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Today's Topics:
1. Thur Morn Dx (Charles Bolland)
2. Logs (John Kecskes)
3. Re: Logs (Glenn Hauser)
4. Glenn Hauser logs March 17-18, 2010 (Glenn Hauser)
5. Re: Logs (John Kecskes)
6. Re: Logs (Glenn Hauser)
7. Radio City Relay on 9510 kHz (Tom Taylor)
8. SLBC 15745 (Mick Delmage)
9. Re: Logs (John Kecskes)
10. Glenn Hauser logs March 18-19, 2010 (Glenn Hauser)
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Message: 1
Date: Thu, 18 Mar 2010 09:28:43 -0000
From: "Charles Bolland" <[email protected]>
To: "ALF" <[email protected]>, "Arnaldo slaen"
<[email protected]>, "Bob Wilkner" <[email protected]>,
"brainman214" <[email protected]>,Carlos
GonA?alves<[email protected]>, "Cumbre" <[email protected]>,
"DSWCI" <[email protected]>, "Gayle Van Horn"
<[email protected]>, "Glenn Hauser"
<[email protected]>, "Hard-core-dx" <[email protected]>,
"Marie Lamb" <[email protected]>
Subject: [HCDX] Thur Morn Dx
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Suriname, 4990, Radio Apintie, 0823-0845+ Noted a
steady stream of music
which was mainly local types - some really bad
sounding. Bad in a sense that
the person singing was "really bad". At 0834 a male
talked briefly, then
back to music. Lots of QRM during the period while the
signal was fair.
(Chuck Bolland, March 18, 2010)
Solomon Islands, 5020, SIBC, 0848-0900 Noted a male in
Pidgin language
comments where he was commenting on music and other
between local
type tunes. Signal was fair. (Chuck Bolland, March
18, 2010)
Papua New Guinea, 3385, Radio East new Britain,
0902-0915, Noted a
male and female in News in Pidgin comments. Woman ends
a spot
with, "... NBC News ...". At 0910 news finishes and a
different male
comments. Signal was fair during this period. (Chuck
Bolland, March 18, 2010)
Bolivia, 3310, Radio Mosoj Chaski, 0915-0930, Can't
hear much here yet. The carrier
for this station is very clear, but the audio needs
help. I noticed a male in Spanish
comments off and on, but nothing in between. I think
there's music, but the signal
is still threshold and the music is nil heard. (Chuck
Bolland, March 18, 2010)
Watkins Johnson HF1000
26.27N 081.05W
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Message: 2
Date: Thu, 18 Mar 2010 21:41:40 +1100
From: John Kecskes <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Subject: [HCDX] Logs
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
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4780.00 2010-2030 Djibouti
talk by a Women, followed by Afro music, poor reception
9415.00 0905-0920 CRI
in E with World and local news, fair to good reception
9464.90 0918-0925 WYFR
in E with religious talk, ID at 0920
9839.80 1010-1020 V of Vietnam
in E with local news, number of other station on this freq, makes it hard to
copy
6185.00//9335.00 1020-1030 V of Korea
in E with talk on local economy and at 1025 talk about a special mountain MT
Coir
fair reception, better on 9335.00
Kenwood R-5000
16&17 March
Once you've accumulated sufficient knowledge to get by, you're too old to
remember it.
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Message: 3
Date: Thu, 18 Mar 2010 07:18:54 -0700 (PDT)
From: Glenn Hauser <[email protected]>
To: [email protected], John Kecskes
<[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [HCDX] Logs
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
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--- On Thu, 3/18/10, John Kecskes <[email protected]> wrote:
> From: John Kecskes <[email protected]>
> Subject: [HCDX] Logs
> To: [email protected]
> Date: Thursday, March 18, 2010, 5:41 AM
>
> 9464.90??? ???
> 0918-0925??? ??? WYFR
> in E with religious talk, ID at 0920
>
>
> Kenwood R-5000
> 16&17 March
This is Family Radio via Taiwan, not Florida. See Aoki list. Off-frequency is
also typical of the Taiwan transmitters. 73, Glenn Hauser
------------------------------
Message: 4
Date: Thu, 18 Mar 2010 10:44:04 -0700 (PDT)
From: Glenn Hauser <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: [HCDX] Glenn Hauser logs March 17-18, 2010
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
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** AUSTRALIA. Things must still not be back to normal at Shepparton following
the ``cyclone`` --- what do they mean by that? A tornado or a
hurricane/typhoon, or just a bad storm with straight winds? Such vagueness
would be unacceptable among US meteorologists.
