** ASCENSION. 6005, Aug 31 at 0622, BBCWS in English, poor signal but cannot hear any hum which used to accompany this transmitter. Maybe eliminated, as Chris Greenway has forwarded my reports about it to English Bay (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** BRAZIL. 9818.626, Aug 31 at 0323, JBA carrier, presumed latest variant of R. Nove de Julho, which for some weeks had held close to 9819, as on Aug 20 & 26 logged by Carlos Gonçalves, Portugal. Rumen Pankov, Bulgaria, reported it on 9820.1 August 7 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** ERITREA. 7181.553, Aug 31 at 0248, S9 open carrier, no doubt Voice of the Broad Masses of Eritrea-1 warming up. No DRM jamming but occasional QRhaM LSB. At 0254, het from another AM carrier about 7182.60 --- that could be a ham, or Ethiopian jammer tuning up to be switched to DRM shortly. But no QRDRM heard by 0317 tune-out. VOBME-1 started programming by 0301, talk in unID language, and the het is off. 0317 a bit of HOA music and more talk.
7140.021, Aug 31 at 0249, S6 open carrier, much weaker, from the other VOBME-2 warming up. Also programming by 0301, bits of music audible. No DRM jamming here either as long as I listen (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** ETHIOPIA [non]. 7235.00, Aug 31 at 0307, talk by two M sounds Arabic, S9. Can`t be R. Ethiopia, since it`s not off-frequency! NDXC search shows it`s Afia Darfur via SAO TOME daily at 0300-0330 only. Ethiopia is also misleadingly listed on 7235.00 starting at 0400 some days with Eritrean clandestines. Too-precise defaults must be overridden! Just say 7235 or 7235v without the unwarranted decimals (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** ETHIOPIA. 6110, Aug 31 at 0318, presumed R. Fana, S9 music, by far the best signal on 49m from this country, but unfortunately splashed by NHK via FRANCE which starts 6105 at 0300 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** KUWAIT. 13645-13650-13655, Aug 30 at 1948, DRM noise at S5-S8; also 15535-15540-15545, DRM noise at S5; R. Kuwait allegedly in Arabic and English respectively. Surely too weak to decode for those so equipped, but could have been readable if in outmoded AM mode, tsk2. Still waiting for them to try this on 17545-17550-17555 Arabic to western North America after 2000, not yet reactivated even in AM (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** SPAIN. 17715, Aug 30 at 1950, REE is good at S9+10, much better than usual on South American frequency; while North American frequency, 17855 remains off. 17715 is about equal to // 15520 for Mideast. I would not be surprised if 17715 has been switched to the N American antenna which would have been with 17855 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A [and non]. WORLD OF RADIO 1893 contents: Alaska, Algeria, Argentina non, Armenia, Australia, China, Cuba, Ethiopia, Germany, Korea North non, Lithuania, Madagascar, New Zealand, Nigeria, Russia, Somalia, Somaliland non, Syria, Taiwan, USA
WORLD OF RADIO 1893 monitoring: confirmed Wednesday August 30 after 2330 on WBCQ 9329.982v-CUSB, fair. Next:
Thu 2330 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB to WSW
Fri 2330 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB to WSW
Sat 0630 HLR 6190-CUSB to WSW
Sat 1431 HLR 7265-CUSB to WSW
Sat 1930v WA0RCR 1860-AM ND
Sat 2230 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB to WSW
Sat 2300 WRMI 11580 to NE
Sun 0200 WRMI 11580 to NE
Sun 0315v WA0RCR 1860-AM ND
Sun 1030 HLR 9485-CUSB to WSW
Sun 2330 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB to WSW
Mon 0300v WBCQ 5130v Area 51 to WSW
Mon 0330 WRMI 9955 to SSE
Mon 2330 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB to WSW
Tue 0030 WRMI 7730 to WNW
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 5130.339-AM, Aug 31 at 0237, WBCQ has again jumped to the hi side of 5130, different transmitter than used on lo side? Poor signal, but sounds like `Allan Weiner Worldwide` currently filling time on UT Thursdays only, when this frequency used to substitute for Brother Scare, bumped off 7490-AM, for the weekly Hal Turner show, still running there. 5130+ is off by 0305 check (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 9396.5 approx., Aug 31 at 0618, hi-speed RTTY QRMing WRMI 9395 Oldies, which is weak but OK if tuned in LSB. Normally no such interference, which WRMI cannot afford (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
This report dispatched at 1637 UT August 31
