** ALBANIA. 9855, April 3 at 0128, R. Tirana IS, fair with flutter, still no ACI
or CCI, just storm noise to combat. All RT broadcasts are 100 kW on 310 degree
azimuth from Shijak, i.e.: Bern-Paris-Cork-St.
Anthony-Gaspé-Québec-Montréal-Ottawa-Toronto-Cincinnati-Little Rock-San
Antonio-Monterrey-Tepic, all within a degree of that. Enid is about 5 degrees
off, 315, but at this distance should not make much difference in angle; our
path does however go further into the sub-auroral zone over the north Atlantic
and sheer distance weakens it compared to northeast America (Glenn Hauser, OK,
DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** ARGENTINA [and non]. 11711-, April 3 at 0101, RAE
is barely audible beneath the crackling spur from 11780.1v BRAZIL (even worse on
11745 & 11815). These S American neighbors are so out of it, they don`t
know, or don`t care that they have this pervasive problem. By 0327 during RAE`s
English hour it`s improved to poor, vs lite crackle, still not really readable.
Why is RAE so weak compared to huge RNA? Got to be running *much less* than
originally rated 100 kW, and no doubt inferior antenna.
Also a JBA het
from something properly on 11710. Of stations bothering to register with HFCC
(unlike Argentina & Brasil), that would be TWR via UAE in Ethiopian
languages at 0330-0345 only. The other collision on 11710 would be Egypt, q.v.
in Spanish at 0045-0200 but apparently not currently using it. But they did part
of last A-season (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** AUSTRALIA.
12085, Friday April 3 at 1255, RA is wrapping up classical music, about an
uncompleted Haydn string quartet. Shortly outro as having been `Keys to Music`,
so glad to know this token classical show is back on SW. RA program schedule now
defaults to ``London`` so I have to go to the very bottom of the drop down list
to put it on UTC! Ha! This sked is also unaware that KtM is on the air, showing
instead `The World` at 12-13 Friday, followed correctly by 13-14 `Conversations
with Richard Fidler`. So now I know more, and so do you, dear reader, about what
RA is doing than RA itself (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
**
AUSTRALIA. 15550, April 3 at 1242, Chinese, first thought maybe a CNR1 jammer,
but no het, and 1244 sign-off in English by RBA to 1245*. Yes, HFCC shows KNX
100 kW, 340 degrees at 1140-1245 in Chinese Mandarin except M-F 1140-1215 in
Mcn, whatever that is – a tri-letter nowhere in EiBi`s readme language list.
Aoki translated Mcn to Cantonese, which makes sense, but strange that whoever
established these abbrs. reversed the order rather than the more logical Cmn and
Ccn. EiBi`s list shows Cantonese is supposed to be CA, or [yue], as in
Yue.
15340, April 3 at 1257, RBA is on here, same transmitter as 15550?
With hymntune medley and ``This is Reach Beyond Australia. Our programme on this
frequency will commence shortly.``; fair with some flutter and talk CCI
underneath; 1300 signs on as to South Asia on 15340, additional slogan
``life-changing radio``, into language, CCI gone but still flutter. Aoki shows
the only other 15340 is ChiCom jamming and Sound of Hope, which might be on
until 1500 but not today.
11590, April 3 at 1325 is still missing,
having initialized in the A-15 schedule, so I go hunting for RBA elsewhere on
the band --- and I find it!
On unlisted 12075, fair and flutter, with
hymn medley runup and IDs again, 1330 opening to South Asia on ``11590``!! So
now I know more and so do you, dear reader, about what RBA is doing than RBA
itself! No obvious reason for abrupt replacement of 11590 a few days ago, no
collision noted here, but maybe there was one over there.
This and 15340
are the ones scheduled to go into partially separate English half-sesquihours at
1445 to conclude each transmission. 12075 puts RBA right between Radio Australia
and Radio Australia on 12065 and 12085, just to be neighbourly (and more
noticed?). Had I known that IBB TINIAN in Myanmarianese was already scheduled on
12075 at 1430-1500 per HFCC A-15 lookup later, I certainly would have checked
whether it`s still there with RBA colliding.
Ivo Ivanov later noticed
that 15340 stayed on late today until 1600, while 11580 was off since April 1,
but he hadn`t found 12075. Extended probably because of ``Good Friday`` (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** BANGLADESH. 15505, April 3 past
1400+ BB IS is still playing, finally until very late mistimesignal ending at
1400:39. First time in ages it`s been slow rather than fast, ending before 1400.
