** ANGUILLA. 6090, March 25 at 0049, TUN with DGS is **********still**********
distorted, now at the one-week mark and counting. A few minutes later, at 0103,
// 1610 MW is also audible now with PMS, but clear and NOT distorted. Therefore
it`s not their satellite downlink receiver to blame (assuming both would access
the same feed source), but the modulator sexion of the SW
transmitter.
6090, March 25 at 0524, DGS still has some distortion at
peaks, into second week of this nonsense. And likewise 11775 at 1112 check
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** AUSTRALIA. 17840, March 25 at
0118, lovely a cappella choral music with heavy reverb from some cathedral,
continues past 0130 with no announcements heard. Must be a Good Friday special
from a noontime service in SE Australia, contrary to own program schedule,
preëmpting listed Radiotonic at 0100+, Final Cut at 0130. 17840 reception in our
evenings seems to be improving gradually, from S3 to S6 as I listen (but 15240
not making it).
What happens from March 27 in A-16? Probably no change,
but in HFCC, RA continues to register some additional frequencies which I
asterisk as only *backup/alternates. Here`s the whole list. 355 beam best for
Europe, 70 best for North America, and 30 in between (toward
Alaska):
2100-0900: 17840 70, 15415 355, 15240 30, *13630
70
0900-2100: *6150 30, 9580 70, 12065 355, 12085 30
PLUS an additional
6080 at 09-21 at 5 degrees, presumably kept available for a special broadcast to
Papua New Guinea or vicinity (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENINIG DIGEST)
**
BRAZIL. 3375.073, March 25 at 1017, S5 signal in Brazuguese, no doubt 1 kW R.
Municipal São Gabriel da Cachoeira, Amazonas. Another one I never hear in the
evening (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** BRAZIL. 4785, March 25
at 1008, a carrier with some talk modulation, where I never hear anything in the
evenings sunset or later. Presumed R. Caiari, Porto Velho, Rondônia, which WRTH
alleges runs 09-14 & 19-03, 10 kW. Strangely enough, Aoki says the only 4785
ZY is Radio Brasil 5000 in Campinas SP! Caiari is the one currently being
reported by numerous DXers.
Around 1010 I also have likely ZYs on 4845,
4885 (with Korea het), 4915, 4925.23 (R. Educação Rural, Tefé, Amazonas) (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CHAD. 6165, March 25 at 0522, LAH
beating against RHC English, so RNT is still active here on the only SW
frequency it knows. LAH = low audible heterodyne (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** CUBA. Re: this report: ``CHAD. 6165, March 20 at 0535, I`m
checking again for Chad, and I do believe it is back on SW! Unusually, RHC
English has CCI in the form of a fast SAH or a LAH, i.e. rapid flutter maybe 20
Hz apart. At 0542 I can make out some talk under RHC soft music at the moment,
sounds like YL in French. Both signals seem slightly on the lo side, RHC maybe
6159.985 or so. . .``
Correxion: Of course I meant RHC was on 6164.985
--- I must have been paying too much attention to the decimals and too little to
the numbers to the left. Tnx to Wolfgang Büschel for catching this (Glenn
Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CUBA. 12150, March 24 at 2205, trace of
audio. I think it`s probably RHC, 2 x 6075; had just heard that and other
frequencies announced on 13740, and hit this as I continued a bandscan
downwards. Then fades down rather than up, but bears further
checking.
11880, March 24 at 2212, S9+10 open carrier/dead air, must be
RHC. Should it be in French now? Until DST started March 13, French was at
2100-2130 on 11880, but with 22-23 English shifted later to 23-24 now, does that
pull French along with it? Or is there a one-hour gap with neither, but
transmitter left on. Naturally, RHC has not bothered to publish an interim
update to its own B-15 schedule:
Arnie
will probably be a week or so late making A-16 changes on the air, after
assessing the situation, having failed to participate in HFCC for fear of having
to negotiate with Yanqui Imperialists. (Hey, maybe it`s OK now? Ask Raúl) (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CUBA. 9490, March 25 at 1032 past
1100, variety of beepers on this Cuban jamming frequency, but no noise now, just
the beeps presumably coming out of jamming transmitters. (It`s Radio Republica
needing jamming only at 00-03 more or less, to continue in A-16.) Same kind of
stuff I have heard before in the nightmiddle on 11930 when Martí is off, and on
13820 afternoon after Martí is also off.
