Ascolti AM Luca Botto Fiora

Ascolti AM (orari UTC)

Segnale / Signal
IN - Insufficiente / Poor
SF - Sufficiente / Fair
BN - Buono / Good
MB - Molto Buono / Very Good

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Parentesi OT ma non troppo:
Qualcuno ha notato l'attivazione del canale DTT Romit TV, rivolto alla comunità romena in Italia? Molte volte trasmette video di musica folclorica. Non so a voi, però dare il volto ad un genere musicale ascoltato spesso durante i monitoraggi invernali in onde medie, al di là dei gusti personali fa un effetto gradevole.

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Domenica 6 gennaio 2013
07.10 - 6204,1 R. ORANG UTAN, EE, IDs OM. SF-IN
08.09 - 9635 RD MALIENNE, Musica afropop. BN-SF
08.12 - 9955 WRMI, Miami-FL (USA), SS, tk OM. BN-SF
09.55 - 7300 U-BOAT 66 R. - Sonar e IDs YL. SF-IN
10.29 - 12257 WRI WRECKIN' R. INT., Musica rock. IN-SF

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Venerdì 11 gennaio 2013
Orari causa insonnia da tosse :-(
00.05 - 9895 kHz
R. NEDERLAND - Cypress Creek (USA)
Spagnolo, intervista YL.
Segnale buono-sufficiente
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00.25 - 4980 (SF-IN) // 3990 (BN) kHz
XINJIANG PBS - Urumqi (Cina)
Uighur, tk OM+YL e musica *indie-pop*.
Oggi, qualsiasi emittente trasmette qualsiasi genere musicale.
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Non l'avevo mai ascoltata!
22.57 - 4940 kHz
tent. VOICE OF STRAIT BC - Fuzhou (Cina)
Canzone pop YL e notizie OM+YL.
Segnale sufficiente-insufficiente
L'India apre alle 00.25 e l'Angola non era ricevibile,
ma c'erano dei QSOs in mezzo che creavano confusione.
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23.18 - 4895 kHz
MONGOLIIN R. - Murun (Mongolia)
Musica melodica locale.
Segnale sufficiente-insufficiente

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Sabato 12 gennaio 2013
17.24 - 1368 CHALLENGER R. (I), Recs "Alto Gradimento". BN-SF
17.41 - 891 Solita portante muta+R. 538 (telefonate YLs). SF
17.43 - 873 AFN - Weisskirchen (D), EE, NPR Weekend News. BN-SF
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Le RAI MW che sentivo alla fine del 2012 qui a Rapallo, tra diurno* e notturno, ci sono ancora tutte:
657* - 819 - 900* - 936* - 981 - 999 - 1062 - 1107 - 1116* - 1143* - 1431 - 1449 - 1575*

Luca Botto Fiora
QTHG.C. 09E13 - 44N21
Rapallo (Genova) - Italia

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Rack 1 (LW-MW-SW)
RICEVITORI
R7 Drake
VR5000DSP Yaesu
PL-660 Tecsun
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ANTENNE
1) Da 70 kHz a 2 MHz:
Loop in ferrite di 75 cm ACA modificata per LW-VLF
Isolatore di linea su ferrite autocostruito
Preamplificatore RF K0LR-WA1ION autocostruito (escludibile)
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2) Da 2 a 5-6 MHz:
Loop magnetico interno tipo KR1ST 150x100 cm su finestra
Isolatore di linea su ferrite autocostruito
Eliminatore di QRM MFJ 1026 modificato W8JI (escludibile)
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3) Da 5-6 a 30 MHz:
Dipolo aperto esterno 21 m
Balun 1:32 su toroide FT-140/43 ACA
Preamplificatore RF kit LX1456 NE (escludibile)
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ACCESSORI
Splitters 0-1000 MHz a 2 vie GBC

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Rack 2 (LW-MW)
RICEVITORE
E5 Etón
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ANTENNE
Loop in ferrite di 75 cm ACA
Isolatore di linea su ferrite autocostruito

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REGISTRATORI
Digitali Sony
ICD-B500 (R7)
ICD-BX112 (VR5000DSP - E5)
ICD-BX800 (PL-660)
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Musicassette
TRC-1149 Sanyo (R7)

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SOFTWARE (Mac OSX)
Audacity 2.0.2 (acquisizione-conversione audio)
DXToolbox 4.1.1 demo (propagazione)
EarthDesk 6.0.2 demo (scrivania-orologio mondiale)
HourWorld 3.4.3 demo (orologio mondiale)
Multimode 6.3 demo Black Cat Systems (UTEs)
TimePalette 6.1 demo (orologio mondiale)

E.M.R. R.City and Radio Gloria to Europe & the World

Saturday 19th: Radio CityRadio City will be on the air Saturday January 19th at 19.00 to 20.00 UTC on 7270 kHz via the IRRS

A separate programme is broadcast every Saturday at 20.00 to 21.00 UTC via R Merkurs in Latvia on 1485 kHz.Our mailing address is citymorecars@yahoo.ca.  (also maybe available on 1368 kHz from Italy)

Sunday 27th: Radio Gloria    
04.00 – 06.00 UTC, R.Gloria  on  9480 KHz    radiogloria@aol.com World Service

Sunday 20th: European Music Radio     
08.00 – 09.00 UTC, E.M.R  on  7265 KHz    studio@emr.org.uk   to Europe09.00 – 10.00 UTC, E.M.R  on  9480 KHz    studio@emr.org.uk   to Europe09.00 – 10.00 UTC, E.M.R  on  6005 KHz    studio@emr.org.uk   to Europe

Good Listening!73s,  Tom

Hamburger Lokalradio has change there schedule

Every Wednesday and Saturday:

05.00 to 08.00 UTC 7265 kHz  (3h)  06.00 to 09.00 CET
08.00 to 11.00 UTC 6190 kHz  (3h)  09.00 to 12.00 CET
11.00 to 17.00 UTC 7265 kHz  (6h)  12.00 to 18.00 CET

All reports to:  redaktion@hamburger-lokalradio.de  Thank you!

Good Listening!

73s,  Tom

Glenn Hauser logs January 14, 2013

** BRAZIL. 11780, Jan 14 at 0629, still no RNB audible but the wideband noise is still QRMing the entire 25m band, audible roughly 11.4-12.0 MHz, especially noticeable under weakish signals from NZ on 11725, WEWN on 11870. So continued much later than previous night, maybe all-night. But by 1400 UT recheck, 25m is clear of it again, altho RNB is typically inaudible at this daypart.

Brazilian DXers on the radioescutas group have shown no interest at all in this matter, but Jorge Freitas, in the DXLDyg has been monitoring it via various remote receivers and thinks my suspicion that the Brasília 11780 transmitter is responsible has merit. Others still hear that normally at other times of day. I am even wondering if it is a DRM test gone horribly wrong.

Don Moman in Alberta reports: ``Overnight Jan 14th monitoring (using Camstudio to do a screen grab every 60 seconds) showed our wide band noise went off abruptly around 0649:30. It then came back on, but over a period of minutes starting at 0712. At 1010 one could start to see some gaps starting to show in the noise spectrum and it continued to shrink until I couldn't see it any more around 1035. I do not believe this was a propagation based fade, considering the strength and steadiness of their signal all night up to that point. The band was still quite full of signals. I saw no other wide band noise activity since then. 73 Don VE6JY`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** EGYPT. 13580, Jan 14 at 1507, R. Cairo in Albanian, QRMing itself, such that the music sounds off-pitch, as well as the distorted talk. Signal strength is sufficient on this 300-degree beam from Abu Zabaal, also favoring North America (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** GUAM. 5765-USB, Jan 14 at 1337, this is an on-day for AFN, with NBC Today show segment on celebrities flashing back at papparazzi; wideband OTH radar pulsing QRM probably from China (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** MEXICO. 730, Jan 14 at 1410 UT, Mexican music and ``Ke Buena`` ID before succumbing totally to 740 KRMG Tulsa 50 kW splash. So XEHB, Hidalgo del Parral, Chihuahua, surely also running 50 kW, has held up longer than most lowbanders, a semihour past sunrise here (Glenn hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** OKLAHOMA. 1120, Jan 14 at 1354 UT, NO signal from KEOR Sperry/Catoosa with its never-announced or IDed Mexican music; just KMOX. Bruce Winkelman within Tulsa had first noticed it absent on Jan 13. Still off Jan 14 at 1822 UT approaching local mean noon.

2 kW daytimer KEOR had been active almost every day and often illegally at night for almost 3 months since first re-noticed October 18 as in DXLD 12-43, yet never reported by anyone except Bruce and me, as I search thru both NRC eDX News and IRCA Soft DX Monitors.

We may not have heard the last of it yet, with its CP for 10 kW day, 7 kW critical hours, tho you`d think broadcasting for 3 months with nary an ID, and even at night might get it into a wee bit of trouble with the FCC. But who`s complaining?

At AM Query I see KEOR is owned by ``La Zeta 95.7``. Googling on that leads to Bentonville etc., NW Arkansas, KSEC. Yet FCC also shows that on Nov 21, 2012, sale was ``consummated`` to Rafft Corp., in Rogers TX (NOT AR) (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U K [non]. 11890, Jan 14 at 1434, BBCWS with quite sufficient signal during `Outlook`, interviewing first a radio station manager in Gao, eastern Mali, about how he is coping with the Islamist invasion, Sharia law imposed, power only in the evenings, etc., closing only with his incomprehensible name, not the name of the station, or godforbid, the frequency. His replies in French were voiced-over very articulately.

Next interview with a British yachting couple who had been held hostage for two years in Somalia, finally released thanks to ransom donors who wanted to remain anonymous. No translation.

Third interview with Suzanne (?), an Afghan rapper who is boldly bucking persecution of women, also voiced over professionally.

Cut off the air at 1459:30*, having been 25 degrees from SINGAPORE, at 13-15, carrying on well to North America despite BBC`s best efforts to prevent Americans from listening on SW. A few sex later, before 1500, a weaker R. Svoboda comes on 11890, i.e. Belarussian from Woofferton UK (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. WORLD OF RADIO 1651 monitoring: confirmed on WRMI 9955, UT Monday Jan 14 at 0537, roughly equal to the Cuban pulse jamming level, each fading up and down independently, just as I am freely talking about RHC being an integral part of the DGI spy agency. Next: Tuesday 1200, Thursday 0430 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 3195, Jan 14 at 0637, buzzy open carrier, suspected WWRB on the air past usual 0500*; other WWRB 3185 and WWCR 3215 were normal (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 15630-15680, Jan 14 at 1342, peaking around 15650, modulation spur spikes matching 15825 WWCR where signal is stronger than usual; sporadic-E enhanced? 1344 series of promos for WWCR shows on other frequencies. Weaker spikes also audible circa 16000, i.e. plus and minus 175 kHz or so from fundamental. Could be these are always radiated, but audiblized only when fundamental surges to a certain strength. Spikes around 15650 still audible at 1513. WWCR still hasn`t figured out how to suppress its spurs (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 770, Jan 14 at 0647 UT, `Red Eye Radio` program ID, so must be WABC NYC, the only 770 on their affiliate listhttp://www.redeyeradioshow.com/article.asp?id=2531095
I was at first suspecting this weak talk signal in English would be KKOB or KKOB, but not with that show. Been ages since I`ve heard WABC out here more than 2 megameters away (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 930, Jan 14 at 0642 UT, `Coast to Coast` recognized, same speaker and subject as on 860, 850, 840, etc., etc., in WKY OKC null. Searching C2C website affiliate list athttp://www.coasttocoastam.com/stations
gets only one hit on 930, KSDN in Aberdeen SD, whose 1 kW night pattern is mainly toward the northeast, http://transition.fcc.gov/ftp/Bureaus/MB/Databases/AM_DA_patterns/105214-3689.pdf
with very little southward, from close to due north from here; new one, anyway, presumed (Glenn Hauser, Enid OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) See also UNIDENTIFIED 900

