** ANGUILLA. 11775, March 25 at 1251, S9+20/30 open carrier/dead air with some hum, obviously Caribbean Beacon but no DGS to be heard. PMS is heard at 1306, managing to modulate, // 13845 WWCR (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CHINA. 9800, March 25 at 1308, dramatic W&M dialog in English, with music, later singing, arguing; what`s this? Doesn`t seem to have religious angle, but hard to copy details. Keeps going until 1329 outro but missed title, to be continued tomorrow; and CRI ID, something about heritage.
Of course, it`s that dramatic program CRI has been running so much lately, rather than a gospel huxter. Absolutely American accents and I never heard any reference to anything Chinese. In B-17, 9800 was VOA Korean via Tinang, Philippines, but now for A-18 has ceded it at 13-14 only to CRI English, 135 degrees from Kunming. PHT still takes over 9800 at 1430 with Vatican Hindi, violating Separation of Church & State (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CUBA. 6060, March 25 at 0607, RHC English is open carrier/dead air --- no, wait, it`s Just Barely Modulated, while 6165 is merely undermodulated, 6000 & 6100 sufficient. Something`s always wrong at RHC.
11760, Sunday March 25 at 1502, weekly RHC Esperanto is confirmed, tuned in too late to hear full schedule announcement, but ending with 07 hours on 6000, as already confirmed along with the other broadcast Sunday at 2230 on 15730. The 1500 emission was not on air the first date March 11, and not checked for on March 18 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CUBA [and non]. 7335 < // 7365, March 25 at 1236, and // 9805 at 1245, R.. Mart on all three with no jamming. The incompetent DentroCuban Jamming Command is still grinding away on: 7355, 7435, 5980, 11930, pulse jam on 6030. Noise on 5980 still going past 5980 vs NEW ZEALAND on new frequency, q.v.
At 1302 check, RM still VG on 7335 // 7365, jamming still on 7355 // 7435. (KNLS English is supposed to be on 7355 now at 12-13, no sign of it.) At 1405, RM now on 11930 under wall-of-noise jamming, but 13605 clear with the jamming still on ex-13820.
If anyCuban really has a hard time hearing Radio Mart, the first day(s) of a new season are great, as the DCJC is always behind in jamming the correct frequencies. Arnie won`t even avail themselves of what`s openly available from the boycotted HFCC.
Altho the A-18 season is underway March 25, the latest HFCC schedule is still dated March 23. Extracting all the GB entries for Mart:
5980 07-10
6030 00-12
7365 00-03
7365 05-07
7365 12-14
7435 03-05
9565 20-24
9805 10-13
11930 14-20
11930 20-24
13695 13-20
Note this is NOT complete! Unlisting 7335 which I was just hearing (and was not in B-17 HFCC either). How about all the other 7 MHz frequencies they had been using evenings? We may expect even more than three transmitters at once, once the ex-Sri Lankan units be installed and operational. But I think the Cubans will still have plenty of jamming capacity, if they can just get them on the correct frequencies! (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** JAPAN [non]. 11705, March 25 at 1412, English conversation from Radio Japan, which was going to change its name, poor via PALAU, but incomparably better here than // 11935 Tashkent. Meanwhile, more English SW broadcasts have been deleted, leaving only these for A-18, which I extracted from HFCC:
0500-0530 5975 ND Austria
9710 184 Vatican [must be alternate to 9860]
9860 184 Vatican
11970 155 France
1100-1130 11695 0 Singapore [meaning north as opposed to ND?]
1400-1430 11705 270 Palau
11935 163 Uzbekistan
And per Alan Roe, March 25, WOR iog: ``R Japan (now announced as "Radio Japan of the NHK World Japan Network") heard at 0500 UT on 5975 kHz confirming A-18 frequencies in line with new published sked on
https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/resources/brochure/pdf/rj_frequency.pdf
0500-0530: 5975-Austria, 9860-Vatican, 11970-France
1100-1130: 11695-Singapore
1400-1430: 11705-Palau, 11935-Uzbekistan``
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** KIRITIMATI. 846, March 25 at 0617, JBA carrier from presumed R. Kiribati (at 0618, WWV reports K index of 4, G1 storms expected). Confident that this split is not European, but I start a 9 kHz bandscan at 0619, hearing only the 531 JBA carrier before falling asleep (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** NEW ZEALAND [and non]. 11725, March 25 at 0556, RNZP nice song in Spanish with guitar, S9+10/20, making it the SSOB by far; in fact the OSOB except for 11520 JBA carrier from WEWN. And BTW, hardly anything is propagating on lower 9 and 7 MHz bands either. Reactivated frequency, giving us a good two hours of reliable reception, now scheduled 0459-0658 daily. I was going to present the program lineup for that block, except NZ has one more week of DST UT+13, which means the domestic RNZ relay times, which are almost all of RNZP content, will be changing. Until then, RNZI is in its Week of Confusion. 0600 timesignal and ``RNZ News at 7``, top story being Aussie cricket scandal, yawn.
