** ALGERIA [non]. 6105, Oct 30 at 0610, Arabic music, 0612 into Qur`an, S9, mutual ACI with 6100 RHC English. New frequency for RTA via FRANCE, at 0500-0700, 500 kW, 198 degrees to CIRAF 46N and 46SW, which translates to Sahara, Mauritania and points south of those (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** BRAZIL. 9666v, Oct 30 at 2357, no signal anywhere around here, just a JBA carrier on 9665.00 (nothing in HFCC); while other off-frequency ZYs are in at usual levels on 9674.9, 9725.4, 9819.1; so Voz Missionária is AWOL (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CHINA. 9605, Oct 30 at 1439, echo-jamming in Chinese, i.e. CNR1 vs IBB Chinese via Philippines, this hour only (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CUBA. 640, Oct 31 at 0003 UT, with near-local KWPN Moore OK nulled, something in Spanish, mentions ``pescador de hembras``, hmmm, sounds interesting; is it the new WMFN in Peotone IL? That station has just activated after being moved from Zeeland MI, causing excitement among MWDXers. Unfortunately, the Spanish I am hearing loops toward Cuba, Radio Progreso, not Chicago. Initially WMFN was being heard 24 hours in Spanish, as reported by Tom Jasinski, Joliet. How do you pronounce Peotone? Or in Spanish? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CUBA. 11950, Oct 30 at 2210, surprised to find the RHC `Mesa Redonda` TV simulcast on air an hour earlier than usual 2300, and // weaker 6000. Definitely not same programming as on mainstream RHCs such as 11840, 11760. Recheck at 2344 the same, so apparently two hours long, at least today. Normally as a running dog of Yanqui Imperialism, Cuba in lockstep with the Miami Mafia shifts its clox on the same date, i.e. not until November 6, when the MR show should be appearing at 0000-0100 Tue-Sat (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CUBA [non]. 7435, Oct 30 at 2359, R. Martí with QSY announcement to 6030 and 7--- [cut off the air], but 7435 is back on at 0000, after a transmitter and/or antenna change at Greenville? 0000 Oct 31, usual canned ID for Radio Martí and onward. I`m listening carefully since Tim Hendel inquired today:
``Has Radio Martí changed its name? Hi, Glenn, I wonder if you can help me sort this mystery out. For some time, Radio Martí has been available on Sirius/XM on channel 153. This has been a good way for me to record for Carrie, since reception is clear, and no jamming. Now, a slight change seems to have occurred. When you bring up ch153, it identifies itself, at least on my Echo Dot, as "La Política." Yet, I heard an I.D. for Martí, including shortwave frequencies. A little later, I heard some commercials, including one in English, which I would not have expected on the SW version of Martí. I wonder if Martí, itself, has blended itself into Política, or, if Política is simply cutting away from R. Martí at certain moments. Any ideas? I haven’t tried paralleling the two streams at the same time. Thank you! Best, Tim``
Seems that must be something Sirius/XM is imposing upon it. Does anyone know about this? On SW I am not hearing any mention of La Política. Time to extract the full schedule from HFCC. Except for 11930, separate adjacent entries for a single frequency indicate antenna change, and maybe transmitter. Altho only two frequencies are ever modulating at once, more than two transmitters are employed, due to overlaps with warmup carriers.
