** ALBANIA. 9850-, April 11 at *0122:12, R. Tirana comes on with IS, up from the noise floor of 00-17 dbu to 10-24 dbu. During the following English to North America, Wolfgang Büschel measured it 27 Hz low (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** BRAZIL. 11770-11790, April 11 at 0056, RNA/RNB 11780.1v is splattering up and down, in addition to the usual separate crackling spurs circa 11815 and 11745. The RAE Argentina IS on 11711- is also marred by the weaker one (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CANADA. 2749-USB, April 11 at 0102, very poor signal but YL voice, presumably marine weather; then I check 2598-USB and hear more of same, probably not //, both too weak to read --- but first time I`ve heard either in months, not all winter, so suspected the Canadian Coast Guard may have closed them, but Bill Hepburn confirmed they were still on. His listings http://www.dxinfocentre.com/mb.htm show these must have been, on shared frequencies, at this hour: 2749, VCO, Sydney NS, starting at 0040 2598, VCP-4, Placentia NL, starting at 0048 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CHINA [and non]. 15565, April 11 at 0051, CNR1 jammer, poor signal with low rumbling audible heterodyne, Chinese and CCI, this being the VOA via THAILAND hour (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CUBA. 6060, April 11 at 0045 UT, RHC with someone speaking ``church Spanish``, and sure `nuff, it`s the Pope`s portable voice, with official greeting to the President of Panamá, as the big-deal Seventh Summit is getting underway, seemingly live coverage. 17730, tuning around further, at 0052 UT April 11 I find this RHC frequency still on air with same, and holding up with a VG signal. Vatican spoxeman is finishing and at 0053 a childlike voice introduces the next speaker, Secretary General of the OAS, also greeting the Pan Pres & spouse. Also on 9710, 9535, 15230, 11760, 11840, 13740 at least. This must be pre-empting regular programming, and do not be surprised if there is more of this on Saturday, even causing some frequency extensions. According to the brand-new A-15 schedule, 17730 is supposed to finish at 2300 after European service from Bauta #1, and switch to 11670 for Rio de Janeiro until 0400. 17730 is still on at 0111 with someone speaking in English (a number of Caribbean countries are in this), but voice-over translation into Spanish, bummer. Anyhow, RHC is doing a lot more on the Summit than we can ever expect from VOA --- and I wonder how R. Martí will be playing it, as the Cuban-Americans are none too happy about Pres. Obama meeting with Pres. Castro. 6165 meanwhile is back in whack tonight, after last night`s total disaster of huge noise blob instead of English. But it`s normal RHC programming at 0111 // 6000, not Summit-live (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** EGYPT [and non]. 9315, April 11 at 0113, R. Cairo, fair signal, open carrier/dead air instead of Spanish 9965, April 11 at 0113, R. Cairo, good signal with whine, Arabic is JBM, then BM with ID at 0114 12070, April 11 at 0114, R. Cairo, fair signal and suptorted, supposedly Spanish 11935, April 11 at 0116, the LAH under RB2 BRAZIL with its frequent IDs is presumably the other Cairo frequency, nothing on 12035 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** OKLAHOMA. 1560, April 10 at 1820 UT on caradio, KEBC Del City is once again back on its own, no longer duplicating 1520 KOKC, where rebuild of a single tower must now be complete. Instead on 1560 I am hearing Oklahoma high school sports promos (same one twice?), and Oklahoma Dept of Health PSA, 1822 UT rejoining NBC Sports Radio (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** OKLAHOMA. 94.3, April 10 at 2008 UT, now it`s at least 24 hours of dead air from KLGB-LP Enid, deadline for license cancellation under gh`s proposed FCC rules. Still with bleed from 99.9 co-station. And still at 0340 UT April 11 --- make that 31 hours and counting (Glenn Hauser, Enid, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** OMAN. 9740, April 11 at 0049, Qur`an, fair signal, presumed R. Sultanate of Oman, having failed to switch to 9500 at scheduled 0000. Registered time for 9740 is 22-24 UT only, and someone on the NASWA Flashsheet had an unID then which must have been this (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** PERU. 5980, April 11 at 0046, JBA carrier from R. Chaski; autocutoff happens at 0107:58.5* which is 5.5 seconds later than last night, back to customary slippage. My streetlight RF burst and visible ignition haven`t happened yet, even tho sunset horizon is cloudy, but surely within the next few minutes when I miss it (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SRI LANKA. 