** ALBANIA. 9855-, Aug 11 at 2353, R. Tirana is S3 with some music under humroar
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** AUSTRALIA. 17840 & 15240,
Aug 11 at 2355 check, R. Australia is STILL MISSING. A couple more inquiries
appeared meanwhile on their Facebook:
``Richard Cook Yesterday at
12:56pm --- Your shortwave service fir radio australia isnt on the usual
frequencies for 2days now any idea why?``
``Rick Barton Yesterday at
6:04pm --- can anyone there tell us if there is an outage at Shepparton, or has
SW broadcasting from RA / ABC ceased? I have been a regular listener here in
USA.``
``Kandee Storrs --- I am guessing that weather problems in the
Shepparton area may be to blame. I have not received any definite answers yet.
11 hours ago``
``Rick Barton --- I am wondering also --- can anybody at
RA/ABC tell us what is going on? about an hour ago``.
Now Ron Howard
reports to the DXLD yg as of 0215 UT August 12::
``Hi Glenn, Sent an
inquiry to RA about what is happening to their SW
service. Told them how
much I missed hearing RA this week via SW. Also informed them how well ABC Alice
Springs NT was recently coming in, via 4835 kHz. and attached an audio clip for
them to listen to.
The reply today (Aug 11) from reception.advice @
abc.net.au :
"Thank you for your recent correspondence with regards to
the Radio Australia Broadcasts on Shortwave Radio in the SW Pacific. We are
currently working with our transmission provider on a number of shut downs over
the past week and again over the next week to investigate a range of technical
and commercial issues for the service.
In the meantime the services are
still on air via our satellite services on Intelsat IS18 and IS22 as well as our
FM network across the targeted markets in the SW Pacific. For detailed
information please see
and of course Radio
Australia is online at
Thank you also for your audio clip of ABC Alice Springs NT! Kind
Regards, ABC Reception Advice (Communications Networks)"
Ron,
California`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** BRAZIL. 11934.67,
Aug 12 at 0005, Rádio RB2 with music is S3, probably originating with Aparecida.
Weeks ago it was steadily drifting down below 11935, and I thought it might keep
going, but it halted around here. 11925+ Bandeirantes and 11855- Aparecida also
audible (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CHINA [and non].
15564.92, Aug 12 at 0017, CNR1 echo jamming atop weaker 15565 signal, which is
presumably IBB Mandarin via Thailand, this hour only (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** CUBA. 5990, Aug 12 at 0015, CRI Spanish relay is
missing here and also not on 15120. Various RHC frequencies also AWOL: 15230 at
0015; 9535 at 0021 (but was on before 0000); 9710 at 0022, but uncovering weak
CRI Portuguese via Kashgar; 11840 at 0022, while 11670 splatterer and 11760 are
on; no 17730; no 6060 but was on earlier. At 0045, 9535 and much stronger 9710
are back on (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** GUINEA. 9650, Aug
11 at 2350, R. Guinée is still going for the seventh day in a row, so maybe here
to stay. Poor S2 but ECSS helps. In French; 2357 mentions Côte d`Ivoire for some
reason, instrumental and vocal music bits, 2358, ``Amis auditeurs``, probably
saying good-night to listeners; 2359 short anthem(?) by band, 2359:35 repetitive
drumming, interval signal? runs past 0000 this time until 0000:40 Aug 12 dead
air, off at 0001* sharp (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** NORTH
AMERICA. UNIDENTIFIED, 6930-USB, Aug 12 at 0010 tune-in, yelling and screaming
about crime with background music, S8 but heavy noise level; stops at 0011,
nothing further. Also logged as unID here:
and
another/same 6930 pirate also reported the last few evenings (Glenn Hauser, OK,
DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** OKLAHOMA. 1580, UT Fri Aug 12 at 0036 UT, KOKB
Blackwell is playing music again instead of stupid sports talk (I previously
heard some music on Sunday evening). Soon found to be // its Triple-Play
siblings, 1020 KOKP Perry, and 105.1 KOSB Stillwater, but 1580 is running about
one word behind the other two which are synchronized. Glib DJ is doing a weekly
Thursday ``regional chart countdown``, but mumbles the show name, ``Red Dirt ---
---``. Finally about the fifth time I can tell he is saying ``Red Dirt`s Most
Wanted``. (Red Dirt is a proud Okie music genre, or sub-genre, rather like
country.) Laments that their phone is out since an electrical storm. Looks
forward to all the OSU students about to come back. 0057 UT outroing the show as
