** ALBANIA. 13665, April 22 at 1240, S9 signal in English about China, 1243 it`s
`Life in China`. This is the Albanian relay of CRI, 1100-1300, 150 kW at 310
degrees to W Europe, prolonged to Oklahoma, best signal on band. Wish we could
ever hear R. Tirana this well (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
**
AUSTRALIA. 9580, April 22 at 1241 check, R. Australia is back on the air, unlike
24 hours ago (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** BIAFRA [non].
11700, April 21 at 2028, JBA carrier, presumed Radio Biafra. At 2033 has QRM on
lo side from ``running water`` ute, but those bursts are brief. I was not at the
dials at 1800, but DXLD yg members confirm it did start up a day later than it
had promised, altho with some audio outages. Is the site still BULGARIA? Ivo
Ivanov says it is. 11700 is as useless here as 11600 was; retune at 2105 still
JBA carrier, just in time to hear it cut off the air at 2105:24.5*, which
correlates with the 2106 abrupt cutoff time reported by José Miguel Romero2,
Spain, after some very bad modulation.
(At 2036 April 21 I have a very
poor S5 signal on 11600 with some talk, presumably Denge Kurdistanye on the
frequency Kostinbrod allowed it to usurp from Radio Biafra} (Glenn Hauser, OK,
DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CUBA. 9535, April 22 at 0421, RHC is S9 but dead
air or maybe just barely modulated. Scheduled to be on until 0500, never very
strong here (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** EGYPT. 12085.05,
April 22 at 0404, lo hum at S4 to S5, i.e. Cairo`s reactivated A-16 frequency to
waste, scheduled as 0200-0700, to western Europe and eastern North America, 250
kW, 315 degrees from Abis in Arabic, i.e. replacing 9745 with the same
disservice in B-15. At least this opens 9745 for Bahrain after 0200 until which
Cairo is still on there at 0045-0200 in ``Spanish`` (and 9745 remains an
alternate to 12085). I find this much more interesting than APR via MWV which I
have just left on 9480.
9965.00, April 22 at 0416, R. Cairo with whine,
flutter, undermodulated but sufficient Qur`an, S9+25. Still here, but often
offset plus, or minus (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** GREECE.
11645, April 22 at 0411, S7 Greek? song, and no whine!!! // stronger S9+10 9420,
and 9935 is off. I bet the whine is not gone for good, tho. Has some ACI from
11650 R. Tamazuj via Madagascar, unless 11645 tuned on LSB. Aoki shows Helliniki
Radiophonia not starting 11645 until 0500 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** INDIA. 4920, April 22 at 1218, man talking with occasional
comments by woman at S7; almost sounds domestic, could be a western language,
English or Spanish but can`t recognize anything. 1229 a bit of music, and then
mostly YL speaking. First I checked whether it`s // 1640 KZLS local, which does
put a 2x harmonic on 3280, but not on 3x = 4920. Not tonal Tibetan or Chinese,
so that leaves us with AIR Chennai listed in Hindi at this time, but also has
Tamil, and some short news segments in English at other times; Holy Tibet is
also in English but not now. Many other Asian carriers on 60m matching East
Turkistan, India, China, Indonesia frequencies (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** INDONESIA. Correcting: date was April 21 not 20, and sunrise
was at 1149 UT, not 1249, fixed: 4869.91, April 21 at 1250, JBA carrier, surely
RRI Wamena on distinctive off-frequency, reported by Ron Howard to have been
re-active on April 17 and 18. Also stronger with music on 4749.97 approx., no
doubt Makassar, with het from Bangladesh or China. Enid sunrise today: 1149
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** KOREA NORTH. 11735, April 22
at 0409, stilted Spanish about Vietnam, and then an harmonious song. Yes, it`s
Voice of Korear, which starts its extensive daily usage of 11735 at 0330 with
Spanish. S3-S4, but much better than Argentina 11710.7 is doing in reversely
scheduled Chinese (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MADAGASCAR.
6150, April 22 at 0348, tune-in to La Voz Alegre with address in Cuba, and
credit to Radiodifusora Cristiana Mundial, which must be the official Spanish
version of World Christian Broadcasting. This is S9+.
9480, April 22 at
0401, English hour from MWV is underway at S9+20, with South African choral
group in gospel tune, then ``re-live the launching of African Pathways Radio
with us``, quoting Psalm 180:24 --- oops, they stop at 150 or 151 depending on
your sect, but who has that many more? Maybe misheard. The entire tone of APR is
rather condescending; after all, they are addressing heathen Africans! I
continue bandscanning, next: EGYPT (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** MEXICO. 540, April 22 at 1145, Mexican music owns the
frequency and in less than a minute, ``La Ranchera de Paquimé, 540 AM y 90.5
FM`` frequent ID from XETX, Nuevo Casas Grandes, Chihuahua. Just before sunrise
here at 1148 UT.
