** CUBA. 13630 & 13770, Dec 16 at 1440, FMish/AM spurblobs from RHC 13700-AM about 70 kHz displaced today; and a much weaker double at 13840; if any at 13560, buried under local constant RF ID or some other ISM transmission. Something`s always wrong at RHC (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CUBA. 11760, Dec 16 at 1554, big dead air from this RHC, while 15140 & weaker 15230 modulate. Something`s always wrong at RHC (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CUBA [and non]. 11930 & 11860, Mon Dec 16 at 1506, Radio Martí well atop wall-of-noise jammers opening `Revoltillo` show with host greeting listeners around the world including Alemania, Houston, several towns in Cuba including Bejucal = RHC/spy/jammer SW site; interspersed with SFX such as rooster, sheep; nice weather in Miami, 25 grados. By 1622 recheck, both are below the jamming (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** KOREA SOUTH. 4885, Dec 16 at 1435 VP music from Echo of Hope back here this week ex-4890; Ron Howard will have surveyed all the latest jumparounds as of Mondays; yes, already:
``Last Monday (Dec 9): 3985 // 4890 // 6000 // 6255 // 6355 // 9105
This Monday (Dec 16): 3990 // 4885 // 6000(?) // 6250 // 6355 // 9100`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** KURDISTAN [non]. 11530, Dec 16 at 1452, Kurdish music with chanting, only one station, Denge Welat, no Turkish jamming. Had been on 11540 for several days whenever checked. Nothing there either now. A few seconds before 1500, another carrier comes on, extremely smooth site transition, presumably from PRIDNESTROVYE to FRANCE, as music keeps playing; timesignal 38 seconds late, ID and YL talk interspersed with news stingers. Before 1500 it was S6-S8 with flutter; afterwards, only slightly steadier here, both aimed away from us, but Issoudun crosses more below the auroral zone (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** PERU. 5980, Dec 15 at 2350, JBA carrier from R. Chaski vs Cuban noise jamming against nothing else; until autocutoff at 2354:48.5* My last check was Dec 10 until 2354:59*, i.e. now 10.5 seconds earlier over a 5-day period, keeping up the average timer slippage slightly over 2 seconds per noctem. At some eventuality, they will figure it`s too early and will reset the timer closer to 2400; but they obviously don`t care about abruptly interrupting whatever programming be outgoing on SW (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** SWAZILAND. 4760, Dec 16 at 0337, African language vs CODAR on both sides, from TWR scheduled 0330-0415. EiBi and Aoki/NDXC do not agree on the Zimbabwean language breakdown. EiBi: 0330-0345 Ndau, 0345-0415 Shona; Aoki: 0330-0400 Shona, 0400-0415 Ndau. Ndau has twice as many speakers in Moçambique than in Zimbabwe (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A [and non]. WORLD OF RADIO 2012 monitoring: confirmed UT Monday December 16 at 0130 on WRMI 7780, S8-S9 after a 1-second musical interlude to avoid any dead air after ID. I have added a second of dead air at the end of WOR, so now there is no overlap by the too-hasty WRMI automation.
Also confirmed UT Mon Dec 16 at 0230 on 7780 and 9395 vs hi noise level here; both OK via UTwente SDR, 7780 thataway better than 9395 off the side.
Richard Langley, NB reports on his 7780 recording last Sunday evening, 15-16 December UT:
``21:30 World of Radio (#2012; no words cut off nor overridden this week)
01:30 World of Radio (#2012; no words cut off nor overridden this week)
02:30 World of Radio (#2012; no words cut off nor overridden this week) -- Richard Langley``
WOR 2012 also confirmed by gh starting at 0402 UT Mon Dec 16 on Area 51 webcast; and VP S5-S6 on WBCQ 5130 at 0429 check.
Also confirmed at 0430 UT Mon Dec 16 on WRMI 9955, VG S9+20 atop some lite pulse jamming before fading down a bit. Reception quality of this airing is extremely variable here.
