** BRAZIL. 11745 audible, and 11710 JB audible, April 26 at 0123 crackling spurs
from RNA/RNB 11780.1v; 11815 unchecked? Unlogged, anyway (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST) See also IRAN [and non]
** CHINA. 11910, April 26 at
1305, CRI English, poor with flutter, and a different program-hour than
second-adjacent 11900 with fair signal during `China Drive` show, the latter //
but not synch with 9570 via Cuba. 11910 is Beijing site, 11900 Kunming. Even the
ChiCom can`t seem to keep sorted out correctly the three or four different
program-hours daily of CRI English. Maybe 11910 is an anomaly, as it`s filling
in for what used to be the relay of Spain (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** CHINA [non?]. 19010, April 26 at 1330, JBA signal here, during
the only hour RFA Tibetan via Kuwait is scheduled, i.e. Sundays, but too weak to
tell if that or the CNR1 jammer (Glenn Hasuer, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** COLOMBIA [and non]. 5910, April 26 at 0129, huge ``running
water`` ute owns the frequency, but when it stops, music is very poorly audible,
i.e. HJDH (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CUBA. 6000, April 26
at 0101, RHC English is instead open carrier/dead air, while 6165 is modulatory.
Then at 0103 I find that 6000 has dumped off the air. No het/carrier from 6001
tonight. 0129 recheck, 6000 is on and modulating too, but
underish.
11670, April 26 at 0123, RHC is just barely modulated here,
dead air on 11840, but OK on 11760. ¿Qué más hay de nuevo? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** CUBA [and non]. 6080, April 26 at 0328, music from
VOA BOTSWANA, poor-fair signal and no pulse jamming now, plugging VOAnews.com or
Facebook. However, at 0544 recheck now there is stray/spurious pulse jamming
against nothing (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** EGYPT. 11935,
April 26 at 0125, presumed R. Cairo, good level with flutter, but JBM. The
traces of talk modulation are no match to 12070 with Qur`an at the moment. But
9315, undermodulated in Spanish, is // 11935. There is no ZY het on 11935, so
RB2 still off. 9965, the Arabic frequency, is not // any of them.
9315,
April 26 at 0327 toward the end of the `English` sesquihour, fair signal, but
JBM with only a few spikes detectable (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** GREECE. 9420, April 26 at 0111, ERA is on! Increasingly rarely; Greek
talk and music, VG signal here and audible on much weaker // 15630 which may
also be undermodulated. Still no show on 9935: I suppose Avlis` third
transmitter is totally dead after acting up a lot when they tried to employ it.
Recheck 0542 April 26, 9420 still on but weaker, well into the dayside (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** IRAN [and non]. 13650, April 26 at
0326, IRIB music good with flutter, as the ``Voice of Justice`` English hour to
North America is underway; 0331 YL news, 0333 about an Iranian trade mission to
Oman. No QRM here but the other frequency, 11780, is a total loss, nothing but a
low audible het on the low side to huge 11780.1v RNB/RNA BRAZIL at 0334 check.
Wolfgang Büschel measured that on 11780.107 on April 20. VIRI is not known ever
to make any mid-season adjustments, which would amount to admitting their
original incompetence in frequency management: instead, waste 500 kWh every
night for the duration. They`ve stupidly collided with Brasil for two or three
seasons now (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** JAPAN [non].
11680, April 26 at 0322, VG signal with funny song in Japanese. Yes, it`s NHK,
here via Nauen, GERMANY, 03-05, 250 kW, 140 degrees to CIRAF 38-40, but plenty
here off the back, and no doubt // 5910 France if I had checked. Would that we
could hear any English broadcast from Tokyo this well (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** KURDISTAN [non]. 11510, April 26 at 0323, very good
with Kurdish instrumental music. Nice to hear Denge Kurdistane this well, as no
longer possible in the 13+ UT period: that`s because from that hour, the site is
inferior Bulgaria. Aoki shows the site setup currently for Radyoya Denge
Kurdistane; is this all still correct? ---
03-07 MDA =
PRIDNESTROVYE
07-11 ARM = Armenia
11-13 MDA (but with an antenna azimuth
change at 12, why?)