7425, new March 25 at 1234, RNZP music is S9-S6, not solid since in the 11-13 block only, this one is aimed only NNW, not NNE.
5980, March 25 at 1241, pointless Cuban wall-of-noise jamming is still running against no Mart; at 1259, RNZI comes up on its new frequency, VG but jamming audible under. 1403 recheck, RNZI still good and no jamming. 1502 recheck, RNZI faded to a JBA carrier. If it were still on 7390, it would last longer into our daytime (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** PALAU [and non?]. 9965, March 25 at 1254, big mess here, S9 signal(s) of two gospel huxters in English mixing. World Harvest Radio could be running both T8WH and WHRI? Or T8WH is getting a double-audio satellite feed from South Bend. 1259 the weaker one outros as `Christ Gospel Broadcast`, from Jeffersonville IN; while the overstation advertises World Vision (frequently done by WHR at breaks), and then T8WH ID from this one. Can`t make out whether the LeSEA understation mentions WHRI. Another possibility is that whichever transmitter(s) be involved, ID for the wrong one, i.e. everything out of South Bend so even WHRI could be radiating a T8WH ID! See my yesterday`s report of 9965 so strong it could be WHRI instead of T8WH off the side. At 1302 only one gospel huxter is audible at S9+10. At 1415, praise music, VG S9+10. I never noticed any SAH which would be the case for two separate transmitters unless precisely synchronized in frequency (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** SAIPAN. 12140.034, March 25 at 1324, S7-S5 of Khmer, which is IBB at 1230-1330 due west, plus 1330-1400 Myanmarianese. This site typically significantly off-frequency (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** SPAIN. 17855, March 25 at 1408, JBA carrier from REE on reactivated for A-18 North American frequency, from earlied opening weekends at 1400 --- not really propagating, too high vs ex-9690 which was too low (at least India has no CCI from it now). Maybe conditions will improve during the day and during the season. Deep North Americans must listen instead to reactivated 15520, which is poor with music at S3-S5, but at 1414, fair-good S9-S8 in Spanish. It`s our best bet, on the 110-degree ME azimuth, directly opposite from 17855 at 290. At 1408 I also hear a rough carrier on 15390, which was REE`s defective transmitter for B-17, but now not supposed to start until 1800 on 161 degree beam across Africa, with 21620 instead at 14-18 weekends, and which if on, would be totally useless here. Yes, recheck at 1707 finds 17855 now in well, MUF has built up, much better than 15520. Now, will it hold up until 2200*? Sunset in Toledo (near Noblejas) is 1933 UT today. And will the carrier stay on all night like it did on 9690? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** UGANDA [non]. 15239.93 approx., Sunday March 25 at 1410, very poor off-frequency carrier from R. Munansi via WWRB (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A [non]. 9320, March 25 at 1253, S9+10/20 of English lesson for Koreans, obviously VOA, but NOT listed here in B-17 or A-18 HFCC schedules! Surely from Philippines or NMI site (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. WORLD OF RADIO 1922 monitoring: confirmed UT Sunday March 25 at 0200 on WRMI 7780, fair. Almost confirmed, UT Sun Mar 25 at 0343 on WA0RCR, 1860-AM, MO. As `This Week in Amateur Radio` is starting, presumably right after WOR from 0314 or so. Next:
Sun 2330 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB to WSW
Mon 0300v WBCQ 5130v Area 51 to WSW
Mon 0330 WRMI 9955 to SSE
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?]
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 12065, March 25 at 1247, weak English, pauses, choir, sure sounds like WEWN with a mass, despite this frequency being deleted from A-18 schedules. Builds up to S8 at 1303 with choral music, no spurs, but certainly still WEWN. Maybe just not caught up with A-18 changes yet? I`ve been referring to FCC/HFCC listings, but it`s about time I checked WEWN itself:
http://ewtn.org/radio/freq.htm
which does have lots of blanx now, with this A-18 schedule:
``English
10-13 9470 335 SE Asia
19-24 15610 85 Africa
00-10 11520 85 Africa
Spanish (both Central/S America, no azimuths given)
15-24 12050
00-15 5970``
I`ve yet to hear any sign of them on 9470! And 12065 still running, as above. 5970 not heard before or after 1300. At 1501 check, neither 12050 nor 5970 on the air, but 15610 still with JBA carrier, so that English not yet deleted!
12073 approx., March 25 at 1708, spurblob cutting on and off out of the 12050 undermodulated Spanish transmitter; cursory tunearound does not find any other spurs; this one only +23 kHz away (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 1550, March 24 at 0607 UT, scat song, so I wonder if it`s CBEF, SRC`s ``Ici Premire`` in Windsor, Ont. NRC AM Log has one JAZZ format on 1550, but it`s daytimer WZUM in PA (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) {date correct, overlooked for previous report}
This report dispatched at 1808 UT March 25
