** BRAZIL. 4876, April 15 at 1012, talk in assertive Brazuguese, music, probably
their version of the super-hype-voice-actors we hear from Mexico; very poor
signal, but presumably Rdif Roraima, Boa Vista. Barely awake, did not nail the
frequency vs 4875, but no het, and nothing on 4885 from either ZY at this late
hour. Note: 4876 is not Acreana as per recent Pavanello log: that`s one of the
4885 stations (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CHINA. CNR1
jammers morning of April 15 with degraded propagation:
10960, April 15 at
1317, CNR1 jammer, very poor with flutter
10870, April 15 at 1318, CNR1
jammer, poor with flutter
11430, April 15 at 1320, CNR1 jammer, very poor
with flutter
13870, April 15 at 1321, CNR1 jammer, very poor with
flutter
13830, April 15 at 1321, CNR1 jammer, very poor with
flutter
14870, April 15 at 1325, CNR1 jammer, very poor with flutter; none in
the OOB 9s, 12s, 15s, 16s, 17s (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
**
COLOMBIA. 5910, April 15 at 0536, no signal from HJDH, and come to think of it,
have not heard it here for some weeks. The other HJDH appears still extant on
6010+ with music, Spanish. Has anyone heard 5910 anywhen? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** CUBA. 5040, April 15 at 0532, RHC in Spanish instead
of English as now scheduled this hour; in fact, zero frequencies are supposed to
be in Spanish after 0500. Why does RHC have such a hard time adhering to its own
schedule? Low morale? Sheer incompetence? Dozing off in the nightmiddle? Blame
it on automation? Unlikely, that. Still English on the rest of the overkill
Cuban Five, 6000, 6060, 6100, 6165 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** PERU. 4790-, April 15 at 1007, I happen to awaken so check for
R. Visión. Sounds like sermon in echoey chamber, best heard yet vs CODAR but
still insufficient, and carrier still wobbling badly: maybe about to
self-destruct again? For more, see CRV website:
under
frecuencias choose Lambayeque to find 4790 plus two MW (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. WORLD OF RADIO 1768 monitoring: confirmed
Wednesday April 15 at 1315 on WRMI 9955, sufficient without jamming.
Next:
Wed 2100 WBCQ 7490v
Thu 0330 WRMI 9955 [or 1769 if ready in
time]
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 5110-CUSB,
April 15 at 0529, Brother Scare on WBCQ, fair-good. Seems they are back on
original transmitter as it`s carrier plus USB, not LSB, and slightly on the lo
side, ex-weaker 5109-AM DSB, slightly on the lo side of that. Larry Will
visiting UK confirms:
``As for 5110, as you have heard, Bro Scare has
bought Monday through Fridays 7 pm to 3 am Eastern [M-F 2300-0700 Tue-Sat]. The
transmitter is supposedly on full power but I think it needs some tuning that
will have to wait for Tim to make time to visit. 5110 is back on the CUSB
exciter as well and I already miss the full AM. Regards Lw`` (Glenn Hauser, OK,
DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 5085, April 15 at 0243, tune in to WTWW-2
with big hum, then discussion of ham radio equipment. This must be the ``Live
ham radio show Amateur Radio Roundtable every Tues night at 8:00 PM central
(0200 [sic] UTC Weds) on W5KUB.COM`` which was going to add WTWW 9930 from UT
April 8 at 0100. So the first hour was on 9930? And how much longer on 5085?
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 1530, April 15 at 0553
UT, seems there is a carrier vs Brother Scare on WCKY; first think it`s Colorado
from the NW, but then with WCKY minimized, promo for ``24 hours on 100.9 FM and
1530 AM; 0558 UT listing upcoming Christian events in the Little Rock and Pine
Bluff areas, so once again it`s 2.5 kW daytimer KVDW England AR, which
apparently believes it`s OK to run the AM 24 hours as well as the FM translator.
Seems a bit undermodulated, unless there really is also a CO carrier suppressing
KVDW as well as overcoming The Overcomer (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** U S A. 1680, April 15 at 0546 UT, Thom Hartmann promoing his
program on WPRR, 0547 UT back to the ``Grand Rapids studio`` referring to an AP
story. At peak, signal about equal to musical KRJO Monroe LA, mutually nullable,
fast SAH between them. Didn`t catch time for Thom, but WPRR sked shows weekdays
9 am [EDT = 1300 UT], ``Renaissance thinking about the issues of our day with
host Thom Hartmann``, via that hotbed of liberalism, Ada/Grand Rapids MI.
But as we`ve found before, the WPRR program list is outdated, while the
date-by-date program grid is presumably accurate, showing something else at 9
am; instead, Thom at 1-2 pm EDT M-F [17-18 UT], and later a different title, so
different show or really a repeat? `Big Picture with Thom Hartmann` at 1-2 am
Tue-Sat [05-06 UT]. I guess it`s different, originally at 9 pm [01 UT], ``Hosted
by Thom Hartmann, the nation`s leading progressive radio and television host,
The Big Picture presents news, opinions and debates on all of the most important
topics [that] affect the world and your life.`` Hmm, this should have been what
I was hearing at 0546 UT.
A few months ago we also used to run across
Thom on Enid`s public access cable TV channel, with his arm in a sling. Here`s
the current week`s program schedule, lots more good stuff:
and
they do webcast,
(Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
This report despatched at 1619 UT April
15