Maybe had a power failure and misreset the clox (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** BRAZIL [and non]. Spurs: see ARGENTINA [and non]
**
CHINA. 13980-, April 3 at 0453, CNR1 jammer, very poor, slightly on lo side at
least compared to 11980 TURKEY
13980, April 3 at 1253, CNR1 jammer, very
poor; here it is again
13920, April 3 at 1254, CNR1 jammer, poor, so
better than 13980. No other OOBs found this hour up to 18 MHz
16100,
April 3 at 1358, CNR1 jammer, poor with flutter
14870, April 3 at 1359,
CNR1 jammer, very poor
14920, April 3 at 1359, CNR1 jammer, very poor but
none further sought as I am rushing to 15505 Bangladesh (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** CUBA. 6060, April 3 at 0445, RHC in English already:
supposed to stay in Spanish until 0500, now // 6165 and 6000, all of which are
undermodulated to the extent that copy is difficult with local storm noise added
to otherwise strong signals. 6000 is slightly better than the others. Remaining
frequencies all still heard at 0450 in Spanish: 5040 VG, 9535 P, 11670 VG, 11840
VG, 13740 VG. 6100 is not yet on; and 6090 PMS Anguilla is much louder than any
RHC English frequency.
Time to check the online sked whether finally
updated for A-15? http://www.radiohc.cu/interesantes/estaticas/frecuencias
NOPE,
as of 1650 UT April 3, still showing the old sked expiring in March, which was
not even updated for the DST shifts made March 8! Could be that a few late
frequency changes are about to be made within 10 days of the real start of A-15,
as Arnie always takes his time on that.
When I tuned in 6060 at 0445, the
announcers were mentioning that there are technical issues with their ``Real
Audio channels``, which of course aren`t Real at all. They would let us know
when they are back. Checked at 1655 UT April 3, I do get RHC to play on Windows
Media:
(Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CUBA [and non]. 13605, April 3 at
1251, R. Martí, GB open carrier is already on with brief tone test and silence,
while I can also already hear Cuban jamming underneath, but not yet building up
to full bore for the 1300- transmission (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** EGYPT. 9315, April 3 at 0053, R. Cairo, poor, just barely
modulated with hum during scheduled Spanish
9965, April 3 at 0053, R.
Cairo, good signal but open carrier/dead air except for whine; Arabic
frequency
12070, April 3 at 0054, R. Cairo, fair signal but suptorted
modulation in presumed Spanish --- but that`s not all!
11897-11913 or so,
April 3 at 0102, huge extremely distorted FM blob of mostly talk, but impossible
to discern language, let alone a single word. On second receiver I try to find a
match with other 25m bigsigs, 11920 YFR/WRMI, 12105 WTWW, 12005 Vietnam/UK,
11870 WEWN, 11760 RHC, but they are off the hook. Impossible to pinpoint center
of this with no specific carrier, but sounds loudest circa 11909. On PL-880 with
short random wire, dbu readings are 44-53. ``Modulation`` is very dense, and a
roar remains during pauses between words.
Altho there was too little mod
to match with 12070 Cairo, I suspect them as a well-known source of engineering
malfeasance, so now I check for a match on 9315 --- after listening a couple of
minutes, I can tell there is a match --- only by lining up the pauses. Then I
also confirm // 12070 to 9315. So this is a totally out of order (rather than
partially) ERTU transmitter. Not checked again until 0243 when it`s off. It was
however, still on at 0115 totally blocking any trace of Sri Lanka 11905 and its
mistimesignal. Tonight I am thwarted on that! by 0243, SL is apparently finished
with 11905 anyway (not in HFCC).
So which frequency could this blob be
scheduled for? Per HFCC A-15, Spanish at 0045-0200 is over-registered not only
for 9315 and 12070, but also 9720, 9860, 11710, 11935, 12035, 12080, all Abis.
So likely closest 11935, except never used before while 12035 has been, both
unheard now. We`ll see if one of them is back in whack next time (Glenn Hauser,
OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** GUAM [and non]. 11580, April 3 at 1313,
Vietnamese, from KTWR, no longer colliding with WRMI/BS which is now closing at
1300*, but KTWR starts at 1200 in Yi, 1245 in Viet.
