** CANADA. 223 kHz, Dec 6 at 0728, dash and YYW, 1000 watt ND beacon from Armstrong, Ontario. First one readable as I tune upward (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CHINA. 6100, Dec 6 at 2307, VP music same as VG signal on CUBA 13650. I`m checking this just as some guy on WRMI is quoting Steve McGreevy`s unID music on 6100; I researched the answer too late to say on the WOR 2011 show: it`s CRI`s Portuguese service which for months has been replaced by continuous Chinese music. 6100 is scheduled 2300-0100 direct from Beijing site, aimed NW across Asia, Europe, Atlantic to Brasil. 13650 via Cuba is for only one hour; and the second hour has another relay, Kashgar, East Turkistan (land of Uyghur brainwashing by the ChiCom) on 9710, which here at 0001 Dec 7 check is a JBA carrier, while the music on 6100 is still poorly audible. The understation Steve also had on 6100 must have been CRI QRMing itself, simulscheduled in Sinhala via Kunming at 2330-0030 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CUBA. 13767 & 13633 approx., Dec 6 at 1503, AM/FM/F# spurblobs from RHC 13700-AM transmitter with music at S9; second order much weaker VP circa 13567 & 13833, none further. Something`s always wrong at RHC (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** ERITREA. 7140 & 7180, Dec 6 at 1427, JBA steady carriers vs QRhaM, presumably the two VOBMEs by longpath (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** GUATEMALA. 4055, Dec 6 at 0722, TGAV once again on air way past usual 0610v*, but no modulation. Sometimes there may be, for the holidays? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** KOREA NORTH. 2850, Dec 6 at 1408, choral music S7-9, KCBS P`yongyang the common DPRK MW station here, only occupant of the 105-meter band, better than usual well after sunrise here.
3320, Dec 6 at 1413, Hamhung relay of KCBS P`yongyang also registers S7-9, but just barely modulated. Still outshines 3325 Indonesia JBA carrier (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** KOREA SOUTH. 1566, Dec 6 at 1343 I am concentrating on the JJBBA carrier from FEBC Cheju Island, fading somewhat, but seems to begone at about 1344.5, expected time for their beam change from Japan to China. In another month this will be easier right at our own sunrise (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** KOREA SOUTH [and non]. Surveying Echo of Hope Korean talk jumparounds and status of KN noise jamming, Dec 6 at 1414-1425: 3475 no jam; 3905 jam only; 3930 with jam; 3985 with jam; 4557 jam only; 4885 no jam; 5995 over jam; 6350 with jam (not 6348); 6520 jam; 6600 with jam. Quite a while later had JBA carrier on 9100.
6045, Dec 6 at 1422, open carrier with jamming too. This is a Voice of Freedom frequency, per EiBi in a break 1406-1452 but evidently leaving carrier on for the jammer (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MEXICO. 720, Dec 6 at 1351 UT, Spanish timecheck twice as ``7-48``, presumably automated; ad repeating toll-free phone number 800-110-3130 --- I don`t think a US number could have 1 as the fourth digit; anyhow it`s an ad for something costing 629 pesos ``sin gastos de envío``. 1354 another timecheck, for 7:50, and temp 8 grados centígrados; then mentions ``El Fonógrafo``, the network 25 kW XEJCC Juárez sometimes relays (but now during talk, not music), with a couple? frequencies, one of them sounding like 650, which does not compute, must have been 690, XEN (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MEXICO. 730, Dec 6 at 1341, VG signal with Mexican music, much stronger than 720 or 700; 12 minutes after sunrise here as I start, none of the XEs below 700 are audible. ``La Mexicana --- le gana`` partial slogan, plugging a program Sat & Sun at 22 horas; 1350 Suprema Corte PSA (can you imagine the SCOTUS doing that, or needing to?), ``La Mexicana`` ID again. It`s XEHB, 50 kW at Hidalgo del Parral, Chihuahua (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MEXICO. 770, Dec 6 at 1355, Gobierno de México PSA, loops SSW, so XEACH Monterrey NL, almost a semihour after sunrise here when the other still skywaving XEs are further west; yes, 1358 Grupo Fórmula program promo; 1400 ID? mentions ``canal`` algo. Did not hear it a few minutes earlier and KKOB Albuquerque should have popped on ND day pattern at 1400 UT (January: 1415 UT)(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MEXICO. 940, Dec 6 at 0707, multiple ID/promos for ``La Ke Buena -- en cadena``. Yes, that`s the way they spell it, altho XEQ should be the ideal station to spell it correctly with a QU. Dominant signal now, which is rarely the case any more for the major CDMX stations; 50/50 kW listed, and not noticeably off-frequency now. So slogan implies it`s networked elsewhere? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** OKLAHOMA. 341 kHz, Dec 6 at 0732 UT, JBA ID with long pauses from my local NDB, EI, at Woodring Airport. I often check for this day and night and hear nothing at all, so appears to be sporadic and/or very reduced power below nominal 25 watts. DXinfocentre.com lists 24 other 341s in the N American region, including the now decommissioned YYU in Kapuskasing; and the only other one I have heard, OIN in Oberlin KS (Glenn Hauser, Enid, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** PERU. 5980, Dec 6 at 2353, standing by again for the Chaski cutoff of its VP carrier audible under WON jamming, which occurs at 2355:07*, i.e. 2.5 seconds earlier than 24 hours ago, 2355:09.5; of course I`m just estimating the split seconds on my digital watch (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** TURKEY. 5960, Dec 6 at 2301:30, VOT carrier and shortly modulation cuts on late as English is already opening. Something`s always wrong at Emirler, but today the modulation is good on S9+10 signal; 2350 recheck still on with interval signal loop, 2357 starts inserting German IDs twice a minute, ``Die Stimme der Türkei``, and after slightly late timesignal, 0000 UT Dec 7 opens German hour with schedule including 19mb, i.e. 15270 at 1230 and there is only one other German airing scheduled, 1830 on 5945, NOT NOW! If this phantom German broadcast were to recur 24 hours later it would collide with The Mighty Farty KBC (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. WORLD OF RADIO 2011 monitoring: confirmed first SWBC at 2300 UT Friday December 6 on WRMI 9955: as usual, initially buried by heavy wall-of-noise Cuban jamming even tho there is no exile programming now, nor anything in Spanish. I can`t time the opening, but must have started playout 10-15 seconds early judging by when I first utter ``standard disclaimer`` after the opening; was it upcut or everything starting a bit early? This time the jamming persists longer, gradually diminishing, WOR more or less readable by 2309, and clear by 2319.
