** ASCENSION. 5960, Sept 20 at 0524, checking for hum: Dandal Kura reception is very poor with flutter, but still can hear some hum (BFO off, to be sure the hum is not merely from being slightly off-frequency), unlike the next transmitter up with BBCWS on 6005, equally poor but humless. I have been observing this as an anomaly but hum level has not really so bad as to make it unlistenable (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** AUSTRALIA. 9690, Sept 20 at 1242, praise music in English, 1244 RBA sign-off for Myanmar still claiming to be on 9685 starting at 1115. ``Life-changing Radio`` is also ``frequency-changing radio``.
NDXC does show 9690 and the sesquihour may all be for Burma, but in a whole bunch of languages in complex schedule depending on which quarter-hour, which day of week: Burmese, English, Falam Chin, Haka Chin, Rawang, Matu, Nagamese. English allegedly: 1115-1130 Tue/Thu/Fri; 1115-1145 Sun; 1200-1215 Mon. Aimed 315 degrees = NW from Kununurra, so why does it come in so well here? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CHINA. 9760, Sept 20 at 1246, CRI English starting `Horizon` show with report from Berlin`s IFA about smart washing machines. F may stand for Funk, but it must be broader embracing consumer electronix. This hour only, 9760 aims SE from Kunming site (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CUBA. 6145, Sept 20 at 0525 check of RHC English during music: this one is JBM; 6100 is good; 6060 is overmodulated and slightly distorted; 6000 is suptorted; 5040 is very good.
5025, Sept 20 at 0525, R. Rebelde with other music is suptorted quite like RHC 6000. At 1227 modulation is OK, with remote reports from PR, DR about Huracán María during `Haciendo Radio`. María is an unfortunate monicker for all those Catholix; prayers must be explicitly aimed at the other one (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CUBA [and non]. 7435, Sept 20 at 1235, medium pulse jamming from the incompetent DentroCuban Jamming Command, since Radio Martí is on 7435 at 03-05 only; and there is a JBA carrier amid it, so not jamming against nothing. Aoki shows in fact CRI Beijing in Chinese, Vietnam VOV-1 and Radio Farda via Kuwait all on 7435 at this hour. Also hear an unrelated uteblaap at 1236. Meanwhile, Radio Martí really on 7405 is holding its own against heavy jamming (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** INTERNATIONAL WATERS [non]. 14325-USB, Sept 20 at 1340, Hurricane Watch Net compered by K9TUT who later admits he`s in Punta Gorda, FL, not a 9 at all! Calls for emergency traffic only. Plaudits to HI8HA in Santo Domingo who did a great job with his report, I missed. Calling for more weather obs, and include make and model of equipment. By 1354, KB3MBS (?) is NCS. Generally weak signals and did not hear anyone from Puerto Rico. I gather power is mostly out there.
DXLD yg member Guido Santacana posted at 1341 UT: ``Cat 4 (almost 5) hurricane María is battering San Juan, Puerto Rico right now with 110 mph sustained winds with gusts reported at 130 mph. We have been under these winds for 3 hours now. The barometer dipped to 28.90 inches of mercury and is starting to rise now at 29.10. Winds are expected to taper down in two hours. The wind direction now is southeast. SW antennas were removed and secured. Several AM stations like WKAQ [580] and WUNO [630] are down and many others. The only AM on the air with a powerful signal is WAPA [680]. This has been the worst hurricane since 1928. 73s Guido Santacana KP4FAR Sent from my iPhone``.
Best wishes to Guido and our other PR, VI, contacts (Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MEXICO. 610 // 650, Sept 20 at 1205, local weather discussion in Spanish, i.e. XEGS Guasave and XETNT Los Mochis, Sinaloa. On one receiver switching back and forth, so can`t say yet if they be synchronized (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MEXICO. 720, Sept 20 at 1205, Chihuahua state anthem, 1206 inspirational recitation ``Un Nuevo Día`` about amor, etc. 1208 ``Está escuchando El Fonógrafo 7-20-AM`` with street address, mil watts, Grupo Radio México canned ID, then to live announcer uttering call letters XEJCC (rarely heard), Ciudad Juárez, 6:08 TC. WRTH 2017 agrees on 1 kW power; IRCA log of 2015 showed it as 25 kW daytimer when it was Extremo 720 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 5950, Sept 20 at 1231, no signal from WRMI, unlike on Sept 18 when we got a little extra BS as late as 1248 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 770, Sept 20 at 1203 UT Albuquerque news items weak with a reverb: therefore I conclude I am getting both KKOBs: main 50 kW transmitter in the North Valley, still on night pattern until 1245 UT, null toward WABC and almost toward me; and the 230-watt ND Santa Fe booster which will turn off at 1245 UT (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
This report dispatched at 1550 UT September 20