Also confirmed starting at 1901:12 Mon Dec 16 on IRRS 7290 Romania? Huge -50 dbM signal at UTwente SDR (carrier already on at 1857 with some hum, ACI from China; 1859:25 cut on modulation amid Aïda in progress, quick IRRS sign-on; pause, 1900:30 four headlines from Feature Story News, London, but American accent: India protests; Schumer on impeachment; new MPs in parliament; Russia testing transpolar nuclear missile system). Next:
0100 UT Tuesday WRMI 7780 to NE
2200 UT Wednesday WBCQ 7490v to WSW
0100 UT Thursday WRMI 7780 to NE
Unique Radio, NSW website now says will be active Dec 25-26, and maybe elsewhen, with WOR times as: Mon 0900 & 0930 on 5045-USB or 3210-USB?
Not clear. Wed and Fri 0900 on 5045-USB.
Full schedule including AM, FM, webcasts, satellite, podcasts:
http://www.worldofradio.com/radioskd.html
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** VANUATU [and non]. 5040, Dec 16 at 0720, JBA carrier, presumably VBTC which has just reactivated SW with its new transmitter asanticipated before yearend, and reported heard elsewhere. It`s too late for Cuba on 5040, and too early for India. Same time more JBA carriers from fellow Pacificans, 5055 presumed 4KZ Queensland; and 5020 Solomon Islands. Reawake at 1046 for quick check, still only JBA carriers on all. Missing is 5045 for Unique Radio, but that would be USB, no carrier, currently suspended and/or on 3210-USB instead.
VBTC on FB Dec 15 about this in Bislama/Pidgin:
``VBTC blong yumi evriwan
https://www.facebook.com/vbtc.vu/
VBTC 21 hrs ·
Good morning VBTC Technical team wetem ol technician blong Kordia mo Hanjin oli stap testem ol frequencies blong Short Wave Transmitters long ol following frequencies mo ol time ia
0600-0900 3945 Khz
0900-1200 5040 Khz
1200-1800 7260 Khz
1800-2200 5040 Khz
[local = UT + 11]
Sapose anyone i kasem ol frequencies ia plis contactem Radio Vanuatu long 23026 or 22999``
So not 2485, and 5040 instead of 5055 as originally registered; relax, 4KZ. 5040: 07-11 UT & 22-01 UT. 2485 and 5055 are still shown in HFCC as of Dec 16, but not updated since Dec 10, mixed in with NZ FMO info: http://hfcc.org/data/schedbyfmo.php?seas=B19&fmor=RNZ
Ron Howard reports to the WOR iog: ``5040, Radio Vanuatu, random listening on Dec 16. Their signature song "You Are the Only One," sung by the "Black Brothers," heard at 1105, 1123 and while mixing with AIR Jeypore at 1223; reception blocked at 1128, with the start of AIR IS, via Jeypore, which was stronger than Vanuatu; still mixing together at 1248, so seems to still be testing`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 2887-USB & 3016-USB, Dec 16 at 0705 in bandscan, weak intermittent aero contacts. EiBi shows 2887 is New York for Caribbean routes; 3016 north Atlantic routes, any of NY, Gander, Shannon, Azores. Santa Maria was mentioned = Azores but probably a handoff from one of the others (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 5006, Dec 16 at 1434, JBA carrier; JG2XA propagation studier? See previous discussion (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 5798, Dec 16 at 0724 and 1437 chex, JBA carrier here not noticed before, and not at this time from WRMI 5800. Nothing in EiBi or Aoki; could be ute (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 13740, Dec 16 at 1554, fair signal with flutter, rough guess Swahili? well after RHC is finished. Nothing in EiBi or Aoki, before 1700 RFI in French; but HFCC shows HCJB via AUSTRIA multilingual at 1530-1630 on Saturdays only. This is the Russian/Chechen service, but now it`s Monday, so what? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
This report dispatched at 1936 UT December 16
