** NORTH AMERICA. 11428.3 approx., March 3 at 1435, I am tuning around for
Indonesian USB QSO pirates, but instead detect an extremely weak CW signal.
Seems like it is sending, C and Z and maybe K? No, the K is just a partial C.
Finally with extreme narrow bandwidth I can copy it as CZ over and over, so it`s
the beacon run by the pirate Channel Z, location unknown.
There are
several recent logs of this on HF Underground if you search on 11428, also
dating back to 2012y and 2011, various decimals above 11428. Coincidentally, Rob
Ross has reported this, never saying what the ID was, and got a QSL indicating
the power as 380 milliwatts, to continue until the battery die (Glenn Hauser,
OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** TURKEY [and non]. 12035+, March 3 at 1420,
VOT slightly on hi side, with English sign-off and 1422 into IS until 1426*, all
the while marred by noise cutting on and off. At first I think it`s an Emirler
transmitter defect, but it continues in the absence of TRT, so now I think it`s
spurious junk out of 12050 WEWN at modulation peaks (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. WORLD OF RADIO 1814 monitoring: confirmed Wed
March 2 at 2200 on webcast of WBCQ 7490 (this week`s extraneous introductory
words: ``kind of wood it was``), and 7490- itself with good signal at 2222
check. Also confirmed UT Thu March 3 at 0030 on WBCQ, 9329.86v-CUSB (at 0143
check during Blalock it`s on 9329.450 and drifting up).
WORLD OF RADIO
1815 ready for first airings March 3:
Thu 1230 WRMI 9955 to SSE
Thu
2100 WRMI 13695 to NW
Fri 0030 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB to WSW
Fri 2130 WRMI
15770 to NE
Fri 2130.5 WRMI 13695 to NW
Sat 0030 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB to
WSW
Sat 0730 HLR 6190-CUSB to SW
Sat 1530 HLR 7265-CUSB to SW
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
5130v-CUSB Area 51 to WSW [ex-5109.7-CUSB]
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
Complete WOR schedule
including satellite, FM, AM, webcasts:
(Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 5130v, UT Thu March 3 at 0328
check, no signal from WBCQ. Previous 5109.7-CUSB (not on now either), was
employed UT Thu 02-04 for Brother Scare, on the one night a week he`s bumped
from 7490 (for reactivated Hal Turner). Altho the online sked has been updated
to show this, and check all the other programming now for 5130:
BTW,
there is already a WOOB 5130 SWBC station, Sedaye Zindagi, Christian programming
via Kyrgyzstan to Afghanistan but only at 15-18 UT on a sporadic basis, so no
collision problem to WBCQ (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S
A. 15555-USB, March 3 at 1543, the dead preacher on WJHR with anti-Catholic
sermon, also criticizing US government for issuing a postage stamp years ago
which had some Catholic content, violating Separation of Church and State. I
wonder what that was? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A.
9275.03 approx., March 2 at 2040, just barely modulated talk past 2054, i.e.
WMLK on the air again, so still testing, or in regular service? Nominally 17-22
UT, and off at 2222 recheck. Incredible that after years of work on the acquired
250 kW transmitter, they can`t get it to modulate at normal level. And isn`t it
great that we have yet another resurrected SW station dedicated to propagating
another apocalyptic post-mortem preacher??
Altho it hasn`t been updated
in March, it seems more current info is on their Facebook than own
website:
15150
is mentioned as another test frequency, which I haven`t seen reported anywhere
yet; not clear at what hours, and not yet in HFCC, let alone FCC, which still
hasn`t been updated since version one on November 10, so not even including 9275
for WMLK:
If
they ever do update it, unlikely by now, the 01 changes to 02 (Glenn Hauser, OK,
DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 1480, March 3 at 0801 UT, series of gospel
tunes starting with ``Put your hand in the hand``, still at 0820 UT as I am
dozing off. This may be reactivated KBXD Dallas, which NRC DX News says finally
came back on the air Feb 20. Needs further chex here (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** VATICAN [and non]. 15545, March 3 at 1503, tune in
to open carrier/dead air, going off by 1504*. This is when R. Tamazuj is
supposed to broadcast to Sudan South, via SMG. I leave a receiver on with BFO to
notify me if and when a carrier resume, which happens at *1524, but it too goes
off at 1528*, so no feed from R. Dabanga to broadcast either!
15550
bears a JBA carrier at 1538, and by 1545 and can also detect a ~1 kHz tone, i.e.
the clueless Sudanese jammer is still protecting the long-abandoned PNW
frequency.
13800.02, the other Dabanga frequency I check at 1539, and do
find a fair signal with a conversation in Arabish. This is via MADAGASCAR until
switch at 1600 to Vatican, which I also should have checked.
Santa Maria
di Galeria site has had a lot of problems just getting broadcasts on as
scheduled. On Feb 27, Noel Green in England caught 15545 at 1505 with Vatican
Radio in German! 1515 Polish, 1530 Bulgarian, 1545 music --- languages which are
no longer on their SW schedule at all, only satellite.
We may expect
further deterioration as Fr. Lombardi just gave up his post as head of VR, and
major reorganizations de-emphasizing SW are expected (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
This report dispatched at 1743 UT March 3
