** BIAFRA [non]. 11700, April 28 at 1945, JBA carrier, S2, maybe trace of
English from R. Biafra via BULGARIA; interrupted by much stronger utility bursts
occasionally on lo side, ``running water`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** BRAZIL. 11780.013, April 29 at 0320 check, RNA is (almost)
back on frequency! After months way off above 11780.100, so was always making a
het when tuning past on 1- or 10-kHz steps.
I first noted this earlier,
April 28 at 1943 as an unID very poor S4 signal, YL maybe in French? and no het,
so at first thought the ZY was off exposing something else, but nothing else at
all is scheduled between 18 and 24 on 11780 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** CHINA [and non]. 9745.00, April 28 at 1951, instrumental
Chinese music at S5 in DSB, so hardly Bahrain. Scheduled at this time, 19-21, is
Radio Free Asia in Chinese via Kuwait, but as usual, lacking anything more
specific, one must assume more likely to be heard is CNR1 jamming.
However, CRI in Esperanto is also scheduled on 9745 at 1930-2030, 500
kW, 308 degrees from Urumqi toward Europe, in which case the ChiCom would not
hesitate to jam one of their own broadcasts under the circumstances. I`m hearing
only one station so should have listened a bit longer (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** CUBA. 11640-11700, April 29 at 0052, RHC 11670 is
splattering out to plus/minus 30 kHz, even during talk, not just music, and it`s
somewhat suptorted on fundamental, forcing the squeezeout around the
edges.
11830, April 29 at 0055, S4 signal is just barely modulated, but I
manage to // it to RHC on 11670. A similar signal is on 11850, as I reported
recently and calculated it to be a leapfrog of 11670 over 11760. Now however, it
looks more like plus/minus 10 kHz parasites attached to the other RHC frequency
11840. Or is 11850 both??
John Cooper in PA also had this 11830 and
wondered if it was listed R. Daqui, Brasil reactivated? I did too at first, but
not enough signal yet on 4915 to check // there (and 4915 bears an additional ZY
anyway), while the other R. Daqui frequency, 6080 is inactive per WRTH (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** NORTH AMERICA. UNIDENTIFIED. Pirate,
6950.00-USB, April 29 at 0039 tune-in to last few notes of ``Doctor Who`` theme,
then nothing heard for at least a minute, so off? HF Underground has some more
logs of this playing Dr Who several times, resuming at 0044; and at 0048 ``Ride
of the Valkyries`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** ROMANIA.
9730, S9+35 and // 11800 S9+25, UT Fri April 29 at 0033, RRI English here with
classical music, excerpt of a piano concerto, insert a brief unrelated talk
about a band on tour in New York, then a bit of Rachmaninov`s Piano Concerto No.
2, on `Today`s Music Program`; 0040 that`s cut abruptly to `Open Studio` with
``pick of the week``, about visit of a British-American poet. Always nice to
hear classical on SW, but not so nice to have it cut up into little pieces
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) See also UNIDENTIFIED 9655
**
SOUTH CAROLINA [non]. 7570, April 19 at 0050, S9+40 dead air from TOM, so I
quickcheck other WRMI frequencies: equally silent on 7780 S9+20, 5765 and 6915;
but non-BS WRMI frequencies with other programming are OK: 7730 World Music
replaying ``Sandunga``; 5850, 5950, 11530, 11580. Finally at 0054, 7570 at least
resumes Brother Scaring (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) See also UKRAINE
[non]
** SWEDEN [non]. 11874.925, April 28 at 1939, another check of the
off-frequency IBRA transmission, this time measured here on the NRD-545.
Wolfgang Büschel replies to my yesterday report:
``U.K. 11874.9215 odd
frequency from Babcock Woofferton site on April 28 at 1945 UT again, S=8-9 in
Doha Qatar site. Rather used again an older B6124 Marconi Communication Systems
Limited, MCSL transmitter, not RIZ Zagreb latest GPS technology. Last time, Dave
[Porter] told the community: "Regarding last week and WOF the reason that ....
kHz was off freq was, that a Marconi B6124 was carrying the service as the
normal RIZ sender was being maintained. The Marconi B6124 sometimes do lose
their freq lock from the 1 MHz standard. RIZ Zagreb senders are locked to GPS"``
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** TURKEY. 11615, April 28 at
1946, very poor S3 in French; it`s La Voix de la Turquie, 262 degrees for West
Africa (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** UKRAINE [non]. 15770,
Thu April 28 at 2139, WRMI with R. Ukraine International ID, and `Ukrainian
Perspective`, good signal, as I am reprogramming the memories of the BST-1 SW
caradio. But RUI now? Strikes me as odd, and indeed the WRMI skedgrid shows R.
France International at this hour on Thursdays only (while at 2130 other days
there is other programming such as WOR on Fri & Tue) (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST) See also SOUTH CAROLINA [non]
** U S A. WORLD OF RADIO
1823 monitoring: confirmed Thursday April 28 at 2123 during WRMI 2100 broadcast
on VG 13695, a frequency I`ve just added to the BST-1. Also confirmed at 2330
Thu April 28 on WBCQ 9329.987-CUSB, already BST-1 programmed as 9330.
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 [confirmed last
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
Complete schedule including AM & FM, satellite, webcasts:
(Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 9942.90 & 9917.10, April
28 at 1947, parasitic spur carriers, 12.9 kHz each side out of the huge 9930
WTWW-2 transmission; and splattering between them. Furthermore, amorphous blobs
peaking at double the distance, plus/minus 25.8 kHz = 9904.2 and, oh oh,
9955.80, so that`s the source of hash QRMing 9955 WRMIBS on its hi side (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 9275.04, April 28 at 1954,
WMLK is on at S8, deceased EJOM with his ``Sacred Name Is YAHWEH`` obsession,
what else? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 6946.58,
April 29 at 0041, S9 open carrier is still here (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 9655, April 29 at 0032 good signal with lite whine,
conversation sounds like Romanian, but nothing scheduled here, a move, mistake
or new? RRI Romanian at 00-02 is supposed to be on 7335 and 9790, which need to
be checked should 9655 recur (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) For English
at same time see ROMANIA
This report dispatched at 0428 UT April 29