** ALBANIA [and non]. 7425, monitoring for R. Tirana, Oct 31-UT Nov 1: at 2335, 7425 is occupied by a strong Chinese station! HFCC shows CRI Kunming toward the south. You might not think it a problem here, but it is! So ALR should not use 7425 for anything at this hour.
At 0005: 7425 ALR is now on but poor signal with co-channel about equal level, both unusable. During this hour there is another Chinese transmission, CRI English also aimed south, from Kashgar. So if R. Tirana cannot get Chinese friends to move off 7425, the Albanian service to NAm at 00-01 needs to move off 7425! There is also a station on 7430 which is about equal level, not a big problem, but since 7420 and 7415 are now open, R. Tirana should shift to 7420 for best results. 7430 is VOR, 500 kW, 305 degrees via ARMENIA at 23-04. At 0105, something is on 7425! Oh, it must be R. Tirana running overtime, cut off abruptly past 0106. Then the frequency is open. 7425 (and 7420) remain open until 0300. So any half-hour in that span would be good for R. Tirana`s only remaining English broadcast to NAm, instead of at 1530 on 13640. I think 0230 is being considered. 13640, another check of the NAm service for now, Nov 1 at 1528 carrier is on, but heavy flutter and even Doppler wobble with BFO due to G1 storm. 1529 IS, 1530 opening but so poor I cannot copy anything except it`s the OM instead of the usual YL, so maybe it`s a new schedule announcement by him (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** AUSTRALIA. The 18.9-19+ MHz SW band is extremely underutilized, nothing at all on it in most of A-11, but B-11 HFCC shows not only NEW ZEALAND [q.v.] but RA Shepparton: 19000 0000 0200 56,60-63,76,77 SHP 100 70 0 216 1234567 301011 250312 D 15870 Mul AUS ABC ABC 14008 But no trace of it on half-hourly chex Nov 1; propagation not so good anyway, but the 70 degree beam is the most favorable for NAm beyond the central Pacific. Maybe 19000 is alternate for 17795 at 00-02, altho on that frequency it`s 50 degrees to partly different zones. No mention of 19000 on RA`s own current schedule: http://www.radioaustralia.net.au/pdf/frequency_guide.pdf But these never show any date or season, so one can only guess whether they are current or still showing outdated previous A-11 info! Is anyone hearing RA on 19000? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENINGN DIGEST) ** CHINA. Firedrake Nov 1, before 1400; not much, with geomag storm causing extreme flutter on most signals; see USA: WTWW entry: 17170, very poor at 1340 16100, JBA at 1338; none in the 15s, 14s, 13s 12230, good but heavy flutter at 1343 10300, poor at 1344 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** COSTA RICA. 9280-9950 approx., awful splatter from totally out of whack REE Cariari transmitter on 9630, Nov 1 at 0515 ruining everything on 31m with only a few strong signals almost overcoming it, such as Russia on 9840. No doubt about source as despite extreme distortion, could // modulation to 3350, and only with BFO could still detect a carrier on 9630. The mush was worse, the closer to 9630, of course, tapering toward the edges of above range. Presumably continued until 0600*, still same at final check 0539. Fingers crossed that they get it fixed before next 02-06 analog broadcast Nov 2. May well have something to do with DRM, as same transmitters is in that mode from 9630 at 00-02. What brand unit is that, anyway? It`s gone haywire before, but not this bad (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) See also SPAIN ** CUBA [and non]. Nov 1, the third day of B-11 and the DentroCuban Jamming Command still hasn`t adjusted for R. Martí`s new schedule: 5745, RM fair with no jamming after 1300 11845, heavy jamming against nothing at 1319 11930, RM very good with no jamming at 1319 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** GERMANY [non]. 9810 > 9855 > 9800 in descending order of strength, Nov 1 at 0519 DW English via RWANDA at 0 degrees; notable that tonight 9855 was way atop VOR English to W North America, 50 degrees from Vladivostok. When will frequency managers ever catch on that there are far more significant propagation factors than mere azimuths and nominal CIRAF target areas? This time with awful QRM from COSTA RICA, q.v. (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** GUAM. 5765-USB, AFN, Nov 1 at 1308 discussing Denver snowstorm, on NBC Today Show? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** INDIA. 15050, Nov 1 at 1338, nothing but noise, sounds like low-rate DRM, instead of AM in AIR Sinhala service 13-15. In A-11 this was the Delhi-Khampur site, which is DRM-capable, presumably still same in B-11 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** KAZAKHSTAN. 9310, Nov 1 at 1317, gospel huxter in English about god and earthquakes, poor with flutter and audio rather thin. It`s YFR via Almaty, 11-14, 300 kW, 121 degrees per HFCC (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** KUWAIT. 21540, Nov 1 at 1341 check, MOI is still here on the third day of B-11 despite registration to move to 21520; as yet very poor signal with Arabic music atop Spain, as all signals degraded by G1 geomag storm, K=5 at 1200, 3 at 1500. 