** ANGUILLA. 11775, March 19 at 1910, TUN is ***still*** breaking up modulation,
sounds like DGS attempting to intone from the grave, rather than PMS at the
moment. 6090, March 20 at 0048 ****still**** breaking up, recognizably DGS with
long pauses for puffs, but incomprehensible, so now it`s at the 48-hour mark
since I first noticed this (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
**
CUBA [and non]. 6165, *0047 March 20, RHC carrier has just come on, prior to
0100 English, and 6000 is not yet on. I was checking it for Chad, as earlier in
the European evening, a French/Arabic station was being reported on 6165,
possibly reactivated with pending elexion? Once upon a time, RNT ran 24
hours.
9580, March 20 at 0101, S9+10 CRI English relay is dead air, while
much weaker S6 // 9570 via ALBANIA is in it (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** GUATEMALA. 4055, March 20 at 0134, Radio Verdad, Emisora
Evangélica y Educativa ID with wrong frequency ``4.05 MHz, SW-1`` and offering
QSL, with Hammond? organ music background. S9+10 which is good enough direct
without ``injexion`` by mysterious additional relays. Haven`t heard anything
about ``The Shortwave Alliance`` lately. BTW, SW-1 is meaningless unless you
happen to have a radio marked with bands like SW-1 and SW-2 (Glenn Hauser, OK,
DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** NETHERLANDS [non]. I just sent this to Uncle Eric
van Willegen:
``Eric, I have not heard yet whether you will be continuing
the North American SW broadcasts. I must tell you that the 6040 service from
Nauen is not well received here in mid-America, Oklahoma. Tonight (UT March 20),
it`s only S6, and there is always that het from Brasil on 6040.3 or so. At 0205,
I can recognize your voice but can`t understand what you are saying.
I
hear that you once considered and rejected being on WRMI or WBCQ. I don`t
understand this. For instance, at this very same time if you were on the WRMI
5850 transmitter, your signal would be inbooming at S9+30! Currently WRMI is
running Brother Stair on this and many other frequencies. I would hope they
could make room for you, as BS is duplicated over and over and over, and if they
take him off 3 hours, they could put him on 3 hours more on some other
frequency.
I have no idea what MBR is costing you or what WRMI would
really cost you, but surely it is worth considering. That will not guarantee you
more advertisers, but it will assure you a much greater audience in North
America, which could lead to more advertising support.
WRMI does have
this offer on their website: ``No other broadcast medium can give you such a
large coverage area for such a small cost. Airtime blocks on Radio Miami
International cost as little as $1.00 per minute for bulk airtime purchases. For
more information, contact us.``
So your three hours a week would run $180
at that rate. The best azimuth is 315 degrees which aims right across North
America (including me), but anything from 285 to 355 would be a great
improvement over your beam from Nauen.
I would also suggest you consider
a weekend afternoon (local time) broadcast on WRMI across North America on a
higher band, like 13 MHz. On Saturday evening there is much more programming
competition, from WBCQ programs, pirates, etc. Not to mention people who aren`t
listening to radio at all but going out on Saturday nights.
These are my
personal suggestions trying to help you, and not prompted by WRMI. 73, Glenn
Hauser, WORLD OF RADIO, Enid OK
PS: I tried to submit this on your
website contact form but never got an acknowledgment it was submitted!`` (Glenn
Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** SOUTH AFRICA. 17800.072, March 19 at
1926, BaBcoCk IS catches my ear on a very off-frequency when hardly anything
else is audible on 16m (besides 17790 WRMI). It`s fading from S9+10 to S8, with
some buzz, and cutting on and off a bit. 1930 switch to Adventist World Radio
theme, English ID, and ``following program in Swahili``, I thought, but must
have said Fulfulde, as in HFCC, 1930-2000, 250 kW, 315 degrees from Meyerton
USward, and BTW, BAB is NOT shown as the FMO for this, but AWR itself, so what
has BAB to do with this? Program feed routing apparently (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** SRI LANKA. 11905, UT Sunday March 20 at 0129, SLBC,
giving P O Box in Kolkata, so is it Bengali or Hindi? Fading S7-S4, but
sufficient to tell there is no ToH timesignal. There is a break, ID and apparent
program change right at 0130 (Glenn Hauser, oK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
**
U S A. WORLD OF RADIO 1817 monitoring: confirmed Sat March 19 at 0730 via
Hamburger Lokalradio 6190, by Ivo Ivanov, Bulgaria:
Also
confirmed by me, fair Sat March 19 at 2230 on WBCQ 9329.975-CUSB, after `The
Planet` IS and ID sign-on. Also confirmed, UT Sunday March 20 at 0330 midpoint,
on WA0RCR, 1860-AM, so started approximately 0315, another new shifted time.
Next:
Sun 2330 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB to WSW
Mon 0300v WBCQ 5130v Area 51 to
WSW
Mon 0330 WRMI 9955 to SSE
Mon 2330 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB to WSW
Tue
1100 WRMI 9955 to SSE
Tue 2330 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB to WSW
Wed 1315.5 WRMI
9955 to SSE
Wed 2100 WBCQ 7490v to WSW
Wed 2330 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB to
WSW
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. WBCQ frequency
chex on the R75, March 19-UT March 20:
2230: 9329.975 --- 0041:
9330.043
2230: 7490.065 --- 0041: 7489.923
2230: -------- --- 0041:
5129.745
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 3195, March
20 at 0132, WWRB has activated this frequency for an external gospel huxter,
while 3185 is BSing, and 3215 is now occupied by WWCR an hour earlier than
before. 3195 is also registered for WWCR at 21-01 & 06-10 but not using it
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 1190, March 20 at 0150
UT, KQQZ announcing that dead air is normally a no-no (really? witness my many
logs of it from incompetent stations on MW and SW), but on this nonconformist
station, a minute of silence is about to follow ``in memory of our loved ones``
(not clear if those were more clearly defined). ``If you tune to another
station, don`t come back, because we don`t want you as a listener``. Well, it`s
not totally dead, but a chime every 10 seconds from 0151.5 UT to 0152.5 UT. This
is one of the Insane Broadcasting Company cluster almost owned by ``Bob Romanik
"The Grim Reaper of Radio", ``The Kraziest Son of a Bitch you'll ever hear on
the radio`` to quote his own website,
Obviously
on 10 kW day power rather than 22 watts nite, variously attributed to De Soto
MO, Belleville IL, Fairview Heights IL === St Louis MO market (Glenn Hauser, OK,
DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 1680, UT March 20 at 0144 UT, gumbo ad
during LSU Sports, so KRJO Monroe LA has come back to life after days(?) of dead
air, for something more important than mere music from FM sibling; 0145 UT
singing ad for WCK, foundation repair, and back to baseball (Glenn Hauser, OK,
DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 11770.127, March 19 at 1911, JBA
carrier I notice after checking out the continuing crackle from 11775 Anguilla.
Could it be Voice of Nigeria? 11770 is one of their frequencies altho not
reported lately at this time, but very likely to be off-frequency. Also note
this from a month ago:
``Xinjiang CNR PBS Chinese noted on 11769.973 kHz,
but also whine distortion on nearby 11770.156, 11770.204 and 11770.716 kHz,
latter could be another V of Nigeria outlet? (Wolfgang Büschel, Feb 20, wwdxc
BC-DX TopNews, dxldyg via DXLD) Time? circa 0510? by neighboring logs (gh)``
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
This report dispatched at 0430 UT
March 20
