Retro Radio Dial Texas USA 1963

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April 10 2013

Texas USA 1963
Retro Radio Dial
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Glenn Hauser logs April 9-10, 2013

** BANGLADESH. 15505, April 10 at 1358, Bangladesh Betar on with IS, crosstalk but not quite as bad as yesterday; fast timesignal to 1358:48.5, theme and opening Urdu mostly with hum, but also with those parasitic buzzes peaking about 4.4 kHz above and below (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 

** CHINA [and non]. 17510, April 10 at 1306, CCI between Chinese and something else, and maybe a third signal. The CC is // 11785 CNR1 jammer. I bet this is BBC`s Uzbek service at 1300-1330, which the ChiCom jam anyway, interfering in the internal affairs of Uzbekistan.

Yes! HFCC A-13 shows ``17510 1300 1330 30S,40NE SLA  250 10 0 146 1234567 310313 271013 D 13650 Uzbek OMA BBC BAB 5515 UZBKA`` So that`s via OMAN; and whence else? 15330 from Oman and 17735 from Thailand.

11752 & 11768, April 10 at 1311, JBA carriers from the 8-kHz-spur-producing CNR1 jammer on 11760, but none audible further out; despite VG CNR1 jammer signals including 11785; must be from quite different site or azimuth.

Firedrake April 10, after 1300:
6030, poor at 1317 over some other audio, i.e. per Aoki, Sound of Hope at 13-14 only, 100 kW, 325 degrees from Tanshui, TAIWAN.

Firedrake April 10, before 1400:
13970, very good at 1354; none in the 12s, 11s, 10s
14700, very good at 1352
14800, very good at 1352
14970, JBA at 1354
15570, good at 1349
15610, good at 1349 over WEWN also with noise; by 1358 under WEWN
15800, very good at 1347
16160, very good at 1346
16920, very poor at 1346
17080, poor at 1351
17170, very poor at 1351 with flutter
17300, fair at 1351; none in the 18s
Again totaling at least a dozen transmitters at once
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** CUBA. 9490, April 10 at 0519, the DentroCuban Jamming Command is still pulsing, also with continuous noise, altho not full-bore. Just in case R. República decides to broadcast at any time other than 0000-0200 via France, not likely!

15340, April 10 at 1403 tuning by RHC, caught end of frequency announcement claiming ``hasta las 16 UTC``, so we know it`s still outdated info, as for the past month the morning broadcast has been ending at 15 on all frequencies (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** INDONESIA. 9526-, April 10 at 1309, VOI has managed to get English on air instead of Japanese yesterday at this time; fair signal but undermodulated and with flutter, insufficient (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** IRAN. 13750, April 10 at 0523, YL in Russian, flutter; soon found weaker // 15480 at 0524, ID, i.e. VIRI at 0500-0530. 13750 is 500 kW, 321 degrees from Kamalabad; 15480 is 500 kW, 320 degrees from Sirjan (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** KOREA NORTH. 13760, April 10 at 0522, poor signal in Spanish about Corea del Sur, no doubt Voz de Corea del Norte.

6600, 6518, 6348, 6015, April 10 at 1317, Juche jamming continuous noise has resumed after yesterday`s absence, burying the clandestines from Korea South (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** KOREA NORTH [non]. 9950, April 10 at 1325, Korean laboriously spelling out websites ending in .jp, letters pronounced in English but not the punxuation, with musical background and then music only until 1330 switching to Japanese; better signal than adjacent 9955 WRMI. These are the abduxion-clandestines from Japan via TAIWAN, as in Aoki, 100 kW, 2 degrees from Taipei: at 1300-1330, Nippon no Kaze, a.k.a. ``Ilbon-e Baram`` [as spelt by WRTH, not Aoki], and then 1330-1357 Furusato no Kaze. See yesterday`s note explaining why they can`t broadcast from Japan, while Shiokaze can (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** MEXICO [and non]. 6185, April 10 at 0517, XEPPM still on with dead carrier as often after nominal 0500 sign-off during DST; amazingly, this is stronger than Brasil 6180, also tightly squeezed by Vietnam/WHRI on 6175 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** OKLAHOMA. 1390, April 10 at 0533 UT, KCRC Enid is in open carrier/dead air, but nulling it as best I can, nothing readable underneath the remaining hum, just traces of understations. Still OCDA past 0600; normally with ESPN (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** PERU [and non]. 5025, April 10 at 0103 after my Chaski-check, notice that R. Rebelde is absent, but a very weak carrier can be detected in the approaching storm noise level; probably R. Quillabamba, Perú, normally covered by CMBA. Notified DXLD yg of it right away, but at my next check 0142, Cuba was back. Someone got it!

``Ciao from Italy, I am at Bocca di Magra village with Dario Monferini for our BOC 29 DX nights. Radio Rebelde was off air this night till 0105. So we could tune on 5024.917 with Excalibur Pro Radio Quillabamba, Cusco. ID at 0101. 73 Giampiero Bernardini``

Rebelde was off again in the morning: Mike Gilchrist in rural East Central Iowa reports: ``130410, 1030, 5024.923. R. Quillabamba (presumed), Perú, Rebelde off air???
130410, 1047, 5025, Rebelde, Cuba, Off air, and Peruvian (?) with talk in Spanish until 1047 back on with hum on audio.``
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** PERU. 5980, April 10 at 0059, R. Chaski carrier still detectable in the noise level and splash from 5990, which is off after 0100. Then I time the Chaski cutoff at 0103:02* which is another five seconds later than last night, like clockwork. In fact, it is clockwork, but it slips (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** PRIDNESTROVYE. 9665, April 9 at 2310, Radio PMR in English, same big hum as with Voice of Russia relay after 0000. Ex- 21-22 UT M-F for PMR. The question is, according to previous practice, whether this is really in effect on UT Sunday-Thursday, since at 2300 UT it`s Monday-Friday local time. Need to check whether it exist on UT Friday. Via Wolfgang Büschel:

``The programs of PMR Pridnestrovye are still there, namely 2300-2400 UT Mon-Fri (i.e. 0100-0200 CEST) on 9665 kHz. Observed on 4 and 7 April (for UT). Also, the program flow has changed: 2300-2316 English, 2316-2332 French, 2332-2348 German, 2348-2400 music. The repetition of English falls away, and German and French language sections have swapped places. As a target area is announced "Europe and America".
(Hans Weber-D, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews April 9)`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** SARAWAK [non]. 15420, April 10 at 1258, R. Free Sarawak is still here, nothing on 15430, with speech like yesterday, 1259 a bit of music fill until 1300*. Still as of 1614 UT April 10 their website http://radiofreesarawak.org/ thinx they are on 11600 or 15430 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** SAUDI ARABIA. 17705, April 10 at 1302, like my April 5 log, weak BSKSA accompanied by chirping-sounds, irregular averaging three per second, and more on the hi than lo side; with BFO, no specific carrier; not there at 1313 recheck (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** SUDAN [non]. 11650, April 10 at 0521, R. Dabanga in the clear with ID in passing, which they do so frequently, via VATICAN, and no het/jamming, unlike last night (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 9930, April 9 around 2100, WTWW-2 is on the air with music; seems considerably weaker than WTWW-1 on 9479. I understand from George McClintock, that #2 will be running more now, from as early as 1700 UT (altho still not on at 1720 April 10); and also after 0000 for a further while on 5085. If 9930 stays on an hour later in May, it will be a problem with The Mighty KBC on 9925 once a week.

9930 is available to WTWW between 12 and 24 UT. No more possible collision with IBB on 9930, but FCC has also availablized it to HBN = T8WH PALAU between 13 and 24 UT (but as with all WHR registrations, probably not in use for anywhere near the whole span. FCC A-13:
http://transition.fcc.gov/ib/sand/neg/hf_web/A13FCC01.TXT

In fact, Aoki, now linkable directly for daily updates,
http://www1.m2.mediacat.ne.jp/binews/use/bia13.txt
shows 9930 not in use by Palau after 1230, except weekends, and then only until 1400.) (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 960, April 10 at 0500-0505 UT, KGWA Enid has repaired its Fox-hole after last night`s messup with the Dial Global satellite channel loop; now all I hear is ABC News with slight echo, no doubt from KGKL and KMA. Just before 0600, there is another pause in KGWA modulation, neatly audiblizing another full ID from ``The Voice of the Concho Valley``, KGKL San Angelo TX, also mentioning it`s with ESPN (but not all the time). (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. The Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival season is back, 13 episodes April-May-June like each spring recorded last year, leading up to the new July-August 2013 season in Santa Fe itself. See
http://www.sfcmf.org/
Heard Monday April 8 at 17-18 UT on Yellowstone Public Radio; KCSC-FM 90.1 here in OK promotes it as Sundays 11 am = 16-17 UT.

Episode details are here:
http://blogs.wfmt.com/santafe/
Also on many other stations with a classical bent.
http://www.publicradiofan.com/cgibin/program.pl?programid=4777
shows it on only 7 stations, not including the above two, but it must be on many more. These 13-week series alternate with three others during each year, hard to keep up with. In past years, some stations have run the SFCMF May-July (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

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This one will be in English and Spanish.

The setting will be OLIVIA OL 8-1000
Date: April 14, 2013
Time: 0227UTC
Frequency: 9955khz
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Glenn Hauser logs April 8-9, 2013

** AUSTRALIA [and non]. 6150, April 9 at 1231, R. Australia`s new frequency is atop co-channel RHC, which will continue for another semi-hour or so. I told Nigel Holmes about this, but of no concern there as long as RHC does not QRM in SW Pacific target. Aoki assumes Cuba 6150 is on 160 degree antenna toward S America. Meanwhile, RA in the clear on much weaker 6080 which is aimed north; but we still have much better 9580 and new 12065 anyway (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** BANGLADESH. 15105, April 9 at 1237, Bangladesh Betar, English service is still too poor to hear much except the humwhine.

15505, April 9 at 1358 nothing yet from BB; *1358:50 with IS and crosstalk, from some talk modulation in unknown language, distorted, cutting on and off but ruining its intentional modulation: one tone at 1359:55 maybe remnant of timesignal, Urdu service theme under the crosstalk, unusable! Maybe mistuned studio-transmitter link? This was far worse than the usual hum up with which we must put (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** BRAZIL. Regarding my query whether 6180 & 11780 ever carry any Amazonian programming any more, Jorge Freitas in Feira de Santana, Bahia replies in translation:

``As far as I know, the relays of R. Nacional AM on RNA are during the early mornings or when there are football games, Wednesday evenings, Saturday & Sunday afternoons. I`m not sure, but the times I heard RN relayed by RNA were after 0500 UT. This could be altered by something out of the ordinary.``

Manuel Méndez in Reinante, Lugo, Spain, also recently logged 6180 thus at 2100 UT April 5: Rádio Nacional da Amazônia, Brasília, 2057-2120, 05-04, male, Portuguese, "A música popular brasileira", identification: "Rádio Nacional", at 2100: "Nacional informa, Rádio Nacional da Amazônia, a sua voz na rádio brasileira". 24422`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** CHINA. 11728, 11736, 11744, 11752, 11768, 11776, 11784 --- April 9 at 1310, they`re baaaack! The panoply of 8-kHz spurs from the ChiCom jammer on 11760, as we figured out last year. Quite weak carriers, but 11752 and 11768 the strongest. Most obvious by the hets some of them make with even-frequency stations on 11735, 11745, 11750, 11775, 11785, the last two with identical 1-kHz hets but on opposite sides.

