** ARGENTINA. 15343.94, UT Monday June 20 at 0118, R. Nacional is still on here,
only S3-S4 but good modulation level in Spanish. So much for expanding external
RAE to daily (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** AUSTRALIA. 17840,
15240 and 15415, June 20 at 0121, NO signals from the three R. Australia
frequencies. The first two are normally fair to good, and should at least be
detectable if really on the air, especially since only neighbor 15720 RNZI
[q.v.] is good, S7-S9 at 0123. What`s happened to Shepparton this time? All
three still missing at 0159. Recheck at 0558, now all three are back on, 15240
& 17840 at S9+10, 15415 at S6. Were any other outages noted this weekend, on
the `night` frequencies 9580, 12065, 12085? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** BRAZIL. 11764.651, June 18 at 0551, SRDA Curitiba is finally
reactivated! It`s been absent for several weeks, and I have always been alert
for this tell-tale split frequency carrier on almost nightly bandscans. Weak
screaming gospel huxter in Brazuguese via the R-75 has got to be this.
Then a quick check of all the other off-frequency ZYs finds these on and
propagating, without measuring their offness: 11935v, 11925v, 11855v, 9820v,
9725v, 9665v, 9645v; and maybe 9565, which has a big problem with the Cuban
jammers which won`t turn off long after Radio Martí is finished with this
frequency.
11764.63, June 20 at 0135, SRDA`s JBA carrier here on the
NRD-545 buried in heavy splash from 11760 RHC. Just before that from 0131 I
checked out other ZYs, starting with 11934.9, Rádio RB2, which was missing, yet
other 25ms detectable: 11925.2 S1, 11854.9 JBA carrier, 11815.0 VP S2 music,
presumed R. Brasil Central now active but as usual inaudible on // 4985 if on
under all the RTTY; 11780.0 is S9+20 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** CUBA. 11760, Sunday June 19 at 1645 on BST-1 caradio, memory
search stops on some African hilife music? What`s this? Before I can get a
frequency readout in Morse code, RHC ID in Spanish, on the *only* frequency they
keep running at midday.
11670, UT Monday June 20 at 0137, RHC `En
Contacto` DX program with usual opener list of birthday greetings, especially
for Fathers` Day, which this is in Cuba, always third Sunday in June (! Just
like USA --- who is copying whom? As for Mothers` Day, not all Latin countries
match USA dates). Then monthly DX report from Spain. 11670 is as usual
overmodulated/distorted but this time splattering out only plus/minus 30 or so,
impacting the 11650 unID, q.v. Also // 11760 with better modulation (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** EGYPT. 9964.86, June 20 at 0144, R.
Cairo is S9+25 but just barely modulated in Arabic, with whine, and frequency
seems to be wobbling just a bit.
9315.0, June 20 at 0156, R. Cairo open
carrier/dead air except for some hum but no noise, maybe JBM prior to 0200
alleged English (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** GUYANA. 3290,
June 20 at 0215, not even a carrier from VOG, which is usually all I can get;
could be off? Noisy summer, but 3320 South Africa is still making it at S6 = QRN
level (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** IRELAND NORTHERN [non].
9955, UT Monday June 20 at 0145, WRMI is S9+20 with digital beeping, so I figure
it`s another broadcast of DigiDX, but no --- goes right into rock music, which
continues until 0157 ID with address as radionorthernireland@outlook.com;
then playing classic Radio Moscow IS and opening broadcast with news headlines,
repeated; 0159 RNI ID and its Lincolnshire Poacher IS (also poached) until
0159:30 cut to canned WRMI ID, 0200 to Radio Praga. Radio Northern Ireland is in
fact on the 9955 sked as UT Mondays 0130-0200 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** MADAGASCAR [and non]. 9665, June 20 at 0153, no trace of MWV,
just the Brazilian on 9664.94 with Portuguese gospel huxter. So another missing
transmission, or just not propagating? I check the next one:
6190, June
20 at 0203, S7 MWV is here in scheduled Spanish --- but dumps off the air at
0204*. So still having transmitter problems (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** NEWFOUNDLAND. 6159.95, UT Monday June 20 at 0204, one of the
CBCs with weather for various regions --- at first I thought those sounded like
BC but must have been Labrador, too early for CKZU and there is only one signal
now. Weather right after news on the hour is typically the best/only time for
local breaks from CBC. 0205 starting a show about Glenn Gould playing Bach (what
else?). Checking the CBC Radio One sked, it must have been `Backstage with Ben
Heppner` scheduled for Sundays 11 [sic] pm Atlantic time; and CKZN runs on AT
rather than one semihour ahead as in Newfoundland. CBC website does not want to
load info on this episode but searching indicates Heppner has featured Gould in
the past and this is probably a summer repeat. Low modulation of RHC English on
6165 helps a lot (also 6000); thank you, Arnie! Recheck at 0610 UT, now there
are two signals a few Hz apart, indicating CKZU is also propagating, but I`m
only hearing one with any audio. BTW, Alan Roe could add a lot of CBC shows to
his Music on Shortwave schedules, if he wanted to bother with these low-power
outlets, mostly scheduled four hours apart, which can achieve a North American
if not European audience (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** NEW
ZEALAND. 15719.97, June 20 at 0123, RNZI at S7-S9 interviewing an ex-rugby coach
for NZ but with an American(?) accent, about missing a Hong Kong game or
something. I`m checking this for propagation since Australia is AWOL, must be
off the air, and take the opportunity to measure RNZI, which I have noticed is
always somewhat off-frequency.
