** AUSTRALIA. 12085 & 9580, Dec 18 at 1440, oh-oh, Radio Australia is
MISSING, a sesquimonth before its permanent turnoff, so maybe just another
anomaly. 12065 still has a very weak S6 signal by 1511, presumably still RA (and
there is a trace of a carrier just above 12085, something else?). Propagation is
certainly OK, with S9+10 7355 RNZI, et al. 4835 ABC Alice Springs is also still
on, S9 at 1440.
Stephen Luce in TX says it was also thus on Dec 17 (when
I was not checking). Ron Howard in CA and Wolfgang Büschel in Germany say 17840
(same Oklahoma beam as 9580) was also missing earlier UT Dec 18 (Glenn Hauser,
OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CANADA. 15034-USB, Dec 18 at 1432, CHR
Trenton VOLMET audio is at peaks only, extremely distorted and unreadable, quite
unusual for them. Probably on autopilot with no one at station monitoring from
the air how they sound. Recheck at 1926: still distorted but more or less
readable if you put up with it. Is there another frequency to compare? Yes, but
not at same time. EiBi shows skeds as: 2310-1100 on 6754, 1010-2400 on 15034.
With such a limited listed overlap, are there really two transmitters? Well, we
still have NY and Gander sharing 13270, 10051, 6604, 3485 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** CUBA. 6060, Dec 18 at 0655, RHC open carrier/dead
air, while other English frequencies with music are OK, 6165, 6100, 6000, 5040.
At 0708, 6165 is still on but in Spanish, S9+20; 6060 still DA at S9+20, 6000
off.
9710 // 9535, Dec 18 at 0705, RHC Spanish frequencies are only S9
and S8, still on the air, and I bet they were in English before 0700.
5040, Dec 18 at 0709, RHC`s weekly Sunday Esperanto broadcast is on
here, S9+30 in addition to only scheduled frequency 6100! Another mixup and who
knows if they woke up and turned it off before 0730? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** CUBA. 10345, Sunday Dec 18 at 0710, S9+40 Cuban Spy
numbers and digibursts, first noted via the R75 on 11735! as mixture/overload
with local KCRC, 1390 kHz above 10345 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** MADAGASCAR. 17640, Dec 18 at 1829, MWV English is on, rather
reliably now so far, ending an item about dandelions on `Creation Moment`
capsule, anti-science nonsense as bad as Thump, which all true missionary
stations must buy into (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** NIGERIA
[non]. 7415, Dec 18 at 0554, at tune-in mentions ``25 and 31 meter bands`` as if
in English, S9+20. Maybe really said 41mb? It`s Dandal Kura Radio, the
USAID-backed service for NE Nigeria`s Boko Haram territory, in Kanuri, 05-07,
250 kW, 55 degrees via ASCENSION. 0600 in the language, 0601 adding hum on
audio, opening with `Salam Aleikum` but this is not Arabic. Still good at 0615
(Glenn Hauser, oK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** OMAN. 15140.012, Dec 18 at
1430, JBA carrier from RSO, back on frequency (almost) after several days on
15140.50. English news should be airing at this very moment (Glenn Hauser, OK,
DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** SPAIN. 9690, Dec 18 at 1523, REE Spanish to North
America, poor with long/short path echo, while much better, anechoic on // 15390
aimed oppositely! 9690 should not be used for us as early as 1500 on weekends, I
keep pointing out. It will gradually improve as hours go on, however, under
wintry conditions (low here was +2 F this morning).
9690, Dec 18 at 1845,
now it`s up to S9, and 15390 is down to JBA carrier with silly ballgame.
Contradictory skeds are on the big three sources: dismiss HFCC which includes
lots of wooden entries; Aoki shows 15550 on the 230 degree beam to S America,
which must be a plain mistake for 15500 which is not listed there. But neither
one is audible now at 1845.
EiBi is probably closest to correct: Daily
19-23 on 9690 NAm, 11685 WAf, 15390 SAm, 15500 ME. Same for Sat/Sun extension
15-19 except 17755 instead of 11685 for WAf, the only target area which gets a
different early frequency, sorely needed also for North America. But then,
sometimes one or two transmitters are down. 11685 is not audible at 1905 (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** SWAZILAND. 9585, Dec 18 at 1413, tnx
absence of Australia from 9580, S9 signal in French with strange accent, keeps
referring to ``with me in paradise``, red flag as gospel huxter. Yes, it`s TWR
Africa at 1455-1525, 100 kW, 64 degrees from Manzini, in French only on Day 7 =
Saturday per Aoki, but this is Sunday! Other days in Malagasy. EiBi`s version
must be more accurate: 1455-1525 M-F in Malagasy, 1440-1525 Sat & Sun in
French. HFCC doesn`t break down the languages, but alleges it start at 1455
daily. Thus we have a 3-way contradixion (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** UGANDA [non]. 15240, Sun Dec 18 at 1702, JBA carrier from
presumed R. Munansi via WWRB; at 1829 a tiny bit better. Despite sporadic E
opening into the FM band earlier this morning per DX Map (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A [and non]. WORLD OF RADIO 1856 monitoring: not
confirmed Sat Dec 17 at 2330 on 9330, WBCQ, but there is a JBA carrier, so
presumably on with WOR (likewise JBA is closest other SW station, 9265 WINB).
Confirmed UT Sunday Dec 18 at 0426 on WA0RCR, 1860-AM, MO, 6 minutes into show
so started at 0420. Confirmed Sunday Dec 18 after 1130 on HLR, 9485-CUSB, by
Alan Gale in England. Next:
Mon 0030 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB to WSW
Mon 0400v
WBCQ 5130v Area 51 to WSW
Mon 0430 WRMI 9955 to SSE
Tue 0030 WBCQ
9330v-CUSB to WSW
Tue 0030 WRMI 7730 to WNW
Tue 1200 WRMI 9955 to
SSE
Tue 2130 WRMI 15770 to NE
Tue 2300 WRMI 9955 to SSE
Wed 0030
WBCQ 9330v-CUSB to WSW
Wed 2200 WBCQ 7490v to WSW
Thu 0030 WBCQ
9330v-CUSB to WSW
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A.
9475, Dec 18 at 1516, WTWW-1 fails to broadcast on wrong frequency 5830 unlike
48 hours ago (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 9275, Dec
18 at 1830, carrier from WMLK is back now that it`s Sunday, an ordinary secular
weekday, but no sacred-name modulation audible (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 6780, Dec 18 at 1436, JBA carrier. I believe this
is an ISM frequency, half of 13560, subject to unlicensed low-power industrial,
scientific and medical devices as well as pirates and Part 15 beacons (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
This report dispatched at 1932 UT
December 18
