** ARGENTINA [non]. 9395, Jan 31 at 1945, WRMI with World Music yet again,
instead of RAE relay in German; 7780 // 9455 with other music, presumably
Oldies.
9395, Feb 1 at 0206 check, RAE Argentina-to-the-World confirmed
in English news about Argentina, with music bed, S9 via WRMI. Glad this is
propagating for a change.
9395, Feb 1 at 1917, no RAE but gospel music,
JBA // 7780, and not // 9455. 9395 at 1959 past hourtop 2001 with song in
Portuguese, while 9455 has started VORW (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** BOUVET ISLAND [non]. All USB, 14187, 14188, 14189, 14186,
14185, Feb 1 from 1940, pileups on each, of hams uttering nothing but their own
callsigns, obviously try to work some hot DX, still Kosovo? No one *ever*
mentions 3Y0Z or any call of the station sought. Some of the calls I copy in the
next few minutes:
14185, XE1IM, K6KZM, N1RIU QSY to here, success
14186,
W7WLL, XE1IM QSY to here, successful contact exchanging RS
14187, N2JF,
N1RIU
14188, K3OXL
14189, KE7JNT
Where is the DX station?
presumably a few kHz lower but I don`t hear it, 14180-14184. On 14175 and 14181
are some non-DX QSOs. Intermittent AM carrier spoilers near 14187.
On
14197 at 1955, an unID ham tells news about the 3Y0: they are still on the boat,
anchored on the east side of Bouvet; due to heavy seas, it`s not safe to launch
choppers; boat is rocking and some are sea-sick; 15-20 foot swells 2-3 days ago.
Bands will really be mess in a day or two. Refers to the 3Y0Z website for this
info, i.e.:
``February
1, 2018, 1300 UTC: Our ship is still at anchor off the east side of Bouvet.
Winds are 35 to 40 knots, and the ship is pitching and rolling up to 30 degrees.
This makes flying and a landing attempt impossible today. The temperature is
hovering at around 0 degrees C. Visibility has improved..
We are poised
and ready when a weather window opens. We had our maritime mobile station up for
a few hours, but had to take it down again to avoid damage caused by the extreme
motion of the ship.
1445 UTC: Winds have increased to 45 knots. Unsecured
items are again sliding across floors and tables. Some team members are again
feeling seasick.
The barometer has risen, slightly. We are anxiously
awaiting calmer conditions. Hang in there with us! Ralph, KØIR`` (Glenn Hauser,
OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CANADA [non]. 11875, Feb 1 at 1631,
instrumental gospel tune, S3-S5; 1632 announcement over music, 1633 HoA string
music joined by singing. HFCC shows 1630-1700 daily, MBR, Nauen, multilingual,
100 kW, 145 degrees, but what is it, really?
EiBi shows Bible Voice at
1630-1700, language unknown via Nauen, GERMANY to E Africa. But Aoki says Bible
Voice in Nuer, 250 kW, 140 degrees via Issoudun, FRANCE. Back to EiBi for info
about Nuer: spoken by 800K in Sudan, 200K in Ethiopia (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** CUBA. 15781, 15712, 15644, 15575, 15507, 15438,
15303, 15235, 15167, 15099, 15032, 14964, 14880, Feb 1 at 1536, very approx.
centers of RHC-FM extremely distorted spurblobs out of 15370-AM transmitter.
Average intervals today circa 67.5 kHz. Closer ones quite readable in FM mode,
further ones detectable at least by the F# tone accompanying. Something`s always
wrong at RHC (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** ETHIOPIA [non].
11600, Feb 1 at 1626, presumed Oromo, S4-S6 with considerable QRDRM jamming, as
it`s the new Radio OMN, Oromia Media Network, 1628 into HoA music. Aoki shows
this is an IRRS client, 15-16 M-F, 100 kW, 195 degrees via Sofia, BULGARIA. Ivo
said this is also on // 11575 with 50 kW, but 11575 is only a JBA carrier here,
far weaker than it should be, everything else being equal, with half the power
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** SWAZILAND. 15105, Feb 1 at
1621, S3-S5 in unknown language, with heavy flutter. Listed as TWR Manzini in
Kirundi, 1557-1627 M-F, 100 kW, 13 degrees.. Would not expect such flutter on a
trans-equatorial path (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A.
The next WORLD OF RADIO 1915 broadcast, Thursday February 1 at 2230.5 on WRMI
5850, should provide good reception across North America (Glenn Hauser, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
This report dispatched at 2104 UT February 1
