** ALBANIA. 9854.97, July 1 at 0130, R. Tirana with usual humroar overpowering
any English program modulation, signal averaging S8. This time it was not on as
early as 0120 or even 0125 recheck, so I feared it would be totally turned off
by now, which it might as well be until repaired/replaced (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** ARGENTINA. 11710.36, July 1 at 0118, RAE with music
at S9, better signal than usual (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** BRAZIL. 11881, July 1 at 0111, spurblob from 11780 RNA,
approx. here tonight, 10 kHz closer to fundamental than it was last night. Match
would be 11679 but totally blocked by 11670 RHC, which is dirty itself splashing
out at least 11 kHz. Intermediately, I remeasure the fundamental at 11780.015,
always slightly plus, but sounds OK, not giving a clue it is again messing up
the band (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** EGYPT. 9321-9329,
July 1 at 0145, humbuzz in this range, same awful sound as on 9315 from R.
Cairo, so spurious from that. But no match on the low side (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENINIG DIGEST)
** IRAN. 12025.008, July 1 at 0107, open carrier/dead
air averaging S9; still there at 0229 down to S7 and maybe just barely
modulated. This is scheduled as VIRI in Spanish, 0020-0320, 500 kW, 300 degrees
from Sirjan (the duplicate registration for Kamalabad until 0220 only having
been abolished). This is the way it is all, or most of the time, as first logged
June 5 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** PERU. 5980, July 1 at
0103, JBA carrier from Radio Chaski until cutoff at 0103:25.5*, which is 12
seconds later than last catch two nights before, June 29 until 0103:13.5* (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A [and non]. WORLD OF RADIO 1832
monitoring: confirmed Thursday June 30 at 2100 on WRMI 13695, very good. Also
confirmed Thu June 30 after 2330 on WBCQ, 9329.874-CUSB, poor-fair. 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
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 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. 11580, July 1 at 0122, WRMI with Qur`an, i.e. part of
their `World Music` concert. At 0148 I am ready to recheck, betting it will be
``Up2 & Away``, and it is!! So now we know what fill the UT Friday 01-02
hour which is currently blank on the WRMI non-9955 programming grid. `World
Music` does show on 11580 in the following hour, 02-03, not only on Friday but
also UT Saturday and Wednesday (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
**
U S A. 12105, July 1 at 0106 check, WTWW-3 is still OFF. Need to make cursory
afternoon chex more often, in case it ever be on any more.
5830, July 1
at 0600 check, SFAW/PPPP is restarting another hour on WTWW-1, which has failed
to broadcast on wrong day frequency tonight, 9475 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 15816, 15820.5, 15829.5, 15834 approx., nasty
spurblobs out of the 15825 WWCR transmitter at ~4.5 kHz intervals. Maybe a trace
also on 15811.5 but none further. Not the same as the scratchy spurs sometimes
heard circa 15685, 15965, much further away at plus/minus 140 kHz, not this time
at 1419 check, tho sporadic-E-boosted fundamental has weakened a bit.
Same problem just reported by Tobias (T²), in Germany: ``WWCR caught in
the "bad audio trap": I randomly checked WWCR on 15825 Saturday 2016-06-25
around 2048z and found it had audio spurs in the frequency range around 4.4 to
4.5 kHz, which, luckily, is high enough to be easily filtered out by a narrow IF
filter and, since there are no other stations next to this out-of-band channel,
the chirps also shouldn't produce any interference with other broadcasters``
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** VIETNAM [non]. 12005, July 1
at 0230, VOV via Woofferton UK is S9+20 opening English by YL announcer who has
an accent but clearly understood, unlike the OM newscaster who follows with a
very heavy accent, hard to understand. I hate to seem like a language
chauvinist, as I barely recognize a few words of Vietnamese, but there ought to
be higher standards for broadcasters in ``English``. (BTW the same goes for some
of the correspondents on NHK World TV news.)
Being ``fluent`` in a
foreign language to the extent of speaking (or reading) it correctly is one
thing; doing so without overlaying a heavy accent is quite another. I hear some
speaking e.g. Spanish correctly, i.e. it were transcribed, you would not see any
errors, yet they speak it as if forcing it into English phonemes. Is it that big
a step to switch to ``native-accent-mode``? Too much book-larnin`, I suppose,
and too little attention to SW broadcasts. I on the other hand speak some
foreign languages with (I think) a good accent tho my vocabulary is insufficient
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 9655, July 1 at
0142, also earlier and later, no signal has reappeared from the Arab station
heard UT June 29 only, but not on June 30 either. If it were Algeria via France,
as suspected for a Ramadan special, it could still recur in the next few days
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
This report despatched at 1608 UT
July 1
