** AFGHANISTAN [non]. Radio Solh, 15265 via UK, enters another month and
another year still playing exactly the same music every day at the same time,
including the sticking CD at 1346-1349+ as reconfirmed Jan 10. The final tune
before 1500* is growing on me. Yes, it is not only the same music, but
obviously a recording of the same entire transmission, including defects,
replayed day after day (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** BRAZIL [and non]. There were reports from Brasil that RNA was either missing
or extremely weak on 11780 and 6180, but I found 11780 inbooming here Jan 9 at
0653 check, with wakeupshow, 4:53 am in the DST areas, but mostly for Amazônia
at 3:53 am? Nothing, however, on 6180, unQRMing XEPPM 6185 for a change, which
had some nice and clear jazz going. But Jan 10 at 0641 check, 11780 was
missing, tho Chile was VG on 11805, also audible on 11745 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** IRAN [non]. Fair and fluttery signal in Russian, or similar, Jan 9 at 1437
on 5815. Per Aoki this is VOIRIran via Lithuania, 100 kW at 79 degrees,
something you really don`t expect to hear on 50+ meters at this hour, but there
have been some other reports of this from C&W NAm. From 1527 to 1530 they make
a beam switch to 259 degrees for R. Racja from Poland to Belarus (Glenn Hauser,
OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MEXICO. As Julián Santiago advised, XEXQ has returned to the air after more
than two sesquiweeks; classical music, but only a poor, squeezed signal here on
6045 at 1318 Jan 10. Also audible at 1354 Jan 11 but quite weak (Glenn Hauser,
OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MEXICO. XEYU, 9599+, Jan 10 at 1330 with RFI news relay for about 10
minutes; good signal and no significant het (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** U S A. Jan 10 at 2230 I found Radio Weather running on WHRI 11765. I forced
myself to listen for a few minutes to confirm my suspicions that Rod Hembree is
palming off on gullible listeners not only his wacky religious views, but
communications news items which are anything but. One of the topix was a Notice
of Apparent Liability for alleged indecency, issued to station WCZR. This is
not easy to look up on the FCC website, but a google search quickly found an
FCC page showing that a NAL for that station was dated February 20, 2004! So
here is a show almost four years old. He later included a Stardate capsule,
which are extremely dated but I did not catch what date if any was announced
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. I have been hearing a CW marker any day I check, on 6075 kHz at
1400-1401 UT. Altho slow speed, copy has been difficult due to QRM. On January
8 I got the entire message without doubt:
VVV CQ CQ CQ DE 8GAL 8GAL K
This follows immediately the timesignal from the R. Rossii broadcast
transmitter on 6075 from Petropavlovsk-Kamchatky which is closing down.
Sometimes the CW message, or part of it, is modulated by that station`s open
carrier, depending on how quickly they turn it off.
I find this intriguing because 8GAL operates on a very regular schedule, has
never been noticed at any other time, and is right smack dab in the middle of
an exclusive(?) broadcast band. The 8A- sequence belongs to Indonesia in ITU
callsign prefix allocations, but this is more likely a tactical call having
nothing to do with Indonesia, altho propagationally possible.
Searching on 8GAL and on 6075 produces zero hits on the 12K+ messages
accumulated in the UDXF yg, altho sometimes I wonder how exhaustive yg searches
are. Nor on recent ITU monitoring reports. Nor is searching the web for 8GAL
productive since that leads to thousands of items with 8-gallon capacity! Any
help on identifying the source of this would be very welcome.
The 6075 CW marker: Did not manage to check at 1400 UT Jan 9 or 10, but on Jan
10 I tuned in earlier at 1320. At that time there was RTTY running, over Radio
Rossii, and the RTTY was centered on the low side, about 6074. I suspect this
is the same station, 8GAL, but I am not equipped to copy RTTY. BTW at 1326 I
also noticed continuous ``dithering`` like RTTY but with no variations, around
6087, possibly as jamming, still there at 1435, and I also sat on 6074 at
1435-1445 but no CW or RTTY heard then.
8GAL, CW marker heard again Jan 11 at 1400-1401 immediately following the
timesignal from R. Rossii at sign-off; its carrier remained on about halfway
thru the marker, but I had set the BFO on 6075.0 to be sure I could still hear
and record all of it. I did not want to touch it, so cannot be positive 8GAL
was on 6074 or 6076, but it was about 1 kHz offset; probably 6074, like the
RTTY I heard the other day. I kept monitoring until 1406 but did not hear any
replies (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ###
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