11905, April 11 at *0114:10.5, carrier on from SLBC (and no pre-burst since 0111 tune-in), prélude at 0114:49.5; 2+1 pips until 0115:19, right on mis-time, opening. Signal is only poor, not the good but fluttery one it habitually achieved in Feb and Mar (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. WORLD OF RADIO 1768 monitoring: confirmed Friday April 10 at 2130.5 on WRMI 7570 and still also on // 15770. Also confirmed at 0130 UT Saturday April 11 on new outlet Radio Free Dishnuts, webcasts via http://www.radiodude.info/dishnuts/index.html Our other time is Tuesdays 1330. Their program schedule is outdated. Next on shortwave: Sat 0630 HLR 7265-CUSB Hamburger Lokalradio Sat 1430 HLR 7265-CUSB Hamburger Lokalradio Sat 1930v WA0RCR 1860-AM Sat 2130 Global 24 9525 via BULGARIA [not last week, no longer, or to be rescheduled?? Still no new sked at all on Global 24 website since March 30] Sun 0315v WA0RCR 1860-AM [last week started at 0337.5] Sun 2100 WRMI 15770 [NEW on schedule, but not last week; try 7570] Sun 2300 WRMI 11580 Mon 0300v WBCQ 5110v Area 51 Tue 1100 WRMI 9955 Wed 0630 HLR 7265-CUSB Hamburger Lokalradio Wed 1315 WRMI 9955 Wed 1430 HLR 7265-CUSB Hamburger Lokalradio Wed 2100 WBCQ 7490v Thu 0330 WRMI 9955 [or 1769 if ready in time] (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 5109, April 10 at 0039, WBCQ is audible but weaker than before; by 0042 I can tell that it`s Brother Scare, // 7570 WRMI but not synch. At 0059, 5109 breaks for WBCQ ID, and back to BS. 7490 meanwhile has Allan Weiner Worldwide, without AW. At 0040 VG signal, someone talking about reviving the Kennedy Space Center, and TimTron appears to be the substitute host. Goes to music around 0056, not sure if a break or program over, but by 0108 it`s BS here, about one word behind 5109. Normally during AWWW starting at 0000 UT Saturdays, both 7490 and 5109 would be carrying him. Checked 9330 and 15420 just in case, and still no signals there. 5109 should also carry Area 51 on UT Saturdays, but this weekend`s schedule at http://www.worldmicroscope.com skips Friday night: On-air, April 11-12, 2015 All on WBCQ 5.110 MHz and http://www.splatterbox.us:5110 Saturday, April 11, 2015 [into UT Sunday] 7pm 2300 Radio Timtron Worldwide 9pm 0100 The Lumpy Gravy Radio Show 10pm 0200 Zombo In Your Brain Sunday, April 5, 2015 [into UT Monday] 7pm 2300 Church of the Subgenius Hour of Slack 8pm 0000 John Lightning/11L-RNI 11pm 0300 Glenn Hauser’s World of Radio 1768 1130pm 0330 Grits Radio ** U S A. 11580, UT Saturday April 11 at 0057, surprised to hear AWR Wavescan on this WRMI frequency, which had been and is still scheduled to carry R. Ukraine International daily at 0030-0100; not // 9955 yet, but at 0110 check they both air the same gospel huxter (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 15825, April 10 at 2007, no signal, not even a JBA carrier from WWCR-1, which per current sked is supposed to run until 2200. It might have been propped-out, except 15610 WEWN is very good at the same distance, different angle; and so is 13845 WWCR. Before 0100 UT April 11, I do notice WWCR-1 present on 6115 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 2660+, April 11 at 0103 UT, some music audible and slightly on the hi side, i.e. 2 x 1330 harmonic of KGLD Tyler TX. The 2 MHz band noise level is surprisingly low (see also CANADA), so I step thru the frequencies with offset BFO for possible other MW harmonics to pursue: JBA carriers on 2840, 2680, 2620, 2610, 2520, i.a. But some of these could be SW mixing products within the DX-398 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) This report dispatched at 0402 UT April 11 _ Hard-Core-DX mailing list hard-core...@hard-core-dx.com 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
