** ANGUILLA. 6090, Jan 22 at 0133, Oh oh, so-called Caribbean Beacon is
reactivated after absence since at least Jan 8, both from 6090 and day frequency
11775. DGS is just as distorted as ever, if not worse! So they didn`t take the
opportunity to fix the transmitter. // non-distorted 5935 WWCR fed from same
satellite. Engineering there leaves a bit to be desired, but if it drive away
listeners to this nonsense, some purpose is served. However, back to blocking
the other innocent occupants of these frequencies (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** CANADA. 15034-USB, Jan 21 at 1508, Trenton Military
robot is stuck in loops, over and over and over: ``Break, Halifax, Halifax, no
report received. Break, Shearwater, Shearwater, no report received. Break,
Greenwood, Greenwood, no report received. Break, Gander, Gander, no report
received.`` At 1525 retune, another pair from another quartet of NRR`s,
Winnipeg, Edmonton.
At 1526 UT: ``Time: 1425 zulu``, so they are STILL
announcing time 61 minutes slow. They must not be reading my previous reports,
risky business not to do so. At 1527 the aviation non-weather moves on to NRR`s
in same format from Comox, Victoria, Vancouver, Abbotsford. At 1537: Prestwick,
Keflavik, Lajes, Shannon. At 1559, back to Abbotsford, Comox, Victoria,
Vancouver. Breather for me. 1811: Gander, Halifax, Shearwater, Greenwood. 2112:
still/again same quartet. 2214 ditto.
CHR transmissions have been
totally useless all day! And no one at station notices to fix it. Pity the poor
Canadian taxpayer, let alone flights in urgent need of VOLMET! Or maybe there
really aren`t any?
6754-USB, Jan 22 at 0130, yup, CHR night frequency,
poor S7, is also still ``no report received`` from Lajes, Shannon, Prestwick,
Keflavik (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CUBA. 6000, Jan 22
at 0135, RHC English is JBM, much softer than // 6165, both with same strength
of S9+25, the latter being much louder but more fadey (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** GUATEMALA. 4055, Jan 22 at 0142, TGAV is OFF! Had
been reliable for quite a while. 0202 recheck, now carrier is on at S9+20 (vs
storm crashes to S9+30), but dead air. Maybe they`ll be back in business in time
for another late start of an `Antena DX` rerun circa 0215 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** MADAGASCAR. 17640, Jan 21 at 1814, MWV English is on
today, but only fair signal (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
**
NORTH AMERICA. 6940-USB, Jan 22 at 0127, soul music at S9+25 (which is louder
and stronger than the ``Mighty`` KBC via Germany on 6145), must be Wolverine
Radio. Yes, 0133 echoing ID as such, and into SSTV for 3 or 4 minutes, after
which at 0137 frequency change announcement repeated, to ``4020, let people know
on chat groups, see you there in a couple of minutes``, and off
6940.
