** BOLIVIA. 6134.83, March 5 at 0207, weak Radio Santa Cruz ID in passing, as
often happens, during music. Lucked out as this time there is no het from
6135.2, R. Aparecida being off (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
**
BRAZIL [and non]. 11925, March 5 at 0246, no signal at all from R. Bandeirantes,
despite some Brazilian DXers claiming this has been reactivated, along with
9645.4 which I do hear weakly with a Bandeirantes ID in passing, despite ACI
from much stronger 9650 Turkey in Spanish. Yet, 11934.9, RB2 is audible as
always off-frequency, and 11854.9, R. Aparecida itself (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** EGYPT. 9745.05, March 5 at 0156, S9+30 open carrier,
dead air, from R. Cairo, scheduled 02-07, 250 kW, 315 degrees from Abis to
eastern North America and western Europe in Arabic, but probably not going to
modulate much even after 0200. Anyhow, it`s a MUCH cleaner signal than the next
one.
9965.30, March 5 at 0159, R. Cairo`s other Arabic service is much
like last night, accompanied by multiple spur carriers on both sides, beating
against each other, but now the separation is approx. 1.3 kHz instead of 1.55.
And they are stronger, causing hets to 9955 WRMI despite its good signal. The
one I measure is the sixth order, at 9957.50, i.e. 7.8 kHz away. 9965 is on air
2300-0430, the first sesquihour in English when I suppose the same stuff is
spewed (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** GREECE. 9924.96, March
5 at 0158, ERT whining transmitter is down here instead of 9935v, or another one
tried a while ago, 9930v! It`s S9+25, the multi-tone whine atop the music, which
is clear on VG // 9420 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
**
GUATEMALA. 4055, March 5 at 0215, R. Verdad with cuckoos at tune-in, ticking
leading up to ``la hora correcta`` of 8:15 mentioned at about 0215:15, but
that`s fine as there was no specific timesignal; 0216 opening `Frecuencia al
Día` DX program from Miami, which I thought was scheduled to start at 0200 UT
Saturdays. Recheck at 0245: yes, FAD is just wrapping up after 29 minutes. Good
signal and still not a trace of any additional ``injexions`` of Truth (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** IRAN. 9445.0, March 5 at 0153, VRII
in Spanish on new frequency, ex-9445.7, ex-9445.6 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** IRAN [non]. 7460, March 5 at 0229, open carrier at
S9+10, sufficient vs adjacent Albania 7465 at S9+25; 0230 opening with fanfares
and ``Payam-e Doost`` ID, i.e. the Baha`í service in Farsi for Iran where
members of that faith are persecuted despite historical origins there. WRTH says
the name means ``Message from a friend`` and files it on page 502 under USA,
rather than under a C&OTB listing for Iran, where only Radio Rainbow
qualifies; despite Payam-e Doost being ``jammed``, altho I am not hearing any.
Site is PRIDNESTROVYE (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A.
4041-USB, UT Sat March 5 at 0217, MARS net of mostly good S9 signals, abbr`d
call IAX of one of them, calling for another one, JU (? Plus another
letter/number?) to send a digital message, which lasts less than a
minute.
4007-USB, UT Sat March 5 at 0219, another MARS net, but mostly
weaker than the 4041 one, S7 from AAR4KD in Alabama, but NCS AAF4FA is stronger
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 7425, March 5 at 0226,
GB leapfrog mixing product is gone again, despite usual bigsigs from 7305 and
7365. I don`t think propagation is to blame, but something changing at IBB
Greenville to cause or uncause it (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) see
VATICAN
** U S A [and non]. WORLD OF RADIO 1815 monitoring: confirmed
Friday March 4 at 2130 on WRMI 15770, good; and at 2130.5 on WRMI 13695, very
good. Also confirmed UT Saturday March 5 starting at 0029:44 on WBCQ
9330.2-CUSB. Next:
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
(Glenn Hauser,
OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 5130.11-CUSB, March 5 at 0148 during
`Allan Weiner Worldwide`, WBCQ`s new frequency found here. Remains to be heard
if it will stay on the hi side unlike ex-5110 which stayed on the lo side. (It
was not on yet at earlier check 0031). Now it`s reading S9+15 on the NRD-545,
but quite undermodulated, tho // and synchronized with 7489.84 which is S9+40
with good mod.
