** BRAZIL [and non]. 9630.5, Dec 15 at 2345, R. Aparecida is reactivated here, split frequency causing het with stronger 9630.0 Chinese, i.e. CRI Cantonese this hour via Jinhua 831 site (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CHINA. 6100, Dec 16 at 0009, a whistling song. Probably CRI in Portuguese aimed the long way NW from Beijing site to far Brasil; but CRI in Sinhala via Kunming is also here. HFCC adds Korea South; EiBi and NDXC/Aoki show instead, Korea North (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CHINA. 7430, Dec 15 at 2340, YL in Special Chinese, probably language lesson during this CRI Khmer service hour, 100 kW, 200 degrees from Nanning site (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CHINA. 9535, Dec 15 at 2346, Chinese at S5-S9, rather than any trace of RHCuba in Spanish, supposed to start here at 2200 --- Commies vs Commies! As CNR1 has to jam RFA Tibetan via Kuwait until 2400 (and incidentally, CRI English via Kunming also scheduled) (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** ERITREA [non]. 17545, Sat Dec 15 at 1502, JBA carrier, among only three audible on band with 17615, 17700; 17545 is also JBA carrier when checked at 1546 via UTwente SDR. This is the mysterious target broadcast for Eritrea I discovered last week, and denominated only as ``Alsmood`` by Jeff White, RMI broker, Saturdays only at 1500-1600 via Issoudun, FRANCE. Info collected so far is in DXLD 18-50.
I was not expecting to hear it any better this week, so an hour ahead, I reminded members of the WOR, BDXC-UK and HCDX groups:
``Please check 17545, 1500-1600 Saturday only via France, as discovered last week. Little is known about it except it is weekly for Eritrea. What is the ID exactly? How is Alsmood pronounced? Is it definitely in Tigrinya, and/or some other language(s)? Is any contact info announced, website or e-mail? Any further clues to its source? 73, Glenn Hauser``
Thanks to everyone who participated! Their full replies will be rounded up in DXLD 18-51. Some significant bits:
``Recording of three Arabic IDs here:
http://www.intervalsignals.net/17545kHz.mp3
Somewhat noisy, the last one is a bit clearer though.
David Kernick, Interval Signals Online``
``It wasn't audible here but I had a weak to fair signal on an SDR rx in South Africa from tune-in at 1535. Typical Horn of Africa music, followed by talks in Arabic, including several IDs in Arabic. Time pips at 1555 and what sounds like news headlines in Arabic, over music. Off at 1600. The IDs sounded like "Huna sawt al samood" or "idaat al samood". Google translates al-samood (or al-smood) as "Stability" so could its translated name perhaps be "Voice of Stability" or something like that? 73s Dave Kenny``
``I also see it translated into "steadfastness", a variant that looks more apt in this context. Such a name further raises the question about origin and agenda of these broadcasts, because it suggests something else than yet another project by exiled journalists like Radio Erena and Radio Assenna. And this after the latest developments in Eritrea, with Afwerki having lost the war with Ethiopia as excuse for anything. Kai Ludwig`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** IRAN [and non]. 6090.00, Dec 15 at 2329, Anguilla is off leaving a JBA carrier on-frequency, presumably VIRI`s Spanish service from 2320. But at 0007 Dec 16, double-Chinese is atop barely recognizable Spanish. It appears that at 0000 something came on 6090 requiring jamming, but nothing accounting for that in the skeds. However, CNR2 via Golmud 916 site at about 96-east is registered for 2055-0300.
0224 next check I have one undermodulated S6-S8 signal on 6090.00. I have been trying to match reports of R. Bandeirantes, Brasil being heard on 6090 at 0220 in Portuguese, but if this is it now, should have been audible earlier and likely off-frequency like its former 9645 and 11925 channels (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MADAGASCAR. 5009.931, Dec 16 at 0226, VP carrier from presumed Radio Madagasikara, just where I usually measure it, following a lower deviation (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MEXICO. 1570, Dec 15 at 2009, once again I am checking for early skywave from XERF, like the past two afternoons, 3+ hours before sunset --- but listening until 2023, it does not emerge from the jumble. Shows how variable conditions can be even for daytime MW DX (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** ROMANIA. 5980, Dec 16 at 0010, poor signal in Spanish about a balneario, so RRI probably plugging a travel contest. EiBi says this hour is for Venezuela in particular; whence a lot of subjects would be glad to get to refuge in Romania (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** SAUDI ARABIA. See USA: 1520 KSIB
** U S A. 7296-USB, Sat Dec 15 at 1455, NOT LSB (and not AM), some ham net. Control station seldom gives his call and then not clearly, but some participants include KC9INK, K9WT, AB5GG. At 1500 another ham, something like KZ0SB, tries to open the same net: some confusion/dispute about whichone has rotating NCS duties this week. ``We don`t need both``. W9RAN also mentioned, and the guy who tried to start the net before 1500 was Dennis. Says this caters to USB on 40m, low power, mobiles, and net name is: ``Midwest Military Radio Collectors Group``, Saturdays at 9 am Central; and on the first Saturday of months they do it in AM mode; see: http://mmrcg.org/ (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 15580, Dec 14 at 2141, VOA is a JBA carrier, during `Music Time in Africa` on Friday, rather than inbooming. Assuming Greenville-B is still the site, propagation has really dropped out, shux (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A [and non]. WORLD OF RADIO 1960 monitoring: Not confirmed the Saturday Dec 15 at 1531 on Hamburger Lokalradio, 9485-CUSB: No signal detected at UTwente SDR at the start or end, much less in OK. This week I do my best to confirm the Saturday 1700 on WRN via WRMI 5950 --- but even with ECSS, the JBA carrier is not enough to recognize the WOR opening theme, let alone some guy talking with my voice. Next:
0400vUT Sunday WA0RCR 1860-AM [nominal 0415], ND