** U S A. 1020, Jan 14 at 1358 UT, sunrise surge from KMMQ Portsmouth NE, clear with semi-local KOKP Perry OK carefully nulled. Spanish restaurán ad, slogan as ``La Nueva 10-20 AM, La estación de La Raza`` (which in Chicano thinking must not be considered racist). So still have not heard the alleged ``Ke Padre`` slogan as in NRC AM Log 2012-2013. Then live DJ with TC, ``un minuto para las ocho de la mañana``, and phoning Celina (sp?) in El Salvador, playing a bit of Mañanitas for her, telling her it`s ``Radio K en Omaha, Nebraska`` llamando, but no sign of a legal ID even as announcing in passing ``8 en punto``; 1402 it`s fading, losing out to KOKP. KMMQ`s official January sunrise for 50 kW day power is 1345 UT (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 1200, Jan 14 at 1424 UT, gospel huxtress in English looping N/S, but not something WOAI San Antonio would be carrying. No sign of anything else except weak Spanish, i.e. WRTO Chicago. WOAI had been in a total fade, but soon came back. So the religion must have been KFNW in West Fargo ND, which in January may start 50 kW day facilities at 1415 UT, mostly to the north, but some to the south:http://transition.fcc.gov/ftp/Bureaus/MB/Databases/AM_DA_patterns/1316214-107837.pdf
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 1250, Jan 14 at 1428 UT, Capital One ad in English, associated with sports, 1430 ``Sports Leader, ESPN``, no Spanish at first, which usually dominates from La Equis, KYYS Kansas City. So presumed KZDC San Antonio TX, the most likely ESPN outlet anywhere around here, 5 kW non-direxional days, and seems N/S, tho KBTC in Houston (how do they pronounce it?), south-central Missouri is also ESPN (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

UNIDENTIFIED. 960, UT Monday Jan 15 during another KGWA Fox-hole of dead air, I make out some harmonica/blues music at 0604 UT which based on unusual format I suspect is from WABG in Greenwood, Mississippi, but have never been able to catch any ID from (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

UNIDENTIFIED. 15901-SSB, Jan 14 at 1347, 2-way in colloquial Spanish, mentioned coordinates 95-57 and 23-55, which is off the coast of Tamaulipas in the Gulf, also at 1350 mentioned ``pescas``, i.e. fishing. I wonder if these higher-frequency never-IDing Spanish communicators, legal or not, are using them for short-range contacts with other vessels, or with faraway HQs? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

Glenn Hauser logs January 13-14, 2013

** AUSTRALIA. 15515, Jan 13 at 0309, RA in its most token language, French, interrupted by clips of someone speaking OzEnglish; fair signal. This is scheduled M-F 0300-0315 only (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** BOTSWANA. 15580, Sunday Jan 13 at 2135, ``Tennessee Waltz`` by the late ``Patti Page``, outro by ``Mary Morningstar`` on `Country Hits USA` from VOA Music Mix. Really broken up signal, by trans-equatorial propagation, so bad I suspected the transmission was also defective, but not sure. Off at 2200* without ID or VOA sign-off (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** BRAZIL. Sounds like the ``elevated noise floor`` is back tonight --- not very strong yet at 2310 Jan 13. 11780 is again a blob of distorted noise instead of RNB, and the noise floor is most obvious underneath signals of a certain strength, WYFR on 11565 and NHK on 11665, sort of like QRDRM. Tuning with BFO, one can hear a constant swish and multiple carriers in the range below 11780. What do others hear?

Gilles Letourneau in Montreal was getting this too again like last night, as was Don Moman in Alberta. My recheck at 0305 UT Jan 14: still audibly higher noise level roughly 11.3-12.0 MHz, tapering off gradually, and audible under the medium RHC signal on 11680, but not under the strong RHC on 11760. And still there at 0421. And at 0513, severely QRMing, among others the weakish signal from New Zealand on 11725, but not the strong signal from Japan via Guiana French 11740.

I continue to strongly suspect source is the 11780 RNB transmitter, very out of order, since it is normally strong when nothing else is on 25m, but is not audible in AM again tonight, instead a noise peak there. While the noise stopped at 0441 UT the night before, it could well last all night just like the normal schedule of 11780 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** GUIANA FRENCH. 5960, Jan 14 at 0352, no spurs audible from the NHK Japanese relay. Had not looked for them in quite a while. They were circa 5844, 6076 = plus/minus 116 kHz; 5926 and 5994 = plus/minus 34 kHz, among others. Also checked 11740, which has put out a different spurset during some NHK relays in English at 0500, but could not hear any Jan 14, altho the wideband noise probably from Brasil might have obscured them (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** MEXICO. Channel A2 NTSC, Jan 14 at 0029 UT, brief fade-in of some weak video with antenna south, after monitoring snow for some hours. 0121, another fade-in now with two or more signals CCI, but soon gone. 6m ham Es maps showed a bit of activity over the SW quadrant of the USA into the Mexican border area (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** NORTH AMERICA. 15067.6-AM, Jan 13 at 2140 UT, weak rock music, must be pirate, very poor, peaking S8 with fades. 2143 sends in Morse code CZ over and over (first thought it was going to be a CQ, but one dit/dah different). Then quick announcement by YL voice, sounds like Japanese, can`t copy it; plays Doors` ``Touch Me``. 2147, ID by OM as ``Channel Z radio, broadcasting from North America. If you can hear us, write to us at channelzradio@gmail.com`` and another Japanese(?) announcement; 2148 ``Frankenstein``, by Edgar Winters Group? After that faded out completely or off the air. About it at:
http://www.hfunderground.com/wiki/Channel_Z_Radio

``Long distance DX tests were carried out on 15067 kHz using an LU8EHA transmitter design. This transmitter is a Class E design and produces 18 watts of carrier. These transmissions were heard in Europe and the USA.``

An e-mail reply was soon received in less than an hour:

``Hi Glenn, Really glad to hear that you heard the broadcast today. Yes, the YL ID was Japanese; this was a show that I created about a year ago when Hari Kujala in Finland arranged a big pirate DX weekend.  I was very lucky as a Japanese DXer did receive that broadcast (on 11428 kHz). You can see and hear the reception for yourself here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qMcSDHg7_eI

You heard the same show, on the same transmitter, a homebrewed 18 watt Class E variant of a design by LU8EHA. Today's broadcast wasn't targeted to a specific area; it was to test out my 19 meter dipole. I have a backlog of QSL requests; I hope to have it in the mail within a week. 73's Z`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 15440, Jan 13 at 2200-2210, via WYFR, RTI English with news; has lite crackling sound again like yesterday, not too disruptive and you might overlook it, but something is wrong with this frequency unlike // 6115. Dan Elyea at Okeechobee is going to check it out.

6115, however, had some weak CCI under, which per HFCC would be either R. Veritas Asia, Philippines in Chinese northward, or CRI Beijing site in French northwestward (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

Dx Re Mix News # 763

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DX RE MIX NEWS # 763 from Georgi Bancov & Ivo Ivanov. Date: Mon Jan.14,2013
Also visit:, sections "DXPeditions"&"Schedules"
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D.P.R.K.:   Updated winter B-12 for Voice of Korea:
Arabic
1500-1557 on  9990 KUJ 200 kW / 296 deg to N/ME
1500-1557 on 11545 KUJ 200 kW / 296 deg to N/ME
1700-1757 on  9990 KUJ 200 kW / 296 deg to N/ME
1700-1757 on 11545 KUJ 200 kW / 296 deg to N/ME

Chinese
0300-0357 on 13650 KUJ 200 kW / 238 deg to SEAs, not active
0300-0357 on 15100 KUJ 200 kW / 238 deg to SEAs
0500-0557 on  7220 KUJ 200 kW / non-dir to NEAs, not active
0500-0557 on  9345 KUJ 200 kW / non-dir to NEAs, not active
0500-0557 on  9730 KUJ 200 kW / non-dir to NEAs
0600-0657 on 13650 KUJ 200 kW / 238 deg to SEAs, not active
0600-0657 on 15100 KUJ 200 kW / 238 deg to SEAs
0800-0857 on  7220 KUJ 200 kW / non-dir to NEAs, not active
0800-0857 on  9345 KUJ 200 kW / non-dir to NEAs
1100-1157 on  7220 KUJ 200 kW / non-dir to NEAs, not active
1100-1157 on  9345 KUJ 200 kW / non-dir to NEAs, not active
1300-1357 on  6185 KUJ 200 kW / 238 deg to SEAs
1300-1357 on  9850 KUJ 200 kW / 238 deg to SEAs
2100-2157 on  7235 KUJ 200 kW / non-dir to NEAs, not active
2100-2157 on  9345 KUJ 200 kW / non-dir to NEAs
2100-2157 on  9975 KUJ 200 kW / 271 deg to CHN
2100-2157 on 11535 KUJ 200 kW / 271 deg to CHN
2200-2257 on  7235 KUJ 200 kW / non-dir to NEAs, not active
2200-2257 on  9345 KUJ 200 kW / non-dir to NEAs
2200-2257 on  9975 KUJ 200 kW / 271 deg to CHN
2200-2257 on 11535 KUJ 200 kW / 271 deg to CHN

German
1600-1657 on  6170 KUJ 200 kW / 325 deg to WeEu, not active
1600-1657 on  9325 KUJ 200 kW / 325 deg to WeEu, not active
1800-1857 on  6170 KUJ 200 kW / 325 deg to WeEu, not active
1800-1857 on  9325 KUJ 200 kW / 325 deg to WeEu, not active
1900-1957 on  6170 KUJ 200 kW / 325 deg to WeEu, not active
1900-1957 on  9325 KUJ 200 kW / 325 deg to WeEu, not active

English
0400-0457 on  7220 KUJ 200 kW / non-dir to NEAs, not active
0400-0457 on  9345 KUJ 200 kW / non-dir to NEAs, not active
0400-0457 on  9730 KUJ 200 kW / non-dir to NEAs
0400-0457 on 11735 KUJ 200 kW / 028 deg to CSAm
0400-0457 on 13760 KUJ 200 kW / 028 deg to CSAm
0400-0457 on 15180 KUJ 200 kW / 028 deg to CSAm
0500-0557 on 13650 KUJ 200 kW / 238 deg to SEAs, not active
0500-0557 on 15100 KUJ 200 kW / 238 deg to SEAs
0600-0657 on  7220 KUJ 200 kW / non-dir to NEAs, not active
0600-0657 on  9345 KUJ 200 kW / non-dir to NEAs, not active
0600-0657 on  9730 KUJ 200 kW / non-dir to NEAs
1000-1057 on  6170 KUJ 200 kW / 028 deg to CSAm
1000-1057 on  9335 KUJ 200 kW / 028 deg to CSAm
1000-1057 on  6185 KUJ 200 kW / 238 deg to SEAs
1000-1057 on  9850 KUJ 200 kW / 238 deg to SEAs
1300-1357 on  7570 KUJ 200 kW / 325 deg to WeEu
1300-1357 on 12015 KUJ 200 kW / 325 deg to WeEu, not active
1300-1357 on  9335 KUJ 200 kW / 028 deg to NoAm
1300-1357 on 11710 KUJ 200 kW / 028 deg to NoAm
1500-1557 on  7570 KUJ 200 kW / 325 deg to WeEu
1500-1557 on 12015 KUJ 200 kW / 325 deg to WeEu, not active
1500-1557 on  9335 KUJ 200 kW / 028 deg to NoAm
1500-1557 on 11710 KUJ 200 kW / 028 deg to NoAm
1600-1657 on  9990 KUJ 200 kW / 296 deg to N/ME
1600-1657 on 11545 KUJ 200 kW / 296 deg to N/ME
1800-1857 on  7570 KUJ 200 kW / 325 deg to WeEu
1800-1857 on 12015 KUJ 200 kW / 325 deg to WeEu, not active
1900-1957 on  7210 KUJ 200 kW / 271 deg to SoAf
1900-1957 on 11910 KUJ 200 kW / 271 deg to SoAf
1900-1957 on  9975 KUJ 200 kW / 296 deg to N/ME
1900-1957 on 11535 KUJ 200 kW / 296 deg to N/ME
2100-2157 on  7570 KUJ 200 kW / 325 deg to WeEu
2100-2157 on 12015 KUJ 200 kW / 325 deg to WeEu, not active