6170, June 20 at 1300, RNZI is S9+10,
presumably having just switched to this from 9700, unlike June 17 when both were
running in AM before and after 1300 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** NIGERIA. 7254.950, June 18 at 0558, VON drumming IS, S9+10,
0600 sign-on in Hausa (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** NORTH
AMERICA. UNIDENTIFIED. 3278.50-AM, June 20 at 0216, my 90m bandscan with NRD-545
uncovers something very strange: very poor S6 signal is equal to or less than
the storm noise level, and I can only copy a few words here and there. Sounds
like a lecture about WW II, in matter-of-fact tone, rather than an archived news
report. Reminds me of the historic ``Nixon`` pirate (first VP inauguration was
in 1953, not 1952y), but not in a repeating loop. 0220 mentions Congress of
United States, declaration of war with Japan. Maybe slightly more readable in
LSB mode. Assume a pirate. (Nothing on 3250 from WBCQ presumably still pending
repairs.) Still going at 0256 when I`m on the R75 with much different antenna,
but about the same reception. Posted ASAP after 0300 to the DXLD yg, but no
replies of anyone else hearing it. Nor any reports of it or anything on 3278
ever in HFUnderground or Freeradiocafé (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** OKLAHOMA. 90.7, June 18 at 1600 UT, ``The Voice of Northern Oklahoma
College, KAYE, Tonkawa, The Source``. Can`t get it in Enid, so whenever I pass
by Tonkawa I check for it. It`s 1.2 kW at only 20 meters HAAT. Never hear it
airing anything but rock, presumably a student plaything, nothing like a real
public radio station; and so anyway it is on during summer session. WTFDA DB
agrees on The Source slogan (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
**
OKLAHOMA. 107.5, June 19 at 1844 UT, near Tonkawa OK, where KOSN Ketchum-Tulsa
is still barely audible on caradio, I compare it to KOSU 91.7 Stillwater direct
on the PL-880, and find that KOSN is running about 5 seconds *ahead* of base
station. That`s because KOSU analog is deliberately delayed to match its IBOC
HD1 channel which no one listens to but which makes noisy blobs at each side.
And per IDs, KOSN does not have any ``HD``. I`m also still getting the newish
translator on 94.9 in Ponca City, 250-watt K235CG and find it exactly
synchronized with 91.7, so is it taking an off-air analog feed? It is never
mentioned in hourly canned IDs, but occasional promos about it.
BTW, I
see the WTFDA DB for KOSU 91.7 still does not mention it is ``Crazy-Smart
Radio`` with nighttime split personality as ``The Spy`` -- indie-Okie music,
forget about that square NPR stuff still inhabiting the daytime, thankfully.
