** BOLIVIA. 5935.0, Oct 23 at 2334, trace of modulation, presumed R. Yura on its recent new frequency where normally I get a JBA carrier at best --- and this is on the PL-880 and shortwire. Yet when I have fired up the NRD and longerwire at 2352, it`s back to JBAC. Oct 24 at 2336 check, JBAC once again. As I`ve said before, our only possible window is just before WWCR blox 5935 from *2358 --- but in B-17 it`s registered to start as early as *2200! Unclear whether they will axually move it that early as own B-17 sked has not yet been posted (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1901, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CHINA. 15570, Oct 23 at 2355, Chinese talk and music, fair S5-S7; NDXC/Aoki shows RFA Chinese at 23-24 via Tinian, which Must Be *Jammed. (At 0000 15570 is ceded to CNR-11 Tibetan service from Baoji-
Sifangshan 724 site, per NDXC) (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** NORTH AMERICA. 6935-USB, Oct 23 at 2205, pirate music with very repetitive beat, almost disco; 2210 announcement over music, unseems ID. Still going past 2220 at S7-S9. Earlier than I usually patrol the band, but good thing I did since no pirates were logged in later hours by anyone this date, than Cool AM [sic] on 6935-USB per:
https://www.hfunderground.com/board/index.php/topic,38173.0.html
Gone by my next check at 2353 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** PERU. 5980, Oct 23 at 2331, JBA carrier from R. Chaski. Often it`s a struggle to hear on the bigrigs, but this time I am quickly checking on the porch with the PL-880 and shortwire around the eaves, and it`s easy, until autocutoff at 2333:02*: That is 75 seconds later than last catch Oct 12 until 2331:47*, averaging 6.82 seconds slippage per noctem. My fun will be dashed in B-17 as Romania plans to block 5980 at 2300-2400 in English. No doubt some will be glad to see this pursuit suspended (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1901, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** ROMANIA. 7325-7330-7335, Oct 24 at 0554, DRM noise, i.e. RRI amid its English/German hour for western Europe, but also bleeding on USward (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** SUDAN. 7205.0, Oct 24 at 0555, very poor carrier from presumed Omdurman, after having been on 7206.0, 47 hours earlier. Wolfgang Büschel has this explanation: ``This 1 kHz offset is used by Omdurman technicians often as jamming whistle noise action against target station programs Radio Dabanga and Radio Tamazuj from Dutch FPU/PNW NGO organization on 7315, 9600, 13800, 15540, 15550 kHz around 0330-0600 or 15-16 UT. See page 516 in WRTH 2017. And forget to switch back the deviation to exact frequency`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1901, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** TURKEY. 9830, Oct 23 at 2201, VOT opening English, cautioning that the 23 and 04 UT broadcasts are recorded playbacks (even the ``news`` becomes ``olds``). Huh?? Those are the winter timings. They must have been uttering the wrong hours on this announcement all summer! Is it canned, or even worse, read every day from script by clueless announcer? In a few days it will be correct again, once this broadcast has made its usual shift to start at 23 but on 5960 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U K. 17870, Oct 23 at 1428-1430+, S9-S7 signal in Arabish? No, it`s Kurdish from VOA at 1400-1500, 300 kW, 75 degrees from Woofferton. ?? That azimuth is wrong, missing all of Iran to the north of it. And that includes a +5 degree slew. Kurdistan should range from 90 to 95 degrees. Is that the best they can do, no more suitable azimuth?
Some members of the British DX Club recently went on a tour of Woofferton, and present 21 photos here, unrestricted:
https://www.facebook.com/pg/BDXCUK/photos/?tab=album&album_id=1105444759592508
It will run as a slide-show in full-screen mode, but then you can`t see the captions (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. WORLD OF RADIO 1900 monitoring: confirmed Monday October 23 at 2330 on WBCQ 9330.2v-CUSB, fair. By 2358 I refine it to 9330.20v-CUSB, S9+20 to S7. Also confirmed UT Tuesday October 24 at 0030 on WRMI, 7730, VG S9+20/30. Also confirmed Tue Oct 24 at 2030 on WRMI 9455 and 11580, both good.
WORLD OF RADIO 1901 contents: Barbados, Bermuda, Bolivia, Cuba, Egypt, Eritrea, France, Germany non, Greece, Guatemala, Indonesia, International Vacuum & Internet, Isle of Man, Malaysia, Myanmar, Newfoundland, Nigeria, Norway, Papua New Guinea, Perú, Romania, Somaliland non, Spain, Sudan, USA, Vatican, pirate weekend, and the propagation outlook
WORLD OF RADIO 1901 monitoring: first SW broadcast confirmed less than a semihour after completed, Tuesday October 24 at 2130 on WRMI, 9455, good. NOT confirmed Tue Oct 24 at 2330 on WBCQ, no signal at all on 9330: must be off; 7490 is still booming, as are other US signals from 9350 to 9455. Next:
Wed 1030 WRMI 5850 to NW, 9455 to WNW
Wed 1315 WRMI 9955 to SSE
Wed 2100 WBCQ 7490v to WSW
Wed 2330 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB to WSW
Thu 2230 WRMI 5850 to NW [NEW]
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 2130 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 [or 1130? with DST off]
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
Tue 2030 WRMI 11580 to NE, 9455 to WNW
Full schedule on all affiliates:
http://www.worldofradio.com/radioskd.html
Download and podcasting linx:
http://www.worldofradio.com/audiomid.html
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 1710.02, Oct 24 at 0614 UT, Spanish preaching, presumed Radio Retén lo que Tienes, Bâton Rouge, Louisiane pirate. So far only other DXer of this known is Terry Krueger in Florida who put it on ``1710.024, at 0915 October 21, 2017. Nearly local level with primitive Spanish live (presumably pre-recorded) gospel chanting inside the church with lots of room echo`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1901, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
This report dispatched at 0258 UT October 25