French
0400-0457 on 13650 KUJ 200 kW / 238 deg to SEAs, not active
0400-0457 on 15100 KUJ 200 kW / 238 deg to SEAs
0600-0657 on 11735 KUJ 200 kW / 028 deg to CSAm
0600-0657 on 13760 KUJ 200 kW / 028 deg to CSAm
0600-0657 on 15180 KUJ 200 kW / 028 deg to CSAm
1100-1157 on  6170 KUJ 200 kW / 028 deg to CSAm
1100-1157 on  9335 KUJ 200 kW / 028 deg to CSAm
1100-1157 on  6185 KUJ 200 kW / 238 deg to SEAs
1100-1157 on  9850 KUJ 200 kW / 238 deg to SEAs
1400-1457 on  7570 KUJ 200 kW / 325 deg to WeEu
1400-1457 on 12015 KUJ 200 kW / 325 deg to WeEu, not active
1400-1457 on  9335 KUJ 200 kW / 028 deg to NoAm
1400-1457 on 11710 KUJ 200 kW / 028 deg to NoAm
1600-1657 on  7570 KUJ 200 kW / 325 deg to WeEu
1600-1657 on 12015 KUJ 200 kW / 325 deg to WeEu, not active
1600-1657 on  9335 KUJ 200 kW / 028 deg to NoAm
1600-1657 on 11710 KUJ 200 kW / 028 deg to NoAm
1800-1857 on  7210 KUJ 200 kW / 271 deg to SoAf
1800-1857 on 11910 KUJ 200 kW / 271 deg to SoAf
1800-1857 on  9975 KUJ 200 kW / 296 deg to N/ME
1800-1857 on 11535 KUJ 200 kW / 296 deg to N/ME
2000-2057 on  7570 KUJ 200 kW / 325 deg to WeEu
2000-2057 on 12015 KUJ 200 kW / 325 deg to WeEu, not active

Japanese
0700-0757 on  3250 PYO 100 kW / non-dir to JPN, not active
0700-0757 on  7580 KUJ 200 kW / 109 deg to JPN, not active
0700-0757 on  9650 KUJ 200 kW / 109 deg to JPN
0800-0850 on  3250 PYO 100 kW / non-dir to JPN, not active
0800-0850 on  7580 KUJ 200 kW / 109 deg to JPN, not active
0800-0850 on  9650 KUJ 200 kW / 109 deg to JPN
0900-0957 on  3250 PYO 100 kW / non-dir to JPN, not active
0900-0957 on  6070 KNG 250 kW / 109 deg to JPN
0900-0957 on  7580 KUJ 200 kW / 109 deg to JPN, not active
0900-0957 on  9650 KUJ 200 kW / 109 deg to JPN
1000-1050 on  3250 PYO 100 kW / non-dir to JPN, not active
1000-1050 on  6070 KNG 250 kW / 109 deg to JPN
1000-1050 on  7580 KUJ 200 kW / 109 deg to JPN, not active
1000-1050 on  9650 KUJ 200 kW / 109 deg to JPN
1100-1157 on  3250 PYO 100 kW / non-dir to JPN, not active
1100-1157 on  6070 KNG 250 kW / 109 deg to JPN
1100-1157 on  7580 KUJ 200 kW / 109 deg to JPN, not active
1100-1157 on  9650 KUJ 200 kW / 109 deg to JPN
1200-1250 on  3250 PYO 100 kW / non-dir to JPN, not active
1200-1250 on  6070 KNG 250 kW / 109 deg to JPN
1200-1250 on  7580 KUJ 200 kW / 109 deg to JPN, not active
1200-1250 on  9650 KUJ 200 kW / 109 deg to JPN
2100-2150 on  3250 PYO 100 kW / non-dir to JPN, not active
2100-2150 on  7580 KUJ 200 kW / 109 deg to JPN, not active
2100-2150 on  9650 KUJ 200 kW / 109 deg to JPN
2200-2257 on  3250 PYO 100 kW / non-dir to JPN, not active
2200-2257 on  7580 KUJ 200 kW / 109 deg to JPN, not active
2200-2257 on  9650 KUJ 200 kW / 109 deg to JPN
2300-2350 on  3250 PYO 100 kW / non-dir to JPN, not active
2300-2350 on  7580 KUJ 200 kW / 109 deg to JPN, not active
2300-2350 on  9650 KUJ 200 kW / 109 deg to JPN

Korean - Pyongyang Broadcasting Station
0300-0350 on  7220 KUJ 200 kW / non-dir to NEAs, not active
0300-0350 on  9345 KUJ 200 kW / non-dir to NEAs, not active
0300-0350 on  9730 KUJ 200 kW / non-dir to NEAs
0700-0757 on  7220 KUJ 200 kW / non-dir to NEAs, not active
0700-0757 on  9345 KUJ 200 kW / non-dir to NEAs
0900-0950 on  9975 KUJ 200 kW / 028 deg to ERus
0900-0950 on 11735 KUJ 200 kW / 028 deg to ERus
0900-0950 on 13760 KUJ 200 kW / 325 deg to EaEu
0900-0950 on 15245 KUJ 200 kW / 325 deg to EaEu, not active
1000-1050 on  7220 KUJ 200 kW / non-dir to NEAs, not active
1000-1050 on  9345 KUJ 200 kW / non-dir to NEAs, not active
1200-1257 on  7220 KUJ 200 kW / non-dir to NEAs, not active
1200-1257 on  9345 KUJ 200 kW / non-dir to NEAs, not active
1300-1357 on  6170 KUJ 200 kW / 325 deg to EaEu, not active
1300-1357 on  9325 KUJ 200 kW / 325 deg to EaEu, not active

Korean - Korean Central Broadcasting Station
0900-0950 on  7220 KUJ 200 kW / non-dir to NEAs, not active
0900-0950 on  9345 KUJ 200 kW / non-dir to NEAs
1200-1250 on  6170 KUJ 200 kW / 028 deg to CSAm
1200-1250 on  9335 KUJ 200 kW / 028 deg to CSAm
1200-1250 on  6185 KUJ 200 kW / 238 deg to SEAs
1200-1250 on  9850 KUJ 200 kW / 238 deg to SEAs
1400-1450 on  6185 KUJ 200 kW / 238 deg to SEAs
1400-1450 on  9850 KUJ 200 kW / 238 deg to SEAs
1700-1750 on  9335 KUJ 200 kW / 028 deg to NoAm
1700-1750 on 11710 KUJ 200 kW / 028 deg to NoAm
1700-1750 on  7570 KUJ 200 kW / 325 deg to WeEu
1700-1750 on 12015 KUJ 200 kW / 325 deg to WeEu, not active
2000-2050 on  6170 KUJ 200 kW / 325 deg to WeEu
2000-2050 on  9325 KUJ 200 kW / 325 deg to WeEu, not active
2000-2050 on  7210 KUJ 200 kW / 271 deg to SoAf
2000-2050 on 11910 KUJ 200 kW / 271 deg to SoAf
2000-2050 on  9975 KUJ 200 kW / 296 deg to N/ME
2000-2050 on 11535 KUJ 200 kW / 296 deg to N/ME
2300-2350 on  7235 KUJ 200 kW / non-dir to NEAs
2300-2350 on  9345 KUJ 200 kW / non-dir to NEAs
2300-2350 on  7570 KUJ 200 kW / 325 deg to WeEu
2300-2350 on 12015 KUJ 200 kW / 325 deg to WeEu, not active
2300-2350 on  9975 KUJ 200 kW / 271 deg to CHN
2300-2350 on 11535 KUJ 200 kW / 271 deg to CHN

Russian
0700-0757 on  9975 KUJ 200 kW / 028 deg to ERus
0700-0757 on 11735 KUJ 200 kW / 028 deg to ERus
0700-0757 on 13760 KUJ 200 kW / 325 deg to EaEu
0700-0757 on 15245 KUJ 200 kW / 325 deg to EaEu, not active
0800-0857 on  9975 KUJ 200 kW / 028 deg to ERus
0800-0857 on 11735 KUJ 200 kW / 028 deg to ERus
0800-0857 on 13760 KUJ 200 kW / 325 deg to EaEu
0800-0857 on 15245 KUJ 200 kW / 325 deg to EaEu, not active
1400-1457 on  6170 KUJ 200 kW / 325 deg to EaEu, not active
1400-1457 on  9325 KUJ 200 kW / 325 deg to EaEu, not active
1500-1557 on  6170 KUJ 200 kW / 325 deg to EaEu, not active
1500-1557 on  9325 KUJ 200 kW / 325 deg to EaEu, not active
1700-1757 on  6170 KUJ 200 kW / 325 deg to EaEu, not active
1700-1757 on  9325 KUJ 200 kW / 325 deg to EaEu, not active

Spanish
0300-0357 on 11735 KUJ 200 kW / 028 deg to CSAm
0300-0357 on 13760 KUJ 200 kW / 028 deg to CSAm
0300-0357 on 15180 KUJ 200 kW / 028 deg to CSAm
0500-0557 on 11735 KUJ 200 kW / 028 deg to CSAm
0500-0557 on 13760 KUJ 200 kW / 028 deg to CSAm
0500-0557 on 15180 KUJ 200 kW / 028 deg to CSAm
1900-1957 on  7570 KUJ 200 kW / 325 deg to WeEu
1900-1957 on 12015 KUJ 200 kW / 325 deg to WeEu, not active
2200-2257 on  7570 KUJ 200 kW / 325 deg to WeEu
2200-2257 on 12015 KUJ 200 kW / 325 deg to WeEu, not active
KNG=Kanggye
KUJ=Kujang
PYO=Pyongyang

