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Today's Topics:
1. Happy New Years EVE !!!!! ([email protected])
2. Glenn Hauser logs December 31, 2010 (Glenn Hauser)
3. Log Report for Al Muick (Albert Muick)
4. End of year log. ([email protected])
5. Glenn Hauser logs Dec 31, 2010-Jan 1, 2011 (Glenn Hauser)
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Message: 1
Date: Fri, 31 Dec 2010 11:31:39 EST
From: [email protected]
To: [email protected], [email protected],
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Subject: [HCDX] Happy New Years EVE !!!!!
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HAPPY NEW YEARS EVE !!!!!
HAVE A GREAT 2011............
Gary W. Froemming, CTC
Glendale, Arizona, USA
WB7CAG / W7GWF
33.56016N / 112.18416W
Grid Square: DM33vn74vk
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of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome,
charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating
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Message: 2
Date: Fri, 31 Dec 2010 11:49:43 -0800 (PST)
From: Glenn Hauser <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
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Subject: [HCDX] Glenn Hauser logs December 31, 2010
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** ANTARCTICA. 15476, LRA36 still absent Dec 31 at 1414, thus completing the
year unheard since Nov 12. Will it ever come back? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** ARGENTINA. David Zantow informs us that RAE has been announcing they will
stay on shortwave after all in 2011; he had to listen to the webcast and a
pertinent clip from their UT Dec 30 broadcast has been posted on the dxldyg and
now also at
http://www.w4uvh.net/rae2011.mp3
No explanation of how this has been achieved, vs the PCB problem in their
transmitter and the new law against it.
15344.9, Dec 31 at 1850, I am getting a weak signal here, can`t tell whether
it`s RAE or Morocco and whether it is in English, which is scheduled M-F
1800-1900; the other English, to NAm at 0200-0300 UT Tue-Sat on 11711v (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** BRAZIL. 4885, R. Clube do Par? is one of the most reliable Brazilians on
60m, which runs all-night, but unheard for quite some time vs hi noise level
here. 4985, R. Brasil Central is another, but nothing from it tonight,
considerably more distant.
At 0618 Dec 31, 4885 is the OSOB from South America, with pop music. 0621
announcement but rather distorted and reverberating; think I did hear Par?
mentioned and two or three ``kHz``, so likely full ID. With BFO on, I discover
that the carrier is unstable, wobbling slightly. 0633, ``Bom dia, Brasil``;
Bel?m is on UT -3 with no DST there this summer, so local is only 3:33 am. 0644
playing original version of ``Corina, Corina`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** ETHIOPIA [and non]. 9559.7, approx., Dec 31 at 1527, considerable het
against Chinese on 9560, i.e. R. Ethiopia, vs RCI via Japan or CRI via Kashgar
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** INDIA. 9690, AIR GOS, Dec 31 at 1427 reviewing India`s military achievements
of 2010y, including a stealth ship, joining a small club of nations capable of
such (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** INDONESIA. 9525-, VOI, VG signal at 1528 Dec 31, while yesterday it was off
after 1500, music with IADs. But off at 1603 check an hour before local 2011y.
Meanwhile, RRI domestic on 9680 was much weaker with vocal music at 1530, still
on at 1603 with excited live talk, 1622 still celebrating (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** ITALY [non]. Since this Saturday is only the very first day of the year, and
new business often starts on the following weekday, I asked Alfredo Cotroneo of
IRRS to confirm whether the deletion of WORLD OF RADIO, alternate Saturdays at
0900 on 9510, axually starts Jan 1. Yes, it does, but WOR ``will continue to be
"regular" (as before) every Sat at 2000 CET (1900 UT/winter) on 6090 kHz, until
further notice.``
What about DX Partyline after it at 0930; is the whole hour changed?
``Their 15 minute broadcast will be the same as before.
``FYI: we are dropping Mon-Thu 2000-2100 CET (1900-2000 UT/winter) on 6090 kHz
effective Jan 1, 2011. New frequency & program schedules will be online on Dec.
31 at http://www.nexus.org/NEXUS-IBA/Schedules``
That shows the new program at 0900 Sat is Outlook, at least this week. What
about the alternating Radio City, etc., on other weeks?
IRRS will not discuss its transmitter site, under any circumstances, registered
as MIL for Milano with HFCC. Presumably this is due to contraxual obligations,
despite the fact that previous independent DX research uncovered documents from
SLOVAKIA confirming that it is in fact Rimavsk? Sobota.
As we know, Radio Slovakia International is closing down its own SW broadcasts
at yearend, thus raising the question of whether the transmitter site will be
kept operational only for the limited schedule of IRRS?
