** AUSTRALIA. 9670, Thu Aug 23 at 1239, S9-S6 in special English, talk about BIOS promoted by a Richard Jefferson, pros and cons of GM foods; the part I hear seems even-handed; closing credits for `Spotlight`, http://www.radioenglish.net for more info and script on title ``Food technology for everyone``. 1244 sign-off by Reach Beyond, until tomorrow at 1115 = 5:45 pm Myanmar time, and off 1245* (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** BANGLADESH [and non]. 4750, Aug 23 at 1223, two JBA carriers slightly apart making double het against BFO: i.e. Bangladesh Betar and CNR1 Hailar, with Makassar long gone (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** BULGARIA. 11550, Aug 23 between 1559 and 1600, JBA carrier comes on. It`s a test publicized to DX media by a secret broadcaster asking for reports especially from target Africa, to be music only and no QSLs. Few of us are in Africa and why should we help such an anonymous source refusing to ID itself? A good chance it`s a gospel huxter or clandestine. Ivo Ivanov says the site is 100% from his neighborhood, Kostinbrod a.k.a. Secretbrod (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CHINA. 7730, Aug 23 at 1229, CNR1 emphatic talk // 11825, 1230 1+1 timesignal, second pip higher. Here to jam Sound of Hope, Taiwan, which Aoki/NDXC puts on 7730.057.
11900, Aug 23 at 1411, VG S9+10/20 in Chinese, rivalling Cubans on band; VOA via Philippines is scheduled this hour only, so likely another CNR1 jammer (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CUBA [and non]. 11860, Aug 22 at *1400:35, Greenville carrier comes on late overriding jamming which has been running long earlier; not until 1401:30.5 is Radio Martí modulation enabled, the usual pattern. Latest HFCC A-18 of August 22 still lacks 11860 for OCB, really on air since August 13, M-F only (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** IRAN [non]. 12005, Aug 23 at 1412, Persian talk, pop song in English, 1413 two DJs with more chat. S9/S9+10 is much better than I would expect from scheduled Woofferton UK at this hour; maybe hitting target from the east instead? Latest HFCC of Aug 22 still shows Woofferton eastward rather than Tinang or Udorn westward (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** KOREA NORTH [non]. 6165, Aug 23 at 1306, Sea Breeze earnest YL in English as Thursdays only from JSR JAPAN, on her latest QSY, only poor (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** KOREA SOUTH [and non]. 5995.029, Aug 23 at 1225, Korean over noise jamming, from Echo of Hope (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** NEW ZEALAND. 6224-USB, Aug 23 at 0554, marine weather emphatically enunciated numbers, very poor signal. It`s ZLM, Taupo Maritime Radio, per EiBi, in a 32-minute broadcast starting at 0533; also many others of same length beginning at :03 or :33 past certain hours. Seems a bit early for this, but not really, circa sunset there (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** NIGERIA. 7255-, Aug 22 at 0629, VON is AWOL yet another day (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** OKLAHOMA. 1020, Aug 23 at 1207 UT, KOKP Perry is promoting ``better-sounding`` FM frequencies just added, 93.1 in Stillwater and 93.3 in Ponca City [sic]. Still sloganned ``Triple Play Sports``. They already have a full-power FM on 105.1. This is a local morning talkshow not limited to sports. The trio can be split when necessary if too many silly ballgames simultane, but I suppose the new translators will always duplicate their AMs, so not to become ``Quintuple``. FCC Query shows:
93.1, K226CW, Stillwater, 170 watts for KOKP-1020
93.3, K227DK, Blackwell, 250 watts for KOKB-1580
An hour later I try to hear them in Enid, but as expected, 93.1 remains dominated by Hutchinson KS, and 93.3 by Newcastle OK.
(BTW, Enid`s 93.1 translator license, K226BR, remains dark; where are you, Donald Williamson?? 88.3, K202BY remains dead air in honor of Harold Camping?) (Glenn Hauser, OK, Aug 23, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. WORLD OF RADIO 1944 monitoring: confirmed Wednesday August 22 at 1050, the 1030 on WRMI 5950, good. Also confirmed Wednesday August 22 at 2100.0 on WBCQ 7490.06v, poor --- but no signal on WRMI 9955! --- until cuts on late, JIP WOR at *2102:04 during Argentine/WRMI item; playout presumably started a sesquiminute earlier; poor. Such are the risks of being the very first program on any particular transmission. Not aired after 2330 Wed Aug 22 on WBCQ 9330v. Next:
Thu 2330 WBCQ 7490v to WSW [NEW --- surprise airing last week, &?]
Thu 2330 WBCQ 9330v to WSW [maybe]
Fri 2330 WBCQ 9330v to WSW [maybe]
Sat 0631 HLR 6190-CUSB to WSW
Sat 1431 HLR 6190-CUSB to WSW
Sat 1930v WA0RCR 1860-AM ND
Sat 2130 WBCQ 9330v to WSW [maybe, or 2330?]
Sun 0310v WA0RCR 1860-AM ND
Sun 1030 HLR 9485-CUSB to WSW
Sun 2130 WRMI 7780 to NE [NEWish]
Sun 2330 WBCQ 9330v to WSW [maybe]
Mon 0130.5 WRMI 5850 to NW, 7780 to NE
Mon 0300v WBCQ 5130v Area 51 to WSW
Mon 0330 WRMI 9955 to SSE
Mon 0400 WRMI webcast only, non-direxional
Mon 2330 WBCQ 9330v to WSW [maybe]
Tue 0030 WRMI 7730 to WNW
Tue 2030 WRMI 7780 to NE, 5950 to WNW [or #1944?]
Tue 2130 WRMI 5950 to WNW [or #1944?]
Full schedule for WOR on all outlets, not just SW; podcast linx:
http://www.worldofradio.com/radioskd.html
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 9330.126V, Aug 23 at 1234, dead air from WBCQ; exact frequency wavers slightly. 1235 Brother Scare starts resuming, cutting on with whine and off. 5129.8 remains off or at least inaudible (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 7505V, Aug 22 at 0631, WRNO is S5-S9 of dead air instead of Chinese or English gospel-huxtering (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 9475 & 5830, Aug 22 at 1406, WTWW-1 is missing both from day and night PPPP SFAW frequencies.
5830, Aug 23 at 0557, WTWW-1 is on at S9 but much weaker than neighbor 5935 WWCR at S9+20; why? WTWW underpowered? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 860, Aug 23 at 0604 UT, news from KKOW Pittsburg KS is blasting in network news, CBS? splattering 850 & 870, hardly normal for nightmiddle. Suspect it`s on 10 kW ND day power rather than 5 kW direxional night, circle tangent to SW (so we still get it, but much weaker) (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 1540.04 approx., Aug 23 at 1215 UT, carrier looping SSE stix out, no doubt KGBC Galveston TX, still off-frequency beyond tolerance, making low het against Spanish KZMP 1540.0 in The Metroplex, and unless nulled, English KXEL Iowa. 1560 KGOW Vietnamese Bellaire from Houston market is also still propagating (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
This report despatched at 1849 UT August 23
