** ANGOLA. 4950-, July 4 circa 0100, definitely a carrier here on the low side,
when there is not much making it from S America. Strongly suspect it`s RNA which
is always reported off-frequency, and with deficient modulation (if any,
overnight?). (Such as 4949.75 by Carlos Gonçalves, Portugal, June 25 at
1931-1951; but he does not mention any modulation deficiency this time). It`s
not at all unusual to detect 4950- carrier here around this hour, with or
without anything on 60m from S America (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** AUSTRALIA. 12085 & 12065, July 4 at 1212, RA in
play-by-play coverage of some SBG, unlike the missing PNG [q.v.] relay on 12025
which has been started for just such a purpose; live? it`s after 10 pm in
eastern Oz; by 1252, 9580 interviews a coach about family violence (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CHINA. 13130, July 4 at 1257, CNR1
jammer, very poor; none in the 12s, 14s, 15s, 16s, 17s, 18s
19000, July 4
at 1259, FRG-7 Wadley loop birdie has CCI from weak music on CNR1 jammer, then
only 4 pips of ToH timesignal before cutoff. Then I tune around for the next
frequency, but none heard by 1301. At 1331, there it is, a JBA carrier with
flutter on 18990. These match the Sat & Wed before and after 1300 schedule
of RFA Tibetan via Kuwait (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
**
CUBA. 15010, July 4 at 1338, RHC Spanish, very poor but enough to match it to
15370, which is the fulcrum making 15730 land as a leapfrog mixing product
another 360 kHz lower (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** EGYPT.
13850, July 4 at 0502, R. Cairo in extremely distorted Arabic, mentions
``al-Qahira``, and also splatters out to at least 15 kHz both sides (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** KOREA SOUTH. 15575, July 4 at
1353:45, KBS World Radio brings up Christer Brunström in Sweden for his
monthly(?) DX report, which lasts until 1358:20 totaling a hefty 4:35, allowing
him to talk about KNLS reactivated; WWVH YL as a way to hear Hawaii on SW; FEBC
in Russian with Radio Teos; Pakistan irregular at 17-19 on 15700 in Urdu to W
Europe, strong but bad audio; SLBC 11750 at 1630-1830 Fri-Sun in Sinhala for
Gastarbeiter; R. Tirana for Albanian folkmusic, 27 minutes from 2000 Mon-Sat on
7465; WWCR 15825 with a very oldies show at 1300. Unlike winter, reception of
the 13-14 KBS English to NAm is holding up in the summer, but only fair today
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** KURDISTAN [non]. 11600, July
4 at 0458, Kurdish music is F-G, but off the air by 0459, as the 03-05 Issoudun,
FRANCE relay of Denge Kurdistane is finished. It should have handed over to
Grigoriopol`, Pridnestrovye = KCH Kishinov, Moldova, for the next eight hours,
but absolutely nothing audible here immediately after ISS went off (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MEXICO. 710-, July 4 at 0527, XEDP,
Ciudad Cuauhtémoc, Chihuahua is running its off-frequency transmitter tonight,
causing het to KCMO or whatever, but neither readable (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** MEXICO. 780-, July 4 at 0531 UT, harp music making
lo audible het, which is all that WBBM can manage; presumably as previously
reported caused by XEWGR, Monclova, Coahuila, around 779.93. Even when WBBM is
audible, often marred by this. Right now, not much WGN or WLS either (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MEXICO. 1100, July 4 at 0536 UT,
Mexican music, 0540 ``Radio Cañón, 90.1 FM`` ID, dominating, nothing from WTAM,
so XETGO, Tlaltenango, Zacatecas, whose FM I also DXed directly during the big
June 23 sporadic E opening. Strange how tonight, some US `clears` are inaudible,
others normal (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** PAPUA NEW GUINEA
[non]. 12025, July 4 at 0456, live coverage of a silly ballgame, apparently
American Sámoa vs PNG, fair signal, past 0600 with no ID. This is the latest
sensation, NBC suddenly on new SW frequencies for a special event, with
conflicting info. Some think it`s via RA Shepparton; others say via Townsville,
Queensland, with 10 or 20 kW. Perhaps the dormant Broadcast Australia 10 kW unit
at Brandon has been reactivated for this, which would make sense, as its
original purpose and antennas were for RA to cover PNG. Brandon is so small that
I don`t find it on the first two atlases I grab, but it is certainly close to
major city Townsville, 65 km or 41 miles away. (BTW, if Australia were ever to
become a Republic, Queensland would have to be renamed: how about Gillardia? Vic
and NSW are also colonial legacies. Perhaps uncontroversial geographical state
nomenclature should be extended: Northeast Australia, Southeast
Australia.)
One schedule says 12025 is in use at 08-20 UT, but here it is
already before 0500. I was looking for it first on 9860, nominally 22-10 UT, but
nothing. My next check at 1212 finds no 12025, while R. Australia [q.v.] is in
as usual on 12085 > 12065 with its own SBG coverage. Still no 12025 at 1345
check.
6075, July 4 at 1213, chanting, siren, drumming, 1216 says
something for PNG is ``brought to you by NBC``, hyper music still at 1223,
almost fading out by 1250. The 6075 signal is poor but that`s to be expected
this late after our sunrise, and could well be starting out with 100 instead of
only 10 or 20 kW. By 1252, RA 9580 is no longer in play by play football (I
think, rather than cricket).
