** FRANCE [and non]. New scheduling for RFI English: see ISRAEL [non]
** ISRAEL [non]. 5950, Nov 2 at 0535-0540+, S9+10 but undermod, WRMI with WRN relay; expecting to hear RFI, but all the discussion concerns Israel, Pittsburgh. Yes, advance timeshift has now put Israel Radio in the 05-06 hour instead of 04-05, with RFI back to 06-07, same time as on their own SW which per B-18 HFCC has moved way down to 7245, but from 3 Feb back up to 9735. And DW should now be at 07-08 on 5950 WRMI. Complete WRN B-18 sked including other times for Israel et al., partly also via 5950:
http://babcock.media/world-radio-network/schedules/Schedule-English-North-America.pdf
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) See also UNID 17850!
** KUWAIT. 11629.757, Nov 2 at 1430, R. Kuwait with Qur`an --- but also slightly weaker audio of something else in Arabic talk, music; presumably a different RK program, obviously mixed into single off-frequency transmitter modulation. Something`s always wrong --- (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** NIGERIA [non]. 11580, Friday November 2 at 1350, WRMI with dead air instead of Radio Nigeria, Kaduna, just when last week it was Qur`aning. Monitored straight thru until 1500*, nothing but dead air, except for truncated 10-second ToH WRMI Rudy legal IDs in English, auto-firing just before 1400 and 1500. They were made as brief as possible, since RNK allowed no time for US IDs to be inserted (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** TURKEY [and non]. 15270, Nov 2 at 1324-1325.5*, IS ending VOT German almost on-frequency, and today it takes only a minute for 12035 to come up by *1326.5, also near-frequency with IS and English IDs. Turkish service continues on, close to 15350 at 1348 check, while 11815.0 is still clear for NHK in Japanese. At 1400, TRT has QSYed and now the transmitter is way off, 11815.7, S9+10 with R. Japan making a considerable het. So was it really the same transmitter which just closed 15350 without being 0.7 kHz away? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U K. 5975, Nov 2 at 0549, bits of English voiced-over into Hausa, mentions Ghana, Exxon-Mobil, etc. S9+10 causing ACI to weaker 5970 WEWN. HFCC shows this is BBC at 0529-0600, 300 kW, 160 degrees from Woofferton, and ``G BBC ENC 16148`` --- So BBC is the broadcaster, and ENC is the Frequency Management Organisation --- what does that mean? Encompass Digital Media Services, replacing Babcock --- tsk2, no more fun embedding BBC into BaBcoCk (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 9395, Nov 2 at 0534, VOA news via Oldies via WRMI, and now the SSOB! You never know: sometimes this frequency is a JBA carrier overnight (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. Trans-Pacific just-barely-audible mediumwave carrier search, Nov 2 at 1246-1304 UT, many from DU (WSW) and/or FE (NW). If there is no direxion appended, probably both or just too weak to tell on the DX-398: 558, 567-NW, 576-WSW, 585-NW, 594(2), 603-NW, 612(2), 657-NW, 675-NW, 693-NW, 702-WSW(2), 711-NW, 738(2), *747-NW, 756(2), 774(2), 819-NW, 828-NW, 864-NW, 873-NW(2), 945-NNW, *972-NW, 981, 1008, 1035-NW+(2), 1044-NW, 1053-NW, 1062-NW(2), 1071, 1098(2), 1134-NW, 1143-NW, 1332-NW, *1566-NW.
Notes: * means stronger ones; (2) means at least two carriers beating.
Above 890 kHz, local noise level degrades until it stops at 1305; a neighbor`s touch lamp? The 1300 UT mark comes by 1143 kHz. I switch back to 972 just before 1300, but cannot hear any time pips, tho on original scan at 1255 it was strong enough to push some audio, presumed South Korean.
A medium SAH on 702, not from the NW, points to the offset between 2BL Sydney and Magic, Auckland NZ, as Mauno Ritola and Neil Kazaross recently discussed, i.e. 6 Hz apart: ``701.993 ABC Sydney, 701.999 Magic, Auckland`` However, MWOffsets shows 701.9960 for 2BL as of last week, and 701.9991 for Magic as of 2017-02-26, i.e. only 3 Hz apart. There are also some weaker Au/NZ stations on ``702``.
945 bearing NNW is a puzzle. Frequency is very close, so unlikely a spur or birdie. That would put it at the longitude of western China, but the big`un with 400 kW is in the east, Jilin province (Glenn Hauser, Enid OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. Re: ``17850-AM, Oct 31 at 2110, JBA carrier, and the OSOB to boot; but nothing scheduled now in HFCC or Aoki/NDXC``
Light-bulb: could be third harmonic of 5950 WRMI! Harmonix from Okeechobee are rare; once we had one from 7 MHz on 15 MHz band, but generally well-suppressed and frequencies accurate (Glenn Hauser,OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
This report dispatched at 1648 UT November 2
