** ANGUILLA. 11775, Nov 1 at 1626, Caribbean Beacon is reactivated on day frequency with DGS, as expected from yesterday`s resumption of night frequency 6090. Will it stick this time? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** AUSTRIA. 6155, Nov 1 at 0632, Ö1 with the only SW broadcast of its own, now making it here S9+10 in nice wake-up early music, sounds like Monteverdi, but soon ends mentioning Schütz motet, and talk, talk rather than more music (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CUBA. 15700, Nov 1 at 1401, S9+30 of dead air: must be CRI English relay back up here for B-season, nothing any more on 13740 for A-17. Ho hum, the Cubans keep getting this up late. Finally at 1403:57 brings up undermodulation of CRI in progress. Something`s always wrong at RadioCuba. No excuse since they did manage to get the carrier going by 1401 if not 1400. Presumably transmitter makes a quick change from 9570 until 1400. CRI builds in a disposable Chinese language lesson during last 5 minutes of each hour, during which transmitter - frequency - antenna changes should be accomplished, so next broadcasts can start on time at hourtops (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** GERMANY. 5905, Nov 1 at 0628, YL in German with weather info, S5-S9 – it`s Deutscher Wetterdienst, just ending 0600 transmission, so I quickly go to 6180 and find same thing, S6-S9; at 0629 she says ``Ende`` but carrier on until 0630:15*. No QRM on either tnx to RNA crash. Not listed in WRTH 2017 International Sexion, and if in National Sexion buried in 14 pages of FM info. Worldwide frequency list has only 6180, not 5905. I was tuning USB, and with carrier, but didn`t have a chance to check whether anything on LSB.
Ivo Ivanov frequently reports on these, most recently Oct 27:
``Reception of DWD Deutscher Wetterdienst on Oct 24
http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2017/10/reception-of-dwd-deutscher-wetterdienst_25.html
0600-0628 on 5905 PIN 010 kW / non-dir to CeEu German AM mode
0600-0628 on 6180 PIN 010 kW / non-dir to CeEu German AM mode``
Site is Pinneberg, also missing from map on WRTH pp 58-59. Other broadcasts are at 1200, 1600 & 2000 per HFCC. Apparently these stay at the same UT. A while back DWD were in SSB on one or the other (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** IRELAND. 5505-USB, Nov 1 at 0620, VOLMET giving lots of geo coordinates, many of the longitudes near zero, and ``flight levels``, quite different format from RAF. This one is Shannon (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MEXICO. 820, Nov 1 at 1300 UT, the only Mexican NA I find in a quick scan of the lower band is here, barely, with WBAP nulled. Probably XEABCA, Mexicali, still on DST where it`s 6 am (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MEXICO. 6185, Nov 1 at 0631, S9 open carrier, no doubt XEPPM, not turned off at 0600, ex-0500* as most of Mexico has quit DST Oct 29, refusing to follow yanqui imperialistic expansion another week --- except along the border where it matters. Timeanddate.com describes the areas staying on DST until Nov 5: ``Baja California, much of Chihuahua, much of Tamaulipas, much of Nuevo León``. Surely they don`t really mean all of BCN and BCS? I would also quibble with NL, which has only a very small border strip with Tejas of about 8 miles, just upriver from Laredos. Why did that happen? No town, but just a road connexion onto Mexican Highway 2, via a toll bridge and 2-lane toll road on the US side as spur off I-35. Yes, I digress, but dead air can lead to some interesting facts (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U K. 5450-USB, Nov 1 at 0615, VOLMET by British YL voice, with QNH in millibars (above 1000), winds in knots, visibilities in km, temps and dewpoints in C. But I have a terrible time trying to make out the locations initiating each segment. She needs to enunciate clearly and slowly, and repeat them. Finally at 0618 I think she says Antwerpen, and then Ascension Island (from which there is ``no information available``). EiBi shows this is RAF 24 hours from UK, but exact site not specified (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 4103 approx., Nov 1 at 1243 hunting for beacons I find JBA CW here; on verge it keeps fading in and out so during next 10 minutes I cannot copy a certain ID. The last letter in each sequence is W, but I hear a variety of other characters, including P, B, 4 and 8, I think. Maybe it`s a longer message rather than an ID repeating. This time we have a good clue at
https://www.hfunderground.com/wiki/High_Frequency_Beacon
``4102.3, W..., s.e. California desert, The WIND BEACON - sends 'W' ident and series of dits - each dit correlating to a turn of its anenometer [sic], so if it is windy in the , [sic] it sends lots of dits; and no wind, no dits. April 6, 2013``
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A [non]. 15600, Nov 1 just before 1400 a few words of Khmer(?), then 1400 cut to ``Welcome to the Voice of America --- in Kurdish``. HFCC shows this hour is 250 kW, 102 degrees via Woofferton UK. One of few good signals on band (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. WORLD OF RADIO 1902 monitoring: confirmed Wednesday November 1 at 1315 on WRMI 9955; starts off very good but fades to merely good, no jamming. Next:
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 0729 HLR 6190-CUSB to WSW
Sat 1531 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 1130 HLR 9485-CUSB to WSW
[un-DST time shifts start here:]
Mon 0030 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB to WSW
Mon 0400v WBCQ 5130v Area 51 to WSW
Mon 0430 WRMI 9955 to SSE
Tue 0030 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB to WSW
Tue 0030 WRMI 7730 to WNW
Tue 2030 WRMI 11580 to NE, 9455 to WNW
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 9955, Nov 1 at 1311, tuning in WRMI a few minutes before WORLD OF RADIO, FG Radio `Travel Gazette` talking about Kenya planning to start direct flights to USA, and then ``I don`t know`` Beatles tune they always play. I know I heard the Kenya item several weeks ago on October 4, so is this an old episode that keeps getting re-played? Checking the WRMI servers, I can`t find any FG Radio file or by any other recognizable name (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 5810, Nov 1 at 0625, open carrier/dead air from WEWN Spanish. B-17 HFCC shows strange frequencies for this: 5810 is absent! Instead, 5970 in Spanish at 00-15. English on 12065 is another imaginary, 12-15 at 335 degrees paired with 9470 at 09-12 --- none of these heard in regular bandscans. Also has two English frequencies which used to be on but now vanished: 11520 at 00-09, 15610 at 15-19-24 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 17775, Nov 1 at 1401, no signal from KVOH, as often the case, so I leave a receiver on here: finally cuts on S9+20 Spanish I progress at *1409. If you have trouble getting the transmitter going, you need to start earlier. At least continues with good modulation and no spurs (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 5130.0-USB, Nov 1 at 0611, I notice a bit of 2-way talk, intonation maybe French, nothing further. Watch out, WBCQ (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTFIED. 5845, Nov 1 at 0626, very poor talk, YL in English? vs huge sideband of 5850 WRMIBS so LSB tuning helps a little. Latest HFCC dated today shows nothing on 5845 at this hour, just 1500-1600 BBC Urdu via Armenia; and 1630-1700 BBC Bengali via Singapore. So anyhow, BBC from somewhere looks like a good bet for this. Nor anything in expired A-17 info (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
This report despatched at 1656 UT November 1