Starting Jan 1, would listeners monitor the IRRS schedule and note whether
there has been any significant change in reception, or operational clues
leading to the likelihood of the transmitter site having been changed. Other
frequencies (for Miraya FM, from and back to Sudan) have been 9670, 15710:
As of 1937 UT Dec 31, the transmission schedule on IRRS website
http://www.nexus.org/NEXUS-IBA/Schedules/IRRS-SW_B10.html
had not been updated to show deletion of Mon-Thu 19-20 on 6090 as mentioned
above, still dated Nov 13 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** JAPAN [non]. NHK can be depended upon for NYE celebrations in the hours
before local midnight, and can also be depended upon to frustrate listeners
wanting to hear the arrival of the next year at 1500 UT. 11655 via CANADA, VG
Dec 31 at 1416 with apparent live music variety show; 1439 had 2-second clips
of lots of different songs which probably made more sense if we had original
video to go with them, as I suspect this is soundtrack of TV show. 1443 crowd
starting singing ``Auld Lang Syne`` in Japanese, but then voiced over with
talk. Sure enough, Sackville cut them off the air at 1458:55* just before the
big moment. By 1504 I was hearing weak S Asian music on 11655, no doubt KSDA
GUAM in Telugu (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** KOREA NORTH [non]. 5985, Shiokaze, Dec 31 at 1408, YL in Japanese rather
than usual English on Fridays. NYE must have persuaded them to switch to
primary tongue for the occasion. Lite het from Myanmar 5986v (Glenn Hauser, OK,
DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** NIGERIA. 15120, VON, Dec 31 at 1534 in English about Zimbabwe, but muffled,
distorted, and unstable carrier, plus splash from WYFR 15130 (Glenn Hauser, OK,
DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** NIGERIA [non]. 17485, Hamada Radio International via RMI via GERMANY, Friday
Dec 31 at 1411, fair signal with speech to a crowd (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** OKLAHOMA. 13592.5, the previous unID reported as 13590, with the strange
musical loop repeated, and a clip at the end of WORLD OF RADIO 1545, does turn
out to be from a nearby CBer putting his semi-harmonic of 27185 on 13592.5.
About the same time Dec 31, at 1451 he is active and playing the loop again,
which matches much stronger signal on 27185. Words still hard to make out, but
sounds like ``You`re an idiot, ha ha ha ha``, which seems appropriate for the
CB culture (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** PAPUA NEW GUINEA. I dozed thru the New Year in NZ, eastern Australia, and
PNG, but started listening just after local UT+10 midnite at 1403 UT Dec 31:
3385 had an audible signal, something talking, likely R. East New Britain,
Rabaul, on later than usual 1200v* as in WRTH for all these stations. I could
also detect carriers on 3365, 3325 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** PHILIPPINES. 9430, looking around for some signal hitting 2011y at 1600 UT
Dec 31, settled upon FEBC: at 1559 Chinese song, ID, but no timesignal or
fireworx when it`s New Year both in China and the Philippines (Glenn Hauser,
OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** RUSSIA. 6075, the geniuses at R. Rossii decided we should have more hours of
motorboating on NY Eve. Normally goes off at 1401* but UT Dec 31 at 1433 still
there, but no significant program modulation, just Chinese mixing in from
Taiwan and/or ChiCom jamming: an exercise in extended futility. In fact, at
1550, I could still hear the rumbling RR carrier from Petropavlovsk/Kamchtaskiy
where local time is UT+11, so midnight was already at 1300 UT. Perhaps the
transmitter ops were out celebrating or had passed out. After all, allowing the
motorboating to go on the air for months and months is not exactly a sign of
taking responsibility (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** RUSSIA [non]. 9570, R. Blagovest via R. Veritas Asia, PHILIPPINES, on what
is presumably its last day on the air, Dec 31 at 1522, Russian discussion about
Christ, etc. 1526 there is some lite musical CCI but I can find nothing else
scheduled; maybe it was crossmodulation. 1545 now the speech is more
deliberate, no doubt a scripted sermon (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** SAUDI ARABIA. 11785, Dec 31 at 1435, the ``Sa`udi buzz`` is again audible
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** TUNISIA. 12005, Dec 31 at 1555 open carrier, 1556:36 join Arabic
conversation in progress. Typical behaviour of RTT, which is scheduled here
1600-2010 per Aoki, 500 kW, 100 degrees from Sfax, while as usual registered in
HFCC one hour off, 1700-2110. Aoki also shows that BBC Rampisham had Azeri at
1600-1630 for B-10, but it is ``off`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U K. 3950-3955-3960, DRM noise discouraging hams from using this segment of
their band, Dec 31 at 0617. It`s BBC via Skelton, per HFCC, 05-08, 100 kW, 121
degrees. The AM transmitter at Skelton on 3995 carrying DW in German in
commonly audible around here (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 17740, Dec 31 at 1412, open carrier. 15580, Dec 31 at 1413, another
open carrier. Likely both IBB Greenville, tuning up for later broadcasts on
these frequencies, both scheduled not until 1700 in Portuguese, English,
respectively (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 15795, open carrier Dec 31 to 1553*. Probably WYFR tuning up for 1600
English broadcast to Europe, but unchecked later (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A [and non]. 9955, WRMI confirmed with WORLD OF RADIO 1545, Friday Dec
31 at 1543, losing out to pulse jamming fading up and down, not bleed from 9965
where wall-of-noise jamming against presumed R. Rep?blica. Tnx a lot, Arnie!