JAPAN(non)    Winter B-12 SW schedule of Radio Japan NHK World:
0130-0200 on  9785 TAC 100 kW / 163 deg to SoAs Hindi
0200-0300 on 11860 SNG 250 kW / 340 deg to SEAs Japanese
0200-0400 on  5960 GUF 250 kW / 295 deg to CeAm Japanese
0200-0400 on 11935 GUF 250 kW / 185 deg to SoAm Japanese
0200-0500 on  9620 WER 250 kW / 135 deg to WeAs Japanese
0200-0500 on 15195 YAM 300 kW / 290 deg to EaAs Japanese
0200-0500 on 15325 YAM 300 kW / 270 deg to SoAs Japanese
0300-0500 on 17810 YAM 300 kW / 235 deg to SEAs Japanese
0315-0400 on  7395 MDC 250 kW / 320 deg to CeAf Swahili
0400-0430 on  6195 GUF 250 kW / 185 deg to SoAm Spanish
0400-0430 on 11730 TAC 100 kW / 236 deg to WeAs Farsi
0430-0500 on  6115 SIT 100 kW / 079 deg to EaEu Russian
0500-0530 on  6195 HRI 250 kW / 188 deg to CeAm Spanish
0500-0530 on  9770 ISS 500 kw / 155 deg to SoAf English
0500-0530 on 11740 GUF 250 kW / 295 deg to NoAm English
0500-0530 on 17760 DHA 250 kW / 305 deg to WeEu English
0530-0600 on 11730 ISS 500 kw / 190 deg to WCAf French
0530-0600 on 11760 YAM 300 kW / 330 deg to FERu Russian
0530-0600 on 13840 MDC 250 kW / 305 deg to CeAf French
0600-0630 on 11975 ISS 500 kW / 160 deg to NoAf Arabic
0700-0800 on  6165 YAM 300 kW / 330 deg to FERu Japanese
0800-0830 on  6165 YAM 300 kW / 330 deg to FERu Russian
0800-0900 on  5970 GUF 250 kW / 185 deg to SoAm Japanese
0800-1000 on 11740 SNG 250 kW / 000 deg to SEAs Japanese
0800-1000 on 15290 ISS 500 kw / 190 deg to WCAf Japanese
0800-1700 on  9750 YAM 300 kW / 290 deg to EaAs Japanese
0900-0930 on  6090 YAM 300 kW / 290 deg to EaAs Chinese
0900-0930 on  6130 GUF 250 kW / 185 deg to SoAm Portuguese
0900-1500 on 11815 YAM 300 kW / 235 deg to SEAs Japanese
0915-0945 on  9700 YAM 300 kW / 290 deg to EaAs Korean
0930-1000 on  6195 HRI 250 kW / 152 deg to SoAm Spanish
0930-1000 on  9795 GUF 250 kW / 295 deg to CeAm Spanish
0945-1030 on  9860 SNG 250 kW / 140 deg to SEAs Indonesian
1000-1030 on  9625 YAM 300 kW / 175 deg to Pac  English
1000-1030 on 11740 SNG 250 kW / 000 deg to SEAs English
1030-1100 on 11740 SNG 250 kW / 330 deg to SEAs Burmese
1100-1130 on  6090 YAM 300 kW / 330 deg to FERu Russian
1100-1130 on 11740 SNG 250 kW / 000 deg to SEAs Vietnamese
1100-1200 on  9760 WOF 100 kW / 105 deg to WeEu English/Russian Fri DRM
1130-1200 on 11740 SNG 250 kW / 000 deg to SEAs Thai
1130-1230 on  6090 YAM 300 kW / 290 deg to EaAs Korean/Chinese
1200-1230 on 11740 SNG 250 kW / 000 deg to SEAs English
1200-1230 on 15190 GUF 250 kw / 000 deg to NoAm English
1230-1300 on 11740 SNG 250 kW / 000 deg to SEAs Thai
1230-1330 on  6190 YAM 300 kW / 290 deg to EaAs Korean/Chinese
1300-1330 on 11730 TAC 100 kW / 141 deg to SoAs English
1300-1330 on 11740 SNG 100 kW / 000 deg to SEAs Vietnamese
1300-1345 on 12035 SNG 250 kW / 315 deg to SoAs Bengali
1315-1400 on 11925 HBN 100 kW / 270 deg to SEAs Indonesian
1330-1500 on  6190 YAM 300 kW / 290 deg to EaAs Korean/Chinese/Korean
1400-1430 on 11695 TAC 100 kW / 163 deg to SoAs English
1400-1430 on 11925 HBN 100 kW / 270 deg to SEAs English
1430-1500 on 11740 SNG 250 kW / 330 deg to SEAs Burmese
1430-1500 on 13725 ISS 500 kW / 090 deg to WeAs Japanese
1430-1515 on 15720 MDC 250 kW / 035 deg to SoAs Hindi
1500-1700 on 12045 SNG 250 kW / 315 deg to WeAs Japanese
1500-1700 on 17735 ISS 500 kw / 155 deg to CeAf Japanese
1515-1600 on 13870 DHA 250 kW / 060 deg to SoAs Urdu
1700-1900 on  9835 YAM 300 kW / 085 deg to SoAm Japanese
1700-1900 on 11945 ISS 500 kw / 155 deg to SoAf Japanese
1700-1900 on 15445 WER 250 kW / 135 deg to WeAs Japanese
1700-1730 on 13730 MDC 250 kW / 305 deg to CeAf Swahili special txion Feb.1
1730-1800 on 13730 MDC 250 kW / 305 deg to CeAf Swahili
1800-1830 on 15720 MDC 250 kW / 295 deg to CEAf English
1900-2200 on  9670 YAM 300 kW / 305 deg to WeAs Japanese
2000-2100 on  9625 YAM 300 kW / 175 deg to Pac  Japanese
2030-2100 on 11850 MDC 250 kW / 305 deg to WCAf French
2100-2200 on  6075 YAM 300 kW / 235 deg to SEAs Japanese
2100-2400 on 11910 YAM 300 kW / 290 deg to EaAs Japanese
2130-2200 on 11960 GUF 250 kW / 185 deg to SoAm Portuguese
2200-2300 on  9620 WER 500 kW / 135 deg to WeAs Japanese
2200-2300 on 11665 YAM 300 kW / 235 deg to SEAs Japanese
2210-2350 on  9560 YAM 300 kW / 290 deg to EaAs Korean/Chinese
2300-2330 on 11665 YAM 300 kW / 235 deg to SEAs Indonesian
2300-2400 on 13650 YAM 300 kW / 235 deg to SEAs Thai/Vietnamese/Burmese

MOLDOVA    New winter B-12 schedule of Radio PMR Pridnestrovye from Jan.1:
2100-2200 on  7290 KCH 300 kW / 309 deg to WeEu En/Ge/Fr/En Mon-Fri and no
more Russian broadcast. Also cancelled 1800-2100 and 2200-2300 broadcasts!

PAKISTAN    Updated winter B-12 schedule of Radio Pakistan:
0045-0215 on 11570 ISL 250 kW / 118 deg to SoAs Urdu
0045-0215 on 15490 ISL 250 kW / 118 deg to SoAs Urdu
0500-0700 on 15735 ISL 250 kW / 282 deg to N&ME Urdu
0500-0700 on 17830 ISL 250 kW / 282 deg to N&ME Urdu
0830-1105 on 15725#ISL 250 kW / 313 deg to WeEu Urdu(En nx 5 min 0905/1100)
0830-1105 on 17700 ISL 250 kW / 313 deg to WeEu Urdu(En nx 5 min 0905/1100)
1200-1300 on 11570 ISL 250 kW / 070 deg to EaAs Chinese
1200-1300 on 15700*ISL 250 kW / 070 deg to EaAs Chinese
1330-1530 on 11645 ISL 250 kW / 282 deg to N&ME Urdu
1330-1530 on 15425 ISL 250 kW / 282 deg to N&ME Urdu
1700-1900 on  9560 ISL 250 kW / 313 deg to WeEu Urdu En nx 10 min 1700-1710
1700-1900 on 11570 ISL 250 kW / 313 deg to WeEu Urdu
# wrong 15735 on Jan.7, unchanged from 0500-0700 broadcast
* wrong 15725 on Jan.6, unchanged from 0830-1105 broadcast
Note: All frequencies have severe technical problems
such as extreme distortion and / or undermodulation.

PALAU    Frequency change of Radio Free Sarawak in Iban from Jan.10:
1000-1200 NF 15425 HBN 100 kW / 270 deg to SEAs, ex 15420

RUSSIA(non)    Cancelled frequency for Voice of Russia in English WS:
2300-2400 on  7290 KCH 500 kW / 296 deg to CeAm

SOUTH KOREA(non)    Winter B-12 SW schedule of KBS World:
0100-0200 on 11635 GUF 250 kW / 235 deg to Peru Spanish
0100-0300 on  9580 KIM 250 kW / 081 deg to SoAm Japanese/English
0100-0300 on  9690 KIM 250 kW / 225 deg to SEAs Vietnamese/English
0100-0400 on 11810 KIM 250 kW / 096 deg to SoAm Spanish/Japanese/Korean
0200-0230 on 15575 KIM 250 kW / 081 deg to NoAm Spanish
0600-0700 on  6045 KIM 250 kW / 290 deg to SoEu Spanish
0700-0800 on  6045 WOF 250 kW / 105 deg to WeEu Korean
0800-0900 on  6155 KIM 100 kW / non-dir to EaAs Japanese
0800-0900 on  7275 KIM 250 kW / non-dir to EaAs Japanese
0800-0900 on  9570 KIM 100 kW / 205 deg to SEAs English
0900-1000 on 15160 KIM 250 kW / 290 deg to N/ME Korean
0900-1100 on  7275 KIM 250 kW / non-dir to EaAs Korean
0900-1100 on  9570 KIM 100 kW / 205 deg to SEAs Korean
0900-1100 on  9805 KIM 100 kW / 081 deg to SEAs Japanese
1030-1230 on  9770 KIM 100 kW / 225 deg to SEAs Vietnamese/Chinese
1100-1130 on  9760 WOF 100 kW / 105 deg to WeEu English Sat DRM
1100-1200 on 11795 KIM 250 kW / 096 deg to SoAm Spanish
1130-1330 on  6095 KIM 250 kW / 290 deg to EaAs Chinese/English
1200-1400 on  7275 KIM 250 kW / non-dir to EaAs Korean/Chinese
1200-1500 on  9570 KIM 100 kW / 205 deg to SEAs Indonesian/English/Indonesian
1300-1500 on 15575 KIM 250 kW / 081 deg to NoAm English/Korean
1400-1700 on  9640 KIM 100 kW / 225 deg to SEAs English/Vietnamese/English
1500-1600 on  9515 KIM 250 kW / 285 deg to N/ME English
1600-1800 on  7275 KIM 250 kW / 305 deg to WeEu Korean
1600-1800 on  9515 KIM 250 kW / 285 deg to N/ME Korean
1600-1800 on  9740 KIM 250 kW / 290 deg to N/ME Korean
1800-1900 on  7235 WOF 250 kW / 075 deg to EaEu Russian
1800-1900 on  7275 KIM 250 kW / 305 deg to WeEu English
2000-2100 on  3955 SKN 250 kW / 106 deg to WeEu German
2000-2100 on  5950 ISS 250 kW / 182 deg to NWAf French
2000-2100 on  9840 DHA 250 kW / 285 deg to NoAf Arabic
2100-2200 on  3955 SKN 250 kW / 175 deg to WeEu French
2200-2230 on  3955 SKN 250 kW / 106 deg to WeEu English
2200-2300 on  7275 KIM 250 kW / 290 deg to EaAs Chinese
2200-2400 on  9805 KIM 100 kW / 205 deg to SEAs Indonesian/Chinese

U.K(non)    Frequency change of BBC in Hindi from Jan.10
1600-1630 NF 11750 CYP 300 kW / 101 deg to SoAs, ex 15710//5865,9790,13695

USA    Frequency changes of WYFR Family Radio in Spanish from Jan.12:
0000-0200 NF  5945 YFR 100 kW / 181 deg to SoAm, ex  5985

USA(non)    Frequency changes of Radio Liberty in Tajik:
0100-0300 NF  9880 UDO 250 kW / 316 deg to CeAs, ex 9955
1400-1500 NF  7550 UDO 250 kW / 316 deg to CeAs, ex 7215

USA(non)    Some changes of Brother Stair /TOM/ in English:
1300-1400 on 15565 TRM 250 kW / 060 deg to SEAs from Jan.14, but not active
1100-1300 on 15565 TRM 250 kW / 060 deg to SEAs Sa/Su, cancelled from Jan.6
1700-2000 on  9625 ERV 300 kW / 090 deg to N/ME Daily, cancelled from Jan.7

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Glenn Hauser logs January 12-13, 2013

** BRAZIL. 11780, Jan 13 at 0225, RNA/RNB is missing except for a noise blob, and furthermore there is a wideband noise level roughly 11.3 to 11.8 MHz, which I suspect is from the 11780 transmitter wildly manfunxioning (while 6180 is OK). The wideband noise on 25 m was first reported at 0150 by Gilles Letourneau, Montréal to the DXLD yg, around 11450-11900, peaking 11600-11650 and then heard by several others, and Gilles says it stopped at 0441. Jorge Freitas in Brasil says 11780 was still off the air at 1450 Jan 13. I had quickly forwarded this info to the radioescutas group the night before where someone with RNB may have seen it, and killed the transmission (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** CHINA. 9530, Sunday Jan 13 at 1320, western classical music, orchestra with clarinet, not often heard from CNR1 jammers, but better than Firedrake or hyper even echoey Chitalk all the time. Then heard // on many other frequencies, some perhaps not jammers, but I`m not going to bother to sort them out: 7445, 7310, 7295, 6175, 6125, 6085, 6045, 6030; Chinese announcement at 1328, and by 1340 also on 15265 playing Strauss waltz. Despite this propagation, no Firedrake found 12-18 MHz (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** CUBA. 6010, UT Sunday Jan 13 at 0705, Radío Havano Kubo weekly Esperanto is reconfirmed, once all the other frequencies have closed. Travelog about Camagüey; it seems the Esperanto term for airport is flughaveno.