March 18 at 1257 I was surprised to find 9580 and 9590 missing again, but
instead a big signal on 9585, see SAIPAN. That transitioned to a weaker KTWR at
1300 and then 9580 came on with R. Australia, but still no 9590, nor by 1317
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) see also INDONESIA
** CHINA [and non]. Lots of Firedrake activity March 18, including some
frequencies new to me, not including 8400 for a change; Aoki referenced:
1247 on 11840, mixing with Chinese from All INDIA Radio.
1250 on 11635, FD // 11840, victim here being VOA Chinese via Thailand
1251 on 11500, poor mixing with something, i.e. Sound of Hope
1251 on 10400, good signal vs nothing, presumably SOH, not listed
1254 on 9365, VP aside WTJC 9370v, // 10400 and // much stronger
9380, both of which are SOH channels
1337 on 13100, Good with flutter // 10400. Aoki has 13100 as SOH
1338 on 13710, sounds like FD, but not // 13100, and nothing to bother
except All India Radio in English
No further FD found in the 12-13 and 14-19 MHz ranges.
But 13855 had strong Chinese music not // Firedrake at 1340 March 18. This must
be CRI non-jamming Chinese service via Kashgar, EAST TURKISTAN, 500 kW, 308
degrees.
15430 with a low-pitched roar, a different kind of jamming against something in
unID language, March 18 at 1342, i.e. V. of Tibet via UAE (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** COLOMBIA. 6010, RHC missing March 18 at 0540, and instead La Voz de tu
Conciencia was dominant way over XEOI which caused a rippling SAH from a
considerably different frequency. Just as I intuned, was giving ID mentioning
6010 onda corta, 1530 onda media, TC for 12:36, into program ``La Verdad``,
e-mail as contacto @ fuerzadepaz.com and referencing Romanos diez. Later at
0547 checked 5910 and the other HJDH, Marfil Est?reo was there with music
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CUBA. RHC English missing from 6010 at 0540 March 18, opening frequency for
COLOMBIA, q.v. RHC English only on 6060, whilst 6120, 6140 and 6150 were all in
Spanish this time (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** EAST TURKISTAN. 4330, 1215-1230+ March 18, mostly talk in non-tonal
language, definitely not Chinese, but occasional bits of Chinese-style music,
fair with ute QRM bursts. This is the longtime distinctive WOOB frequency of
the CNR8 service in Kazakh from PBS Xinjiang, 100 kW non-direxional from Urumqi
per Aoki. 4460 Beijing was also in as it is most mornings, unlike 4330 (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) See also CHINA 13855
** GERMANY [non]. 17520 // 17800, March 18 at 1238 talk in uncertain language,
maybe Hausa? At 1242 DW riff, and definitely in French mentioning C?te
d`Ivoire. Was it really in French all along? If so, my mind had not locked into
the accent at first.
Both these are via RWANDA, at 325 and 295 degrees respectively. It`s
questionable whether they really need two frequencies on the same band at
azimuths only 30 degrees apart carrying the same service (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** GUAHAN. 9975, TWR IS at 1330 March 18, KTWR ID and into Chinese, tnx to WWCR
9980 not yet reaching full blasting strength. Axually Cantonese M-F per Aoki.
See also SAIPAN [and non], KTWR heard on 9585 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** INDONESIA [and non]. VOI back on alternate frequency 9526-, March 18 at
1325, good signal and fair modulation in English, 1327 outroed as News in
Brief, plug web streaming and as always announcing three inapplicable SW
frequencies, 9525, 15150 and 11785. 1328 into daily feature ``Indonesian
Wonders`` about a volcano, but hard to understand due to accent, hum and
adjacent QRM. Also had long pauses before and after program intro.
