** AUSTRALIA. 5045, Sept 2 at 1058, JBA carrier from presumed Ozy Radio, NSW. Ron Howard sends a clip of their frequently-played Waltzing Matilda --- sounds just like the version used by defunct Radio Australia (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** GREECE. 9935, Sept 2 at 0610, JBA carrier with flutter, and nothing on 9420. VOG is the only station ever known to use 9935. There are NO AVL registrations in HFCC A-17, but EiBi shows an irregular schedule for VOG there (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** JAPAN [non]. 3925 & 3945, Sat Sept 2 at 1113, both JOZs of Radio Nikkei are off already since it`s a weekend (and no Vanuatu or anything on 3945); while the Korean jammers are quite audible on 3910, 3930, 3985 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** NEW ZEALAND. 9700, Sat Sept 2 at 0609, RNZI has done it again, jumped back here from scheduled 9630, very good S9+10/20 and obliterating any trace of Romania. Yes, How to Listen page still shows 9630-AM at 0459-0658 daily, with 9700 currently on the sked only on Saturdays at 1859-1958, when it replaces the two DRM frequencies Sunday-Friday: 7285 switching to 9760 at 1950 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** OKLAHOMA [non?]. RF channel 30, Sept 2 around 1450 UT, tropo is up from eastern Oklahoma with bad signals at least corresponding to Tulsa, Ada channels, but this bad one is curious: There are no 30 full-powers in OK, per W9WI.com. Might be the Alva translator of OETA to our NW, K30AE-D, 15 kW and seen several times before. Ardmore, Clinton and Lawton all have CPs only; LIC translators in Guymon and Sayre unlikely. KOTV-DT ``Tulsa`` has another clone on 30, with coordinates somewhere between Bartlesville and Coffeyville. Could be a bit from Arkansas, whence there is a 15 kW KEGW-LD in Fayetteville, or a megawatt from Little Rock, KLRT-TV (Glenn Hauser, Enid, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** PERU. 4955.00, Sept 2 at 1106, music at S5-S4, presumed OAX5S, Radio Cultural Amauta, Huanta, 5 kW, surely to fade out shortly. Already weakening by 1116. Huanta sunrise was 1100; at 13 degrees south, varies little over the year, but as early as 1021 in December.
4774.904, Sept 2 at 1109, JBA music and talk, presumed OCX4E, Radio Tarma, Tarma, 0.5 kW, before fadeout. Tarma sunrise 1105 today, and ours not until 1204 (Glenn Hauser, Enid OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 13270-USB, Sept 2 at 1404, WSY70, New York Radio, declaring over and over that all these are ``Missing``: Indianapolis, Pittsburgh, Detroit, Cleveland, Cincinnati. What a waste (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 15730, Sept 1 at 2003, VOA French seems to have a short/long path echo. Then I check palindromic // 17530 which also seems to, but switching back to 15730 some echo, and now 17530 not as the announcer starts speaking. Both these are scheduled as Greenville, 250 kW, 94 degrees to Africa. The initial echoing I heard may have been a produxion artifact, i.e. transmitted that way for effect just to confuse matters. Worldwide propagation has been so poor lately that truly audible long/short path echoes have become a rarity. If any, one would expect it more likely to happen on the lower frequency. ~38 megameters the long way around, only two the short way (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A [and non]. WORLD OF RADIO 1893 monitoring: confirmed Friday September 1 at 2330 on WBCQ, 9330.070v-CUSB, good S9+10.
Also confirmed Sat Sept 2 at 0630-0700 on Hamburger Lokalradio 6190-CUSB, by Ivo Ivanov in Sofia, Bulgaria
http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2017/09/reception-of-world-of-radio1893-on.html
and Nino Marabello, Treviso, Italy, also sent a clip rated 15532
NOT confirmed by me, Sat 1431 on HLR 7265-CUSB via UTwente: nothing but noise, also some lightning crashes. Nor for Media Network+ before 1430. Several chex until 1500, maybe a near-imaginary trace. Presumed CRI very poorly audible after 1500. Next:
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. 9455 // 9395, WRMI, Sat Sept 2 at 0607, Bob Biermann on `Your Weekend Show` says it is also carried on VOH-Africa, Zambia, and that Ray Robinson has interviewed him; to be later this hour? Tonight the two Oldies frequencies are holding up much better than usual, despite a G1 minor geomagnetic storm and K-index of 5 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** YEMEN [non]. Re my previous comments about the sites for 11860, Republic of Yemen Radio, Wolfgang Büschel asks,
``Why do you always talk about 50 kW SW TX units at Jeddah?
ARS_new Jeddah TCI antennas 135 / 315degr +/-30 degr slew.
at location
21°14'42.58"N 39°09'55.96"E
21.245161 N 39.165544 E
https://www.terraserver.com/view?utf8=%E2%9C%93&search_text=++&searchLat=21.245161&searchLng=39.165544
built / finished up in January 2012 year, and - new 250 kW - Continental transmitters too. 73 wb`` I reply to that:
`` Because 50 kW ND are all that Ivo and Aoki ever mention about this from Jeddah. EiBi of course avoids the issue by never specifying powers or azimuths.
Also, I didn`t read the WRTH 2017 entry closely which says that 4 x 250 kW are in Jeddah (along with the 1 x 50), and the 8 x 500 kW are in Riyadh (plus another 4 x 350 at Riyadh). (Is BSKSA ever on anywhere near 17 frequencies at once? Hardly)
When this was first reported in November 2015 --- you may want to review
http://www.w4uvh.net/dxld1547.txt
--- one of the first observations was Jeddah registered with 50 kW ND on 11855, so this might be related. But that was only a guess, and in fact it is still registered for some hours in A-17, certainly not in use on that frequency.
Both you via Qatar, and me via Enid note a drastic drop in signal strength at the 1758v QSY. Maybe before that, it is 250 kW from Jeddah aimed at Yemen, accounting for good signals here off the back (or maybe long path in some circumstances), but does not account for 350 or 500 kW from Riyadh after that being so much weaker even if the azimuth is not so favorable for us. Glenn``
This has led to a lot more discussion, but it`s all supposition since Saudi Arabia is not at all transparent about how many transmitters it really has in service, and where; least of all about this continuous clandestine service never acknowledged or registered anywhere. Kai Ludwig points out that a more important concern is who is really behind it? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
This report dispatched at 1924 UT September 2
