** KOREA NORTH [and non]. 6250, July 14 at 1218, mainly noise jamming but some
music modulation. Confusing situation here in Korean Radio War, per Aoki: Echo
of Hope - or Voice of Hope from South to North is here at 0555-2400; Echo of
Unification, from North to South is at 0400-0602, 1200-1402 and 2200-2402. NK
Noise jamming is also on 6250 at 0355-2400 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** MEXICO. Sporadic E analog TVDX opening continued from last
report, July 13:
2322 on 2, CCI including Televisa-2 net star bug in lower
right
2324 on 2, in addition LA VECINA = novela title temporarily in
LL
2330 on 3, algo video here too
2334 on 2, still novela from 2
net
UT July 14:
0001 on 2, 3 and even audio on 4: weak CCI
0018 on
3, Spanish audio
0037 on 2, Televisa-5 net bug in LR, also at 0048, 0052; no
more
1253 on 2, some Es CCI is already apparent; correlating with
sporadic-E boost for 13845 WWCR and less so for 15825, which emits some dead air
at 1304-1305
1357 on 2, still Es CCI, cowboy in white hat; 1358 it`s a
live studio variety show, Spanish audio, suspected XHY-TV Mérida, Yucatán. At
same time I am getting UHF DTV tropo DX from TX to KS; see USA (Glenn Hauser,
OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** PAPUA NEW GUINEA [non]. 12025, July 14 at
0529, good signal from NBC relay, promo for PMEA as heard several times
before.
9860, July 14 at 0533, JBA signal from // NBC relay, but just
enough to re-re-reconfirm that the 9860 signal is a slight satellite-delay
behind 12025, i.e. two different sites, i.e. Shepparton and then Brandon,
despite claims they are all ``Townsville``.
Awake July 14 at 0901, now`s
my chance to compare the signal strengths of 12025 and regular R. Australia on
12085 --- except MUF has plunged, and neither is propagating now. 9860 is still
audible fairly with game news, while RA 9580 is at usual VG level, having just
opened with token news in French until ``à demain`` at 0905 back to
anglais.
At 1215, RA on 12085 is still much weaker than usual, but 9580
is VG.
6075, July 14 at 1220, NBC relay is fair, interview mixed with
crowd noise (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** SOLOMON ISLANDS.
5020, JBA July 14 at 1210, SIBC is still on and modulating with some music,
presumably Wantok FM relay (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
**
SUDAN [non]. 13800, July 14 at 0526, R. Dabanga via MADAGASCAR, fair signal, no
carrier/het jamming audible on hi side. No big clash in usual site switch
overlap with VATICAN, but the latter audio is JBA underneath at 0527, and
uncovered very poor at 0527:20* when Mad cuts off. Before 0528, Madagascar
carriers are up both on 13765 for Vatican relay and 13840 for Japan
relay.
11645, July 14 at 0531, Dabanga stingers via VATICAN, poor, and
the Sudanese tone jammer is *still* barely audible on 11650, not a problem
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 5830, July 14 at 0538,
WTWW-1 with plug for an SFAW meeting of Christian men coming up, inviting
applications for possible approval, mentioning days of week, but dates edited
out, since this was probably recorded a decade ago. Strangely, there is a weaker
echo of all this audio two seconds after first heard; some kind of looping in
the playback of very, very stale material, but sexism and racism are forever,
they assume (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A [and non].
5890, July 14 at 0541, WWCR-4 is off the air instead of Brother HySTAIRical;
audiblizing weak Cuban pulse jamming, which is *still* here, YEARS after VOA
Spanish self-destructed, and was never on the 5890 air anyway at this hour
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. Morning of July 14,
Bill Hepburn`s tropo maps show mostly over Kansas, but bandscan gets first
decode from north TX as favored by my antenna pointing, all times
UT:
1351 on RF30, decode as 29-1 KMPX, and at 1352 with Estrella TV bug
in LR (like we get from KTUZ RF 29 as 48-1, KOCY OKC). That chex in W9WI.com for
the megawatt KMPX in Decatur TX (NW of Fort Worth). Soon gone
1352 on
RF29, meanwhile, KTUZ is not decoding no doubt because of CCI, which would be
KTXA, another megawatt in Fort Worth; a few minutes later, KTUZ reappears (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
This report dispatched at 1536 UT July
14