Just before I tuned in VOI, I learnt a lot more about Indonesia at 100% copy in
an item on ``Asia-Pacific`` from Radio Australia, 9580: efforts to combat
smoking, even including a fatwa against it, vs. this major industry (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MEXICO. 6185, XEPPM, March 18 at 1200 amateur band music, rather than 6 am
national anthem; maybe they played it a few minutes earlier? And 1203 into talk
segment, but heavy splash from much stronger RHC 6180 which stays on for
another hour at least, and Radio Educaci?n supposedly closes at 1200 (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** PERU. 18057.9, JBA talk at 1345 March 18, no doubt R. Victoria 3 x 6019.3,
as frequently but not always just barely audible (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** ROMANIA. 15105, great Romanian folk music, March 18 at 1236, shortly
announced in English and then more of same on this Thursday; good signal, which
is 307 degrees from Tiganeshti intended for UK only but also onward to US. From
A-10 in 10 days, per DXLD 10-11, this will be replaced by 1100-1156 on 15210
15430 17510 17670 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** SAIPAN [and non]. 11650, March 18 at 1248 preacher in English with
consecutive translation into Russian. This is KFBS, Russian at 1000-1330,
followed by eight minority languages rotating 1330-1400 but on a different
azimuth as heard previously. Good signal, but now there is co-channel from a
weaker station talking on 11650, presumably CRI English via Urumqi.
Note it`s NOT ``Urumqui``. In Chinese there is no U-after-Q rule since the Q is
not really a Q as we pronounce it in English.
9585, VG signal at 1257 March 18 with R. Australia [q.v.] absent from 9580,
9590, in Vietnamese song, 1259 announcement in Viet, closing ID in English as
``KFBS, Saipan, from the Mariana Islands in the Pacific``.
During the last few sex the TWR IS could be heard underneath, and KTWR took
over immediately following KFBS ID, in unknown language listed as Sgaw Karen
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. WWRB running 5050 much longer hours, testing? Nothing but Bible
readings heard, not the Alex Scourby version but someone else with stilted KJV,
and occasional musical background.
FCC schedule shows only:
5050 2200 0400 WWRB 100 45 4,5,9 1234567 140310 280310
But the FCC sked is still only version 2 dated 07 Jan, at
http://www.fcc.gov/ib/sand/neg/hf_web/B09FCC02.TXT
never having got around to a version 3 as B09 is almost over.
5050 at 0544 March 18, Bible reading with considerable distortion, and ACI to
Brasil 5045 but that was still audible unlike 24 hours earlier when WWRB was
splattering down to 5035. Next check at 1200 March 18, 5050 was still (again?)
on the air with more of same, blocking any chance of hearing Vanuatu on 5055.
And WWRB 5050 still on at 1210, 1232, 1306, but gone by next check 1318, when,
however, 3185 was still audible with Brother Scare // much stronger 9385.
This time the splattering spurs were from WWRB 9385, instead of WTJC 9370,
March 18 at 1334 since their frying/buzzing sounds matched, down to 9370 and up
to 9400, bothering WTJC and FEBC Philippines in Chinese, respectively (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. A great improvement in defective Scriptures for America feeds to WTWW
and WWCR: instead of distorted overmodulation, no modulation at all! March 18
at 0545, silent carriers on 5080, 5890. Almost: 5890 had weak crosstalk from
PMS on 5935, but may have been receiver-produced by very strong signals. 5890
also had 8-kHz het from Cuban spy transmitter also open carrier on 5898 (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 9265, WINB with Brother Scare already at 1254 March 18, unlike the
day before when did not start until 1330. Has WINB updated its program schedule
yet? Of course not! No listing of The Overcomer Ministry at all.
How about TOM website itself? What a laugh! Does mention WINB but confuses it
with WWRB. The times are wrong. Still has imaginary 11520 frequency for WINB,
etc., etc. (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. Nothing much on the X-band at mid-afternoon, like there was skywave
in deep winter, but March 17 for a few minutes from 2014 UT on the caradio at a
relatively quiet spot in the mall parking lot, noticed some activity on the low
end of the MW band --- groundwave at its limits. Referencing NRC AM Log
2009-2010.
580, dominant WIBW Topeka has JBA CCI, most likely KRFE Lubbock TX, tho KJMJ
Alexandria LA might be possible. Normally there is nothing but WIBW audible
here.
720, very weak signals making SAH, surely WGN Chicago and KSAH San Antonio,
same as night situation QRMing each other with much bigger signals.
760, KKCV Kansas City gospel huxter on sex abuse dominant, but SAH of about .83
Hz (50 fades per minute), and talk underneath, presumably KKZN Denver (670
makes it here reliably in the daytime, and 850 used to before TX messed up the
frequency.)