Next WOR airings on WRMI are Sat 0900, 1500, 1830, Sun 0900, 1630, 1830, Mon
1230. On WWCR: Fri 2130 7465; Sat 1700 12160; and will UT Sun 0330 on 4840
already be canceled as of UT Jan 2, or the following week? Plus Sun 0730 on
3215.
WOR 1545 also confirmed on webcast of WWRB 3185, UT Friday Dec 31 after 0430
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 9385, WWRB with Brother Scare, surrounded by his buzz envelope out to
9365-9405, bothering mainly WTJC 9370v, Dec 31 at 1546 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A [non]. 9310, Dec 31 at 1547, S9+20 open carrier, 1551 continuous tone
test, 1555 back to OC; 1557 VOA YDD sign-on, 1600 into central Asian language.
Once again this is scheduled as R. Liberty in Tatar/Bashkir via Tinang,
PHILIPPINES at 16-17, 250 kW, 332 degrees, which should not be preceded by VOA
sign-on (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** VATICAN. 13765, VR in English, Dec 31 at 1537 historical talk about
Carmelites vs Moslems; 1540 VR ID as for S Asia, news of PBXVI. Had long-path
echo. Is 500 kW, 95 degrees from SMG (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** VENEZUELA [non]. 11680, RNV completes yet another year announcing almost
totally outdated transmission schedule, just as I tune across via CUBA, Dec 31
at 1520. All we have to hear is the first entry in Spanish = ``to San Francisco
at 11 am on 13740``. BTW, how is your own transmitter site at Calabozo coming
along? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ###
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Message: 3
Date: Sat, 01 Jan 2011 00:39:44 +0430
From: Albert Muick <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Subject: [HCDX] Log Report for Al Muick
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
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QTH: Kandahar Airfield, Afghanistan
RX: WinRadio G303e
ANT: 100m longwire
6055 31 DEC, 1923 UTC, RWANDA, Radio Rwanda with telephone call-ins in
French and vernacular as well as some really nice African choral music.
Fairly good signals but fighting a losing battle with China, also in
French on the frequency. It was a multi-station pile-up, but confirmed
with streaming audio (had to download Silverlight plugin for Linux!).
Happy New Year to everyone! Let's hope 2011 brings better DX for all of us.
73
Al
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Message: 4
Date: Fri, 31 Dec 2010 20:23:58 -0500 (EST)
From: [email protected]
To: [email protected], [email protected], [email protected],
[email protected]
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: [HCDX] End of year log.
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
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Bob et all, Finally getting back to logging in. This time I'm RX on my
Sony ICF-2010. This was the year! Have moved since last log-in. If any
one knows where I can find a Tecsun light weight, I would appreciate hearing
from them. Thank you.
Jerry Ervine KC5YRE
2500 E Bus 83 lot 564
Mission TX 78572
PH. 956-271-4288 (c)
956-607-1450
LOG
9430 USA WYFR Okeechobee, FL EE 2300 OM RLG weak. 2330 re. "washing
our sins away-baptism. 2358 IS //15400 (Ervine TX 12/31)
9435 PHILIPPINES FEBC Manila Indonesian 2235 OM RLG with light fades.
2252 MX, change in speakers, more MX at 2255. I have bee able to RX Indo
and Malaysian broadcasts most days here in So. Texas re.
