** AUSTRALIA. 9580 > // 12085 > // 12065, Monday April 11 at 1350, RA with
great Appalachian/bluegrass music, on `The Daily Planet`, eclectic world-music,
despite own online schedule still showing talkshow `Late Night Live` during this
hour weekdays. A mistake? Brought up feed from wrong domestic ABC network? Why
can`t we have both? Un/daylight-time shifts in NSW and Vic always lead
nonsensically to confusing RA programming jumbles for the international audience
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** AUSTRIA. 17570, April 10 at
1945, fair in French talk about Mexique, soon obviously Christian, so not RFI:
it`s AWR at 1930-2000, 300 kW, 170 degrees from Moosbrunn, which has become a
hotbed of Adventism (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** BRAZIL.
4885, April 11 at 0537, music at S9 with CCI, so both Brazilians active, instead
of neither? Or maybe it`s just one with a wobbly carrier. Needs LSB tuning to
escape CODAR (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** BRAZIL [non].
6180, April 11 at 0533, weak French from VOA São Tomé, again unimpeded by
de-reactivated RNA (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CHAD [and
non]. 6165, April 11 at 0533, SAH from ONRTT still quite obvious beneath RHC
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CHINA. 17485, Mon April 11 at
1441, S7 with Doppler-flutter, trace of modulation. Almost-lowest frequency on
17 MHz band (except 17480 Egypt if active) is scheduled as IBB Tibetan via
Thailand M/W/F at 14-15, so probably am hearing CNR1 jammer. (17630 CRI English
East Turkistan is audible better) (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** CUBA [and non]. 15140, April 10 at 1942, RHC`s first English
hour of the day is now here, ex-11670, and VG signal during mailbag on Sunday. I
had checked it earlier somewhat after 1800 and it was not on, altho supposed to
start at 1800 with Arabic for ``Chicago``, 340 degree beam (close enough to
Dearborn?) with 100 kW from Bauta site; total span 1800-2030 in Arabic, Creole!,
English, French. Before it came on, a weak 15140 signal could be heard, no doubt
OMAN which is now going to be blasted away. Next day, April 11 at 1824 check,
RHC is on 15140 in Arabic, so don`t guess it`s Oman now.
11670 however is
at last cleared of QubaRM to AIR, 500 kW, 325 degrees from Bengaluru to Europe
and beyond at 1745-2230, mostly in English. But not hearing any of that at 1850
check April 11; at least must get less QRM in Europe.
15370, April 10 at
1948, RHC in French, very good --- the only other RHC frequency to be emitting
at this hour 1930-2000, 100 kW, 10 degrees allegedly for Europe, but aiming more
like Québec, Nouveau-Brunswick, Terre-Neuve.
6100, April 11 at 0534, NO
signal from RHC, which in A-16 is still scheduled for English at 05-07, 100 kW,
310 degrees from Bauta and consequently their strongest signal here when
active.
11760, April 11 at 1335, RHC Spanish buried but detectable under
CRI English, hi-ho, sputnix! RHC A-16 has 11760, 100 kW non-direxional at 11-15
(Sun -1530 Esperanto), while CRI is 12-14, southeastward from Kunming (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** INDIA [and non]. 15035-15040-15045,
April 11 at 1328, DRM noise at S5. Per HFCC A-16, AIR Chinese at 1145-1315 only
on AM, but IIRC they have put DRM on this frequency before. Can`t hear an AM
carrier amid. Maybe it`s ChiCom jamming overrun, but heard nonesuch yesterday at
1305.
The true picture requires consulting EiBi:
15040 1145-1315 IND
All India Radio DIGITAL M FE b
15040 1215-1330 IND All India Radio
DIGITAL TB FE b
i.e. overlapping transmission from a single Bengaluru
transmitter, with two programs sharing DRM, so self-jamming, in effect. HFCC
fails to show any DRM here, nor any Tibetan; how strange!
DRM/jamming can
ruin a full 10-kHz range supposedly reserved for off-route aeronautical
communications. 15034-USB, CHR Trenton VOLMET barely escapes it.
15050,
April 11 at 1328, S5 AM signal with no modulation detectable, scheduled as AIR
Sinhala service from Delhi (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) See also CUBA
[and non]
** NEW ZEALAND. 6170, April 11 at 1355, RNZI is about to fade
out, poor at S5, and gone from 9700, which is was temporarily using last week
due to one transmitter being down. So back to two? No! Had not monitored for a
couple days. Further revamped schedule without notice, consulted 1830 UT April
11, has brought 6170 back, but still only one transmitter at a time; nothing
there currently to explain the problem:
``RNZI AM transmission is from
2100-1650 UTC, 0900-0450 NZT
0459-0658 11725 AM Daily
0659-0758 9890
DRM Tonga Mon-Fri
0759-1058 9700 AM Pacific Daily
1059-1258 9700
AM PNG Daily
1259-1650 6170 AM Pacific Daily
1651-1835 7330 DRM
Cook Islands, Tonga, Samoa Sun-Fri
1836-1950 11690 DRM Cook Islands,
Tonga, Samoa Sun-Fri
1951-2059 15720 DRM Pacific Sun-Fri
2100-0458
15720 AM Pacific Daily``
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
**
ROMANIA. 17800, April 10 at 1944, stilted Spanish with mailbox, soon obviously
from RRI, VG signal // 15450 somewhat weaker. Both are 300 kW, 262 degrees from
Tsiganeshti for Spain at 1900-2000 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** U S A. 17530, Sunday April 10 at 1946, jazz song in English,
VG signal, from VOA French hour 1930-2030 via Greenville. OK, but if VOA ever
plays a note of American/classical music, I`ll keel over (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. WORLD OF RADIO 1820 monitoring: confirmed
Sunday April 10 at 2330 on WBCQ 9330v-CUSB. Also confirmed UT Monday April 11 at
0030 on WRMI 7730, S9+30-40, new airing, 285 degrees toward Texas. Also
confirmed UT Monday April 11 at 0301 on Area 51 webcast, and at 0320 check on
WBCQ 5129.735-AM, S9+20. Also confirmed UT Monday April 11 after 0330 on WRMI
webcast, but JBA on 9955. Next:
Mon 2330 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB to WSW
Tue
1100 WRMI 9955 to SSE
Tue 2130 WRMI 15770 to NE [new]
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. 5049.993, April 10 at 2255, WWRB again playing the
Radio RSA interval signal, so seems they are making it their own and not
co-opting any others (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A.
11550, April 11 at 1333, Vatican Radio in Spanish relay by WEWN, but this time
// 12050 is AWOL. I guess one of their transmitters is completely down (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 15000.10-15000.15-USB,
April 11 at 1436, INTRUDERS, colloquial Spanish 2-way, not all on exactly same
frequency judging from their sideband pitches, but overriding WWVH 15000.0000!
discussing puta-madres (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
This
report dispatched at 1857 UT April 11
