** ANGUILLA [and non]. 11775, Sept 22 at 1253, DGS is back on after missing yesterday, but weaker than usual and with CCI, presumably AIR`s Tibetan service which of course draws ChiCom jamming too (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** ANTARCTICA. 15476, Sept 22 no traces of LRA36 at 1231, 1246, 1303, 1357 chex. So their Tuesday/Thursday-only schedule lasted only a week or two. I shall soon revert to non-reporting its non-reception (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CAMBODIA [non]. 9960, Sept 22 at 1255, reactivated TDP clandestine Khmer Post Radio, via T8WH PALAU, in Khmer, no RTTY CCI this time, but plenty of ACI from DentroCuban jamming; Wed/Thu/Fri only. Also remember to check Sat 12-13 on same for the other CambCland, KPPM (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CHINA. Firedrake Sept 22, before 1300: 16100, very poor at 1245 12980, very good at 1251; none in the 14s, 13s at 1248 11500, fair at 1253 with lo het, mix with VOR Tajikistan 10300, very good at 1254 After 1300: 16980, JBA at 1325 15435, very poor at 1323 with het from presumed VOT 15433 15280, fair with noise jamming too at 1324; off at 1340 recheck 12980, very good at 1320; none in the 13s or 14s Before 1400: 15435, fair at 1353 with noise jamming too vs 15433 VOT het 12980, very good with flutter at 1356; none in the 13s, 14s 10300, very good at 1356, none in the 11s unless under 11500 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CHINA. 9705, Sept 22 at 1256 song unseems Chinese, but hard to tell, 1259 Chinese announcement, 1300 5+1 timesignal with echo, more Chinese. Researching this, first at HFCC and even Aoki, one finds only PBS Xinjiang, Kyrgyz minority service from Wulumuchi ending at 1230. Then in EiBi and WRTH, also V. of Pujiang overlapping from 1130. This was already reported by Jim Ronda, Tulsa, at the same time on July 13 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** COSTA RICA. 5954.2v, Sept 22 at 0524 I am still hearing a het under the Cuban jamming, so it appears ELCOR have still not corrected their Radio República frequency to avoid hetting R. Nederland 5955.0, despite having been given a new crystal by RNW. I heard it was sitting on someone`s desk, hadn`t got around to installing it. And they are a transmitter manufacturer! (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CUBA. 11845, Sept 22 at 0512, DentroCuban Jamming Command with residual pulsing far off the time `needed` as this is a daytime-only frequency of R. Martí. Woe betide any other broadcaster foolish enough to use 11845 elsewhen on the assumption it be clear (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CUBA. 21295-USB, Sept 22 at 1238, contester in English quickly awarding 5/9s in rapid contacts with unheards, and fortunately IDs frequently with a variety of fonetix as CO6LC, who is per QRZ.com: ``Orelvis Cuba`` Is that his handle? Then: ``QSL: TO: FELICIA HERRERA, P. BOX 17, SANTA CLARA 50100 CUBA``, but this was certainly an OM. Only other ham audible on ``15`` m was 21345-USB, someone ragchewing at 1235 about hi solar flux, 1242 about Ipods, etc., in American(?)-accented German. 13m SWBC band was not yet open at all (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** GUIANA FRENCH. 15515, Sept 22 at 1243 reggae, so another unscheduled postlude from Montsinéry, RFI Musique after Spanish is supposed to end at 1230. Only fair signal; also with het from 15517 presumed V. of Tibet, so in effect substituting for Firedrake! Off at next check 1302 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** INDIA. 15050-, Sept 22 at 1314, AIR Sinhala service with nice vocal music, flutter, 1325 transmitter off and back on. No sesquikilohertz parasitix audible this time. I compared with BFO to WEWN 12050 and found that 15050 was slightly lo compared to 12050. However, 12050 might have been hi enough such that 15050 was not really on the lo side, or vice versa (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** IRAN [and non]. It`s almost a week after in person at HFCC Dallas I brought to the attention of both the VIRI and RRI frequency managers that they are colliding on 11920 at 0400-0430, so is this fixed yet? No, Sept 22 at 0345, VIRI has good signal in its only English broadcast to North America, a.k.a Voice of Justice --- but at 0400 recheck, huge collision from even stronger RRI in Romanian, opening with timesignal. All you have to do is look at current A-11 HFCC to see there is a collision, let alone turn on a radio. There is even an overlap in the official CIRAF targets, i.e. France, where it must be just as bad as in North America. 