** ANTARCTICA. 15475.960, April 9 at 1401-1404+, JJBBA carrier, no doubt LRA36 on again since it`s Tuesday, but slightly lower than measured last week. Manuel Méndez, Spain, meanwhile got a reply from RNASG March 30 that they do operate Tue & Thu at 1230-1400, but are looking into adding an evening broadcast. With staff names:
``Señor Director de la Emisora Gustavo Ernesto QUIROGAEncargado de la Emisora José Ramón CALPANCHAY (Operador Técnico)Locutoras:
Sabrina ALANIS
Beatriz COSTILLA
Karina MUÑOZ
Nuestros medios de contactos son:
Por correo electrónico: lra36@hotmail.com``
Last Tuesday April 2 they did stay on until 2059* mostly music as monitored by Bruce Churchill via the remote in Brasil.
Wolfgang Bueschel replies today April 9: ``Nothing visible on SDR's in Perseus server net, but noted KiwiSDR net on Brazil Rio de Janeiro island, off coast SDR installation. S=3 or -113dBm music program at 1540 UT at April 9, AGC off, manual gain 97dB. 73 wb df5sx``(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CUBA. 11850, April 8 at 2302, RHC Spanish again on new frequency, and this time at S9+10/20 on fundamental, I can also detect the -10 kHz JBA spur on 11840. So the spur and fundamental have swapped places. Jamming still running on 11860 but one or two carriers underneath, no doubt the matching spur plus 10 from 11850. Something`s always wrong at RHC (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CUBA. 5040, April 9 at 0607, another hour of RHC English is still
running here and on the rest of The Cuban Five: 6165, 6100, 6060 all
sufficient, except 6000 JBA, much softer than 5995 Mali. Something`s
always wrong at RHC (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CUBA. 6000, April 9 at 1314, RHC is VP and JBM, still ex-6150 but no 2x audible on 12000, and // 9640 which Wolfgang Bueschel found missing earlier. Something`s always wrong at RHC (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** KOREA NORTH [non]. 9465, April 9 at 1325, S4-S6 pop song stands out from other E Asian programming; Aoki shows it`s Nippon no Kaze in Korean via Paochung, TAIWAN at 1300-1330; followed immediately by FEBC Bocaue in Yue, when I do have a much weaker signal (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** OKLAHOMA [and non]. April 9 at 1420 UT, regional tropo DTV DX is up; Hepburn map for 1500 UT shows Enid on the northern edge of level-1 enhancement, surrounding levels 2 and 3 in S Central OK. Most open UHF and a few hi-VHF channels show BAD signals, but only one is decoding solidly, from OKC:
RF 21, KUOT is the PSIP ID on all six of its subs, some with corner bugs, some without or illegible. I later compare to rabbitears.info:
21-1, bug upper right Y in a circle and below that ctvn.org for Cornerstone TV
21-2, no bug but r-e listed as IBN TV; what`s that?
21-3, 3ABN LR
21-4, AFTV, not 3ABN Latino as in r-e (AmFacts - Amazing Facts)
21-5, HopeChannel, UR below a logo - NO audio!! r-e says 3ABN Proclaim
21-6, unID; r-e has only 1 thru 5!
Rabbitears says this is really KUOT-CD, 15 kW ERP at 591 feet above ground level; slightly direxional favoring NW. Digital channel 21, display channel 19 --- no the display channel is also 21 now.
This holds up solid on both my broken rooftop antennas, over an hour until about 1535 UT fade below threshold. Some of the channels are same as on my local 3ABN translator K17JN-D which *still* is emitting subs 1, 3, and 5 only, as per PSIPs except 17-1 only with callsign:
17-1, 3ABN bug LR
17-3, AmFacts and bug LR
17-5, Hope201 and HopeChannel bug UR
At 1601-1604 UT another bandscan finds Wichitans in from the north, decoding or semi-decoding into my SSE/SE-facing antennas:
RF 45, KSNW DT 3-1 --- still not repacked to 15 where will collide
with KTBO OKC; also with: 3-2 Telemun[do]; 3-3 Ion; 3-4 Justice
RF 35, MyTV 36-1, i.e. KMTW Hutchinson
RF 31, KDCU-DT 31-1, Univision; too weak to explore -2, -3, -4
RF 26, FOX 24-1 [obviously KSAS --- and OKC`s Fox on RF 24, 25-1 KOKH,
also PSIP IDs only as FOX!]
