** ANGUILLA. 11775, Dec 6 at 2035 check, no signal from PMS or DGS on TUN via
CB. But at 2041 recheck, PMS is on at S9+10/20. I force myself to keep listening
to this know-it-all, and sure `nuff, cuts off abruptly again at 2045:50*; 2102
recheck, back on again. And so it goes. Seems they have a lot more trouble
keeping this frequency going than 6090 at night, which continues to be on
whenever checked. So are these now really from the un-destroyed Anguilla
station? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** BIAFRA [non]. 11530,
Dec 6 at 1942 check, no signal from WRMI with R. Biafra. 11530, Dec 7 at 0553
check, Qur`anish music in World Music fill, but VP S2-S3. I need to check
earlier in each hour in case RB is still on in the first half (Glenn Hauser, OK,
DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CANADA. 333 kHz, Dec 7 at 0708 UT, beacon QE and
dash, but not listed. Must really be QT, in Thunder Bay, Ontario, dah instead of
a dit.
341 kHz, Dec 7 at 0710 UT, beacon YYU, no dash, mixing at
different pitch, so not exactly same frequency as my local on 341, EI Enid. YYU
is in Kapuskasing, Ont., also per
http://www.dxinfocentre.com/ndb.htm
That`s neat; I was not expecting
anything so exotic on a rare foray into the LW NDB area. Kapuskasing was also
the location of a hot analog TVDX target years ago (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** CHINA [and non]. 6180, Dec 7 at 1525, Firedragon
jamming mixing with Chinese, averaging S9 combined, i.e. RTI in Chinese as
scheduled from TAIWAN at 10-16 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
**
COLOMBIA. 5910.416, Dec 7 at 0739, finally a signal again from Alcaraván Radio,
unheard for some weeks at early or late evening chex. weak S7-S8 song and
audibly varying slightly as I listen; and even further off-frequency (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CUBA. 15370, Dec 6 at 2048, RHC
French is JBM, while English on 15140 is VG S9+30/20 and somewhat overmodulated.
Retuning to 15370 shortly, the modulation has been turned up. Something`s always
wrong at RHC (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CUBA [and non].
11930 // 9565, Wed Dec 6 at 2106, `Contacto Cuba` is the Radio Martí program now
vs jamming in the unceasing effort to prevent contact. Still have not found a
third daytime frequency on anyband, besides new 7355 starting at 2300 and again
until 1400 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** GERMANY [non].
9719.991, Dec 7 at 1420 big hum with some modulation. Again it`s DW in Pashto
via UAE until 1430, off at 1442 recheck leaving a JBA carrier from algo, listed
IBB in Khmer via Tinian (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** JAPAN
[non]. 9855, Dec 6 at 2048, good S9+20 in French; not VOA. Soon mentions
``samurai`` and voice-overs some Japanese, clues: yes, NHK at 2030-2100, 250 kW,
310 degrees via MADAGASCAR, making it an outstanding signal on this band. Would
that NHK could be heard as well intentionally in English to North America (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** KIRIBATI. 846 kHz, Dec 7 at 0543, JBA
carrier definitely here and very close to 846.00. Huge splash from both sides,
WHAS and KOA. Also IBOC noise circa 843 from WCCO makes it better to listen on
USB despite that being 1 kHz closer to KOA than WHAS.
Some fade-outs
like 0603, and back up, again at 0701 check, but I don`t expect it to rise
enough for any modulation here. I`m getting it both on the R75 with E-W
longwire, and the NRD-545 with ALA-330S loop E-W, not on the DX-398 internal.
This has got to be the reactivated R. Kiribati. Several years ago it
closed this frequency and moved to 1440 from Bairiki. New 846 was first reported
as an unID by Nick Hall-Patch, Victoria BC, Nov 30 at 0500-0535, and then heard
by others on the west coast, including Walt Salmaniw also in Victoria as early
as 0330.
Ace DXer Bryan Clark in New Zealand did some research and found
out that this frequency now is coming from a different part of Kiribati, in
fact, Christmas Island = Kiritimati! This news Dec 6 in the DXLD yg quickly
spread to North American MW DX groups:
``Appropriately as we approach
the Christmas season, we learn that the reactivated transmissions of Radio
Kiribati on 846 AM are in fact coming from a new location - London Village on
Christmas Island, providing coverage of the Line and Phoenix Group, including
Kanton Island. Long time DXers will recall the last radio station on Canton
Island - WXLE on 1385 AM. See attached from the Radio Kiribati Facebook page.
Thanks to Theo Donnelly for encouraging me to do some sleuthing on this one! ---
Bryan Clark`` See
https://www.facebook.com/RadioKiribati/posts/1734641830176128
``Broadcasting
and Publications Authority added 2 new photos.
