** ALBANIA. 9855-, April 16 at 0121 already, R. Tirana IS attaining S8. I see
some lists still have 0130 English on 9850, as earlier tentatively planned for
A-16 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CUBA. 15140, April 15 at
1803, RHC in Kriyol to Khicago, so it has failed to broadcast on the wrong HM01
spy frequency, 16180 like it did yesterday. Keep 16180 in mind in case 15140 be
AWOL again.
11840, April 15 at 2118, RHC is S9+10 but just barely
modulated in *English* which is not supposed to be on any frequency during this
hour! Correct TC by ``Ed Newman`` as ``coming up on 19 past the hour``. Still
JBM English at 2149. Next check at 2210: 11840 is JBM in French and now // &
synchro with scheduled 11880.
Unknown what 11840 contain for a while
until next check UT April 16 at 0022: now it`s Kriyol, awful undermodulation and
hum, and // clear and much louder 5040. 0052, it`s finally in Spanish but quite
suptorted, and no one would listen to this rather than a semidozen parallels.
Yes, RHC A-16 schedule shows 11840 is supposed to be nothing but Spanish from 21
to 05, 250 kW, 170 degrees from Quivicán.
17730, April 16 at 0017, RHC is
still in French instead of Quechua, with horrible clipped modulation, but rock
steady S9 signal (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** GREECE.
9935.00, April 16 at 0026, ERT buzz/whine mixed with music, and 9420 is off!
Fortunately, by 0122, more music from VOG is VG on 9420, loud & clear S9+25
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** GUINEA. 9650, April 15 at 2350
tune-in, rather repetitive vocal and instrumental African music at S8, from
something new. At 2359 some different instrumental music and announcement in
French, but cannot recognize any ID.
Onward into UT April 16 0002: now
all talk discussion mentioning ``organisation --- islamique``; 0006 different
voice on phone, ``fondation islamique --- humanitaire``, 0007 bit of music, more
talk, interview past 0017 tune-out. Back at 0024, now nice African music for
rest of hour at various chex, 0048 past 0102 with no ID, no break at all, 0117+.
One report suggested this was Central African Republic reactivated on an
old frequency, but 9650 is rather an old frequency of Guinea, meanwhile DXed by
several DXLD yg members, including Sakae Obara, NJ, who made this ID recording
to clinch it as Radio Guinée:
Its
other old frequencies which might also reappear are 4900, 6155, 7125, 15310, as
in WRTH 1994. It`s been many years since Guinea quit SW, when?
9650 may
be on the air 24 hours; main CCI would be R. Sonder Grense, RSA at 07-17 as in
HFCC & EiBi, or is it 08-16 as in Aoki? While UAE and Oman HFCC entries may
be dismissed as imaginary. The rest, only from Aoki & EiBi: 0730-1320 &
2130-2420, VOK in Japanese (but none of that audible before 0020 here) (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
The SWBC scene is really hopping now in
Africa. WRTH 2016 says CAR does plan to reactivate this year, its ex-SW
frequencies being 5035 and 7220 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** MADAGASCAR [and non]. 17640, April 15 at 1803 and 1832 chex,
no signal from Madagascar World Voice, one of the ``African Pathways`` hours in
English originally heard well at the beginning of A-16. They had reactivated
earlier UT April 15 for 00, 01 and 04 UT transmissions, but apparently not
completely back yet. 17855 Spain e.g. is coming in well enough at this time.
Subsequent language frequencies from MWV not checked until:
9600, April
15 at 2357, JBA carrier; April 16 at 0009 now S4, very poor with talk; by 0034 I
can make out some English at S4, about J.C. and alleged eternal life, so it is
MWV, one of the English hours, but is it the KNLS clone, or the African Pathways
one? Goes off at 0058 during a song, just in time as WHRI is firing up 9605 for
Corea relay.
9665 is the next scheduled frequency for MWV, and I can
tell it cuts on at *0058:30.5 when a LAH appears under Voz Missionária, Brasil
which until now has been in the clear, and measured at 0026 on 9664.94. MWV is
so weak & close that I really can`t pinpoint it on which side of the ZY.
This hour is supposed to be the KNLS English version to South
Asia.
9480.0, April 16 at 0413, MWV English is much better than last
night, S9+10, and would be more than fair if I had turned off local noise
sources yet (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** NORTH AMERICA.
6925.0-USB, April 16 at 0109, C&W music, pause, during which I explore the
peskie QRM on 6925-LSB, then another tune. This is S9 like 6915-AM allegedly 100
kW WRMIBS but 6925 is *much* louder; as my streetlite ignites at 0112, 6925
music is interrupted, 0116 changes to looping distortion. No announcements or
IDs heard, but this thread
says
it`s Pee Wee Radio, IDed only by an SSTV image of a lady in a see-thru bra with
that ID inscribed on her chest. Has Pee Wee heard about WWRB`s inducement?