11845, Jan 13 at 1403, lite pulse jamming from the incompetent DentroCuban Jamming Command, on a frequency occupied by R. Martí only during the A-seasons, as here we are at the midpoint of B-12 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** FRANCE. 7390, Jan 13 at 0657, German cabaret music, but 0659 French announcement and off at 0700*, i.e. RFI, currently scheduled 04-07, but shifting azimuths each hour, 130-160-185 degrees (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** GREECE. 7475, Jan 13 at 0616 rock music, so must be R. Philia in service this time, since not // 9420 VOG with Orthochanting as usual on Sunday mornings. Then at 0632 on 7475, Spanish ID for R. Filía, announcing only FM and AM frequencies, i.e. ``665`` instead of correct 666 due to institutionalized superstition. Brief Spanish segment was a travel talk about ski areas (in Greece?!), and another Spanish would be on tomorrow at 9 am; 0636.6 said ``adiós``, and on to music fill. Ivo Ivanov says Spanish is Sat & Sun at 0630-0700, while other days it`s a full hour of Albanian from 0600. Meanwhile, third transmitter was JBA on 11645 at 0632, but enough to confirm it was // 9420, not 7475. At 0700, 7475 had weakened considerably as R. Filia shifted into German, which is also Sat/Sun only; while 9420 remained strong with the Greek Orthodox concert past 0723 when I expired (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** INDIA. 9425, Jan 13 at 1319, AIR IS is very poor, 1320 into ``Vande Mataram`` theme. This is the National Channel from Delhi opening its all-night service, registered in HFCC to start at 1305 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** IRAN. 15150, Jan 13 at 1332, VIRI IS is playing in extended version, when normally it would be time for Qur`an at the start of a transmission. Fair with flutter, still at 1339, but gone at next check 1349. The only IRIB scheduled on 15150 is Chinese at 1200-1300, 500 kW, 65 degrees from Kamalabad, where they must have been a tad late turning off the transmitter, with the program feed from Tehran thus occupied (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** JAPAN [non]. 11960, Jan 12 at 2149, VP signal here; I can make out a song, some Japanese, and then Portuguese, so probably in that learn-a-song language lesson segment, NHK World Rádio Japão has finally moved out from under CUBA which usurped original B-12 frequency 11880, also in Portuguese at 2130. This had not been accomplished as of Jan 10, some two weeks after the change was registered, but may have been Jan 11, unchecked then. This GUIANA FRENCH relay is much weaker than expected here, even considering it`s off the back, but no doubt the Brazilians can finally hear it well without QubaRM (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** KURDISTAN [non]. 11510, Sunday Jan 13 at 1415-1455+, another lovely concert of Kurdish music, nary an announcement; fair signal with some flutter, and the occasional IAD. Still registered in HFCC by BRB as SMF = ``Simferopol, Ukraine`` a site which does not exist. Why does Ludo do it?? Ivo Ivanov says it`s really via KCH = Grigoriopol, PRIDNESTROVYE (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** OKLAHOMA. 1020, Jan 12 at 2234 UT, KOKP Perry trying to carry Fox Sports Radio, has severe audio breakups, unlistenable; this Saturday afternoon it is not // unscathed 1580 KOKB Blackwell, as these sibling stations separate when there are different sillyballgames to carry.

1020, Jan 13 at 1355 UT, KOKP audio is still/again cutting up, with KMMQ Nebraska, clear in its null, see U S A (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** TAIWAN [non]. 15440, Jan 12 at 2220, RTI via WYFR in English but with crackling audio breakup, while // 6115 is OK. Therefore it is a problem at WYFR, like loose antenna wire connexions or feedline shorting? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. WORLD OF RADIO 1651 monitoring: confirmed on WTWW-1 5830, UT Sunday Jan 13 at 0500, excellent signal this time, but automation is currently set to start playback about 15 sex early, meaning the canned hourtop ID interrupts our billboard again. Further chances, on WRMI 9955: Monday 0530, Tuesday 1200 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 5050, Jan 12 at 2209, surprised to hear Brother Scare here, must be WWRB firing up this frequency early, but NOT synched with 9370, the dedicated BS daytime frequency. However, one semi-minute later, 5050 replaces BS with some band music, then introduxion of by a gospel huxter about how to justify windstorms, rain and floods as Acts of God (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 5085, Jan 13 at 0230, WTWW-2 is on again this UT Sunday, Ted Randall QSO show with some ham commenting on antennas vs condo associations, so find a remote location to operate. 0621 next check, it`s still on, Ted now interviewing someone about how great the Dramatized Word of God is in languages as on WTWW-3 12105. 5085 off sometime before my 0705 final check. I don`t think so, but if anyone notice Ted playing WORLD OF RADIO anytime on Saturday evenings, please inform me (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 750, Jan 12 at 2238 UT, ad for US Carpet in Chicago, in Ukrainian, with phone numbers except switching to English to pronounce area code 773, why?? That applies to the city of Chicago/suburbs outside the downtown/Loop. Of course, it`s 15 kW daytimer WNDZ Portage IN. It must have signed off at 2245, legal sunset in January. The only PSSA it`s authorized is a 15-minute extension in December from sunset 2215 to 2230 UT with 10 watts (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 1020, Jan 13 at 1355 UT, ``La Nueva 10-20`` by SHVA, Mexican music but not // 930 WKY which has happened before; in null of breaking-up semi-local KOKP Perry OK, q.v. This is KMMQ Plattsmouth NE (Omaha mercado) (Glenn Hauser, Enid OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. Now that WCKL`s odd-numbered SW harmonics of MW 560 from Catskill NY have been heard by several in the northeast --- Dave Valko in PA, Kraig Krist in VA, Jim Renfrew and John Herkimer in NY, Stephen Wood and Jim Balle in MA, both day and night on 3920, 5040, 6160, I am looking for it too, but no luck so far, such as circa 2200 UT Dec 12. 6160 heard by Kraig vs Canada, is the eleventh harmonic already, so I also checked x13 = 7280 and x15 = 8400. The probably stronger third harmonic is probably blocked by fundamentally 1680 stations.

As I told Dave, who first inquired about it as an unID January 8, Wikipedia says WCKL is mostly off the air, fired up for a few days a year to keep license active. No specific program schedule, and the listen live doesn`t work at http://familybroadcasting.net/

Legal FCC sunrise and sunset for WCKL in January are 1230 and 2145 UT. Stephen Wood was hearing 3920 at 0145 UT Jan 11, so besides radiating all these harmonix, it`s probably not observing day/night power cut either from 1000 to 43 watts (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

UNIDENTIFIED. Trans-Atlantic carriers all over the place, UT Jan 13 at 0233 UT, first noticed on 1521, then stepping 9 kHz down the entire band, found more: 1215, 1089, 1008, 945, 909, 882, 864, 855, 837, 747, 693, 684, 675, 612, 603, 594, 531. 693 was strongest but not enough for any audio. No doubt some others were obscured by TVI from the neighbors.

Another check at 0640: 1089, 1215; and at 0642-0647: 675, 684, 693, 738, 747, 774, 855, 882, 909, 945, 1044, 1557.

And standing out with a higher-pitched het against the BFO was 1314+ at 0642. Is some European significantly off-frequency there? Not as of last August according to
http://www.myradiobase.de/mediumwave/mwoffset.txt
Possibly a local spoiler (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

UNIDENTIFIED. 14653.5-SSB, Jan 13 at 1344, 2-way in Spanish mentioning kilos and vuelos, apparently narco flight communications (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

QSL Flying Dutchman

Flying Dutchman 6292 KHz - fd@hmnet.nl con QSL elettronica allegata in 9 minuti. v/s Herbert.

Roberto Pavanello
Vercelli / Italia

Glenn Hauser logs January 12, 2013

** AUSTRALIA. 2485, Jan 12 at 1352, some music is audible on very poor signal; has to be VL8K, which rarely surpasses a JBA carrier, still the case on 2325, VL8T; the other NT one still on 4835, much easier to hear, VL8A (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** AUSTRALIA [and non]. 11945, Jan 12 at 1522, R. Australia, English, with heavy SAH and CCCCI, because R Free Asia, Mandarin via TAJIKISTAN eastward starts at 1500, and inevitably provokes ChiCom co-channel jamming, probably what I am hearing instead of RFA. RA is aimed 70 degrees, otherwise good for us. A quick fix to this would be shifting from 11945 to 11880 half an hour earlier at 1500 instead of 1530, altho I`m not sure they are the same transmitter. After 1530, just Chinese remains on 11945 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** CUBA. 11760, Jan 12 at 1347, RHC is open carrier/dead air, while much weaker signal on 11750 is modulating. Sometime after 1500 noticed that 11760 had resumed (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** GREECE. 11645, Sat Jan 12 at 0633, VOG with poor signal // 9420 in Greek talk, while 7475 checked as early as 0622 had music not //, so R. Philia service is on today, 7475 and not on 11645 where it was originally. 11645 had not been heard for weeks, not sure it was still on the air, but propagation picked up a bit tonight (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** GUAM. 5765-USB, Jan 12 at 1403, AFN is AWOL again, no signal, just widespread OTH radar pulsing, presumed from China; so to hear `Weekend Edition Saturday` I had to tune in to Tucson; see U S A (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** INDONESIA. 4750, Jan 12 at 1349, YL sounds Indonesian with a phone caller, so presumed RRI Makassar rather than Bangladesh. RRI is consistently reported about 40 Hz below, but it`s hard for me to detect the difference (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** IRAN. 5920, Jan 12 at 1358, poor signal, maybe Persian? 1400 no timesignal but plucked instrument and orchestra, more talk. Per HFCC, Aoki and EiBi, it has to be IRIB, Kurdish at 1330-1630, 500 kW ND from Kamalabad. This is just after sunrise here at 1343, so would it be long path or short? Probably short, as per gaisma.com, nearby Tehran sunset today was 1341 UT, i.e. right along the grayline (Glenn Hauser, Enid, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** KOREA SOUTH. 6015, Jan 12 at 1406 singing and talk sounds Korean, so per Aoki it`s:
6015 KBS Hanminjok Bangsong 1 0350-2400 1234567 Korean 100 ND Hwaseong
Unseemed with co-channel 6015 Juche jamming noise from the North as listed for 250 kW from Kujang, but some nearby, maybe the other one on 6003 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** MEXICO. 710, Jan 12 at 1428, M&W with crime stats, ``delitos``, 7:28 timecheck, state news mentioning Delicias` water shortage; poor signal but way atop KGNC and KCMO still, half a sesquihour after Enid sunrise, ergo XEDP Ciudad Cuauhtémoc, Chihuahua, which is also the dominant XE at night. A.k.a. La Ranchera de Cuauhtémoc but departing from that format for a morning newscast (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** MEXICO. 6185, Jan 12 at 0623, sufficient open carrier, no doubt XEPPM not turned off yet after nominal 0600 sign-off. This is when XEEP 1060 has been relaying news from R. Francia Internacional, and also used to be heard on 6185 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** NEW ZEALAND. 11725, Jan 12 at 0634, RNZI is the SSOB, playing ``Auld Lang Syne``, in Saturday night request show, later Sophie Tucker, and more great favorites of the elder generation. I could not turn it off before 0700 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** OKLAHOMA. 1640, KOAG: afternoon of Jan 11 visited the 17th annual KNID Agrifest, and near the front entrance of the Chisholm Trail Expo Center, found a spartan table personned by a M&W from KOAG. Conversed with Jay Kopp, Marketing Consultant. Station operates out of OKC, not Enid, along with True Oldies 99.7, KZLS. Both are part of Champlin Broadcasting, 4045 NW 64th Street, Suite 306, 73116. Separate from Chisholm Trail Broadcasting, Enid, KCRC, KNID, etc., tho both are owned by Hiram Champlin. Says there is no locally-originated programming yet, but plans for some. The previous ``Faith 1640`` format as KFXY just wasn`t paying the bills.