But what`s to jam on 11760? CRI English via Kunming is scheduled in HFCC! The answer needs Aoki, a hi-power Sound of Hope too:
11760*SOH Xi Wang Zhi Sheng 0900-1100 1.....7 Chinese 300 325 Tanshui               
11760*SOH Xi Wang Zhi Sheng 1300-1500 1234567 Chinese 300 325 Tanshui TWN 12125E 2511N SOH a13

Jamming content here is probably CNR1 rather than Firedrake. Of course, 11760 itself remains dominated by Habana here. These were last heard on November 19, 2012 as in DXLD 12-47. Wolfgang Büschel and Ivo Ivanov also found a bunch of other frequencies at different dayparts with the same 8-kHz constellations, surely from the same wacko transmitter (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** CHINA. Firedrake April 9, before 1300:
15800, fair at 1234 (not 15795 where jamming against AIR Chinese would be expected, but nothing audible), 15800 vs SOH 100-watt nuisance. No further search at this time.

Fellow FD fanatic Steve Handler in IL questioned my frequency measurements yesterday of 15610 and 15570 at 1351 and 1352 since a few minutes earlier, he had them on 15605 and 15565. I pointed out that these ones against V. of Tibet split frequencies often jump around, as documented in Aoki.

So today finding FD in progress at 1341 on 15605 and 1342 on 15565, I keep monitoring. 15605 is badly squeezed by RTTY on lo side and WEWN on hi side, so I stay on 15565, which is fair with VOT het on the hi side. FD stops on 15565 at 1345, and carrier cut a few sex later, altho VOT carrier continues on 15568. Then I check 15605 and it is also off. Back to 15570 waiting for that to cut on, which it does at *1348, on and off, back on and 1349 adding FD modulation which also stops and starts again, then stays going. At this time WEWN is too strong on 15610 to tell if the other FD is under it now like yesterday.

Back to bandscanning for others before 1400:
13970, very good at 1355; none in the 14s, 12s, 11s
15970, good at 1350
16160, very poor at 1351
16360, good at 1350
16600, very good at 1350
17250, poor at 1351
17450, very poor at 1351
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** CUBA [and non]. 9885, April 9 at 0101, wall-of-noise jamming from the Cubans clueless that VOA Spanish is kaput, and if it were still active, would have signed off at 0100 anyway. With BFO an undercarrier is detected, presumably RFA Tibetan via Tajikistan or more likely the ChiCom jamming already upon it. Every little bit helps.

11680, April 9 at 0105, this RHC transmitter suffers from a squeal, à la WEWN Spanish.

6060 is tonight`s missing frequency from RHC English, April 9 at 0526; thus leapfrog over 6165 is also missing from 6270 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** INDIA. 15040, April 9 at 1243-1255+, S Asian vocal music, good with flutter, i.e. AIR Burmese service, 500 kW, 60 degrees from Bengaluru at 1200-1315 per HFCC. Really starts at 1215 per WRTH 2013 with site listed then as Delhi. Some ACI from CHR VOLMET on 15034-USB.

BTW, I see in HFCC that the Sinhala service on 15050 at 1245-1500 from Delhi is still shown as D = not DRM which noise only for Victor Goonetilleke`s decoding we often hear! Really starts at 1300 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** INDONESIA. 9526-, April 9 at 1300, it`s Tuesday, and VOI is audible! Almost sufficient modulation level, fair with flutter. Whee! Get to hear ``Exotic Indonesia`` hookup with RRI Banjarmasin. Hmm, still in Japanese, running a little late with ID, song; 1302 still in Japanese but at least employing English words with contact info. 1303 dead air pause: here we go. No, 1304:20 back with more Japanese, 1306 news sounder and spe-cial Japanese slow news; 1314 and 1323 chex, still Japanese. Grrrr! Over to KOSU special, but rerecheck at 1339, now VOI sounds like English intonation, but weakened. *1356:15 CRI cuts on 9525.0 putting an end to any hope of hearing VOI.

Atsunori Ishida http://rri.jpn.org/ agrees that Japanese ran way late, English started sometime in the hour, but Indonesian started on-time at 1400. See his site also for observations of RRI domestics including: no Wamena in the local evenings this month, and no Fak2 since March 15 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** KOREA NORTH [and non]. 6600 & 6518, April 9 at 1229, assertive Korean from V. of the People, from the South, and *no* Juche jamming audible!

6348, April 9 at 1229, Echo of Hope, another SK cland to the north, is also jammingless.

6360, April 9 at 1230, yet another S-to-N cland, MND Radio has ute QRM but apparently no jamming either. What happened? Aoki shows the jammers are all 250 kW transmitters at Kujang, same site as VOK (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** KOREA SOUTH. 15575, April 9 at 1234, open carrier already on from KBSWR; finally at 1255 starts IS with English & Korean IDs which talk over the music. Quite a waste of watts, and too bad they did not modulate before 1255, as by 1344, the English hour on 15575 has faded way down (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** MEXICO. 600, April 9 at 1206 UT, several ads and government PSAs, jingle, all mentioning Sinaloa, 1209 ``Línea Directa``, call-in program. Momentarily has frequency to self at sunrise here. Cantú:
600 XEHW La Mejor + FM 102.7 Mazatlán, Sin. 5,000 1,000
See my previous circumstantial log of March 27 at same hour (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** NEW ZEALAND. 9655, April 9 at 1258:05* RNZI cuts off mid-word, back to correct schedule after staying on 9655 past 1400 yesterday. 6170 comes on with Bell Bird at *1258:50 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** PERU [and non]. 4747, April 9 at 0055, JBA carrier here detectable, so answering my previous query, apparently R. Huanta 2000 is still active, tho much weaker than the other ``station on the sevens``, BOLIVIA 4717, the latter typically achieving some musical modulation audibility. Huanta may sign off about 0100 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** PERU. 5980, April 9 at 0054, R. Chaski carrier is JBA with BFO vs noise level. (It`s 73 degrees and cloudy so my streetlite fires on with initial additional noise burst at 0100, a few minutes earlier than it would have with a clear sunset. Fortunately, once the starter has finished, that noise abates.) By 0101, the splash from CRI/Cuba 5990 is off, and now a bit of modulation is detectable from 5980; carrier cut at 0102:57* which is 5 seconds later than last night (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** SARAWAK [non]. 15420, April 9 at 1233, R. Free Sarawak is still here for the third day, poor with Iban talk, and nothing on 15430. Checking the website http://radiofreesarawak.org/ sometime between 1430 and 1520 the April 8 audio file was replaced with April 9, but still did not correct the frequency displayed instead of 15430. Ivo Ivanov assumes the site for this is now 100 kW, 200 degrees from Tainan, TAIWAN; rather than Sri Lanka (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** SPAIN. 11795, UT Tuesday April 9 at 0106, big open carrier already on from REE prior to weekly Sephardic to South America at 0115. I could barely detect the first broadcast around 1430 Monday on 15385 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** SUDAN [non]. 11650, April 9 at 0517, R. Dabanga good signal via VATICAN, but with het on lo side about 11648, suspect jamming. And below that much weaker Greece on 11645 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** TURKEY. 11980, April 9 at 0516, TRT music and Turkish talk is back on its proper frequency tonight, ex-11698 mispunched last night (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 5085, April 9 at 0057, WTWW-2 is on with music, ballad/hymn, very strong carrier wobbling a bit, methinx. Unusual for this to be active on a Monday night rather than weekend (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

TRT Voice of Turkey on 11698

Voice of Turkey in Turkish on April 8:
0400-0555 NF 11698*EMR 500 kW / 310 deg to WeEu, instead of 11980 // 6040 EMR 250 kW / 138 deg to N/ME

*strong co-ch RFI in French on nominal 11700

--

Ivo

QTH: Sofia, Bulgaria

Equipment: Sony ICF-2001D 30 m. long wire

Glenn Hauser logs April 7-8, 2013

** AUSTRALIA. 6150, April 8 at 1316, R. Australia on new frequency so the A-13 changes are finally in effect. Good here initially, // 9580, and missing from 6020 and any other 49m channel as well as 11945, as expected. 1332 show about apps, and I notice there is some hum on 6150, unusual for Shepparton, but it`s synchro with 9580, so must be from there. Before 1300, 6150 will be colliding with Cuba`s only 49m channel in the mornings! At 1343 I also detect a JBA RA signal on 5940, also // 9580. 6150 is off after 1400, but 5995 is audible poorly at 1404. Finally find replacement for 11945, which is 12065, VG at 1408 with documentary about Indonesia.

What I am hearing correlates with the A-13 sked version 1 in DXLD 13-13, excerpts:
 5940 1300 1700 43,44,50,51,54,55,58N    SHP 100 334  D En AUS ABC
 5995 1400 1800 51,55,56,61,64,65,76,77  SHP 100  30  D En AUS ABC
 6020 GONE FROM THE RA SCHEDULE COMPLETELY; see JAPAN
 6150 1100 1400 51,55,56,61,76,77        SHP 100  30  D En AUS ABC
 9580 1000 1500 56,60-63                 SHP 100  70  D En AUS ABC
12065 1000 1530 56,60-63,65              SHP 100  70  D En AUS ABC
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** BRAZIL [and non]. 6180, April 8 at 0558 tune-in, ID for ZYH707, 980, 300 kW from EBC, and no mention of SW. I wonder if at any hours any more 6180 and 11780 transmit any separate Amazonian programming?

No more neighbor XEPPM 6185 which now closes an hour earlier circa 0500 UT due to imposition of DST in the other DF (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** CHINA. Firedrake April 8, before 1400:
17300, very good at 1348 like CRI EAST TURKISTAN 17560 17630 17650
17250, good at 1348
17170, very good at 1348
17080, fair at 1349; none in the 18s or 19s
16920, very poor at 1349
16360, very good at 1349
15970, fair at 1351
15900, very good at 1351
15610, fair at 1351 under WEWN
15570, fair at 1352 with noise jam too, het on lo side from V of Tibet
14700, very poor at 1353
13530, very good at 1353; none in the 12s
That`s a total of 12 at once. Shooting for 13 sometime.

After 1400:
15525, good at 1410 atop something not in Chinese co-channel, no hets but flutter. I.e. V. of Tibet via MADAGASCAR at 1400-1428 in HFCC

Before 1500:
12670, very good at 1441
13920, good at 1441
14700, very poor at 1442
15970, poor at 1442
16160, very good at 1443
17250, good at 1443
17300, good at 1443 with flutter; none in the 18s
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** CUBA [and non]. 7405, UT Monday April 8 at 0554, astounding to hear NO jamming, and of course no Radio Martí during its 6-hour Monday-morning break. But the DentroCuban Jamming Command is still at least pulsing away on other RM frequencies not in use: 7365, 6030, 5980.

15210-15230, April 8 at 1256, buzz from defective 15230 RHC transmitter audible in this range, and would be on plus side too if not blocked by other signals.

Missing frequencies April 8 at 1411: 15340, 17580; still on 17730, 13780 with hoary old Fidel speech, `Voces de la Revolución` (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** INDIA [non]. 11600, Monday April 8 at 0056, talk in unknown Asian language, I bet it`s a sermon, very good with flutter over some CCI; continued past 0103 when I thought I heard ``po-russki`` mentioned, so central Asian? Apparently not, as Aoki shows TWR India is scheduled here, 100 kW, 131 degrees from Tashkent, UZBEKISTAN, in Bhojpuri M-F, Hindi on Sunday, and Nepali on Saturday.

