** ARGENTINA [non]. 11580, Nov 9 circa 1430, RAE relay hour in Spanish is still
here via WRMI, no timeshift, preceded by French at 1300 M-F. But perusing the
WRMI skedgrids, I see that two RAE relays have changed time: English Tue-Sat at
0200 instead of 0100, on 9395; and Portuguese M-F at 1200 instead of 1100 on
9955 (also on 9455?). The others remain at the same UT (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** CUBA. 6060, Nov 9 at 0705, RHC English is still on
here, but no other frequencies as they struggle to get their act together for
the new schedule until 0800 effective Nov 12. 6000 is off, but 6100 is on and
now it`s in Spanish! 5040, 6145 and 6165 are all off.
BTW, what will
become of Esperanto which has been at 0700 UT Sundays on one 49m frequency or
another? Arnie`s sked shows delayed until 0800-0830, on 6100. Also Sunday
1600-1630 ex-1500 on 11760; Sunday 2330 on 15730, Esperanto replaces French.
AND, now a fourth Esperanto on the sked: 0000-0030 on 5040, presumably meaning
UT Monday, and would pre-empt the first half of English. But all of these will
need to be confirmed! (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CUBA.
17730, Nov 9 at 1511, RHC has just come on with open carrier, then some
modulation. 17580 which had been on, is now off. Hardly any other station on 16m
at this hour, no KVOH, maybe traces of BSKSA. WWV reports K-index at 1500 was 3,
with G1 minor storms past and future (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** CUBA [and non]. 7375, Nov 8 at 2158, DentroCuban Jamming
Command has found this new R. Martí frequency, while it`s only an open carrier
warmup for this one-hour segment (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** GUATEMALA. 4055, Nov 9 at 0708, S9 open carrier, as TGAV must
have left it on an hour after sign-off (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** MEXICO [and non]. 6185, Nov 8 at 2151, S4-S6 song, is it
Spanish? Yes, I make out the repeated word ``trabajando``. So it`s XEPPM, on air
much earlier than allegedly, and no CCI, altho CRI Arabic via Albania is
scheduled 2000-2200 toward SSW; only other competitor in the 18-24 UT period is
CRI Mongolian via Xi`an at 2300-2400.
How about the 00-06 period? No more
Vatican, just 0400-0430 AWR Turkish via Austria; discounting the totally
fantastic RRI Manokwari, 0100-0500, 1 kW in English that Indonesia keeps
registering! HFCC really needs to clean out such nonsense (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** NORTH AMERICA. 7470, as of Nov 9, no sign of Station
YHWH, which had been regular evenings, during bandscans; last report I had was
Oct 14 at 0200 by Rick Barton, AZ. Last log of mine was Oct 11 at 0220. And
nothing that recent in HF Underground (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** OKLAHOMA. 1331.2v, Nov 9 at 1428 UT, after hearing big het on
KCKM Monahans TX a bit earlier, I set out to measure the spurs out of nearby
local KCRC 1390. Other signals I could measure to three decimal places if they
were stable, but these keep wavering, and even two decimal places would be
pointless. This one goes from 1331.1 to 1331.3 or so and back in a short period,
with clear CBS Sports Radio modulation // 1390, QRMing KNSS 1330.0.
Sometimes the fundamental is slightly off, causing slightly different
het pitches on either side, but not today. Match to this is about 1448.8v. These
are second-order spurs, considerably weaker than first-orders at half the
displacement, circa 1360.6v and 1419.3v; all hetting whatever legit stations are
on the even frequencies. Any time of night, or at least during SRS and SSS,
DXers afar should seek these out (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** TURKEY [and non]. 5980, Nov 8 at 2154, song poor at S6-S8,
presumably TRT in Turkish, now scheduled 17-22 at 310 degrees from Emirler
toward Europe and US. That leaves a 22-23 window before Romania for possible
Perú on 5980. At 13+ degrees S, Urubamba sunset varies little and is close
enough, currently 2252 UT per
(Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 15580, Wed Nov 8 at 2148,
gospel-country song, violating Separation of Church and State, segué to another,
VG S9+25. VOA must be back to Greenville during this hour: yes, 250 kW at 94
degrees. One of VOA`s dispensable pop-music shows, but hope on Friday it will
still carry `Music Time in Africa`. In fact, HFCC shows this is currently the
*only* English hour from VOA Greenville! Everything else is Martí, VOA
Portuguese, French, or Vatican relays in Spanish, violating Separation of Church
and State. There`s more VOA news from Okeechobee than from Greenville (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. WORLD OF RADIO 1903
monitoring: confirmed Wednesday November 8 at 2200, on WBCQ, 7490, VG S9+30 at
new shifted time with an hour less of daytime absorption. Not confirmed UT
Thursday November 9 at 0030 on WBCQ 9330v-CUSB, beyond a JBA carrier. Is it QRP?
Nearby US stations 9265 WINB and 9370 WWRB are good. But WBCQ may find itself on
the wrong side of the auroral zone. Aurora has been visible at Mount Washington
NH. Next:
Thu 2230 WRMI 5850 to NW
Fri 0030 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB to
WSW
Sat 0030 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB to WSW
Sat 0729 HLR 6190-CUSB to
WSW
Sat 1531 HLR 7265-CUSB to WSW
Sat 2030v WA0RCR 1860-AM ND
Sat
2230 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB to WSW
Sat 2300 WRMI 11580 to NE
Sun 0200 WRMI
11580 to NE
Sun 0410v WA0RCR 1860-AM ND
Sun 1130 HLR 9485-CUSB to
WSW
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, 7780 to
NE
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A [non]. 9485, Wed
Nov 8 at 2143, unknown language talk and bits of singing, S5, OOFSOB [One Of Few
Stations On Band], during degraded propagation. HFCC shows this M-F 2130
semihour is VOA in Bambara via BOTSWANA. So what are the other B-17 frequencies
for this? 5885 São Tomé, 12075 Botswana, 15120 Ascension. This language keeps
jumping back and forth to Greenville, but not this season.
As I searched
entire HFCC file on Bam language, found only one other station emitting it:
Saudi Arabia, 1600-1800 on 15470, 17650, 17710.
Bambara is centered in
Mali, but closely related to mutually intelligible Mandingo, which is diffused
only by RFI. Per Wikipedia, special alfabets for both of them were developed,
but mostly use Latin letters now (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** U S A. 9475, Nov 8 at 2141, no signal from WTWW --- and all
other possible frequencies for all three transmitters are also silent: 5830,
5085, 9930, 12105 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A.
12050, Nov 8 at 2146, WEWN Spanish is on, and how: VG S9+40, while 15610 English
is VP as usual. Spanish had been AWOL from any frequency.
5970, Nov 9 at
0704, new WEWN Spanish is on again, good, ex-5810; while 11520 English is JBA
carrier (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 17775, Nov 9 at
1510, still no signal from KVOH, if it has really come on by *1500. At least
Cuba is propagating on 16m (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S
A. 1130, Nov 9 at 1404 UT, full ID for KLEY on AM 1130 and also translator call
on 100.3, into Kansas news; from Wellington KS, remains on air and reaching here
by groundwave, easily with presumed KWKH nulled during political rather than
sports-talk (Glenn Hauser, Enid OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 1520,
Nov 9 at 1412 UT, KYND Cypress TX is *still* stunting with loop about buying
time, and audible this late under KOKC making usual slow SAH. Even the ChiCom no
longer think it would be worth the cost (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
This report dispatched at 1805 UT November 9
