** ARGENTINA. 15345.09 approx., JBA carrier, presumed R. Nacional on late
weekend sked at 0133 UT Aug 2 instead of RAE 11710.4v. If this one is ever on
15345.00, it`s just a lucky coincidence; it varies quite a bit both sides. A few
hours earlier, Wolfgang Büschel pinned them: ``Radio Nacional Argentina in
Spanish at 2100 UT Aug 1 on measurement 15345.154 kHz`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** AUSTRALIA. 17840 & 15240, August 2 at 0112, RA
is AWOL again, and still gone at 0132; while NZ is making it on 15720 at
0112.
RA`s Ways to Listen page has Tweets on a sidebar, including this
duplicated a few times:
``#raonair Twitter Radio Australia
@radioaustralia Reminder: There will be a shortwave outage today between
08.15-15.00 AEST/PNG time due to maintenance. #RAOnAir Retweeted by Shauna-Marie
Wilson`` et al.
Trouble is, they are all dated July 18! In real
Universal time that would have been 2215 UT July 17 to 0500 UT July 18, i.e.
banker`s daytime working hours except it was a Saturday.
The linked pdf
SW frequency schedule still claims to have all 24 hours covered by the usual
pairs of three frequencies for 12 hours each; effective since April (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CUBA. 6000, August 2 at 0100, no
signal from RHC English which is opening on 6165. I leave the PL-880 USB on 5999
to find RHC chopping 6000 on in progress at *0110:54.5.
5040 RHC and 5025
Rebelde are also AWOL, August 2 at 0119, but both on at 0140 in Spanish and
music respectively (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** ETHIOPIA
[non]. 15470, regarding the new Amharic clandestine, registered for Fridays only
16-18 UT: Japanese DXers had already heard it last Saturday July 25, not Friday,
nor did I hear it Friday July 31, so I`m checking again on Saturday August 1, at
1606: now there is a JBA carrier, presumably via ROMANIA.
It`s Radio
Abisinia, with a studio YouTube via Ron Howard:
illustrated
by a guy in what looks like religious garb, but which? Abyssinia was of course
the previous name for Ethiopia; conjuring up the colonial, or monarchic past?
Opening mentions Uganda, and Washington DC.
José Miguel Romero found this
on FB with same poster:
Sakaé
Obara in New Jersey says at 1645 UT August 1:
``Apparently it is "Radio
Abisinia"
Fairly
good signal here in north NJ right now``
That Japanese BBS has several
logs of it last week and this. One says it had previously been on MW 1390 Sats
& Suns, which of course would be a split frequency in that region. But if
this is originating in Washington DC, that might allude to WZHF Arlington VA,
5/5 kW U4, with an ethnic format, if not a 100% Voice of Russia relay which is
mentioned in the 2014 NRC AM Log (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** OKLAHOMA. August 2 at *0143:29.5 UT my streetlite ignites with
RF burst, a little earlier than usual since cloudy at sunset; so then it`s
to:
1120, August 2 at 0143 with Spanish songs until chopped off mid-tune
at 0150:16.5* UT, which is 3 seconds later than last night, which was 2 seconds
later than the night before, rather inconsistently. What next? Month rollover
made no difference, anyway, since official Catoosa sunset in August is now 0115
UT, losing a full semi-hour from July`s 0145 UT. August sunrise: 1145 UT. Still,
*never, any* announcements heard at random chex thruout the day if they are on.
By when they do cut off, KMOX is already in to compete with ~6 Hz SAH, seemingly
always silly baseball games (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
**
OKLAHOMA. 1610, August 2 at 1632 UT, I find that the NRD-545 can pull in an S1
but almost readable signal of WQCL720, the NWS relay by TIS at Great Salt Plains
OK; YL robot mentions conditions at Kingman, Pratt, presumably originating in
Wichita KS (Glenn Hauser, Enid, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** OKLAHOMA. 1680,
August 2 at 1633 UT, I find another very weak daytime signal on the NRD-545:
certainly not Monroe. Weaker than the 1610 TIS, but can make out loop
announcements by a human OM, including ``Hi, this is ---`` and ``new carpets``,
so it must be a Talking House, which have popped up before on the X-band in
Enid, but not for quite a while. Switching to USB/LSB makes it *less* readable,
since the frequency is wobbling, crummy TH transmitter.
I resolve to
track it down by driving around Enid. No sign of it on the west side, but signal
grows as I drive east on Broadway. Near the intersexion of Walnut and N 16 St,
in the NE quadrant of town, it`s strong enough to copy while I park: gives phone
548-4895, Greg Jensen realtor. This house also has a new wood floor under the
new carpet; 2 BR, 1 bath, brick. One-year service agreement available from Smith
Real Estate. Also generic promo for the concept of Talking Houses, like I was
hearing from them a few years ago. I`m running out of time, so don`t locate the
exact house (no address transmitted!), but have inquired by webform to Greg,
since he also mentions enidliving.com but which really forwards to Smith Real
Estate, a.k.a.
where
this house doesn`t seem to match any of the listings (Glenn Hauser, Enid, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** OMAN. 15140, August 2 at 0114, VP carrier, presumed
RSO as it`s not heard on 9500 or 9740 this time (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** PERU. 6173.9, August 2 at 0131, JBA carrier, matching the
off-frequency of R. Tawantinsuyo, Cuzco. A tough one here, much weaker than RSC
on 6134.8, at least in the evenings. And there is nothing on 6175 now to QRM it
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 9330-CUSB, UT Sunday
August 2 at 0139, no signal from WBCQ, when `Good Friends Radio Network` is
supposed to be running at 01-05 UT nightly. Yes, even weeknights, despite
`Midnight [sic] in the Desert` at 04-07 M-F [sic]. Not likely, unless for that
overlap hour WBCQ runs independent sidebands? I assume GFRN really got an hour
chopped off to accommodate Art Bell; and isn`t he UT Tue-Sat, not M-F??
Meanwhile, at 0139, 7490 and 5109.7-CUSB are both BSing, altho 5110 is
supposedly in other Area 51 programming Sat nights, 23-04 UT Sun (Glenn Hauser,
OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 15550-USB, August 1 at 1607, presumed
WJHR is JBA tho inaudible yesterday; Wolfgang Büschel was also hearing it today
via Edmonton at 2112 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A.
690, August 1 at 1627 UT, open carrier/dead air from KGGF Coffeyville KS, and it
isn`t even after midnight, or before 7 am CT. I assume their operator-in-charge
(if any) is paying more attention to their FM; just another SNAFU (Glenn Hauser,
OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 780, August 1 at 0628 UT, can`t null
WBBM completely, but enough to make out an announcement from KCEG, something
about wanting to ``get in good graces of landlord`` in Colorado Springs, asking
for checks; ``Save The Ranch``, and country music. KCEG is 1900/720 watts U4,
COL Fountain CO but address in Denver, and known as The Ranch (Glenn Hauser, OK,
DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 15505, August 1 at 1647 poor S3 signal
maybe with hymn, 1648 Arabish? Aoki and HFCC show only thing at this hour is VOA
Tibetan via Biblis, Germany (+ jamming), but only on M/W/F and this is Saturday.
Maybe Bangladesh was on past 1545? Unlikely; or something completely different
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
This report dispatched at 0359 UT
August 2