What about the understation? Nothing else in Aoki, or EiBi, but HFCC has a registration for R. Pakistan, 0045-0215, 250 kW, 118 degrees from Is`bad --- but lots and lots of those are wooden. Are they really on 11600 too? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** INDONESIA. 9526-, April 8 at 1314, VOI English is modulating better than usual, but still insufficient for full readability. 1325 & 1328 she announces the three imaginary frequencies ``15150, 9525, 11785`` both before and after `News in Brief`. Geez! They haven`t used 15150 or 11785 at all for years and years. On to `Indonesian Wonders` --- I wonders why VOI can`t ever get their act together? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** JAPAN. 6020, April 8 at 1330, very weak carrier presumably Shiokaze on latest new frequency, as heard yesterday by Ron Howard, ex-6135. It was clashing with Australia then, but not any more, see AUSTRALIA! Coordinated? Just too weak now almost a sesquihour after sunrise here.

The BI-Newsletter page from which one may access the Aoki schedules, also has linx to lots of other interesting stuff, not all of it current, some in English via the 1 thru 5 numbers at the lower left ofhttp://www1.s2.starcat.ne.jp/ndxc/news.htm
Including this background on page 5:

```"Why Yamata transmitters can not broadcast the program of  "Furusato no Kaze"?"

Currently 3 programs "Shiokaze", "Furusato no Kaze" and "Nippon no Kaze" are broadcast towards North Korea from VT Communications, and only "Shiokaze" is transmitted from Yamata. Why Yamata transmitter can not send the message of "Furusato no Kaze" towards North Korea?

Japanese law on broadcasting says only NHK can broadcast "international service". And government controlled the license of broadcasting – it is quite difficult to get the permission (license) of broadcasting promptly.

At the opening announcement of Shiokaze, they announce call sign as JSR. Exactly speaking, JSR is not call sign for "general" radio stations. Shiokaze got a license for "special utility broadcast" – same as Traffic Information Service Radio on 1620 kHz – not for "general broadcast".

In the case of "Furusato no Kaze", they get neither the license of "utility broadcast" nor "general broadcast". And NHK reject the proposal of Japanese government to broadcast "Furusato no Kaze" within the program of Radio Japan. Thus Yamata transmitter can not send message of "Furusato no Kaze."``` (Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** MEXICO. 700, April 8 at 0605 UT I can achieve a deep null on strong WLW by precise positioning of the DX-398, and inhabiting it is a weak signal with classic rock in English: ``Diana``, 0607 fade during an announcement which I thought included ``98`` as in an FM frequency, but maybe not. ``You Are My Destiny`` next, and at 0610, Spanish timecheck ``en Radio Red`` plus another vocal in English. Cantú shows:
700 XEDKR Radio Red AM Guadalajara, Jal. 10,000 150
So really 150 watts now?? And maybe carrying their FM music service instead? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** NEW ZEALAND. 9655, April 8 at 1313, RNZI is still on here instead of scheduled 6170 after 1300. Confused by going off DST yesterday? 9655 would propagate better for us, except it`s obviously still aimed at Timor instead of Pacific. Fair signal with flutter, interview about something medical. Checked 6170 at 1315 but no signal there, altho it would be about to fade out anyway. 1329, must be an off-week for `Mailbox` as something else is on 9655 this fortnight, narration with music mentioning Upper Hutt. Thought RNZI might switch to 6170 an hour late at 1400, but no, timesignal and continues 9655 with news, first I`d heard that Thatcher died; next stories about rheumatic fever and Christchurch quake damaged property problems. Yes, RNZI website today still shows 6170 at 1300-1650 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** PERU. 5980, April 8 at 0048, usual weak carrier from R. Chaski audible with BFO in the noise level; no modulation copyable but cut off at 0102:52* which amounts to 5.5 sex later than last nite, approx. (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** ROMANIA. 11945, April 8 at 1405, RRI in Arabic now in the clear with fair signal, as Australia has moved to 12065. Not hearing the other HFCC-scheduled 11945 collider, BBC Burmese via Singapore (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** SARAWAK [non]. 15420, April 8 at 1253, speech in an echoey chamber (longhouse?), fair with flutter; 1259.5 no other announcement but some music until 1300, and carrier on until 1300.6*. R. Free Sarawak in Iban, ex-15430, as logged yesterday by Kouji Hashimoto, Japan with IDs at 1138 & 1139, presumed still Sri Lanka site at 11-13, but not listed. Today`s Aoki does not have it on either frequency, nor is there anything in HFCC April 5. EiBi as of April 5 had it on 15430.

RFS itself is confused about what frequency they are on! Title of http://radiofreesarawak.org/ says 11600, but content on homepage says 15430. Listening to last two minutes of the April 8 audio file matches what I heard on 15420 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** SPAIN. 21515, April 8 at 1345, REE is very poor here, but out from under KUWAIT 21540. Will REE stay on 21515 now? They were uncertain last week (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** TUNISIA. 7335, April 8 at 0552 open carrier as IWT is warming up; circa 0556 music modulation is brought up // 7275, as usual a few minutes before nominal *0700 per their own skeds meaning really *0600 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** TURKEY. 11698+, April 8 at 0543, good signal with ME music, what`s this? Makes big het against 11700 FRANCE, but that`s much weaker and can be avoided by tuning to the low side of 11698, which is just very slightly on the hi side. Soon obvious it`s Turkish music, as intended usual frequency of TRT, 11980, is missing! Must have slipped when punching frequency into keypad, and not likely to recur. Ivo Ivanov also noticed this, and it was gone after 0600, the usual close-time in summer of 11980. In B-season it was always easy to match the // of 9700 on weaker 9820, but where is the second frequency now at 04-06? 6040, no good here that late (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. WORLD OF RADIO 1663 monitoring: confirmed on WTWW-2, 9930, starting at 2328 UT Sunday April 7 (previously had been circa 2315); after a bit of music fill, 9930 cuts off at 0000, QSY to 5085 altho not checked until 0053 when Ted was playing oldies. Next: Tuesday 1100 on WRMI 9955; and maybe Wednesday 0630 & 1430 on Hamburger Lokalradio 7265-CUSB altho it was missing last week, says Ivo Ivanov (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 690, April 8 at 0611 UT, once again dominant signal is open carrier/dead air from KGGF Coffeyville KS, atop talk probably KTSM C2C (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 930, April 8 at 0559 UT, ID before news, ``heard around the world --- WTAD, Quincy IL``, as it`s still the dominant inhabitant of 930 when I null WKY OKC, and WTAD only started appearing last week. Note one of the four very deep nulls in WTAD`s night pattern is at 230 degrees, with four lobes in between: http://transition.fcc.gov/ftp/Bureaus/MB/Databases/AM_DA_patterns/305660-3646.pdf
We are very close to that direxion. I bet it`s on ND day pattern and may well be on day power too of 5 instead of 1 kW (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

UNIDENTIFIED. 15332, April 8 at 1413, strong carrier cutting on and off about 24 times per minute, slightly irregularly; also could hear traces of Cuban jamming on 15330 against nothing (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

Dx Re Mix News # 775

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DX RE MIX NEWS # 774 from Georgi Bancov and Ivo Ivanov. Date: April 8, 2013
Also visit:, sections "DXPeditions"&"Schedules"
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GERMANY   Again no show of Hamburger Lokalradio on Sat Apr.6 + on Wed Apr.3
0600-0800 on  7265 GOH 001 kW / 230 deg to CeEu USB+carrier
0600-0630 Wed/Sat Hamburger Lokalradio German
0630-0700 Wed/Sat GH's World of Radio English
0700-0800 Wed/Sat Hamburger Lokalradio German

0800-1100 on  6190 GOH 001 kW / non-dir to CeEu USB+carrier
0800-1100 Wed/Sat Hamburger Lokalradio German

1100-1500 on  7265 GOH 001 kW / 230 deg to CeEu USB+carrier
1100-1430 Wed/Sat Hamburger Lokalradio German
1430-1500 Wed/Sat GH's World of Radio English

KOREA D.P.R.   New summer A-13 for Voice of Korea, last updated on Apr.8
All new frequencies are plus / minus 100 kHz from the old frequencies, for example: 9325/9335/9345/11535/11545+100=9425/9435/9445/11635/11645 &
9975/9990-100=9875/9890. And one exception: 15100 moved + 5 kHz to 15105

0300-0357 on 11735 KUJ 200 kW / 028 deg to CSAm Spanish
0300-0357 on 13650 KUJ 200 kW / 238 deg to SEAs Chinese
0300-0357 on 13760 KUJ 200 kW / 028 deg to CSAm Spanish
0300-0357 NF 15105 KUJ 200 kW / 238 deg to SEAs Chinese
0300-0357 on 15180 KUJ 200 kW / 028 deg to CSAm Spanish

0400-0457 on  3250 PYO 100 kW / non-dir to NEAs English
0400-0457 NF  9445 KUJ 200 kW / non-dir to NEAs English, ex  9345
0400-0457 on  9730 KUJ 200 kW / non-dir to NEAs English
0400-0457 on 11735 KUJ 200 kW / 028 deg to CSAm English
0400-0457 on 13650 KUJ 200 kW / 238 deg to SEAs French
0400-0457 on 13760 KUJ 200 kW / 028 deg to CSAm English
0400-0457 NF 15105 KUJ 200 kW / 238 deg to SEAs French,  ex 15100
0400-0457 on 15180 KUJ 200 kW / 028 deg to CSAm English

0500-0557 on  3250 PYO 100 kW / non-dir to NEAs Chinese
0500-0557 NF  9445 KUJ 200 kW / non-dir to NEAs Chinese, ex  9345
0500-0557 on  9730 KUJ 200 kW / non-dir to NEAs Chinese
0500-0557 on 11735 KUJ 200 kW / 028 deg to CSAm Spanish
0500-0557 on 13650 KUJ 200 kW / 238 deg to SEAs English
0500-0557 on 13760 KUJ 200 kW / 028 deg to CSAm Spanish
0500-0557 NF 15105 KUJ 200 kW / 238 deg to SEAs English, ex 15100
0500-0557 on 15180 KUJ 200 kW / 028 deg to CSAm Spanish

0600-0657 on  3250 PYO 100 kW / non-dir to NEAs English
0600-0657 NF  9445 KUJ 200 kW / non-dir to NEAs English, ex  9345
0600-0657 on  9730 KUJ 200 kW / non-dir to NEAs English
0600-0657 on 11735 KUJ 200 kW / 028 deg to CSAm French
0600-0657 on 13650 KUJ 200 kW / 238 deg to SEAs Chinese
0600-0657 on 13760 KUJ 200 kW / 028 deg to CSAm French
0600-0657 NF 15105 KUJ 200 kW / 238 deg to SEAs Chinese, ex 15100
0600-0657 on 15180 KUJ 200 kW / 028 deg to CSAm French

0700-0757 on  3250 PYO 100 kW / non-dir to NEAs Japanese
0700-0757 on  9650 KUJ 200 kW / 109 deg to JPN  Japanese
0700-0757 NF  9875 KUJ 200 kW / 028 deg to FERu Russian, ex  9975
0700-0757 on 11735 KUJ 200 kW / 028 deg to FERu Russian
0700-0757 on 11865 KUJ 200 kW / 109 deg to JPN  Japanese
0700-0757 on 13760 KUJ 200 kW / 325 deg to EaEu Russian
0700-0757 on 15245 KUJ 200 kW / 325 deg to EaEu Russian

0800-0850 on  3250 PYO 100 kW / non-dir to NEAs Japanese
0800-0857 on  7220 KUJ 200 kW / non-dir to NEAs Chinese
0800-0857 NF  9445 KUJ 200 kW / non-dir to NEAs Chinese, ex  9345
0800-0850 on  9650 KUJ 200 kW / 109 deg to JPN  Japanese