13-17 BUL
17-19 FRANCE
Yet, the latest HFCC shows
nothing but Moldova for the entire span! As alleged by BRB (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** NETHERLANDS [non]. 7375, April 26 at 0120, The
Mighty KBC via Nauen, Germany, is still VG tonight, as Uncle Eric says Kraig
Krist is standing by with a Forgotten Song (is that still circa 0145-0150 now
that The Giant Jukebox has expanded to three hours?). But now, Peter Jones
(James?) who sounds German, gets barely a minute to go over some ham DX news
headlines. Circa 0130, Kim Andrew Elliott introduces some Radiogram beeps
allegedly publicizing the KBC QSY to 9925 from next week (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** NORTH AMERICA. 6940-USB, April 26 at 0104, poor
signal with pirate music; 0112 announcement mentions hfunderground and how the
ads Google gives him are for Asian single women, rather than radio equipment.
0115 acknowledges contact from Bill Hassig in Chicago (a very active pirate
DXer); 0116 finally IDs just before going back to music as ``Radio Free,
What-ever``. Now signal is a little better (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** OKLAHOMA [and non]. 1020, April 26 at 1339 UT, my semi-local
KOKP Perry is off! Sibling station 1580 KOKB Blackwell is still on, so make that
Double-Play instead of Triple-Play. In KOKP absence, I detect a JBA carrier
on-frequency, likely remnant of KMMQ Nebraska. These stations are normally
almost zero-beat, and I can hear the 50 kW KMMQ Spanish around SRS. Both were
suspected as source of way off-frequency het heard by others starting with Todd
Skaine, MN, previous night April 25 circa 1100 UT. Maybe that`s why KOKP is off
now? Still off at 1730 UT April 26 recheck. 400/250 watts. Hope it`s still off
tonight so can hear something more exotic like KDKA or ZP14 or some of the 52
Radio Illimani 1020s in Bolivia, hi2.
Brian Rachford, Prescott, AZ posted
at 1105 UT April 25 to IRCA: ``I've got it here, although the hum is quite
fade-y. It loops W-E, so maybe KMMQ? Frequency analysis on a brief recording has
a wonking spike at 107 Hz. I have Spanish speaking over Spanish music so
probably KTNQ [Los Ángeles] over KMMQ, which is common here. The hum decreased
when the SS music became dominant for a bit. Had a "Univision" ident near TOH so
the SS talk is KTNQ, and couldn't make out an ident for other station, but
format consistent with KMMQ``
(Glenn Hauser, Enid, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** OKLAHOMA. 1500, April 26 at 0135 UT, ad for a product from
Cardinals.com so must be a St. Louis team baseball affiliate. Per
the
only one on 1500 is KPGM Pawhuska (Bartlesville market) OK. The trouble is, it`s
a 500-watt daytimer, illegal after 0100* UT in April (May: 0130*). However,
sibling fulltime station 1400 KWON + FM is also on the roster. There are Cards
affils in nine states, NOT including Kansas which the Royals must have sewn up.
There are several more in OK, but only in the north, east, and central part of
the state (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** PALAU. 9930, Sunday
April 26 at 1309, T8WH with gospel huxtress in English, and not on 9965.