620, April 22 at 1149, ``La Norteñita`` ID still being
used by XEBU, Chihuahua2. Not much else audible lowband from N/W Mexico as the
sun is rising here (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** OKLAHOMA
[non]. 7489.9-AM, Thu April 21 at 2310, `Broad Spectrum Radio` as James Branum
has just reminded us, just back from a cruise to Belize and Roatán, is on WBCQ
this hour, with his Hobby Radio segment. Among other things he was surprised he
couldn`t get RHC very well, but I expect it`s due to being in the skip zone for
all but the lowest frequencies. I confess to listening to the 7490 webcast at
first, since I was busy on the computer, but later confirmed also on 7489.9, and
2330 switching to `Nappy Roots Radio`, the same episode that aired one week
earlier, and which I thought was the `Okie Show`; NRR also has roots in Oklahoma
like much of his programming (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
**
RUSSIA. 9996, April 22 at 0414, CW time pips from RWM; just before top of
minute, 2 or 3 pips are skipped, and then a double pip at ToM. At next minute
0415, however, no skips, and ToM is prolonged. Occasional double-pips are heard
during rest of minute. No doubt this behavior is all significant and carefully
scheduled (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** SUDAN. 7206.0, April
22 at 0352, S8 just barely modulated Arabic presumed from Radio Omdurman, its
latest 1-kHz frequency jump, as already reported by Thorsten Hallmann, ``all
day`` April 21. The nominal 7205 transmitter has also tried 7204. Still a JBA
carrier on 7206 at 0517. Slippery keyboard punching? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A [and non]. WORLD OF RADIO 1822 monitoring:
confirmed Thursday April 21 at 2100 on WRMI 13695, VG S9+20. Also confirmed Thu
April 21 at 2330 on WBCQ 9329.87-CUSB, poor. Next:
Fri 2130 WRMI 15770 to
NE
Fri 2130.5 WRMI 13695 to NW
Fri 2330 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB to WSW
Sat
0630 HLR 6190-CUSB to SW [back on air from this week?]
Sat 0700 Unique
Radio 3210 NSW low-power
Sat 1400 Unique Radio 3210 NSW low-power
Sat
1430 HLR 7265-CUSB to SW [back on air from this week?]
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
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** U S A. 9955, Fri April 22 at 1151, on WRMI, Jeff White
interviewing the Famagusta Radio guy during his visit to Cyprus; I know I heard
this several weeks ago, I thought on `Viva Miami`, but this is a `Wavescan` slot
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 7505-, April 22 at
0349 check, for the record, WRNO is still gone. So what`s the latest problem?
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 5980, April 22 at 1157,
S6 signal with Brother Scare, a WWCR leapfrog mixing product of 5890 over 5935
another 45 kHz higher, and no longer blocked by Cuban jamming and Radio Martí.
Both 5890 and 5935 are about to go off in a minute or two putting an end to this
intermodulation for today (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S
A. 660, April 22 at 1148 UT, C&W music from E/W, fades 1153 UT before I can
hear any announcement or switch to Navajo chanting, after our sunrise 1148 UT. I
don`t see how it could be anything other than KTNN Window Rock AZ, which would
have to be on 50 kW ND day pattern. Its official sunrise in April is not until
1245 UT (May: 1215 UT). I bet they are (deliberately?) confused by MDT which is
rampant on the Res and NM, but not in the rest of AZ (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 920, April 22 at 1202 UT, ad for a car
dealer on I-270, and another ad for something at 1235 N Washington Ave. The
latter could apply to just about anytown, but I-270? 3-digit interstate hiway
numbers can be duplicated anywhere along 2-digit routes, and in this case 270s
go around Denver, St Louis, Columbus OH, and Washington DC. This loops NE or
ENE, and there is no 920 around Denver; Columbus despite a 920 station there and
certainly Washington DC are too far and too far into the dayside, so that
leaves: WGNU Granite City IL, 450/500 [sic] watts U4, address in St Louis. Day
and night patterns helpfully point toward us, and this is already 14 minutes
after sunrise here. Soon overtaken by an hymn, no doubt KYFR Shenandoah IA
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 1200, April 22 at 1211
UT, ad for Carnicería Jiménez, with meat prices weighed in libras, and website
carneceriasjimenez.com which chex for West Chicago among other IL locations.
Typically WRTO Chicago manages to overcome WOAI just after sunrise with its 20
kW day power into a broad pattern from SW, clockwise to E, nulling toward SE
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** VATICAN. 11625, April 21 at
2035, S6 signal in French with modulation cutting on for 2 or 3 syllables every
few seconds; 2036 recovers without breaks, but 2041 check, again cutting on and
off. It`s Vatican Radio from SMG site as scheduled 2030-2115 in French, end of a
long day of 11625 use by VR from SMG or Madagascar sites.
9645, April 22
at 0420, S9 in Arabic talking about Ecuador, Vatican Radio as scheduled
0400-0430 direct from SMG, and with slight het on hi side audible from R.
Bandeirantes (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 4915+,
April 22 at 1218, JBA carrier, much weaker than some modulation on 4920, like
heard yesterday at 1250 which was an hour after sunrise here, not at sunrise as
I mis-stated, and not on April 20; I really messed that one up, so corrected:
UNIDENTIFIED. 4915.07, April 21 at 1250, JBA carrier. No Asians are
listed on this frequency, so what, an AIR off-frequency again? Also getting lots
of 60m carriers on Indian/Chinese/ East Turkistani frequencies, an hour after
sunrise here (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 12035,
April 22 at 1246 1 kHz tone but carrier off at 1247*. Nothing listed now, but
perhaps Deewa Radio via Thailand prior to *1300 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
This report dispatched at 1731 UT April 22
