** ALBANIA. 9854.95, August 2 at 0129, R. Tirana is S5 with humroar and interval
signal quite loud but extremely distorted. Sign-on does not start until 0131,
and now the modulation is much lower, useless vs self-interference (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** BRAZIL. 6180.02, August 2 at 0136,
RNA is back on at S9+30 after missing the last three nights; 6180 was clear for
VOA French via São Tomé after 0530 August 1.
11874.5 approx., August 2
at 0148, RNA extremely distorted scratchy spurblob from 11780 is here tonight,
S1 on the meter, but loud! indicating how overmodulated it is. Conveniently,
WEWN is missing, as it puts out its own spurs close to 11870. That`s 94.5 kHz
above 11780, so look for it 94.5 kHz below: yes, there is a match around
11685.5, at S5. These wanderers have also been echoing on doubles, so next look
for those, should be at plus/minus 189 kHz = 11969 & 11591 – maybe on the
higher one, but really band noise level is too much to be sure (Glenn Hauser,
OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** BRAZIL. 11815, August 2 at S2, weak music
from presumed R Brasil Central, but the off-frequency privates circa 11935,
11925 and 11855 are all unheard. Not due to propagation since still getting
11815 and of course 11780 and its spurs. I wonder what effect if any the Olympix
will have on ZY SW broadcasting? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** EGYPT. 9745.0, August 2 at 0142, R. Cairo at S4, warbling
carrier with low roar, no Arabic programming audible. Suspected same transmitter
switched to 12085 after 0200, but the sound of it does not match
exactly.
9315.0, August 2 at 0145, R. Cairo is roaring with unreadable
talk modulation, no spurs this time.
9965.0, August 2 at 0146, R. Cairo,
S9+20 with lite whine and trace of Arabic modulation (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** OKLAHOMA. 13980, August 1 at 1328, looking for
Firedrake or CNR1 jammers, instead find a weak buzzy signal in Spanish? mixing
with something, symptomatic of a mixing product from the overloaded R75: yes,
barely // 15370 RHC, minus 1390 kHz from my strongest local KCRC (Glenn Hauser,
OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. WORLD OF RADIO 1836 monitoring:
confirmed Monday August 1 at 2330 on WBCQ, 9329.957-CUSB, fair. Next:
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. 7490, UT Tue Aug 2 at 0100, after listening to `From
the Isle of Music` on WBCQ webcast, I`m standing by for `Church of the Subgenius
Hour of Slack`, fragments of which surprisingly appeared the last two weeks at
this hour. Still not going back to The Overcomer, but after ID, rock music
starts, and 0101 ``Radio Bi-Po International,``, YL voice automated 9:01
timecheck, more rock. 0106 tune ``Midnight Special``. More rock music and no
announcements except for a variety of program IDs; 0113 ``Helping you thru the
hard times, this is Radio Bi-Po International``.
By 0127 I`ve switched
to listening direct on SW, more of same; 0134 ``Radio Bi-Po, a station for those
of us who are not exactly right, and everybody else too``; 0141 YL auto TC as
``9:30``. 0150 ID missed exactly, but something about ``one minute --- next
minute`` as in bipolarity. 0200 pause for canned WBCQ jingle ID and chime, but
still not back to Brother Scare, ``from the great state of Maine --- Radio Bi-Po
International``, time 10:02.
Such a show by someone at Monticello was
previously heard on WBCQ, but not currently on the schedule at all. Just another
anomaly. 5129.9, 9330v and 3250v are not on the air. Strangely, on UT Thursdays
only when ex-convict Hal Turner gets a weekly show on 7490 at 01-03, Brother
Scare is shifted in compensation to 5129.9 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** U S A. 12105, August 2 at 0146, WTWW-3 is open carrier, dead
air again at S8 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 11870,
August 2 at 0148, WEWN Spanish is OFF, facilitating audibility of the RNA spur,
see BRAZIL. 11520, August 2 at 0153, WEWN English is also OFF. Did not get
around to checking whether 5810 Spanish is also off (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 7505v, August 2 at 0135, WRNO non-Mawire
preacher is varying upward as I listen with BFO on, soon reaching 7505.5. David
Zantow in the Wisconsin boresight from Metairie, sends a screenshot and sound
clip from last night showing a noise field surrounding WRNO interfering with
7490 WBCQ (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** VATICAN. 7250,
August 1 at 0539 check, no signal from R. Vaticana, during the daily 0530-0600v
Latin mass, which was introduced in several living languages, such as Hungarian.
Checking this since Jean-Michel Aubier reported to the DXLD yg that this
broadcast had been canceled as of today, except on Sundays and liturgical
feasts. (EiBi shows it was also on 15595, 6070, 3975, 585 kHz, unchecked here
now. Also canceled is the Rosary at 1840-1900+ UT, on 15595, 11625, 9645, 7250,
6070, 585.)
Announcement on the RV French website gives the reason as
``progressive dismantlement of the SW antennas at Santa Maria di Galeria`` ---
so it looks like Vatican SW is on the way out. Would-be listeners are shunted to
satellite, FM and Internet. Other broadcasts are likely to be canceled, two by
two, if not already.
Also bad news for VOA, which has become dependent
on SMG relays, violating Separation of Church and State, after having closed
down its own relays such as Morocco. HFCC shows there are 20 IBB broadcasts a
day via Vatican to Africa (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
This
report dispatched at 0339 UT August 2
