** CANADA [non]. 9550, Thu May 19 at 0449, poor signal in English with
Newmarket, Ontario address, postal code, and mail@bvbroadcasting.org e-mail
address, off at 0450*. This matches schedule for Bible Voice via Nauen, GERMANY,
on Tue-Wed-Thu-Fri per Aoki at 0430-0450, other days only until 0445, both
called ``Radio Da``; is that an abbr.? Other refs, WRTH, EiBi and of course
HFCC, do not go that far into individual program names via BVB (Glenn Hauser,
OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** EGYPT. 9965.17, May 19 at 0423, R. Cairo, S9+
with Qur`an, lite whine. No Breaking News about the missing plane here! But this
is usually the best frequency of the lot, managing to modulate without too much
distraxion. 0454 recheck, it`s off, nominally scheduled 2300-0430, 250 kW, 325
degrees from Abis in Arabic except the first sesquihour in
English.
12085.06, May 19 at 0457, R. Cairo, S5 open carrier/dead air or
maybe just barely modulated. This one scheduled 0200-0700, 250 kW, 315 degrees
from Abis, all in Arabic (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
**
MADAGASCAR. 9400, May 19 at 0427, MWV at S9+25 with `this day in history` excuse
for a Bible lesson, ID as ``African Pathways Radio on 94-80 at 4 am UTC, and
176-40 [sic] at 6 pm UTC``. Oh, yeah? The 18 UT repeat has been AWOL for weeks,
as this brand-new station still can`t get both its Continental transmitters
operational (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** SUDAN [and non].
11651.25 & 11652.65, May 19 at 0444, weak carriers peaking here causing
double heterodynes to R. Dabanga via VATICAN on about 11649.96 which itself is
barely audible with some Arabish modulation. It`s hard to decide whether these
are merely unmodulated carriers to jam by hetting, or also transmitting tones of
their own, as Sudan has used both methods (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** SUDAN SOUTH [non]. 9600, May 19 at 0426, ``HOA`` music at S9:
it`s R. Tamazuj, 0330-0430, 250 kW, 134 degrees from Issoudun, FRANCE. Yes,
neither Sudan is really in the Horn of Africa, but Sudanese music is much like
it to our ears (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A [non?].
17530, Thu May 19 at 1404, weak open carrier and off. It`s a VOA frequency so
what`s scheduled, exactly? The 14-15 span is for Sat & Sun only in
Kinyarwanda and/or Kirundi via São Tomé. But just before it at 13-14 daily is
VOA Somali via VATICAN, so perhaps the tail end of that. Another possibility is
Greenville making its usual transmitter check before it comes up on 17530 at
1700. But Botswana and São Tomé are also back on 17530 before 1700 (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. WORLD OF RADIO 1825
monitoring: confirmed Wednesday May 18 at 2100 on WBCQ webcast, after usual
partial ID ``WBC`` tnx to automation mismatch; also on 7490- but JBA in local
and non-local noise levels. Also confirmed Wed May 18 at 2330 on WBCQ
9329.990-CUSB.
WORLD OF RADIO 1826 monitoring: ready for first airings
Thu May 19:
Thu 1130 WRMI 9955 to SSE
Thu 2100 WRMI 13695 to NW
Thu
2330 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB to WSW
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
Sat 0700 Unique Radio 3210 NSW low-power
Sat 1400 Unique Radio
3210 NSW low-power
Sat 1430 HLR 7265-CUSB to SW
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, May 19 at 0458, WRMI already in World Music,
``Up2 & Away``; I daresay the Beautiful Balloons are getting a bit
overplayed. 0459.5 interrupted for ID, 0500 some other music instead of BS
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 12105, May 18 at 1911,
WTWW-3 in Spanish Bibling is only S6 peaking some to S9, but remarkably weak
compared to neighbor (geographically and frequencily) 12160 WWCR-2 which is
S9+30. Therefore we conclude that WTWW is grossly underpowered and/or with
extremely inefficient antenna in comparison. And it`s now much weaker than 12105
is normally heard here in daytime (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** U S A. 9980, May 19 at 1252, S9+10 open carrier/dead air from
WWCR, perhaps appreciated by the utility it clashes with on the hi side? On a
Thursday there is no excuse for this, as 9980 is supposed to run from 12 to 24
UT, including The Overcomer straight thru from 12 to 20 on weekdays (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 7385, May 19 at 0430, WHRI
open carrier/dead air at S9+45. Registered until 0500 on the 315 degree antenna,
but no programming accounted for on Thursdays per Aoki, not even music or LeSEA
fillers (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** VIETNAM. 9635.807, May
19 at 1254, VOV-1 at S4 with Viet talk, back down to usual way-off-frequency; so
much for exceeding 9636.0 yesterday.
Also, Wolfgang Büschel replies:
``Both VoV Son Tay units are ODD frequency already a lot of months ago too,
12018 ... 12019 kHz, - or 9635.800 .... 9636.0 kHz. On May 19 at 0830 UT
Vietnamese service from VoV Son Tay on exact measurement of 9635.798 kHz,
scheduled 2145-1600 UT daily`` (Glenn Hauser, OK DX LISTENING DIGEST)
**
ZAMBIA. 9680, May 19 at 0453-0502+, no signal from Voice of Hope, nor at 0554
recheck, so power must still be out longer than expected. (Hey, maybe Zambia is
not such a good place to start a SW operation requiring lots of reliable kWh?)
Ron Howard and Bill Bingham agree there was no signal from this now or later
this morning.
Meanwhile, Ray Robinson of VOH told us a bit more as of May
17:
``Hi, Glenn and others. A few quick comments about Voice of Hope -
Africa. We are currently using the omni antenna with 9680, intended to provide
coverage to Central and Southern Africa. We are needing a part from Continental
(they shipped the wrong one) before we can activate the second transmitter on
the 315 degree beam to West Africa.
Because the transmitters have been
idle for some time, we want to wake them up gently. For the 05-08 broadcast on
the 17th, we were only running at about 60 kW. That will gradually be stepped
up. Power shortages and rotating outages are still a major problem in Zambia,
and our genset is not yet serviceable. Thus we are dependent on grid power for
the time being, and our broadcasts may be subject to interruptions beyond our
control.
Up until now we have not been represented at HFCC other than by
the FCC for KVOH. We plan to change that for the next meeting. Ray.`` (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 1500, May 19 at 0441 UT,
that whistling noise in the sidebands of KSTP is again audible, subject of much
investigation a few months ago leading to a few minor stations in the MO/IL/KY
area, never determined just which (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 6170.0, Thu May 19 at 0501, unusual to find a weak S5-S6
open carrier here, suffering from 6165 RHC splash, but off in less than a
minute. Nothing to account for it in lists, altho Scandinavian Weekend Radio,
Finland, supposedly stops at 0500 on first Saturdays and special occasions only
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. Regarding my unID
off-frequency carrier yesterday, 11979.793v at 1215, Wolfgang Büschel
replies:
11979.571 kHz S=5 peak tiny carrier at 1440 UT May 19, in MI-USA
and Alberta-CAN remote SDRs, also on west coast of Europe like Belgium, Germany
and Spain, but nothing noted in Asia, Near East and Mediterranean,
Moscow-Russia. So still a mystery signal. On half harmonic in 5986.3 to 5989.4
kHz range, observed strong digital STANAG signal of S=9+15dB strength, noted
here in western Europe. I guess, Radio Dniprovska Hvylya, Zaporizhia not heard
lately anymore. wb df5sx`` (Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
This
report despatched at 1625 UT May 19