** ALBANIA. 9590, Oct 24 at 0525, Chinese song // 9515, so both must be CRI Arabic service via Cërrik relay: yes, 9515 is 240 degrees, 9590 is 140 degrees. Long song almost sounded like Jesus rock, but surely not, finally ending by 0534, into Arabic ID and talk (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** ALBANIA. Drita Çiço explains that the new curtailed R. Tirana schedule for Oct 21-29 did not go into effect after all, so the cuts are not expected to happen until Oct 30 with B-11 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CHINA. Firedrake Oct 24, after 1230: 10300, poor at 1233 11500, fair at 1233, making fast SAH with open carrier from Tajikistan 12230, good at 1234 12600, very poor at 1235 13130, good at 1235 13970, good at 1235; none in the 14s, 15s or 16s Before 1400: 18200, very poor at 1348 16100, very poor at 1358; none in the 17s 15545, good at 1358 14700, very good at 1359 13970, very good at 1359 12230, very good at 1359 10300, fair at 1359; none in the 11s, 7s Before 1500, a time I don`t often check, found some unusual ones: 11550, good at 1442 making heavy clash with WEWN Spanish, its only good transmitter, Commies vs Catholix! 12670, very good at 1444; Sound of Hope must be adventurous today 13680, very good at 1446, over RHC, Commies vs Commies! 13970, very good at 1446; none in the 14s 18200, good at 1454; none in the 15s, 16s, 17s (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CUBA [non]. 23860, Oct 24 at 1456, my harmonic search pays off, with music // 11930, i.e. R. Martí, Greenville! Peaks S9+3 and no jamming audible, so DentroCubans should hunt for clear RM on this and other harmonix. Then looked for others, 27640 (2 x 13820) but not heard there amid freebanders tending to be on -5 frequencies; nor on 23690 (2 x 11845). From B-11, 15330 will be back in use at 14-20, and that should be a good target on 30660, which I vaguely recall hearing in years past. But there`s more: R. Martí is now on 9955, i.e. via WRMI! I kept listening to 23960 and heard it announced at 1500 to tune for RM on new 9955 at 6-7 pm and 11-12 pm. Is this a trial run? Those Eastern times knock out numerous DX program repeats, including WORLD OF RADIO at 0330 UT Thursdays. This week, with both Cuba and USA on DST, that means 22-23 and 03-04 UT; is it daily? Next week, From Oct 30 Cuba goes off DST a week earlier than USA, so what then? Will WRMI change times to keep up with Cuba, or wait another week to shift everything one UT hour later, i.e. RM relay at 23-24 and 04-05?? Nothing yet about this on WRMI website. Jeff White explains that at 22-23 UT it`s a rebroadcast of `Cuba al Día` originally airing on RM at 19-20 UT M-F, and will stay at 22-23 UT thru the first week of November; while the ``11 pm`` portion may not start until after DST is over. I say: WRMI has now made the big time in exile programming, and Cuba conveniently already has jammers set up for 9955 at many other times (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** GERMANY [non]. 15330, Oct 24 at 1448, novelty song in German. It`s less than a week before Deutsche Welle self-destructs, eliminating all German SW broadcasts, as that language will greatly decline in world presence, leaving only some English and certain strategic Afro-Asian tongues from DW. Later at 1454 found // 17840 in more music. 15330 is 300 kW, 107 degrees from Woofferton UK at 14-15 only. 17840 is 250 kW, 80 degrees from Sines, PORTUGAL at 14-15 only (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** GREECE. 15630, Monday Oct 24 at 1449, Greek music, fair signal but somewhat undermodulated, so VOG is back on, starting at 1400 now? Exact curtailed schedule still not determined. Also, John Babbis notes: ``VOICE OF GREECE OFF ON SUNDAY 2000-0300 UT? Voice of Greece seems to have laid off the Sunday night shift due to austerity. On Sunday, October 23, 7450, 7475, 9420, 15630, and 15650 were silent when I monitored from 2000 to 0200 UT. The same thing happened on Sunday, October 2 and 9; and only 9420 was working on Sunday, October 16 from 2000 to 0200 UT`` Those are the only hours he normally monitors, so VOG may well be off the rest of Sundays earlier. However, Alokesh Gupta has just obtained the VOG B-11 schedule: ``Note: Due to impending crisis, ERT decided to restrict HF broadcast hours. The broadcast hours temporarily will be 1600 to 0400 GMT.`` with no mention of any difference on Sundays. Rounded times ignoring 10-minute-early closings for refrequencing: ERA-5: 16-04 9420; 16-18 15630, 18-23 15650, 23-02 15630, 23-04 7475, 02-04 7450. ERT-3, Macedonian Station: 16-18 9935, 18-23 7450. With a self-contradictory separate schedule as 1600-1650 9935, 1600-2250 7450, while in the combined schedule it looks like there would be no overlap but a 10-minute QSY at 1750. Note: the Mac frequencies have recently been reported // Athens with no separate programming (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** INDONESIA. 9525-, VOI still missing at various tunebies before and after 1300 UT Oct 24 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MAURITANIA. 7245, Oct 24 at 0522, IGIM is already on with conversation in Arabic, not yet chanty; ACI from about equal Vatican signal on 7250, but more modulation from them (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MEXICO. Pre-sunrise MWDX Oct 24, UT. 1200 UT is now too far before local sunrise latening from 1245, for there to be any SRS reception peaks, and the US QRM is still heavy. Before long maybe we`ll be getting multiple XE NAs around 1300. Most of Mexico will go off DST Oct 30, a week earlier than USA, but there is so much American commercial influence along the border that such cities will keep on DST a week longer until Nov 6 along with US, a true Week Of Confusion. See also CUBA [non]. 