The latter had been mostly 5 or
10 beeps in a row, but the 9490 ones now are mostly 6 beeps in a row, and some
weaker much longer strings of 20 or maybe 26 in a row. They overlap so it`s hard
to sort them out and keep an exact count. These are CW carriers with no
modulation, so the beep pitches depend on BFO and whether you step up or down 1
or 2 kHz. But the pitches differ if you stay on the same frequency, so their own
frequencies are slightly offset. One could imagine the jammers are talking to
each other, but hard to imagine any intelligence being conveyed this way, other
than possibly a crude form of identification/location (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** GUATEMALA. 4055, March 25 at 1013, TGAV is not on
yet. I guess their early risers circa 0930 are a pastthing (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** NEW ZEALAND. 9765, March 25 at 1029, big S9+20
signal with pop music, i.e. an RNZI frequency I rarely hear due to sleep which
evades me this morning. B-15 sked is at 0759-1058, but it`s gone in A-16, as
both schedules now appear at
including:
0458-0658 11725, 0659-1058 9700, 1059-1258 9700, 1259-1650 6170 (Glenn Hauser,
OK, DX LITENING DIGEST)
** OMAN. 11650, March 25 at 0038, S9 with lite
music, Arabic announcer, presumed RSO. If you search on RSO RSO in the A-16 HFCC
file, you will hit countless wooden registrations for this, not possibly used by
their single transmitter.
11650 will no longer be among them, but during
the 00-02 period it could be on 9500, 9650 or 12015 (and if they forget to
change from a frequency before 0000, it could also be on 9740 or 15355; there
are a couple of other phantoms scheduled until 2300 and more until 2200) (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** PERU [and non]. 5980, March 25 at
0047, JBA carrier suffering from pulse jamming by Cuba against Martí which
doesn`t come up here until 0700, so a Chaski-check will be tough. After 0100,
however, more of a problem is splash from 5985 WRMIBS, but I can still detect
the usual warbling het with BFO caused by BBC UAE Hindi being on a slightly
different frequency than Urubamba, and the stronger one, Chaski, cuts off about
0110:48.5*. Last check exactly a week ago, March 18 cutoff was until 0110:04.5*,
44 seconds earlier, so that averages 6.3 seconds later per diem. Having
surpassed 0110, it shouldn`t be long before an human resets the autotimer closer
to 0100 yet again. At Radio Chaski, no sentient operator can be bothered to turn
off the transmitter at a natural break, or godforbid, utter a good-night
announcement, while programming surely continues on AM and/or FM (Glenn Hauser,
OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U K. 7435, March 25 at 0053, good S9+15 talk
in Farsi? and song; thought maybe it`s Radio Farda, but HFCC shows BBC in Prs,
250 kW, 82 degrees via Woofferton at 0030-0100 only. WRTH reveals that tho BBC
does have a Farsi service, this transmission is in Dari, which is the Persian
dialect spoken in Afghanistan. Why won`t HFCC show this language correctly?
