** ANGUILLA. 11775, Dec 9 at 1450 check, TCB is off, no DGS or PMS anywhere, since at this hour WWCR 13845 airs something else.
6090, Dec 10 at 0221, now TCB nite frequency is also off; I wonder if neither channel was on at all today? Now however, we could still hear TUN on 5935 WWCR if we wanted to (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** BRAZIL. 11747, Dec 9 at 0632, RNA 11780.1 distorted spur is JBA.
11747, Dec 10 at 0225, crackly spur is audible, and also weaker on 11813 or so (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** EGYPT. 9905, Dec 9 at 0630, R. Cairo, good with flutter, Arabic modulation suppressed and distorted, also persistent RTTY QRM
9905, Dec 10 at 0218, poor with flutter and just barely modulated
9965.3, Dec 10 at 0217, now this R. Cairo Arabic frequency has varied from the lo to the hi side, music, poor with flutter (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MEXICO. 1510, Dec 10 at 0228, recitation with music background, outroed as ``barras de Carranza`` with audience approval, then a real song as signal fades vs WLAC. Had looped toward Monterrey so again assuming it`s XEQI as I still await a definite ID (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** NORTH AMERICA. Re DXLD 14-44: ``6925-USB, Oct 25 at 0034, poor pirate signal with variety of music, beeps, dramatization of something, mentions radiation level; 0040 overridden by CW sending V`s and then SALLO--- something a few times. Pirate had stopped by 0046. This threadhttp://www.hfunderground.com/board/index.php/topic,19060.0.html
says it was Rave On Radio about a zombie attack (ahem, we`re still a
week from Hallowe`en, when there should be a lot more pirate activity,
plus WBCQ) (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)``
Thanks for the reception report and thanks for listening!!! We hope that you liked our creepy show, (Everyone at Rave On Radio, Dec 7, to gh, with an e-qsl jpg attached, via DX LISTENING DIGEST)
[Illustrated QSL with text reading]:
RAVE ON RADIO 6925 USB
We sure hope that we creeped you out!!
Broadcasting from a studio in the woods
to: Glenn Hauser
Broadcast Date: October 25, 2014
Broadcast Time: 0028-0045 UTChttp://www.w4uvh.net/RaveOnQSL265ghauser.jpg
(via DXLD)
** OKLAHOMA. 89.5 WFM, Dec 9 circa 0135 UT we drive by the location where last few years ``singing Xmas trees`` have performed during the season, oil well lot in the NE corner of West Oak and North Cleveland in Enid --- and there they are. Approaching while tuned to 89.5, we have to get very close before hearing the signal, and it doesn`t overcome ACI and CCI until we are parked right close to the setup, so Part 15 power output is even lower. Visually it`s a bit different this year with more and brighter LEDs. Only four Xmas tunes are playing in rotation, including Looney Tunes with Bugs Bunny, and the Chipmunx. Periodically the light show stalls while the music goes on, so not really fully funxional yet (Glenn Hauser, Enid, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** SAO TOME. 11900, Dec 8 at 2031 tune-in to open carrier, what? Then a fragment of VOA`s Yankee Doodle Dandy, and cut off abruptly at 2032.4*. HFCC shows Pinheira registered here until 2030 in French (extended another semihour on weekends only) (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** TURKEY. 9700, Dec 9 at 0629, Turkish pop music, fair signal // much weaker and hetted 9820, so RNZI is gone again from this frequency where it surprisingly appeared 24 hours earlier (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. WORLD OF RADIO 1748 monitoring: confirmed on Global 24 via WRMI 9395, Monday Dec 8 after 2201. Yes, the two-week old show again.
