** ALGERIA [non]. See FRANCE ** ANTARCTICA. I bet you were expecting another boring nothing-heard update. Not this time --- LRA36 is back!!! 15476, Sept 8 at 1332, tipped off by tell-tale het with much stronger 15480 (Poland in Belarussian via Rampisham), very poor with a bit of music audible, 1343 fluxuating S3 to S7 peaks, splash from 15480; by 1353 only S3 and by 1411 just the carrier still detectable. As always, I make sure this is on 15476 by comparing to remnants of R. Australia on 9475 beneath WTWW 9479 splash. First time heard since July 22 on almost weekdaily chex. Spring is in the air? Is the nominal schedule again 1230-1500 M-F? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** BULGARIA. 9600, Sept 8 at 0525, open carrier with flutter, // much weaker 11600, so R. Bulgaria is already warming up for the 0530 German. 5 or 10 minutes of warmup is acceptable, so let`s hope they have not gone back to wasting watts for 20+ minutes; must tune in earlier after 0500 to find out (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CANADA. 9625, Sept 8 at 0527, CBCNQ is still on 20+ minutes after sign-off running tone test, as so often happens; why? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CHINA. Firedrake Sept 8, before 1200: 7970, poor at 1144. Not scanned all the way to 19 MHz at this time, but not expecting much to be open before sunrise Circa 1230: Nothing in the 18s, 17s, 16s or 15s tho CRI Kashgar on 17490, 17650 14400, fair at 1228 13850, good at 1229 12980, good at 1230 12270, good at 1231 11500, poor at 1232 // 12270; usually hear VOR open carrier Tajikistan 10300, very good at 1233 After 1330: 12025, JBA at 1341 under CNR1 Chinese jammer; no others 10-19 MHz (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ECUADOR. 3810-LSB, Sept 8 at 0538, JBA in noise level I am hearing beeps every dekasecond, and unreadable talk betwixt. Surely it`s HD2IOA, Guayaquil timesignals, which I have often sought without success around this hour, last logged March 12 at 0640 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** FRANCE. 7295, Sept 8 at 0529-0530* astounded to hear NHKWRJ signing off its 0500 English broadcast --- instead of Algeria relay via Issoudun normally on 7295 at this time. 7295 is certainly not on the NHK schedule from anywhere; no CCI. Must be totally SNAFUed at TDF, wrong feed, but cut carrier at 0530 as if they were aware they were broadcasting the semihour from Tokyo. Issoudun is scheduled to relay NHK 0500 English on 11970 which I have often heard, but no chance to check it now. They must have mixed up the 7295 and 11970 transmitters! Meanwhile, RTA relay on 9535 continued as usual with Qur`an, now poor with flutter. Rechecked at 0550, 7295 was back on with Algeria too, much stronger than // 9535; 0602 check, 7295 off the air again. The WRTH May Update showed: RADIO ALGÉRIENNE (Gov) kHz: 7295, 7495, 9375, 9535, 11775, 11985, 13820 Summer Schedule 2011 Arabic Days Area kHz 0400-0500 daily NAf,CAf 7295iss 0500-0600 daily NAf,WAf 7295iss* 0500-0600 daily NAf,CAf 9535iss 0600-0700 daily NAf,WAf 9535iss*, 11985iss** 1800-2000 daily NAf,CAf 13820iss 1900-2100 daily NAf,WAf 11775iss 2000-2200 daily NAf,CAf 9375iss 2100-2300 daily NAf,WAf 7495iss Key: * Apr, Sept-Oct; ** May-Aug. I.e., that 7295 in the 05-06 period would be on the air in September, but not in August; yet I`m sure it has always been on the air during that hour, heard any and every night in both months so far until now. BTW, current HFCC shows an imaginary schedule for TDA via two sites within Algeria, none of this in use: http://hfcc.org/data/schedbyfmo.php?seas=A11&fmor=TDA While this one http://hfcc.org/data/schedbybrc.php?seas=A11&broadc=TDA mixes in those with the real ones via France, which I excerpt here: 7295 0400 0500 37S,38W,46E,47,48W 162 500 27-Mar-2011 29-Oct-2011 7295 0500 0600 37S,46 194 500 27-Mar-2011 29-Oct-2011 9535 0500 0600 37S,38W,46E,47,48W 162 500 27-Mar-2011 29-Oct-2011 9535 0500 0600 37S,46 194 500 01-May-2011 03-Sep-2011 9535 0600 0700 37S,46 194 500 27-Mar-2011 29-Oct-2011 11985 0600 0700 37S,46 194 500 01-May-2011 03-Sep-2011 13820 1800 2000 37S,38W,46E,47,48W 162 500 27-Mar-2011 29-Oct-2011 11775 1900 2100 37S,46 194 500 27-Mar-2011 29-Oct-2011 9375 2000 2200 37S,38W,46E,47,48W 162 500 27-Mar-2011 29-Oct-2011 9840 2000 2200 37S,38W,46E,47,48W 162 500 27-Mar-2011 29-Oct-2011 7495 2100 2300 37S,46 194 500 27-Mar-2011 29-Oct-2011 This contradicts WRTH, showing that 7295 is supposed to be in use all-season at 04-06, and 9535 at 05-07 but since Sept 3 with only one transmitter instead of two in the first hour (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** GABON. 