760, Oct 24 at 1205 UT, ABC Radio introducing Carlos Ramos Padilla, newscaster? In the DF sexion, Cantú says: ``760 XEABC ABC Radio, Comentarios, Programas hablados. 70,000 watts día, 10,000 watts noche desde San Sebastian Chimalpa, Mex. Grupo ABC Radio.`` So transmitter is over in Estado de México (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** NIGERIA. 15120, Oct 24 at 0529, VON is peaking S9+12, with hum, whine and distortion, but not too bad, carrier unstable with BFO on, starting `Today in History` segment, with something happening in 1648y, then 1945y, UN founded. Say, when matching dates in the 1600s, is that by the old style or new style calendar?? Had not been audible last few nights, due to widely diverging propagation and/or operation (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** PHILIPPINES. 7505, Oct 24 at 1440, soprano with hymny song in language unknown; poor signal but it`s late enough for WWCR 7490 splash to be reduced and not a problem now. Is FEBC Iba site, 100 kW, 300 degrees in Chinese per HFCC and Aoki. I`m waiting for someone to list-log this as WRNO, which has really been off the air for 11 months now, never to return?? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U K [non]. 17695, Oct 24 at 1343, BBCWS disclaimer loop, ``no programming available at this time, see bbcworldservice.com`` but I am not going to waste my time hunting for any explanation at that site! There better not be any such programming, as per HFCC, 17695 is scheduled 1330-1600 for IBB Biblis, tho Aoki says R. Farda Lampertheim. Loop ended around 1344, and then hearing S Asian song synchronized with // 17755 which is also listed as R. Farda, Biblis in Aoki; Lampertheim in probably more current HFCC. 17695 still heard with ME pop music at 1453. Maybe BBC was running over from its only scheduled 17695 broadcast, 1300-1330 Uzbek via CYPRUS which of course is also jammed by the ChiCom (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. WRMI now relaying R. Martí; R. Martí on harmonic: see CUBA [non] ** U S A. Routine check for WORLD OF RADIO play on Area 51, scheduled UT Monday 0300 on WBCQ 5110v-CUSB, on webcast found Radio Jennifer instead continuing past 0300 and 0330 Oct 24, so I asked Larry Will: ``Larry, Wondering what happened to WOR tonight as Jennifer ran until 0330, then `a hi-pitched buzz`, and then not WOR or IRR. I see you have Duck & Cover on the sked for 0330, but WOR at 0300. Glenn`` ``Glenn, My apologies. WOR did air at 0200 last evening. When I realized it was running early it was 12 minutes in, so I left it running and played R. Jennifer at 0230. Second, CKUT is doing their annual fundraising drive over the next two weeks and I don't like to play fundraisers for other stations. Next week I will probably play a classic rebroadcast of the IRR. Regards, Lw`` Also, on the frequency change for WBCQ from 7415 to 7490: Altho Marion`s Attic alerted listeners it would be in effect Sunday Oct 23 for her broadcast at 21-22, I did not monitor as in the meantime I received a phone call from Jennifer Weiner, who said 7490 would not start until Oct 24. Also that WORLD OF RADIO is not scheduled on Wednesdays at 2130, contrary to updated 7490 website schedule, just Thursdays at 2130. Let`s see how much QRM WBCQ gets on 7490 now from Kazakhstan at 19-22, BBC Thailand at 22-24. WOR will stay at 2130 for another two weeks, then 2230 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. Hi Glenn: In regards to the Unidentified - 1110 [with Qur`an?], this station is very strong in the Austin area. Heard tonight with a woman announcer speaking in Indian dialect and English at times. Frequently, telephone numbers were mentioned with 214/972 area codes (Dallas area). Station disappeared abruptly at 2358 and did not catch station ID. Regards, (Mike Beu, KD5DSQ, Austin, Texas, Oct 22, IRCA via DXLD) ** U S A. 1550, Oct 24 at 0545 UT, dominant station on the FRG-7 with east/west longwire is going on and on about events at Branson, so it`s KLFJ Springfield, ``Branson Information Radio``, a pseudo-TIS supposedly running only 28 watts at night instead or 5000 watts day (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 1630-USB, Oct 24 at 0547, Mexican music, ``16-30 AM, nuestra frecuencia, nuestro nombre La Jota Mexicana``. There had been several logs all over North America of KRND Fox Farm WY on USB, meaning that other DSB stations such as KCJJ could be heard on 1630-LSB without KRND QRM. Yes, indeed, much more KRND modulation on USB, but there is still a little audible on LSB via the DX-398, and at the moment not much else. It does not seem like the carrier is reduced. At night, local KFXY 1640 DSB not much of a problem, but there is a fast SAH on 1630, perhaps 14 Hz as Rick Shaftan, NJ, had asked if that`s the one on 1630.014? The big question is, why is KRND doing this, and is it deliberately, or even legally? It would be quite a surprise if FCC authorized suppressing one sideband on an AM station. I don`t see any reason to do so, such as to reduce interference to any 1620 station (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. Trans-Pacific MW carrier search Oct 24 at 1211-1216 UT, USB mode on the DX-398 with internal antenna only: 702, 747, 756, 774, 828, 972, 1053, 1287 (Glenn Hauser, Enid OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ---[Start Commercial]--------------------- Order your WRTH 2011: http://www.hard-core-dx.com/redirect2.php?id=wrth2011 ---[End Commercial]----------------------- ________________________________________ Hard-Core-DX mailing list [email protected] http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/hard-core-dx http://www.hard-core-dx.com/ _______________________________________________ THE INFORMATION IN THIS ARTICLE IS FREE. It may be copied, distributed and/or modified under the conditions set down in the Design Science License published by Michael Stutz at http://www.gnu.org/licenses/dsl.html
