** BANGLADESH. 15505, April 7 at 1359, open carrier, poor with flutter, 1359:33
BB IS starts; 1359:56 IS stops, but NO mistimesignal, just opening announcement,
and into Urdu theme music (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
**
CUBA. 13605, April 7 at 0546, R. Martí is long gone at this hour, but the
DentroCuban Jamming Command angrily keeps attacking its A-15 frequency with
pulse jamming, and irregular beeping more audible with BFO, like the clip I
previously recorded on 11930. In fact, 11930 is doing the same thing now (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CUBA. 15370, April 7 at 1326, this
RHC frequency is still missing. Old B14 sked is still on website, showing it at
14-16 UT, but from DST March 8, it really shifted to 13-15 UT (Glenn Hauser, OK,
DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** GERMANY. 17810, April 7 at 1342, poor signal with
hymn, language sounds Chinese, only signal in the 17.8s. HFCC shows it`s AWR,
250 kW, 70 degrees via Nauen at 1300-1500 in Chinese (except Sat & Sun
1300-1330 Uyghur). Would any of that merit jamming? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** KOREA NORTH [and non]. 11570, Tuesday April 7 at
1335, fast tone jamming, about 8 pulses per second, offset at 11571, a modulated
carrier, against weak station. At first I think KTWR Vietnamese must have
shifted down from 11580 to 11570, but it would have closed at 1330 anyway except
on a Saturday. For more options, consult Aoki, which has something else on
11570, missing from HFCC:
11570 1300-1500 UZB Radio Free Chosun Kor Tashkent
1-7
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** OKLAHOMA. Earthquake
report: the DXLD/WOR room shakes for a few seconds, April 7 at 0352:24 UT. USGS
info looked up later shows:
M 3.1 5 km SE of Enid, Oklahoma 2015-04-07
03:52:17 UTC 5.0 km
Location 36.357°N, 97.838°W
Once again, note the
delay, only 7 seconds, and this one is indeed closer! Meanwhile, the previous
one we logged, which felt weaker here, has been slightly downgraded from
original mag 4.2:
M 3.9 - 20 km SSE of Medford, Oklahoma 2015-04-06
15:30:23 UTC
Location 36.634°N 97.657°W Depth 5.2 km
(Glenn Hauser, Enid,
DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** OKLAHOMA [non]. 1520, April 7 at 0556 UT, KOKC is
still off, allowing KOLM Rochester MN to dominate over some weaker signals: 0559
UT weather on ``Sports Radio 1520, The Ticket``. Beyond cheatin` KOLM, should be
a great opportunity to DX others while lacking usual KOKC dominance, probably
not much longer once their new antenna be up.
Recheck in daytime 1539 UT
April 7, KOKC is still off, but there`s always KOKC-via-KEBC on 1560 for those
who can get it; weak here, but usually readable on caradio at least (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** OKLAHOMA [and non]. RF 5 thru 51,
with only a few exceptions, almost every channel in this range has at least a
BAD DTV signal, tnx to heavy regional tropo, April 7 from tune-in 1428 UT. Most
of them not enough to decode, but notable is RF 27, where KFOR OKC, normally a
bigsig, is NOT decoding, meaning it has too much co-channel interference. My
antenna is still stuck toward OKC, remember, so I can`t rotate and chase other
direxions. One which does decode is RF35, KMTW DT, i.e. the megawatt in
Hutchinson KS, off the back.
On RF 5, brief sign of a BAD signal is
intriguing. W9WI.com listings in the area include not a single Kansan, but a
single Oklahoman not too far off the antenna heading:
Durant, OK
KXDA-LD 100 33-07-57N 096-39-39W LIC 47.1:S:REL
Durant, OK KXDA-LD 3,000
32-54-04N 096-41-15W CP 47.1:S:REL
And of course several in further TX,
notably but unlikely:
KCWX Fredericksburg TX, 23.7 kW or
``special-temporary`` with 45 kW
The Mountainlake tropo map shows huge
overlapping red blobs over OK and all adjacent states; the more refined Hepburn
map for 1200 UT today shows the major area around Louisiana, but a separate
minor area from OK into KS.
In legacy-mode, after being sure my analog TV
set is still connected to the same antenna thru amp and splitter, I still step
thru all the channels, 2 up to 56 in case there be any NTSC left; discounting
cable radiation here and there, not a raster to be seen, except something on ch
52 --- this must not be real either, as W9WI.com shows there is only ONE US
station of any kind left on this channel, a TBN analog translator in
Pennsylvania. Here, utility occupancy starts at 57, and many more, but not all,
upwards thru 83, which my old Zenith 12-incher B&W still tunes. I reset it
to channel 2 hoping for some sporadic E analog DX from the few Canadians,
Mexicans, Cubans, Americans left (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** SUDAN [and non]. 13800, April 7 at 0547, heavy tone jamming
mixing with R. Dabanga, fair signals at about equal levels. // 11650 the same
situation, but both at poor levels. 13800 is via MADAGASCAR; 11650 via VATICAN
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** TIBET [non]. 18980, April 7 at
1344, JBA signal here. Try to // it with CNR1 jammer on 15265, but not, tho it
could be, merely not synch.
18990, April 7 at 1344, an even weaker JBA
broadcast signal, also with some noise.
So what`s the Tuesday
registration for RFA Tibetan via Kuwait?
18980 at 13-14, 18990 at 12-13. So
both RFA and the jammer should be on 18980 during this hour, but April 5 I did
find them uncoördinated. By 1358 today, 18980 is off, 18990 still on (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. WORLD OF RADIO 1767
monitoring: confirmed Tuesday April 7 at 1106 on WRMI 9955, VG signal, atop lite
pulse jamming: tnx a lot, Arnie! Next:
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 1768 if ready
in time]
Thu 1230 WRMI 9955 [ditto]
Thu 2100 WRMI 7570 [ditto;
NEW]
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 720, April 6 at
1901 UT on caradio, here`s WGN radio again at midday, weak but clear and fully
readable (as long as I am between powerline and traffic light buzzes), during
``WGN News``. This is really getting weird: as we are more and more into hi
solar angles, and this is less than a semihour beyond local mean noon, it seems
less and less likely this could be residual skywave breaking thru. WGN is
capable of getting here on extended groundwave, but previously not so reliably
nor so strongly. Of the big Chicago stations, this is the only one with a really
Clear channel. Has something improved the ground conductivity between there and
here? With general drought conditions above ground, one would not think so.
However, the Extreme Drought is only here in OK, not so much up toward Chicago
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
This report dispatched at 1625 UT
April 7
