** CHINA [and non]. 11825, April 25 at 1256, VG signal from CNR1 jammer, atop
not only its intended victim, VOA Chinese via Philippines until 1300 but also
Brother Scare via WRMI, another rôle reversal, the latter now scheduled 10-22,
altho registered as available 24 hours.
11840, April 25 at 1256, CNR1
jammer // 11825, but not as strong. Victim here is AIR Chinese until
1315.
14920, April 25 at 1329, CNR1 jammer with VG signal, yet none in
the OOB 15s, 16s or 17s.
13690, April 25 at 1331, CNR1 jammer, a couple
seconds ahead of 14920, and with CCI from victim. Nothing shown in Aoki of April
24 to account for this, nothing anywhen on 13690, but HFCC shows an IBB Chinese
transmission started April 13 at 13-14 on 13690, via Saipan. And EiBi already
has both VOA and the jammer as of April 18. No CNR1s in the 12s (Glenn Hauser,
OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CUBA. 6100, April 25 at 0540, RHC English is
instead open carrier/dead air here, while nominal on the remainder of The Cuban
Five: 6165, 6060, 6000, 5040.
6000 still has a het from weak carrier on
6001, April 25 at 0541, but at least the 6000 carrier is no longer dropping off
like 3+ hours earlier (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** EGYPT
[and non]. 13850, April 25 at 0534, R. Cairo is suptorted as usual in Arabic to
N America, by now having landed on correct frequency instead of transposed 13580
as noted earlier at 0218. In a rôle-reversal, 13850 has a bit of splatter from
stronger 13840 NHK French via Madagascar; but it matters not, since 13850 is
totally unreadable and useless anyway (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** KOREA SOUTH. 15575, Saturday April 25 at 1344, KBS World Radio
again with good signal to North America now that we`re past equinox and on the
way to summer solstice, during mailbag segment of `Listeners Lounge`; admitting
they having been getting reports of bad reception on 15575, but now it`s getting
better, as evidenced by a recording that Benjamin in Cookeville TN sent them; YL
& YL discuss whether it merits an O of 3, or 4. This does NOT mean KBS will
ever catch on and go to a lower band in the B-seasons! At 1355, `Indian DX
Report` from postal code 785001, not really DX, but partial schedules to S Asia
for AIR, AWR, NHK. Thanks to good elocution I can mostly understand his Indian
accent. Maybe Kevin in NM will be on next week (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** NEW ZEALAND. 11725, April 25 at 0536, RNZ is starting a
special about the centenary of Gallipoli which is to last 75 minutes until
another special live event about it. Usual VG signal (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** SOUTH CAROLINA [non non and non]. 21610, April 25 at
1328, Brother Scare on only poor signal from WHRI, and QRMed by OTH radar
pulses, roughly 21608-21633, Cyprus? WHRI registers 21610 at 13-14, then 21600
from 14 onwards, why? Because Saudi Arabia is imaginary on 21600 until 1400:
I`ve never heard it for years (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
**
SUDAN [and non]. 13800, April 25 at 0533, tone jamming, or rather het from
carrier on hi side, marring R. Dabanga via VATICAN, but its good signal is still
completely readable, the tone a mere annoyance, but how is it in Sudan? How many
notch filters are on Sudanese SW radios? Is the jammer really inside Sudan? Skip
distances on higher bands mean an external location would be more effective, but
maybe Omdurman is far enough away from Darfur, roughly one megameter; more so on
// 11650, which at 0537 has only a fair signal here but still atop its own tone
jammer. HFCC registrations show that the entire 0430-0600 PNW (meaning Dabanga)
transmission on 11650 is via Vatican, while 13800 switches from Madagascar to
Vatican at 0530; why? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** VATICAN.
15595, April 25 at 0529, VR bells, good signal, as we are now getting into
summer-mode with MUFs from Europe holding up overnight. 0530 Latin Mass with
multilingual opening announcements in German, something Slavic, Polish,
Hungarian, 0532 choir. This is much better than // 7250, and much2 better than
useless 6070 under CFRX. 15595 is 250 kW, 107 degrees to Mideast, so directly
off the back would be 287 degrees. I would not be surprised if it`s really aimed
toward us, and ME gets the back (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) See also
SUDAN [and non]
This report dispatched at 1633 UT April 25
