** ARGENTINA. 15345.16 approx., Mon Aug 4 at 0124, R. Nacional is up to fair level, better than usual, to go along with the boosted Brazilians on 25m; M&W dialog in Spanish. This frequency in evenings active only on weekends (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** BOLIVIA. 6134.8, Aug 4 at 0109, R. Santa Cruz with announcement mentioning the city, in Spanish, atop but with considerable het from R. Aparecida, Brasil, circa 6135 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** BRAZIL. 11854.96 approx., Aug 4 at 0117, R. Aparecida, very good with much better signal than usual on a good Brazilian night, phone caller about their Mãe, with a slight echo even audible on her line; then ordered to recite the Pai Nosso and does so; tho I assume their mother art in heaven too. Also active on 6135v to het BOLIVIA, q.v. (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** BRAZIL [and non]. 11915.12 approx., Aug 4 at 0120, Brazuguese but much weaker than 11854.96, i.e. R. Gaúcha; meanwhile R. Bandeirantes must be off 11925, as I am only getting IBB R. Ashna via KUWAIT, no het (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** BRAZIL. 11812, Aug 4 at 0117, huge distorted spur from 11780 RNA, and a lesser one approx. 11844, another 32 kHz higher, bothering 11840 RHC; however not hearing much circa 11876 or 11908. Also around 11748, 11716 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CUBA [and non]. 5040, August 4 at 0108, RHC is in English here // 6000 & 6165, instead of Spanish as scheduled, which remains on 6060, 6070, 9780-9840, 11760, 11840, 18210 at least; presumably another SNAFU by the sloperators of R. Cuba, wrong program feed line plugged in, rather than a deliberate change. 0144 still English; 0328 recheck, 5040 back in Spanish.
6060 & 6070 (but not 5040, in English by mistake), UT Monday Aug 4 at 0137, RHC `En Contacto` is introducing ``journalist`` Arnaldo Coro to tell about the expanded schedule on 11760 filling in the 15-19 UT gap, which significantly started 26 de julio to shortwave the ``Cuba Online`` program (which is in Spanish!) at 15-18, and this time he gets it right: plus 18-19 in Arabic and Creole; must have noted my correxion. Also says the new FM 102.5 significantly inaugurated May 1 barely covers Habana, range out to 40-50 km.
Says the RadioCuba transmitter site on 11760, which is an historic RHC frequency from its earliest days in 1961y as ``Onda Corta Experimental Cubana``, is the #1, Bauta in Artemisa. Meanwhile I have switched to 11760 itself as the appropriate frequency to listen to this about 11760, only to find it still has CCI in Spanish from Iran! And just about zero-beat, which at least speaks well, for a change, of the frequency accuracy, if not the frequency choice, of both stations. But Iran is supposedly moving away! Q.v.
18210, Aug 4 at 0127, poor signal from RHC, but the prime harmonic on this band, 3 x 6070.
18090, Aug 4 at 0135, pulse jamming, third harmonic of the DentroCuban Jamming Command on 6030, landing inside the hamband.
9780-9840, Aug 4 at 0129, RHC 9810 transmitter with buzz field out to plus/minus 30 kHz (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** EGYPT. 12070, Aug 4 at 0116, R. Cairo Spanish is back to normal, i.e. extremely loud broken up distorted modulation, totally unlistenable, but the spurs extend out only plus/minus 15 or so, 12055-12085. How about the others?
11710 is off the air at 0116 Aug 4, as I think it was last night.
9315, Aug 4 at 0131 has no modulation except a humwhine spreading out to 9304-9320, asymmetrically, worse on the low side.
9965, Aug 4 at 0131, Arabic service, crackle and low modulation
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** GREECE [non]. 9935, Aug 4 at 0131, ERTOpen is off the air again, and also off 9420, leaving the frequency to Iran (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** IRAN. 11760, August 4 at 0139, RHC Spanish during Arnie Coro`s talk about how historic 11760 is for them, has co-channel QRM from another station in Spanish // clear 9860, VIRI, which has been on 11760 all season, and still is, despite Ivo Ivanov`s news August 3 claiming that the 0023-0220 Spanish broadcast via Kamalabad, 274 degrees to S America, has moved to 12025 to avoid RHC --- nothing on 12025 now. 11760 is virtually zero-beat to Habana, not as strong, but enough to be annoying.
