** CHINA [and non]. 9790.027, Jan 18 at 1536, SSOB S9+10 except for 9980 WWCRBS S9+20, heavy clash in Chinese, with fast SAH. Atop and off-frequency, wavering slightly also, is probably RFA SAIPAN as scheduled this hour only; abottom is its CNR1 jammer (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CUBA. 6100, Jan 18 at 0703, RHC is S9-S7 of dead air instead of English. 6165 is undermodulated, 6000 slightly better, and 6060 best by far with normal modulation, but as always, hetted upon by off-frequency Brazilian. Something is always wrong at RHC (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CUBA. 15011, 15152, 15224, 15296, 15333, 15407, 15444, 15480, 15517, 15554? approx., Jan 18 at 1450, RHC spurblobs from 15370-AM are way off-frequency today, at approx. 37 kHz intervals instead of 65-70! Closer ones demodulate in FM tuning only, e.g. spreading 15290-15301. So now a completely different set of real-station victims on the band.
Recheck at 1522, now back to ``normal`` with the major ones landing circa 15510, 15440, 15300, and totally blotting the only other real RHC transmitter on 15230. Something`s always wrong at RHC (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** GUAM [and non]. 11900, Jan 18 at 1528, good S9-S6 S Asian music, 1529 English sign-off of AWR Guam, but fails to cite callsign! Off at 1530*. Scheduled daily is Nepali at 1500-1530. Also various other languages at 1300-1400 --- and RBAustralia intervening on 11900 at 1400-1500, lotsa more SAs langs, also complex day-by-day scheduling.
Then I tune up and immediately hear the AWR theme on two other frequencies.
11995, Jan 18 at 1530, AWR opening Punjabi but via Austria, weaker;
12035, Jan 18 at 1530, KSDA ID here, English opening Marathi (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENNG DIGEST)
** JAPAN. 6115, Jan 18 at 0705, R. Nikkei 2 music is S7 to S9+10, while 6055, R. Nikkei 1 is much weaker, only S5-S7; why? Both listed as 50 kW from Chiba-Nagara site, altho slightly different azimuths, not enough to account for disparity: 50 degrees on 6115, 64 on 6055 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** SAIPAN. 9985.021, Jan 18 at 1538, Korean at S9. It`s RFA at 15-17, 100 kW, typically off-frequency from Saipan at 15-17. Helps very little to avoid bigsig 9980 WWCR, but clear of that with USB tuning. No jamming audible. (At 17-19 & 21-22, 9985 RFA Korean is via Tinian 250 kW instead)(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) See also CHINA [and non] 9790
** SOUTH CAROLINA [non]. 9980, Jan 18 at 1536, TOM via WWCR once again with Allan Weiner`s testimony, but a shorter excerpt this time.
What`s become of Brother Stair? Searching http://www.postandcourier.com
finds zero stories about Stair or Overcomer so far this year, but LOTS of false positives (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. Next good chance to hear WORLD OF RADIO 1913 is Thursday 2230.5 on WRMI 5850 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 600, Jan 18 at 0131 UT, ABC news headlines from NW/SE, ID as ``Your only news station, KTBB-FM 97.5`` mixed with local Tyler TX ad. What? NRC AM Log shows its FM is on 95.7, really K239CB. WTFDA FM Database clears up the confusion. The 250-watt 95.7 translator goes with KYZS 1490, ESPN. The 97.5 KTBB-FM // 600 is licensed to Troup TX, 13 kW h/v, 121 m. Troup is about 15 miles SE of Tyler. NRC AM Log shows 1490 KZYS Tyler is axually ESPND, i.e. Spanish, and in $tereo, what a bonus on a non-musical graveyarder (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 1710 kHz, Jan 18 at 0716 UT, music with heavy beat, drumming, sorta salsa, 0719 UT segué song sounds Spanish, deep fades, 0754 rouse in a pause. Probably Bâton Rouge pirate Retén lo que Tienes (Retain What Thou Hast) in a break from screaming gospel huxter, but could be some other pirate (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** VATICAN [non]. 7305, Jan 18 at 0157 another check of Vatican News via IBB Greenville-B in Spanish: Papa Francisco is pontificating as only he can, chopped off rudely at 0200 and carrier off* a few seconds later. Clearly IBB now has set the automation to end the 0145 transmission after 15 instead of 45 minutes, but they don`t know about this back in the Holy See, tsk2. So now this violation of Separation of Church & State has been reduced by 66..6 percent (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
This report dispatched at 1808 UT January 18
