** AFGHANISTAN [non]. 7495, Jan 31 at 0106, S8 talk which per Aoki must be VOA
Radio Ashna in Dari alternating with Pashto 0030-0230, listed as 250 kW, 70
degrees from Kuwait. Don`t recall hearing this 7495 before, which is now much
more favorable for us, 340 degrees via SRI LANKA due to an antenna failure at
Kuwait. 7490v WBCQ is only S7 so not enough to QRM each other (Glenn Hauser, OK,
DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CHINA [and non]. 7480, Jan 31 at 0102, JBA
broadcast carrier in talk is overcome by humwhine jamming, i.e. R. Free Asia in
Uyghur via TAJIKISTAN, 200 kW, 60 degrees from Yangiyul per Aoki, during this
hour only. Altho we often hear weak spurious Cuban pulse jamming against nothing
on 7480, this one can`t be blamed on the Cubans, and maybe what Allan Weiner was
complaining about, altho not enough to bother 7490v WBCQ here.
BTW, re
ChiCom also jamming broadcasts in Uzbek, replying to an inquiry by Tim Hendel, I
did a google search on ``Uzbek Uyghur similar languages`` and got a number of
useful hits, including this:
which
says: ``Uzbek and Uyghur are fairly close, but they are still probably only
65-70% intelligible. Uzbek is spoken in Uzbekistan, and Uighur is spoken in
Xinjiang Province, China``. That`s how you spell East Turkistan (Glenn Hauser,
DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CHINA [and non]. 9690, 9670 and 9480, 0110-0112
Jan 31, all infested by CNR1 echo jamming. During this hour, 9690 is RFA Uighur
via UAE; 9670 is RFA Tibetan via Tajikistan; 9480 is RFA Uighur via Kuwait
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** EAST TURKISTAN. 7250, Jan 31
at 0059, CRI is S9+20, announcements in Chinese pronouncing web info in English:
www.chineseradio.cn, also spelling the
name Shanghai, holiday final (?), 0100 CRI IS and ID, mentions Harbin(?). It`s
500 kW, 212 degrees from Urumqi during this Chinese hour only (Glenn Hauser, OK,
DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** NETHERLANDS [non]. 6040.007, Jan 31 at 0126, The
Mighty KBC is VG at S9+30, heavy rock music, but not enough to blot out the het
from Rádio RB2, Brasil on hi side. This time I get out the keyboard to match the
pitch and it`s close to G4 above middle C = 392 Hz, above KBC via GERMANY. A
modest proposal: if they insist on broadcasting on a frequency vs a perpetual
offset interferer, why not zero-beat it? Match the frequency to at least get rid
of the het, and RB2 listeners circa Brasil might also appreciate that. Such a
move would be totally contrary to international broadcasting ideals, especially
in Germany, but as noted above, they are a bit off-frequency themselves,
already. Some transmitters may not even be capable of such deliberate
fine-tuning between 5 kHz steps.
Listening again after 0200, I notice
rather heavy selective fading distortion only an inveterate SWL would tolerate
on the music. Radiogram doesn`t start until 0224 with MFSK32 of snow on Kim`s
car (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** NORTH AMERICA. 6940-AM,
Jan 31 at 0056, JBA carrier is the only sign of a pirate tonite. Also UNID for
many others starting as early as 2110 Jan 30 (so not necessarily the same
one):
including
IDs around 2311 and 2330 as MAC SW Radio, and as late as 0044 (Glenn Hauser, OK,
DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 3325-USB, Jan 31 at 1148 I awaken, so go
right to here for NBC Bougainville, PNG, just reactivated. There is a JBA
carrier with music, but atop it is an Army MARS net designated A5A, but despite
fonetix, hard to copy any full calls, maybe AAR5CH. At 1152 net control
announces a QSY to ``904``, another secret frequency which I figure I will never
find.