Did Ivo axually hear Iran on 12025 last night, or was this info from some other source? He does not make that clear, and no way of knowing unless he put up an audio clip, with none so far. Maybe the QSY is still pending (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) See also GREECE
** OKLAHOMA [and non]. 5995, Aug 4 at 0110, ESPN Radio mentioned, i.e. another external mixing product between local KCRC 1390, and this time WHRI 7385, which is 1390 kHz above this mix. No, I don`t expect anyone to publish this kind of local-log, but I include it for my own future reference. However, the same kind of thing can happen to others too close to some MW station (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** PERU. 5980, August 4 at 0106, R. Chaski carrier until cutoff at 0107:01* which is 17.5 seconds later than a trinite ago, averaging 5.83 later per nite (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** SRI LANKA. 11905, Aug 4 at 0114, SLBC carrier, poor with flutter; 0114:46 music starts, 2 + 1 pips end at 0115:18, right on mistime (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. WORLD OF RADIO 1732 monitoring: John Lightning wraps up on Area 51 webcast by 0300 UT Monday August 4, but pause, no WOR, then some more JL berating Best Buy, vamping with comedy bits, etc., until finally WOR starts at 0309. Must have had trouble downloading or starting the playback. Also sufficient on WBCQ 5110v-CUSB 0328 check. Next:
Monday 2100 on WRMI 15770 (? Not last week)
Tuesday 1100 on WRMI 9955
Wednesday 0630 on HLR 7265-CUSB
Wednesday 1315 on WRMI 9955
Wednesday 1430 on HLR 7265-CUSB
Wednesday 2100 on WBCQ 7490v
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A [non]. 9975, UT Monday Aug 4 at 0128, KVOH is off the air again tonight, uncovering very poor signal with flutter, i.e. The Voice Asia, Tashkent. KVOH still off at 0328. I fear they will also be off 17775 which should resume weekdays at 13-19 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 9475, August 4 at 0328, WTWW-1 is still on day frequency with blasting signal, so Ted must have failed to make the change to night frequency 5830 a sesquihour earlier at 0200. WTWW-2, however, with BS is on 5085; and WTWW-3, 12105 is off (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 6770, Aug 4 at 0113, very weak AM carrier, so is the old-time-radio pirate back after an hiatus? Hardly ever was better signal here than this (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 12759-USB, Aug 4 at 0121, another check for AFN Diego Garcia turns up some talk, barely audible, but can`t be sure it`s English; in fact, sounds more like Brasilian, and no music, perhaps two-way. So beware. This is after all a marine band (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 17785-17790-17795, Aug 4 at 0125, sounds like DRM noise, overriding 17795 R. Australia, which is normally in clear but always weaker than // 17840 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
This report despatched at 0415 UT August 4
** BOLIVIA. 6134.8, Aug 4 at 0109, R. Santa Cruz with announcement mentioning the city, in Spanish, atop but with considerable het from R. Aparecida, Brasil, circa 6135 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** BRAZIL. 11854.96 approx., Aug 4 at 0117, R. Aparecida, very good with much better signal than usual on a good Brazilian night, phone caller about their Mãe, with a slight echo even audible on her line; then ordered to recite the Pai Nosso and does so; tho I assume their mother art in heaven too. Also active on 6135v to het BOLIVIA, q.v. (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** BRAZIL [and non]. 11915.12 approx., Aug 4 at 0120, Brazuguese but much weaker than 11854.96, i.e. R. Gaúcha; meanwhile R. Bandeirantes must be off 11925, as I am only getting IBB R. Ashna via KUWAIT, no het (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** BRAZIL. 11812, Aug 4 at 0117, huge distorted spur from 11780 RNA, and a lesser one approx. 11844, another 32 kHz higher, bothering 11840 RHC; however not hearing much circa 11876 or 11908. Also around 11748, 11716 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CUBA [and non]. 5040, August 4 at 0108, RHC is in English here // 6000 & 6165, instead of Spanish as scheduled, which remains on 6060, 6070, 9780-9840, 11760, 11840, 18210 at least; presumably another SNAFU by the sloperators of R. Cuba, wrong program feed line plugged in, rather than a deliberate change. 0144 still English; 0328 recheck, 5040 back in Spanish.
6060 & 6070 (but not 5040, in English by mistake), UT Monday Aug 4 at 0137, RHC `En Contacto` is introducing ``journalist`` Arnaldo Coro to tell about the expanded schedule on 11760 filling in the 15-19 UT gap, which significantly started 26 de julio to shortwave the ``Cuba Online`` program (which is in Spanish!) at 15-18, and this time he gets it right: plus 18-19 in Arabic and Creole; must have noted my correxion. Also says the new FM 102.5 significantly inaugurated May 1 barely covers Habana, range out to 40-50 km.