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** THAILAND. 15590, April 16 at
0019, very poor S2 signal, presumably R. Thailand, HSK9, English to eastern
North America, where maybe it come in better than here, but it`s totally
transpolar (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A [and non].
WORLD OF RADIO 1821 monitoring: checking WRMI 13695 from 2059 UT Friday April
15, oh oh, no ID and Brother keeps on Scaring past 2100 and 2115, and also on
weaker 15770, both of which at 2100 should have cut to System D and F other
programming, including WOR a semihour later.
So this time I notify WRMI
ASAP, and they do get both back in whack by 2128 with music, and WOR starting
nominally at 2130 on 15770, 2130.5 on 13695. I unusually relisten to the entire
13695 broadcast and it`s complete & intact; however, there is some crackling
on the signal but not interrupting the modulation. WOR 1821 also confirmed Fri
April 15 at 2351 check during the 2329+ broadcast on WBCQ 9330.11-CUSB, S9+5.
Next:
Sat 0630 HLR 6190-CUSB to SW [or off air last week and this?]
Sat
0700 Unique Radio 3210 NSW low-power
Sat 1400 Unique Radio 3210 NSW
low-power
Sat 1430 HLR 7265-CUSB to SW [or off air last week and
this?]
Sat 1930v WA0RCR 1860-AM ND
Sat 2230 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB to
WSW
Sun 0310v WA0RCR 1860-AM ND
Sun 0830 Unique Radio 3210 NSW
low-power
Sun 2330 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB to WSW
Mon 0030 WRMI 7730 to
WNW
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
2130 WRMI 15770 to NE
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
BTW, Tim Gaynor of Unique Radio tells me, April 14: ``Hi Glenn, just
updating you on Unique Radio's antenna. It's been put up. It's a halfwave for
3210 kHz between two poles (about 30 metres in height) facing northwest and
southeast, with tuning well under 1.2:1, so hopefully the signal should go
further, especially at night`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
**
U S A. 7730, April 16 at 0038, WRMI in well playing that song about Allah,
during a scheduled `World Music` hour, breaking away from the stronger and
weaker BS on 7570, 7780 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A.
5129.74-AM, April 15 at 2352, WBCQ talk is under the S9+5 storm noise level,
unreadable, but it must be the new show AW mentioned for 2345 Fridays, `Smart
Money Guy`.
7489.9, UT Sat April 16 from 0000, WBCQ with `Allan Weiner
Worldwide`, and AW himself is back on this week. Says his main topic will be
about taxes, and how unfair they are, reading something from a Maine newspaper,
and later the NYT; and allowing phone calls from the usual suspects to interrupt
him. // 5129.74-AM follows several seconds later, but is too noisy to listen to,
altho improved a bit by an hour later (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** U S A. 5050, April 15 at 2351, UT Saturday April 16 at 0009
and 0044 chex, no signals from WWRB, so the Friday night `Pirates` Cove` Dave
was promoting has not yet eventuated. Has he had any takers? At 0044, no other
WWRB signals are to be heard on 9370, 3185, 3195 or 3215, so there may be some
other reason for the silence (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U
S A. 9265, April 16 at 0045, one station in English, modulation somewhat
distorted, about suppression of Christians in Africa and Mideast. 0123, still
one gospel huxter, presumed only WINB; no sign of a second station CCI as Rumen
Pankov once heard (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED.
6947.40, April 16 at 0039, open AM carrier/dead air at S9+25, maybe not a
pirate. Now that we know what the carrier on 6993 is, what`s this? (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 11980.430, April 15 at
2119, open carrier, maybe trace of modulation? Like I heard earlier today
``11980.4275 approx., April 15 at 1310``, but now nothing on 11980.0 to het it.
Still there at 2200, but off by 2209 check. On the R-75 I had suspected it was a
nearby local device, but now I can tell it is fading S8 to S5. Hearing ~same
exact frequency at such diverse dayparts is also strange, but other behavior
smax of Cairo or some other grossly defective station.
But no Cairo or
anything else in the Big 3 lists to account for this. EiBi does show the
Ukrainian unofficial station off-frequency plus:
``11980.1 0600-0830 SaSu
UKR Radio Dniprovska Hvylya UK UKR z``
but on a very limited schedule, and
WRTH 2016 shows it as only 250 watts, and AM+USB. Turkey is on 11980 at 04-06 in
Turkish, so we should at least check if that`s off-frequency like this: April 16
at 0415, JBA wobbly carrier is slightly off, typical of TRT, but not so much:
11980.025. It could also be a utility intruder (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
This report despatched at 0431 UT April 16