0800-0857 NF  9875 KUJ 200 kW / 028 deg to FERu Russian, ex  9975
0800-0857 on 11735 KUJ 200 kW / 028 deg to FERu Russian
0800-0850 on 11865 KUJ 200 kW / 109 deg to JPN  Japanese
0800-0857 on 13760 KUJ 200 kW / 325 deg to EaEu Russian
0800-0857 on 15245 KUJ 200 kW / 325 deg to EaEu Russian

0900-0957 on  3250 PYO 100 kW / non-dir to NEAs Japanese
0900-0957 on  6070 KNG 250 kW / 109 deg to JPN  Japanese
0900-0950 on  7220 KUJ 200 kW / non-dir to NEAs Korean KCBS
0900-0950 NF  9445 KUJ 200 kW / non-dir to NEAs Korean KCBS, ex  9345
0900-0957 on  9650 KUJ 200 kW / 109 deg to JPN  Japanese
0900-0957 on 11865 KUJ 200 kW / 109 deg to JPN  Japanese

1000-1050 on  3250 PYO 100 kW / non-dir to NEAs Japanese
1000-1050 on  6070 KNG 250 kW / 109 deg to JPN  Japanese
1000-1050 on  9650 KUJ 200 kW / 109 deg to JPN  Japanese
1000-1057 on 11710 KUJ 200 kW / 028 deg to CSAm English
1000-1057 on 11735 KUJ 200 kW / 238 deg to SEAs English
1000-1050 on 11865 KUJ 200 kW / 109 deg to JPN  Japanese
1000-1057 on 13650 KUJ 200 kW / 238 deg to SEAs English
1000-1057 on 15180 KUJ 200 kW / 028 deg to CSAm English

1100-1157 on  3250 PYO 100 kW / non-dir to NEAs Japanese
1100-1157 on  6070 KNG 250 kW / 109 deg to JPN  Japanese
1100-1157 on  7220 KUJ 200 kW / non-dir to NEAs Chinese
1100-1157 NF  9445 KUJ 200 kW / non-dir to NEAs Chinese, ex  9345
1100-1157 on  9650 KUJ 200 kW / 109 deg to JPN  Japanese
1100-1157 on 11710 KUJ 200 kW / 028 deg to CSAm French
1100-1157 on 11735 KUJ 200 kW / 238 deg to SEAs French
1100-1157 on 11865 KUJ 200 kW / 109 deg to JPN  Japanese
1100-1157 on 13650 KUJ 200 kW / 238 deg to SEAs French
1100-1157 on 15180 KUJ 200 kW / 028 deg to CSAm French

1200-1250 on  3250 PYO 100 kW / non-dir to NEAs Japanese
1200-1250 on  6070 KNG 250 kW / 109 deg to JPN  Japanese
1200-1250 on  9650 KUJ 200 kW / 109 deg to JPN  Japanese
1200-1250 on 11710 KUJ 200 kW / 028 deg to CSAm Korean KCBS
1200-1250 on 11735 KUJ 200 kW / 238 deg to SEAs Korean KCBS
1200-1250 on 11865 KUJ 200 kW / 109 deg to JPN  Japanese
1200-1250 on 13650 KUJ 200 kW / 238 deg to SEAs Korean KCBS
1200-1250 on 15180 KUJ 200 kW / 028 deg to CSAm Korean KCBS

1300-1357 NF  9435 KUJ 200 kW / 028 deg to NoAm English, ex  9335
1300-1357 on 11710 KUJ 200 kW / 028 deg to NoAm English
1300-1357 on 11735 KUJ 200 kW / 238 deg to SEAs Chinese
1300-1357 on 13650 KUJ 200 kW / 238 deg to SEAs Chinese
1300-1357 on 13760 KUJ 200 kW / 325 deg to WeEu English
1300-1357 on 15245 KUJ 200 kW / 325 deg to WeEu English

1400-1457 on  3250 PYO 100 kW / non-dir to NEAs Russian
1400-1457 NF  9435 KUJ 200 kW / 028 deg to NoAm French,  ex  9335
1400-1457 NF  9425 KUJ 200 kW / 325 deg to EaEu Russian, ex  9325
1400-1457 on 11710 KUJ 200 kW / 028 deg to NoAm French
1400-1450 on 11735 KUJ 200 kW / 238 deg to SEAs Korean KCBS
1400-1457 on 12015 KUJ 200 kW / 325 deg to EaEu Russian
1400-1450 on 13650 KUJ 200 kW / 238 deg to SEAs Korean KCBS
1400-1457 on 13760 KUJ 200 kW / 325 deg to WeEu French
1400-1457 on 15245 KUJ 200 kW / 325 deg to WeEu French

1500-1557 on  3250 PYO 100 kW / non-dir to NEAs Russian
1500-1557 NF  9425 KUJ 200 kW / 325 deg to EaEu Russian, ex  9325
1500-1557 NF  9435 KUJ 200 kW / 028 deg to NoAm English, ex  9335
1500-1557 NF  9890 KUJ 200 kW / 296 deg to N/ME Arabic,  ex  9990
1500-1557 NF 11645 KUJ 200 kW / 296 deg to N/ME Arabic,  ex 11545
1500-1557 on 11710 KUJ 200 kW / 028 deg to NoAm English
1500-1557 on 12015 KUJ 200 kW / 325 deg to EaEu Russian
1500-1557 on 13760 KUJ 200 kW / 325 deg to WeEu English
1500-1557 on 15245 KUJ 200 kW / 325 deg to WeEu English

1600-1657 on  3250 PYO 100 kW / non-dir to NEAs German
1600-1657 NF  9425 KUJ 200 kW / 325 deg to WeEu German,  ex  9325
1600-1657 NF  9435 KUJ 200 kW / 028 deg to NoAm French,  ex  9335
1600-1657 NF  9890 KUJ 200 kW / 296 deg to N/ME English, ex  9990
1600-1657 NF 11645 KUJ 200 kW / 296 deg to N/ME English, ex 11545
1600-1657 on 11710 KUJ 200 kW / 028 deg to NoAm French
1600-1657 on 12015 KUJ 200 kW / 325 deg to WeEu German
1600-1657 on 13760 KUJ 200 kW / 325 deg to WeEu French
1600-1657 on 15245 KUJ 200 kW / 325 deg to WeEu French

1700-1757 on  3250 PYO 100 kW / non-dir to NEAs Russian
1700-1757 NF  9425 KUJ 200 kW / 325 deg to EaEu Russian, ex  9325
1700-1750 NF  9435 KUJ 200 kW / 028 deg to NoAm Korean KCBS, ex  9335
1700-1757 NF  9890 KUJ 200 kW / 296 deg to N/ME Arabic, ex  9990
1700-1757 NF 11645 KUJ 200 kW / 296 deg to N/ME Arabic, ex 11545
1700-1750 on 11710 KUJ 200 kW / 028 deg to NoAm Korean KCBS
1700-1757 on 12015 KUJ 200 kW / 325 deg to EaEu Russian
1700-1750 on 13760 KUJ 200 kW / 325 deg to WeEu Korean KCBS
1700-1750 on 15245 KUJ 200 kW / 325 deg to WeEu Korean KCBS

1800-1857 on  3250 PYO 100 kW / non-dir to NEAs German
1800-1857 on  7210 KUJ 200 kW / 271 deg to SoAf French
1800-1857 NF  9425 KUJ 200 kW / 325 deg to WeEu German, ex  9325
1800-1857 NF  9875 KUJ 200 kW / 296 deg to N/ME French, ex  9975
1800-1857 NF 11635 KUJ 200 kW / 296 deg to N/ME French, ex 11535
1800-1857 on 11910 KUJ 200 kW / 271 deg to SoAf French
1800-1857 on 12015 KUJ 200 kW / 325 deg to WeEu German
1800-1857 on 13760 KUJ 200 kW / 325 deg to WeEu English
1800-1857 on 15245 KUJ 200 kW / 325 deg to WeEu English

1900-1957 on  3250 PYO 100 kW / non-dir to NEAs German
1900-1957 on  7210 KUJ 200 kW / 271 deg to SoAf English
1900-1957 NF  9425 KUJ 200 kW / 325 deg to WeEu German,  ex  9325
1900-1957 NF  9875 KUJ 200 kW / 296 deg to N/ME English, ex  9975
1900-1957 NF 11635 KUJ 200 kW / 296 deg to N/ME English, ex 11535
1900-1957 on 11910 KUJ 200 kW / 271 deg to SoAf English
1900-1957 on 12015 KUJ 200 kW / 325 deg to WeEu German
1900-1957 on 13760 KUJ 200 kW / 325 deg to WeEu Spanish
1900-1957 on 15245 KUJ 200 kW / 325 deg to WeEu Spanish

2000-2050 on  3250 PYO 100 kW / non-dir to NEAs Korean KCBS
2000-2050 on  7210 KUJ 200 kW / 271 deg to SoAf Korean KCBS
2000-2050 NF  9425 KUJ 200 kW / 325 deg to WeEu Korean KCBS, ex  9325
2000-2050 NF  9875 KUJ 200 kW / 296 deg to N/ME Korean KCBS, ex  9975
2000-2050 NF 11635 KUJ 200 kW / 296 deg to N/ME Korean KCBS, ex 11535
2000-2050 on 11910 KUJ 200 kW / 271 deg to SoAf Korean KCBS
2000-2050 on 12015 KUJ 200 kW / 325 deg to WeEu Korean KCBS
2000-2057 on 13760 KUJ 200 kW / 325 deg to WeEu French
2000-2057 on 15245 KUJ 200 kW / 325 deg to WeEu French

2100-2150 on  3250 PYO 100 kW / non-dir to NEAs Japanese
2100-2157 on  7235 KUJ 200 kW / non-dir to NEAs Chinese
2100-2157 NF  9445 KUJ 200 kW / non-dir to NEAs Chinese, ex  9345
2100-2150 on  9650 KUJ 200 kW / 109 deg to JPN  Japanese
2100-2157 NF  9875 KUJ 200 kW / 271 deg to CHN  Chinese, ex  9975
2100-2157 NF 11635 KUJ 200 kW / 271 deg to CHN  Chinese, ex 11535
2100-2150 on 11865 KUJ 200 kW / 109 deg to JPN  Japanese
2100-2157 on 13760 KUJ 200 kW / 325 deg to WeEu English
2100-2157 on 15245 KUJ 200 kW / 325 deg to WeEu English

2200-2257 on  3250 PYO 100 kW / non-dir to NEAs Japanese
2200-2257 on  7235 KUJ 200 kW / non-dir to NEAs Chinese
2200-2257 NF  9445 KUJ 200 kW / non-dir to NEAs Chinese, ex  9345
2200-2257 on  9650 KUJ 200 kW / 109 deg to JPN  Japanese
2200-2257 NF  9875 KUJ 200 kW / 271 deg to CHN  Chinese, ex  9975
2200-2257 NF 11635 KUJ 200 kW / 271 deg to CHN  Chinese, ex 11535
2200-2257 on 11865 KUJ 200 kW / 109 deg to JPN  Japanese
2200-2257 on 13760 KUJ 200 kW / 325 deg to WeEu Spanish
2200-2257 on 15245 KUJ 200 kW / 325 deg to WeEu Spanish

2300-2350 on  3250 PYO 100 kW / non-dir to NEAs Japanese
2300-2350 on  7235 KUJ 200 kW / non-dir to NEAs Korean KCBS
2300-2350 NF  9445 KUJ 200 kW / non-dir to NEAs Korean KCBS, ex  9345
2300-2350 on  9650 KUJ 200 kW / 109 deg to JPN  Japanese
2300-2350 NF  9875 KUJ 200 kW / 271 deg to CHN  Korean KCBS, ex  9975
2300-2350 NF 11635 KUJ 200 kW / 271 deg to CHN  Korean KCBS, ex 11535
2300-2350 on 11865 KUJ 200 kW / 109 deg to JPN  Japanese
2300-2350 on 13760 KUJ 200 kW / 325 deg to WeEu Korean KCBS
2300-2350 on 15245 KUJ 200 kW / 325 deg to WeEu Korean KCBS

Cancelled transmissions (currently inactive transmissions)
0300-0350 on  3250 PYO 100 kW / non-dir to NEAs Korean PBS
0300-0350 on  7220 KUJ 200 kW / non-dir to NEAs Korean PBS
0300-0350 on  9445 KUJ 200 kW / non-dir to NEAs Korean PBS
0300-0350 on  9730 KUJ 200 kW / non-dir to NEAs Korean PBS
0400-0457 on  7220 KUJ 200 kW / non-dir to NEAs English, off from April 2
0500-0557 on  7220 KUJ 200 kW / non-dir to NEAs Chinese, off from April 2
0600-0657 on  7220 KUJ 200 kW / non-dir to NEAs English, off from April 2
0700-0757 on  7220 KUJ 200 kW / non-dir to NEAs Korean PBS
0700-0757 on  9445 KUJ 200 kW / non-dir to NEAs Korean PBS
0900-0950 on  9875 KUJ 200 kW / 028 deg to ERus Korean PBS
0900-0950 on 11735 KUJ 200 kW / 028 deg to ERus Korean PBS
0900-0950 on 13760 KUJ 200 kW / 325 deg to EaEu Korean PBS
0900-0950 on 15245 KUJ 200 kW / 325 deg to EaEu Korean PBS
1000-1050 on  7220 KUJ 200 kW / non-dir to NEAs Korean PBS
1000-1050 on  9445 KUJ 200 kW / non-dir to NEAs Korean PBS
1200-1257 on  7220 KUJ 200 kW / non-dir to NEAs Korean PBS
1200-1257 on  9445 KUJ 200 kW / non-dir to NEAs Korean PBS
1300-1357 on  3250 PYO 100 kW / non-dir to NEAs Korean PBS
1300-1357 on  9425 KUJ 200 kW / 325 deg to EaEu Korean PBS
1300-1357 on 12015 KUJ 200 kW / 325 deg to EaEu Korean PBS
1800-1857 on  3250 PYO 100 kW / non-dir to NEAs Korean PBS
1900-1957 on  3250 PYO 100 kW / non-dir to NEAs Korean PBS
KNG=Kanggye
KUJ=Kujang
PYO=Pyongyang

LIBYA    Registered frequencies of Libyan National Channel, all inactive:
1200-1400 on 21675 SAB 500 kW / 180 deg to NEAf Arabic
1200-1600 on 21720 SAB 500 kW / 130 deg to ECAf Arabic
1400-1700 on 17540 SAB 500 kW / 180 deg to NEAf Arabic
1600-1700 on 15660 SAB 500 kW / 230 deg to NWAf Arabic
1700-1900 on 15670 SAB 500 kW / 180 deg to NEAf Arabic
1700-2000 on 11670 SAB 500 kW / 230 deg to NWAf Arabic
1900-2000 on 11855 SAB 500 kW / 180 deg to NEAf Arabic

TAIWAN/SARAWAK    Frequency change of Radio Free Sarawak from April 7:
1100-1300 NF 15420 TAI 100 kW / 200 deg to SEAs Iban, ex 15430, re-ex 11600

WYFR schedule

Only from Okeechobee and Taiwan relay

USA(non)    Summer A-13 schedule of WYFR Family Radio:
1100-1200 on  6220 HUW 100 kW / 265 deg to SEAs Burmese
1100-1200 on 11520 BAJ 100 kW / 180 deg to SEAs Tagalog
1100-1300 on  6240 BAJ 100 kW / 310 deg to EaAs Chinese
1100-1300 on  9280 PAO 100 kW / 335 deg to EaAs Chinese
1300-1400 on  7580 TAI 100 kW / 250 deg to SEAs Vietnamese
2200-2245 on 17575 YFR 100 kW / 140 deg to SoAm Portuguese
2300-0045 on 13695 YFR 100 kW / 160 deg to SoAm Spanish
2300-0100 on 11565 YFR 100 kW / 140 deg to SoAm Portuguese
2230-0300 on  6115 YFR 100 kW / 355 deg to NoAm English
0000-0145 on  5945 YFR 100 kW / 181 deg to SoAm Spanish
0100-0145 on 15440 YFR 100 kW / 285 deg to CeAm Spanish
0100-0200 on 11825 YFR 100 kW / 160 deg to SoAm Spanish
0200-0400 on  6875 YFR 100 kW / 285 deg to CeAm Spanish
0200-0400 on  9930 YFR 100 kW / 222 deg to CARB Spanish

More frequency changes of Radio Pakistan

Radio Pakistan on April 7
0830-1105 NF 15725#ISL 250 kW / 313 deg to WeEu Urdu, ex 15100
0830-1105 on 17720#ISL 250 kW / 313 deg to WeEu Urdu

--

Ivo

QTH: Sofia, Bulgaria

Equipment: Sony ICF-2001D 30 m. long wire

Glenn Hauser logs April 6-7, 2013

