** CHINA [and non]. 21690, June 5 at 0512, fair signals both in Chinese, about
equal CCI from CNR1 jammer and RFA Chinese this hour only via TINIAN. Ahhh,
summer propagation! This is getting to be a regular, as we creep into Solstice.
Per Aoki, there is an additional 21690 hour which Must Be Jammed, 06-07 when
it`s RFA Tibetan via UAE.
17860, June 5 at 1320, CNR1 jammer, fair with
CCI, // 15115. Aoki shows 17860 is BBC Uzbek via OMAN, here at 1300-1330 on
Wed/Thu/Fri only, and this is Friday.
18980, June 5 at 1320, CNR1 jammer,
fair, vs unheard RFA Tibetan via Kuwait, scheduled this hour, this frequency,
Tue & Fri only
13980, June 5 at 1328, CNR1 jammer, very good, but
none OOB in the 19s, 17s, 16, 15s, 14s, 12s --- just the usual in-band spots on
17, 15, 13 and 11 MHz bands (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
**
CUBA. 13740, June 5 at 1408, open carrier, dead air, as the sloppyrators at
RadioCuba have failed to turn it off at scheduled 1400* (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** EAST TURKISTAN. 17630, June 5 at 1410, CRI English
discussing F- and other naughty word use, usual fair signal. I still see some
list-logs of this from EurAmerica as MALI site, as shown in Aoki at 14-16, but
which ALSO shows Urumqi site at 12-15. This is OBVIOUSLY from E.T. as signals
are comparable to the other CRI E.T. services before 14 on 17560, 17630 and
17650. I don`t even hear an echo on 17630, which would confirm Bamako is really
on during this hour, but if one did hear CRI English at 15-16 on 17630, then it
would have to be Mali, barring any further changes. The Mali signal is aimed
eastward allegedly 100 kW, while Urumqi is 500 kW, 308 degrees northwestward
toward Europe and America (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
**
EGYPT. 12070, June 5 at 0103, R. Cairo in Spanish, good signal, and distorted
yet still readable!
11935, June 5 at 0103, R. Cairo, Spanish, just barely
audible, strange
9315, June 5 at 0103, R. Cairo, Spanish, poor signal
just barely modulated
9965, June 5 at 0104, R. Cairo, Arabic, good signal
but very undermodulated, yet not distorted, plus usual whine (Glenn Hauser, OK,
DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MEXICO. Sporadic E opening the morning of June 5:
I turned on the analog ch 2 snow around 1415 UT. Finally:
1520 on 2,
fade-in algo with Gala bug in LR, presumably XHY Mérida
1526 on 2, bug in
LR of MTY tv and below it 26 degrees and 10:-- clock, edges partly off-screen.
So this is XHCNL, Saltillo, Coahuila, which relays ch 34 from Monterrey; talk
show with YLs
1529 on 2, something else stronger with wild studio show
including guy in costume reciting poetry; news crawler abottom including Tarek
Aziz falleció. 1534 to full-screen news titled MATUTINO EXPRESS with YL
anchorette, circular bug in LR can`t make out; 1538 fades. Search finds this
program is M-F starting at 8:30 am [HCMV = 1330 UT], on Televisa`s foroTV
network (so not XHY which is Gala with Calle 60)
Here how Televisa
describes the show:
``ENTRETENIMIENTO
--- Matutino Express --- Es un concepto informativo con una visión diferente de
ver la noticia, serio pero con un toque que arranca la sonrisa. Lunes a Viernes
8:30 de la mañana por FOROtv
Inicia tu día con un buen Matutino Express,
con un concepto informativo, divertido y una visión diferente de enfrentar la
noticia. Los conductores Esteban Arce, Adriana Riveramelo, José Ramón San
Cristóbal, Lalo Salazar y un gran equipo de colaboradores están dispuestos
[para] informarte y entretenerte con todo lo que necesitas para despertar de
buen humor.
Matutino Express está cargado de Noticias,
Deportes, Espectáculos, Clima, Historias de Ciudad, Lo más Insólito de la
información y mucha diversión. Matutino Express, se saborea muy temprano de
lunes a viernes 8:30 de la mañana.
Elenco: El "Rudo" Rivera (Deportes), Helena Guerrero, David Ramos "El
Reporñero" [sic, made-up word?], Quique Muñoz, Érika Holstein (Clima), Armando
Ramírez y San Martín``
¿Hasta cuándo? The online program schedule only
displays the future for the day in progress, and assumes México is on UT like my
computer! Their accentuation is sporadic, so I have inserted them where
correct.
At this time 6m Es map shows heavy opening centered over
Kentucky but one sole XE involved, XE2OR, who is in Nava, Coahuila, and often
the only 6m activity in the whole country
1541 on 2, weak video, looks
like TELEACTIVA bug UR = XEFB Monterrey
1546 on 2, MTY tv fade-in again,
talk show, with LR bug as before, again at 1556
1607 on 2, fade-in
infomercial for Rocket Hose! Yes, still in Spanish. 3-for-one-offer, etc., phone
1-800-120-6214. Still same going past 1612. Maybe it`s still with MTY bug, not
sure. Please move it further in from corner! (in USA toll-free numbers, can the
one after 800 be a 1 now? Looks odd.)
