** BANGLADESH. 15505, Dec 12 at 1359, JBA carrier, then maybe one play of
Bangladesh Betar IS, until mis-timesignal ending at 1400:14.5 --- so we`re back
in business monitoring yet another perpetually off-clock station with false
chronology (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** INDIA. 4920, Dec 12
at 1335, S7 signal with South Asian song, presumably AIR Chennai, which has not
been drowned. A couple stories about that via Mike Terry and Alokesh
Gupta:
But
one must always beware of co-channel TIBET which might fool us with similar
music on 4920 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** INDONESIA.
9525.0, Dec 12 at 1327, JBA carrier, presumably Voice of Indonesia during
English hour --- yes, Ivo Ivanov noted that they finally corrected the frequency
from 9526- or 9525.9v, heard Dec 10 in Spanish at 17-18, but as of Dec 11, the
modulation was still very low. However, Atsunori Ishida, http://rri.jpn.org/ had it on 9525 already a week
earlier, Dec 3, after a 3-day absence from 9526.
It might have been a
new/different transmitter, but there has been no improvement here in strength or
modulation. Now we will merely have to be more careful in IDing something else
on 9525.0 rather than the signature off-frequency.
Currently scheduled
on 9525 per Aoki are only two: at 1500-1557, CRI English via Kashgar; 0000-0057
the other RRI, Spanish via Galbeni, Romania. HFCC also has an imaginary entry
for SPC Bulgaria in English at 18-22 on 9525 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** NIGERIA. 7254.92, Dec 12 at 0634, VON in Hausa, fair,
off-frequency as usual (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** NORTH
AMERICA. UNIDENTIFIED. 7560.04, Dec 12 at 0625, S7 poor signal with jazz music,
some peaks to S9; 0638 bad splash from 7570 WRMIBS – varies depending on that
modulation, music or wackotalk; 0640 more like big band music; 0645 fades out
and in; 0705 JBA and final check 0723 JBA carrier. Meanwhile, WRMI has gone off
7570 circa 0700.
Presumably a pirate, as Aoki and HFCC agree there is
only one real station on 7560 for one hour a day --- 00-01, IBB Chinese via
Thailand, so of course, also ChiCom jamming, CNR1 or maybe Firedragon.
At this hour what I`m hearing could be from North or South America,
Europe or even Asia. Chilean pirate RCW has been reported before on 7550. I`ve
been attending to 7560, since getting this from John Cooper, PA, Dec 11 at 1445:
``Glen[n], If you have your ears on right now could you please check
into 7560 as a station is playing old time rock and roll that isn't listed on
any schedule I have. There has been no talking just song after song. John
c.``
I didn`t, not checked until a sesquihour later when there was
nothing. He replied again at 1638: ``Anyway, the station was picked up by
several Pirate DXers on HF underground as UNID. The station played a really nice
selection of 50's and 60's music with no ID and no talk. I just thought it was
unusual. It stayed on for about 90 minutes. John c.``
Here are those
reports, including a long playlist Dec 11 until 1817*:
They
were playing some old Radio Newyork International programs, maybe as tribute.
7560 was also reported morning of Dec 10 after sunrise. It seems no one on HFU
reported it as I did above in the 0625-0723 period Dec 12.
7560, Dec 12
at 1326 and 1503 chex, I`m hearing nothing now. But another was, 1506 Dec 12
unID:
(Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** OKLAHOMA. 640, Dec 12 at 1348 UT,
open carrier/dead air from KWPN Moore, facilitating audibility of KFI in null.
Back to ESPN a few minutes later (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** RUSSIA. 4996, Dec 12 at 1338, open carrier here smax of RWM
Moscow, confirmed as such by a minute of CW IDs at 1339, and 1340 time pips.
Seems awful early, but today`s sunset in Moscow was 1256, and sunrise in Enid
1334, so short-path grayline is quite possible (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** U S A [and non]. WORLD OF RADIO 1803 monitoring. This Saturday
I remember to check the UTwente SDR for WOR via Hamburger Lokalradio, 7265-CUSB,
Dec 12 at 1540 --- South Asian music instead, then a trace of maybe me
underneath. Altho beamed south from Kashgar, CRI 100 kW Hindi service trumps
HLR`s 1 kW even in western Europe: isn`t it about time to deintermix these two?
Or ask CRI to broadcast on LSB only, ha ha. Next WORs:
Sat 2030v WA0RCR
1860-AM ND?
Sun 0415v WA0RCR 1860-AM ND?
Sun 0900 WRMI 5850 to NW [NEW!
But not last week; please confirm]
Mon 0400v WBCQ 5110v-CUSB Area 51 to WSW
[but preëmpted last week]
Mon 0430 WRMI 9955 to SSE
Tue 1200 WRMI
9955 to SSE
Wed 1415.5 WRMI 9955 to SSE
Wed 2200 WBCQ 7490v to
WSW
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** YEMEN [non]. 11860, Dec
12 at 1346, Arabic poor at S6 from R. Sana`a clandestine. Too busy with other
programs after 1400 today when it usually peaks much stronger; yet a JBA carrier
at other parts of the 24 hours. Wolfgang Büschel also finds poor reception in
Europe much of the time.
The question must be raised: if this is via
SAUDI ARABIA, could it also be using some other transmitter sites during the
day, like Denge Kurdistane does? Need to monitor continuously, alert for any
abrupt changes in signal or breaks in transmission (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 4864.6, Dec 12 at 1329, JBA carrier,
intriguing, as the only thing listed on 4865 in Aoki, discounting any
propagation from Brasil, is Voice of Iranian Kurdistan, site in Iraq unknown, at
1230-1430; but AFAIK this one is long-gone too, not even in WRTH 2015. Of
course, this carrier could be a ute, but bears further chex. That`s 16:30 local
time in Iraq, so propagation possible already in winter, just before sunrise
here (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 4870, Dec 12
at 1329, S6 open carrier with hum --- or rather, by SSB tuning on the R75, it`s
clear the hum is produced by two separate but very close carriers, which per
Aoki, discounting the long-defunct and unpropagable Ecuadorian, have to be 0.3
[sic] kW RRI Wamena, Indonesia, and AIR Nepali service, from 100 kW
Delhi-Kingsway, India ND transmitter. I`m also getting some other 60m
frequencies matching India, but not much on 4750 from Indonesia, off? (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
This report dispatched at 1756 UT
December 12