** AUSTRALIA. 11945, April 7 at 1412, R. Australia English is still on here // much stronger 9580, and 11945 with CCI --- contrary to the RA A-13 schedule supposedly effective today, from Nigel Holmes, quoted in DXLD 13-13 showing 11945 reduced to 1100-1300, and toward Asia instead of Pacific. The beam change I could believe. Something surely needs to go, as even without RA, there is a collision between BBC Singapore in Burmese, and Romania in Arabic, which are in HFCC, unlike absent Australia. Is RA maybe just late in making the change until tomorrow? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** CHINA. Firedrake April 7:
15570, fair at 1414, het on lo side with V. of Tibet, Tajikistan.
None in the 17s, 16s, 14s, 13s or 12s at 1416-1418; but some maybe still in top-of-hour hiatus (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** COSTA RICA. 930, but audible here on webcast only, TIRCR, Radio Costa Rica, with Berny Solano`s new show, 0300-0400 UT Sunday April 7. He has been recruiting contributors in the DX world, but not really about DX. First episode started with Héctor Pino in Chile talking about his bout with colon cancer; then Henrik Klemetz in Sweden, about cultural differences, such as punxuality which he came to understand during his years in Colombia (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Previous info about this:

El próximo sábado 06 de abril de 2013, de 9 a 10 pm hora de Costa Rica (03 a 04 UT [domingo]) estaré iniciando un programa llamado "Mundo Sorprendente" en una sencilla emisora denominada Radio Costa Rica 930 AM y http://www.radiocr.net La idea es hacer un programa variado sobre la Vida, la Radio, la Tecnología, Misterios y Enigmas, etc. Es un programa sin fines de lucro, yo mismo pago el espacio y es por la pura pasión de hacer radio. Es un proyecto experimental porque no tengo experiencia (Berny Solano Solano, WORLD OF RADIO 1663, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** ECUADOR. 6050, April 7 at 0105, must be HCJB, with Andean music, poor signal; however, better than nothing but the timesignal I recently detected at 0100 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** JAPAN [non]. 11970, UT Sunday April 7, R. Japan via FRANCE to Africa, fair-good signal but heavy fading, `Friends Around the World` still exists, with mailbag segment including John Fisher and others from USA lamenting end of service to us. Solar flux zoomed to 135 on April 6, which no doubt helped (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** KOREA SOUTH [and non]. Re previous report, I misread the times on their program grid; correct to: ```KBS Listeners Lounge` now occupying the times formerly filled by ``WWF`` --- so is it just a name change and will the same mailbag and DX segments continue, or not? I.e., :25-:60 during the one-hour broadcasts on Saturday, and :10-:30 during the half-hour broadcast`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** KUWAIT. 15540, April 6 at 2050-2052, R. Kuwait rock music keeps on playing, no break for news headlines as used to be the case; so this token has been dropped? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** MEXICO. 1570, April 7 at 0613 UT, XERF YL in Spanish says this station is live 24 hours, her show until 5 am, and then mentions that the rest of Mexico, except certain states, is about to go on DST too. Border towns like Acuña had to shift when the US did a month ago (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** OKLAHOMA. 91.7, KOSU and webcast: I continue to resent KOSU`s flip from classical to Okie indie music (for lack of a better term), 10 hours a night, and mostly avoid it, but I must admit that late Saturday nights I`ve been groovin` to bits of techno on this show at 9 pm - midnight CT = 0200-0500 UT Sundays; from KOSU`s schedule:

``SpyLab --- Katie Wicks. Katie Wicks is our resident international superstar DJ. She hosts SpyLab, a dance mix show on Saturday nights and co-hosts the largest weekly dance party in OKC, Robotic Wednesdays. She has had two original dance songs chart in the World Top 100 Beatport charts. She has been hired to DJ in L.A., NYC, Chicago, San Francisco, Dallas, Portugal, Spain and Costa Rica`` (Glenn Hauser, Enid, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** PERU. 5980, April 7 at 0056, once again a typical weak Chaski carrier is observable in the noise level and splash from 5990 CRI/Cuba. Even bits of modulation. From 0059 I monitor continuously and the single carrier goes off at 0102:46.5* which fits the Chaski pattern. Last night`s absence must have been anomalous (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** ROMANIA [and non]. 15435, April 7 at 1318, some weak music vs pileup of hets and other jamming, as RRI is scheduled in Chinese at 1300-1330, 300 kW, 67 degrees from Tiganeshti. So much for the once-great Sino-Romanian alliance.

We should check whether all RRI`s other Mandarin frequencies be jammed; per HFCC A13:
http://www.hfcc.org/data/schedbybrc.php?seas=A13&broadc=RRO
where Romania is RRO to avoid confusion with Indonesia, and Chinese = zho: 1300-1330 also on 17860; 0400-0430 on 17780, 21540 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** SERBIA [non]. 9685, UT Sunday April 7 at 0105, IRS is on in English! Contrary to their own new schedule,
http://voiceofserbia.org/program-schedule
but in accordance with what they have really been doing --- shifting English half an hour later than other nights on UT Sundays only. This is because priority Serbian programming variations require bumping English around. Criticising `` Washington`s full support for Pristina``, i.e. breakaway Kosovo. International Radio Serbia ID [yes, still sic, words not in any other order as sometimes mis-reported]; 0106 sports segment; 0107 odd repetitive ``stay tuned`` ID sounder. Usual huge signal via Bijeljina, BOSNIA-HERZEGOVINA (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** SWAZILAND. 15360, April 7 at 1415, TWR music box IS heard once, then open carrier; was tail of their 1400-1415 daily Urdu service, only attempt to reach Asia, and also a best bet here, way off-target (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 17885, April 7 at 1418, very strong and steady open carrier, as a typical Greenville pre-check, but not scheduled from here any later: just BBC Ascension after 1800. Saudi Arabic was on 17885 until 1400, but too close for that. Presumed a test-only GB frequency, well prior to VOA 1730 broadcast on 17895, since the latter is now occupied by Saudi Arabia until 1500 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. WORLD OF RADIO 1663 monitoring: new time on WTWW-2 9930 did not eventuate at 2330 Saturday April 6: instead checked at 2340, it`s hymn-singing `Martha Garvin`s Musical Memories`, but 2342 dead air, 2344 start `Moments of Inspiration` which had been appearing a semihour earlier. 0004 recheck UT April 7, 9930 is still on, and WOR has started! So I hasten to notify my ygroupies. Normally QSY to 5085 at 0000. 0027 rerecheck, now 9930 is off but 5085 is on weakly, and it`s // 12105 WTWW-3 with Spanish Bible! 0056 rererecheck, now it`s Ted Randall`s `QSO` show with interview about ham radio.

I gather from Ted that he still intends to run WOR at 2330 Sats on 9930, but there was a problem downloading it in time, thus the program shuffling. However, Philip Hiscock in Newfoundland says the frequency change was made at 0007 amid World of Radio. Let`s hope for better luck Sunday at 2315v, when WOR has also been airing on 9930.

The WTWW-1 airing of WOR at 0400.5 UT Sunday April 7 on 5830 recurred without problems (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 5050-AM, UT Sunday April 7 at 0104, WWRB extra transmitter is on the air again // weaker 3195, with male hymn-singer, piano accompaniment, so maybe Martha Garvin`s guest? 5050 has not been on much lately, but you never know whether it will be (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 7385, UT Sunday April 7 at 0422, WHRI with music when `DXing with Cumbre` was once aired on different frequencies, but none found. Searching on `Marie Lamb` as program host, at
http://www.whr.org/Program-Schedules.cfm#DETAILED_SCHEDULE_SEARCH
indeed shows no airing at this time, but lists 56!!! times each weak on all six transmitters (including Palau), most of which are imaginary, with the SW transmitters not really turned on, but maybe on the webstreams if not pre-empted or replaced by paid programming. Any observations of when DWC is really HEARD on SW in A-13 will be welcomed for accurate listing in my DX/SWL/MEDIA PROGRAMS page http://www.worldofradio.com/dxpgms.html
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 930, April 7 at 0543 UT, dominant with WKY OKC nulled is a `Coast to Coast` station --- WTAD is an affiliate, but there could be others on 930; 0559 ad for QuincyJournal.com so it is WTAD Quincy IL again. I was never hearing this before a few nites ago, so think their nite power/tower must be askew. BTW, this one is pronounced Quinsy unlike ``Quinzy`` in Mass. (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 960, April 7 at 0501 UT in KGWA Fox-hole, some understation goes by with a W- ID, I think. Maybe not the same as:

960, April 7 at 0539 UT, some station with `Coast to Coast`, weekend host with deep voice, John B. Wells, recognizable despite local KGWA modulation.

960, April 7 at 0559 UT, my dream has come true! In a few-second pause before joining Fox `news`, KGWA dead air allows me to hear ``The Voice of the Concho Valley for more than 80 years, News-talk 960, KGKL, San Angelo``, the Texan I recently IDed thru KGWA, and where something must have just changed, like running day power/tower at night.

Lots of stuff on the website http://960kgkl.com/ but no obvious program schedule; KGKL is however on the C2C affiliate list (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 1030, April 7 at 0602 UT, ABC news with VG signal looping NW/SE, certainly anomalous: 0605 ad for Price & Son Funeral Home, Garden City KS, so it`s KBUF, COL Holcomb KS. Night pattern is supposed to shoot to the southwest and normally not heard here, so must be on ND day pattern; power 2.5/1.2 kW (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 1330, April 7 at 1252 UT, some great country music riffs, hiliting fiddle, bass, steel guitar and other instruments, then ``KCKM, heard everywhere and online in stereo, KCKM.com`` So not in stereo on 1330? Why not? Guess not: no $ symbol in the NRC AM Log for this Monahans TX 12/1 kW U2 station (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 1420, April 7 at 0611 UT, pause in `Coast to Coast` modulation when I hear ``on information radio, KTOE, Mankato``. I thought the C2C audio was from something else, but maybe not: KTOE in Minnesota is yet another affiliate. It`s 5/5 kW U2, with night pattern NE/SW, favorable for us (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

UNIDENTIFIED. 1370, April 7 at 0608 UT, solo hymn, 0610 program previews for something on W#LO, or WLO#? Only two fuzzy hits in NRC AM Log are: WLOV Washington GA, 1 kW daytimer, Nostalgia; and WLOP Jesup GA, 5/0.035 kW, Fox Sports. By religious format, maybe this one: WLLM, Lincoln IL, 1/0.035 kW. Hard to DF in heavy QRM but roughly E/W (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