November 23 at 8:42pm
·
BPA COMMISSIONS NEW AM TRANSMITTER FOR LINE AND PHOENIX
GROUP
TARAWA, November 24, 2017 (RADIO KIRIBATI) --- I-Kiribati living in
the remote Line and Phoenix Islands can now for the first time listen clearly to
Radio Kiribati broadcast from the Broadcasting and Publications Authority’s
(BPA) main studio in London, Christmas Island following the installation of a
new AM transmitter.
The newly installed transmitter was commissioned on
Saturday, 25 November 2017 in London village.
BPA Board Vice Chairman
Betarim Rimon said the launching was covered live on Radio Kiribati and was
heard in the Kiribati islands (Gilbert Group) through AM1440 khz and in the Line
and Phoenix Islands through the newly installed AM846 khz in London.
Mr
Rimon said the people of Kanton (Canton), the only inhabited island in the
Phoenix Islands Protected Area (PIPA) can now tune and listen clearly to the
broadcast from Christmas Island, a barrier in radio communications which has
plagued and isolated the island from the rest of the islands in the country for
many years.
"The people of Kanton can now tune to this service as it will
sufficiently cover the rest of PIPA. You are now no longer far but drawn closer
to the rest of the nation and the world in terms of news updates and radio
service," said Mr Rimon….RK News
……………………….
Kamaiuaki ana ‘AM transmitter’
te BPA ae e boou ibukin te Aono n Raina ma Rawaki
TARAWA, November 24,
2017 (RADIO KIRIBATI) ---- A kona ngkai te nati ni Kiribati ake a tionako ni
maeka n aban te Aono n Raina ma Rawaki n ongora n te moan tai ni Bwanan Kiribati
ae e itiaki man ana tabo ni kanakobwana te Botaki ni Kanakobwana ma
Karekerongorongo (BPA) are i Ronton, Kiritimati imwin kanimwakin ana transmitter
te BPA ae e boou ikekei.
E katekeraoaki kamaiuan te transmitter ae e boou
aio n te Kaonobong 25 n November 2017 n ana tabo te BPA i Ronton
Kiritimati.
E taku te Kauoman ni Tia Babaire n ana Baba n Tararua te BPA
ae Betarim Rimon bwa e katanoataaki ao ni katabwenaki moan kamaiuan ke
kabonganakin te transmitter ae e boou aio n te kanakobwana ae e maiu iaon Bwanan
Kiribati are e ongoraeakinaki n aban te Aono ni Kiribati (Gilbert Group) rinanon
te band ae te AM1440 kilohertz ao n te Aono n Raina ma Rawaki rinanon ana band
te transmitter are e a tibwa kanimwaki ae te AM846 kilohertz.
E taku
Betarim bwa ai akea ngkai aia kanganga kain Kanton, are bon ti ngaia aban te
Aono n Rawaki ake a kainaki (PIPA) ae e kaainaki ni karekean Bwanan Kiribati ao
n itiaki naba ongoraaia man te kanakobwana mai Kiritimati, te kanganga n te
itoman n te rerio are e a tia ni kationakoa Kanton ma aban Kiribati ake nikabane
inanon ririki aika a mwaiti.
"A kona ngkai kain Kanton ni karekea ao ni
kabongana ana tieweti Bwanan Kiribati aio n akea aia kanganga ngkai e a kona n
roko korakorana ao n ongoraeaki n aban te Aono n Raina (PIPA) ni kabane. Kam
aikoa tionako ngkai ma kamwa kaaniaki riki ma aban Kiribati ni kabane ao te
aonnaba ni kaineti ma rongorongon baika a riki ao te tieweti n te rerio," e taku
Betarim….RK News``
Longitude is 157-29 WEST, i.e. in the western
hemisphere, yet the dateline was moved east of there, and the timezone advanced
to UT +14 which would be the same at UT -10 on the day before as in Hawaii,
Tahiti.
Just as Kiribati is pronounced kiri-bas, the TI`s in Kiritimati
are equivalent to S, so it comes out sounding a lot more like Ch-ristmas.
Current sunset there is 0421 UT, and varies little at less than 2 degrees north
of the Equator. It`s not clear when 846 sign off, but 1440 was listed as
0500-1000 for their evening broadcast.
So far on the IRCA and NRC lists I
don`t see any reports of direct reception of 846 beyond the west coast, except
for Alberta.
Before 0600 I also check 558 for Fiji, 1098 for Marshalls,
but probably too early for them (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** KOREA NORTH [non]. 6085, Dec 7 at 1355, JSR JAPAN, the Sea
Breeze earnest YL in English on Thursday only, S9-S6, about some Japanese
government activity, music background; 1356 typical sounders; briefly overridden
by huge uteblapps at S9+20 but no jamming; 1358 contact info, spelling out
website, off at 1400* (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** NEW
ZEALAND. 7430, Dec 7 at 1357, RNZI on its second day here, S9+20 music, doing
very well adjacent to 7435 Martí and Cuban jamming; 1400 Martí is off, and RNZ
News, including a train strike expected to cause large disruptions in Auckland.