11825, April 3 at
1313, WRMI/BS, however now has lite CCI, which would be FEBC Bocaue in Tibetan
this semihour only (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** IRAN. 9510,
April 3 at 0052, poor signal with Qur`an, long pauses. Could that be because the
cantor is trying to remember what comes next --- or does he have a script, since
after all, there is no video to give him away. Could it be OMAN? No signal on
11650 or 12015; no, per HFCC it`s just IRIB, 0030-0230 Arabic, 500 kW, 289
degrees from Zahedan: a station psychically obsessed with Qur`aning. Why isn`t
this a :20-:20 transmission? Looking over sked from Iran in WRTH 2015, for B-14,
most but not all of the Arabix were :30-:30.
17715, April 3 at 1248 poor
signal with flutter, Chinese talk, mentions ``Chung-kuo`` several times, and
then a website in .ir, fragment of IRIB IS and pulling plug at 1250*. HFCC shows
500 kW, 64 degrees from Kamalabad at 1150-1250 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** JAPAN [non]. 5910, April 3 at 0448, VG signal in Japanese, as
NHK is now scheduled 03-05, 500 kW, 290 degrees from FRANCE to CIRAFs 10 &
11 = Mexico, Central America and Caribbean, but inadvertently covering the USA
too, where mere English-speakers are of no interest to R. Japan. No het at the
moment, but this bihour is the time NOT to expect to hear COLOMBIA (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** KURDISTAN [non]. 11510, April 3 at
0304, Denge Kurdistan fair now with Kurdish music, still at 0326, presumably via
PRIDNESTROVYE; OTOH, just about inaudible around 1300 today (Glenn Hauser, OK,
DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** NEW ZEALAND. 15720, April 3 at 0457, good signal
from RNZI QSY announcement to 11725, chirp IS once and a fragment before cutoff
at 0458:00*. So I tune to 11725 awaiting it, which cuts on with more chirping at
*0458:43, very good now, unlike absent 24 hours earlier (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** NORTH AMERICA. 6876-AM, April 3 at 0046, very poor
signal also fighting nearby storm noise, music, 0158 synthetic ID for The
Crystal Ship (as John Poet had tipped his mailing list such a relay (for which
as a bustee, he himself is not responsible) was expected to start around 0000.
Still detected at 0117, 0129 but never enough signal to enjoy the music here;
sorry (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** OKLAHOMA. RF 50, KOPX
62.2 OKC, Ion`s qubo kidvid subchannel, April 3 between 1430 and 1745 UT chex,
is still cutting on Spanish SAP channel only for a few seconds every
quarter-hour; why? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** PERU.
5980+, April 3 at 0044, very poor carrier, slightly on hi side compared to
neighbors, with some modulation from R. Chaski, suffering heavy splatter from
5990 China via Cuba before hourtop; and now in A-15 remains alone on 5980 itself
past 0100, facilitating capture of sliding autocutoff time today precessed to
0107:09.5*. Last check was 5 nites ago on March 29 until 0106:38.5* so this is
31 seconds later, or averaging 6.2 seconds later per 24 hours (Glenn Hauser, OK,
DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** SOMALILAND. 7120-, April 3 at 0330, open carrier
slightly on the lo side, and only JBM by 0332, as R. Hargeisa attempts to
broadcast. Look out: as quoted in WOR 1767, Rumen Pankov in Bulgaria caught some
anomalies in late March, on the air more than an hour earlier and jumping to
7130 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** SOUTH CAROLINA [non].
11825, April 3 at 1239, Brother Scare via WRMI is plugging big Passover event
tonight at 8 pm ET = 0000 UT Saturday, inviting visitors to his Tabernacle,
which exit to take off the hiway. It`s the same canned announcement he has been
airing for a couple of weeks, yawn. Hey, is he a secret Jew, or what? Right now
there is heavy Asian CCI vs the 355 azimuth from Okee. That would be VOA 250 kW,
332 degrees via Tinang, PHILIPPINES at 09-13, so the evil Obama government is
blocking the holy word of the Last Day Prophet of God!! By speaking the language
of our evil enemy China. WRMI-8 is now on air from 10 to 22 with TOM, extended
weekends until 02 with Global 24 [see also GUAM and non].
