** AFGHANISTAN [non]. 9765.0, Feb 6 at 0111, S9+25 talk about Afghanistan,
America; also some alternating tones, jamming? Aoki shows since Dec 27 this has
been VOA Deewa Radio in Pashto at 01-04, 250 kW, 340 degrees from SRI LANKA, and
onward to North America (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
**
BOUGAINVILLE [and non]. 6020, Feb 6 at 1143 I find myself awake, so check for
NBC: there it is with bouncy music at S9, 1150 heavy beat, no CCI, 1156
announcement sounds Tok Pisin, 1158 more music past 1200, to 1201.5 brief
announcement, 1202 more music, 1205 announcement (and back to sleep for me).
1357 still S9 but sounds a bit louder with music, 1401 NBC ID, 1402 back to
music. Walt Salmaniw in BC was still hearing it at 1632, mostly music,
announcements in English.
Earlier at first wakeup 1133 I checked for
other carriers, and found JBA ones on 2325, 2485, 2850, 3240, 3320, 3325 and at
1147, 4835, i.e. Australia, North Korea and Indonesia. Except for odd one out,
3240, nothing listed, so that could be an harmonic from MW 1620, 1080, 810 or
540.
BTW, Chris Krug in Tulsa retracts his report of R. Australia
yesterday morning on 3320 --- he got it again today but only as produced by his
SDR, no sign of it on his R8! (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
**
CANADA. 2748.98-USB, Feb 6 at 0155, YL in French with marine weather, 0156
switch to English and now she seems robotic. SSB sounds best when tuned slightly
to lo side of 2749. CCG website shows it`s VCS Halifax via Chebogue NS site
starting at 0140 in English, then French, but nothing else following immediately
in English (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CUBA. 4765, Feb 6
at 0133, R. Progreso is on at the moment, S9+30 music; while 5025 Rebelde is
S9+40 with béisbol (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CUBA.
9790.00, Feb 6 at 0110, S9+25 open carrier/dead air. Likely the CRI relay
checking up before the 03-05 UT transmission. Unlike any purely Cuban
broadcasts, 9790 is HFCC-registered as 250 kW, 305 degrees USward. However, the
already modulated CRI relay on 9580, Feb 6 at 0111, hits S9+45, but it`s 250 kW
at 10 degrees so ought to be weaker (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** CUBA. 6000, Feb 6 at 0700, RHC in Spanish instead of English,
then to dead air, more examples of the ragged close-downs RHC accomplishes.
Quickly tuning to 6060: DA; 6100: jazz music to DA; 6165 and 5040: already dead
air (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** GUATEMALA. 4055, Feb 6 at
0134, R. Verdad with hymn at S9+10, no sign of any clone signals nearby. Another
check Feb 6 at 0559, now closing announcements in Italian, Swedish, Japanese. I
suspect some DX reporters were prevailed upon to provide them. Again no sign of
any other TGAV broadcasts between 4000 and 4100 kHz, let alone right next to
4055. Yet another check Feb 6 at 1138: just 4055 at S9.
I understand why
people don`t want to waste time looking for phantasms, but appreciate Bill
Bingham in South Africa checking and finding nothing. I would welcome anyone
Truly finding another Verdad, to prove wrong my fear that the worldwide relay
deal Dr Madrid says he has been paying for is nothing but a scam (Glenn Hauser,
OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** PERU [and non]. 5980, Feb 6 at 0103, JBA
carrier(s) way under heavy Cuban pulse jamming against no Martí; no point in
trying to catch the Chaski cutoff this time. At least the other non-jamming
noise is not on now (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** SOUTH
CAROLINA [non]. 3185, UT Sat Feb 6 at 0139, I find Brother Scare via WWRB is
talking about ME. I`m expecting this since some listeners warned me he was doing
so earlier on Friday, and we know he repeats stuff hour after hour each day.
Says I find him ``scary``. NO, I find that he is *trying* to scare listeners.
Apparently he has read my remarx about shoveling even more dough to WRMI, buying
up ten transmitters` time. That`s the result of a million-dollar donation he
got, and wonders if I am jealous.
Says he is now on 12 transmitters, 300
hours per day (must be more than that, adding in all the other SW stations to
the 240 on WRMIs alone), and his goal is to be on 100 transmitters to ``take
over the SW spectrum, for a period of time``. Doesn`t care if I and other
``antagonists`` don`t like him, as he is preaching only to Godly people (if so
already, why do they need him?? O yeah, to remind them the world is about to
end). Refers also to ``Brother Jeff`` at WRMI who said ``we`re going to help you
reach the world``. Then on to something about Franklin Graham and when Billy
dies that being another sign of the End Times (???). I don`t think I heard all
the instances he mentioned me by name. The ``100 transmitters`` bit came up
again at 1139 on 3185 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A.