(Glenn Hauser, Enid OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** SOUTH CAROLINA [non]. Dead air from TOMBS: see USA: WRMI, WWCR
** U S A [and non]. WORLD OF RADIO 1976 monitoring: just after dispatching my last report, checking via UTWente SDR for WOR via IRRS via ROMANIA, scheduled for 1800 (ex-1900) UT Mondays on 7290:
From 1758 UT Monday April 8, I am instead hearing Chinese music, 1800 timesignal, CNR1 theme. NO IRRS --- HFCC now has CNR Beijing scheduled until 1805, and it does go off and/or is replaced by a strong tone, presumably IRRS getting ready and then open carrier. Soon I find this timely notice from IRRS:
``Hi Glenn, Due to a last minute schedule change, we are starting 15 min later on 7290 kHz (1815-1915 UT daily, Summer), so your program goes on air at 1815 UT (20:15 CEST) on Monday. 73, Alfredo Cotroneo``
So that avoids the CNR overlap. But there is considerable splash from 7280 in Spanish, 7300 in German. 7280 is Vietnam direct; 7300 is Iran until 1820. I notify the above change to the WOR iog just in time at 1812.
WOR does start promptly at 1815, good signal. Bruce Churchill, CA, replies: ``Nice signal from IRRS at 1822 8 April from KiwiSDR in Bay of Islands NZ (path length nearly 10,800 miles) - SINPO 3/4,3544. At 1836 a white noise source co-channel wiped out the program, but fortunately switching modes to USB solved that issue. Switched back to AMN mode at 1850.5 and the noise was gone. However CRI's 500 kW 7295 xmtr coming on at 1857 forced me to switch to LSB mode - again this eliminated the QRM. World of Radio program from tune-in to 1844, Feature Story News (FSN) news broadcast at 1844.5, then "Shortwave Report" at 1849.5 with extracts of news & opinion from Deutsche Welle, Radio Habana Cuba and Russian Radio. Carrier off promptly at 1915. Bruce``
Next scheduled WOR broadcast is 0030 UT Tuesday April 9 on WRMI 7730 --- but checked at 0041 thru 0059, VG Wavescan is playing instead! Mistake? WS is already scheduled immediately prior at 0000, so twice in a row, or swapped with WOR at 0000? Anybody hear it then? Websked still shows 0030 WOR.
WOR still confirmed UT Tue Apr 9 at 0100 on WRMI 7780, fair S9+10.
Next:
2030 UT Tuesday WRMI 7780
1030 UT Wednesday WRMI 5950
2100 UT Wednesday WRMI 9955
2100 UT Wednesday WBCQ 7490v
0000 UT Thursday WRMI 7730
0100 UT Thursday WRMI 7780
0930 UT Friday Unique Radio 5045-USB NSW
0130 UT Saturday WRMI 7780 [new; or 1977?]
Full schedule including AM, FM, webcasts, satellite, podcasts:
http://www.worldofradio.com/radioskd.html
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 7730, April 8 at 2310, S9+10/20 of open carrier dead air, as WRMI-13 is now on skedgrid starting at 2300 with TOMBS for an hour, then System D from 0000 (see WOR monitoring); while 11 & 12, 7570 & 5850, also start BSing at 2300, where I should have checked for more OCDA (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 4840, April 9 at 0604, S9+30 of dead air from WWCR-3, when TOMBS is scheduled weekdays all the way from 06 to 12 UT. Must not be minding the satellite uplink at Walterboro, as dead air has also been showing on WRMI, 7730, earlier, q.v. (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 7505v, April 9 at 0556, NO signal from WRNO in Chinese or English (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
This report dispatched at 1638 UT April 9
