** BRAZIL. 6180 & 11780, Feb 17 at 0213 check, RNA/RNB is off again tonight.
What`s wrong? A few months ago there were rumors that this SW station was
endangered. There had not been any audible technical issues lately. How about
it, Lúcio Haeser in Brasília, or other radioescutas? First RAE gone from
Argentina, now this (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** BRAZIL.
11854.99, Feb 17 At 0240, very weak R. Aparecida is almost sticking to nominal
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** COLOMBIA. At 0130 UT Feb 17, I
got this from my new contact in Colombia, Luís Hernando Cardozo, HK2MIZ:
``DXreport from Bogotá, Alcaraván Radio loud and clear at 0120 today February
17th on 5910 kHz. No signal at the same time from La Voz de tu Conciencia
(6010). SINPO 55555. Typical Colombian music and some religious
messages``.
As I told him, until 0300 it`s blocked by Romania here, but
there he reports no interference at all. So I make a point of checking during my
next session: Feb 17 at 0206 there is a low het between them, adding up to
S9+10, RRI in Romanian, and Alcaraván in Spanish talk is up about 5910.06. By
0252, RRI is weaker and/or HJDH is stronger so they are closer to equal levels;
and with USB tuning I can also notch out the carrier/het from RRI if not its
modulation. ``Running water`` ute interrupts briefly as often happens on this
frequency. I`m busy after 0300, but quick check at 0345 finds the carrier from
5910.06 still evident. Maybe it will stay on late into this night? Only
remaining obstacle on 5910 is NHK in Russian via Lithuania at 0430-0500.
Alcaraván Radio had been missing for weeks, at least from my hearance.
As for sibling station Conciencia, at 0254 Feb 17 I find a JBA carrier on about
6010.04, which could be that, or since Luís is not hearing it, Radio
Inconfidência, Brasil (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
**
MADAGASCAR. 5011.27, Feb 17 at 0249, JBA carrier varying as I listen, in much
stronger sideband of the 5010 Cuban leapfrog spur. Another thing I wanted to
check tonight, since Ron Howard was hearing R. Madagasikara ``Feb 15 on
5011.28v, at 0239, with announcer``; he first heard it reactivated by long path:
``5010.78v, R. Madagasikara, 1518-1532, Feb 14. After being off the air here for
a month (or more?)``. No doubt that`s it, yet all I have to go on is the almost
exact frequency match with Ron`s log, as it will be tough to separate any audio
here as long as Cuba is on 5010, but all it will take is for 5025 or 5040 to be
missing to get rid of 5010 too. During previous activity, Madagascar would vary
well below 5010, and was always unstable (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** NORTH AMERICA. 7615, Feb 17 at 0243, Station YHWH is now on
with usual stuff, S5-S3. Was not on during previous tuneby earlier in this hour.
I never catch him signing on, I suppose at no exact times (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** PERU. 5980, Feb 17 at 0101, R. Chaski JBA carrier,
standing by for autocutoff which happens at 0101:42*, i.e. 20 seconds later than
last catch three nights earlier, Feb 14 until 0101:22*, averaging right on six
and two-thirds seconds per noctem; ah, such precision, and total disregard for
whatever programming is in progress, but hardly audible here (Glenn Hauser, OK,
DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. WORLD OF RADIO 1865 monitoring: confirmed
Thursday February 16 at 2130 on WRMI, 11580, S8-S9. Also confirmed UT Friday Feb
17 at 0040 the 0030 on WBCQ 9330.07v-CUSB, S9+10. As I listen, it drifts up from
9330.05 to 9330.09. Next:
Fri 2230 WRMI 11580 to NE, 6855 to WNW, 5950 to
S
Sat 0030 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB to WSW
Sat 0730 HLR 6190-CUSB to WSW
Sat
1530 HLR 7265-CUSB to WSW
Sat 2030v WA0RCR 1860-AM ND
Sat 2330 WBCQ
9330v-CUSB to WSW
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, 6855 to WNW
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. 7490, Feb 17 at 0046, checking for `Broad Spectrum
Radio` on WBCQ, but find a much too strong signal for that, S9+50, and hardly
left-wing: instead, ad for something by L Ron Hubbard and My Company Tis of
Thee, with an address for CSC Talk Radio, California, Missouri, and back to a
talk show with Beth Ann, a far-right, anti-American extremist. This is
definitely not BSR. And James Branum is planning to cut back to non-weekly
broadcasts.
OMG, it`s WWCR on the wrong frequency, nothing on 7520! And
it`s blotting out WBCQ which is nothing but a JBA het, must be considerably
off-frequency, so weak by comparison that at first I can`t tell if it`s plus or
minus. Ad break at 0057 repeats same one heard a few minutes ago; 0100 WWCR ID,
and into `Real Radio`.
Meanwhile other reports of this have come in,
first as a ``tone`` on 7490, where the signals must have been closer to equal.
Some were able to make out VORW = Voice of the Report of the Week, as newly
scheduled this hour on WBCQ --- tough luck!
Here are the WWCR programs
supposed to be on 7520, Central M-F and UT:
6:00P News/Commonsense Coalition
Beth Ann 0000
7:00P Real Radio Jack Hibbs 0100
7:30P Truth
for Life Alistair Begg 0130
8:00P Renewing Your Mind R.C. Sproul
0200
8:30P Focus on the Family Jim Delay 0230
WWCR still here
past 0111+. So at 0121, I e-mail Allan Weiner and the Monticello boardops:
``Allan, You might want to raise hell with WWCR. They are on 7490 instead of
7520 tonight, blasting WBCQ away with S9+50, before and after 0100 (ID WWCR
heard). Some reports say they were also doing it last night. 73,
Glenn``
I resume monitoring at 0200, and at 0205 find WWCR is still
blocking WBCQ, the latter carrier measured on 7489.17, and now I can barely
recognize the dulcet tones of Brother HyStairical under the presumed WWCR
program as above.
But next check at 0229, BS/WBCQ is in the clear on
7489.12v, and WWCR is finally properly back on 7520.
Then I check the
other `BCQ frequencies: 5129.90-AM, at 0217 with Canadian political discussion
show `Just Right`; 9330.1v-CUSB at 0232 with BS, while Blalock the blaster this
hour is now on 9265 WINB instead (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** U S A. 6855, Feb 17 at 0214, WRMI-5 is off the air! Next three
up, 7570, 7730 & 7780 are nominal. During this hour, 6855 has been
duplicating programming on WRMI-1, 11580, which like tonight at 0247 check is
faded to JBA S3 during presumed Radio Prague. Sure hope it`s temporary, as 6855
duplicating various other frequencies throughout the night and into the day, has
been very helpful; altho it`s not as strong as we would like and expect, on
listed 285-degree azimuth, same as 7730, which is much stronger here (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** ZAMBIA. 5915, Feb 17 at 0242, ZNBCR1
with Fish Eagle IS, usual splatter from both sides, Romania and WHRI; 0251
anthem is playing (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
This report
despatched at 0512 UT February 17