** ALASKA. 9615 & 9655, Feb 8 at 1420, NO signals, not even carriers from
KNLS as scheduled this hour in English, Chinese respectively; instead see
ROMANIA. Off the air, or totally unpropagating? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** CUBA. 1620, Feb 8 at 0502, dominant signal is Cuban NA at
midnite, i.e. R. Rebelde, soon found // and well-synchronized with 5025, 670,
1180, ID (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** ETHIOPIA. 7236.425,
Feb 8 at 1410, JBA carrier presumed the variable Addis Ababa-Gedja transmitter,
which I last logged on the other side of 7235; by long path, or short-path
grayline? Aoki shows during this hour it should be R. Ethiopia in Arabic (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** ROMANIA. 9655, Feb 8 at 1420, S8
station in Romanian, safely assuming it`s RRI as scheduled. I was looking for
KNLS Alaska as also scheduled in Chinese, but no trace of it here, nor on 9615
in English. 1422 plays ``Love Me, Tender`` song in English but not sure it`s
Elvis; did anyone else dare sing it? 1424 back to Romanian announcement (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** SOUTH CAROLINA [non]. 21675, Feb 8
circa 1443, WRMI is barely audible, but sure sounds like Brother Scare; 1719 UT
recheck, now 21675 is good, much better than synchronized // 15770 and 11825. So
what`s become of Radio Africa Network? RAN was also carrying BS but supposedly
from 1000 until stopping at 1400. So did WRMI or RAN fail to make the switch, or
is RAN gone? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** TURKEY.
12035.025, Feb 8 at 1428, V. of Turkey IS, ID in unknown language but probably
Kazakh, and stays on 12035+ thru accurate timesignal at 1430 and opening in
presumed Kazakh. Still on 12035+ past 1437, so the poor Kazakhs are missing
their service on 9785, as yet again the Emirler operator has been asleep at the
switch, failing to make the change to 9785 a few minutes before 1430. When they
are really on 9785, VOT should announce that listeners should check 12035 if
they don`t hear anything on 9785; yeah, right (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** U S A. WORLD OF RADIO 1811 monitoring: confirmed from 0400 UT
Mon Feb 8 on Area 51 webcast, and before 0428 also on WBCQ 5109.7-CUSB, S9+10.
Also confirmed from 0430 UT Mon Feb 8 on WRMI 9955, S9+20, much better signal
than usual and no jamming audible, on the R-75. (By 0440 on the NRD-545, S9+25,
but other WRMI 9395 is S9+30 at 0445). Next:
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.
7489.9-AM, UT Mon Feb 8 at 0446, anti(?)-Mormon discussion evaluating plural
marriages, by caller with YL host, not TOM. Then find same at 0454 on 5890//4840
WWCRs, but WBCQ`s is running half a sesquiminute behind them. Skeds of both
stations confirm at 04-05 UT Mondays is `Herald of Truth`, i.e. from the
white-racist Kingdom Identity Ministries out of Arkansas. 7490 is off after 0500
at 0509 recheck (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 11580,
Feb 8 at 1441, WRMI in fill-music loop, with Qur`an-sounding singing at the
moment, 1442 into some Afro-pop. It seems the 13-15 bihour is a good time to
enjoy the WRMI FML without interruption by programming, except on Sundays when
there is some religionism other than Overcomerism (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST) See also SOUTH CAROLINA [non]
** YEMEN [non]. 11860,
Feb 8 at 1445 I start monitoring R. Sana`a continuously in case some Call To
Prayer should appear. First, heavy music and exhortations, bit of a distressed
child`s voice; 1454 the vamping music with ``mission statement``; song past
1502, finally talk at 1506 past 1508, so it seems the CTP exercise in piety is a
past-thing. I wonder if the Sunni and Shia disagree too about the importance of
broadcasting them. By now the gaisma.com calculated sunsets have progressed to
1504 UT in Sana`a and Aden; the change is slowing so that it will take another
month to laten by 6-8 minutes (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
This report despatched at 1737 UT February 8
