** ANGUILLA. 6090, March 23 at 0251, PMS modulation is *******still******* very
distorted, 5+ days after first noted, 122 hours and counting.
11775,
March 23 at 2157 check just before day frequency closing, PMS is
********still******** breaking up.
6090, March 24 at 0519, DGS
*********still********* distorted, and crackling out to plus/minus 8 kHz,
starting to QRM the jamming on 6080, tsk2.
11775, March 24 at 1815, PMS
**********still********** distorted but more or less readable if you can stand
it. 161 hours and counting, almost a full week since this was first noted (Glenn
Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1818, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CANADA.
2749-USB, March 23 at 0248, YL voice with marine weather in English, poor in
noise level. Canadian Coast Guard website shows VCS Halifax NS starts at 0240
via Sambro site with ``Radiotelephony, Technical marine synopsis, forecasts and
wave height forecasts for marine areas: 201 to 214. Notices to Shipping in South
Coast Nova Scotia area. Notices to Shipping revising the position of every
reported offshore exploration and exploitation vessel`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** CHAD. 6165-, March 23 at 0539, a roar and LAH
against RHC with Arnie Coro, i.e. RNT. 24 hours later, March 24 at 0522 check,
the usual LAH again audible --- but not a semihour later; did it go off? (Glenn
Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1818, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CONGO [and non].
6115.0, March 23 at 0540, JBA carrier, could be Brazzaville or Tokyo; right on
frequency like 9760.0 equally weak, the other RN2 frequency. March 24 at 0600,
JBA carrier again on 6115. Ron Howard in California confirms that on March 24,
6115 was nothing but Japan 0520-0600. We wonder if Congo is finished with its
elexion-inspired extended schedule? (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1818, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** CUBA. 6000, March 24 at 0524, RHC tho S9+30,
modulation level is much lower than on other English frequencies (Glenn Hauser,
OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** EGYPT. 9965.332, March 23 at 0239, R. Cairo
is open carrier/dead air, at least no spur field surrounding (Glenn Hauser, OK,
DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** GREECE. 9934.943, March 23 at 0240, ERT whiner is
centered here (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** INDIA. 4810.266,
March 23 at 1302, JBA carrier vs CODAR, presumed AIR Bhopal still off-frequency
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** INDONESIA [and non]. 3325,
March 24 at 1146 weak station talking; I can`t tell if there is more than one;
by 1200 it`s a JBA carrier. Leave it to Ron Howard in California to unravel this
on same date: ``NBC Bougainville (3325) suddenly signed off today at 1152*,
leaving RRI in the clear; at 1148 talking about a "NBC Bougainville program . .
".`` It seems these two are virtually zero-beat on 3325.0 so can`t differentiate
them by frequency (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** NORTH
AMERICA. Guys: Pirate WJD will be testing tonight 3495 LSB at 11 PM EST [sic;
EDT? = 0300 UT]. Please pass this on to your DX friends. 73, (Joe Talbot,
Alberta, 0053 UT March 23, via gh, 0216 UT March 23, dxldyg via DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
3495-LSB, March 23 at 0256 I start monitoring and hear some
wideband noise bursts which may be unrelated. At 0257.5 some rap music starts
up, maybe `novelty` music later, but quite poor and never make out any
announcements by 0312; recheck 0319 it`s off, but still noise
bursts.
Despite the advance publicity, only one other log of this found,
at:
(Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** SUDAN [and non]. 7315, March 24 at
0536, via VATICAN, Radio Dabanga jingle ID, with jamming by a carrier on 7316.3
(not a DSB tone). In A-16 the 0430-0600 broadcast will be on 11650 via Vatican;
0430-0600 on 13800, switching from Madagascar site to Vatican at 0530.
Thorsten Hallmann has correlated the carrier/tone jamming for the other
broadcast at 1530-1630 [15545] with the absence or presence of the overt 7205
Sudan transmitter. Last we heard it, the tone jamming was stuck on ex-Dabanga
frequency 15550 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1818, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** SWAZILAND [and non]. 6120v, March 24 at 0520, two JBA carriers
slightly apart making double-het with BFO. Aoki shows the two stations on air at
this time are: TWR, Manzini, Swaziland, and SRDA São Paulo, BRAZIL (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** TIBET [non]. 15573, March 23 at 1327,
JBA carrier, presumed V. of Tibet as latest scheduled via TAJIKISTAN at
1308-1330 per Aoki. No jammer carrier audible on 15575, let alone KBS World
Radio`s so-called North American Service in English. There is something on
15570, which cannot be explained as anything but a jammer even tho it`s 3 rather
than 2 kHz het away. Maybe deferring to inaudible KBS on the other side? Or if
the KBS signal exist and be any good in Asia, it does the job of jamming VOT
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** TURKEY. 12035.028, March 23 at
1402, very poor signal from VOT English to Europe, carrying on weakly to North
America. Consistently off-frequency to the hi side. In A-16 this will move an
hour earlier to 1230-1325, and up to the usual A-frequency, 15450, which I doubt
will propagate much better. Will it also be off-plus? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. WORLD OF RADIO 1817 monitoring: confirmed Tue
March 22 at 2330 on WBCQ 9329.67-CUSB (recheck around 0100 March 23, it`s about
9329.75). Also confirmed Wed March 23 at 1315.5 on WRMI 9955, sufficient with no
jamming (but at 1355 heard lite jamming vs Viva Miami). Also confirmed Wed March
23 at 2100 on WBCQ webcast; this time the extraneous syllables a couple seconds
after the automated WBCQ ID and before WOR starts, sound like ``day to it``.