Glenn Hauser logs April 5-6, 2013

** AUSTRALIA. 15400, April 6 at 1459, HCJB is playing Celtic music, what else, in a service from Oz to S Asia? Into `Focus on the Family` episode including topic ``should your marriage put up with mediocre sex?`` Hmm, who would answer, yes? Is this appropriate for such an audience? I suspect there is plenty of sex of some kind going on in the world`s largest trination, Indipakidesh. Quite strong reception, but fluttery, and after 1500 there is some weak CCI underneath. BBC ASCENSION is just starting its lengthy 15400 relay, and too, Iran`s Bengali service is at 1430-1530, following the earlier sesquihour collision in Urdu. I can`t imagine that KNX is going to stay on 15400 under such circumstances, unless they`ve decided to take the bullying RHC-approach, drive the competition away from the frequency which they should have by priority (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** BANGLADESH. 15505, April 6, again I am too late tuning in BB a few sex past 1400 to hear the timesignal – NOT! Here it comes, conveniently about 58 seconds late after the prolonged IS. Still with the hum, vying with the other buzz exactly 6 MHz higher from Saudi Arabia. After 1410 the BB Urdu service is mostly music; is this the best way to spend taxpayer money? Is Pakistan really in need of music from Dhaka? And is it in Bengali or Urdu? Do the lyrix score political points? 1429 sign-off employs English terms ``meter band`` and ``program``, which apparently don`t exist in Urdu. When talk stops just before 1430, so does the hum, and a clean carrier stays on a few sex longer until 1430:15* as the transmitter site demonstrates that the hum comes that way from the studio (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 

** CHINA. Firedrake April 6:
7470, poor at 1305. Aoki reveals the target is RFA in Tibetan via MONGOLIA at 11-14, which you won`t ever find in HFCC, nor will RFA acknowledge this secret UB site on its own skeds or QSLs. This pretense will of course keep our friends the Mongolians out of trouble with the ChiCom.

11970, good at 1338; none in the 12s
14980, very poor at 1346; none in the 13s
15570, fair at 1349, ACI to KBSWR 15575; and stays on past 1400
15900, very good at 1346; none in the 16s or 17s
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** DIEGO GARCIA. 12759-USB, April 6 at 0112, AFN is barely audible instead of just barely audible, with a sports segment mentioning Sacramento, from USA Radio Network; 0113 to song, 0117 YL DJ announcement, maybe ID but too weak, on to another rock song in the local wake-up show in the tropix where with yearound DST they pretend it`s 7+ am. I suppose it helps to get the crews up early for those long bombing runs (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** INDONESIA. 9526-, April 6 at 1309, VOI is axually modulating audibly in English altho nowhere near 100%! It`s almost readable, aided by the clarity of the announcer`s enunciation; progress, but not there yet. While being 4 kHz from ACI on 9530 was a killer in B-12, now being 6 kHz from much less ACI on 9520 is helpful in A-13 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** IRAN [non]. 9760, April 6 at 0521, good signal with dense ME pop music, what? 0524 Persian announcement; sure, it`s R. Farda as now scheduled 0230-0530, 100 kW, 108 degrees via Lampertheim, GERMANY (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** KOREA NORTH. 11735, April 6 at 1340, VOK with cinematic-sounding fantasy orchestral music, then Chinese announcement. VG signal level, but lots of selective-fading distortion and traces of jamming crosstalk at transmitter site audible during pause. Much better here than on 11710 English squeezed by the other cultists on 11715.

April 5 Aoki has nothing on 11735! Nor even Zanzibar so it`s still incomplete, but 11735 is a longtime N Korean channel. Arnulf Piontek`s new A13 schedule shows during this hour, 11735 VOK Chinese is at 238 degrees for SE Asia (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** KOREA SOUTH. 15575, April 5 at 1347, KBSWR English is propagating on a Saturday, finally allowing me to listen to `Worldwide Friendship` after months of inaccessibility. Just finishing mailbag segment, then Jeff in Baltimore`s `Tech Tips` which are restricted to info about KBS only, and its web presence. I`m amazed that this extremely specialized idea was accepted for broadcast and goes on and on, but it must have appealed to the management. However, Jeff admits that to cover spring break vacations he`s doing ``retrospectives`` this week and next, about which of his previous talx have got the most hits, so it`s even more incestuous.

Then from 1352, Christer Brunström`s monthly DX report from Sweden which has replaced Kevin O`Donovan from New Mexico, who used to be on every week, but now shared with others during the month. Christer complains about noise level at his home QTH but visited a friend at a quieter place and heard a bunch of good stuff: Somaliland 7120, Djibouti 4780, Brazil 11735, 15190; Germany 3985, 3995 – the latter at 2200 with HCJB`s Saturday DX show in German, maybe moving to 7205 in April; China 5050; and finally gh`s WOR at 2330 on new WTWW frequency 9930. Says he will be back in early May. He had a full five minutes, tho Kevin used to occupy only three, IIRC.

The ditzy YLs cohostesses remark that they love his voice, rather than what he is talking about. Sexist. 1357 summary of KBS reception quality in various places, and I don`t think they mentioned this frequency or North America. Wrapup talks about one of them leaving the show after a year, or is it the show itself which is leaving??? Or both: because next week, it will be called `Listeners Lounge`.

Neither one is mentioned by name at http://world.kbs.co.kr/english/program/
and it doesn`t fit into any of the five categories covered. Obviously of low priority. However, the English program grid at
http://world.kbs.co.kr/english/about/about_schedule.htm
indeed shows `KBS Listeners Lounge` now occupying the times formerly filled by ``WWF`` --- so is it just a name change and will the same mailbag and DX segments continue, or not? I.e., :20-:60 during the one-hour broadcasts on Saturday, and :15-:30 during the half-hour broadcast on WRN, and 2200 on 3955 Skelton – is that still on the air? Skelton sure isn`t, and there is now a one-hour direct to Europe on 11810 at 22-23, not on this schedule, apparently not fully updated.

There also is an ``English program service 3`` for an hour consisting of nothing but `K-Pop Connection` 7 days a week, whose times I must remove from the DX Programs schedule, along with making the namechange as above (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** KUWAIT. 15540, April 5 at 2059, R. Kuwait is still propagating so I can hear the English sign-off announcement again. Yes, tho he has the frequency right at 15540, he is assigning it to the ``25 meter band``, which was what went with the former frequency 11990. I predict than in another few years this too may be corrected. You don`t have to know the first thing about SW to be an announcer on a SW station! (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** NEWFOUNDLAND & LABRADOR. 6160+, April 6 at 0104, surprised to encounter weather forecasts for Newfie and Lab, so CKZN, with lite het, presumably de CKZU or something else propagating on 6160. No time to measure the frequency but reported recently as 6160.7; audible only tnx to late cut-on of RHC 6165 at *0105.5 joining English in progress. Note: 4-5 minutes past the hour is the best time to hear local announcements from CBC stations (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** OKLAHOMA. 1120, April 6 at 1256 UT, more than an hour after a Tulsa daytimer could be on the air, KEOR, R. Victoria is not: nothing there with still audible KMOX nulled. Maybe someday I`ll catch when it come on, but is there at 1718 UT check (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** OKLAHOMA. 21550+, April 5 at 2057, no local noise for the next bimegahertz, as I have been hearing in the mornings from unknown nearby motor (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** PERU [and non]. 5980, April 6 at 0059.5, straining to hear the R. Chaski carrier under the noise/hash, with BFO there are two extremely weak carriers on slightly different frequencies. One of them goes off about 0059:55* and the other is still on past 0103. Was the first one Urubamba with their timer reset? Maybe we`ll see if that one lasts 5 sex later the next few nites if any propagation hold up. Our streetlite with a clear sky at sunset now fires on at *0102.5 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** RUSSIA. 12030, April 6 at 1333, English discussion about N/S Korea including views of a Russian expert; continuous humwhine. I would have expected better from the Vladivostok site listed for VOR in HFCC, 250 kW, 230 degrees at 1000-1500. Aoki clarifies the English portions are 10-12 & 13-15 with Vietnamese in between, and shows power as 500 kW. Anyhow, it`s almost sufficient here since 50 degrees = off the back; we have to take whatever we can get from another station which has abandoned North America (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** SRI LANKA. 11905, April 6 at 0110 tone test with flutter, no doubt SLBC. Hope to catch their sign-on but when exactly will it be? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A [non]. 12075, April 6 at 1335 rather far-out jazz, must be `Jazz America` from VOA, surviving on SW Sat & Sun 13-14. Yes, // weaker 12150. HFCC shows 12075 is TINIAN, 12150 is Tinang, PHILIPPINES, and both are active this hour only on weekends for this particular program. Would that VOA give such priority to classical music, essentially banned from any broadcast at all, or just not in the mindset of the music director (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. WORLD OF RADIO 1663 monitoring: confirmed UT Saturday April 6 starting at 0141.4 on Area 51 via WBCQ 5110v-CUSB. Ivo Ivanov reports that Hamburger Lokalradio was missing again from 7265-CUSB on Wednesday April 3 when WOR 1662 would have aired at 0630 & 1430; was it back on Saturday at same times? Presumably first WRMI 9955 airing, Sat at 1500, but not confirmed; checked at 1530, a JBA carrier here tho no jamming; yet 2 hours earlier Wavescan was well audible. Next: Sat 2330 on WTWW 9930; UT Sun 0400 on WTWW 5830; Sun 2315 on WTWW 9930 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 9955, Sat April 6 at 1318, unfamiliar voice with promo piece about ``Oz-boo``, i.e. the Arab States Broadcasting Union, mentioning their activities in Damascus and Tunis. Jeff White outros as from an ASBU video, so was a `Wavescan` segment, one of its many airings on WRMI, Sat 1300; then, Yukiko`s monthly JSWC DX report with stale logs from a month ago, which are of little use, especially when a seasonal change intervenes. Fair signal and quite readable; followed at 1330 by another heavier Japanese accent from the Vicksburg evangelista (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