I asked whether KOAG might go non-direxional for better coverage of rural OK instead of aiming at the cities; he`s not an engineer but thinx it`s possible. Agreed that coverage is limited toward the WSW as he recently drove back from Midland TX. Mr Kopp was formerly with Renda, i.e. KOMA/KOKC 1520, and the inevitable stories ensued of it being heard in Finland, Japan, and I added, Australia & New Zealand. Did not discuss QSLing KOAG, but besides the postal address above (rather than same as KCRC 1390 Enid as in NRC AM Log), e-mail on his business card is jkopp @ champlinbroadcasting.com and office phone 405.633.1099.

He did not find it odd that KNID, not an ag station per se, was still sponsoring the event rather than KOAG, which is. At the Agrifest, we also saw several pairs of gloves labeled KFRM [550] on various exhibitors` tables, but never a KFRM exhibit, presumably not invited, as the main competition. An intruder from KFRM had surreptitiously made the rounds handing them out earlier. Then there`s another further farm station, KRVN 880 Nebraska, also audible here on groundwave (Glenn Hauser, Enid, DX LISTENIG DIGEST)

** ROMANIA. 15170, Sat Jan 12 at 1430-1450, RRI with comedy/novelty songs in Romanian service; fun to listen to if not understanding more than a few cognate words of it (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** SPAIN. 17595 // 21610, Jan 12 at 1410, REE is broadcasting its own program in Castilian instead of CRI in French! Since it`s Saturday, strong 17595 toward NAm is back on, but 17715 is not, even after 1500 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. WORLD OF RADIO 1651 monitoring: confirmed on Area 51 via WBCQ 5110v-CUSB, UT Saturday Jan 12 at 0230:30, about the same time it started last week. Thanks, Larry Will, for keeping us on WBCQ!
Next: UT Sun 0500 on WTWW 5830; Sun 0900, 1630, Mon 0530, Tue 1200 on WRMI 9955.

I checked around 1845 Jan 12 for WOR on WRMI 9955: nothing but a JBA carrier here, but Ed Insinger in Summit NJ reports: ``Today, Saturday, 12 January 2013, I am listening to World Of Radio on 9955 kHz, in the clear today, at 1830 UTC, following NHK World in English. It was good to receive your broadcast of WOR in the clear today. Many thanks`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 960, Jan 12 at 0603 UT, ABC News and commercial breaks, presumed KMA Shenandoah IA as local KGWA is again providing a 5-minute Fox-hole with no modulation, except for some hum (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 1160, Jan 12 at 1433 UT, easily separated from KSL by nulling is something from the NE/SW, religious referring us twice to wyll.com in order to patronize local advertisers. Therefore I am confident it`s WYLL Chicago, né WJJD. (That public station in Champaign having the more apropos letters WILL tied up forever; note that the second harmonic of WILL would also be 1160, possibly confusing in some areas.)

FCC AM Query shows WYLL is licensed daytime for BOTH 50 kW, 2 towers, and 15 kW, 6 towers. The 2-tower pattern is broad favoring the southeast, but enough to the SW for us: http://transition.fcc.gov/ftp/Bureaus/MB/Databases/AM_DA_patterns/185560-36.pdf
While the 6-tower pattern is an auxiliary/backup from a considerably different set of coordinates, with major lobe to north, hardly any to the SW:http://transition.fcc.gov/ftp/Bureaus/MB/Databases/AM_DA_patterns/1421498-114379.pdf
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 1550, Jan 12 at 1436 UT, Scott Simon`s voice so it has to be `Weekend Edition Saturday` which in turn has to be from the only NPR on 1550, 50 kW daytimer KUAT Tucson AZ --- oops, it`s been KUAZ since 8/11/2000; soon fades out, but back at 1443 during usual WESAT sports segment, about the only one I condescend to listen to since it`s now dealing with something important, brain injuries in football. Duh, avoid banging your head against things or people! Especially if it`s only for the reptilian entertainment of other males, and female hangers-on.

KUAZ does have a PSRA of 39.0 watts, October thru March starting at 6 am local = 1300 UT, the limiting station being XEBG Tijuana, not any of all the other US stations on 1550. A 10 kW so close as Albuquerque on 1550 should never have been authorized, but not hearing much from it today. There must be quite a clash between them in western NM, eastern AZ.

And a KUAZ PSSA also of 39.0 watts every month on a complicated schedule from sunset to as late as 7:45 pm MT (0245 UT) in January. SR/SS times in January are 1430-0045 UT; February 1415-0115, so it must have just gone up to 50 kW day power a few minutes before I heard it. What a pity a station capable of providing such a great public radio service to the western half of the country is so restricted (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 1670, Sat Jan 12 at 1439 UT, financial talk show, poor signal from NE/SW, can`t be anything but Madison WI, rebranded as WOZN, on the new CBS Sports network, but must not be 100% silly ballgames. No sign of a program schedule athttp://www.madcitysportszone.com/
but ``coming soon``: a ``Fantasy Zone`` --- will that be another cheesecake gallery like WCKY`s, somehow correlating with sports? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

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Glenn Hauser logs January 11, 2013

** BANGLADESH [and non]. 4750, Jan 11 at 1333, pileup of two or three Asians, where they can`t figure out that shifting to different frequencies would help them all to be heard. If it`s this bad on the opposite worldside, it must be awful in Asia. Atop signal has M&W talking, not Chinese, and unseems Indonesian either, so that leaves Bangla, as Bangladesh Betar HS has been reported reactivated recently by Ron Howard, et al. Monitored across hourtop 1400 with song, no timesignal or ID, sounds like maybe a kidshow; still in at 1420 with song, less QRM. By now could be RRI Makassar dominating (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** CHINA. 4940, Jan 11 at 1404, Chinese is the SSOB except for WWV, no doubt V. of Strait, Fuzhou; could easily have copied it but for language barrier. No sign of AIR Guwahati co-channel, unlike clashes on 4820, 4920; see INDIA (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** CUBA [and non]. 13780, Jan 11 at 1502, RHC is missing from one of its best morning frequencies; don`t know how long it had been off, but then tuned to 11860 at 1503 just in time to hear frequency announcement claiming 13780 is on until 1600! 11860 has CCI and SAH from Iran in Russian as usual. Then at 1504:30 YL mis-announces the time as ``exactamente las 10, 1 minuto``, into ``news``. Typical (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** EGYPT [and non]. 13580, Jan 11 at 1457, horrible mess between VOA Kurdish and wavering tone, also LAH between carriers. VOA off at 1458:45* but the tone continues until 1500:42, then 1501 R. Cairo opening scheduled Albanian, with distortion, reverb. There was no carrier break and I am quite sure the clash was merely due to R. Cairo warming up, not intentional jamming as Steve Handler was theorizing in the NASWA Flashsheet. And if it were jamming, it would surely be starting when Kurdish does at 1400. This has been going on for many months, as I have reported it a few times before. IBB should wake up and get another frequency to avoid this. Site is Wertachtal. Also CODAR in the mix (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** GREECE. 7475, Fri Jan 11 at 0606 check, ERT Greek music is // 9420 instead of splitting for R. Filia in Albanian; this happens erratically, why? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** GUAM. 5765-USB, Jan 11 at 1406, AFN is back again after missing a few days, news from the NBC `Today` show about shooting in California, tornados and floods in Louisiana; 1409 military PSAs cover up the original TV commercials; more at 1414: military deployment news from the Southern Command.

Hearing TV show soundtrax only is somewhat frustrating when they are obviously referring to visuals, such as weather maps. Whatever became of DVS? Descriptive Video Service. In the final years of analog TV there was a bit of this on some PBS shows, using SAP = subcarriers, which should still be possible somewhere in the DTV bandwidths. Not something you can do on the fly, like captioning, but audio descriptions for the blind of what is on the screen, carefully inserted during pauses. Probably too expensive for too few benefitters.

Also checked 4319-USB for AFN Diego Garcia, but only ute QRM. I never have any luck with the BIOT outlet, a.k.a Chagos, a.k.a. Diogo Garcia to the true Portuguee (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** INDIA [and non]. 4820, Jan 11 at 1336, fast SAH, top station talking in accented English, about football? 1338 commercial with kid voices, or childish adults, unseems English. Must anyway be AIR Kolkata, over PBS Xizang.

4870, Jan 11 at 1339, weak talk and LAH, bonker on the side. Probably AIR Nepali service from Delhi/Khampur, and would like to think the het is from off-frequency 300-watt Indonesian, RRI Wamena.

4920, Jan 11 at 1340, S Asian music and talk, CCI, presumably also AIR Chennai, atop another PBS Xizang (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** MEXICO. 640, Jan 11 at 0701 UT, Mexican NA very long multi-verse choral version, finally ends at 0706, full ID with powers, street address, phones, etc., for ``Los 40 Principales``, Hidalgo del Parral, Chihuahua, AM & FM, XEHHI on 640, and XHHHI on 99.3; 0707 timecheck as ``son las 12`` -- not exactly! Then rock song en inglés. It`s not hard to get past KWPN 640 OK, which BTW is still running IBOC, but only sporadically in the daytime (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** MEXICO. 660, Jan 11 at 0639 UT, romantic music in Spanish, ``La mejor estación, La Lupe, 98.9`` dominating frequency at the moment, i.e. XEACB, Ciudad Delicias, Chihuahua, 5/1 kW per IRCA Mexican log but not off the air after 0600 as listed there.

Name is presumably in tribute to La Virgen de GuadaLupe. I used to live in Guadalupe county, New Mexico, too young to be conscious of virgins per se, but no doubt associated with some in grade school (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** OKLAHOMA. 1020, Jan 11 at 0620 UT and rechex later in the hour, KOKP Perry in open carrier/dead air; makes 3.6 Hz SAH with something else, probably KDKA Pittsburgh. Ho hum, happens frequently (Glenn Hauser, Enid, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** OKLAHOMA. 960, Jan 11 at 0600-0605 UT, KGWA Enid also with Fox-hole of dead air again; only ABC news detected, presumably KMA Shenandoah IA (Glenn Hauser, Enid, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** POLAND. 24946-USB, Jan 11 at 1431, SQ2RCM, Andy, calling CQ DX after working a few W`s. Mixes different fonetik alfabets, as ``sierra queen two radio charlie mike``. QRZ.com IDs:
SQ2RCM, Andy Repalski, Guzlin 51, PL 87-880 Brzesc Kujawski, Poland
Checked 12m since 13m broadcast band was above par, but nothing on 10m (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** SPAIN. 17715, Jan 11 at 1506, French! Instead of Spanish from REE. Yes, they`ve done it again, relaying CRI instead of own programming, during news about the Kurdish Workers Party, 1509 reference to cri.cn, IDs as Radio Chine Internationale; 1513 western operatic music. Checked 21610 and 15385 for // but REE is properly in own Spanish on those. Still CRI music separately on 17715 at 1530.