WORLD OF RADIO 1750 monitoring: confirmed on Global 24 via WRMI 9395, UT Wednesday Dec 10 at 0401; following KBS World Radio, and preceding Media Network Plus at 0430. Next:
Wednesday 0730 & 1530 on Hamburger Lokalradio 7265-CUSB
Wednesday 1415 on WRMI 9955
Wednesday 2200 on WBCQ 7490v
Wednesday 2201 on Global 24 via WRMI 9395
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 9395, Dec 9 at 1501, `Democracy Now` on Global 24, via WRMI. Amy Goodman originating from Lima, Perú for some conference on climate change etc., but first dealing with US domestic news such as the pending torture document; later interviews about struggle against oil companies polluting the Peruvian and Ecuadorian Amazon. Glad to have D.N. available everywhere in the US now that it`s on shortwave; good sufficient signal (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 9955, Dec 10 at 0216, WRMI is very poor with music, pulse jamming, much weaker than 9395 G24 fair with Xmas music --- o no, not another station playing this stuff to death. Jeff White says tonight they are experimenting with the 181 degree antenna on 9955 instead of usual 160 and wonder if I can tell any difference. I`m afraid not, as the range of variation just on the 160 is quite wide. By 0235 it`s better during a preacher about some Greek translation (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 5085, Dec 9 at 0638, Ted Randall hosting Xmas music show on WTWW-2; more Xmas music on day frequency now, 9930, Dec 9 at 1448 check. 12105, Dec 10 at 0226, good signal with Xmas music from WTWW-3, and different Xmas music on very good WTWW-2 5085. Enough, already (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 1510-, Dec 9 at 2300 UT on caradio, just as I tune in, the het from always-off-frequency KCTE Independence MO goes off as it must have complied with nighttime shutdown, after mentioning ABC Sports? (Do they now have a dedicated sports radio network too?), leaving the channel to ESPN which would be WLAC Nashville. KCTE`s official daytime hours in Dec are 1330-2300 UT; January, 1330-2315 UT (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 1600, Dec 10 at 0233 UT, dominant signal is Vietnamese talk, and loops NNW/SSE, so no doubt it`s KRVA, The Metroplex TX. Maybe it`s their 930 watt night power vs 25 kW days, but at night, 1600 is normally a tossup between Denver and St Louis here. Conditions maybe a bit auroral vs the northerners (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LITENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 9330-, Dec 9 at 0627, big open carrier with hum, so could be WBCQ or HM01, Cuban numbers which appears around 0700 on certain nights (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
This report dispatched at 0536 UT December 10
6090, Dec 10 at 0221, now TCB nite frequency is also off; I wonder if neither channel was on at all today? Now however, we could still hear TUN on 5935 WWCR if we wanted to (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** BRAZIL. 11747, Dec 9 at 0632, RNA 11780.1 distorted spur is JBA.
11747, Dec 10 at 0225, crackly spur is audible, and also weaker on 11813 or so (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** EGYPT. 9905, Dec 9 at 0630, R. Cairo, good with flutter, Arabic modulation suppressed and distorted, also persistent RTTY QRM
9905, Dec 10 at 0218, poor with flutter and just barely modulated
9965.3, Dec 10 at 0217, now this R. Cairo Arabic frequency has varied from the lo to the hi side, music, poor with flutter (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MEXICO. 1510, Dec 10 at 0228, recitation with music background, outroed as ``barras de Carranza`` with audience approval, then a real song as signal fades vs WLAC. Had looped toward Monterrey so again assuming it`s XEQI as I still await a definite ID (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** NORTH AMERICA. Re DXLD 14-44: ``6925-USB, Oct 25 at 0034, poor pirate signal with variety of music, beeps, dramatization of something, mentions radiation level; 0040 overridden by CW sending V`s and then SALLO--- something a few times. Pirate had stopped by 0046. This threadhttp://www.hfunderground.com/board/index.php/topic,19060.0.html
says it was Rave On Radio about a zombie attack (ahem, we`re still a
week from Hallowe`en, when there should be a lot more pirate activity,
plus WBCQ) (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)``
Thanks for the reception report and thanks for listening!!! We hope that you liked our creepy show, (Everyone at Rave On Radio, Dec 7, to gh, with an e-qsl jpg attached, via DX LISTENING DIGEST)
[Illustrated QSL with text reading]:
RAVE ON RADIO 6925 USB
We sure hope that we creeped you out!!
