** CUBA. 11760, April 23 at 1300, RHC frequency announcement only says that 9850
is closing. It might have been more helpful to say which frequencies continue
--- eight of them, notably adding 15370, and 6000 also closes at 1300. In the
14-15 hour, schedule shows only six frequencies remain (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** GAMBIA [non]. 15465, Friday April 22 at 1901, using
the G8 portable at hand, I can tell there is a signal here, but that`s it. By
1936 I`m on the NRD-545 with N-S internal shortwire, and now there is a JBA S4
signal vs the S3 background noise level. At 1937 I switch to the ALA-330S
Wellbrook, and that helps a little, S5-S6, and can make out some
African?-accented English. At 1950 I try the R75 with external 100-foot
east-west longwire, but it`s only a JBA carrier that way.
This was the
expected reappearance of Radio Free Gambia, which was first reported last Friday
April 15 at this hour by Stephen Cooper; but may have started April 1 on Fridays
only according to an HFCC registration showing this frequency-hour available 7
days a week for Radio Miami International, via TDF, Issoudun, FRANCE. RMI was
the broker for a previous Gambian clandestine 5-6 years ago, which may be
related (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** GREECE. 9935, April 23
at 0206, ERT music is good with no whine at S9, // stronger 9420 at S9+10; not
on 11645 at this time. Dare we hope the whine has really been fixed? (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** INDIA. 4896.0, April 23 at 1207,
S7-S9 signal with music? and nothing on 4895.0, so presumably AIR Kurseong
off-frequency, a trick they have pulled before. Many other 60mb carriers on
proper AIR frequencies, also East Turkistan, China, Tibet, Indonesia (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** INDIA. 9940, April 23 at 1232, good
S9+10 to +20 signal with Bollywood music, during AIR`s Myanmarianese hour from
1215. This 500 kW, 60 degrees from Bengaluru carries on well to here, closer to
transpolar. There are rumblings in India of closing down the AIR external SW
services, as too expensive to maintain. BTW, Aung San Suu Kyi doesn`t care
whether in English we call her country Burma or Myanmar tho she is partial to
Burma (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** INDONESIA. 9525.897,
April 23 at 1240, VOI must have switched transmitters, back to the off-frequency
one after several months close to 9525.0; some music audible at S4-S7, perhaps
OK modulation level during scheduled Japanese hour. No QRM now from 9520, 9525
or 9530 stations. Quick recheck at 1322 during English, now it`s just barely
modulated. At least China is not scheduled on 9525.0 at 14 this season, but it
is at 19-21 in Russian, totally blocking VOI English and French into Europe.
Maybe the het will at least bother CRI a bit (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** MALAYSIA. 11665.006, April 23 at 1252, RTM with non-Qur`anic
chanting, mostly one voice, then others join in; 1257 Malay(?) announcement,
instrumental music. Separate programming on 9835 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** PHILIPPINES. 9430, April 23 at 1244-1247+, gospel huxter in
English about pharisees, S7 to S5 and no CCI. Has to be FEBC Bocaue during
multi-hour ``Mandarin`` broadcast, so I keep expecting some consecutive
translation, but it never happens. So is English now a subset of Chinese? Never
// their other/real Chinese frequency 9400 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** SOUTH CAROLINA [non]. 5765.0, April 23 at 0527, Brother
HyStairical is talking about adding a new transmission to get into Japan and
Korea, but I missed most of it, MW or SW? Send money to do it for six months!
5765 had some noise at first like jamming but apparently out of the Walterboro
feed. Some ute hash resides around 5760. Someone had reported this on 5762.8,
but I`ve never caught this WRMI so far off-frequency (Glenn Hausere, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** TAJIKISTAN. 11550, April 23 at 1249, open
carrier/dead air at S3-S5; WEWN tuning up for *1300? No, all three transmitters
accounted for on 7515 & 12050 Spanish, 11520 English. HFCC shows 13-16 also
registered for a new `RED` clandestine broadcast in Korean from Dushanbe at
1300-1600. Ivo Ivanov identifies it as National Unity Radio (Glenn Hauser, OK,
DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A [and non]. WORLD OF RADIO 1822 monitoring:
confirmed Friday April 22 at 2130 on WRMI 15770, good, and 2130.5 on WRMI 13695,
very good. Also confirmed Fri April 22 starting about 2330:20 on WBCQ
9329.88-CUSB, fair. Previously the 2330 airings had been starting earlier in the
2329 minute.
Also confirmed Sat April 23 at 0630 on HLR 6190-CUSB, by
Nino Marabello, Italy; SINPO 25432 and apparently started about 3 minutes early,
so HLR has resumed after a break; however, no signal at all when I check
7265-USB via UTwente, Sat Apr 23 at 1430-1500. Still on the schedule then as
in
Next:
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. 7489.85-AM, UT Sat April 23 at 0007, WBCQ`s TimTron is
substituting for Allan Weiner, Worldwide, with an amusing account punxuated by
belches and naughtyisms, of his work on a transmitter, I guess the 3250 one
which is still not operational. Also on 5129.91-AM, but very poor level (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 9955, April 23 at 1223, music
from WRMI is S9, but barely modulated; not clear if from Radio Prague as
scheduled, or filler. 1230 ID and 1231 into a g.h. from Gaffney SC (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 17775, Friday April 22 at
1942, KVOH is only S5, just barely modulated in Spanish; at 1959 it`s up to S9
but still JBM, enough to tell that the preacher keeps going past 2000 without a
break. The nominal schedule is 1400-1900 UT Mon-Fri only, but lately it`s been
running later, yet with an unusable level of modulation and signal!
9975, the evening frequency in English, is still off the air completely
when checked at 0208 UT April 23. Possible scenario: everyone who normally looks
after KVOH transmitters and operations are off in Zambia getting VOH Africa set
up, neglecting the original KVOH. They also have a new FM station in California
to distract from SW operations. However, I think their plans were to run
everything remotely from a new master control in California (Glenn Hauser, OK,
DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 5050, April 22 at 2255, no signal from
Radio RSA IS via WWRB; nor later at 0017 check UT Sat April 23. So another
Friday evening comes and goes, and still no `Pirates` Cove`, or anything.
3185, April 23 circa 1205 UT, no signal from WWRBS, but day frequency
9370 is already going well before 1300 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** U S A. 5830, April 23 at 1216, WTWW-1 is absent, and not on
day frequency 9475 either, tsk2 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 6946.57, April 23 at 0017, JBA carrier, perhaps the
same one which had been unmodulating well on 6947.40 for several nights (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 11640, April 22 at 1936,
the pervasive mystery open carrier is no longer to be heard (Glenn Hauser, OK,
DX LISTENING DIGEST)
This report despatched at 1643 UT April 23