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 9885, Fri March 25 at
0521, big S9+20 carrier; got to be Greenville, altho Botswana, 100 kW at 10
degrees is scheduled for VOA French at 0530-0630 M-F (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. WORLD OF RADIO 1818 monitoring: confirmed
Thursday March 24 at 2100 on WRMI 13695, very good as usual. (Missed checking
2330 on WBCQ 9330v-CUSB). Next:
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. 5850, March 25
at 1024, this WRMI frequency is playing music instead of BS, who remains on
5765, 5950, etc., etc. I wonder if these music blox are to even out the exact
amount of airtime TOM has purchased? Yet by leaving transmitter on, WRMI is
burning the juice (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 1030,
March 25 at 0121 UT, gospel huxter from N/S, not nice: ``may the Lord curse and
abandon you``, heavy SAH of 3.7 Hz with algo. 0129 UT ads for Mirador in Corpus
Christi, and mergegospel.com; 0131.5 goes silent, or rather to the open
carrier/dead air plus hum surges up as I have been hearing for the last three
nights hours afterwards, as this 50 kW daytimer fails to turn off transmitter at
sunset! But almost silences the STL. Nor did they ID or say good-night, or
anything. The same thing was happening Oct 4-11, 2012, as reported extensively
in DXLDs:
More
about KCTA`s curious deals with WBZ in
(Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 1530, March 25 at 0105 UT,
C&W segués from NW/SE, good signal, presumed KQSC Colorado Springs CO, which
is ND, 15 kW day, 15 watts night, and 1 kW critical hours. Well, it`s now
``night`` after 0100 UT in March (0130 UT in April). As in DXLDs 15-44 and
15-45, it revived on Oct 23 initially with classical music, but now it`s
``Mountain Country`` // 107.3 FM:
(Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 1680, March 25 at 0100 UT,
gumbo ad, and sung ad for WCK Foundation Repair, exactly the same pair I heard
March 20 at 0144-0146 UT, from KRJO Monroe LA during a baseballgame (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 1690, March 25 at 0059 UT,
``Denver`s Money Talk 16-90 AM`` non-IDs twice until signal drops off at 0059.4*
UT without any call letters being heard. It`s now Salem`s KDMT Arvada CO, 10/1
kW U1, and 0100 UT is indeed official FCC sunset time for March (April: 0145
UT). Call changed from KDDZ (Disney) on December 8, 2015 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 3210, March 25 at 1015, trace of a JBA
carrier. Maybe it`s the new low-power NSW Australian, Unique Radio, explained by
operator Tim Gaynor in DXLD 16-12 and via WORLD OF RADIO 1818:
``Hi
Glenn, A quick note to say I have activated a small low powered shortwave
facility from my QTH at Halls Creek, 50 km North East of Tamworth, NSW,
Australia. It's a licensed HF domestic station with a 1 kW day ERP and night
time 100 watts into the antenna. The antenna is a 35.5 metre vertical inverted
wire with a 9:1 Unun and a ham antenna tuner on 3210 kHz.
I have had it
on air quite a few weeknights from around 0800 till around 1300 UT although
sometimes may go longer. Some weekends again from 0800 till around 1400
UT.
I would also like to air your superb show at random night times, if
that's OK? I've been airing a lot of my old net shows and also a mix of oldies.
But would like to have more DX style shows and maybe have them in programming
blocks, especially weekend nights.
So far I have received a few
reception reports from The Gold Coast, Queensland, and also Brisbane,
Queensland. Anyone hearing 'Unique radio 2SG' OR MAXIHITZ could let me know on
email nri3@yahoo.com.au --- I will QSL
for correct audio files and/or reports. Many thanks, Glenn, and love your show.
Best regards (Tim Gaynor, March 17, WORLD OF RADIO 1818, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
I told him fine, please do (Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 4766.0, March 25 at 1007, the mystery carrier is
still/again here, presumed Asiatic. 60m bandscan finds several other JBA
carriers fitting PacificAsian stations, 5006, 5020 as well as South Americans,
4965, 4990 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED.
6960-USB, March 25 at 0036, North American pirate bandscan is unproductive, but
here`s a Spanish QSO mentioning Paraguaná, i.e. the Venezuelan peninsula aiming
at Aruba (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED.
13871.7-USB, March 25 at 0045, colloquial Spanish QSO including whistling,
background noise and cambios (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
This
report despatched at 1837 UT March 25