11920 0330 0430 7-10,27 SIR 500 330 0 218 1234567 270311 301011 D 11920 0400 0500 27SE GAL 300 285 0 206 1234567 270311 301011 D I could pick out a replacement frequency for one of them, but that`s not my job; and would it do any good? I expect neither station is accustomed to someone coming up and telling them, ``you need to fix this``. 11790, Sept 22 at 0513, something in Russian I don`t usually encounter, interrupted by bits of music, fair with flutter, whence? Uplooked later, this too is IRIB, 0500-0530, 500 kW, 358 degrees from Kamalabad (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MEXICO. Sunrise MW DX Sept 22: 580, Sept 22 at 1206 UT, choral NA is still running mixing with WIBW, 1207 singing ID as Radio Lana? No, Radiorama, ergo XEFI Chihuahua again, of the Radiorama group, altho its own slogan is per Cantú: 580 XEFI Radio Mexicana Chihuahua, Chih. 5,000 700 600, Sept 22 at 1207 UT, ID as XEDPN or fonetically similar, La Ranchera, then promo or opening ``Espacio Infantil`` segment with a countdown. This does not fit anything listed in Cantú or WRTH or Googling. Sure seemed like a 5-letter call. Maybe a recent frequency change? Or network relay, like you hear XERFR 970 IDs all over the R. Fórmula network? Help! 620, Sept 22 at 1205 UT, orchestral NA ending, ID as XEBU, La Norteñita, 620, 10,000 vatios, street address in Chihuahua2. VG signal dominating for a few minutes. Oh oh, disparity in powers; Cantú: 620 XEBU La Norteñita Chihuahua, Chih. 5,000 1,000 WRTH also has 5/1 kW, so increased or mere hype? Again at 1209, noticeable with TC for only 6:07 and later in the same minute 6:08, still not caught up, also slogan ``la grande de Chihuahua``. 800, Sept 22 at 1210 UT, KQCV OKC evidently off, perhaps due to current storm, uncovering two weak SS. XEROK Juárez does not have much of a signal here, still listed 50 kW, and should be good even with KQCV on but nulled. 1217 KQCV cuts back on. 1180, Sept 22 at 1214 UT, ID as XEDCH, La Romántica, with several phone numbers, for requests? Briefly has channel to self, but with KFAQ 1170 IBOQRM. Cantú: 1180 XEDCH La Romántica Cd. Delicias, Chih. 5,000 1,500 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** NETHERLANDS [non]. 15488-15513, Sept 21 at 1855-1900+ strong heavy constant OTH radar pulses, maybe CYPRUS, severely interfering with one broadcaster, RNW in English on 15495, which is 150 degrees from Wertachtal, GERMANY. Isn`t it about time these things were banned from the SWBC bands? Wake up, ITU. Off at next check 1940 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** NIGERIA [and non]. 15120, Sept 21 at 1856, VON in English, usual hum, undermodulation, and bothered by splash from much stronger 15110 REE Noblejas IS with its hi-audio-frequency spixe, 15120, Sept 22 at 0505, VON with hummy news, 0506 jingle and going from World to Nigerian subnews, no QRM. SSOB honours now at S9+12 shared with 15580 VOA Botswana, as RA signals on 15160, 15240 have really dropped out from our summer/their winter dominance on 19m. VOA 15580 was also doing Nigerian news about Goodluck, with an even heavier African accent, take that! (A T-storm in the next county was producing lightning crashes audible even on 15 MHz band.) (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ROMANIA [and non]. See IRAN [and non] ** SOUTH CAROLINA [non]. 3215, Thursday Sept 22 at 0525, WWCR with soul music, no Brother Scare, but still on usual 3185 WWRB. He must have wised up, if that is possible, that it was pointless to be on two Tennesseans 40 kHz apart at the same time. At updated WWCR program grid dated Sept 12 (on the homepage as Sept 16), despite assertions that they would not update it more than once a month, has indeed removed BS from 3215 --- except on Saturdays at 0500-0900 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SUDAN [and non]. 