** CUBA. 9565-9595, Nov 29 at 0131, CRI English relay on 9580 is
buzzing/crackling out to a 30-kHz range, including QRMing the other CRI English
relay on 9570 via Albania, which is quite weak relatively tonight. And the
ChiCom thought it was smart to situate // relays only ten kHz apart! (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** GERMANY [non]. 7360, Nov 29 at 0230,
JBA carrier for the publicized `Menschen und Geschichten` special in English to
North America. (Not 7250 where originally planned, belatedly thinking better of
broadcasting in the ham band.) FARMENIA is not exactly ideal site for
transmitting to North America. Thanks for trying (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** MADAGASCAR. 17640, Nov 28 at 1813 check, still no MWV English.
Suspect only one transmitter is operational and being used this hour for Russian
on 9570. One of them is certainly active and well audible after 2100 on 11610 in
Chinese to Europe (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
**
NEWFOUNDLAND. 6159.96, Nov 29 at 0138, JBA carrier, presumed CKZN, which I was
not hearing at all 19 hours earlier so maybe very low MUF then, as Philip
Hiscock who lives 5 km from it, says he`s not noticed any outages. But CKZU,
also on 6160v remains off so at last maybe with better propagation we can hear
CKZN without CBC vs CBC CCI (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENNG DIGEST)
**
ROMANIA. 5960 // 7325, UT Tue Nov 29 at 0142, RRI reading reports from listeners
including bits of provided info about their towns, etc. 0145 music break and
more until 0152.
This contradicts listings in DX/SWL/MEDIA PROGRAMS which
has Listeners Letterbox from the Saturday 18 UT thru Sunday 12 UT broadcasts; or
is it DX Mailbag? I did not hear a program title. DXM we have at xx40-xx45 (only
5 minutes) into the hour-long UT Mon/Wed/Fri broadcasts, but this is UT Tuesday.
I fear other entries are for wrong days. RRI`s own detailed program sked display
inconveniently defaults to local time of UT+2, but can be changed to UT or
rather GMT 0:
For
``today`` November 29 Tuesday, it does not show either program on the 0100
broadcast! But DXM on the 12 & 18 UT; LL on the 04 only for Tuesday. For Nov
30 Wed, DXM is shown on the 01 & 04 emissions only.
Perhaps the
display is confused about days of week vs timezone conversions, and/or the
programmers are. Most stations would repeat a certain day`s program content into
the next UT day for North America where it is still the previous day. And when
you go from one day to another you have to keep resetting the timezone for UT.
Most user-unfriendly. Only hours of monitoring could sort out what they are
really doing --- and then, would it be consistent? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** SOUTH CAROLINA [non]. 7730, Nov 29 at 0127 via WRMI,
Brother HyStairical is replaying yet again his April attack on antagonist Mr
Glenn Hauser. I happen to tune across 7730 again at 0225, and there it is again.
Apparently playing it every hour circa :25 past, as per additional logs. Tnx for
all the publicity, Ralphie! (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U
S A. WORLD OF RADIO 1853 monitoring: confirmed UT Tuesday November 29 at 0030 on
WRMI, 7730, as expected now that frequency is reactivated; good, but not very
good signal. 7780 is still off. WOR also confirmed UT Tue Nov 29 after 0030 on
WBCQ, 9330v-CUSB, JBA on the low side. Next:
Tue 1200 WRMI 9955 to
SSE
Tue 2130 WRMI 15770 to NE
Wed 0030 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB to WSW
Wed
1415.5 WRMI 9955 to SSE
Wed 2200 WBCQ 7490v to WSW
Thu 0030 WBCQ
9330v-CUSB to WSW
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A.
11580, Nov 28 after 1400, WRMI with World Music while all the other frequencies
except 9395 and 21675 are BSing. More World Music before 2100 on 11580, and
after 2100 on 9955; at first with some lite pulse jamming, then clear. So there
are three hours, or parts of hours, still World-Musicking on Mondays and
probably other days (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A.
9475-, Nov 29 at 0132, WTWW-1 is S9+25, always off to the low side, but dead air
instead of SFAW. At 0133 some bits of distorted audio attempting to break thru;
wiggle that patchcord! Back to dead air. Still so at 0149, vying with WEWN for
wasting the most watts. 9475 still dead at 0154, but 12105-, WTWW-3 is not only
on in Russian, but propagating at S9+20. WTWW-2 is neither on 9930 nor on 5085
and their four spurs each (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S
A. 15610, Nov 28 at 2106, WEWN is S9 but deeply fading during seemingly secular
news, but outro before 2108 as ``Ave Maria Radio News``, so it`s bound to be
tainted. 15610 had been inaudible and presumed off seven hours
earlier.
5810, Nov 29 at 0145, WEWN Spanish is S9+40 but dead air.
Meanwhile, 11520 English is OK at S9. I leave a radio on 5810 and no more
modulation until turning off transmitter just before 0154 instead of modulating
it all-night; until then, at 5 times the rated power of WTWW, WEWN would be the
winner in the wasting-watts sweepstakes, at least on a minute-by-minute basis
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 9275, Nov 28 at 1813,
WMLK still silent (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED.
7635.2-USB, Nov 29 at 0134, 2-way in Spanish, closing with ``buenas noches`` and
called each other by name rather than callsigns. Not INTRUDERS, in this range:
that`s for broadcasters (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
This
report despatched at 0637 UT November 29