Ascolti AM Treviso 7 aprile

Ecco una selezione di ascolti in onde corte fatti a inizio periodo A13
15580 6/4 1700 Voice of America via Botswana Nx E 55555
11945 7/4 800 Radio Australia, Shepparton Id Nx E 45444
9790 7/4 901 AWR Europe, Issoudun Px "Studio DX 510" It 55555

Nino Marabello
Treviso, Italia

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

Glenn Hauser logs April 5, 2013

** ALBANIA. 9850, April 5 at 0129, R. Tirana again with VG strength and no QRM, but with IS which is extremely distorted (does anyone have a better quality recording of it from the old days before RT`s own tape wore out?). 0130 Klara signs on with completely correct English schedule including UT days of week, but instead of program summary a minute or so of music, then joining the news apparently in progress, first about numerous government ministers being dismissed and replaced with new ones: quite a shakeup in the Albanian government. Second story: USA recognizes Kosovo/a as an independent nation; just now? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** BRAZIL. 11855-, April 5 at 0118, weak Portuguese sounds like a preacher, i.e. the 1 kW Catholic, R. Aparecida, seldom heard here, slightly on the lo side. 11765 SRDA stronger but too overshadowed by 11760 RHC while 11780 RNB/RNA is inbooming as usual (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** CUBA. 6100, April 5 at 0058, RHC Spanish has finally moved here from 6120, as per their A-13 schedule supposedly effective April 1 when a few other changes were really made. No doubt assisted by my several reminders in reports surreptitiously viewed by frequency mis-manager Arnie Coro. So now WYFR and RTI have no ACI on 6115.

15200-15260, April 5 at 0105 checking the defective RHC transmitter on 15230: now center channel has some crackling, and the buzz field as follows on the hi side, probably matching on the lo side: this time there is no clear segment right next to the fundamental, but buzz out to a peak around 10 kHz, diminishing to just about gone by 20 kHz away; but as I listen, it must fade up a bit, as now I am hearing the buzz up to 25 kHz, to the margin at 30 kHz (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** DIEGO GARCIA. 12759-USB, April 5 at 0052, JBA broadcast talk and music, i.e. AFN. Still hoping for another opening boosting it to readable level (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** EGYPT. 13855, April 5 at 0111, huge hummy and fading open carrier, the SSOB, with some clix, occasional traces of talk or music modulation trying to break thru but to no avail. Of course, it`s another totally useless R. Cairo transmission, now per HFCC: 2330-0200 Arabic and Spanish, 250 kW, 286 degrees from Abis to Mexico, Central America and Caribbean.

13620, April 5 at 0113, another open carrier, with some fades and no modulation at all, quite weaker than 13855, but also of course, R. Cairo: 0045-0200 Spanish, 250 kW, 241 degrees from Abis to S America.

A few minutes later, however, there is some musical modulation on 9720, presumably also Spanish service which should have been //, i.e. 0045-0200, plus English 0200-0330, 250 kW, 330 degrees from Abu Zaabal to C & W North America (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** ECUADOR. 6050, April 5 before 0100, I am standing by with BFO for the dead giveaway HCJB timesignal. Otherwise there is nothing readable on frequency, but something very weak --- yes, there it is, four plus one, the final pip prolonged. HCJB recently told its German listeners that because of some transmitter problem they were on reduced power.

WRTH 2013 shows nominally it was only 8 kW, and it`s just another domestic station, #08 in Pichincha Province, furthermore with a blank in the callsign column, but HCJB in the station name column. Does that mean that HCJB is no longer its real callsign? Since it`s operated by Vozandes Media, not exactly the same corporately as the old World Radio Missionary Fellowship in Colorado Springs, now known as HCJB Global (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** JAPAN. 9595, April 5 at 0129 poor signal with Japanese music, must be R. Nikkei, unusual time to be getting it here (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** PAKISTAN. 17710, April 5 at 0109 as I am bandscanning 16m, there are a few signals, including a het on the hi side of strong RHC 17705; it`s very weak vs the heavy splash, with Qur`an or perhaps some other chanting. HFCC shows: R. Pakistan in Urdu at 0045-0215, 250 kW, 118 degrees from Islamabad. Nice springtime propagation; see also SRI LANKA (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** PERU. 5980, April 5 at 0050, I start my eveningly ritual of Chaski-chasing on the porch with the DX-398 on battery power, few meters of external wire. It`s much more comfortable now with the rain over and clear skies, enough dusklight to see what I am writing in the log for half a sesquihour, not needing the porch light.

However, again I am losing contact with Urubamba: no carrier audible at first and the noise level is unreasonably hi in this part of the band. I think residual off-schedule Cuban jamming against non-Martí is part of it, as there is some weak pulsing among it. At 0057 now I can barely make out a carrier with BFO. On to check other stuff, including the HCJB timesignal at hourtop, Cuba finally on 6100. But when I get back to 5980 at 0101, no more carrier vs the noise, and still nothing changes at 0102:33.5 when it is projected to cut off.

Maybe R. Chaski has just reset their turn-off timer again to be closer to 0100, or off the air for some other reason, or just not propagating; however, the Bolivians on 5952+ and 6135- are at their usual sufficient levels. Until next night - (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** SRI LANKA. 12115, April 5 at 0114, weak conversation in Burmese. HFCC shows IBB at 0030-0130, 250 kW, 57 degrees from Iranawila. However, this is not on the new VOA A13 schedule, which does have Burmese before and after this on other frequencies, ergo by elimination this hour must be R. Free Asia, a needlessly wasteful duplication of effort as I am sure Kim Andrew Elliott would agree (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** SRI LANKA [and non]. 11905, April 5 at 0118, nice S Asian vocal music, fair with flutter; must be SLBC, Hindi service, which HFCC shows as the 300 kW Ekala transmitter at 350 degrees. Despite not being a low-power unit, it`s very nice to hear some programming originating in Sri Lanka, rather than all the relays of something else.

11620, April 5 at 0122 also has S Asian vocal music; it`s the All India Radio Urdu service with a stronger, clearer signal altho listed as 250 kW, 334 degrees from Delhi; but I`m still going back to 11905  (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** VIETNAM [and non]. 12005, April 5 at 0116, VOV English news by YL announcer with heavy accent, Woofferton UK relay to eastern N America, sufficient, but with ACI from the wall-of-noise jamming the incompetent DentroCuban Jamming Command still spews against 12000, formerly occupied by the defunct Spanish service of VOA, not even R. Martí. Serves Vietnam right for being a jam-country itself against various western broadcasts.

Which brings us to World Harvest Radio, happy to relay VOV via WHRI. Yet T8WH PALAU, a.k.a. Angels 3 & 4, a.k.a. HBN in HFCC, includes several broadcasts specified as in the Vietnamese language, which are surely religious or clandestine, on 9930, 9965, 15500, 17800, and the other WHR station is subject to being jammed by the same country it`s relaying to the Americas. So what? Clients pay the bills; the morality of this business is obviously not a problem. One broadcast to check for Vietnamese jamming is BRB`s Que Me Radio, scheduled Fridays only 1200-1230 on 9930 via Palau (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

UNIDENTIFIED. 5055-USB, April 5 at 0056, very poor Spanish two-way, YL saying ``adelante`` a few times, which means ``over to you`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** BANGLADESH. 15505, April 5 at 1400, BB theme and opening Urdu, good strength and instead of the humbuzz now there is more of a crackling sound impeding the audio; it`s always something. I was enjoying the Firedrake so much on 15870 that I missed the timesignal, if any on 15505, jarred back to reality when 15870 cut off at 1400* (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** CANADA. 1610 kHz, April 5 at 0621 UT, heavy drama in Spanish from NE/SW, briefly ascendant over the KATZ IBOC noise, presumably CHHA, Voces Latinas, Toronto (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** CHINA. 6135, April 5 at 1238, not only CNR1 jamming against Taiwan`s new frequency, but also propeller noise.

6970, April 5 at 1233, good open carrier with flutter until 1240*. Very likely a Firedrake transmitter but apparently never needed to modulate with a no-show from a Sound of Hope 100-watt nuisance unit.

Firedrake April 5 before 1300:
11970, fair at 1237, as I tuned up 5 MHz from the carrier on 6970
12230, very good at 1257
12670: see TAIWAN
13920, very good at 1256
14980, good at 1256
15560, fair at 1251, het on lo side from V of Tibet, Tajikistan
15900, very good at 1253
16250, poor at 1253
16360, very good at 1253
16920, very good at 1253
17170, fair at 1254
17250, very poor at 1254
Total: 10 heard at once, maybe 11

Before 1400:
17080, fair at 1334
16360, very good at 1337
16250, very poor at 1337
15970, very poor at 1341; none in the 14s
15870, very good at 1341, -1400*
15570, fair at 1353, het on lo side, ex-15560; bothering KBS 15575
15560, poor-fair at 1340
13920, very good at 1344
12320, very poor at 1344; none in the 11s, 10s
Total: 8 heard at once (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** CUBA. 15215-15245, April 5 at 1338, the RHC buzzmitter on 15230 is now accompanied by weak noise out to this range (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** CYPRUS. 21630-21655 or so and same sound on 21698-21723, OTH radar pulsing presumed from here, April 5 at 1407: the lower one QRMs BBC Hausa via ASCENSION on 21630, but nothing vs the upper one. Recheck a couple minutes later and the lower one is off (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** GUAM. 12105, April 5 at 1257 and 1345 chex, KSDA Chinese in the clear, WTWW Russian not on the air today Friday.

