** BOUGAINVILLE [and non]. 6020, Feb 5 at 1345, JBA carrier, nothing like
yesterday with NBC on day frequency at night. What else could it be? Aoki shows
India finishes at 1230, but Vietnam runs until 1530.
3325, Feb 5 at
1352, music at S6-9, 1353 announcement, 1400 IS like I heard before from RRI,
after mention of Palangkaraya, not Bougainville.
BTW, Chris Krug in Tulsa
says he was hearing R. Australia at 1145 on 3320! Maybe ABC NT on a new 90m
frequency? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** INTERNATIONAL
INTERNET. The Global Voice, monthly `Voices` program, first airing with Chrissie
Cochrane interviewing me, monitored Feb 5 at 1730 UT via
Repeats
will be Sat 0630, Mon 1630
and to be available for one year ondemand via
While
there, check out the full current program schedule of TGV:
WORLD
OF RADIO on TGV: Airs Thursday at 22:30 UTC, repeats Saturday at 06:00 UTC, and
Monday at 17:00 UTC [times shown on the WOR page at TGV archive are incorrect;
just before Voices until 1730 Friday was Keith Perron with Focus Asia Pacific].
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** JAPAN [and non]. 11815+, Feb 5
at 1411, R. Japan has CCI from algo making a LAH to a fast SAH on the hi side.
Aoki indicates it`s either Turkey in Turkish or R. Brasil Central, both of which
could be at least that much off-frequency (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** OKLAHOMA. Earthquake report: a bit of creaking and shaking
around the walls/windows, Feb 5 at 1609:44 UT, confirmed by USGS, and another
one 3 minutes either from same spot I did not notice:
3.4 19km NNE of Enid,
Oklahoma 2016-02-05 16:09:30 UTC 5.0 km deep
2.9 19km NNE of Enid, Oklahoma
2016-02-05 16:06:24 UTC 5.0 km deep
(Glenn Hauser, Enid, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** SAIPAN. 11850.04, Feb 5 at 1409, S9 signal in Vietnamese (at
first I thought it sounded more Cambodian), i.e. RFA due west from SAIPAN (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 3843-LSB, Feb 5 at 0545 I`m
looking for more from the Burns OR standoff like last night. There is a very
informal ham net going here now with silly comments, but nothing about Burns and
no KI4THY, so apparently that deal is irregular/unpredictable (Glenn Hauser, OK,
DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 11580, Feb 5 at 1417, surprised to hear
WRMI, S9+10, with a quit-smoking PSA from CDC, and not // 11825 TOM, RMI
programming 9955, nor 21675 R. Africa. Then mostly music ranging from bluegrass
to country to rock, including (not necessarily correct titles), Song of the
South, Three Steps, Bed of Roses; 1422 a Jeep Cherokee ad!, Grasshopper.com
phone system ad; 1437 Too Late, Baby by Carly; Good Old Boy, Bat Plane; 1449
more ads for JB Power mattresses; snack planning for the big game from Publix (a
grocery chain in the South); Golden Hair Surprise; Where Do We Go Now; Where the
Sun Don`t Shine, past 1500 with no ID break for WRMI or anything else. 1503
valentine gift card ad; Turn Away; 1508.5 finally abrupt cut to Brother Scare
now // 11825 et al.
Seemed like they had been relaying a local station,
except there were no IDs for it. There were also long pauses between tunes as if
album playing. So I ask Terry Elders at Okeechobee what`s going on? He
replies:
``Yes! You were hearing something a little different this AM. We
are working on some automation issues and I placed some of my Pandora on it.
Having some fun I guess, guilty as charged. Terry``.
The WRMI schedule
grid is ambiguous about what goes on 11580, #9 transmitter at 44 degrees: BS
much of the time but not Sundays between 13 and 15, so apparently available for
experimentation during that bihour on weekdays too like this Friday (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** YEMEN [non]. 11860, Feb 5 at 1408, R.
Sana`a with music at S9+20; 1501 goes from music to talk, no call to prayer,
still S9+20. 1543 recheck usual studio woman interviewing mostly men on phones,
faded down now to only S9. A bit of an echo during one call made me wonder if it
was long/short path but echo went away when caller (or callee) finished. BTW,
I`m not noticing CCI from IBB Kuwait any more, scheduled 1430-1630, so did they
finally move off 11860 or just propagation shift. Yemen service continues to be
so good for a couple of hours in our mornings that same band and parameters
would be perfect for someone (Saudi Arabia?) to do a North American service in
English; dream on (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED.
4083-USB, Feb 5 at 0645-0647+, continuous talk by same guy, poor signal, sounds
like a broadcast, and think I hear one keyword, ``sedaye`` which would mean
Farsi or similar. Ideas? Could anystation be using SSB HF feeders anymore,
emergency backup? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED.
5006, Feb 5 at 1402, very poor S7 carrier, maybe music? JG2XA, experimental
propagation station in Japan is usually running open carrier here with
occasional CW IDs, but it`s been spoilt lately by Chinese military numbers
station, VC01 on exactly same frequency, but reported by Ron Howard as USB only,
no carrier at all? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