4036-USB, Jan 31 at 1200, continuing my upward bandscan, I do find
the same A5A Army MARS net as before on 3325, but announces this net is closing;
nevertheless, another attempted check-in follows (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** U S A. WORLD OF RADIO 1810 monitoring: confirmed UT Sunday Jan
31 at 0424 on WA0RCR, MO, 1860-AM, at midpoint so started about 0410 --- and
with *heavy* CW QRM on both sides. Must be a contest on 160m packing the band
much more so than usual. One almost on 1860, WA0RCR and me providing the BFO, is
obviously automated, no fist involved, repeatedly calling CQ evidently with few
responses; what`s the point? At least with ham contests in phone modes, we are
fairly confident the voices we hear are human and live even if they are stuck in
incredibly boring repetitiousness. I figured this would ensue as an earlier
check of 1860 at 0123 already found CW QRM to steady S9 WA0RCR. Next
WORs:
Mon 0400v WBCQ 5110v-CUSB Area 51 to WSW
Mon 0430.5 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)
** U
S A. 7490.025-AM, approx., Sat Jan 30 at 2200, as expected, WBCQ is on an hour
earlier than before on Sats for repeat of `Mennonite Radio`, James Branum`s show
originally UT Fridays at 0100 on 5109.7-CUSB. This time slightly on the hi side
of 7490, and no het from BBC Thailand, which if there is too weak to show.
Followed at 2230 by his other show `Broad Spectrum Radio`, this episode about
autism, and his own experiences with the condition. These additions still do not
appear on the WBCQ 7490 online program schedule.
J. P. Ferraro`s
`Shortwave Saturday Night` starts at 2300, and by 0104 UT Jan 31, WBCQ has faded
to only S7, the frequency dropped to its habitual area, 7489.94; is it a slow
drift downward? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** YEMEN [non].
11860, Jan 31 at 1452, R. Sana`a, usual good signal and usual music, the
thumping 4/4 triumphal stuff, 1456 into vocal, 1500 switch to talk by YL in
Arabic past 1505, NO break for a Call-to-Prayer today as the sun has just set
anyway (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 1500, Jan 31
at 0116 UT, continuous blues music station still in KSTP null, and traces of the
other unID emitting ringing/screeching sideband sound. Come on, widespread
monitoring of these could identify them (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 1521.0, Jan 31 at 0118, JBA carrier hetting 1520.0
KOKC, surely BSKSA 2-megawatter in Duba, often the only trace of trans-Atlantic
MW here (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 2309.0, Jan
31 at 0130 UT, S5 signal just barely modulated and drifting down slightly. Maybe
this one is real rather than receiver-produced (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 3325.0, Jan 31 at 1148 a JBA carrier is obscured by
an Army MARS net (see USA Log) on USB; 1203 now the broadcaster is in clear,
only S4. Back to sleep until 1400: now it still reads S4 but some music into
talk is audible (at 1407, 60m is full of JBA carriers matching
Indonesia/India/Tibet/China frequencies).
The question is, whether this
3325 is RRI Palangkaraya, Indonesia, or the just-reactivated NBC Bougainville.
Any way to differentiate them by precise frequencies? After testing into regular
operation, if like other NBCs, may sign off earlier circa 1200, or even 1100 UT,
being an hour ahead of the rest of PNG; while RRI runs as late as 1700 per WRTH
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 3450, Jan 31 at
1155, JBA S5 AM carrier. Could be 5 x 690 or 3 x 1150 MW harmonic (Glenn Hauser,
OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 5960.0, Jan 31 at 1410, JBA
carrier, presumably PBS Xinjiang, Urumqi, rather than an off-frequency lowsider
as past two mornings, suspecting a comeback by R. Fly, PNG (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 6025, Jan 31 at 0052, two very weak
carriers beating, one of which is on the lo side circa 6024.95. Only two listed
in Aoki at this time, and which I find to be quite a reasonable explanation: PBS
Xizang, Lhasa, Tibet on one of its multiple frequencies, and BOLIVIA, the
off-frequency one, Radio Patria Nueva, which Aoki still denominates by its old
name, Radio Illimani. Is that still used on air? WRTH 2016 shows ``Rede Illimani
--- Radio Patria Nueva``. Rede would be Portuguese, not Spanish! (Glenn Hauser,
OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 6135, Jan 31 at 1412, two carriers
far enough apart to make a rumble. Likely V. of Freedom, newish 10 kW
clandestine from South to North Korea, and NK jamming. Altho Aoki still lists
Yemen here, Sana`a presumably still inactive; and Madagascar, not reported for
quite a while on this frequency (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
This report dispatched at 1807 UT Jan 31
