Oct 22
& 23 as in DXLD 14-44, originally reported by Dan Sheedy in DXLD 14-43
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 13562-CW, approx.,
April 2 at 0517, vs heavy CODAR I detect a CW beacon at the verge of
inaudibility. Slow ID but copying each character is difficult as I listen over
and over for almost ten minutes. Stops or fades out by 0526. Closest I can make
out is V1RGM/B, but at least one of those is likely to be wrong, as I find no
similar call in the HIFER references, nor is it a valid ham call. Amazing number
of unrelated hits on the web, however, for V1RGM. Ideas? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
This report dispatched at 2326 UT April 2
