** BOLIVIA. 6134.81, Jan 13 at 0121, Spanish no longer in the clear but with
reactivated het from 6135.2 Brasil, q.v. However, I can get rid of that by LSB
tuning, PBS of 0.25 and BWC of 2.50, to use NRD-545 terminology; soon rewarded
at 0122 by IDs for Radio Santa Cruz (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** BRAZIL. 6135.2, Jan 13 at 0120, carrier must be Rádio
Aparecida reactivated, much weaker than 6134.81 BOLIVIA, q.v., but enough to het
it without special processing (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
**
BRAZIL. 4865.00, Jan 13 at 0110, open carrier at S8. Rádio Verdes Florestas is
here, unlike the other ``4865`` Brazilian, but no modulation audible (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGSET)
** CUBA. 11880 // 15370, Jan 12 at 2117,
RHC French with severe problems, modulation cutting on and off with additional
extraneous noises, these two synchronized, while the third French frequency,
11670, is OK. The B15 skeds originally showed 15370 stopping at 2100, but I`ve
heard it before still on for 2100+ French; and all three are supposedly Bauta
site, but I would have guessed 11670 as a different site due to this 67% anomaly
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CUBA. 9500, Jan 13 at 0135,
extremely distorted, wideband and loud spur from RHC Spanish // 9535; and a much
weaker match 35 kHz on the other side, 9570 but enough to block a weak CRI relay
via ALBANIA JBA carrier (while Cuba`s // relay on 9580 is blasting in). 9535
itself is lightly distorted with some crackle, most of the power/modulation
squeezing out the hole in the side of the toothpaste tube on 9500. Whew, not far
enough to QRM the jamming on 9490 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** GREECE. 9419.93, Jan 13 at 0132, Greek music from VOG is
audible, off-frequency and with that whine. 24 hours earlier Wolfgang Büschel
measured it on 9419.938. A semihour earlier on Jan 13, Philip Hiscock in
Newfoundland reported, ``It is 0100 UTC, Weds morning 13/1/16, right now and the
Rimini receiver has for the past hour or so been getting it quite well, often
with no sign of the audio tone. I flicked back and forth between Rimini and
Twente for a while and there was a distinct difference in the interference of
the audio tone. This seems to me to suggest that the tone is not coming from the
transmitter but from somewhere else. Is that reasonable?``
Such as
Zahedan, Iran transmitter which used to QRM Greece from about one sesquikHz
away? I really don`t think so in this case. Last night Wolfgang Büschel
reported: ``9419.931 Avlis Greece, Greek folk music, what else? Again slight
whine hum at 0258 UT on Jan 12, of 319 Hertz apart distance, either sideband 17
peaks x 319 Hertz visible on SDR unit screen software 9419.931 kHz on lower
sideband. S=9+25dB in western Europe, or -43dBm signal in southern Germany``
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** NEWFOUNDLAND. 2598-USB, Jan 13
at 0104, S6 YL voice in English with marine weather, mainly wind forecasts for
Friday, Saturday, Sunday at uncopiable locations. Canadian Coast Guard site
shows St Anthony, Nfld starting at 0107, but there must be something just before
it: yes, further down the page, MCTS Placentia, VCP via St Lawrence site
starting at 0048, ``Technical marine synopsis, forecasts and wave height
forecasts for marine areas 231, 232, 233, 234, 235, 236, 237 and 238. Weather
and Wave height forecasts for marine area 213`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** PERU [and non]. 5980, Jan 13 at 0059, two JBA carriers
audible slightly apart making a double beat with BFO, i.e. BBC/UAE which is just
starting Hindi; and R. Chaski. I used to tune the NRD-545 on USB to 5979.6 or so
to hear the two pitches and when one of them cuts off, but now with WRMI-2 from
0100 splashing BS from 5985, despite being closer to it, I find it`s better to
tune in LSB to 5980.4 or so. The stronger one makes a definite exit at 0103:00,
which means there has been another reset earlier than the last time I got a
definite lalter timing Dec 27. Now for a while it should be slipping circa 6
seconds later from night to night (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** U S A. 7457-USB, Tue Jan 12 at 1405, AFA4YU calling stations
in Florida, many answers, AF MARS; no RTTY on 7455 at this time of day. Google
search leads to Memphis TN for AFA4YU.
7630.5-USB, Tue Jan 12 at 1410,
another weaker AF MARS net designated NEM1, an AFA5-- calling stations in New
York; 1418 AFA3BC call is heard. NEM1 is ``NE Divison AF MARS Traffic Net``
daily at 1400 UT during ST, 1300 UT during DST.
4464.5-USB, Jan 13 at
0107, AF6MD calling for traffic, but none, so ``this net is free; out``. AF6MD
has a bit of an accent, hard to place with a brief sample. No quick location
hits searching on these calls (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
**
U S A. 7570, Monday Jan 11 at 2057, WRMI is already on here with song prelude,
maybe in Spanish; 2100 yet again the RMRC EDXC special hour plays back instead
of `La Rosa de Tokio`, as it has every Monday since the originally intended
special preëmption Dec 7, 2015 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
**
U S A [and non]. 11580, Jan 13 at 0142, two weak stations about equal level
QRMing each other: something in Chinese, and WRMI. Aoki indicates it must be
CNR1 jamming against 0.1 kW Sound of Hope nuisance transmitter, which could span
all the way from 2300 to 1610. During this hour UT Weds on WRMI, it`s only
Christ Kingdom Ministries, but on other days Wavescan or Radio France
International would confront this (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** U S A. 6220.0, Jan 13 at 0117, S6 signal with JBA music,
presumed La Ranchera, WMDB Nashville TN, 880, as relayed by WNQM 1300, as
parasite to WWCR 7520, 1300 kHz higher. First time detectable for a few weeks;
thought it might have been suppressed with not even a carrier audible (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 1540+, Jan 13 at 0152 UT, mix
of KXEL Waterloo IA English talk and KEDA San Antonio TX TexMexmx, but also
still with the low-audible-heterodyne on the hi side from off-frequency KGBC
Galveston TX Hum FM (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** YEMEN
[non]. 11860, Jan 12 at 1430, R. Sana`a, rousing music at S9+20 to 30; break for
Maghrib sunset call to prayer at 1450:38 which is 1:17 later than yesterday at
1449:21. IBB Kuwait still audible underneath during pauses; also some IADs on
the Sana`a signal which continue when dramatic music resumes at 1453.
Later Jan 12 at 1753, Bill Bingham in South Africa recorded three
segments of echoes on the signal; very pronounced, sounds like about 3 syllables
delay, more than would be deliberately done for effect, and indicative of
overlapping transmitter sites during a changeover, with non-synchronized audio
input feeds. The audio is allegedly soundtrack of a satellite TV channel (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
This report dispatched at 0615 UT
January 13