11580, WRMI-9
at 44 degrees with TOM is now scheduled only at 03-13 and 21-23, other
programming at 23-01, and at 01-03 with System B, same color coding as main
9955, so really duplicating it? Unchecked yet. WRMI was doing this a few months
ago but it didn`t last long. Programming during that bihour includes several DX
programs, mostly Spanish, musical shows, R. Slovakia and Praga in Spanish (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) See also USA: WORLD OF RADIO
** SUDAN
[and non]. 11650, April 3 at 0451, tone jammer, and (via VATICAN) R. Dabanga ID
in passing, poor.
13800, April 3 at 0452, R. Dabanga signal via
MADAGASCAR is better here tonight, but double tone jamming is worse, hi and lo
pitches (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A [non]. 17600,
April 3 at 1357, good signal, heated conversation in Somali, as I`ve been
hearing since A-15 began, so investigate it: HFCC shows VOA via VATICAN at
13-14; violating Separation of Church & State, etc., etc. (Glenn Hauser, OK,
DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. WORLD OF RADIO 1767 monitoring: WRMI has
rearranged its schedule including some WOR airings:
Thu 2100 on 7570
new
Fri 2130 on 7570 only, not 15770
Sat 1000 on 5850 - canceled; on air
Sundays only
Sun 2100 on 15770 - new
Sun 2300 on 11580 - still
The
9955 WOR times remain the same:
Thu 0330
Thu 1230
Tue 1100
Wed
1315
Meanwhile, Global 24 still hasn`t put up a schedule for this
weekend, whether last week`s Bulgarian relay of WOR Saturday at 2130 on 9525
will continue, be re-timed and/or re-frequencied (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST) See also SOUTH CAROLINA [non]
** U S A. 720, April 3 at 1814 UT
on caradio in central Enid, talk show, so I stop between some powerline or
traffic light noise peaks: WGN ID in passing, weak but readable, once again
midday log of this distant station. Later has a bit of CCI, presumed KSAH San
Antonio. This of course leads me to check for other rarities: see 830 (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 830, April 3 at 1813 UT, weak
signal, continuous talk, partly readable, sermon probably inspired by `Good
Friday` --- WCCO might be a propagational suspect, since WGN is in, but unlikely
that secular station would be doing this even on an alleged day like today. I`m
on errands, so monitor intermittently; by 1828 UT in downtown Enid it`s axually
a bit stronger, and hope for an ID on the semi-hour. Now with gruesome details
about crucifixions and speculating about exactly how J.C. may have died in
modern medical terminology, but keeps going, and by 1832 UT (which is exactly
noon here), fading a bit and some CCI appears, along with ACI splash from WBAP.
Try again on caradio at 1854 UT. Yay, ID in passing is JBA, sounds like
KGYL. NRC AM Log for 830 shows very likely match with a religious format is KUYO
in Evanville (Casper WY), a 25 kW ND daytimer. I also had this circumstantially
but without even such a close ID, Jan 31, 2015 at 1908 UT on one of my daytime
DX-peditions as in DXLD 15-05. Would hardly have suspected this would still be
happening in April with much higher solar angle. Or is it extended groundwave?
632 miles, a bit less than Chicago, in a totally different direxion. Something
also audible on 650 in the 640/660 splash (but no IBOC), likely KGAB in closer
Cheyenne; and of course 670 KLTT Denver groundwave as usual (Glenn Hauser, OK,
DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 1090, April 3 at 0507 UT, with KRLD IBOC
nulled as much as possible, talk show about religious freedom, nevertheless 0509
ID in passing as Fox Sports Radio. I would have expected KVOP Plainview TX which
has been showing lately in this hole, but could it be FSR`s 5 kW daytimer in
Rice Lake WI, WAQE? KVOP by now should be running Texas State Network`s `Texas
Overnight` originating at neighbor KRLD. By recheck 0523 UT, the 1090 is indeed
on that show and as before running 21 seconds ahead of KRLD. So I think KVOP was
late switching from FSR to TSN network feed (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** U S A. 1200, April 3 at 0125 UT I hear a tone mixing with
WOAI; nulling it, the tone leads to an automaton NWS tornado *warning* but I
cannot copy the counties mentioned. There can`t be too many of those at the
moment, so within the following hour I consult the national severe weather map
at:
which
shows the only tornado spot is southwest Missouri. So now I`ve got it --- has to
be my closest 1200 which so far had eluded me, KYOO in Bolivar, 1 kW daytimer.
