** ALBANIA. 9850-, April 11 at *0122:12, R. Tirana comes on with IS, up from the
noise floor of 00-17 dbu to 10-24 dbu. During the following English to North
America, Wolfgang Büschel measured it 27 Hz low (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** BRAZIL. 11770-11790, April 11 at 0056, RNA/RNB 11780.1v is
splattering up and down, in addition to the usual separate crackling spurs circa
11815 and 11745. The RAE Argentina IS on 11711- is also marred by the weaker one
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CANADA. 2749-USB, April 11 at
0102, very poor signal but YL voice, presumably marine weather; then I check
2598-USB and hear more of same, probably not //, both too weak to read --- but
first time I`ve heard either in months, not all winter, so suspected the
Canadian Coast Guard may have closed them, but Bill Hepburn confirmed they were
still on. His listings
show
these must have been, on shared frequencies, at this hour:
2749, VCO,
Sydney NS, starting at 0040
2598, VCP-4, Placentia NL, starting at
0048
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CHINA [and non].
15565, April 11 at 0051, CNR1 jammer, poor signal with low rumbling audible
heterodyne, Chinese and CCI, this being the VOA via THAILAND hour (Glenn Hauser,
OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CUBA. 6060, April 11 at 0045 UT, RHC with
someone speaking ``church Spanish``, and sure `nuff, it`s the Pope`s portable
voice, with official greeting to the President of Panamá, as the big-deal
Seventh Summit is getting underway, seemingly live coverage.
17730,
tuning around further, at 0052 UT April 11 I find this RHC frequency still on
air with same, and holding up with a VG signal. Vatican spoxeman is finishing
and at 0053 a childlike voice introduces the next speaker, Secretary General of
the OAS, also greeting the Pan Pres & spouse. Also on 9710, 9535, 15230,
11760, 11840, 13740 at least.
This must be pre-empting regular
programming, and do not be surprised if there is more of this on Saturday, even
causing some frequency extensions. According to the brand-new A-15 schedule,
17730 is supposed to finish at 2300 after European service from Bauta #1, and
switch to 11670 for Rio de Janeiro until 0400.
17730 is still on at 0111
with someone speaking in English (a number of Caribbean countries are in this),
but voice-over translation into Spanish, bummer.
Anyhow, RHC is doing a
lot more on the Summit than we can ever expect from VOA --- and I wonder how R.
Martí will be playing it, as the Cuban-Americans are none too happy about Pres.
Obama meeting with Pres. Castro.
6165 meanwhile is back in whack tonight,
after last night`s total disaster of huge noise blob instead of English. But
it`s normal RHC programming at 0111 // 6000, not Summit-live (Glenn Hauser, OK,
DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** EGYPT [and non]. 9315, April 11 at 0113, R.
Cairo, fair signal, open carrier/dead air instead of Spanish
9965, April
11 at 0113, R. Cairo, good signal with whine, Arabic is JBM, then BM with ID at
0114
12070, April 11 at 0114, R. Cairo, fair signal and suptorted,
supposedly Spanish
11935, April 11 at 0116, the LAH under RB2 BRAZIL with
its frequent IDs is presumably the other Cairo frequency, nothing on 12035
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** OKLAHOMA. 1560, April 10 at
1820 UT on caradio, KEBC Del City is once again back on its own, no longer
duplicating 1520 KOKC, where rebuild of a single tower must now be complete.
Instead on 1560 I am hearing Oklahoma high school sports promos (same one
twice?), and Oklahoma Dept of Health PSA, 1822 UT rejoining NBC Sports Radio
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** OKLAHOMA. 94.3, April 10 at
2008 UT, now it`s at least 24 hours of dead air from KLGB-LP Enid, deadline for
license cancellation under gh`s proposed FCC rules. Still with bleed from 99.9
co-station. And still at 0340 UT April 11 --- make that 31 hours and counting
(Glenn Hauser, Enid, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** OMAN. 9740, April 11 at
0049, Qur`an, fair signal, presumed R. Sultanate of Oman, having failed to
switch to 9500 at scheduled 0000. Registered time for 9740 is 22-24 UT only, and
someone on the NASWA Flashsheet had an unID then which must have been this
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** PERU. 5980, April 11 at 0046,
JBA carrier from R. Chaski; autocutoff happens at 0107:58.5* which is 5.5
seconds later than last night, back to customary slippage. My streetlight RF
burst and visible ignition haven`t happened yet, even tho sunset horizon is
cloudy, but surely within the next few minutes when I miss it (Glenn Hauser, OK,
DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** SRI LANKA. 11905, April 11 at *0114:10.5, carrier
on from SLBC (and no pre-burst since 0111 tune-in), prélude at 0114:49.5; 2+1
pips until 0115:19, right on mis-time, opening. Signal is only poor, not the
good but fluttery one it habitually achieved in Feb and Mar (Glenn Hauser, OK,
DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. WORLD OF RADIO 1768 monitoring: confirmed
Friday April 10 at 2130.5 on WRMI 7570 and still also on // 15770.