schedule-WRTH.2230 QRM WYFR EE from 9430 (Ervine TX 12/31)
9650 SO. KOREA KBS Seoul EE 1207 MX YL w/ID and NX, some fading.
1211 YL w/ WX and global warmind discusion. 1215 OM welcome and dates.
Also mention of travel time to work and service stations where someone comes
out to give you service. (That used to happen here, remember?) 1258 Mx
s/off, fair. (Ervine TX 12/28)
17745 SUDAN Sudan R. Khartoum Vernaculars and Sudanese languages.
1538 OMs discusion and occ MX bridges. Drum-like feature then singing by
group. 1550 local MX then prayers by group. 1559 YL w/ID, Sudan ment
several times. Continued listenng past 1600 w/fades until 1630, at this time
signal became very weak. Overall, RX was reasonably good. (Ervine TX 12/31)
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Message: 5
Date: Fri, 31 Dec 2010 19:40:50 -0800 (PST)
From: Glenn Hauser <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: [HCDX] Glenn Hauser logs Dec 31, 2010-Jan 1, 2011
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
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** ARGENTINA. 11710.8, approx., January 1, 2011 at 0023 UT, RAE heavily
fluttered as usual, poor signal, but sounds like Portuguese with a Porte?o
accent. We fully expect to keep hearing RAE this year following its reprieve,
but only wish it could attain reception worthy of it. Brazilian and Chilean
signals rated no more powerful do a consistently much better job. General
Pacheco needs upgrading --- or relaying (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** COSTA RICA. I happened to notice in HFCC that REE is shown in DRM on 3350 at
0000-0200 for B-10, same time as when we know it is in DRM on 9625-9630-9635.
Really? Never noticed it, and still hear no change in the noise level as I tune
across 3350 around 0001 and 0108 UT January 1. Perhaps is considered an
alternative, or ?is REE installing a second DRM transmitter in Cariari de
Pococ?? If activated, it would be the first invasion into 90m of this
additional noise source (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CUBA. 11670, Dec 31 at 2219 has RNV relay in Spanish, unlike yesterday when
it was RHC Kichwa(?). Meanwhile, nothing on 15370 yet, but at 2244 that has RHC
French, distorted, unlike yesterday when it was Kriyol. RHC always keeps us
guessing how they will FU next.
Here`s another in the long string of failures by the DentroCuban Jamming
Command: 9490, noise grinding away at 0010 UT January 1, despite the R.
Rep?blica relay via Sackville having been suspended weeks ago (Glenn Hauser,
OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** NEW ZEALAND. 15720, UT Friday December 31 at 2245, I hear the recognizable
voice of Garrison Keillor telling a story. Must be Prairie Home Companion, via
RNZI, finally getting shortwave exposure by this very roundabout method. Is it
on the RNZI schedule grid? Of course not! Only ``RNZ National`` meaning
domestic service relay, and on the RNZI schedule page you have to click on
``Radio NZ Domestic Services`` http://www.radionz.co.nz/ then go to the correct
network, National, find the schedule, convert times and days from UT +13, to
find what RNZI is really broadcasting on SW. That would be Saturday at 11:45 am
local, yes: ``11:04 Garrison Keillor's Radio Show, Highlights from the
award-winning show - A Prairie Home Companion (PHP)`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** PHILIPPINES. 9730, Dec 31 at 2252, fair signal with ``Jesus Saves`` IS,
alternating with ``This is FEBC Radio, broadcasting from Manila, Philippines``,
in English. A headstart on the 2300-2330 Hmong broadcast, 100 kW, 293 degrees
from Bocaue, in White Hmong M-F, Blue Hmong Sat-Sun, meaning local or UT days?
They also have Black Hmong at another time. Are the Hmong color-coded by their
traditional dress, dental discoloration or what? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** RUSSIA. I missed being at the SW dials when it was Midnight in Moscow, but
listening to VOR later, UT January 1, 2011 at 0005, 6240 via Pridnestrovye and
a second later on 7250 via `Krasonodar`, YL was talking about end-of-year
holidays, calendar, when Xmas is celebrated, etc.; and at 0024 replayed full
strike of Kremlin chimes, marred however by mixing them with disco-beat music,
demonstrating how decadent post-Soviet Russia has become (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** SLOVAKIA [non]. 6040, now a gaping hole in the band at 0101 UT January 1,
where R. Slovakia International used to be in English. They didn`t even keep it
going another sesquihour when the final Dec 31 program would normally have
repeated to North America.
