** ARGENTINA. 15343.97, May 23 at 0132, LRA is only S3 and dipping below 15344,
let alone <15345 any="" can="" dead="" div="" jbm.="" make="" modulation="" nbsp="" or="" out="" so="" t="">
Anomalies in WRTH info: WRTH 2016 book page 451 shows Sat & Sun
1800-2400 (timings vary) on 6060 is **Radio Nacional Rock relay, while 15345 at
same rough hours is *Radio Nacional 870 relay.
The A-16 update just
issued reverses the asterisks, claiming 15345 is now R. Nacional Rock! Has
anyone ever heard such IDs or rock music format on either
frequency?
Also, Roger Tidy, England, reports: ``The English service of
Radiodifusión Argentina al Exterior (RAE) says that it is reorganising its
programmes and that, from the end of the month, it will broadcast seven days a
week instead of only from Mondays to Fridays. It is not clear from the station's
announcements whether this will apply to other language sections as well. RAE
says that, until the changes come into force, its English broadcast will consist
only of the news and music (Roger Tidy, London, UK, May 16, dxldyg via WORLD OF
RADIO 1826, DX LISTENING DIGEST)``
BTW, looking at the original WRTH
2016, I see they missed all the RAE broadcasts after 00 until 05 UT on 11710.6v.
With English (and the others?) becoming daily by June, presumably 11710.6v will
replace 15344v after 0000 UT Sundays and Mondays as well as the otherdays (Glenn
Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** BRAZIL. 11925+, May 23 at 0124, I can`t
detect R. Bandeirantes on 11925.2 or more recent 11925.7, so off? Propagation
degraded, but JBA carriers on lo sides of 11935 and 11855 from other ZYs, and
11780 is ``only`` S9+20 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CHINA.
16099.97, May 23 at 0135, CNR1 jammer in Chinese is very poor S2, the only WOOB
found in a 15-17+ MHz scan, nothing on 16300 this time. Aoki lists slightly
different target Sound of Hope offset:
16100.252 2115-1420 TWN * SOH Xi Wang
Zhi Sheng Chi ? 1-7
At 0138 I reach the 16mb, and detect S2 or S1
carriers on 17490, 17550, 17595, 17605, 17685, 17730 --- all of which are
accounted for in Aoki as CNR, CRI or jammers against RFA (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** CUBA. 11635-11695, May 23 at 0121, RHC splatter
extending this far out from 11670 which is overmodulated/distorted itself;
getting to be a regular situation with this Bauta transmitter.
13740,
May 23 at 0125, RHC music here too is overmod/distorted, but splattering only
about 15 kHz above and below this Bauta; 11670 & 13740 are on adjacent
antennas A4 and A5.
6000, May 23 at 0129, RHC English is S9+35 but just
barely modulated; // 6165 at S9+35 is undermodulated but sufficient, so these
compensate for the Spanish overmodulation on 11670 & 13740, ha2 (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** EGYPT. 9965.00, May 23 at 0107, R.
Cairo is S9+20 and on-frequency for a change, but JBM in Arabic plus
whine.
9315.0, May 23 at 0116, R. Cairo is S9+20 here too, but with gross
motorboat pulses, no intelligible modulation during scheduled Spanish.
Furthermore a similar hideous sound but with no specific carrier point occupies
the 9297-9298 area, also at S9+20. There is no match on the hi side of 9315 or
anywhere else in the vicinity (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
**
GREECE. 9420 & 9935, UT Monday May 23 at 0120, both VOG frequencies are off;
seems to be usually the case on weekends (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** MADAGASCAR [and non]. 9665.0, May 23 at 0110, one station
audible here, in English, ending ``Postcard from Alaska`` segment, then ``True
[sic] Stories from the Bible``, so it`s MWV, but where`s Voz Missionária,
Brasil? Maybe a brief interruption or deep fade, for by 0111 I do detect its
weaker second signal making a SAH with MWV (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** NORTH AMERICA. 6955.0-USB, May 23 at 0128, pirate with
narration, poor under louder heavy storm noise; 0142 JBA algo still. These logs
say it was XLR8 between 0016 and 0204*:
(Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** SRI LANKA. 11905, May 23 at 0114, JBA
S2 carrier from SLBC; 0114:46.5, theme music starts; 0115:17, 2+1 mis-timesignal
ends. SLBC remains quite consistent in its inaccuracy (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. WORLD OF RADIO 1826 monitoring: confirmed
Sunday May 22 at 2330 on WBCQ 9330v-CUSB. NOT confirmed next broadcast, UT
Monday May 23 at 0030 on WRMI 7730 --- tho still on the web schedule, heard
instead `Bible Commentary` in slow English, followed at 0045 by a `Viva Miami`
interview about Sri Lankan cruising. Also confirmed UT Monday May 23 at 0300 on
Area 51 webcast, and 0328 check on 5129.9-AM WBCQ; also confirmed UT Monday May
23 at 0330 on WRMI 9955. Next:
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. 9330v-AM, UT Monday May 23 at 0104, WBCQ alternate
transmitter test which has been running a few days is off; did not come back
following the CUSB broadcast at 2330-0100. Further, not heard around 0530 or
1230 --- the latter time when it had been audible on May 21, and with WHVW relay
May 22. I suspect it`s the same transmitter which had also tested on 3250v, and
was never heard when 9330v-AM was on, but even if on in evening, may not have
penetrated the heavy storm noise level (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 15240, Sunday May 22 at 1830 check, WWRB is indeed still on
and with that Ugandan-language clandestine which Dave refuses to identify. See
my previous reports. Ivo Ivanov also reports on May 22:
``1700-1800 on
15240*WRB 100 kW / 045 deg to Af/ME Ugandan clandestine
1800-1900 on 15240
WRB 100 kW / 045 deg to Af/ME Ugandan clandestine
* QRM R. Assenna &
Eritrean Forum on 15245. Zero signal after 1815!``
5050, UT Monday May 23
at 0106, WWRB is on with ponderous gospel huxter, not Alex Scourby, referencing
Bible about Fornicators (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A.
12105, May 23 at 0124, WTWW-3 is AWOL (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** YEMEN [non]. 11860, May 23 at 0123, poor S5 signal in Arabic,
so Republic of Yemen Radio relay; better at 1300 with apparent news, but not the
bigsig it used to provide in our mornings (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
This report dispatched at 1711 UT May 23
