** COLOMBIA. 5910+, fair signal April 29 at 0553, HJDH with peppy tropical
music, hum audible during pauses, slightly on hi side for a change compared to
whatever is on 910 MW. 0559 mistimecheck as ``es la una en punto, Sistema Radial
Alcaraván`` ID. No mention now of Conciencia.
6010+, the other HJDH is
also on and playing similar but not same music, April 29 at 0556 past 0600, and
would ID as La Voz de tu Conciencia; also off-frequency to the hi side (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** FRANCE [non]. 1060, April 29 at 0517,
news in Spanish from RFI, as reliably relayed at local midnight by R. Educación;
LAH from off-channels XERDO and KIJN, always messing up this frequency, but at
least the DF station manages to overcome the closer ones. 0601 ID for XEEP 1060
and also claiming to be on 49 metros, which typically signs off just before the
RFI relay at 0500 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
**
INTERNATIONAL. If quoting my recent item about INTERNATIONAL RADIO FOR DISASTER
RELIEF, please correct the typo in the last word (gh)
** KOREA SOUTH.
15575, April 29 around 1325, KBS World Radio `Seoul Calling`, W&M with
informal discussion of various features, including a butterfly festival at a
city on the coast; later Korean language lesson; then `Sounds of Korea`,
Wednesday favorite of traditional music, 1353 for a dance by two women in bright
red flowing costumes, wielding giant swords. Reception remains good but with
flutter. 1359 rapid sign-off tries to channel us toward website, not about SW;
1400 theme and into another hour, in Korean (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** NEPAL [non]. 15280, April 29 at 1345, no signal from KTWR
Guam, until cuts on late at 1345:40 with IS, very poor signal and much weaker
than adjacent 15275 CNR1 jammer (vs RFA Tibetan via Tajikistan daily 13-14 only,
not a trace of that here). 1348:50 starts talking in presumed Nepali, as this is
a new special service since April 27. ACI is off after 1400, still evidently
Nepali mixed with music.
By 1415 it`s in English with devotional, but
still too weak to tell if any practical info is being transmitted to Nepali
quake victims. A 15275 carrier came back on for less than a minute around
1413-1414 (maybe that`s DW Sri Lanka preparing for the 1500 Swahili service).
Remember that Nepal has a self-imposed wacky timezone of UT +5:45, which
is why this service is at 1345-1445 UT, to make it seem like even 1930-2030
local time. Per WRTH 2015, KTWR did not have any Nepali service before (as
listed under SINGAPORE); but TWR-INDIA (listed under INDIA) did, a token
once-weekly 0045-0115 UT Saturdays on 7280 Tashkent in B-14.
Own website
has detailed program schedule, but not updated since October, and shows no
frequencies, just meter bands!
It
had Nepali at 6:30-6:45 am IST Saturdays on 41m. That would be 0100-0115
UT.
This post explains how much trouble it was to implement the new
broadcast, and that it replaces the special service to Vanuatu.
News
of the new broadcast came from Alokesh Gupta`s Radioactivity blog, his source
unspecified:
``KTWR Guam has started one hour emergency shortwave
broadcast wef 27th April 2015: 1345-1445 UTC on 15280 kHz in
English/Nepali
The Trans World Radio (TWR) Nepal team visited the
affected areas to better understand the situation, and will continue to visit
other affected areas over the next several days. To address the long-term
spiritual and emotional needs, TWR will produce a 15-minute program in Nepali to
be broadcast once a day, seven days a week over 15 FM stations in the affected
districts.
TWR will also produce a one-hour program with four 15-minute
segments in Nepali, Hindi, Bhojpuri, and English. The programs will be broadcast
once a day, seven days a week, over shortwave from Guam to reach those closer to
Mount Everest, where they may not be able to receive FM broadcasts.
TWR
would like to distribute at least 5,000 radios in the region to replace those
that may have been damaged or lost in the quake.``
Aoki says the new KTWR
15280 service is M-F only, since April 28 and only in English (Glenn Hauser, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** OKLAHOMA. 1120, April 29 at 1648 UT, KETU
Catoosa/Sperry/Tulsa, Radio Picuda is off the air again, as if yesterday`s
appearance was indeed a one-shot to keep the license active. But I shall try to
keep checking for it at least once a day (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** PUNTLAND. 13800, April 29 at 1424, no signal at all, not even
a trace of a reduced carrier, from Radio Puntland One, as heard yesterday at
1345-1426. Is it off again, or just propagation? As of 1800 UT, I`ve yet to see
any logs of it today. Aoki`s 13800 entry remains as before, but not 6160 (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. WORLD OF RADIO 1770
monitoring: confirmed Wednesday April 29 at 1315 on WRMI 9955, sufficient and no
QRM. Next:
Wed 2100 WBCQ 7490v
Thu 0330 WRMI 9955 [or 1771 if
ready in time]
Thu 1130 WRMI 9955 [or 1771; new time ex-1230!]
(Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 5890, April 29 at 0552, open
carrier/dead air from WWCR instead of Brother HySTAIRical, what a relief.
Turning up the volume, JBA bleed modulation from 5935 is detectable, even with
max ATT, so not due to FRG-7 receiver overload (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
This report dispatched at 1820 UT April 29