However, WRMI immediately takes up the slack, relaying RSI in English at 0130
from the WRN NAm feed, as heard when webcast checked at 0140. 9955 was heavily
jammed before 0100 during the R. Libertad hour UT Tue-Sat, but I think it
abated after 0100. WRMI has a revised program schedule via
http://www.wrmi.net/pb/wp_d12a1732/wp_d12a1732.html
now dated Dec 30. It does show Radio Eslovaquia Internacional 7 days a week at
0330 UT (following R. Praga at 0300), but still shows other programs at 0130 UT
Tue-Sat = 8:30 pm local when RSI is really being aired in English, as announced
in a press release several days ago. Others have observed that RSI itself has
said nothing about the WRMI relay (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** SPAIN. Before the arrival of 2011y in western Europe, I gave myself the
conventional choice of listening to DW or REE. Could not find a decent signal
from DW in German, and besides I understand Spanish better, so also based on
previous years` satisfaxion, I seek REE.
6055 at 2256 UT is in IS prior to French broadcast, which I don`t expect to be
live, as there is an earlier one to Europe. So on to:
9620 good and 9535 VG in Spanish I reach just in time at 2300 to hear full
strike of some reloj, then ``?Feliz a?o, dos mil once!`` And right into a
novelty song. Turns out most of this hour is novelty music in English, tho
announced in Castilian, initially on a `monster` theme ? is this All Souls`
Eve, or NYE?
At 2307, ``I`m a Monster, Rock `n` Roll``; 2312, ``Mommy`s Little Baby Loves
Shortenin` Bread``; 2315 ``Steel Guitar Rag``; 2325 break for a song in
Spanish, a Mexican corrido; 2326 yodeling song ``Tea for Texas, Tea for
Tennessee`` (or is that just T?); 2332 more yodeling, not first-class, in ``I
Want to be a Cowboy`s Sweetheart``.
2338 announcement break mentioned this is coming from Radio Tres, the
`cultural` domestic RNE network, ? la BBC Radio 3. As I recall, last year after
NYE midnite they also had a fun music hour. Music kept going past 2345 when the
token Catalan and Galician newscasts would have aired on an ordinary occasion.
Recheck at 0012 January 1, 2011, now it`s a flamenco music show. See also COSTA
RICA (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. As usual near Solstice, MW skywave sets in before midafternoon. Dec
30 I was getting KOA 850 already at 2045 UT, and lots of others.
Dec 31 at 2113 UT a quick bandscan on the caradio finds 1550 dominated by
``Branson Radio Live, 1550``, mentions 2009, so another two-year-old recording?
Then ad for Titanic Museum. This is really KLFJ Springfield MO, which in
daytime is 5 kW non-direxional. It`s completely devoted to promoting Branson, a
tourist trap I am proud to say I have never visited despite relative proximity
and a number of trips thru Springfield (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. The far-too-seldom updated WINB program schedule at
http://www.winb.com/schedule.htm as of Dec 5, 2010 is already outdated: Friday
Dec 31 at 2256 on 9265 instead of Overcomer at ``5-7 pm`` I am hearing Xmas
music // but not synchronized to WBCQ 9330-CUSB, i.e. it must be the Good
Friends Radio Network at an additional time on WINB. 2349 they are still //
with preacher, 9265 running ahead of 9330 by a few sex (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 9370v, UT Saturday January 1 at 0106, Arabic from WTJC,
undermodulated and somewhat muffled. Shall we try again to match this to WTJC`s
program schedule, at http://www.fbnradio.com/weekday.htm --- That would be
Friday 8 pm, EST --- nope, not there, only stuff in English the livelong day.
Nothing but English on Saturday either. On Sunday same except for a couple of
Spanish shows. FBN does link to its Chinese website, which I have trouble
reading, but seems only about streaming audio, not SW programming. Yet Arabic
is nothing new on WTJC SW, occasionally encountered, as well as Chinese despite
absence from published schedule (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A [and non]. Couldn`t find a decent signal from BBC approaching 2400 UT
Dec 31 = 0000 UT Jan 1, so settled for WWV 5000, which I would have had playing
anyway simultaneously. Announcer was nonchalant as usual, no hint of
celebration in his voice, as it became zero hours, zero minutes, Coordinated
Universal Time. No leap second this year, of course, making it even more
conventional. WWV will rebecome just as essential six hours later here in the
UT-6 zone S. But see RUSSIA, SPAIN (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 7430, rapid pulsing centered here January 1 at 0032, atop some
broadcaster. The pulses are quite different from the DentroCuban Jamming
Command; estimated about 10 per second, very regular, and extending to 7435 and
7425 but no further unlike wider-band OTH radars. Only thing scheduled now on
7430 is V. of Russia in Russian via ARMENIA, 305 degrees to Europe, Caribbean,
Central America and Mexico. Could be the Gavar transmitter is simply defective
and this is not jamming. If heard before 0030 it could have been Myanmar
jamming VOA Burmese via Sri Lanka on 7430. Now it also bothers R. Tirana on
7435 in Albanian // clear 6130 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ###
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