3843-LSB, UT Sat Feb 6 at 0703, the ham net about the Burns, OR standoff is back
on tonite, unlike last nite, apparently during phone patch from someone there,
Jamie, talking about the Bundys, ``preparation for an offensive``, ``attack by
the people``. KI4THY, Cap`n Dave moderates, and appears to be blaming the US
Government for the situation. At 0712 someone bumps his knob during transmission
and jumps to 3842-LSB for a few minutes. Back on 3843-LSB, at 0723 KI4THY trying
to close down for the night; Jamie shot some video, says this will be back on
tomorrow night (circa 0600 UT? No times mentioned). Refers to ``third-party
traffic from Burns, Oregon``. Somebody via cell phone has very poor enunciation,
hard to understand. 0728 ``good night``, and ``cliffhanger – four people not
giving up``.
I haven`t seen anything about this past several days on TV
news channels, preoccupied with IA and NH. Maybe they will pay attention if
there`s another shootout (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S
A. WORLD OF RADIO 1811 monitoring: confirmed UT Sat Feb 6 during 0030 repeat, at
0046 on WBCQ 9330.70-CUSB; by 0108 during Blalock the Blaster, has drifted up to
9330.80. Next:
Sat 2030v WA0RCR 1860-AM ND?
Sat 2330 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB
to WSW
Sun 0410v WA0RCR 1860-AM ND?
Mon 0030 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB to
WSW
Mon 0400v WBCQ 5110v-CUSB Area 51 to WSW
Mon 0430.5 WRMI 9955 to SSE
Tue 0030 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB to WSW
Tue 1200 WRMI 9955 to SSE
Wed
0030 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB to WSW
Wed 1415.5 WRMI 9955 to SSE
Wed 2200 WBCQ
7490v to WSW
Thu 0030 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB to WSW
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 7490v, UT Sat Feb 6 from 0103, WBCQ with
`Allan Weiner Worldwide` from Florida, lamenting how his generation (b. 1953y)
has messed things up so badly, and trying to convince a young waitress at a
restaurant that she should get involved in politix, at least take voting
seriously.
I`m distracted by Dave Frantz and Brother Scare on WWRBs, but
recheck at 0159, find that 5109.7-CUSB is running 8 seconds behind 7490, and
this week, does not cut away from AWWW at 0200, so no more Gun/Dish-Nuts Radio.
But I`m not around-hanging any later as it`s time for `Live from Lincoln Center`
on PBS, which I approve of unlike Allan (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** U S A. 3215, UT Sat Feb 6 at 0136, I find WWRB with Dave
Frantz in another rant, this time about how church members should require their
pastors to punch time cards and account for how they spend their time every day
(except days off); note that church parking lots are empty most of the time on
weekdays. Sometimes occupied on Saturdays if there is a wedding and afterwards a
--- can`t think of the word: (reception). 0148 recheck still railing against
preachers not accounting for their time on the job. ``Most of `em don`t even
believe in God``, just to make money for as little labor as possible. Says this
issue of time sheets has brought in more hate mail than anything he has said.
Refers to his ``beautiful wife of 35 years``. Meanwhile, Dave sent me an
explanation of what he was saying about Obamacare, which I will put in DXLD.
During this same hour I am switching back & forth to Brother Scare on the
other WWRB frequency 3185, since he is talking about me – see SOUTH CAROLINA
[non]. And also the more reasoned laments of Allan Weiner, Worldwide on WBCQ
[q.v.] 7490v & 5109.7-CUSB (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
**
U S A. 11580, Sat Feb 6 at 1440, WRMI is playing its familiar fill-music loop
rather than yesterday with Terry`s Pandora: tropical tune, polka, 1459 harp
& flute, and sometime after 1500 back to Brother Scare (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 1500, Feb 6 at 0106 UT check, warbling
hets roughly east-west, as not much signal from KSTP at the moment. If not out
of WPSO New Port Richey FL, allegedly a daytimer: Probably not, but just in
case, note that the other FL on 1500, WKIZ in Cayo Hueso is Spanish religion per
NRC AM Log, and is 24 hours with 250 watts. Should they lapse into anything
anti-Castro, or even relay some Radio Marti, that could get them a bit o`
jamming from down south (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. {Sedaye has been used in name of
clandestine to Iran, but also Kashmir, so Urdu too?} Ideas? Could anystation be
using SSB HF feeders anymore, emergency backup? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST) [this item modified from last report]
This report dispatched at
1928 UT February 6