having been ``recorded in the heart of the Red Dirt scene, Stillwater,
Oklahoma``. 0100 UT rejoining Fox Sports Radio. Maybe they have a strip of
different music shows each evening? The Sunday one had started two hours earlier
(Glenn Hauser, Enid, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** PERU. 5980.0, Aug 12 at
0023, R. Chaski JBA carrier, recheck at 0102 to track its autocutoff, which has
slid to 0103:50*, which is 58.5 seconds later than last check, August 3 until
0102:51.5*, keeping up the average of 6.5 seconds later per noctem (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** SOUTH CAROLINA [non]. 15440, Aug 11
at 1909, WRMI Brother Scare sounds familiar: I think I just missed another stale
replay of his April? May? Attack on yours truly as he goes on to talk about how
`ven-zoo-eee-lah`` is going down the tubes, soon to be followed by the Good Old
USA. Not concerned with ``mockers and scoffers``, only the ``few`` who will
follow him. What about his grand tour of the northeast this? weekend?? (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A [and non]. WORLD OF RADIO 1838
monitoring: confirmed Thursday August 11 at 2100 on WRMI 13695, S9+20. I suggest
this is a good reliable time to catch WOR when it`s fresh. Also confirmed Thu
Aug 11 at 2330 on WBCQ, 9330.790-CUSB, S9+10, the first airing of the weekly
cycles here. Next:
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 NSW 3210
ND
Sat 1400 Unique Radio NSW 3210 ND
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 NSW 3210 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 [to be
pre-empted]
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, Aug 11 at
1906, this WRMI frequency is missing, while others including 11565 remain. 11580
still off at 0009 and 0104 chex Aug 12. This is one of two transmitters hooked
up to a 44 degree antenna toward Europe, but supposedly also good at lesser
angles up the east coast of North America. The other one is 15770/7780. Among
the programs/stations missing out today on 11580 were Ukraine and Slovakia
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 17775, Aug 11 at 1913,
KVOH is still on past nominal 1900*, with ID, addresses, monomaniacal praise
music in Spanish for that self-centered deity they project, and his assistant.
Good signal and modulation. Appears to be open-ended; maybe they let it run a
bit longer on Friday since they know they will take the weekend off (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 12105, Aug 12 at 0003, WTWW-3
is S9 of dead air, vs lite CODAR, still so at 0020, 0047 chex. A waste of 100+
kWh, so what else is new? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S
A. 1480, Aug 12 at 0029 UT, S Asian songs as KBXD Dallas is already propagating,
atop/mixing with KQAM et al. It`s still an hour before our sunset at 0126 UT
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 1579.58, Aug 12 0036
UT, off-frequency carrier is hetting KOKB 1580.0. Tnx to Terry Krueger in FL and
Tim Tromp in MI, this was already IDed Aug 9 as WVOK, Oxford AL, 2500/22 watts
U1. Official FCC sunset is 0030 UT in August (2345 UT in Sept), and the other
guys were hearing it definitely at night, so also running day power? Still not
enough to detect anything but the carrier here under KOKB. One way to pinpoint
the frequency indirectly: note the pitch of the het when tuned to 1580 in AM.
Then with BFO, tune down until hearing the same pitch as reverse het from 1580,
and read the readout.
Oxford ``1580`` has been WVOK since Sept. 3, 2002,
but I remember when a much bigger station was WVOK: 50 kW 690 in Birmingham
until 1992 (now WJOX) (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** VIETNAM
[non]. 12005, Aug 12 at *0100:08, S6-S8 carrier on from Woofferton UK, 4 notes
of music amid dead air, fade-up sign-on of ``Voice of Vietnam, from Hanoi,
capital of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam``, 0101 more dead air, 0101:30 a
bit of talk, more dead air; 0102 finally join news in English already in
progress, and this time keeps modulating.
So nothing has changed! Despite
the VOV schedule which was circulating showing 6175 had replaced 12005 and times
changed from 0100 & 0230 to 0000 & 0100 via WHRI. I already explained
why those two broadcasts would not be WHRI if and when implemented, but
absolutely nothing was on 6175 at 0000 or 0100 August 12. Anyhow, tonight was a
good one for propagation from Woofferton on 12005 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
This report despatched at 0306 UT August 12
