giovedì 23 aprile 2015

Glenn Hauser logs April 21-23, 2015


** ANGUILLA. 11775, April 22 at 1347, PMS is audible, only fair signal with LAH and CCI, presumably India. CBB had been missing for a week or more, again making us wonder if it`s gone for good. 6090 also back on air with DGS at 0703 April 23. And 11775 again with PMS at 1353 April 23, fast SAH. Suspect CBB is not up to full 100 kW power on 25m, tho 49m is plentiful (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1770, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** AUSTRALIA. 15415, April 22 at 0625, R. Australia is playing IS ``Waltzing Matilda`` over and over here past 0631, while the other two frequencies, better for us anyway, 17840 and 15240 are in normal programming, `Late Night Live`. Then arrived reports from many other monitors about this, same thing on 12065, same transmitter after 0900, even past 1900 UT! S. Hasegawa reports to the DXLDyg: ``Returned to normal at about 0200 UT [April 23]. de Hiroshi. Japanese DXer received the email "that was a switching error" from Radio Australia``. Which means this was going on for at least 19.5 hours! And nobody at the station noticed! Next night at 0655, 15415 with `LNL`, unMatildaed (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1770, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** BRAZIL [and non]. 11710, 11745 & 11815, April 23 at 0653 check, crackling spurs from 11780.1v RNA/RNB are worse than usual. The 11745 one is bothering Arabic on 11740, which is VATICAN direct (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** CHINA. 18990, Wed April 22 at 1348, noise jamming, in addition to CNR1 // 11785. At 1400 still hear the noise, but CNR1 is off.

19000, Thu April 23 at 1357, CNR1 jammer // 11785, maybe some other audio too. 19000 is registered as the Thursday-only frequency at 13-14 of RFA Tibetan via Kuwait. 18990 as the Wednesday & Saturday jumparound frequency (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** CUBA. 15730, April 22 at 1359, RHC back on here, and not on 15340, as mistaken 24 hours earlier.

6000, April 23 at 0700, RHC in Spanish until 0701*, presumably just a tail after the English service; meanwhile the other English frequencies stay on a while longer past 0702 with open carriers, 6060, 6100, 6165 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** CUBA [and non]. 7405, April 23 at 0657, wall-of-noise jamming from the DentroCuban Jamming Command is not enough to prevent me from hearing R. Martí explaining exact receiving antenna dimensions ideal for its different SW and MW frequencies. Probably more detail than really necessary, but when you`re jammed, every little bit may help. 0659 announcing RM frequencies now as 5980 & 6030, and 7405 cuts off promptly at 0700* while the jamming continues a while longer. The other two frequencies are already jammed (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** FRANCE [and non]. 17850, April 22 at 1921, I can tell RFI is on here, but under heavy ACI from 17855 much stronger REE SPAIN. HFCC shows RFI scheduled at 18-20, and REE from 20 on weekdays --- but REE times are erroneous, in local UT+2 rather than UT, so really also starting at 1800!! Meanwhile, dozens of unused frequencies are available on the 16m band. Such incompetence! (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 

** IRAN. 15300, April 22 at 1421, IRIB IS, fair with flutter, 1423 ID and sign-on in Hindi, NA, 500 kW, 109 degrees from Kamalabad (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** NIGERIA. 15120, April 22 at 0627, VON with fair AM signal but just barely modulated, presumably English (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** OKLAHOMA. 1230, April 23 at 0707 UT, weather and ID for WBBZ, Ponca City. Altho WBBZ is our daytime groundwave semi-local, unusual for it to be audible in the middle of the night against hundreds of other but further stations (Glenn Hauser, Enid, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** SERBIA [non]. News has emerged that International Radio Serbia will be closed down June 30. Another country gone from SW (and nothing to remain online either, evidently). Ivo Ivanov then posted their ``complete`` schedule, including a North American service in Serbian and English at 0000-0130 on 9685.

As I have mentioned a number of times, the 9685 broadcasts to North America are IMAGINARY. They keep putting these on their schedules, (6190 in B-seasons) but they have been off for YEARS. So I can`t feel too sad about the situation. They cut us off even while they remained on air to Europe, pretending to maintain a North American service!

