** BRAZIL. 4894.92, Feb 25 at 0119, the VP Brazilian is here again, R. Novo
Tempo (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** BRAZIL. 6147-6157
approx., Feb 25 at 0131, huge S9+45 distortion blob peaking circa 6151-6152. I
bet it`s Brasília --- yes, barely able to match modulation peaks and pauses with
11780 where RNA/RNB is active tonight. And I am also hearing // 6180 with OK
modulation but there the signal is very weak mixed with CRI and I can ID it only
by // 11780 which is sufficient but not inbooming; RNA ID in passing at 0133.
There is no match 23-33 kHz above 6180, a VERY misaligned transmitter. The crap
around 6151 reminds me of sewage bubbling thru a manhole in a flood. What next?
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** BRAZIL. 11854.16, Feb 25 at
0144, R. Aparecida has varied up to here, and frequency is unstable, only S3 and
equivalent to the 11850 RHC spur.
Wolfgang Büschel reported during the
following hour: ``11855.233 plus minus 20 Hertz HOPPING up and won, very
unstable transmission fq-wise, R Aparecida, at 0223 UT Feb 25, S=4-5 on
threshold level in Florida remote SDR`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** COLOMBIA [non]. 5910+, Feb 25 at 0105, no signal from
Alcaraván Radio, only one music here with no het or CCI, i.e. Romania (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CUBA [and non]. 9330, Feb 24 at 0717,
Cuban Spy Numbers alternating with digiblatts, very strong as usual, but finally
I can hear WBCQ Brother Scare underneath, and making a weak het, from about
9329.85; easier at 0719 during some dead air from the spies. Since WBCQ expanded
to 24 hours, I knew this had to happen, but first time enough signal from WBCQ
to confirm they are really on the air vs the DGI hour which has been on 9330 for
ages (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** GUATEMALA. 4055, Feb 25
at 0152, Radio Verdad with something devotional in Spanish, but high noise
level. Reminder that today is their seventeenth anniversary. Dr Madrid sent this
notice:
``Ya hemos publicado Radio Verdad TV Día 083.1, con la Historia
Gráfica de Radio Verdad hasta el año 2015. Lo publicamos con motivo de celebrar
mañana sábado los primeros 17 años de Radio Verdad. Lo celebraremos mañana
sábado en el Monte Horeb, de la Aldea San Esteban, en Chiquimula, Guatemala
desde las cinco de la tarde hasta las nueve y media de la noche (hora de
Guatemala). Le invitamos a estar con nosotros. Habrá una cena especial a
beneficio de Radio Verdad. Éste es el link directo:
Dr.
Édgar Amílcar Madrid, Gerente General.``
Previous anniversaries we
thought there might be some broadcast of the festivities, but heard only regular
programming. Still worth checking from 2300 Saturday until 0330 UT Sunday on
4055 (Glenn Hauser, OK, Feb 25, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** ITALY [non].
11580, UT Sat Feb 25 at 0140, WRMI in Italian with ham DX and QSL news, good at
S9+20/25. Mispronounces Curaçao as ``Kurakao``, which is what you get for
dispensing with çedilhas! Program is Radio IBC, One of three weekly Italian
shows on WRMI (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** KURDISTAN [non].
11600, Feb 24 at 1500, S9+10 with flutter, Denge Kurdistane music stops just as
I tune in. No carrier break or level change detected, finally bringing up talk
audio in progress at 1502:08. Presumably having changed from PRIDNESTROVYE relay
to FRANCE (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** SAIPAN. 11850.038,
Feb 24 at 1426-1430+, bandscanning in 1 kHz steps with BFO, anything a bit
off-frequency raises a red flag. This one is speaking some English but it`s just
a clip within Vietnamese. I figure it`s most likely R. Veritas Asia, but
checking Aoki, the Viet at 14-15 is instead RFA via Agignan Point, while RVA
Viet is on Palauig 11850 during the previous hour. Unusual, of course, for an
IBB site to be so far off-frequency, but the NMI sites seem more prone to it
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** SAUDI ARABIA. 9695.039, Feb 24
at 1455, talk in Asian language, poor. Aoki shows it`s R. Saudi International,
500 kW, 55 degrees from Riyadh in Pashto amid the 1358-1558 broadcast. Long
path? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A [and non]. WORLD
OF RADIO 1866 monitoring: confirmed Friday February 24 at 2230 on WRMI 11580,
good, // barely audible 5950. But the third frequency, 6855 is carrying some
music show instead in a special pre-emption. WOR also confirmed UT Sat Feb 25 at
0030 on WBCQ 9329.9-CUSB, good! signal, much better than usual, often JBA.
Proto-springtime propagation upperk? Next:
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. 7489.95-AM, carrier vibrating but sounds OK in AM, UT
Sat Feb 25 at 0108, surprised to hear continuous rock music, no announcements,
instead of `Allan Weiner Worldwide` on WBCQ. 0138 someone says ``Hit me, hit me,
hit me`` over the music, but seems part of the performance. Suddenly at 0146:25,
7490 cuts to Allan Weiner in progress, about it being 83 degrees in Florida
while there`s 3 or 4 feet of snow on the ground in Monticello. No indication
Allan was aware he had not been on the air on both frequencies since 0100.
Sharing the mike with someone, I think Scott Becker, by phone, or with Allan?
How the #2 transmitter is a 50 kW Collins, with 6 or 8 final amplifier
tubes, used on 5130 for compatible SSB --- huh? It`s been AM mode for months
now, altho previously was running CUSB. I figured when in AM, 5130v would be a
different transmitter.
Says main studio is in a trailer, which was
originally for his AM station on 710 (later 780 to avoid WOR); and that there
are two backup (presumably SW) transmitters. Again brags about the super audio
quality on 7490-AM despite 5 kHz bandwidth limitation on SW, ``the best-sounding
AM signal on shortwave``.
This is definitely live, as he then talks
about the collision a week ago Thursday when WWCR was on WBCQ`s frequency 7490,
during Radio Mi Amigo. Amazing how many E-mails he got about it. Could not reach
anyone at WWCR, so tried George McClintock, who no longer can help with WWCR
problems, but served as a mentor to Allan when he was preparing to put WBCQ on
the air (and programming was on WWCR initially). It was NOT jamming, just a
total accident. It`s now past 0200, as Allan implores acting president Trump
whom he LOVES, to maintain Net Neutrality, and leave marijuana
alone.
5129.85-AM, Feb 25 at 0109, AWWW is playing on this frequency,
unlike 7490, as Allan is reminiscing about the old pirate days, Western Electric
equipment, his love for classic cars; sounds familiar, like a replay rather than
live, altho he says it already feels like summer in Deland of Fla, which could
be current. But the audio keeps cutting out for a few seconds at a time, and
stops altogether after 0117. I keep monitoring, and suddenly at 0119:30, Brother
Scare is JIP! After 7490 switches to AWWW at 0146+, I check 5129.81 and find it
too is now AWWW and synchronized, so again not run thru Area 51 server in
Maryland like used to be done. At 0203 I measure it on 5129.87-AM.
John
Carver in Mid-North Indiana was also monitoring this and says, ``7490 went into
music after Fred Flintstone signed off. 5130 was running an older AWWW until
nineteen minutes after the hour and then switched to Brother Scare. The inmates
are running the asylum. AWWW came up on 7490 and 5130 at 0146. Have no idea what
happened`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) See also CUBA [and non]
9330
This report dispatched at 0455 UT February 25