Also
confirmed at 0130 UT Saturday April 11 on new outlet Radio Free Dishnuts,
webcasts via http://www.radiodude.info/dishnuts/index.html
Our
other time is Tuesdays 1330. Their program schedule is outdated.
Next on
shortwave:
Sat 0630 HLR 7265-CUSB Hamburger Lokalradio
Sat 1430
HLR 7265-CUSB Hamburger Lokalradio
Sat 1930v WA0RCR 1860-AM
Sat 2130
Global 24 9525 via BULGARIA
[not last week, no longer, or to be
rescheduled?? Still no new sked at all on Global 24 website since March
30]
Sun 0315v WA0RCR 1860-AM [last week started at 0337.5]
Sun 2100
WRMI 15770 [NEW on schedule, but not last week; try 7570]
Sun 2300 WRMI
11580
Mon 0300v WBCQ 5110v Area 51
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 1769 if ready in time]
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** U S A. 5109, April 10 at 0039, WBCQ is audible but weaker than
before; by 0042 I can tell that it`s Brother Scare, // 7570 WRMI but not synch.
At 0059, 5109 breaks for WBCQ ID, and back to BS.
7490 meanwhile has
Allan Weiner Worldwide, without AW. At 0040 VG signal, someone talking about
reviving the Kennedy Space Center, and TimTron appears to be the substitute
host. Goes to music around 0056, not sure if a break or program over, but by
0108 it`s BS here, about one word behind 5109. Normally during AWWW starting at
0000 UT Saturdays, both 7490 and 5109 would be carrying him. Checked 9330 and
15420 just in case, and still no signals there.
5109 should also carry
Area 51 on UT Saturdays, but this weekend`s schedule at http://www.worldmicroscope.com skips
Friday night:
On-air, April 11-12, 2015
All on WBCQ 5.110 MHz and http://www.splatterbox.us:5110
Saturday,
April 11, 2015 [into UT Sunday]
7pm 2300 Radio Timtron Worldwide
9pm
0100 The Lumpy Gravy Radio Show
10pm 0200 Zombo In Your
Brain
Sunday, April 5, 2015 [into UT Monday]
7pm 2300 Church of the
Subgenius Hour of Slack
8pm 0000 John Lightning/11L-RNI
11pm 0300
Glenn Hauser’s World of Radio 1768
1130pm 0330 Grits Radio
** U S A.
11580, UT Saturday April 11 at 0057, surprised to hear AWR Wavescan on this WRMI
frequency, which had been and is still scheduled to carry R. Ukraine
International daily at 0030-0100; not // 9955 yet, but at 0110 check they both
air the same gospel huxter (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S
A. 15825, April 10 at 2007, no signal, not even a JBA carrier from WWCR-1, which
per current sked is supposed to run until 2200. It might have been propped-out,
except 15610 WEWN is very good at the same distance, different angle; and so is
13845 WWCR. Before 0100 UT April 11, I do notice WWCR-1 present on 6115 (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 2660+, April 11 at 0103 UT,
some music audible and slightly on the hi side, i.e. 2 x 1330 harmonic of KGLD
Tyler TX. The 2 MHz band noise level is surprisingly low (see also CANADA), so I
step thru the frequencies with offset BFO for possible other MW harmonics to
pursue: JBA carriers on 2840, 2680, 2620, 2610, 2520, i.a. But some of these
could be SW mixing products within the DX-398 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
This report dispatched at 0402 UT April 11
