** ASCENSION [and non]. 21780, Aug 19 at 1347, very weak talk and music is the
OSOB on 13m. Aoki shows this hour is DW Hausa via UAE, but EiBi shows Ascension.
HFCC confirms that on August 5, ASC replaced DHA, which makes it more audible
here. Most of the time, the OSOB is a weak 21675 WRMI with Radio Africa service,
but can`t even detect its JBA carrier until 1419 when 21780 is over. WHRI is
also allegedly on 21600, longer hours on weekends but seldom noted here any more
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** AUSTRALIA. 9580 & 12085
& 12065, Aug 19 at 1320 check, Radio Australia is also back on its night
frequencies. It seems there is plenty of evidence the sesquiweek outage was
``audience research`` rather than just necessary maintenance (Glenn Hauser, OK,
DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CHINA. 15100, Aug 20 at 0008, only a few signals
on 19m, so I dig into a JBA carrier here to uplook later: CRI Beijing site in
Hakka, 500 kW, 165 degrees, on air 23-02 also in two other minority languages.
For CIRAF 50 which is basically the Philippines (and o yes, the South China Sea
west of there under occupation by ChiCom imperialism).
17560, Aug 20 at
0006, stronger signal than 15100, likely CNR1 jammer rather than target VOA
Chinese via Philippines this hour only. I made a quick scan between 16 and 19m
but found no WOOB jammers (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
**
GUINEA [non?]. 9650, Aug 20 at 0018, very poor S3 signal in talk, Conakry on
later than usual 0000v*? Better be sure it`s not in Japanese, which is Voice of
Korear scheduled until 0020* (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
**
MADAGASCAR. 17640, Aug 19 at 1833 and other chex, no signal from MWV, gone again
from this APR English broadcast. Propagation seems normal, i.e. pitiful, but
with weak signals from Spain on 17705, 17855, America on 17765, 17775, 17790,
17815. Anyway I`ve added 17640 to the BST-1 caradio memory bank in case it come
back during that one useful hour only (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** NIGERIA. 7254.925, Aug 19 at 0558, VON is S9+20 with tuning
signal of percussion cacophony, one of the neatest ones, and this time comes
thru unscathed and fully modulated; 0600 YL exclaims ``Nigeria``, opening Hausa
hour (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. WORLD OF RADIO
1839 monitoring: confirmed Friday Aug 19 at 2130.5 on WRMI 13695, VG. Also
confirmed Fri Aug 19 at 2330 on WBCQ 9330.029, poor. Next:
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. 7490.0, UT Sat Aug 20 from 0100, WBCQ with live `Allan
Weiner Worldwide`. ``I don`t get Terry Blakely. He burned out my damn plate
transformer``, explaining the outage on 9330 Tuesday night. Interrupted by phone
calls from regulars, even tho he hasn`t invited them or given out the number
yet. Discusses how all transmitters smell different, and first thing he does
when going into building to find out what`s wrong, is sniff. He found 9330 with
all breakers tripped; turned them back on and it blew up, due to a short in the
10 kW intermediate stage plate transformer, grounding it. Finally got back on
air with backup transmitter and rhombic. Is almost positive WBCQ is the only
AM-FM-SW combo station in the USA; and also ``trimulcasting`` on 7490, 5130,
3250 tonight. 5130- barely audible here in noise and not synch; 3250v not
audible (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 7730, Aug 20 at
0030, Jeff White introducing WRMI`s special digital broadcast for HFCC
demonstration, another repeat of it (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** U S A. 17775, Aug 19 at 2000, KVOH is still on air with
devotional in Spanish, and also past 2028. Another Friday, another extended
transmission beyond nominal 1900*. Program grid finally updated as of Aug 1
still claims to broadcast M-F 1400-1900 UT only on 17775.
and
finally admits that 9975 in English at 01-04 daily is ``temporarily suspended``
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 820, Aug 19 at
0535, Spanish music showing with WBAP nulled as much as possible, making very
slow 22/minute SAH or 0.367 Hz, probably Cuba (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
This report despatched at 0440 UT August 20