9580, Sept 8 at 0524, VG S9+22 signal with Cuban music – could be Radio Habana Cuba, but not their frequency [except for undermodulated CRI relays earlier] and not their time. Yes, it`s Africa Numéro Un, best heard in a very long time, as has usually been a strain to hear, but now it`s armchair! 0526 French announcement mentioning something in Libreville and several African countries, Angola, Niger, Côte d`Ivoire, etc. 0608 still VG with news. Either we had an unusual propagational pipeline Moyabi-Enid, or they have now got their transmitter up to its rated 500 kW for a change. Missing from HFCC, but Aoki shows only 250 kW, 350 degrees at 05-23. I bet it`s been a lot less than that. WRTH 2011 says they have 3 x 500 kW transmitters; ``Africa 1 is produced by Africa Média S.A.; a subsidiary of the Libyan state broadcaster LJBC`` --- and now what? I hope ANO continues to be audible so well with its great music, preferably not controlled by Q`Daffy. Or is that where he`s hiding? He obviously has access to broadcast facilities somewhere (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** GUAM. 9905-9910-9915, Sept 8 at 1234 I can detect DRM noise, presumably KTWR test, underneath heavy RTTY (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** GUATEMALA. 4055, Sept 8 at 1130, no signal from TGAV (note correct call: I saw a different one reported somewhere); 1140 on comes carrier, with SSB QRM from 4054.5 or so, then 1141 hymn; lasted another dekaminute or so, only heard music. Starting so late, maybe Radio Verdad skipped standard multilingual sign-on procedure. Or who knows, maybe they did it before 1130 and had a break. See DXLD 11-35 for a detailed summary of their transmitter and power history, or original pdf: http://www.w4uvh.net/VerdadHistoria.pdf (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** GUIANA FRENCH. 17880, Sept 8 at 1334 check, no DRM amid supposed two-week test to Brasil at 13-16 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** GUINEA. 7125, Sept 8 at 0530, no signal from RTG, but it was on at 0549 check, poor with music. 0552 gone again, so I sat on frequency: *0553:27 cuts back on at S9+12 but undermodulated making reception insufficient, also not enough to cut thru the noise level (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ITALY [non]. 15610, Sept 8 at 1339, it`s another Brother-Scare day courtesy IRRS, good signal via ROMANIA (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** JAPAN. See KOREA NORTH [non]. JAPAN [non]. See FRANCE ** KOREA NORTH [non]. 6135, Sept 8 at 1329 open carrier with lite het; 1330 piano music and Shiokaze sign-on in Japanese; poor, but first time I have heard JSR, JAPAN, since just barely May 2 when it was also on 6135 and sunrise here was a semihour earlier at 1137 UT. Could the het be Madagascar long-path this early? Antananarivo sunset today not until 1443 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MALAYSIA. 9835, Sept 8 at 1146, Qur`an from RTM with fair reception; 11665, which might have been parallel, had only a JBA signal at 1147 and during the next hour the usual Chinese radio war, het burying anything from Malaysia (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MAURITANIA. 