13730, Sept 22 at 0508, R. Dabanga weakly audible, and once again with the oscillating/whine jamming I have not heard for weeks; RD much better on 13620 at 0509 but with SAH from 1000 Hz tone jammer, ID in passing. During this semihour, 13730 is Wertachtal, GERMANY, and 13620 is MADAGASCAR (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. WORLD OF RADIO 1583 monitoring: first airing starting late at 0332 UT Thursday Sept 22 on WRMI, confirmed on webcast, but 9955 checked at 0345 was nothing but wall-of-noise jamming; tnx a lot, Arnie! Further WRMI times, some jammed, some not, some partially: Thu 1500, 2100, Fri 0500, 1430, Sat 0800, 1500, 1730, Sun 0800, 1530, 1730. . . On WTWW: Thu 2100 9479, UT Sun 0400 5755 On WBCQ: Thu 2130 7415, UT Mon 0300v 5110v-CUSB On WWRB: UT Fri 0330v 5051 On WRN via SiriusXM: Sat & Sun 1730, Sun 0830 Full schedule at http://www.worldofradio.com/radioskd.html (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. Is WWRB ever changing to 3195? Homepage http://www.wwrb.org has station news (automatically?) dated Sept 22 but with nothing new on Sept 22, still claiming in the first item dated Aug 17 that on Sept 1 it would go on ``winter`` schedule using 3195, but never heard there. Global II program schedule does show 3195 at 2300-0400 (and long-abandoned 12180 [really 12182, was it?] before that), while Global I stays on 5050 [sic], but the ``program`` schedules have been outdated for a long time, still also showing Global IV on 15795, which was really used only for a few days, months ago (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) See also SOUTH CAROLINA [non] ** U S A. 15810 & 15840, Sept 22 at 1232, WWCR 15825 spurs with // modulation during gospel huxter complaining about the cussing and treatment he got from DIs at Parris Island, tsk2. Es-enhanced, and SSOB along with VOA Greenville Spanish 15590; later 15825 weakened (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) See also SOUTH CAROLINA [non] ** U S A. 12100, WTWW-3, back to non-24-hour operation. Inaudible around 0530 Sept 22 but could have been propped out; however, also certainly off at 1252; on with Biblical Arabic at next check 1318 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 1510+, Sept 22 at 1202 UT, sportstalk with het, so KCTE Independence MO is still off-frequency, but is still turning off its transmitter at night, no het when tuned by before 1200 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. Perhaps due to a storm a couple hours earlier, local 1640 KFXY found to be off the air, Sept 22 at 1149 UT, so on the FRG-7 with E-W longwire I concentrate on hearing whatever is uncovered --- a couple very weak signals; must be too late for WTNI; 1151 there is Spanish music with a Cuban tinge, but surely no Cuban propagation or transmission either, but count a SAH amounting to 3.3 Hz; 1156 SAH continues but music stops; 1158 vocal music fades in, seems Spanish, romantic or gospel? 1200 YL announcement, probably ID, but just too weak to copy, drat! However, this was surely KBJA, Sandy UT, the only US station on 1640 in Spanish, per NRC-AM Log 2011-2012, and would have been still on night power of 1 kW. Next check at 1216, KFXY was back on, ``Faith 1640`` blasting away but with modulation dropouts during OKC weather and traffic. Before that, I also checked adjacent frequencies which didn`t have to worry about KFXY ACI: 1630, Sept 22 at 1150 UT, Mexican music, 1201 full ID by that super-hype locutor as KRND, Fox Farm, Wyoming, http://www.lajotamexicana.com This was generally much stronger than 1650 from Denver. Since they are both typical X-banders, 10/1 kW non-direxional, does this mean that KRND was really on day power? 1650, Sept 22 at 1152 UT, Spanish music here too, 1157 mentions Cristo, and Radio Luz, 1200 ID as KBJD Denver (Glenn Hauser, Enid OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. Sept 22 at 1218 UT sunrise after chasing Mexicans, reset handheld DX-398 to 9 kHz MW intervals and with usual technique of stepping thru lower channels with slightly mistuned BFO, heard very weak carriers on 702 and 774. 774 looped NW/SE, i.e. our most common Trans-Pacific, JOUB, 500 kW NHK2 Akita, Japan. 702 looped more E/W, so suspect 2BL, 50 kW ABC Sydney, Australia, which other NAm MW DXers have been getting (Glenn Hauser, Enid OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. 15300-SSB, Sept 22 at 1309, INTRUDERS, colloquial Spanish 2-way, including unprofessional whistling, but never heard a ``puta-madre`` for three minutes! The stronger one with ``engine noise``. Right on RFI`s frequency, but no sign of it, maybe not really transmitting at this hour (Glenn Hauser, 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