Keith Perron reported July 3: ``Papua New
Guinea's national broadcaster is leasing time from the Broadcast Australia
shortwave site in Brandon, Australia for coverage of the South Pacific Games.
Power: 20 kW
10 to 14 UTC - 6075
19 to 22 UTC - 6075
22 to 10 UTC -
9860
When Radio Australia used this site they were running 10
kW``
Source? He misses 12025, and how did the power get doubled for
this??
Aoki as of July 4 shows them thus from 1931S 14720E NBC a15 Jul.
1-18:
6075 NBC National Radio 1900-2200 1234567 English 25 10 Brandon AUS
6075 NBC National Radio 1000-1400 1234567 English 25 10 Brandon
AUS
9860 NBC National Radio 2200-1000 1234567 English 25 10 Brandon AUS
12025 NBC National Radio 2200-1000 1234567 English 25 80 Brandon AUS
i.e. 25 kW each on 10 and 80 degree azimuths. The 80-degree beam on
12025 is of course not for PNG, but islands further east, not to mention
impacting North America beyond.
Ivo Ivanov reported earlier July 4:
``Radio NBC, National Radio of Papua New Guinea is leasing times from shortwave
site in Brandon, Australia for coverage of the South Pacific Games
1900-2200
6075 BRN 020 kW / 010 deg NPac as previous RA 5995/6080
2200-1000 9860 BRN
020 kW / 010 deg NPac as previous RA freq 9660
2200-1000 12025 BRN 020 kW /
080 deg EPac as previous RA freq 12080
1000-1400 6075 BRN 020 kW / 010 deg
NPac as previous RA 5995/6080``
Craig Seager posted to the ARDXC list on
July 4:
``In case you hadn’t heard --- The collapse of ABC Radio
Australia internal capacity to provide specific regional content has seen PNG
national broadcaster step up to lease transmission time from Australian
contractor Broadcast Australia for the South Pacific Games next [sic] month 4-18
July 2015. The site is Townsville in northern Queensland.
To Papua New
Guinea
1000 - 1400 UT 6075 kHz
1900 - 2200 UT 6075 kHz
2200 - 1000
UT 9860 kHz
To Solomon Islands and Vanuatu
0800 - 2000 UT 12025 kHz
[sic]
Both broadcasts are with a power of 20 kW AM up from 10 kW when the
site carried Radio Australia programming. [for release 29 June] Via Nigel
Holmes``
S. Hasegawa, Japan, was first to report 6075 on July 2; also
heard by Ron Howard on July 3. Wolfgang Büschel in Germany finds the NBC signals
to be too strong for 10 kW Brandon; he and Kai Ludwig suspect idle Shepparton
100 kW units are really in use at least in part. Can we get the full story on
this? FWIW, before RA quit them, some of the ``Brandon 10 kW`` transmissions
often sounded to me like 100 kW Sheppartons.
It would be advisable to
check all three frequencies at any time propagation is possible, since I heard
12025 when ``not`` scheduled and did not hear 9860 when it was. Obviously the
24-hour schedule can`t only be about ballgames, so is this the precursor to a
regular rented full NBC SW service? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** SOUTH CAROLINA [non]. 15770, July 4 at 1336, Brother Scare has
turned his mike over to the YL robot screenreader voice for a gross tale about
how Miss America opened her mouth to show rotting teeth (yeah, right, just like
America itself is rotting, according to him). Happy Fourth! Celebrate by some
positive thinking (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A [and
non]. WORLD OF RADIO 1780 monitoring: confirmed Friday July 3 at 2130 on WRMI
15770, and weaker at 2130.5 on WRMI 7570. Next:
Sat 1930v on WA0RCR
1860-AM
Sat 0315v on WA0RCR 1860-AM
Sun 2100 on WRMI 15770
Sun 2300 on
WRMI 11580
Mon 0300v on WBCQ 5110v Area 51
Mon 0330 on WRMI 9955
Tue
1100 on WRMI 9955
Wed 0630 on Hamburger Lokalradio 7265-CUSB
Wed 1315 on
WRMI 9955
Wed 1430 on Hamburger Lokalradio 7265-CUSB
Wed 2100 on WBCQ
7490v
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 5830, July 4
at 0451, open carrier/dead air from WTWW-1 instead of PPPP. Meant to check again
in a few minutes. Standard remark about how can any station expect people to
listen to it, when no one at the station itself is constantly monitoring it? Of
course, PPPP himself is not available (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** U S A. 12050, 11550, 11520, July 4 at 1255, no WEWN on any; by
1340, 12050 Spanish is audible but very poor; at 1341, 11550 becomes a fair open
carrier (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 890, July 4 at
0533 UT, Spanish preacher with direxions to churches in San Benito and
Harlingen; dominating, and when nulled I don`t get WLS, but R. Progreso, Cuba
music // much weaker 900; so this is KVOZ, Del Mar Hills TX, 10/1 kW. DMH is a
Laredo suburb, way up the Rio from the RGV origination on 1210 (Glenn Hauser,
OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
This report despatched at 1906 UT July 4