They don`t even break for NPR or BBC news on the hour overnight (Glenn Hauser,
OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** RUSSIA. 9996-CW, June 20 at 0142, second pips
at S2, prolonged one at 0143:00, and during following minute some of them are
doubled. Of course, it`s RWM Moskva (Taldom site). I always wonder about the
details of its schedule which are not in WRTH, but maybe in the website linked:
http://vniiftri.ru
Fortunately they
provide a speedier English version,
but it`s all about the multiple funxions of the agency. Guess what, if you
search that site on RWM you get zero hits! The Official RF Time link has no
details either: http://vniiftri.ru/index.php/en/time
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** TURKEY. 9830.0, June 20 at
0148, nice music at S9, what`s this? Normally nothing here. O! It`s // weaker S5
9870, so once again La Voz de Turquía dozing operator at Emirler has failed to
change frequency on this transmitter from the 22-23 UT one for English to North
America; now supposed to be on 9770 where there is nothing now (Glenn Hauser,
OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** UGANDA [non]. 15240, Sunday June 19 at 1625,
WWRB is already Ugandan. The weekends-only ``African`` service had been starting
circa 1600 UT but with other programming. Now it sounds just like Radio Munansi,
which had been on at 17-19 UT, so expanded to three hours? On the road in OK, I
check each hour, and find same-sounding Luganda? talk is still going at 1700,
1825, 1859, until usual canned sign-off by YL at 1900 until 1901* (Glenn Hauser,
OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. WORLD OF RADIO 1830 monitoring:
confirmed Saturday June 18 at 2230 on WBCQ 9330-CUSB. Also confirmed UT Sunday
June 19 at 0335 on WA0RCR, 1860-AM, Wentzville MO, as I am talking about the
Tajikistan harmonix, which means it started at about 0312. Reception is as to be
expected easier in Bartlesville than Enid, no problem with PL-880 and built-in
telescopic. Also confirmed Sunday June 19 at 2330 on WBCQ, 9329.970-CUSB on the
R-75. Also confirmed UT Monday June 20 after 0030 on WRMI 7730, S9+30. Also
confirmed UT Monday June 20 from 0302:33.5 on Area 51 via WBCQ 5129.922, S7.
Also confirmed UT Monday June 20 at 0330 on WRMI 9955, good. 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. 5129.9, UT Monday June 20 at 0212, JBA
carrier if any, as WBCQ is apparently off. It was OK earlier but not logged as
JL was doing one of his fake interviews with a gun nut(?) --- playing a
statement by the victim and interjecting his own contrary comments, which are
not replied to explicitly. Anyhow signal absence bodes ill for WORLD OF RADIO
coming up in less than an hour. But at 0228 JL is back on at S7. At 0258 WBCQ is
still OK on 5129.922 with Area 51, JL running a bit over until WOR starts at
0302:33.5. I hope it stayed on for at least 29 minutes (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 5050, UT Monday June 20 at 0126, WWRB is on
at S9+35 with gospel huxter in English; still at 0213 with gospel huxtress in
English. This frequency is now active only on UT Sun & Mon. See also UGANDA
[non] (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 12105, June 20 at
0129-0131+, WTWW-3 is open carrier, dead air, except for some kind of background
noise, S9+32 signal wasted. Still so at 0150; lite noise bursts at 0200 with no
more modulation than that and off at 0200:55*; while WTWW-1 is OK on 9475 at
0150, and on 5830 after 0200; and WTWW-2 off (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** U S A. 880, June 19 at 0436 UT, Spanish sermon backed by
ranchera music, loops N/S on the PL-880, and fades from dominant to out; 0504 UT
apparent live YL DJ praiser, ID in passing as R. Aleluya on 88.1, but on 880
this is really KJOZ Conroe TX. So it`s non-commercial? WTFDA FM DB shows 88.1
would be KQUE-FM in Bay City TX (Houston market) only 3.6 kW at 437m HAAT, must
be on some TV tower. But co-channel on same frequency is its own KFTG in
Pasadena with 700 watts, and two translators of that! Aleluya`s only full-power
100 kW signal is 89.7 KTYR Trinity TX; among a bunch of other FM and AM outlets.
BTW, KQUE used to be call of a major English commercial FM in Houston (not
AlbuQUErQUE).
880 is one signal making it into my hotel room in
Bartlesville OK (for one day of the OK Mozart Festival), where conditions are
noticeably different than Enid, with KRVN NE normally dominant (or KHAC at right
angle). KJOZ is 10/1 kW U4. NRC AM Pattern Book shows decimated night signal
favors the west, and day pattern the north, so guess what? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 11650, June 20 at 0139, talk at S5,
seems Arabic, leading to Radio Sultanate of Oman which has been here in the past
--- but not one of their frequencies registered at all for A-16. What is listed
is: CRI in Chinese via Urumqi, but this is not Chinese. Gone at 0158 recheck. I
know I was getting RSO earlier, June 19 circa 1700 on 15140, as BST-1 caradio
memory stopped on its Arabic before RHC`s hours. Now 11650 suffers from the
filthy 11670 RHC transmitter splattering; LSB tuning helps a little bit (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
This report dispatched at 2216 UT June
20
