** BRAZIL. 11815.030, Sept 1 at 0530, pop songs at S8-S5, upbeat yet mentioning ``saudade``. Believe it or not, this Rádio Brasil Central is the strongest station on band, better than the only other ZY, Aparecida 11855, and little else propagating with K-index of 4-5 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) See also UNID
** CUBA. 12000, Sept 1 at 0130, RHC is S9 here in suptorted English // 6000, i.e. second harmonic of that this time, rather than a leapfrog within the 25m band, which we also logged recently as 11760 over 11880 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** GUATEMALA. 4055, Sept 1 at 0144, TGAV, Radio Verdad is OFF, as transmitter won`t modulate properly; Dr Madrid no doubt waiting/hoping for some tech assistance. That leaves all of Central America without ANY SWBC station (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** IRAN [non]. 12005, Aug 31 at 1750, Fair S7 signal in ME language. Aoki shows it`s R. Farda, 13-18 via Woofferton UK (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** SOLOMON ISLANDS. 9545.00, Sept 1 at 0457, JBA carrier until 0459:10*, no doubt SIBC at usual QSY to 5020 time. There was also a het from another very weak signal about 9545.3, which continued but may have been from a local device, gone later (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 9955, Fri Sept 1 at 1353, WRMI with fill music during one of countless `Viva Miami` slots (26 per week at last count on the schedules, plus a few more caught by monitoring). I finally listen to the entire current show on the WRMI server: it`s only 4:39 long, dated July 8, no program intro, but Jeff doing an aircheck of his R. Africa transmitter, 21525, from room ``on the 10th floor of the Sheraton``, somewhere, probably Nigeria, with antenna out on the balcony. He has good R5 reception, but some deep fades. `Let the Bible Speak` ending, RAN ID and contact info including P O Box in Livingston, Zahmbia, next program.
This is speaker-to-mike, as at 3:52 we hear the phone ringing, turn off the radio, brief conversation off-mike, Jeff says ``I`ll be right down``, and Thaïs in Spanish also audible in conversation with Jeff, ``¿está abierta?``, and finally cut off. So the server has been broadcasting this unintentional bit, having somehow been mis-labeled as Viva Miami, for over two weeks as upload timestamped August 15, then automatically switching to World Music filler for the rest of each quarter-hour. Good thing the couple didn`t say anything more private.
Richard Langley found this shot of Jeff in Nigeria on WRMIFB:
https://www.facebook.com/wrmiradio/photos/a.10150259038580387.542663.269268060386/10159082774985387/?type=3&theater
and says, `I have heard this at 0100 UT instead of Viva Miami on 11580 kHz on Mondays (UT) 21 August and 28 August. A repeating blooper or intentional? His listening gets interrupted by a phone call and we hear his side of the call. I think his wife can also be heard in the background. This air check was likely in Nigeria``.
This week`s `Wavescan` also has Jeff reporting from Nigeria with airchex of stations there; not written by Adrian Peterson as claimed in the script (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 3215, 4840, 5890, 5935, all four WWCRs are OFF, Sept 1 at 0604. Site probably getting flooded as NWS Nashville at ``KBNA`` was recording heavy rain from Harvey remnant, at 0053 UT and every hour thereafter at :53 thru 0453, but by 0553 had desisted to light rain. Meanwhile the other Tennesseans, 3185 WWRB and 5830 WTWW remained on. I wonder how far above ``the banks of the Upper Cumberland River`` WTWW may be? Not checked again until 1309, when all four WWCRs are back ON: 7490, 9980, 13845, 15825 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** YEMEN [non]. 11860, Aug 31 at 1751, an unusual time for me to be monitoring, so I concentrate on Republic of Yemen Radio, just before it makes a drastic site change. Now the signal is better than usual at other dayparts, S9 with flutter, chanting mixed with talking over it. Is this intentional or am I hearing two sites mixing already? I don`t think so. At 1757:38* cuts off, but BFO detects a JBA carrier remaining, past 1800, so apparently that`s still ROYR`s other much inferior site from our angle. BTW, the K index was 5 at 15, 4 at 18 UT amid G1 storms.
Without any official info ever emerging, the continuing assumption is that one, probably both are from Sau`di Arabia, backing the ousted side in the terrible civil war. One Riyadh, the other Jeddah, but which is which? Ivo Ivanov posted as of August 26:
``Republic of Yemen Radio via two different transmitters
0300-0900 on 11860 JED 050 kW / non-dir to N/ME Arabic
0900-1800 on 11860 unknown tx / unknown to N/ME Arabic
1800-2300 on 11860 JED 050 kW / non-dir to N/ME Arabic
2300-0300 on 11860 unknown tx / unknown to N/ME Arabic
http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2017/08/reception-of-republic-of-yemen-radio_26.html ``
Aoki lists ``Radio Sanna`` [sic] as all 50 kW ND from Jeddah for 24 hours, but in 3 segments, starting at 00, 04 and 18.
EiBi lists 0400-1758 ARS-j for Jeddah, and 1758-0400 merely ARS = defaulting to Riyadh.
Ed Sylvester, USN, now based in Riyadh, reported July 29 at 1016-1020 that 11860 was 44434, ``transmitter in Jeddah``. We were hoping he would visit the Riyadh site to absolutely confirm it is coming from there at certain other hours.
Wolfgang Büschel reported, as on WORLD OF RADIO 1890: ``I checked 11860 kHz channel between 1755 and 1800 UT today on Aug 4th. At remote web SDR in Doha Qatar the signal was straight S=9+10dB till SWITCH OVER at exact 1757:59 UT, when a very poor tiny signal left on that channel as tiny S=3-4 level in Qatar SDR remote post.
So, - as assumed already, Jeddah site in distance close to Yemen is
used at local daytime 0400-1757 UT, and Riyadh site at night time at
1800 to 0400 UT, with different antenna characteristic, latter in
order to cover Yemen at Sana'a and on southern peninsula tip Aden too.
73 wb``
Riyadh has lots of transmitters of 250 and 500 kW, so even with direxional antennas, it`s a bit strange that all monitors abroad seem to be getting much stronger signals from 50 kW ND Jeddah if that is really the case. I tend to go with the opposite like Ivo, Riyadh until 1758, then Jeddah (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 4845, Sept 1 at 0605, open carrier at S9+10 to S8, in the absence of 4840 WWCR rained out. Only known broadcasters are the two Brazilians, but R. Cultura, Manaus is probably the only one active. 4885 also audible with music at S9+20 to S8 vs CODAR, as hardly any ZYs are left on 60m (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
This report dispatched at 1650 UT September 1