1612 on 4, algo video with MUF
spike, nothing further
1616 on 2, PLAN B on backdrop of talk or
commercial show; soon fades and nothing further in next sesquihour.
BTW,
Raymie reports that the next analog cutoff will be July 14, when lowband DXers
must say goodbye to Ciudad Juárez` XEPM, Tu Canal 2, and XEJ-TV on 5. However,
after the imminent elexion, things may move along quicker. Also see this NY
Times story via Mike Cooper:
Free TVs in Mexico Are Seen as Having
Political Strings Attached ---
The government is vowing to give away 10
million digital televisions.
(Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** OKLAHOMA. 960, June 5 at 0500-0505
UT, NO Fox-Hole of dead air from local KGWA Enid, nor on several other recent
nights. Hope they haven`t fixed it permanently. I would have to check every
night for at least a week to be sure, and that`s inconvenient (Glenn Hauser, OK,
DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** OKLAHOMA. RF 23, June 5 at 1432 UT, KSBI OKC has
added a 52-2 `TEST` of black and silence. The word TEST shows on the DTV tuner,
but not on the PSIP field. So now this sub-station of KWTV 39 ``9`` may be about
to give us yet another rerun sub-sub-channel? The original KSBI did run a 52.2
duplicating an LPTV but not since KWTV bought it (Glenn Hauser, Enid, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** PERU. 5980, June 5 at 0100 I am finally tuning in
earlier to detect the reset autocutoff time of R. Chaski, still hearing a JBA
carrier. It cuts off at 0102:27.5* so we may now expect that to precess ~6
seconds later per day for the next few months. The reset a few days ago must
have been to approximately 0102 instead of 0100 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** PUNTLAND. 13800, June 5 at 1305, not even a carrier detectable
from Puntland Radio --- has anyone heard it in June? No reports I can find. On
May 31, S. Hasegawa told the DXLD yg, ``Puntland Radio on 13800 kHz has
confirmed several Japanese DXer that the carrying the audio of Puntranndo TV at
1400 UT on May 29 and 30. including English advertising. Live streaming http://www.puntlandtvradio.com/ S.
Hasegawa``. Also possibly bearing on this is a story via José Miguel Romero2,
June 1, but which does not mention name of station concerned:
``Puntland
Authorities Detain Editor of Local Radio
The
authorities of Somali regional state of Puntland have detained Radio Journalist
and editor of Daljir Jamal Farah and director Abdirahman Gardi. The two are said
to be detained in Garowe in connection to a discussion program aired on Friday
night criticizing the performance of regional state administration President
Abdiweli Ali Gas. The regional authorities suspended National Television SNTV
last week for allegedly misrepresenting administration efforts on fleeing Somali
refugees from Yemen.
Detention and closure of media stations is very
common in Somalia.
Earlier this year Somali security agencies have shutdown
Shabelle radio station for allegedly broadcasting security threat and public
incitement. The horn of African country is described by committee protect
journalists as the dangerous environment for journalists to operate after Syria
and Iraq. More than 50 journalists lost their lives since the breakout of the
civil war 1992.`` (Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** SUDAN [and non].
13800, June 5 at 0514, R. Dabanga via MADAGASCAR, good signal with NO +carrier
jamming for a change; 11645 at 0518, R. Dabanga via VATICAN is poor (no sign of
CCI from Greece), and tone jammer is still stuck on 11650; is no one paying
attention at the Sudanese Jamming Command??? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** U S A. 7457-USB, June 5 at 1301, AFA4RX, NCS of Air Force MARS
net designated SEM2 (all given fonetikaly), calling stations for traffic, but no
replies audible and none received at first. Then she (?) goes on to call VI and
PR stations specifically. It seems I have 9 previous logs of AF MARS on this
frequency going back to 2008y, and a year ago the net designator was logged as
SIM2, covering the SE quadrant of USA. Searching now on AFA4RX call leads
firstly to some URL concerning Viagra. And to this more relevant 124-page pdf
from 2008/2009:
which
finally on page 112 mentions AFA4RX once with an e-mail address at the Pentagon
(not Pentagun, ha ha, as the Brits like to missay it). (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A [non]. 7350, June 5 at 0525, VOA English news
about Africa, going to silly ballgame segment, fair signal. Had not noticed this
before, but Aoki shows this frequency started May 11, 0505-0530 English added on
to the beefed-up Kirundi service at 0400-0505, both M-F only and this is Friday;
100 kW, 350 degrees via BOTSWANA. Once things settle down in Burundi (not yet?)
these may go away (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. A
reminder that the next airings of WORLD OF RADIO 1775 are separately on 7570 and
15770 from WRMI, Friday at 2130 (Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U
S A. 9330-CUSB, June 5 at 0103, WBCQ is on again, apparently now regular evening
schedule on this frequency, but span as yet undetermined for politico-religious
client(s). I see that on June 5 Ivo Ivanov has copied my language about this,
including being ``surprised`` which for me was back on May 29 when I first heard
it. At 0105 check, 5110v is JBA, // much stronger 7490v with Brother Scare
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 7505+, June 5 at 0105,
WRNO is still missing. They come and go unpredictably with no explanation, a
great way to lose whatever minuscule audience they may have acquired (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
This report dispatched at 1846 UT June
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