** ANGUILLA. 6090, Feb 8 at 0426, CB/TUN/PMS/DGS is unusable, extremely
suptorted, yet S9+45 of signal, and splatter bothering 6080 Turkey (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CANADA. 7850-CUSB, Feb 7 at 0715, CHU
is on and audible now at S9+10, unlike at previous check 0255.
3330, Feb
8 at 0416, CHU is on and audible here but not on 7850 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** CUBA. 5055 & 5010, Feb 8 at 0431, R. Rebelde
audio is dominant on both leapfrog mixing products over 5040 RHC from same site,
as well as 5025 Rebelde fundamental. (One would expect 5010 modulation to favor
5040 from the opposite side.) 4765 Progreso is also on now (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** ETHIOPIA. 7234.56v, Feb 8 at 0421, R. Ethiopia
presumed in variable split-frequency range, S9 with suptorted modulation.
7236.366v, Feb 8 at 1406, weak carrier now here by longpath. So it
varies almost 2 kHz? Thorsten Hallmann says it varies from 7234 to 7237 during
the day (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** KOREA NORTH [non].
5935, Feb 8 at 1358, Shiokaze music as about to close, and with pulsing het from
5936, jamming? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** KURDISTAN
[non]. 11600, Feb 7 at 1452, Denge Kurdistane is VP at S3-S5 during presumed
PRIDNESTROVYE site segment; 1500 to dead air when presumed FRANCE site takes
over, slightly weaker S2-S4 until resuming modulation at 1501.7 (Glenn Hauser,
OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MEXICO. 700, Feb 8 at 1328, Indian drumming
and fluting vs WLW. Presumed the indigenous station often audible around sunrise
here, XEETCH, Etchojoa, Sonora, 5 kW daytimer, La Voz de los Tres Rios (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** SIKKIM. 4835, Feb 8 at 1357, JBA
carrier, presumed AIR Gangtok in lieu of VL8A; what else could it be? Also lots
of carriers on 60m AIR and other Asian frequencies (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** SPAIN. 9690, Feb 7 at 2134, NO signal from REE to
North America, which ought to be well audible by this hour in winter; yet 15390
& 15500 beamed elsewhere are fairly audible. It`s not unusual for at least
one transmitter to be down, as 9690 was for a week recently (Glenn Hauser, OK,
DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. WORLD OF RADIO 1863 monitoring: confirmed
Tuesday February 7 at 2130 on WRMI 15770, and also confirmed on new // 6855, but
both JBA here --- one too high, one too low and neither aimed this way. Also
confirmed Tue Feb 7 at 2300 on WRMI 9955 (no //), vs wall-of-noise jamming left
over from R. Libertad; by 2318 recheck jamming has diminished to light pulsing
underneath; tnx a lot, Arnie? Also confirmed UT Wed Feb 8 at 0030 on WBCQ
9329.8v-CUSB, poor. Also confirmed Wed Feb 8 at 1415, gh WRMI ID and from 1415.5
WOR 1863, good but with some pulse jamming, still so at 1442; and // 6855
detectable at start with no jamming. Next:
Wed 2200 WBCQ 7490v to
WSW
Thu 0030 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB to WSW
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** U S A. 17775, Feb 8 at 1504, no signal from KVOH. Hard to know
whether off or just not propagating yet an hour after listed sign-on. Recheck at
1758, now at least S9 with Spanish ID, modulation somewhat muffled (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 12105, Feb 7 at 2033 check,
WTWW-3 is off, no Bibling Worldwide; still blasting on WTWW-2 9930, WTWW-1 9475
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 770, Feb 8 at 1334 UT,
extended weather forecast, ``Newstalk 770 and 92.5, WVNN, where Alabama talks,
depend on it``, 1335 UT on to `live & local Dale? Dave? Jackson Show. I was
expecting to hear bleed from KKOB/KKOB already, 8 minutes after sunrise here,
but WVNN is in full daytime, not faded out yet, 7000/250 watts U2, Athens AL.
92.5 is not a mere translator, but 3.1 kW WVNN-FM licensed to Trinity AL, which
is way down the other side of Decatur.
Too bad Athenians can`t listen to
WABC at night. NRC Pattern Book indicates WVNN is the closest non-daytimer 770
to WABC, i.e. 817 statute miles by air, per distancefromto.com --- that`s enough
for no ``clear channel` protexion (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** U S A. 880-CUSB, Feb 8 at 0455 UT, KHAC Tse Bonito NM is
dominant with no LSB, as always running 10 kW day power at night, and at :55
past most hours for about 2 minutes, interrupting programming for `American
Family News` which is anything but, pushing far-right agenda, pro-Gorsuch &
pro-DeVos (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 1060+, Feb 8
at 1338 UT, KIJN Farwell TX, Spanish ad with heavy gringo accent for a pro-beef
cattle-feeder in nearby Hereford TX, back to praise music; off-frequency on hi
side making usual fast SAH with anything else (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** U S A. 1590, Feb 8 at 1352 UT, KVGB Great Bend KS with `News
from the Oil Patch` by guy with non-radio voice; ads for petroleum businesses
such as fishing lost equipment out of wells (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** ZAMBIA. Hi Glenn, RE: Your comment that "This morning
transmission is often cut off early in an hour or so (WRTH shows [ZNBC1]
continuous until 2205), due to power outages. This ``load shedding`` problem is
discussed in detail by Ray Robinson and Bill Bingham in DXLD 17-04. Electricity
rates are also higher in the mornings, which caused VOH Africa to drop its
morning broadcasts completely in favor of evenings. And more in 17-05 (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)``
I haven't lived in Zambia for many
years, so can't be sure. But I don't think Ray was suggesting that electricity
from ZESCO is more expensive in the morning hence the move to evenings. I think
he was suggesting that Voice of Hope had to use their own diesel generator to
stay on air during load shedding, and running one's own diesel generator is
extremely expensive, hence the move to evenings. I may be wrong about this,
perhaps Ray will contact you himself to confirm.
Regards, (Bill Bingham, RSA,
Feb 6, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
Exactly right, Bill (Ray, Sent from my HTC
One max on the Verizon Wireless 4G LTE network, ibid.)
UNIDENTIFIED.
Trans-Pacific JBA MW carrier search February 8, UT, all looping WSW from
down-under, except 1566-NW, surely Korea:
At 1317, 774, 702
At 1318,
684, 657
At 1320, 702, 792, 828
At 1322, 837, 882
At 1325,
1566-NW
Local sunrise here: 1326 UT, now earlying 1 minute per day. I`m
not always awake in time to check for these, but my neighbor Richard Allen near
Perry always seems to be, and reported today to IRCA:
``Pre-sunrise
carrier signals heard on 612 and 702 kHz from DU direction, both strong at
times. What's going on? There appears to be no correlation between solar
activity and propagation!`` WWV had reported at 1200: solar flux 72, K-index 1,
no storms (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 7597.4,
Feb 8 at 0418, the mystery open carrier is here again around S8 (Glenn Hauser,
OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
This report dispatched at 1814 UT February 8