Says the RadioCuba transmitter site on 11760, which is an historic RHC frequency from its earliest days in 1961y as ``Onda Corta Experimental Cubana``, is the #1, Bauta in Artemisa. Meanwhile I have switched to 11760 itself as the appropriate frequency to listen to this about 11760, only to find it still has CCI in Spanish from Iran! And just about zero-beat, which at least speaks well, for a change, of the frequency accuracy, if not the frequency choice, of both stations. But Iran is supposedly moving away! Q.v.
18210, Aug 4 at 0127, poor signal from RHC, but the prime harmonic on this band, 3 x 6070.
18090, Aug 4 at 0135, pulse jamming, third harmonic of the DentroCuban Jamming Command on 6030, landing inside the hamband.
9780-9840, Aug 4 at 0129, RHC 9810 transmitter with buzz field out to plus/minus 30 kHz (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** EGYPT. 12070, Aug 4 at 0116, R. Cairo Spanish is back to normal, i.e. extremely loud broken up distorted modulation, totally unlistenable, but the spurs extend out only plus/minus 15 or so, 12055-12085. How about the others?
11710 is off the air at 0116 Aug 4, as I think it was last night.
9315, Aug 4 at 0131 has no modulation except a humwhine spreading out to 9304-9320, asymmetrically, worse on the low side.
9965, Aug 4 at 0131, Arabic service, crackle and low modulation
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** GREECE [non]. 9935, Aug 4 at 0131, ERTOpen is off the air again, and also off 9420, leaving the frequency to Iran (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** IRAN. 11760, August 4 at 0139, RHC Spanish during Arnie Coro`s talk about how historic 11760 is for them, has co-channel QRM from another station in Spanish // clear 9860, VIRI, which has been on 11760 all season, and still is, despite Ivo Ivanov`s news August 3 claiming that the 0023-0220 Spanish broadcast via Kamalabad, 274 degrees to S America, has moved to 12025 to avoid RHC --- nothing on 12025 now. 11760 is virtually zero-beat to Habana, not as strong, but enough to be annoying.
Did Ivo axually hear Iran on 12025 last night, or was this info from some other source? He does not make that clear, and no way of knowing unless he put up an audio clip, with none so far. Maybe the QSY is still pending (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) See also GREECE
** OKLAHOMA [and non]. 5995, Aug 4 at 0110, ESPN Radio mentioned, i.e. another external mixing product between local KCRC 1390, and this time WHRI 7385, which is 1390 kHz above this mix. No, I don`t expect anyone to publish this kind of local-log, but I include it for my own future reference. However, the same kind of thing can happen to others too close to some MW station (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** PERU. 5980, August 4 at 0106, R. Chaski carrier until cutoff at 0107:01* which is 17.5 seconds later than a trinite ago, averaging 5.83 later per nite (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** SRI LANKA. 11905, Aug 4 at 0114, SLBC carrier, poor with flutter; 0114:46 music starts, 2 + 1 pips end at 0115:18, right on mistime (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. WORLD OF RADIO 1732 monitoring: John Lightning wraps up on Area 51 webcast by 0300 UT Monday August 4, but pause, no WOR, then some more JL berating Best Buy, vamping with comedy bits, etc., until finally WOR starts at 0309. Must have had trouble downloading or starting the playback. Also sufficient on WBCQ 5110v-CUSB 0328 check. Next:
Monday 2100 on WRMI 15770 (? Not last week)
Tuesday 1100 on WRMI 9955
Wednesday 0630 on HLR 7265-CUSB
Wednesday 1315 on WRMI 9955
Wednesday 1430 on HLR 7265-CUSB
Wednesday 2100 on WBCQ 7490v
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A [non]. 9975, UT Monday Aug 4 at 0128, KVOH is off the air again tonight, uncovering very poor signal with flutter, i.e. The Voice Asia, Tashkent. KVOH still off at 0328. I fear they will also be off 17775 which should resume weekdays at 13-19 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 9475, August 4 at 0328, WTWW-1 is still on day frequency with blasting signal, so Ted must have failed to make the change to night frequency 5830 a sesquihour earlier at 0200. WTWW-2, however, with BS is on 5085; and WTWW-3, 12105 is off (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 6770, Aug 4 at 0113, very weak AM carrier, so is the old-time-radio pirate back after an hiatus? Hardly ever was better signal here than this (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 12759-USB, Aug 4 at 0121, another check for AFN Diego Garcia turns up some talk, barely audible, but can`t be sure it`s English; in fact, sounds more like Brasilian, and no music, perhaps two-way. So beware. This is after all a marine band (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 17785-17790-17795, Aug 4 at 0125, sounds like DRM noise, overriding 17795 R. Australia, which is normally in clear but always weaker than // 17840 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
This report despatched at 0415 UT August 4