780, KSPI Stillwater OK still has weak spurs on 774 and 786.
830, JBA, SAH, probably WCCO, and what else? There are LA and MO stations, but
more likely KMUL Farwell TX in the Panhandle. If they ever get their 50 kW CP
going instead of 1.1 kW, should be a regular. Or KMUL and one of the closer
stations.
910, dominant but marginal KVIS Miamuh OK, with CCI, one talk and one C&W
music. KVIS and KATH Frisco TX (The Metroplex) are both religious. Other
possibility is KINA Salina KS, sportstalk, which I don`t think I have ever
logged tho KSAL 1150 is a regular (Glenn Hauser, Enid OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
###
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Message: 5
Date: Fri, 19 Mar 2010 07:55:58 +1100
From: John Kecskes <[email protected]>
To: Glenn Hauser <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [HCDX] Logs
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
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On Thu, 18 Mar 2010 07:18:54 -0700 (PDT), you wrote:
>--- On Thu, 3/18/10, John Kecskes <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 9464.90??? ???
>> 0918-0925??? ??? WYFR
>> in E with religious talk, ID at 0920
>>
>This is Family Radio via Taiwan, not Florida. See Aoki list. Off-frequency is
>also typical of the Taiwan transmitters. 73, Glenn Hauser
Sorry Glenn, but I am confused, what difference where it is transmitter from,
they are still the same stations and the address given out was in USA
John
Once you've accumulated sufficient knowledge to get by, you're too old to
remember it.
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Message: 6
Date: Thu, 18 Mar 2010 15:34:04 -0700 (PDT)
From: Glenn Hauser <[email protected]>
To: John Kecskes <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [HCDX] Logs
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1
Some of us care where signals actually come from (out of SW transmitting
antennas in a certain country). Really. This directly affects how well you will
hear them or hear them at all. Observing how propagation works is part of the
game. In this case it might also be significant that Taiwan does not keep its
transmitters on-frequency. If you do not care about any of this, that`s fine
and your privilege. I will try to remember to avoid clarifying your logs in
this way. Personally I find YFR programming useless and of no interest
whatsoever, so looking into the more technical aspects keeps hearing it from
being a total waste. 73, Glenn
--- On Thu, 3/18/10, John Kecskes <[email protected]> wrote:
> From: John Kecskes <[email protected]>
> Subject: Re: [HCDX] Logs
> To: "Glenn Hauser" <[email protected]>
> Cc: [email protected]
> Date: Thursday, March 18, 2010, 3:55 PM
> On Thu, 18 Mar 2010 07:18:54 -0700
> (PDT), you wrote:
>
> >--- On Thu, 3/18/10, John Kecskes <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
> >> 9464.90??? ???
> >> 0918-0925??? ??? WYFR
> >> in E with religious talk, ID at 0920
> >>
>
> >This is Family Radio via Taiwan, not Florida. See Aoki
> list. Off-frequency is also typical of the Taiwan
> transmitters. 73, Glenn Hauser
>
> Sorry Glenn, but I am confused, what difference where it is
> transmitter from, they are still the same stations and the
> address given out was in USA
> John
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Message: 7
Date: Thu, 18 Mar 2010 22:42:01 -0000
From: "Tom Taylor" <[email protected]>
To: "Tom Taylor" <[email protected]>
Subject: [HCDX] Radio City Relay on 9510 kHz
Message-ID: <c5011ebc3cfe4019b778d9f493132...@dellcb21k2j>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"
Radio City Relay on 9510 kHz
Dear Listeners,
This Saturday the 20th of March 2010 Radio City will return to the
Airwaves via Nexus (ex. IRRS) with 150 kW on 9510 kHz.
The time slot is 09.00 - 10.00 utc
Our contact address is still [email protected]
Best regards Radio City - the Station of the Cars
Good listening 73s Tom
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Message: 8
Date: Thu, 18 Mar 2010 19:46:13 -0600
From: "Mick Delmage" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>, "Glenn Hauser"
<[email protected]>, "odxa" <[email protected]>, "Rich DeAngelo"
<[email protected]>, "Mark Taylor" <[email protected]>, "DXplorer"
<[email protected]>
Subject: [HCDX] SLBC 15745
Message-ID: <002a01cac705$f7b86060$419ac...@e0a9y3>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"
Sri Lanka: SLBC on 15745 kHz booming in with their usual religious segment at
0130 UTC. I have the beam (Log Periodic) at 0 degrees, but when I started at
180 degrees, nothing but jamming. I still hear the jammer under when beamed 0
degrees. Not sure who is jamming this frequency?
