** AUSTRALIA [and non]. 5055, March 15 at 1318, S3-S5 trace of modulation, presumed 4KZ, but louder QRM from Spanish 2-way 5055-USB.
5045, March 15 at 1319, still no signal here from Ozy Radio, so check:
4835, March 15 at 1320, JBA carrier weaker than 5055, probably SIKKIM, but QRX for Ozy to upshow here (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CHINA. 7205, March 15 at 1344, after a trace on 7120 from Somaliland, is this Sudan longpath? No, in Chinese, so CRI as scheduled from Beijing site.. PBS Xinjiang, Urumqi in Uighur is also scheduled, but per Aoki no Sudan until 1430. Note there are only two U`s in Urumqi (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CUBA. 15439, 15301, 15232, approx., March 15 at 1425, only extremely distorted spurblobs audible out of 15370-AM RHC, not too strong and none of them with any good audio even in FM mode. The lower one QRMs 15230-AM other RHC (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** KOREA SOUTH [and non]. 5917.764v, March 15 at 1325, music and then Korean talk, from Voice of Freedom, varying lower and ever lower, now below 5918 from nominal 5920. On March 12 I had it about 5918.2075, but on March 13 Wolfgang Büschel and Ron Howard found it missing, while Ron had a carrier on 6045 believed to be it.
I check 6045 now at 1341 to find a huge pileup of CNR1 jamming vs VOA Thailand; it would be suicide for VOF to be or stay there. By 1421 recheck, VOF has weakened and now there is ACI from/to 5920, presumably Iran just starting its Hindi hour eastward; which could be VOF motivation to get away from it. Also JBA signal on 5915 which could be Myanmar and/or CRI. VOF is only 10 kW ND from Hwaesong (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) see also UNIDENTIFIED 6135
** MEXICO. 650, March 15 at 1244, hard-sell adstring starting with Frutería Sergio, somewhere in Sinaloa, 687-prefix phones. It`s Radio 65, XETNT, Los Mochis, signal exploding like, like ---? And at this hour the only significant Mexican below 1050 XEG which is already weakening, losing out. Reconfirms that XETNT really gets out by skywave. Just after our Enid sunrise at 1242 UT today, heading for equinox time of *1232, i.e. 32 minutes west of the CST central meridian which ought to put us in the UT -7 zone; plus an hour of DST (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** OKLAHOMA. 960-, March 15 at 1251 UT, I notice that when nulled as much as possible, local KGWA Enid has CCI from some off-key music, indicating an off-frequency station. (It`s been a long time since I`ve managed to log anything thru KGWA, which used to facilitate that with a frequent 5-minute Fox-hole of dead air at local midnight.)
But stepping 10 kHz on the DX-398 with offset USB BFO, it`s evident that the off-frequency station, slightly on the low side, is KGWA itself! I.e., a slightly lower het pitch from it than from stations on adjacent frequencies..
So then I switch to the R-75 with max attenuation, no preamps to attempt to measure KGWA like I do for various SW stations off-frequency. Closest I come up with is 959.9955, i.e. 4.5 Hz or 3 sesquiHz below. In computing a receiver readout correxion factor, I rely upon KTOK to be exactly on 1000.0000, perhaps an exaggerated accuracy (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** SLOVAKIA [non]. 9455, March 15 at 1422, secret Spanish from Slovakia is still being heard during this semihour via WRMI; discussion of the commie era (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 5085, March 15 at 1317, here`s WTWW-2 again way beyond evening hours, with perpetual parasites 5072.1 & 5097.9, Bob Heil mentioning organ, but then about antennas. He`s in a long monolog. Still going at 1422 as Ted is interviewing him on a ham show playback (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** UZBEKISTAN [non]. 4790, March 15 at 1322, poor signal in presumed Uzbek talk, as BBC via TAJIKISTAN is scheduled at 1300-1330, grayline. Also *jammed by the ChiCom, per Aoki/NDXC, and as Ron Howard observes, the jammer, at least a carrier, is often on way early by 1230; not to be confused with Perú or something else. How considerate of the ChiCom to do this; does the Uzbekistan regime have a problem with the BBC? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 6135, March 15 at 1342, rather rough carrier amid the North Korean noise jamming adding up to S6-S8. I`m leaning toward this being part of the 250 kW jamming transmitter or the other Voice of Freedom transmitter, rather than unmodulated Madagascar longpath (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
This report dispatched at 1629 UT March 15
