** BOLIVIA. On the NRD-545, which reads out to two decimal places, I am seeing
how closely I can measure some frequencies. CW mode is offset, but SSB mode is
not. Audibly, I still have to interpolate between similar lo hets it produces on
the lo and hi sides of carriers, to get:
6155.13, July 29 at 0136, JBA
carrier, presumed R. Fides
6134.88, July 29 at 0137, fair signal with R.
Santa Cruz ID as they do frequently. I believe both of these do vary slightly;
last digit of my readings should be taken as approximate (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** BRAZIL. 11814, 11746, 11712, approx., July 29 at
0120, big crackling spurs are back and so is producer 11780 RNA/RNB, after a
respite, all off the air last night (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** CHINA. 11560, July 28 at 1843, Firedragon! At S9 peaks; no
others noted in general bandscan. Jamming target is IBB Mandarin via Saipan at
18-19, i.e. RFA per Aoki.
11785, July 29 at 1333, CNR1 jammer, good with
a cappella YL singing, very little CCI from target VOA Chinese via
Philippines
13920, July 29 at 1337, CNR1 jammer VG // 11785, but mostly
talk now
13980, July 29 at 1337, CNR1 jammer, fair
14920, July 29
at 1338, CNR1 jammer, very poor // matching 13920, 1.000 MHz away on the
FRG-7
15970, July 29 at 1338, CNR1 jammer, good
16100, July 29 at
1338, CNR1 jammer, good
16250, July 29 at 1339, CNR1 jammer, very good!
So HF propagation is picking up; but none in the 10s, 12s, 17s, 18s.
BTW,
Ron Howard reports that the JBA carrier I was hearing on 6075 after
PNG/Australia quit was also CNR1, but unlisted and nothing to jam there. Mauno
Ritola suggests it`s a leapfrog mixing product of 6175 over 6125 another 50 kHz
lower. Truly, it`s amazing we don`t get more such mixing products of Chinese
transmitters, all over the bands (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** CUBA. 9810 & 9830, July 29 at 1330, RHC Spanish
transmitter on 9820 is still putting out buzzspurs (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** EGYPT. 12070, July 29 at 0118, R. Cairo, Spanish,
good signal, JBM
11935, July 29 at 0118 similar signal to 12070 but
suptorted
9315, July 29 at 0131, R. Cairo, during Qur`an in Spanish service,
S9+20 peaks
9965, July 29 at 0127, R. Cairo, Arabic at S9+30 but
undermodulated, whine (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** GERMANY.
9450, UT Wed July 29 at 0129, exotic flutish music, fair signal, off 0130*
without announcement. HFCC shows MBR Nauen, 250 kW, 100 degrees, but what is it,
really? Aoki shows:
9450 Athmeeya Yatra R.(GFA) 0115-0130 ...4...
Kotwali
That`s Gospel for Asia. EiBi on the language, but no numbers:
KTW
Kotwali (dialect of Bhili): India-Gujarat, Maharshtra [bhb]
(Glenn Hauser,
OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MEXICO. See USA: 540
** MEXICO. Fitful
Es opening continued from last report, nothing but:
1641 UT July 28 on 2,
enough video to make out the Televisa-2 net star bug in lower right corner
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** NIGERIA. 9690-, July 29 at
0557, VON with talking drums prior to Hausa; good signal, with only WRMI 9955
and 9395 better on band. Also // weaker 7255-, fair at 0558. (I am assuming both
are slightly on lo side as previously, but not rechecked) (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** OKLAHOMA. 530, July 29 at 0143 UT, instead of NWS
KTA HAR or Enciclopedia, I`m getting mix of my two 1 kW locals, KCRC 1390 and
KGWA 960, i.e. a leapfrog of 1390 over 960 another 430 kHz lower. Backing off RF
gain, this doesn`t go away, so I hope it`s really some external mixing, not
produced internally by the NRD-545. I don`t hear this on other receivers, except
the caradio with some powerline beveraging near Vance AFB when I was checking
for their now defunct TIS on 530. These stations are a few miles apart at
separate sites, both strong enough to overload.
Unrelated, but my nearby
streetlite ignites with wideband RF noise *0149:45-0149:55 (Glenn Hauser, Enid,
DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** PHILIPPINES. 12120, July 28 at 1838,
gospel-sounding music? very poor signal vs RTTY but which the NRD-545 can notch
out almost completely. 1846 YL with numbers in English, phone? Oh yes, uplooked
later, its R. Pilipinas during the 1730-1930 Filipino service, but no doubt some
English mixed in. Not often heard here, but it`s a bihour when I don`t monitor
much. Also listed on // 9925 and 15190, all three 250 kW, 283 degrees via IBB
Tinang, targets CIRAF 39 & 40, i.e. ME triangle from Turkey to Yemen to
Afghanistan, for all the Filipino/a Gastarbeiter/in over there (Glenn Hauser,
OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** TURKEY. 15450, July 29 at 1245, VOT English
is audible with poor-fair signal while often inaudible. Something about a
Turkish event at the Edinburgh (fringe?) Festival; 1247 `Let`s Learn Turkish`
about checking into a hotel (hint, hint). 1251 music; recheck 1317 `Question of
the Month` seems to be something about which anniversary concerning radio
broadcasting, but too poor to copy details; and I know I would be wasting my
time looking for it on website, as TRT HQ has usurped the VOT external radio
service`s pages! (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. WORLD
OF RADIO 1783 monitoring: confirmed at 1315 UT Wednesday July 29 on WRMI 9955;
sufficient without jamming. Next:
2100 Wednesday on WBCQ 7490 (Glenn Hauser,
OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 12015, July 29 at 0117, WTWW-3 is off
instead of on to 0200 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A
[and non]. 9330-CUSB, July 29 at 0557 as Art Bell is about to go to local
commercial break, hit by another carrier making low audible het (LAH) since WBCQ
is slightly off-frequency. Must be the Cuban numbers transmitter which collides
with it on a specific late-night schedule. Maybe WBCQ will care about this now
with a regular customer? Bell listeners may imagine it`s deliberate. Lately,
WBCQ 9330 has been weak here this late, low MUF over path, still VG on 7490
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 540, July 29 at 0606
UT, roughly E/W, local weather but no identifying details caught until area code
318 number, back to ``Coast to Coast AM on Talk 540``. So it`s KMLB, Monroe LA,
listed 4000 watts day, 26 watts night, always non-direxional. Quite rare here,
so really 26 watts?
Shares with XEWA rock music to the south, but aiming
E/W, still NO sign of XETX, La Ranchera de Paquimé, per IRCA Mexican Log, 700
watts at night from Nuevo Casas Grandes, Chihuahua near the border, which used
to dominate 540. Could someone in the Gadsden Purchase confirm whether XETX is
gone for good, to FM only? That would be 90.5 per Cantú who had it as only 250
watts night on 540. WRTH showed 5 kW fulltime, more like the signal I used to
get (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
This report dispatched at
1557 UT July 29
