** AUSTRALIA. 17840, Aug 18 at 2257 tune-in, open S9+10 carrier, 2257:49, JIP RA
programming, tail end of `Pacific Beat`, 2300 News theme and news, top story
about Oz` mistreatment of refugees from Asia interned in Papua New Guinea. RA is
back! Also audible on much weaker 15240. Tnx to John Figliozzi who told the DXLD
yg at 2040:
``This from RA: "Thank you for your email. We are working
towards restoring the services this coming Friday at 9am Sydney time. Kind
Regards, ABC Reception Advice" 9 am Friday in Sydney is 7 pm Thursday in NY;
2300 GMT/UT``.
Now the question is, if this was just an extended
sesquiweek of scheduled maintenance, why were they so coy about it, not just
saying so with advance warning and assuring us when they would resume? As
theorized, they may well have also taken the opportunity to assess their
undesirable audience (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CUBA.
950, Aug 19 at 0141 as I am bandscanning in LSB mode avoiding local 960 KGWA,
``RR`` in MCW, i.e. R. Reloj, and again a minute later at 0142:03 a bit late
after ToM; that`s all I can hear from it, really cutting thru the Yanqui QRM.
This would be the 10 kW flagship CMBD in Arroyo Arenas, Habana, rather than the
duplicate down-island at Camagüey (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** CUBA. 11840, Aug 19 at 0120, RHC is open carrier/dead air at
S4, so the JBA spurs on 11830 and 11850 must be too. While 11760 is loud at
S9+15, and 11670 overmodulated but less splattery than usual (Glenn Hauser, OK,
DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** EGYPT. 9304-9333, 9338-9351, with peaks circa
9315 (fundamental), and 9325, Aug 19 at 0107, R. Cairo blobmitter is really,
really dirty tonight, and that`s saying something, the rapid pulsing roarbuzz
audible thru these ranges at varying levels. 9330 WBCQ already off but this
would have QRMed it before 0100 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** MADAGASCAR. 17640, Aug 18 at 1824 quick check on R75, MWV is
still on here, good APR signal in English, from the antipodes, item about
Woodrow Wilson. Later in hour, however, trying the G8 inside a restaurant`s east
window, no show, tho I can normally get 17530 VOA GB (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** OKLAHOMA. 1210, Aug 19 at 0136 UT, loud C&W
music at S9+15, so KGYN Guymon has again failed to null toward Philadelphia and
us at night (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** OMAN. 11650, Aug
19 at 0122, RSO is S7 with Qur`an on its unscheduled overnight frequency, and
lucks out with 11670 RHC splatter not reaching down this far (Glenn Hauser, OK,
DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** PERU. 5980.02, Aug 19 at 0101, R. Chaski is
stronger than usual, S8 but at least that much storm noise too; can tell there
is some talk modulation, not just a JBA carrier, until autocutoff at 0104:36*,
which is 46 seconds later than last catch one week ago, Aug 12 until 0103:50*,
or averaging 6.57 seconds later each night (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** SRI LANKA. 11905, Aug 19 at 0115:18, two pips of
mis-timesignal, right on mis-schedule, JB audible after SLBC music prélude, S2
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A [and non]. WORLD OF
RADIO 1839 monitoring: confirmed Thursday August 18 at 2100 on WRMI, 13695, VG.
Also confirmed Thu Aug 18 at 2330 on WBCQ, 9330.2-CUSB, fair on the PL-880.
Next:
Fri 0830 Unique Radio NSW 3210 ND
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
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. 12105-, Aug 19
at 0116, WTWW-3 is S3 vs CODAR and as far as I can tell dead air, its prime
format; propagation not so good tonight as 9475- WTWW-1 with PPPP is only S5
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 7504.76, Aug 19 at
0154, WRNO is S9+35 with gospel huxter, not varying perceptibly in the brief
time I can stand it (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A.
920, Aug 19 at 0143 UT, silly baseball game is dominant and from E/W. Unusual
since KYFR IA with a lobe toward us from the NNE, is normally #1 on 920 at
night. Plenty of mentions of player names, but takes a while to figure out the
teams among several mentioned: San Antonio Missions vs Arkansas Travelers.
Therefore it must be KARN Little Rock, which is 5/5 U2, ND daytime but supposed
to be a circle tangent to southwest at night, i.e. very little signal this way.
Official site of the Travs, confirms such a match tonight,
but
seems to say nothing about a radio network; perhaps KARN is the only outlet? All
games seem to be on MiLB TV, and some have an audio icon (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 9375-USB, Aug 19 at 0109, Spanish 2-way,
and some more much weaker circa 9333, noticed while checking out the Cairo 9315
spurs, in an area I don`t normally find them. Whether to consider them intruders
depends on where you locate the lower boundary of the 9 MHz exclusive broadcast
band (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
This report dispatched at
0341 UT August 19