Just to be certain, I check after 0000 UT April 23 and NOTHING on 9685. Those on the east coast may be able to get the English on 6100 at 2200 in winter, but not much out here, especially not at 2100 in summer (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1770, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U K [and non]. 15105, April 22 at 0625, BBCWS good in English, interviewing woman who produced a 52-page comic book, // better 7445 Ascension. I figure 15105 would also be Ascension, but HFCC shows Woofferton at 06-07, 250 kW, 158 degrees. 15105 is Ascension in the 1800/2030 span (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U K [non]. 15420, Thursday April 23 at 1355, ``This is the BBC; no programmmes on this channel at present; details of all our services are at bbcworldservice.com`` along with jingle, long pauses and repeating. How thoughtful of them to inform us of this fact! Yet so many other frequencies with no BBC programming bear no such announcements. 15420 via SOUTH AFRICA, the Somali service is supposed to start at 1400 daily except 1300 on Saturdays (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. WORLD OF RADIO 1769 monitoring: confirmed Wednesday April 22 at 1315, fair signal on WRMI 9955. Next airing missed, Wed Apr 22 on WBCQ 7490, as checked on webcast, instead ``you`re listening to Zombo, in your turds`` Star Wars and other music fill. This was probably caused by lack of a proper link to the latest WOR as set up in the automation. 1769 also replayed at 0330 UT Thursday April 23 on WRMI 9955, as 1770 was not quite ready. 

WORLD OF RADIO 1770 monitoring: First airing was no doubt 1230 UT Thursday April 23 on WRMI 9955, but I awoke a minute too late to check it. Next SW airings:
Thu 2100  WRMI    7570
Fri 2130  WRMI    7570
Sat 1930v WA0RCR  1860-AM
Sun 0315v WA0RCR  1860-AM
Sun 2100  WRMI   15770 
Sun 2300  WRMI   11580
Mon 0300v WBCQ    5110v Area 51 
Tue 1100  WRMI    9955 
Wed 1315  WRMI    9955 
Wed 2100  WBCQ    7490v 
Thu 0330  WRMI    9955 [or 1771 if ready in time]
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 13564, April 23 at 1350, HIFER beacon GNK is audible with slow CW IDs, fading out and in to fully readable peaks. Rechecking the LWCA HIFER list,
for the frequency of GNK, Madison WI, it`s shown as 13563.99 ---

More importantly I see that my previous unID is now identified!
V1RGO/B is in East Haven CT, 13562~, 7 wpm CW.
Meanwhile, missing from this list is K6FRC in California, which I recently heard again (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 5850, Tuesday April 21 at 2259 I`m listening to WRMI as a Rudy Espinal ID fires at 2259:30, 2300 brief Global 24 ID and opening `Democracy Now`. I`m determined to discover whether this is really today`s edition or an old one. Amy doesn`t mention the date at the head of each broadcast, apparently inconceivable to her that some affiliate would be airing old shows instead of new ones. 

Lead story is about Richard Engel, NBC News. Another headline is Glen(n?) Ford being freed from death row, which is what I heard at the tail of a previous monitorage. Next day I check out the audio archive at http://www.democracynow.org and find that this certainly is not the April 21 edition; nor April 20, but it *is* the Friday, April 17 edition, now 4 days old! 

About Engel, the details of this story, audio and transcript:
Friday, April 17, 2015 
Did NBC Cover Up Role of U.S.-Backed Free Syrian Army in 2012 Kidnapping of Richard Engel?

full program audio for April 17:

May I suggest that assuring that the latest edition of any program, especially news, goes on the air, is the minimum requirement for any radio service? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 1240, April 23 at 0706 UT, `Red Eye Radio` opening another hour by exaggerated bass announcer, briefly audible thru the graveyard pileup, peaks roughly E/W. If their website affiliate list be correct,
the nearest by far and therefore most likely source is: KLIK, Jefferson [City] MO. Strangely, there are only four other 1240s listed, in MI, MN, NY, PA (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

This report dispatched at 1659 UT April 23