Also confirmed UT Saturday December 7 at 0130 on WRMIs: 5010 S9-S7 and not upcut; 7780 S9 but noisy; 5850 VG S9+20, the one aimed thisaway. Next:
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 NNW
0400vUT Monday WBCQ 5130v Area 51 to WSW 6160v?
0430 UT Monday WRMI 9955 to SSE
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. 7490v, Dec 7 at 0100, WBCQ with a new `AAAWWW` -- I`m listening mostly on webcast except when checking out the SW usage. Only first few minutes politix, sidetracked by e-mail from SAQ, Sweden about the Alexandersen Alternator Xmas eve broadcast on 17.2 kHz. He talks a lot about SAQ and VLF in general both now and later in the hour. Says he has heard it before in Monticello with a very longwire antenna, but had to turn off all his own transmitters. SAQ is a museum piece, last of its kind in the world. Except for the brand-new S-S, WBCQ is also full of 60-70-year old museum piece transmitters and other equipment.
0114 annoying Freddie calls in wanting to report reception. AW knows they are on 7490 which he can hear/see in Fla, but not sure about 5130. Not the others: 3265 & 6160 off the air; and 9330 continues with WLC. A bit of news about the SuperStation: due to high winds, an insulator broke on the antenna, but they were able to isolate it and stay on air; antenna crew came yesterday and fixed it.
At 0131, after confirming WOR on WRMI X 3, I find WBCQ 5130 is S9 but noisy, and slightly better than 7490, also S9 and noisy. 0153 starts to read latest FRW logs (oops, I missed their deadline with my one catch), sidetracked by discussion of his and Angela`s musical preferences; 0159 squeezes in that the WBCQ merchandise store is now open on the website to raise some money, but at least on the webcast, cut off at 0200 sharp before he can even pray.
Here`s John Carver`s version of same hour:
``Tonight's program started on time on 5130. 5130 is S9 and 7490 is S1. Opening talk about plugs and sockets, male and female. Mini rant about the 50 types of sexual orientation that are in vogue now. Then into talk about longwave and a special event station that will be broadcasting in December. First phone call at 0111 from Freddie complaining that he could receive no WBCQ signal this evening and could only hear WLC on 9330.
In talking about that, Allan mentioned that the big antenna on the superstation had already suffered some weather related damage from a broken insulator. They were able to bypass it with the computer and continue to use the antenna until the weather broke and a crew was able to replace the insulator.
After Freddie was off the phone the talk went back to longwave. Phone call at 0138 from Freddie again with comments about the SAQ station that Allan was talking about. Reading of Free Radio Weekly at 0153 interrupted at 0155 by nonstop station IDs until 0200 when they went into a AAWWW rerun. John, Mid-North Indiana`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 560, Dec 6 at 1334 UT, news about Beaumont, ``KLVI News time 7:34``, weather next, local ads. Can anyone think of another MW station with a call of frequency in Roman numerals? (56 = myriaHz). Not often heard here; night pattern is tight almost due west; hmmm, across Houston, but non-direxional daytime after 1300 in December (1315 in January) (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 830, Dec 6 at 1343 UT, Spanish religion seems to peak WSW/ENE, maybe a Mexican; but 1347 several AC 901 phone numbers and Memphis mentioned, so it`s from the east, 3 kW daytimer, WUMY Memphis TN, 1348 also slogan ``Buenas Nuevas`` (never `Noticias` in the Christian sense, nor vice versa). WCCO still in but nullable. Not to be confused with the other mid-American Mississippi Valley USSS on 830, KGLA in Norco LA (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 1060, Dec 6 at 1402 UT, ID including ``Éxtasis -- El Paso``, 7:02 TC, i.e. KXPL, 10 kW ND daytimer. No sign of KIJN Farwell TX, about halfway between us (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. Trans-Pacific JBA MW carrier search, first on the R75 with E-W longwire, Dec 6 at 1324-1328 UT: 747, 774 both much stronger than 828; 972, 1143.
Today`s sunrise 1329 UT, still latening by a minute every other day to attain 1344 UT by Epiphany; OTOH our earliest sunset is just about now at 2316 UT.
Then at 1328-1333 on the DX-398 hand held, all of them DFing NW from E Asia, not Au/NZ: 693, 737, 774, 828, 873, 972, 1323, 1422, 1566 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) See also KOREA SOUTH
UNIDENTIFIED. 2484.13, Dec 6 at 1409, weak steady carrier, probably a local artifact, but I`m checking for VANUATU which is supposed to revive SW before yearend including new 2485 registered by Adrian Sainsbury, NZ as 10 kW, 1000-1900 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
This report despatched at 0250 UT December 7