00-12 6030, 12-14 7435, 14-20 13820, 20-24 9565
00-01 7435, 01-02 7365, 02-03 7435, 03-07 7435, 07-11 5980, 11-13 5980, 13-14 11930, 14-22 11930, 22-23 7375[NEW], 23-24 7435
(Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** EAST TURKISTAN. 11880, Oct 30 at 1425, CRI English is S9 to S9+10 with flutter, a couple words ahead of 13740 Cuba relay, which is squealing. HFCC shows 11880 this hour only is 500 kW, 308 degrees from Kashgar. Also scheduled until 1427 is RVA in Bengali, 250 kW, 300 degrees from Palauig, Philippines, but no trace of that, which might have seemed more likely if really on (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** GOA. 11620, Oct 30 at 1429, very poor music, I try to match to 9690 or 13720, the AIR GOS in English frequencies at 1330-1500, but all are too poor. However, 11620 goes to tone at 1430 and off at 1431*. HFCC shows Panaji at 1200-1430, 250 kW, 25 degrees in multiple languages, two separate entries even tho same parameters, one for CIRAF 42S and 43SW, which means China north of India, i.e. Tibet. Thus, ought to be jammed. And, 55 & 58-60 which means all of Australia and New Zealand! Nowhere near that azimuth. AND, HFCC also has a conflicting, presumably outdated entry on 11620 at 1315-1500 for AIR in English, 250 kW, 132 degrees from Delhi to CIRAF 49, 50 and 54, which means SE Asia from Myanmar to Indonesia to Philippines (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** PERU [and non]. 5980, Oct 30 at 2333, just like yesterday, no problem hearing the R. Chaski carrier amid the DRM noise from Romania instead of AM, until autocutoff at 2333:50.5* which is the expected 6.5 seconds later than yesterday (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** SOUTH CAROLINA [non]. 7730, Oct 30 at 2349 via WRMI, I pause on Molester Stair for the latest prophecy: 15 days of total darkness coming in November, first in voice of a synthyl. Then MS reads something about massive protests starting November 4 that the ``Trump-Pence regime must go``. And somehow 7 gigapersons on earth will die as a result. Ooh! (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** TURKEY. 15350.050, Oct 30 at 1347, Turkish conversation in VOT service now scheduled all the way from 07 to 14, 500 kW, 310 degrees to WEu and USward beyond. A good one for music when they play it after fade-in over here. And better than the English from 1330 on 12035.
11815, Oct 30 at 1427, NHK in Japanese direct has a fast SAH from something. First guess is Brasil, where RBC has been sticking pretty close to accurate frequency, unlike all the others, but not a good daypart to hear much of anything from ZY. Then HFCC has the answer: 11815 is the successor frequency to 15350, VOT in Turkish at 1400-1700, but only 250 kW, still 310 degrees, and an almost-always off-frequency station.
[and non] 5960.00, Oct 30 at 2337, this time I take the trouble to pin down the VOT English to N America, and by golly, can`t make it off-frequency+plus. During music. Late sign-off circa 2355 and really goes off, no German to be heard at 0000 --- but a JBA carrier, presumably Xinjiang PBS, Urumqi, East Turkistan (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. WORLD OF RADIO 1901 monitoring: further checking of the WRN North America webfeed, where WOR is now scheduled at 0230 UT Mondays: Oct 30, it`s still in Russian! One hour earlier I thought it sounded like Russian but they kept mentioning Slovakia, so I correlated this with RSI (English) supposedly now scheduled at that time.
It seems the WRN streams are all mixed up. There is another one linked from the same page for Russian, and it is, but not the same Russian as what I am hearing on ``English``. Notified Master Control and they were going to look into it, but no reply or explanation yet.
Checked 22-23 hours later, Oct 31 at 0144, this stream:
http://shoutcast.wrn.org:8000/;stream.nsv
is in fact now in English with ``Israel Radio`` as scheduled daily 0030-0100, among other expanded times.
WOR 1901 also confirmed at 0310 UT Mon Oct 30 during Area 51 webcast, and at 0315 JBA on 5130.3v WBCQ. 9955 WRMI is inaudible, but after 0330, UT Mon Oct 30, WOR confirmed on its webcast. Also confirmed Mon Oct 30 at 2330 on WBCQ, 9330.88v-CUSB. Also confirmed UT Tuesday Oct 31 at 0052 check, the 0030 on WRMI 7730, VG S9+10/20. Next:
Tue 2030 on WRMI 11580 to NE, 9455 to WNW
WOR 1902 should be ready for first broadcasts Tue Oct 31 at 2130 on WRMI, 9455; and 2330 on WBCQ, 9330v-CUSB (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 5810, Oct 30 at 0605, WEWN, R. Católica Mundial, still with problems, undermodulated. Night frequency 5810 is still running at 1424, now VG and nothing yet on 12050. No English frequencies are on, 9470 nor 11520 nor 15610 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 650, Oct 31 at 0005 UT, roughly equal mix of WSM and KGAB Cheyenne, mentioning Wyoming, making SAH of 28/minute = 0.47 Hz. Weather for WY, CO, NM and UT, which I thought was KGAB, but WSM also with far-flung weather (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 6230-USB, Oct 30 at 2335, 2-way in American English, discussing boat speed in knots, destinations including Roatán, with another sailor, who is barely audible. Appears to be solo (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
This report despatched at 0215 UT October 31