0830 UT Sunday WRMI 5850 to NW, 5950 to WNW, 7730 to WNW
1130 UT Sunday HLR 7265-CUSB Germany to WSW
2130 UT Sunday WRMI 7780 to NE
0230 UT Monday WRMI 5950 to WNW, 9395 to NNW
0400vUT Monday WBCQ *5130v Area 51 to WSW
0430 UT Monday WRMI *9955 to SSE
0930 UT Monday Unique 5045 low-power NSW Australia
* also webcast; direct linx to these and many others at:
Complete updated WOR sked, all affiliates, satellite, webcast, AM&FM:
http://www.worldofradio.com/radioskd.html
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 9955, Dec 14 at 2210, WRMI with `VORW`, John musing on how many major SW stations have vanished in the last few years even since 2014y; still past 2230, when one of the three dozen weekly `Wavescam` airings on WRMI had been scheduled; but now it`s another VORW, Fridays at 2200-2300 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST0
** U S A. 9330.008, Dec 15 at 1435, surprised to find TOMBS on WBCQ, S7-S5, almost on-frequency; had been way higher for a few weeks. Next check at 2002, climbed up to 9330.051. Transmitter wavers slightly, difficultizing pinpoint measurements, but there they were at one particular instant (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 7490.0, Dec 15 at 2334 JBA carrier, presumed the Chinese this hour only, yet to appear even in Aoki/NDXC, as there is no trace of WBCQ on 7490+, nor on 9330+, nor on 5130+. But it may not be propagating, as not even 7850-CUSB CHU is audible now (but OK on 3330-CUSB). By 2337, however, `BCQ appears to be on causing a het between two JBA carriers. Another check at 0006 Dec 16: NO signals at all on 7490, but WBCQ 5130.49 is there, VP with music.
WBCQ was having tech problems last night, as John Carver reported at 0120 about `Allan Weiner Worldwide`, from 0100 UT Saturday Dec 15:
``Very poor signal on 7490 this evening. Another program on 5130 and no copy on 9330 tonight either. No dead air to start, just sitar music. It does sound like the transmitter goes down several times. Music moves into the theme from Peter Gunn then into some music that I don't recognize. Theme song for AWWW comes up at 0106. Signal is bouncing between S1 and S3. Tom Barna interrupts at 0110 and announces that all the internet feeds at the station are down and that there is no streaming of anything at the station. Says that Larry Will is working on the problem and hopes to have things fixed by tomorrow. Announces that tonight's AWWW will be a rerun of an earlier show and indeed when the show finally starts it is one from October. With the poor signal and a repeat to boot my report ends here. John, Mid-North Indiana`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 3215, Dec 15 at 2335, WWRB is already on this Saturday with gospel huxter at S9+25 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 5085, UT Sun Dec 16 at 0032, WTWW-2 playing inorganic Xmasmx; must have just signed on, as vacant around 0000. 0035 `Theater Organ in the Ozarx` starts only a bit late, so I bring up the webcast for stereo. Well, sorta stereo, but Bob Heil is playing all Xmasmx from really scratchy records, which at first I took to be audio breakup. Improves later, but the $tereo is somewhat unbalanced, ends about 0104 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 1070, Dec 16 at 0000 UT plug for a ``whatwebelieve`` website, ID mentioning Pensacola and vanishes. It`s WNVY Cantonment FL, address in Pensacola, U1 15000/28 watts, Critical Hours 2300 watts, which must have just ended. On E-W antenna, no problem from off-frequency KFTI Wichita at right angle, already cut from 10 to 1 kW and U2 cut to N/S night pattern. Cantonment is NW of Pensacola, lost only a few miles from Alabama across the Perdido River border (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 1450, Dec 14 at 2207 UT, Missouri Net News outro, and ``Good Time Oldies, 1450, K-O-K-O, ko-ko``, dominating for now is this 1 kW graveyarder from Warrensburg MO, pre-sunset (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A [and non]. 1520, Dec 14 at 2153 UT on R75 with E-W longwire, nearby KOKC OKC talk is hardly dominant; by 2155 sports talker is atop, so is it KOLM Minnesota? 2159 Fox Sports net ID, and then ``1520, KSIB, Creston, Iowa``, which is a 1 kW ND daytimer.
There has also been a JBA 1 kHz het which at 2204 I pinpoint to 1521, not 1519, ergo a bit of the 2,000,000 watts out of Saudi Arabia, more than an hour pre-sunset here (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** VIETNAM. 9839.77, Dec 15 at 2342, VOV S9 in English, historico/politico talk, then into a Vietnamese song segment introduced by a few notes of Scott Joplin! Is a perpetual off-frequency, but Aoki/NDXC and EiBi just say ``9840``, in use 1000-1530 & 2200-2400 including English at 1000, 1130, 1230, 1330, 1500 and 2330 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
This report despatched at 0413 UT December 16