See my previous log on 17595, Dec 29 at 1428-1503 of REE also relaying CRI in French by mistake, as in DXLD 13-01 under SPAIN. Isn`t anyone paying attention at Madrid master control, or Noblejas site to what`s really going on the air? Of course not!

Hmm, REE owes CRI a lot of make-up airtime for CRI`s daily 2-minute relay of REE IS at 1358-1400 before own Nepali service on two frequencies, for years and years (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** TAIWAN [non]. 15180, Friday Jan 11 at 1436, virtuoso violin solo, i.e. a cadenza in a major violin concerto, as then orchestra rejoins; 1336 Russian announcement, and more classical music from RTI via FRANCE; presumably Taiwanese performers, and hope this is a regular program. 1455 closing announcement and off at 1457* (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. WORLD OF RADIO 1651 monitoring: second broadcast confirmed on WWRB, UT Friday Jan 11 starting about 0428 --- I was monitoring the webcast at first, from 0426 when instead of Pastor Larry ``Amen & Amen`` Cain from Anderson SC, `Unshackled` was closing from the Pacific [sic] Garden Mission in Chicago --- this is another filler, instead of last week`s primitive organ music which I would prefer to hear. The never-dated program grid from Global 1 (5050) athttp://www.wwrb.org/schedule/global_1/combined.pdf
shows `Faith Holiness`, Thursdays at 11-11:30 pm; not sure if that was the official name of Cain`s show, which may have run out of money to buy this `expensive` airtime.

Unfortunately, after a quick Dave ID, there was dead air again, interrupted by fitful bits of me opening WOR; wiggle that patchcord! Only sometime during the first item about Argentina does the modulation catch on and stay on --- I hope for the rest of the semihour; rechecked 0458 too late as the early start meant it was over already. During the interim also confirmed that this week was on both 3195 and 5050, but unusually, 5050 considerably weaker than 3195.

Two of my otherwise good outlets for WOR on SW keep messing up the opening. I am tempted to start inserting meaningless dispensable blather for the first biminute, rather than getting right down to business, but every minute counts, and I have only 29 of them, never enough to cover all the news I would like to.

Next: UT Saturday 0230v on Area 51 via WBCQ 5110v-CUSB [Anker Petersen measured on 5109.74 Dec 29]; Saturday 0630 & 1030 on Hamburger Lokalradio 7265-USB (or is it CUSB too?); Saturday 0900, 1600 & 1830 on WRMI 9955; Saturday 1830 on WRN via SiriusXM 120; UT Sunday 0500 on WTWW-1 5830; Sunday 0900, 1630, Monday 0530, Tuesday 1200 on WRMI 9955 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** VATICAN. 7250, Friday Jan 11 at 0610, very poor signal here, presumed Vatican Radio on early again in Swedish or maybe Finnish; 0619 confirmed as VR with IS, before another off-schedule transmission in Albanian. Yesterday SMG did not turn on this frequency until 0628 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

UNIDENTIFIED. 999, Jan 11 at 0655, 1 kHz het upon KKIM & KTOK, presumably trans-Atlantic, but scanning the band for other carriers was unproductive at this late hour. Nothing over 50 kW on 999 from W Europe, COPE Madrid (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

UNIDENTIFIED. 6128-SSB, approx., Jan 11 at 0710 very weak two-way in Spanish, INTRUDER, audiblized once Cuba is off 6125 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

UNIDENTIFIED. 9440-9460, Jan 11 at 1345, the banshee blob is varying/jumping around this range, with its constant rumble, and making hets of constantly changing pitches as it crosses other stations. Could be an ionosonde gone wild (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

Glenn Hauser logs January 9-10, 2013

** AUSTRALIA. 9580, Wed Jan 9 at 1420, fascinating show about color perception (dogs see no red; some rare humans have cones for four primary colors instead of three, and some shrimp species has 20! Why?). Turns out to be `Radio Lab` from WNYC as widely heard on public radio in the US, but for SW, we are indebted to RA (and RNZI) for worldwiding this, including back to US!

No American shortwave station, government or private, would ever condescend to broadcast such excellent non-commercial, non-religious programming for almost an hour straight. (Axually, we are just as indebted to Radio National and RNZ National which are merely being relayed by the SW stations for lack of any programming of their own, especially during summer breaks). I knew RA would cut 9580 off abruptly at 1458, so had already retuned to 11945 to get the last minute of the Radio Lab credits. This show has great produxion values, with choral musical renditions of the colors (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** CHINA [and non]. 9955, Jan 9 at 1510, Firedrake is atop RFA Tibetan via TINIAN, which is on 9955 during this hour only; WRMI is in weekdaily 8-hour break from SW at 15-23, but lite Cuban pulse jamming can still also be heard for good (bad) measure. Luca Botto Fiora, Italy had also heard FD on 9955 at 0709 Dec 31, and wondered if it was really transmitted from Cuba, by mistake? Surely not, altho with Cuba anything can happen and they do have a program feed line from the same SARFT building in Beijing providing both Firedrake and CRI. I`ve yet to suspect any FD via CUBA, but rarely listening at that hour (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** CUBA. 11880, Jan 10 at 2132 checking whether NHK Portuguese via GUIANA FRENCH is still under RHC Portuguese --- can`t tell, but RHC is in French instead; must be running late. Recheck 2158: no, still in French, so must have mixed up the playback tapes with 2100, typical incompetence (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** CYPRUS. 13960-13985, Jan 9 at 1519, OTH radar pulses, presumed from here (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** JAPAN [non]. 11880, Jan 9 at 2129, NHK IS is JBA under very strong RHC, so R. Japan *still* hasn`t moved GUIANA FRENCH relay out from under the usurper, as allegedly planned for 11960. Jan 10 at 2132 I can`t hear anything under RHC, but 11960 isn`t on either, nor at 2158 recheck; see also CUBA (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** OKLAHOMA. 960, Jan 10 at 0600-0605 UT, after about a week of failing to Fox-hole, KGWA Enid does it again: dead air for five minutes, but nothing significant heard under it this time (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** PRIDNESTROVYE. 7290, Jan 9 at 2201, no signal from Radio PMR which had announced it would resume today after OrthoXmas break; oh, oh, is it kaput? But then Stephen Cooper in UK quickly informed the DXLD yahoogroup that he had just heard 7290 closing English at 2157, and their website http://radiopmr.org/about/27/Cetka-veshhaniya
when converted to UT shows it`s reduced to only one hour M-F at 2100-2200, in English/German/French/English again, with only a 2-minute music break between quarters, and no more Russian. So Radio PMR lives on, barely (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1651, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** RUSSIA [non]. 9395, Jan 9 at 2201, presumed VOR English to Latin (lacking North) America is presumably the JBA signal via ARMENIA, useless. Nothing at all at 2329 recheck, tho some have reported it axually cut off by 2330 instead of scheduled 2400.

7290 via PRIDNESTROVYE [see also] doesn`t start VOR until 0000, but checked at 2329, I heard Chinese instead, which must have been CNR1, 222 degrees from Beijing 572 site, per Aoki, and would continue until 0130 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1651, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** RWANDA. 7300, Jan 9 at 1530, very poor signal with DW IS, can`t tell language, but listed as 250 kW non-direxional in Swahili at 15-16. Hmmm, probably long path like SOMALILAND 7120 in our mornings (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** SAUDI ARABIA. 17615, Jan 9 at 1514, BSKSA is managing to modulate today with Qur`an, unlike Jan 8 with at least a sesquihour of dead air. We often listen to this to serenade out breakfast, secure that since it`s all-Arabic, we shall not be influenced by the program content. Other Abrahamists have a more effective approach to evangelism (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. WORLD OF RADIO 1651 monitoring: confirmed first broadcast Thursday Jan 10 starting about 2159:50 on WTWW-1 9479. This shifted the interruption for houtrop canned ID ending with an explosion, to slightly later in the WOR billboard, obscuring some of the headline countries, before back to us intact for the rest of the semihour. Lately I have been completing recording only within the previous hour before this airtime, as I struggle to get caught up, plowing thru and arranging all the accumulated material, also to be in the next DX LISTENING DIGEST 13-02.

Further chances: UT Friday 0430v on WWRB 3195 (and last week 5050 was on too); UT Saturday 0230v on Area 51 via WBCQ 5110v-CUSB; UT Sunday 0500 on WTWW-1 5830.

Also on WRMI 9955: Sat 0900, 1600, 1830; Sun 0900, 1630; Mon 0530; Tue 1200. On HLR 7265-USB Germany: Sat 0630 & 1630. On WRN via SiriusXM 120: Sat 1830. Full schedule at http://www.worldofradio.com/radioskd.html
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 7348-SSB, approx. Jan 9 at 1531, as I tune in, ID as WGY908, concluding an informal MARS-like contact with someone ``until next Wednesday`` and ``back to scan``, i.e. digital noises. I didn`t have the frequency pinned exactly during the voice, and never heard any more during the next semihour, just occasional digital bursts. I had previous logs of this in 2004y and 2009y as WGY908, FEMA regional HQ, Denver CO (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 1550, Jan 9 at 0634 UT, ``more of your favorite music coming up on Cool (Kool?) 107.5``; loops E/W, instead of boring Branson TIS. Another AM station which doesn`t even recognize its own frequency, and to make it worse, the FM tail wagging this dog is nothing but a translator, for it must be KRKE Albuquerque, not listed as such in NRC AM Log 2012 since the swap with KIVA 1600 occurred shortly after it went to press. The ex-1600 entry for KRKE says: 24h // K298BK, 107.5, ``Real Oldies,`` ``The New Cool``, close enough (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** VATICAN. 7250, Wed Jan 9 at 0619, VR is already on with IS between Scandinavian and Albanian, but no signals yet on 3975 or 6075. Thu Jan 10 at 0613, nothing on 7250 so put an offset BFO on a receiver to notify me when the carrier would come on this time: *0628:20, off a few sex, and then back on to stay, with 0630 Latin mass. You never know whether this will start at 0600 or not, but schedule says from 0630 only (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

UNIDENTIFIED. Trans-Atlantic carrier scan performed Jan 10 at 0624-0630 after hearing a tell-tale het from 909 as I tuned to 910 kHz, put in order here, not the order I heard them: 531, 684, 693, 711, 909, 945, 1044, 1053, 1089, 1206, 1215 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

Ascolti onde medie 9 gennaio

1548 9/1 1759 Voce della Russia, Grigoriopol PX "Turismo" Info It 33433
972 9/1 1800 R. Colonia NDR Info, Hamburg Mx  Nx It 23433

 

73 da N. Marabello
Treviso, Italia
RX: SANYO MW737K
ANT:  interna a ferrite

Glenn Hauser logs January 7-8, 2013

** AUSTRALIA. 9580, Jan 8 circa 1350, RA is interviewing a bubbly Brit/Canuckess, Mysti Vine, lamenting that there are so few black burlesque artistes. Axually, I think she enjoys standing out; concluding with reference to her site, http://www.comicgoddess.com --- ``The World's Only Black Burlesque, Variety & Striptease Comedic Artist...(probably)``. Checking the gallery, she may be sufficient, but not especially busty (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** CHINA. Firedrake Jan 8, 1456-1500: none found 12-17 MHz (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** CUBA. 17730, Jan 8 at 1425, RHC is dead air; by 1521 I can detect it`s JBM - just barely modulated, so the winner today is still SAUDI ARABIA [q.v.] on 17715. All other RHC frequencies noticed were nominal on 17, 15, 13, 11 and 9 MHz bands (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** CYPRUS. 16648-16673, Jan 8 at 1458, strong over-the-horizon radar pulses, presumed from here in typical 25-kHz bandwidth, tough luck for any marine users of these frequencies (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** FRANCE. 17615, Jan 8 at 1604, a much weaker station has inherited frequency from SAUDI ARABIA [q.v.] which broadcast dead air for at least a sesquihour. African music and 1605 announcement. HFCC shows RFI in Hausa, 500 kW, 170 degrees from Issoudun at 1600-1700 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** JAPAN [non]. 11880, Jan 7 at 2150, NHK just barely audible under RHC, also in Portuguese. Nothing on 11960 yet, which Ivo Ivanov says is supposed to replace it via GUIANA FRENCH, but without a date. He must have spotted this in HFCC which claims:
11960 2130 2200 14,15,16 GUF  250 185 0 151 1234567 281012 310313 D  Por F NHK NHK 19202
but the start date is obviously false as we all know NHK has really been on 11880 from 28 Oct before RHC usurped it. This is from the 04 January HFCC edition, still the latest one posted as of 08 Jan! The same transmission still showed on 11880 in the previous HFCC we saved, dated 2712.

