** AUSTRALIA. 3210, Feb 17 at 1225, all set for the Unique Radio test publicized
to start at 1259 and run about 6 hours, upon which the fate of it will be
decided by Tim Gaynor --- and there is already a JBA carrier. I resume at 1256
past 1303 and the JBA carrier continues with no change at 1259, S4 level
including noisy band. Tim could tell us if he had it on as early as 1225, but I
doubt this was it. The R75 also gets JBA carriers on many other `even` 90mb
frequencies, maybe receiver artifacts or traces of MW harmonix. I really didn`t
expect to hear this low power over here, as I never have before. Note Aoki still
lists Vintage FM on 3210, 24h with 100 watts (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** COLOMBIA. 5910.155, Feb 17 at 0659, HJDH is indeed still on
late into the night after reactivating, first heard about 6 hours earlier, but
frequency has drifted way up from 5910.06. Just music, including Mexican at
0702, no Alcaraván Radio ID or timecheck heard circa 0700. S8 including the
rather high QRN level (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A.
5129.863, Feb 17 at 1318, about sunrise here, JBA carrier on frequency typical
of WBCQ, presumably remnant of that still on, altho supposedly stopping at 1100
after a night of BS (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A.
6855, Feb 17 at 1225, WRMI-5 is still off. I don`t think to tune around for a
replacement until 1424 when I do find a JBA carrier on 6870, where IIRC WRMI
started off, before being required to QSY, so back there now? I struggle to
match traces of 6870 modulation with 9955, unseems so but it`s really too late
into the dayside to be certain. If it has moved to 6870, this will affect
several WORLD OF RADIO airings, starting with Friday 2230 // 11580 &
5950.
6870 could have been the RHC semiharmonic from 13740, except that
fundamental is not on at this hour. If WRMI does run 24/7 on 6870, it will
encounter some QRM from that when 13740 is on. I`ve asked Jeff White about this
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** YEMEN [non]. 11860, Feb 17
circa 1300, hardly any signal from Republic of Yemen Radio, via SAUDI ARABIA?
Recheck at 1505, very poor S5-S3 with Qur`an, interrupted by some brief
non-musical Arabic announcements a few times at 1508, 1510, 1513. Has it resumed
marking vespers at Sana`a? Current sunset is 1508, creeping a sesquiminute later
per week. Or maybe it`s just because the Fribbath is about to finish. Seldom is
any Qur`aning to be heard from this at random chex elsewhen (Glenn Hauser, OK,
DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 3325, Feb 17 at 1305, carrier at S5-S8
level but can`t detect any modulation. I suppose RRI Palangkaraya more likely at
this hour than NBC Bougainville. Anyhow, best signal on band when I was also
seeking Unique Radio, NSW on 3210 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENNIG
DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 4750, Feb 17 at 1313, YL talking at S7-S9 level vs
CODAR, but unsure of language. Most likely is CNR1, Hailar, with Bangladesh
Betar also listed, while RRI Makassar has been inactive for a long time now,
last reported June 8, 2016 by Atsunori Ishida. At this time a few minutes before
sunrise here, many carriers, mostly JBA on 60m from Tibetan, Indian, Chinese
frequencies (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
This report
dispatched at 1636 UT February 17