** CANADA. 350 kHz, Dec 12 at 0728 UT, dash and NY, 400-watt ND beacon at Enderby BC, 2313 km = 1437 stmi from here. I rarely hear any from that area. But where`s RG from WRWA, OKC? Not noted.
356 kHz, Dec 12 at 0727 UT, dash and ZF, 3800 watt ND beacon from Yellowknife NT --- new good catch for me; dozing off I wrote down 366 instead but also noted a mix with ODX, Ord, Nebraska, and both of them are really on 356. YK is 3113 km from Enid = 1934 statute miles.
362 kHz, Dec 12 at 0726 UT, dash and SB, 500-watt ND beacon from Greater Sudbury, Ontario.
366 kHz, Dec 12 at 0721 UT, dash and YMW, 500-watt ND beacon from Maniwaki, Quebec (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CUBA. 6145, Dec 11 at 0756, S9+10 of dead air from RHC English, but charitably I shall assume the final repeat had just wound up (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CUBA. 13633 & 13767 approx., Dec 11 at 1538, weak spurblobs from RHC 13700, some music better audible in FM than AM. Something`s always wrong at RHC (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 2012, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CUBA. 6000, Dec 12 at 0147, RHC is suptorted starting `Arts Report` with ``Chariots of Fire`` theme; 6145 not yet on. Something`s always wrong at RHC (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CUBA. 13769 & 13631, Dec 12 at 1437, spurblobs from RHC 13700, and also second-orders audible around 13562 & 13838, at ~69 kHz intervals. Something`s always wrong at RHC (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** INDIA [and non]. 9445, Dec 11 at 2153, some Indian music on fair signal will have to do, since 9420 Greece is occupied by silly ballgame (and too 9690 modulating Spain). And 11820 Sa`udi Qur`aning manages only a JBA carrier (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** KOREA SOUTH. 6155, Dec 11 at 0757, chime IS, VP, W&M in Korean; but it`s the 0800-1000 KBSWR direct in Japanese, listed as 100 kW ND (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MADAGASCAR. 9765, Dec 11 at 2155, S9-S7 with flutter in Brasuguese, ending the MWV hour citing a website or e-mail (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** NORTH AMERICA. 11550, Dec 11 at 1923, the dulcet tones of Josiah, anti-Christ YHWH pirate, S3-S4; ex-11650 as heard a couple days previous. 2145 recheck a JBA carrier, but now likely RFA Saipan which had been in a Korean break at 1900-2100 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 2012, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** OKLAHOMA. 341 kHz, Dec 12 at 1428 UT check, yes, our only local NDB, EI, 25 watts at Woodring is JBA on the air (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** SAUDI ARABIA. 11820+, Dec 11 at 2155, JBA carrier from SBA Qur`an service; no signal at all, Dec 12 at 2145 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 365 kHz, Dec 12 at 0722 UT, ND beacon HQG mixing with something else; 25 watts from Hugoton, Kansas. I was tuned to 363-USB (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 11720, Fri Dec 13 at 2105-2200, finally I listen to an entire `Music Time in Africa` at its secret time on VOA Grimesland-B. About as close as possible to SINPO 55555, but due to very slight occasional selective fading distortion, would strictly have to make it 55544. This could be my napping hour, but no way, not soporific: not only is hostess Heather hyper, so is the music; is there any such thing as hypo African music? Breakneck rhythm and pace thruout. I am no ethnomusicologist, unlike Heather Maxwell, PhD, but I would say it`s almost all contemporary, not much different from what you would hear other days of week on `Africa Beat`; not traditional, not folk. At 2157 the final tune is an `Oldie` from Mali, 1995.
Come to think of it, hardly a female voice to be heard either among the musicians performing or interviewing. After this, I`m pretty well exhausted, altho have been lying down amid earphones for an hour, enjoying the excellent audio and modulation level on the S9+20/30 signal, nevertheless directly off the back of the antenna. At closing she gives the times as: on streaming Sat & Sun 1505 & 2005; on SW, Fri 0905, Sat & Sun 0905, 1505, 2005, 2205! She never includes this very broadcast, which is our best and only chance to hear it direct.. Here`s a low-res portrait and brief bio of H.M.: https://www.voanews.com/author/heather-maxwell (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A [and non]. WORLD OF RADIO 2011 monitoring: confirmed Wed Dec 11 from 2200:20 on WBCQ 7490.05v, fair. Also confirmed UT Thu Dec 12 at 0100 on WRMI 7780, good S9.