As an outlaw nation, Cuba refuses to participate in HFCC --- those who do are thus at risk, also for inadvertently choosing frequencies RHC is already on but never registered. Thus monitoring of true band occupancy is necessary, not just looking at incomplete listings (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** MALI. 5995, Jan 8 at 0621, poor and undermodulated signal with some music, presumed ORTM, scheduled to sign-on at 0555. Tho I tune around just about every night at this hour, seldom enough signal to notice. Perhaps slightly enhanced by northern-latitude propagational attenuation (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** MEXICO. 540, Jan 8 at 0641 UT, I have to wait almost a minute after tune-in until XETX, La Ranchera de Paquimé, Chihuahua, exclaims an ID; also CCI from another SS, but unseems from XEWA direxion (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** RUSSIA. 5940, Jan 8 at 0625, pop music, poor signal, but better than DGS/PMS 5935 WWCR which tonight is barely audible unlike other nights inbooming, as Tennessee has positioned itself in the skip zone from here, while further signals are making it. At first suspected Brazil, but then at 0626 announcement in Russian, so it`s R. Rossii, Magadan already from eastern Siberia at 150+East. Then there is a LAH (low audible heterodyne), which probably is from Brasil (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** SAUDI ARABIA. 17615, Jan 8 at 1426, BSKSA is today`s purveyor of open carrier dead air --- but with a slight whine. At tune-in first figured it was just another pregnant pause during Qur`an, but nothing ensued. Left a receiver on this and never any modulation until 1557*. Taking over 17615 then is FRANCE, q.v. So that`s at least a sesquihour of Riyadh burning 500 kW for nothing, likely two sesquihours, scheduled 1300-1600. Axuallly much more than 3 megawatt-hours wasted, considering the inherent inefficiency of input vs output power. Meanwhile other Saudi frequencies were nominal: 21505, 17895, 17705. It seems too many SW stations have no ``silent sensor`` setup to instantly ring alarm bells when the modulation vanishes. Who cares? And Allah forbid that anyhuman at the studio or transmitter site should axually listen to their own output on an air monitor (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 

** VATICAN [and non]. 7250, Jan 8 at 0618, poor signal in Swedish from Vatican Radio, 0619 IS thrice, 0620 ``Laudetur Iesus Christus; ju flet Radio Vatikana``, i.e. Albanian. Once again these two services are back on SW, tho per own schedules supposed to have been banished to MW 1260 only. Anyhow, Tuesday is reconfirmed as a day the 0600 broadcast in Swedish instead of Finnish. 7250 has only poor signal today, and the MUF has plunged below 9 MHz. Did not check //s until 0631 in multilangs preceding Latin mass, and now 3975 has the best signal from Europe on any band, slightly better than 6075; even better than Romania English on 7310 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

UNIDENTIFIED. Since SW from Europe was subpar in MUF, I was a bit surprised to find a het on 549 as I started DXing MW at 0649 UT Jan 8, but then detected many more trans-Atlantic carriers at this somewhat late hour, not so late for midwinter; in stepping up 9 kHz on the DX-398 with internal antenna only, generally looping NE/SW, with slightly offset BFO in USB or LSB modes, so the typical het pitches could be easily spotted thru 0654 UT, found:

549, 612, 675, 684, 693, 747, 882, 909, 1035, 1053, 1089, 1143, 1152, 1206, 1215, 1224, 1305, 1314, 1413, 1557, 1584, 1602. Maybe this was not so surprising considering how well VATICAN was doing on 3975 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

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Ascolti AM 6-7 gennaio da Treviso, IT

17595 6/1   1304 R. Exterior España, Noblejas Nx Px "Amigos OC" Es 44434
7390   6/1  1505 Radio Romania Int., Saftica  Px "Posta" It 54444
21610  7/1  1300 R. Exterior España, Noblejas ID Ts Nx Es 24423
15595 7/1  1318 Radio Vaticana, S. Maria Galeria Nx  Info It 34433

73 da N. Marabello
Treviso, Italia

RX: SONY ICF SW7600G
ANT: VHF esterna 230 gradi http://web.tiscali.it/ondecorte

Glenn Hauser logs January 6-7, 2013

** CUBA. 5855, Jan 7 at 0537, YL 5-digit Spanish number group, ``38500`` just one, and on to digital tones, etc., etc., alternating. Nothing unusual noted on RHC frequencies tonight. Dave Hughes replied to my previous report:

``6165 numbers snafu last night --- Hi Glenn, I saw your log of 6165 last night. I was perusing the recent Enigma newsletter about the new Cuban numbers mode and decided to see if they were on air. It took me less than 5 seconds to find them on 5855 at 0530. Here is my log of the ensuing Cuban spy screwups:http://www.hfunderground.com/board/index.php/topic,9519.0.html

I once tried to QSL a recording I made of DX'ers Unlimited cutting off and coming back as the `atención` numbers. They not only ignored me but stopped sending me stuff, calendars, new years cards etc. Guess it`s a sore spot with them. D. Hughes KCMO``.

11860, Jan 7 at 1358 is today`s dead-air frequency of RHC, still so at 1501 but now with SAH and CCI from Iran in Russian at 1430-1530, 500 kW, 320 degrees from Sirjan. There`s another collision in Russian, from France at 1400-1430.

17730, Jan 7 at 1414, here`s another, or maybe just barely modulated, while 17580 is nominal. By 1501, 17730 has improved to barely modulated (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** MEXICO. 2910, Jan 7 at 0546 I`m looking for XEVT 970 x 3, Villahermosa, Tabasco, and there it is, somewhat better signal than I have been hearing in the mornings, S9+10 but better S/N ratio. Ads and songs; 0557 brief announcement I could not copy but must have been sign-off, followed 0558 by choral NA, multiverse past 0601 and off, to sign back on at 1100 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** OKLAHOMA. 1640, KOAG Enid seems to have bumped the modulation up a bit, so even tho it`s mostly talk, still splatters, especially when on 10 kW day power with added direxional oomph toward COL.

I Googled for info on this, and while radio-locator had updated the calls, still linked to the old defunct KFXY website along with other Chisholm Trail stations. Little else to be found besides my own and another DX report of it.

Probably for the first time on internet: KOAG`s logo, or at least a visual from a display ad in the official show program for the KNID Agrifest, upcoming Jan 11-12, an annual business promotion event. http://www.w4uvh.net/koag.jpg
KNID 107.1 is the base station of CTB, country music format; guess they thought it was a bit too early to declare KOAG the ``sponsor``. Maybe next year? If the format last that long (Glenn Hauser, Enid, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** SAUDI ARABIA. 21505, Jan 7 at 1415, BSKSA in Arabic clear today without any humbuzz like yesterday (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** SPAIN. 15385, Monday Jan 7 at 1448, REE with music, poor signal; 1454 Emisión Sefarad sign-off with schedule which is 67% wrong! Says 0115 UT Tuesday will be on 11795, and 0415 on 9650, but we already confirmed in November they were on alternates 11780 and 9690 respectively. They *should* be on 11795, but instead stay on 11780 to collide directly with Brazil in this broadcast to South America. At least the ME broadcast must have started on time this week at 1425, since it ended at 1455 with 6-note IS, different than but seemingly related to the standard REE IS. Carrier stayed on a couple minutes; 15385 reopens anyway at 1500 on another azimuth back in Castilian. BTW, I see the 1425-1455 Monday Sephardic service is missing from HFCC (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 11550, Jan 7 at 1359-1401*, WEWN Spanish cuts bits of music on and off, then off the air abruptly, but this is not a frequency change time yet: 13830 is still occupied by IBB`s Afghan services, R. Azadi, and R. Ashna alternating Pashto & Dari until 1530. At 1413 recheck, WEWN is back up on 11550.

I haven`t mentioned it lately, but two of WEWN`s three transmitters remain grossly defective in 2013: and the one in English, on 15610 in the daytime, continues to be accompanied by parasitic spurs at approx. 9 and 18 kHz above and below, sometimes even 27 when very strong. One of the Spanish transmitters, such as 12050 in the daytime, has a constant squeal which means it interferes more than it should with immediately adjacent frequencies. It`s been this way for years, and apparently no one cares but me, no other DX monitors bother to note it, nor do victimized stations such as Greece on 15630 make any effort to get WEWN into compliance (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

UNIDENTIFIED. Further on the extremely distorted signal we have been hearing for a long time on 800 kHz:

``Hi Glenn: In regards to the UNID 800, the distorted signal is very  strong in Austin, Texas. The signal is audible throughout the nighttime hours at very strong levels. DFing the signal (with Drake R8B and ferrite loop) indicates a null at 210 degrees. This station has been audible for many months. Regards, Mike Beu, KD5DSQ, Austin, Texas``

Tnx, Michael, I guess you mean the peak was at 210 degrees based on nulling plus/minus 90 degrees from that.

With protractor on a good atlas page showing both TX and Mexico, and the two cities in question, Zaragoza, Coahuila, XEZR is just SW of Piedras Negras, at 235 degrees from you, and Montemorelos NL, XEDD is 198 degrees. Would the latter be within the margin of error?

Do you hear it at all in the daytime? Groundwave should be pretty good down there. If not, possibly it`s from further into Mexico beyond the border states.

There are three other possibilities in the general direxion: Querétaro, XEGX at 205 degrees; Ocotlán, Jalisco, XEAN at 200 degrees, and furthest Tlapa, Guerrero, XEZV at 184. All approximate.

From Enid, I measure Ocotlán at 195 degrees, = my recent approximation for the blob, but Zaragoza is very close at 197 degrees, so XEZR is the best bet from my POV.

This is all on a flat map with protractor. I haven`t gone to the trouble of using bearing and distance computation sites yet, as my margin of error is probably still too great.

If someone around Houston or El Paso {only if XEROK should be off!} could get a fix on it, we could triangulate it better. Or someone inside México.

For those who haven`t been following this mystery, I remind that there are NO Texans on 800, except KDDD way up in the NW corner at Dumas, out of the question. The nearest US station in the other direxion is WSHO New Orleans (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)