Allan is off this week and TimTron is substituting; 0155
he turns off the phone for an editorial starting with how Trump is scary;
finished at 0203 and 7490- goes back to BS, while 5130+ keeps playing same music
heard momentarily on 7490, still going with that past 0213.
Meanwhile,
9330.34-CUSB was S9+20 at 0148 with Blalock the blaster, and continued with the
next g.h. after 0200. 3250 was still not back on (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** U S A [and non]. 13695, March 4 at 1922, I would normally have
no reason whatsoever to listen to WRMIBS, but stepping thru the BST-1 caradio
memory bank, I noticed there is CCI underneath this frequency, in French. HFCC
shows there is a 3-way collision!
Besides ``YFR`` at 1400-2300, there is
also RFI in French, 185 degrees from Issoudun at 1900-1959, AND AIR in English
at 1730-1945, 240 degrees from Bangalore, adding up to a megawatt vs WRMI`s 100
kW, but it`s NW toward us, while the other two beams are crossing somewhere in
Africa, making a bigger mess there, no doubt.
11580, UT Saturday March 5
at 0234, this WRMI frequency has a Spanish interview about telecomms lines,
mentioning Santa Teresita, San Clemente, CONFER and AFSCA, which pertain to
Argentina, and combined with the Argentine accent, I suspect this is `La Rosa de
Tokio`, but which is supposed to be aired at 02-03 UT Thursdays, not Saturdays,
when RFI in English is shown. I check whether it`s // 9955. No:
9955, UT
Sat March 5 at 0237, WRMI has Jeff talking with Jerry Plummer of WWCR at HFCC
A-16 Istanbul about the upcoming NASB meeting on June 2-3, apparently in
Nashville, to which SWLs are invited and will even be fed if not housed gratis;
something about DRM transmissions and progress(?) reports from KVOH and WCB.
More info at http://www.shortwave.org and
click on annual meeting. Jerry keeps talking at the same time as Jeff, which is
rather annoying. This is one of the many scheduled airings of Wavescan, rather
than Viva Miami. WRMI is now being marred by those spur carriers from Egypt
[q.v.] puking out of their 9965.3 transmitter (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** U S A. 9275, March 4 at 1930, I find WMLK is on and I`m adding
it to the memory bank of the BST-1 SW caradio. It`s barely strong enough to
break squelch and noise level, most of the time as I drive around, and
modulation is not full, but almost sufficient.
EJOM, deceased, is in a
narrative about, what else, getting people to accept the Sacred Name of Yahweh.
Suddenly at 1940, he`s interrupted for an ID at this odd time, and the first one
I myself have copied since reactivation: ``WMLK, Bethel, Pennsylvania,
broadcasting to target areas Europe and Middle East. Please stay tuned``, and
back to the narrative. I can`t tell whether it was paused or overridden for the
ID. At 2131 back on the portable PL-880, 9275 is sufficient, and somewhat
stronger on the meter than 9265 WINB (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** U S A. 9475, March 4 at 1927, WTWW-1 continues its festival of
open carrier/dead air. Next check March 5 at 0031 and 0152, Still DA. Yet
another frequency swap is accomplished, by 0212 check it`s back to 5830, and
still DA of S9+50, ditto at 0250. WTWW-1 surpassed the 24-hour mark of
broadcasting nothing at 0134 UT March 5, as we first noted it at 0134 March 4
--- no telling how much longer before that. Final recheck as I finish this
report at 0537 UT March 5: STILL dead air on 5830, at least 28 hours and
counting!
Meanwhile, 12105, WTWW-3 is VG modulating Yoruba a sesquihour
after Nigerian midnite, at 0031 UT March 5. At 0245, 12105 is still on but JBA
at S2, as anyone but WTWW would expect, that long after sunset (Glenn Hauser,
OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 9370, March 4 at 1930, WWRBS day
frequency is gone again. But 3185, March 5 at 0224, WWRBS night frequency is on
again (and 3195 is not) (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A.
1480, March 5 at 0155 UT, C&W music dominating even on the ALA-330S oriented
east-west, quick break at 0200.4 for KBXD Dallas ID, so suspect still on 50 kW
day power even later than last night (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** VATICAN [non]. 7305, March 5 at 0226, Vatican Radio is
wrapping up the half-sesquihour Spanish relay via Greenville, giving frequency
as 9610 to Cuba. Oops, that`s the one at 1230-1300. I have to listen to 7305
since the leapfrog on 7425 is AWOL; see USA (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
This report dispatched at 0558 UT March 5