73
Mick Delmage
Sherwood Park, AB
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Message: 9
Date: Fri, 19 Mar 2010 14:15:27 +1100
From: John Kecskes <[email protected]>
To: Glenn Hauser <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [HCDX] Logs
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
On Thu, 18 Mar 2010 15:34:04 -0700 (PDT), you wrote:
>Some of us care where signals actually come from (out of SW transmitting
>antennas in a certain country). Really. This directly affects how well you
>will hear them or hear them at all. Observing how propagation works is part of
>the game. In this case it might also be significant that Taiwan does not keep
>its transmitters on-frequency. If you do not care about any of this, that`s
>fine and your privilege. I will try to remember to avoid clarifying your logs
>in this way. Personally I find YFR programming useless and of no interest
>whatsoever, so looking into the more technical aspects keeps hearing it from
>being a total waste. 73, Glenn
>
Very true, but what confused me is that I never specify the transmitter
location, when I used to keep a log book I would have put the transmitting
country as Taiwan or what ever for my country count, but not now days.
I am on other hand enjoy what the programme content is, like to hear both side
of the argument so to speak.
I have no objection to you or any one else correct my logs
cheers, John
Once you've accumulated sufficient knowledge to get by, you're too old to
remember it.
------------------------------
Message: 10
Date: Thu, 18 Mar 2010 21:38:31 -0700 (PDT)
From: Glenn Hauser <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: [HCDX] Glenn Hauser logs March 18-19, 2010
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
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** CUBA [and non]. DentroCuban Jamming Command let Radio Rep?blica go for a
couple of weeks on new 9490 via Sackville, but finally jamming is audible way
underneath it March 19 at 0032. It may have been there a while as have not
checked it every night. Meanwhile, ex-9810 is still being noise-jammed like
another vacant frequency nearby, 9825`s Radio Mart? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST) See also USA: VOA and WRMI
** IRAN [and non]. 7250, March 19 at 0157 singing and chanting mixing with
something in English at about equal level. Must be V. of the Islamic Republic
of Iran, a.k.a. V. of Justice, vs V. of Russia. Too much CubaRM on 6120 to
confirm // for Iran. I figured the chanting was Iran and the English was
Russia, but it turned out to be the other way round as I soon found the music
// 6240 VOR, soon into IS and English too.
Iran was interviewing some scholar in Scotland about US foreign policy, a
typical programming ploy of theirs; and I must say their audio was clearer than
Moscow`s rather muddy sound, but who is going to strain to try to pick out one
signal or the other?
These two have been colliding the entire B-09 season; meanwhile, nothing on
7240, 7260 and several other channels in the vicinity, so this could easily
have been avoided. But I am sure the American hams are pleased that both these
intruders are piling up on only one frequency.
In fact, Iran plans to move to 7245 in A-10! But Russia will no longer be on
7250 anyway. Iran`s other summer frequency for the 0130-0230 broadcast, 9495
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MEXICO. 6185, XEPPM still Brasilless, and again on earlier than scheduled,
March 18 at 2341 with chanting that seemed vaguely Catholic, then music mixed
with nature sounds including chirping which might have been more appropriate
for a morning pr?lude; 0000 UT March 19 same transmitter playing Mexican
national anthem, so no doubt it`s Radio Educaci?n. During the 01-02 hour
overshadowed by Serbia [non] from 6190, but clear of that at 0202 introducing
``78 Recuerdos por Minuto`` show, now confronting but somewhat atop VOR in
Spanish also 6185 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** SERBIA [non]. 6190, March 19 at 0131 VG signal and no QRM, IRS in English
with tired-sounding YL announcer; maybe it`s just station-stylistic, as the OM
at 0148 talking about Serbian poets had a similar manner, not exactly
listener-inducing. Where will this be in A-10? They aren`t telling HFCC (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** SUDAN. After hearing so many target broadcasts from [non], such a treat to
hear Umar Hassan Ahmad al-Bashir`s own station, on 7200, already on air before
0200, then Arabic news with too much bass, unexpected clear ID at 0204, ``Huna
Omdurman`` with reverb, next reverent talk program introduced by plucked
instrument. Good signal but SSB QRhaM on the lo side requiring offtuning to the
hi side. Aoki shows 7200 on the air at 1500-2230 only, aimed due east while
WRTH 2010 says 0230-0430v and 1500-2100 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. Checking frequency usage now for ``A Fondo``, the VOA/Radio Mart?