7245, Sept 8 at 0530, IGIM this time not on the air yet, nor at 0549. Kept monitoring and from 0558 there were irregular CW beeps (carrier on and off) at the rate of less than once per second, so not a timesignal, and continued past 0600. At 0606:30, IGIM finally cut on, no more beeps which were probably unrelated, a ham transmitter? JIP soporific wake-up chanting session (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MEXICO. Off-season sporadic E showed up early UT Sept 8, shortly after I turned on the analog TV to channel 2 with antenna southward: 0031 UT fade-in sitcom or maybe game show with laugh track, Spanish, peaks from south, but remains weak at best. Large bug in the upper right I do not recognize tho I might have if it were clearer, in and out past 0037, and at 0040 some video CCI from another station 10 kHz away; fadeout and nothing more in next hour+ (Glenn Hauser, Enid OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MEXICO. Sunrise MW DX Sept 8 (our LSR now 1208 UT): 540, Sept 8 at 1156 UT mentions ``radio noticias . . . aquí en San Luis Potosí``, so XEWA is originating locally; now atop another Mexican with music. 560, Sept 8 at 1158 UT mentions Coahuila and Torreón, but no station there, not enough to go on but nearest per Cantú is: 560 XEGIK La Acerera Monclova, Coah. 1,400 250 - acerera = steel mill? 660, Sept 8 at 1159 UT, ``aquí en Delicias``, local events including a baile on domingo. Cantú: 660 XEACB Radio 660, La Tremenda Cd. Delicias, Chih. 3,000 1,000 680, Sept 8 at 1202 UT, timecheck as 6:02, noticias. Of the nine Mexicans on 680, only this one is in the UT-6 = CST/MDT zone: 680 XEFO Éxtasis Digital Chihuahua, Chih. 5,000 250 Or: it could be 500-watt SS KWKA Clovis NM, per NRC AM Log 2011-2012 790, Sept 8 at 1200 sharp, Mexican NA starts, initially good. Turns out to be long choral version until 1204, by which time I can`t pull an ID thru the QRM. 1030, Sept 8 at 1206 YL with language lesson apparently about the word curículo; then OM plugs multiple platforms, Twitter, Skype, has listeners as far as Washington State in the ``Unión Americana``, cable a través de Time-Warner/Comcast; this show is until 10 am ``también en televisión``. http://www.radioformula.com.mx also has programs on demand. Per Cantú the only Fórmula on 1030 is: 1030 XEYC Radio Fórmula Cd. Juárez, Chih. 5,000 500 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ROMANIA. 7225-7230-7235, Sept 8 at *0600 DRM suddenly appears; RRI Tiganeshti in German is scheduled until 0630 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. WORLD OF RADIO 1581 monitoring: first airing 0330 UT Thursday Sept 8 on WRMI: at 0355 check, confirmed on webcast, but only wall-of-noise jamming on 9955. Thanks a lot, Arnie! Further WRMI airings, usually not jammed in our mornings: Thu 1500, 2100, Fri 0500, 1430, Sat 0800, 1500, 1730, Sun 0800, 1530, 1730. WTWW: Thu 2100 9479, UT Sun 0400 5755 WBCQ: Thu 2130 7415, UT Mon 0300v 5110v-CUSB WWRB: UT Fri 0330 5051, and/or 3195? WRN via SiriusXM 120: Sat & Sun 1730, Sun 0830 9955 checked 24 hours earlier, with `Wavescan` UT Thursday from 0500: at 0527 Sept 8, Jeff White is more or less readable mixed with jamming, talking about imminent HFCC in Dallas next week (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 9330-CUSB, Sept 8 at 0530 as I tune past, WBCQ loudly modulated as usual with GFRN, but at 0605 it`s dead air. Next check at 1147, preaching again. It`s amazing how much dead air this service provides. Is no one paying attention in Orangeville to the program feed? Then why should any listener? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 1520, Sept 8 at 0543, an ESPN station, producing heavy CCI and a fast SAH with KOKC, which ought to be in the clear here, a 50 kW scarcely 100 km away; // 1500 KSTP. My patience does not allow me to wait for ID, but there have been numerous reports of this as KOLM, Rochester MN, tnx to Bruce Winkelman in Tulsa and Richard N Allen near Billings OK, where it also QRMs our KOKC. Unlike most of my Mexicans, this was logged on the FRG-7 with same E-W longwire as for SW, tuning past the bottom end of the SW bands. KOLM is supposed to run 10 kW day, 800 watts night, yeah, right, furthermore with a critical-hours null at 215 degrees toward us and OKC, everything going NNE at night, and non-direxional daytime; obviously day = night for KOLM (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
