** AUSTRALIA. 9690, Sept 28 at 1244, RBA in English still signing off its Myanmar sesquihour claiming to be on 9685 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CUBA. 6100, Sept 28 at 0458, RHC on early with Spanish, weaker than // 6060, until both of them convert to English at 0500, also on weaker 6145 very poor, 6000 stronger (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** GERMANY. 15449.880, Sept 27 at 1502, JBA carrier way off-frequency, once again presumed IBB Biblis site as scheduled for R Liberty in Tajik. Wolfgang Büschel checked a bunch of other Biblis frequencies and found them all within a few Hz of nominal.
15449.874, Sept 28 at 1403, JBA carrier now measured here, gone by 1442 check. Today Wolfgang Büschel also has it:
``Hi, yes, - I've got it today on Thur Sept 28: 15449.881 kHz exact measured at S=9+20dB signal level on remote SDRs at Athens Greece and Doha Qatar ME. RL Tajik program service. Before 1359 UT heavy signal spill-over from Trincomalee CLN 15430 kHz, 40 kHz wideband signal, I guess. 1359:04 Biblis transmitter switched on air crash, 3rd try to start, - each second and sudden breaks from 1359:01 UT. At 1400:00 UT exact switched to RL Tajik audio feed. vy73 de wolfie`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MADAGASCAR. 17640, Sept 27 at 2025, MWV is VG but with deep rolling fades during African Pathways Radio, promoting Christianity to the Heathens. Too bad they won`t include any Rational programming. The two English hours at 18 & 20 UT are now back in season to reach the opposite worldside so well, better than anything else on 16m, except possibly KVOH, q.v. (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** NEW ZEALAND. 6224-USB, Sept 28 at 1235, NZ coastal weather by robot clearly enunciating each word, which sounds inhuman without normal inflexions, but better readability than some mumbling software other stations use attempting to sound more natural. It`s ZLM, Taupo Maritime Radio, but on the air at a time EiBi shows it to be in a break: 32 minute transmissions starting at 1003 and not again until 1333 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 7489.89v-AM, Sept 27 at 2335, WBCQ with an `Allan Weiner Worldwide` repeat to fill an hour, reminiscing about FCC pirate bust against his Yonkers AM & FM stations on August 12, 1971. Slot vacated by `The Next Chapter`, but if you want to follow Radio Alexandria, the project to broadcast from a ship in the central Pacific, check
http://www.radioalexandria.net/about
where podcasts are available, and nothing about quitting WBCQ (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 17775, Sept 28 at 1442, KVOH is S9+30 but heavy distortion, sounds horrible; carrier also wobbling and splattering out to 17763-17877. When will they *ever* get their replacement transmitter going? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 990, Sept 28 at 1226 UT, after failing to pull an ID from a station in English inviting local PSAs, un-nulling the Spanish which is certainly KFCD Farmersville TX, one of the Metroplex stations which hijacked a frequency from poor Wichita Falls: gospel harmonies in Spanish, promo preaching event Sept 30 in Area Code 214, ``tres ángeles`` codeword for that 7D Adventist sect, two IDs in passing, the next at 1231, sound like ``Radio Movimiento`` but not positive about the word. Maybe program rather than station name. Can`t find any correlation online with KFCD, but rather surely unrelated: Radio Movimiento, KPCN-LP 95.9 FM, Portland OR, which is secular about Hispanicism (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** YEMEN [non]. 11860, Sept 27 at 1437, Republic of Yemen Radio reception improving, husky singing in Arabic, S9 to S9+10 presumably via somesite in SA`UDI ARABIA (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
This report dispatched at 1558 UT September 28
