** AUSTRALIA. 12075, April 8 at 1327, good signal from RBA ID & IS prélude,
1330 sign-on to South Asia finally announcing correct frequency 12075 instead of
11590 which I had not heard since March 30, tho it may have lasted a day or two
longer. So it took about a week for them to catch up to their own QSY: still
announcing ``11590`` as of April 6, unchecked April 7 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** BRAZIL. 11710, 11745 & 11815, April 8 at 0544,
crackling spurs from 11780.1v RNA/RNB still have not been eliminated (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CHINA [and non]. 17705, April 8 at
1314, CNR1 jammer echoing and ruining SAUDI ARABIA, but the real target is All
India Radio, Chinese service which has just moved here for A-15. Recheck at
1318, BSKSA in the clear as AIR ends at 1315.
18990, April 8 at 1317,
very poor signal only here on this band, i.e. the Wed & Sat 13-14 channel
for RFA Tibetan via KUWAIT; can`t really tell whether it`s that or a CNR1
jammer.
16100, April 8 at 1319, CNR1 jammer, poor with flutter. No other
OOBs found in the 17s, 15s, 14s, 13s or 12s. Yet the East Turkistani non-jammer
CRI services in French and English are in very well on 17560, 17630, 17650
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CUBA. 15370, April 8 at 1313,
RHC still absent; barely audible on 15230, better on 17730, 9640, etc. No,
website schedule still hasn`t been updated beyond B-14 until March 7. Wake up,
Arnie! (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** EGYPT [and non].
13840-13850-13860, April 8 at 0547, suptorted bigsig from R. Cairo in Arabic
toward N America on 13850 again putting out spurs 10 kHz above and below, the
13840 one messing with NHK French via MADAGASCAR during this semihour only
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** FRANCE. 15560, April 8 at
0552, poor signal in Arabish? No, must be Swahili as HFCC shows RFI at
0530-0600, 500 kW, 135 degrees from Issoudun (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** GREECE. 15650, April 8 at 0551, poor signal in Greek // fair
9420, so ERTOpen (or whatever it`s currently calling itself), with MUF holding
up late (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** PHILIPPINES. 11990,
April 8 at 1405, VOA Korean is overmodulated and distorted from Tinang
transmitter, a recurrent problem on this and other/previous frequencies; also
splattering plus/minus 10. This is on the 21-degree antenna. Usual strong signal
since that azimuth crosses: Pusan (slightly off North Korea), Barrow, Sioux
Lookout, Ann Arbor, Myrtle Beach, ergo, also a North American service (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** SPAIN [and non]. 17855, April 7 at
1912, REE reactivated here with SBG in Castilian; first time heard since the
early few days of A-15. VG signal on the N American beam, much stronger than //
17715, and also stronger than // 15490 which is second best (and which had been
first-best during 17855` absence). Also JBA on // 15450, so congrats, four
transmitters running at once. This time, no France adjacent on 17850, or is
there a JBA carrier there? HFCC does have RFI registered 19-20 from ISSoudun
from 29 March to 29 August only (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** SUDAN [and non]. 13800, April 8 at 0549, R. Dabanga, very good
via VATICAN, and NO tone jamming for a change. But // 11650 is only fair and
with tone jamming.
HFCC shows a confusing site swaparound for 13800,
content of which must be 0400-0429 R. Tamazuj, 0429-0559 R.
Dabanga:
0400-0430, 250 kW, 138 degrees from FRANCE
0430-0530, 250 kW, 335
degrees from MADAGASCAR
0530-0600, 250 kW, 150 degrees from VATICAN
So at
0529 amid the Dabanga broadcast there would be a site change.
Meanwhile
on 11650:
0400-0430, 250 kW, 145 degrees from VATICAN
0430-0600, 250 kW,
146 degrees from VATICAN
What`s the point of a separate listing with a
1-degree azimuth shift? Really a transmitter change? Both are on Antenna type
216. And BTW amid this also on 11650 at 0400-0500 is CRI Vietnamese via Kunming
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. WORLD OF RADIO 1767
monitoring: confirmed Wednesday April 8 on WRMI 9955: gh ID at 1315.1; WOR from
1315.6, good signal but lite pulse jamming: tnx a lot, Arnie! Next:
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, unconfirmed]
(Glenn Hauser,
OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. Regional tropo enhancement again this
morning April 8, Hepburn map much like yesterday, OK into KS. This time on the
Zenith STB DTV converter I try a different approach than stepping directly thru
all the RF channels.
Instead I start tuning thru the virtual channels,
and if I see any hesitation of the NO SIGNAL response to show up, I know there
is really a BAD signal there, and then convert it to what the real RF channel is
being tuned. Of course this only works, I think, on channels previously saved,
but there are a lot of them by now.
On 5.1 I am getting two BAD signals
in addition to local KOCO RF 7: One of them is on RF 18, and the other on RF 41.
Checking W9WI.com listings it`s obvious what both of them have to be in this
area, even tho they never decode any video; and both are gone by 1430
UT:
RF 41, April 8 at 1418 UT, must be KXAS, 390.1 kW, 5.1, Fort Worth
TX
RF 18, April 8 at 1418 UT, must be KFSM, 550 kW, 5.1 in Fort Smith AR
[and BTW, the refusal of KFOR OKC RF 27 to decode 24 hours earlier was
likely caused by CCI from another RF 27, KFTA, 600 kW in Fort Smith]
RF
21, April 8 at 1426 UT, BAD signal displays as 40.1, which means it also has to
be Fort Smith AR, 325 kW KHBS.
RF 30, April 8 at 1424 UT, bad signal but
labeled 30.1. Listing shows a KCLJ-LP, 15 kW in Joplin/Carthage MO, but I
suspect it`s really K30AE in Alva OK, OETA translator, which W9WI.com thinx
should be displaying as virtual 13, but IIRC other OETA translators also show
real RF channels as virtual.
RF 31, April 8 at 1425 UT, decode as
Univisi, i.e. megawatt KDCU-DT licensed to Derby KS (Wichita market). W9WI.com
claims virtual channel 46, but I see it says 31.1. W9WI.com also shows this with
46.2 UniMAS. I must look for that as 31.2 next time it tropos in.
Furthermore, W9WI.com on ch 31 also has a ``USA DTV channel allotment
change request`` with everything the same except suffix KDCU-DR. What`s that
about? Does that mean applying for a permanent change of channel? If so, which
one is not displayed.
(RF 31 is still open in Enid, no KXOK-LD tho its
relay on RF 32 continues active as described yesterday.) Meanwhile, the other
major VHF and UHF signals from Wichita market are also in, but no deeper into
Kansas, some of them decoding as my antenna remains aimed at OKC.)
RF 43,
April 8 at 1426 UT, BAD signal, displays with EIGHT total virtual subchannels,
43.1 thru 43.8. That means it has to be KCTU-LD, Wichita KS, only 2.7 kW. I`ve
previously got it to decode. See W9WI.com for the eight different programs it
allegedly provides (Glenn Hauser, Enid OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
This
report dispatched at 1627 UT April 8