Issue is safety, as reduxions to one driver per train are going into effect
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** RUSSIA. 9996, Dec 7 at 1409,
RWM CW IDs repeated, very poor, 1410 resuming pips, from Taldom (Glenn Hauser,
OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** SAUDI ARABIA. 9695, Dec 7 at 1422, horrible
humbuzz, with multiple carrier peaks, no program modulation audible, BSKSA
Riyadh scheduled in Pashto: makes 9720 DW/UAE sound almost great (Glenn Hauser,
OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A [and non]. WORLD OF RADIO 1907
monitoring: more errors preventing this new episode from being heard ASAP on SW.
Wed Dec 6 at 2200 on good WBCQ 7490, they are replaying last week`s 1906! This
time it`s not my fault, as 1907 was first available 21.5 hours earlier. I
reminded them to get it in time for all the subsequent airings such as UT Thu
Dec 7 at 0030 on 9330-CUSB --- but there was *no* signal audible here.
Next:
Thu 2230.5 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 [or
#1908?]
Full WOR schedule via all media, and podcast
access:
http://www.worldofradio.com/radioskd.html
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 7780 // 9455 // 11580, Wed Dec 6 at 2050,
WRMI with sermon before an audience, sounds like Bob Biermann pushing it a bit
more than usual, i.e. `Your Weekend [sic] Show`, which is still not shown on
WRMI skedgrid for 7780. YWS is listed for 11580-only, Wed at 20-21, but for
longtime has also been // 9455 during this hour only. 7780 joins them at 2030 on
some days, opting away from Brother Scare, when there is a half-hour program,
but apparently at 2000 when there is a one-hour program like Wed (and also Thu
for VORW).
Here`s what`s really happening during the following hour,
contrary to schedule: 9455 only is carrying the ``15770`` program, `FG Radio`
with their ``Travel Gazette`` repeated over and over from last April. (I have
finally written directly to the program about this.) Contact info is on page 464
of WRTH 2017, where FG Radio somehow qualified as the #1 international
broadcaster from Cyprus. I can`t wait to see what 2018 has about it.
9395
// 7780 at 2108 check are in `The Power Hour``. 11580 at 2103 is as usual in
German from RAE Argentina (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S
A. 17775, Wed Dec 6 at 2035, KVOH is *on*, VG S9+20/30 with musicalabanza in
Spanish; no spurs audible, still past 2103. Checking because we got this notice
Tue Dec 5 at 1919 UT from Ray Robinson at KVOH:
``KVOH (17775 kHz) Off
Air --- We have a high wind event here in Southern California today, with
several large brush fires. At the KVOH transmitter site on Chatsworth Peak,
sustained winds are now at 60 miles per hour with gusts to over 90. The
microwave link between our studios and the transmitter site is unstable because
the winds are blowing the microwave dishes off beam, and the power is very
unstable too (there are currently about half a million people in Ventura County
without power at all). Looking at the weather forecast, we may be off tomorrow
also, but hopefully back by Thursday --- Ray Robinson, Strategic Communications
Group / Voice of Hope, Americas / Africa / Middle East,
http://www.voiceofhope.com`` [via WORLD OF RADIO 1907]
So they were able
to get back by Wednesday afternoon. Apparently KVOH facilities not threatened by
the wildfires themselves. 17775 also audible as JBA carrier Thu Dec 7 at 1504,
1524 chex.
Meanwhile, I have also heard from a ham in TX who has been
experiencing white noise from KVOH extending even above 18068 kHz into the
hamband, and had been discussing it with KVOH. He got this reply from John
Tayloe in October:
``Glenn Houser mentioned this a few days ago. We made
some changes to our audio chain as we suspect this is where the problem was. We
are really interested in solving this. It’s not showing up on our test equipment
and we are [asking] a few of our friends who listen outside of California to
monitor and give feedback. John Tayloe, (805) 338-0075``
K5WLT wrote
later: ``Things were great (no hash in 17 m amateur band) for about a month.
Then around Nov 20 somewhere it came back, and I sent the following:
On
11-20-17 at 1500 UT I found that your problem with spurs had returned. White
noise hash up into the 18 MHz amateur band, and your modulation on 17775 was
badly distorted and splattering. Again upon sign-off on that frequency all
spurious emissions ceased. This problem surely should be evident on a spectrum
analyzer at your transmitter site. Hopefully you will find the cause and a final
fix be in place soon. Ronnie V. Miller - K5WLT`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** U S A. 9370, Dec 6 at 2046 check, WWRBS remains nominal, S9 to
S9+10 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** ZANZIBAR. 11735, Dec 6
at 2055, ZBC music for a while, fair until cutoff at 2102* (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
This report dispatched at 1822 UT December 7