But could be legitimately on air now due to emergency.
Details of this
tornado warning:
``Tornado
Warning Statement as of 9:03 PM CDT on April 02, 2015
... A Tornado
Warning remains in effect for north central Newton and
Jasper counties until
930 PM CDT...
At 900 PM CDT... a severe thunderstorm capable of producing
a tornado
was located near Webb City... and moving east southeast at 30
mph.
Hazard... tornado and half dollar size hail.
Source... radar
indicated rotation.
Impact... flying debris will be dangerous to those caught
without
shelter. Mobile homes will be damaged or destroyed.
Damage
to roofs... windows and vehicles will occur. Tree damage
is
likely.
Locations impacted include...
Airport Drive...
Carterville... Carthage... Diamond... Duenweg...
Duquesne... northeastern
Joplin... Oronogo and Webb City.
Interstate 44 between mile markers 8 and
27 will also be impacted by
this dangerous
storm.
Precautionary/preparedness actions...This storm has a history of
producing tornadoes. Take cover in a basement or storm shelter now!
A
Tornado Watch remains in effect until 200 am CDT Friday morning for
southeast
Kansas and southern Missouri.
Lat... Lon 3693 9424 3696 9433 3700 9442
3705 9448
3709 9451 3714 9453 3717 9452 3720 9448
3725 9440
3723 9426 3715 9413 3700 9415
3695 9418
time... Mot... loc 0202z
275deg 28kt 3713 9445
Tornado... radar indicated hail...
1.25in
Cramer``
Golly, Cramer, spare us all those dots. Ever hear of
commas or semicolons? Newton and Jasper counties = Joplin and northward. Webb
City is northern suburb of Joplin. It`s 66 miles southwest of Bolivar. If it
were daytime, KYOO`s fringe coverage area would not quite reach Joplin per
(standard disclaimer) radio-locator.com. At night it`s got to be heavily QRMed
by WOAI. BTW, 1200 apparently duplicates ``Your Country 99`` = KYOO 99.1, 25 kW
ERP. From a site NE of Bolivar, 99.1 gets even less signal into Joplin area.
Haven`t heard how they pronounce Bolivar, but fat chance it`s correct as in
Spanish Bolívar; so is it BALL-uh-var, or BOWL-uh-var? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. (88.7), April 3 at 1500 UT, KRZA Alamosa
CO/Taos NM on webcast starts playing the `Hightower Lowdown`` early, mixing with
NPR News from 1501, and then cutting off Jim Hightower incomplete. 1506 after
NPR, restarts Hightower at his scheduled time, but upcut missing first few
seconds. It`s only 2 minutes long. This is typical. I usually listen to KRZA on
Mon/Tue/Fri from 1430 UT for a good variety of cultural regional shows, but they
seldom manage to transition to NPR News on time. Must have very inaccurate clock
and/or very hamfisted amateurish slopperators, really a shame for the public
radio station of the area (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 13562 approx., April 3 at 1317 I hear the beacon
again this time a bit stronger and less CODAR, enough to copy a definite CW ID:
V1RGO/B --- not V1RGM/B as there are three dashes instead of two. Google search
assumes I must mean VIRGO and puts up millions of hits. Thinx I`m too stupid to
tell the difference between a 1 and an I, especially on CW? Yahoo search
suspects that but also offers the alternative to search only for V1RGO/B which
leads nowhere, but V1RGO apparently is also the name of a slim wallet. That`s
still less than helpful. I try the UDXF yg: no hits on V1RGO or V1RGO/B. It must
be a brand-new beacon, but how are we to locate it? Try the HIFER lists again:
nothing at
hfunderground.com ---
nothing at
but
neither are much interested in the 13 MHz band for some reason
nothing
at
which
does specialize in this band.
Up around 13564, I am also getting at 1322
April 3, beacon K6FRC, which is well-known in California, a real ham call; LWCA
shows him on 13565.05; maybe so. Could the other one really be VE1RGO? No such
call at QRZ.com. Well, maybe eventually the details of V1RGO/B will emerge
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 15760-15795, April
3 at 0057, heavy rapid pulsing on and off, OTH radar? Mostly on, and no WRMI to
QRM on 15770, since it`s no longer 24 hours, but only 13-21 BS, and 21-22 other
RMI programming (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
This report
dispatched at 2111 UT April 3