WOR 2012 is available as of 2240 UT Friday December 13
(mp3 stream) http://www.w4uvh.net/wor2012.m3u
(mp3 download) http://www.w4uvh.net/wor2012.mp3
Or via http://www.worldofradio.com/audiomid.html
Also linx to podcast services.
[sorry it`s later than usual; and for some upcuts within as I was in
too big a hurry on-the-fly editing]
WORLD OF RADIO 2012 contents: Albania, Algeria, Antarctica, Bougainville, Canada, China, Colombia, Cuba, East Turkistan, Germany, India, Japan/Korea North non, Madagascar, México, North America, Perú, Poland, Pridnestrovye, Scotland non, Spain, Tajikistan, Turkey, USA, Uzbekistan, Vietnam and non; publications; and the propagation outlook.
The shortwave broadcasts should be:
2300 UT Friday WRMI 9955 to SSE [confirmed on webcast starting about 10 seconds early but not upcut; and on 9955 with less jamming initially than usual]
0130 UT Saturday WRMI 7780 to NE, 5850 to NW, 5010 to S
1300 UT Saturday WRMI 15770 to NE
2030vUT Saturday WA0RCR 1860-AM
0400vUT Sunday WA0RCR 1860-AM [nominal 0415]
2130 UT Sunday WRMI 7780 to NE
0130 UT Monday WRMI 7780 to NE
0230 UT Monday WRMI 7780 to NE, 9395 to WNW
0400vUT Monday WBCQ 5130v Area 51 6160v? to WSW
0430 UT Monday WRMI 9955 to SE
1900vUT Monday IRRS 7290 Romania? to WNW
0100 UT Tuesday WRMI 7780 to NE
2200 UT Wednesday WBCQ 7490v to WSW
0100 UT Thursday WRMI 7780 to NE
Full schedule including AM, FM, webcasts, satellite, podcasts:
http://www.worldofradio.com/radioskd.html
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 5950, Dec 11 at 0754, S9+10 of dead air again from WRMI instead of SMTV: must be mis-programmed this way. This time I keep listening, and at 0759 Jeff WRMI ID fires, and 0800 into RAE beat and Japanese opening as scheduled, 285 degrees aimed right at Pearl Harbor, not Yokohama; and PNG beyond (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. RF 25 via Suddenlink Cable 9, Sunday Dec 8 at 1400-1530 UT, KWTV with `CBS Sunday Morning` --- must-see TV for me I have watched every week for sesquidecades. Normally I start a sesquihour video recording, so I can doze some more, not worry about missing anything; and be able to zap all the commercials on playback. Doing it by timer is risky since sometimes KWTV blows it away for BREAKING NEWS or WEATHER, at best shunting it to their sub-station KSBI. On Dec 8 however, I set the timer, and also the cable box to turn on the correct channel at the correct time, instead of leaving it on all night; it did, but turned out there was no audio recorded, only video! Unknown why. I could have watched closed captioning for a sesquihour, but as a hearing person prefer the A/V method.
So before recording over that tape, as a last resort I go to cbs.com where one may play the whole show (if you hurry up). Cable`s on-demand video funxion has lots of stuff from CBS and many other networx, but never CBSSM! The timer on that shows it`s only 56+ minutes long not counting the commercials. But when playing we find that strings of ads are inserted at every break, most of them duplicated from one time to the next, and poorly edited cutting out some of the program content. Not the same ones which would have been on the original broadcast. Most annoying, and no fast forwarding or skipping them here. But at least I get to hearsee most of another great program. Bottom line: avoid watching CBS SM at cbs.com if at all possible.
I never buy coffee-table books, except maybe at a thrift store, but a large collexion of this show`s Sun-symbol art at high resolution would make a great one, several new ones each week and apparently never duplicated. Several years ago I suggested this, but they seemed uninterested; rights? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 3240, Dec 11 at 0744, JBA carrier with flutter, as if something from E Asia rather than a local artifact or harmonic; but nothing listed in EiBi, Aoki, or HFCC (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 4651-USB, Dec 11 at 0748, VP brief YL contact, presumably air traffic control but nothing listed in EiBi. My 2002 Klingenfuss book says it`s an AMS = Aeronautical mobile service, frequency which we already know, but for details go to http://www.ute-monitor.org/aerolist I try that 17 years later and instead wind up on a German site, something about financing! (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
This report despatched at 0032 UT December 13