4020-USB, Jan 22 from *0140, Wolverine Radio just moved from 6940;
about same S9+25 level, but more storm noise down here, so no improvement for us
(nearest lightning storms are in SW and S Arkansas/N Louisiana). ID comes after
a bit of music first, then some big band music. One song had mentioned pants;
was that the theme tonight? 0146 ID, ``Baby, It`s Cold Outside``, another ID at
0155, and still going past 0210+. Fortunately there was no MARS net on 4018, but
one on 4041, q.v. (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** NORTH
AMERICA. 7405-AM, Jan 22 at 0150, [Station YHWH] is already on with usual stuff,
citing Jeremiah XXII:5, S6-S7 and partially readable past 0210. 7405 was one of
the first frequencies I discovered upon his 2015 reactivation, Dec 2 at 0447
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** TURKEY. 12035, Jan 21 at 1426,
VOT English hour is still on with IS alternating with language IDs, presumably
Kazakh, which is scheduled to start at 1430 on 9785 (a frequency I can`t
remember to check for presence when this happen time and again). 12035 is marred
by splatter 12030-12115 from that horrible mess on 12050 which is WEWN. 12035 is
still on for the 1430 precise timesignal and opening in presumed Kazakh. I
wasn`t attentive exactly when 12035 finally went off, but it was circa 1442
after which 9785 presumably came up very late. Way to go, incompetents at
Emirler! (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** UGANDA [non]. 15240,
Sat Jan 21 at 1741, WWRB with good signal but dead air instead of R. Munansi
clandestine. 1814 recheck, now poor carrier, but some modulation (Glenn Hauser,
OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 4041.0-USB, Jan 22 at 0203, Army MARS
net with YL NCS AAA7RD, call copied fonetikaly, vs storm noise level, check-ins
not readable. This page http://usamars.us/rgn7/ says that call
applies to the unnamed Region 7 Director, i.e. IA/KS/MO/NE. However a 2012 World
Radio Online article photo caption identified that call with one John Halladay
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENNG DIGEST)
** U S A. WORLD OF RADIO 1861
monitoring: I missed it on UTwente, but Nino Marabello, Italy, confirms at 1531
Sat Jan 21, WOR 1861 audible for a few minutes vs Hindi from China on 7265-CUSB.
I do confirm the next SW airing, Sat Jan 21 at 2330 on WBCQ, 9330.125v-CUSB,
S9+10. Next:
Sun 0410v WA0RCR 1860-AM ND
Sun 1130 HLR 9485-CUSB to
SW
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, 6855 to WNW
Tue
2130 WRMI 15770 to NE
Tue 2300 WRMI 9955 to SSE
Wed 0030 WBCQ
9330v-CUSB to WSW
Wed 1030 WRMI 5850 to NW, 6855 to WNW
Wed 1415.5 WRMI
9955 to SSE, 6855 to WNW
Wed 2200 WBCQ 7490v to WSW
Thu 0030 WBCQ
9330v-CUSB to WSW
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A.
7730, Jan 21 at 0656, this WRMI is unusually absent, while BS on 7780 is VP,
7570 is VG, and 6855 is P with music, 5850 G with World Music. For the record,
7730 is back on Jan 22 at 0146 check, along with 7780, 7570 all BSing (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 9330-CUSB, Jan 21 at 1741,
poor signal but dead air instead of Brother HyStairical from WBCQ, now allegedly
24 hours. And to think, we could have been hearing Damascus, if Assad had kept
his SW service going on 9330.
With 5130 also on air 12 hours each night,
BS except when other stuff such as Area 51 is already scheduled, that appears to
end Allan`s ``Radio Jennifer International`` service, active only briefly (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 9930, Sat Jan 21 at 1941,
WTWW-2 is just now ending `Theater Organ of the Ozarx` and on to `Amateur Radio
Newsline #2047 for Jan 20``. Hummy distorted signal.
5085, UT Sun Jan 22
at 0205, repeat of TOOTO is also airing, with cabaret conversations in the
background, S9+50 but some storm noise from Arkansas still audible, as well as
the spurs circa 5072.1 and 5097.9 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** U S A. 7505v, Jan 22 at 0150, 0210, no show from WRNO tonight,
but a JBA carrier, presumably INDIA (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 7676.50-USB, Jan 22 at 0147, non-intruding 2-way in
Spanish (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 15436-USB,
Jan 21 at 1508, INTRUDER, 2-way in Spanish, too close to 15435 BSKSA`s 500 kW
aimed 320 degrees right at us. Spanish also has music in background sounding
like off-tuned, as if bleed from Saudi, but it`s talking. Then music from Riyadh
adds to the mess. Still going at 1528.
I continue to be amazed that no
other SWBC monitors ever report these in-band, usually Spanish, intruders. They
may not be identifiable, but at least one of us is documenting them. Log editors
are no help either, by not publishing them, as if off-topic? (Glenn Hauser, OK,
DX LISTENING DIGEST)
This report despatched at 0402 UT January 22