** ARGENTINA [non]. 9395, March 23 at 2029, Bob Biermann musing, so must be `Your Weekend Show` instead of RAE in Italian --- aha, the WRMI sked grid
http://www.tinyurl.com/WRMIfqs
has now deleted the RAE German at 19 & Italian at 20 on 9395, showing both it and 9455 as System G `Oldies` at 18-20, and more Oldies on 9395 only at 20-22 M-F, while 9455 switches to System D at 20-22. This `YWS` is another secret opt-out from `Oldies` never shown on the schedules. Meanwhile from 2030, 9455 seeming // JBA 7780 in Italian `Studio DX`. The program grid still shows RAE German & Italian, M-F 21-23 on 11580 only, which has really been off the air since the first week of January, and not coming back until Maybe.
RAE relays in Portuguese, Spanish, French, English are still on the sked and heard recently; Chinese and Japanese allegedly at 08-10 on 9455 I continue to sleep thru (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CUBA. 15120, March 23 at 0022, CRI Spanish, with warbling squeals peaking about 2.5 kHz each side; // 5990 unsquealish but undermodulated. Something`s always wrong at RadioCuba (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MADAGASCAR. 17570, March 23 at 2005, S9-S8 YL in tonal African language, occasional hints of French influence; 2007 choral music, 2008 ID in passing as Radio Mondiale Adventiste. On almost dead band it really stands out along with 17640 African Pathways Radio, from the other MAD site. As in my previous log Feb 25, language listed as Moore spoken in Burkina Faso. But Aoki/NDXC labels it Mossi(Moore). HFCC A-18 shows this only Mos language broadcast anywhere will then move to 9770, and to site from FRANCE (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** ROMANIA. 9610, March 23 at 2025, operatic solo, soon Spanish announcement mentioning ``rumano``, so obviously RRI as scheduled 20-21 via Tsiganeshti.
5980, March 24 at 0024, I happen to hear the same music, i.e. the next RRI Spanish broadcast via Galbeni. Both of these have only one more day before the skedshuffle, or maybe zero days for 5980 depending on time of day UT March 25 they enact A-18 usage. I can hardly wait to again have a shot at Radio Chaski now until 0000v* (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U K. 9545, March 23 at 2027, very poor talk at S4, gone at 2031 recheck. Could it be Solomon Islands? HFCC registers SIBC as 20-07 UT, but until 2030 Fridays only in both seasons is also BBC Hausa via Woofferton, extended from -2000 otherdays (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. WORLD OF RADIO 1922 monitoring: confirmed Friday March 23 at 2330 on WBCQ, 9330.273v-CUSB, good S9. Next:
Sat 0729 HLR 6190-CUSB to WSW
Sat 1531 HLR 6190-CUSB to WSW
Sat 1930v WA0RCR 1860-AM ND
Sat 2130 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB to WSW
Sat 2300 WRMI 7780 to NE
Sun 0200 WRMI 7780 to NE
Sun 0310v WA0RCR 1860-AM ND
Sun 1030 HLR 9485-CUSB to WSW [ex-1130 for DST]
Sun 2330 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB to WSW
Mon 0300v WBCQ 5130v Area 51 to WSW
Mon 0330 WRMI 9955 to SSE, 9455 to WNW
Mon 2330 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB to WSW
Tue 0030 WRMI 7730 to WNW
Tue 2030 WRMI 7780 to NE, 9455 to WNW [or #1923?]
Tue 2130 WRMI 7780 to NE, 9455 to WNW [or #1923?]
Full WOR schedule via all media, podcast access:
http://www.worldofradio.com/radioskd.html
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 11786 approx., March 23 at 2011, during routine check for Anguilla 11775 or maybe Brasil 11780, neither of which is on now, I find an S1-S3 extremely distorted spurblob; switching to FM mode I can tell it`s speaking Spanish, somewhat readable. It`s not RHC, and at this hour the only significant SS on band is 12050, WEWN --- sure enough, I make a match with the S9+10 fundamental which itself sounds OK. Then to search the band for more such spurs, and there they are, all quite broad and hard to pinpoint, some readable in FM mode, further ones not.
12116 at S8-S9, 12189-12192 at S5-S6, 12250-12247, 12390 & 12450 JBA; downward: 11984 at S9+15 and good in FM; 11918 almost as good but some noise; by now it`s 2021: 11852 at S3, 11721 at S1, 11664 JBA.
At 386 kHz below 12050, 11664 implies the average separation would be 64.3 kHz, out to the sixth order. 12450 at +400 kHz would divide out to 66.7 kHz each. But not all of them fit into this pattern. They could be fluxuating as I go along, besides being so broad each in FM.
This transmitter has gone out of whack before; it may always be to some extent, but extra strong fundamental signal today exacerbates them. Clearly, WEWN has some cleaning up to do.
5970, the night Spanish frequency, is clean around 0030 March 24. I understand that two separate transmitters are used for day and night services, even tho at any one time, only one English and one Spanish are on air.
And this is soon to diminish, if HFCC FCC A-18 registrations are complete, only 5 entries. WRTH reminds us they have 4 x 500 kW transmitters. They`ve been run with 250 (or 300?) for years now, but note that Spanish allegedly uses only 100, as in both A-18 and B-17. One could easily have believed 250 today, especially with the azimuths aimed away from us, yet supplying us with all those spurs.
CIRAF
5970 00-14 11,15 Spanish 160 100
12050 14-24 11,15 Spanish 155 100
11520 00-09 46,47 English 85 250
9470 09-13 43,44 English 335 250
15610 19-24 46,47 English 85 250
English no longer 21 hours a day, let alone 24, but only 14. 9470 was also scheduled in B-17 but never used, so there is no reason to expect it to be active in A-18, but we shall soon hear if so. And March 24 should be the last day for morning English on 12065 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 9265, March 23 at 2030, WINB gospel huxter in English, with big ripple on carrier, obvious with BFO, but sounds OK in AM; still a sign of a very sick transmitter (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 6905-LSB, March 23 at 2033, Spanish 2-way, good S9 signals rather than any North American pirates. One has good modulation, the slightly weaker contact, rough. Not clear from which side of border, but they are discussing SLPotosí, Huasteca, Ciudad Valle, products such as mango, caña, aluminio; QSL? So have a ham radio background (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 9475, March 23 at 2028, algo weak S3 instead of WTWW-1; trouble is, nothing else is scheduled. Could be few-watt exciter only, as neighbor 9350 WWCR inblasts at S9+45! (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
This report dispatched at 0228 UT March 24