joint produxion, now 00-01 UT Tue-Sat: at 0007 March 19 on 5890 and 9885 over
DentroCuban jamming, and on 7340 with no jamming. Also on RM frequency 6030
atop jamming, but about 2 seconds behind the other frequencies even tho they
are all coming from Greenville B; perhaps the feed to 6030 had to go thru some
more satellite hops to Miami and back. Meanwhile there was nothing but jamming
audible on the other RM frequencies 7365 and 9825, so I suspect during this
hour RM transmitters take a break from them. Next check at 0206, 7365 was back
on, good with RM atop jamming.
At 0025 on 7340, AF made a frequency announcement, quite out of date, not
corrected since the service started: ``de lunes a viernes, 8 a 9 de la noche en
11625, 9415, 7340 y por Radio Mart? en 1180, y onda corta 6030, 7365, 9825
kilociclos [sic].``
Would someone please get the AF announcers to read the VOA A-Z language
schedule, any other accurate internal document, or previous DX LISTENING DIGEST
to know what frequencies they are really on, as 11625 and 9415 have been
dropped, and as I just monitored, 7365 and 9825 apparently silent too (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. WORLD OF RADIO monitoring chex: Thu March 18 at 2100, I could only
hear jamming on 9955, so unsure if WRMI was on the air.
UT Fri March 19, WRMI fair signal without jamming at 0011 with ballgame
interview by YL, then CDHD Brigade 2506, fill music and WRMI QSL offer, 0030
WORLD OF RADIO 1504, reading S9+10 even with attenuation necessarily switched
on vs WWCR 9980 overload. Both weakened somewhat during the semihour, but we
remained 99% readable at occasional chex.
Area 51 webcast of WOR scheduled for 0000 UT Fri instead had music running at
0015. I must say this time is highly irregular.
ACB Radio webcast at 0100 UT Fri did have new WOR 1504 playing, contrary to
last week 1502 instead of 1503 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. WWCR is still using 7490 instead of 7465 during the 00-01 UT hour, as
noted 0023 March 19, even tho the reason for moving there to avoid VOA on 7465
no longer applies. Since DST began, Lavwdlamerik is on 5835 and 7590 only
during that hour. But things could change further with imminent A10 season
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. We recently noted that WTJC, 9370v, had Arabic in the 00 UT semihour
altho nowhere on their schedule, and now we heard Chinese at 0033 UT Friday
March 19; next check 0112 back in English. They have had a link to their
Chinese website for some time, http://www.reachingtheworld.net/
but I have not found any specific schedule readable there, rather a number of
audio downloads. This frequency is not likely to be audible in China at 8:30 am
local, especially if Firedrake against Sound of Hope is running on 9365 (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. Blessed relief from the ranting of Pastor Pete Peters: UT March 19 at
0121, just open carrier on WWCR 5070, 5890 and WTWW 5080! Meanwhile at 0123
there were a couple of familiar computer audio cues, briefly filling the void.
And so it went until PPP finally cut on in progress at 0133 on all three
frequencies. So for at least 12 minutes, 3 x 100 kW transmitters were
broadcasting nothing thanks to the incompetence of Mr. Aryan Man (Glenn Hauser,
OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** WESTERN SAHARA [non]. 6297.1, March 18 at 2345 in Arabic instead of usual
Spanish during the final hour of the day. Was wanting to check out Harold
Frodge`s comment, ``Last time I heard an ID, it was Radio Nacional Sahuari
rather than RASD.``
However at 0000 March 19 retune, just caught full ID in Spanish indeed saying
``Transmite la Radio Nacional de la Rep?blica ?rabe Saharaui Democr?tica`` plus
frequencies OM 1550 y OC ``6300 kHz``. Went on for a while longer vs splatter
from dirty Cairo 6290 transmitter, 0004 to open carrier. I don`t doubt that a
less formal ID of R. Nacional Saharaui might also be used (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST) ###
End of Hard-Core-DX Digest, Vol 87, Issue 19
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