Broadcasting from a studio in the woods
to: Glenn Hauser
Broadcast Date: October 25, 2014
Broadcast Time: 0028-0045 UTChttp://www.w4uvh.net/RaveOnQSL265ghauser.jpg
(via DXLD)
** OKLAHOMA. 89.5 WFM, Dec 9 circa 0135 UT we drive by the location where last few years ``singing Xmas trees`` have performed during the season, oil well lot in the NE corner of West Oak and North Cleveland in Enid --- and there they are. Approaching while tuned to 89.5, we have to get very close before hearing the signal, and it doesn`t overcome ACI and CCI until we are parked right close to the setup, so Part 15 power output is even lower. Visually it`s a bit different this year with more and brighter LEDs. Only four Xmas tunes are playing in rotation, including Looney Tunes with Bugs Bunny, and the Chipmunx. Periodically the light show stalls while the music goes on, so not really fully funxional yet (Glenn Hauser, Enid, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** SAO TOME. 11900, Dec 8 at 2031 tune-in to open carrier, what? Then a fragment of VOA`s Yankee Doodle Dandy, and cut off abruptly at 2032.4*. HFCC shows Pinheira registered here until 2030 in French (extended another semihour on weekends only) (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** TURKEY. 9700, Dec 9 at 0629, Turkish pop music, fair signal // much weaker and hetted 9820, so RNZI is gone again from this frequency where it surprisingly appeared 24 hours earlier (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. WORLD OF RADIO 1748 monitoring: confirmed on Global 24 via WRMI 9395, Monday Dec 8 after 2201. Yes, the two-week old show again.
WORLD OF RADIO 1750 monitoring: confirmed on Global 24 via WRMI 9395, UT Wednesday Dec 10 at 0401; following KBS World Radio, and preceding Media Network Plus at 0430. Next:
Wednesday 0730 & 1530 on Hamburger Lokalradio 7265-CUSB
Wednesday 1415 on WRMI 9955
Wednesday 2200 on WBCQ 7490v
Wednesday 2201 on Global 24 via WRMI 9395
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 9395, Dec 9 at 1501, `Democracy Now` on Global 24, via WRMI. Amy Goodman originating from Lima, Perú for some conference on climate change etc., but first dealing with US domestic news such as the pending torture document; later interviews about struggle against oil companies polluting the Peruvian and Ecuadorian Amazon. Glad to have D.N. available everywhere in the US now that it`s on shortwave; good sufficient signal (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 9955, Dec 10 at 0216, WRMI is very poor with music, pulse jamming, much weaker than 9395 G24 fair with Xmas music --- o no, not another station playing this stuff to death. Jeff White says tonight they are experimenting with the 181 degree antenna on 9955 instead of usual 160 and wonder if I can tell any difference. I`m afraid not, as the range of variation just on the 160 is quite wide. By 0235 it`s better during a preacher about some Greek translation (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 5085, Dec 9 at 0638, Ted Randall hosting Xmas music show on WTWW-2; more Xmas music on day frequency now, 9930, Dec 9 at 1448 check. 12105, Dec 10 at 0226, good signal with Xmas music from WTWW-3, and different Xmas music on very good WTWW-2 5085. Enough, already (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 1510-, Dec 9 at 2300 UT on caradio, just as I tune in, the het from always-off-frequency KCTE Independence MO goes off as it must have complied with nighttime shutdown, after mentioning ABC Sports? (Do they now have a dedicated sports radio network too?), leaving the channel to ESPN which would be WLAC Nashville. KCTE`s official daytime hours in Dec are 1330-2300 UT; January, 1330-2315 UT (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 1600, Dec 10 at 0233 UT, dominant signal is Vietnamese talk, and loops NNW/SSE, so no doubt it`s KRVA, The Metroplex TX. Maybe it`s their 930 watt night power vs 25 kW days, but at night, 1600 is normally a tossup between Denver and St Louis here. Conditions maybe a bit auroral vs the northerners (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LITENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 9330-, Dec 9 at 0627, big open carrier with hum, so could be WBCQ or HM01, Cuban numbers which appears around 0700 on certain nights (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
This report dispatched at 0536 UT December 10