15430, Friday April 5 at 1401, open carrier with some hum until 1401:45*. HFCC shows it must have been KSDA`s Thai broadcast at 1330-1400, except on days 5 and 7 in Lao, and day 1 = Sundays a day of rest (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** INDONESIA. 9526-, April 5 at 1247 with flutter, VOI speaking its usual slow or even spe-cial Japanese, as if from a script by a non-native, undermodulated, but at least there is something audible, so I am hopeful to hear English in the next hour. At 1301 heavy flutter, undermodulation, 1302 dead air past 1308! Or so little mod that I cannot detect it; 1327 now there is some mod, seems English intonation, but the flutter-sound is louder, so give up (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** JAPAN [non]. 5975, April 5 at 0515, NHK English is poorly audible here on Woofferton UK relay, // but an echo apart from much better Issoudun, FRANCE on 11970, the only two frequencies left at 0500 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** MEXICO. 630, April 5 at 0608 UT, Mexican NA by brass band, well-played, different version than usually heard, plays a few verses tho lyric-less; 0610 segué to ``Monterrey, Tierra Querida`` city anthem, ``entre montañas y tierra``. Heavy SAH with US talker nulled as much as possible. No doubt it`s usual XEFB, and then full ID at 0613 as ``La F-B, Romántica`` having flipped from news/talk a few months ago (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** MEXICO. 650, April 5 at 1207 UT, presumed dominant Mexican here, XETNT, Los Mochis, Sinaloa, live ad for some store in the Mercado San Francisco, 5:06 timecheck, which fits for UT-7 until April 7 advance to UT -6, but then I double-take as he seems to say, ``Buenos días, Guerrero`` and into a song. Turns out there is a 650 in Chilpancingo, but I`m still sure it`s XETNT as there is a Mercado San Francisco in Los Mochis (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** MEXICO. 700, April 5 at 0606 UT with WLW nulled, weak Spanish interview mentioning Guadalajara, which fits for XEDKR, but that one word is hardly sufficient to be sure, as it`s on the Radio Red network, 1/1 kW, tho I have IDed it before (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** MEXICO. 710, April 5 at 1210 UT, full ID for XEDP and XHDP in Ciudad Cuauhtémoc, Chihuahua, ``La Ranchera de Cuauhtémoc``, and 1211 switch to hymn and then Low German preacher, for the Mennonites around. A common catch, but it`s always neat to hear this strange language coming out of the middle of Mexico. By 1220 UT, it`s faded and KCMO/KGNC are regaining 710. Our sunrise was 1211 today, and no TP carriers heard (Glenn Hauser, Enid OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** MEXICO. 770, April 5 at 0558 UT, tune in to ``Grupo Fórmula`` network ID and choral NA, i.e. XEACH Monterrey NL, supposedly 200 watts at night, 5 kW day per IRCA (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) See also UNIDs 810, 940

** OKLAHOMA. 21550-23550, April 5 at 1330 I am still getting that new constant noise source, which has a sharp cutoff below 21550, and can be heard barely up to exactly 2 MHz higher; along with chirps/beeps averaging 10.5 per minute. At 1406 the noise is still there, but not the chirps. Sounds rather like an auto idling with bad sparx, but surely not for this extended period and repeatedly; some other stationary bad motor in the neighborhood, perhaps. We are uncomfortably close to an industrial zone. Still haven`t spotted any electric fences. Fortunately there are very few broadcasters above 21550 to bother, and even so it is not extremely strong, but quite a mystery (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** PAKISTAN. 17520, April 5 at 1403, distorted talk in SW Asian language, poor and fading. HFCC shows both Cairo eastward in Pashto and Pakistan westward in Urdu; incomplete Aoki as of March 31 listed neither; and EiBi dated April 5 which was 90% complete as of April 3 lists only Egypt. So that was my conclusion until reading Noel Green`s R. Pakistan monitoring report of April 4-5, confirming this one as:
``To Gulf and Middle East 1330-1530 on 15235 and 17520`` And also as reported by Ivo Ivanov (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** SAUDI ARABIA [and non]. 17705, April 5 at 1335, weak BSKSA is accompanied by bird-chirping sounds out to plus/minus 10 kHz, like a springtime nest in the air-conditioner. Could be local but I doubt it; this particular sound only heard in this area (Glenn hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** SPAIN. 21515, April 5 at 1332, REE is back on clear frequency today, out from under SSOB 21540 Kuwait where it reverted yesterday. Maybe it depends on different operators getting the message at Noblejas about what to put where. Still audible on 21515 at 1409 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** TAIWAN. 7688, April 5 at 1240, Chinese numbers by YL, 1242 announcement and stops, but carrier stays on; some SSB ACI on lo side. 1244 also some weak CW circa; 1300 resumes with flute music, 1302 more Chinese numbers, weakening but still audible at 1327. Aoki reminds us:

7688 XingXing guangbo diantai 4 1200-1230 1234567 Chinese 10 ND
7688 XingXing guangbo diantai 4 1300-1330 1234567 Chinese 10 ND Kuanyin TWN 12109E 2502N Random numbers b12 H3E

If the numbers are really random, the whole thing is pointless. If they are coded messages, they are anything but random. H3E means full carrier, single sideband; I did not notice which SB was absent. XingXing means StarStar. There are also versions 1, 2, and 3 at other times (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** TAIWAN. 12670, April 5 at 1258, weak talk and music, fading out. Presumed a Sound of Hope that Firedrake missed today! Where FD only has often been heard before. Neither audible at 1344 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A [and non]. 11905, April 5 at 0518, English clips, 0519 ``Denge Amerika`` so VOA Kurdish ID in passing, fair signal. It`s yet another relay via VATICAN, 0500-0600, 250 kW, 113 degrees from SMG.

According to http://www.hfcc.org/data/schedbybrc.php?seas=A13&broadc=IBB
IBB relays via SMG Vatican add up to 58 hours per week
while SMG relays via IBB Greenville, Tinang and Tinian make 63:47 hpw http://www.hfcc.org/data/schedbybrc.php?seas=A13&broadc=VAT

Thus Separation of Church and State is a farce. Would it take a FOIA to find out exactly what the arrangement is between the supposedly secular USG and the Holy See? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. WORLD OF RADIO 1663 monitoring. Confirmed on WWRB 3195 (but no 5050), UT Friday April 5 at 0329, as first checked on webcast from 0315; this time our lead-in was Dave`s favorite big-band music filler. Next: UT Saturday 0130v on Area 51 via WBCQ 5110v-CUSB; Sat 0630 & 1430 on HLR 7265-CUSB; Sat 1500 on WRMI 9955; Sat 1730 on WRN via SiriusXM 120; Sat 2330 on WTWW 9930; UT Sun 0400 on WTWW 5830; Sun 2315 on WTWW 9930, usw. (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 870, April 5 at 0617 UT, hard to pull out from under WWL tonight, but Vietnamese music still here with a SAH, i.e. KFJZ Ft Worth TX daytimer cheating (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 960, KGWA Enid failed to provide a Fox-hole for a couple of nites at 0500-0505 UT but it`s back April 5; nulling its hummy carrier finds a stronger signal than usual, easily readable with ABC News at 0502-0505, presumed usual KMA Shenandoah IA, with a slight echo from another ABC affiliate. I even tried to copy what followed at 0505 despite KGWA resuming modulation with that annoying lawn-care commercial which opens with banging on a counter-desk bell, but too much KGWA.

At 0538 the understation is still giving KGWA fits when nulled, so I again concentrate on trying to copy it; just national ads, but 0539, local ID! Sounds like ``Newstalk 960, KGAL`` ---? Uplooked later in the NRC AM Log, it must have been KGKL, San Angelo TX, which among its numerous network affiliations is A = ABC! It`s also close to the null direxion from KGWA, opposite from KMA.

Could this be what I have been hearing all along? KGKL is 5/1 kW U2 while KMA is 5/5 kW U2, meaning both are non-direxional day, direxional nite. NRC Pattern Book shows KGKL has a deep null toward Enid & Shenandoah! So now it must really be on day pattern and perhaps even day power. KMA has a minor nite lobe toward Enid while KGWA protects it. When I am hearing an echo on the 960 midnite ABC news, I now think it`s KMA & KGKL rather than KNEB in Scottsbluff NE. I would love to have heard the listed slogan for KGKL, ``Voice of the Concho Valley``. I once considered moving to San Angelo for a while, but decided it was too dominated by Christians who even run the public radio station (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** VATICAN [and non]. 11625, April 5 at 0520, ending one program of heavily-African-accented English, then ``news for young people`` announced by Festus Tarawali, starting with something about Pope Francis (who else? an old person); fair signal. A-13 ``July-October`` (but what about April-June) VR spreadsheet shows 0500-0530 English to Africa on 11625 SMG and 13765 Madagascar, while 0500-0530 separate English to Europe is supposed to be on local FM 93.3 only.

Then I check European frequency 7250, and find the carrier already on the air, only poor signal. Sometimes it broadcasts the FM-only European English, or Albanian, but this time it remains open until some piano music of unknown provenance at 0525; 0529 cut to bells before 0530 Latin mass with multilingual opening. Now it`s // barely audible 5980, which suffers from WWCR 5890/5935 leapfrog another 45 kHz higher. See also USA [and non] for exchange hours with IBB (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** VIETNAM [and non]. 9930, Friday April 5 at *1157 open carrier, 1159 persecution.org ad, T8WH ID with QSL address Box 12, South Bend; 1200 starts the weekly BRB clandestine broadcast ``Que Me``. Good strength signal but the audio feed is corrupt, cutting on and off constantly during Vietnamese opening, finally heard mentioning ``Que Me`, and http://www.queme.net and Houston, Texas.

I made a point of checking this following my rant yesterday about WHR relaying Voice of Vietnam, while Vietnam jams western broadcasts --- but not this one. No trace of jamming, while siren whooping against 9920 before 1300 continued there past 1300. Finally at 1221 recheck, 9930 dropouts have been fixed, during a speech in an echoey chamber.

Per EiBi [beware: day 1 = Monday for him], 9920 bears FEBC Philippines, Fridays during the 1230 semihour in BHN = Bahnar, spoken in Vietnam by 170,000, and then the 1300 semihour in BT = Black Tai / Tai Dam, spoken by half a million Vietnamese minority people, so the Viet Commies are more concerned with blocking those, than Quê Me, which means Action for Democracy in Vietnam! Properly spelt, not only with a circumflex over the first e, but a dot under the other e, beyond my typographical capabilities. Its English website http://www.queme.net/eng/index.php
linx to news from R. Free Asia and is pro-Buddhist, if not controlled by them (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

UNIDENTIFIED. 810, April 5 at 0558, XE NA going to a state anthem, but I can`t recognize which, among the many, many Mexicans crammed onto 810 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

UNIDENTIFIED. 940, April 5 at 0605 UT, soprano singing Chihuahua state anthem amid heavy CCI. Or so I thought I had recognized it, but there are no Chihuahuans listed on 940! Maybe it was Coahuila, XEYJ (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)