Checking 7490 itself at 2121, audible fairly but sinking into storm noise level
and increasing daytime absorption this far from Maine. Also confirmed Wed March
23 at 2330 on WBCQ, 9329.955-CUSB.
WORLD OF RADIO 1818 monitoring:
confirmed first SW broadcast of Thu March 24 at 1130 on WRMI 9955: tune-in at
1140, it`s very good at S9+10, no jamming (quite a contrast to a week ago when
it was very poor). Next:
Thu 2100 WRMI 13695 to NW
Thu 2330 WBCQ
9330v-CUSB to WSW
Fri 2130 WRMI 15770 to NE
Fri 2130.5 WRMI 13695 to
NW
Fri 2330 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB to WSW
Sat 0730 HLR 6190-CUSB to SW
Sat
1530 HLR 7265-CUSB to SW
Sat 1930v WA0RCR 1860-AM ND
Sat 2230 WBCQ
9330v-CUSB to WSW
Sun 0310v WA0RCR 1860-AM ND
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. 5765, March 23 at 0234 check, one WRMI
frequency AWOL (need to start/end ``49m`` bandscanning as low as 5745), yet
plenty of BS on 5850, 5950, 5985, 5015, 6915, 7570, 7730, 7780. 5765 is WRMI-8
at 355 degrees, scheduled 00-13 UT, paired with 11825 the rest of the 24 hours,
all-BS-all-the-time. Recheck at 0525 March 24, 5765 is on.
WRMI eclectic
music concerts seem rather reliable now during the 14-15 UT hour in two
different playouts on 9955 and 11580, as noted March 23 and 24. Here`s another:
music, no BS on 9955, March 24 at 0541 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** U S A. 9275, March 23 at 2010 check, no WMLK, tho neighbor
9265 WINB is audible. So is WMLK going to stay on with a regular schedule or
not? It`s all old EJOM recordings from years ago, hardly worth the trouble to
rebroadcast. I guess Jacob O. Meyer outranx Ralph G. Stair, as aside from being
dead already, he`s an Elder, not a mere Brother. Hey, I could call myself either
one of those or an even more exalted title, and who could contradict it? (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** ZAMBIA [and non]. 9680, March 23 at
1250 I check for Voice of Hope reported by Bill Bingham, RSA, to be testing
daytimes circa 06-14 UT on this frequency, which is no good in North America at
11-14 due to RTI and ChiCom jamming (not to mention KNLS Alaska foolishly
scheduled on same at 13-14!). Yes, at this time I am hearing CNR1 jammer // 6125
et al. I do recheck at 1356, seems only one Chinese signal, and at 1358 mixing
in is a tone of slightly more than 1 kHz. Maybe that is Zambia! Everything goes
off after CNR1 timesignal at 1400*. Same check March 24 at 1358 finds no
tone.
6065 is the other VOH frequency, at least for tests, circa 06-08
& 14-16. March 24 at 0559 but not much earlier, I have a JBA carrier. Ron
Howard was also getting a carrier maybe with tone at 0554-0614+. Nothing else is
known to be on 6065 at this time.
6065, March 24 at 1323, algo S6 and
flutter, presumably CNR2 Beijing site as scheduled 1200-1605 per Aoki; not that
I was expecting to hear VOH at this hour from Zambia, but watch out for it
closer to 1600 where it`s not on the dayside.
Has VOH started testing
planned night frequency 4965 yet? Aoki has nothing but Brasil and Perú on it, of
questionable activity (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1818, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 1030, March 23 at 0229 UT check, still open
carrier/dead air, presumed KCTA Corpus Christi TX, 50 kW non-direxional
daytimer. March 24 at 0519 UT, still OC, plus big hum, and now I get a DF
befitting Corpus (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED.
4766.0, March 24 at 1145, S8 carrier. Still a JBA carrier at 1320 recheck. Ron
Howard agrees: ``UNID on 4766 returned again! Well heard open carrier March 24,
checked at 1142 and subsequent checking till 1444; some QRM from 4765.0. Never
any audio on 4766. Ron California`` He had last heard it on March 19 (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
This report dispatched at 1827 UT March
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