Examining Aoki, in the 13-14 UT period, 9965 Angel 5 is daily except Sundays,
and 9930 is Angel 3, Sat & Sun only (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** PERU. 5980, April 26 at 0105, JBA carrier from R. Chaski until
cutoff at 0109:30.5* which is 5.5 seconds later than last night (Glenn Hauser,
OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** SOMALILAND. 7120, April 26 at 0330-0336+,
presumed R. Hargeisa attains no more than a JBA carrier. Constant AM carrier
unlikely to be a ham (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** SRI
LANKA. 11905, April 26 at 0114, SLBC carrier is on, poor; music starts
0114:46.5, and mistimesignal ends at 0115:19.5, right on mistime (Glenn Hauser,
OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** TURKEY. 9515, UT Sunday April 26 at 0322, VOT
is starting `Letterbox Programme` with bouncy swing theme, and runs until 0334
with same theme and duplicate announcement serving as both intro and outro. In
between, informal acknowledgments of reports from Christopher J. Campbell in
Columbus OH, who has been listening since 1996y; someone from Hiroshima, among
others, Glenn Lockley (spsp?), someone in Finland. Tnx to reminder from Alan
Roe, who had heard mailbag circa 2220 25 April on previous broadcast, 9830. Was
not on last Saturday/UT Sunday, so this confirms L`box still exists as
fortnightly, tho its former alternator, `DX Corner` is long gone. Good luck
finding any mention of L`box on VOT website, let alone any weekend audio (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. WORLD OF RADIO 1770
monitoring: confirmed UT Sunday April 26 at 0316 on WA0RCR, Wentzville MO. Now
on second item about Australia, so maybe started a minute or two before 0315v.
Steady signal, and audibility depends on evading local noise sources.
Next:
Sun 2100 WRMI 15770
Sun 2300 WRMI 11580
Mon 0300v WBCQ
5110v Area 51
Tue 1100 WRMI 9955
Wed 1315 WRMI 9955
Wed
2100 WBCQ 7490v
Thu 0330 WRMI 9955 [or 1771 if ready in time]
Thu
1130 WRMI 9955 [or 1771 if ready in time; ex-1230]
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 11825, Saturday April 25 at 2308, rock music,
so Global 24 via WRMI is still on with `Rock Pile`; and much weaker 5850 is also
on at 2308 with `Democracy Now`, no doubt old shows. Did not check during the
first hour 22-23 UT.
11825 at 0047 check UT Sunday April 26 in `Blues
Radio International`. At 0101 presumably FSN with Olds, i.e. about home of
German suicidal/mass murdering pilot raided in Düsseldorf, gas explosion
destroys buildings in East Village, NYC; Yemen president arrives in Saudi Arabia
for asylum. That puts it from MARCH 26, now a month old!! 0105 Bonito Radio Jet
ad, available from Universal and other vendors of high-end radio products. (But
what is it? Sounded like Benito, but universal-radio.com lists lots of Bonito
software, nothing named jet hit on searching.)
0105 opening `Travel with
Rick Steves` and it`s the same old program too, ``leading up to Easter``, and
policy changes easing American travel restrixions to Cuba (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 11920, April 26 at 0124, Greek music, must be
filler on WRMI instead of scheduled Fámily Radio in Spanish this hour. No, not
// 9420! (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 5085, April 26
at 0118, WTWW-2 has been turned on, so Ted can ramble on a `QSO` show. I see
that registration for this has been changed to start as early as 0000, so maybe
will avoid 9925 KBC which moves there next Saturday night from 7375, by WTWW not
using 9930 after 0000, if it is ever on at all again (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 1480, April 26 at 0534 UT, predicted low 38
from `The Big Talker, KQAM`. What??! It can`t be that cold this time of year. In
fact, NWS records for Wichita shows the low this morning was 50. Therefore, KQAM
is not to be trusted for weather info, probably automatically replaying
long-outdated forecast. But what can you expect from a station dedicated to
propagating far-right hateful wackos like Michael Savage and Laura Ingraham? No
less a public disservice (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
**
VATICAN. 17600, April 26 at 1351, VOA Somali is just barely modulated,
suppressed, with occasional spikes, on fair-good signal. Wiggle that patchcord!
Isn`t anyone at SMG paying attention to the output, or the input? (Glenn Hauser,
OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 9565, April 26 at 1314, fair
signal with brief tone test, otherwise open carrier, 1316 another TT. Nothing at
all scheduled here around this hour. Could be Greenville checking system long
before R. Martí from *2000, but not very strong; or VOA Thailand scheduled for
Tibetan from *1600. No off-time Cuban jamming audible (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
This report dispatched at 1832 UT April 26