15540, checking whether this is still in English, Nov 1 at 1758 carrier, 1800 accurate timesignal barely audible, but too poor to copy anything else (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MEXICO. 1030, Nov 1 at 1355 UT, was not expecting to hear a Mexican an hour after sunrise here, but there are Grupo Fórmula promos, 1356 Banco de México ad listing lots of 0800 toll-free numbers, roughly from east/west, 1358 losing out to C&W station. First I figured it might be Tijuana still in darkness, but that`s not Fórmula, instead per Cantú: 1030 XEYC Radio Fórmula Cd. Juárez, Chih. 5,000 500 IRCA agrees on the group for this one, but Tampico, now surely too far east into dayside, is on another Fórmula network. Sunrise in Juárez was 1322 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** NEW ZEALAND. 18910, altho HFCC B11 shows this as an RNZI DRM frequency at 23-04, both 325 and 35 degrees with 25 kW each, starting 30 Oct, nothing heard at several chex 23-03 UT Oct 31-Nov 1. O, HFCC also remarx ``tests``. RNZI`s posted schedule http://www.rnzi.com/pages/listen.php shows 17675 instead. 6170, RNZI is by mistake back on A-11 frequency! Nov 1 at 1307 news of Cook Islands, NZ, nothing on 5950 which we did confirm in use Oct 30, the first day of B-11; still audible on 6170 at 1346 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** NIGERIA. 15120, Nov 1 at 0454, drumming and ``Voice of Nigeria, Lagos`` ID (not Abuja??), big S9+15 signal but the hum/whine is so heavy today vs undermodulated audio that it`s pointless to try to listen further. What a joke! (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** RUSSIA. 9996, Nov 1 at 1309, RWM CW IDs beating against WWV/H 10000, 1310 resuming time pips. Happens at :09 and :39 past the hours from the Moscow station (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** RUSSIA [and non]. 9840, Nov 1 at 0514, VOR in English to WNAm via Pet/Kam, is well atop collision with R. Rossii via Moskva; you never know from one night to the next which region propagation will favor --- last night they were about equal, unusable. // 12030 VOR in the clear altho somewhat weaker, also 70 degrees from P.K. Meanwhile the // 9855 via Vladivostok was useless under DW/RWANDA collision, as I also reported previously. Awful QRM to all of 31m from totally out of whack REE 9630; see COSTA RICA (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SPAIN [non]. COSTA RICA transmitter ruining 31m: q.v. Wolfgang Büschel has been complaining about a similar problem from Noblejas, which fortunately I have not noted over here: ``15585: heavy spurious signals from Noblejas spread over the 19 mb in range 15363 to 15750 kHz at 1545 UT when checked Greece 15.6+ MHz. This TX fault in Spain lasts now 3 months in duration. Spanish DXer help, please phone contact manager FERNANDO HERNAN-PEREZ on REE bc house! <[email protected]> 73 Wolfgang`` 21610, Nov 1 at 1532 rechecking for quadrilingual REE news headlines when they ought to appear after timeshift, but also today Tuesday it`s something else: `Paisajes y Sabores`. I keep forgetting to check at 1430, their old and possibly remaining time, but could be anywhen or nowhen now (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SUDAN [and non]. 13620, Nov 1 at 0524, continuous 1 kHz tone jammer with lite CCI, presumably CRI as now scheduled, instead of R. Dabanga, as Bashir regime still hasn`t caught on that Dabanga is no longer there in B-11. Here`s where it is: 7315, Nov 1 at 0528, numerous ``Radio Dabanga`` singing and spoken IDs over and over, also mentioned Darfur in Arabish. I bet there were 25 IDs in the next five minutes! Need to count them sometime; wish I had a clicker handy in my palm. Good S9+20 signal and no jamming (audible yet). As in my previous report, 7315 is 500 kW, 135 degrees from Issoudun, FRANCE, // 11940 same, and 500 kW, 255 degrees from Dhabayya, UAE, all at 0430-0557, apparently no longer jumping sites every semihour. I doubt the other two were propagating here, altho not checked deliberately since I didn`t have the new schedule at hand (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U K [non]. 15400, Nov 1 at 0455 S9+18 open carrier, must be BBCWS from somewhere warming up, probably Africa, as VON is at same level on 15120 tho self-destructively unlistenable, (and also S9+12 OC on 15580 from VOA Botswana). At 0459, 15400 is modulating conclusion of previous program! How slipshod. Then BBCWS ID and on to news from 0500. HFCC shows it`s 250 kW, 330 degrees from Meyerton, SOUTH AFRICA – same azimuth originally used for Radio RSA to North America, but now it`s supposedly going no further than West Africa. Sorry, BBC, we can still hear you well despite your intention to cut off North America from SW service! Scheduled 05-07, then switching to Ascension until 1030 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A [non]. 15480, Nov 1 at 0456, S9+20 with ``What a Friend We Have in Jesus`` on panpipe and chimes; 0458 ``Sweet Hour of Prayer``; 0500 AWR theme, ID in English but no site given, introducing Arabic. Equally good signal to BBC on 15400 from SOUTH AFRICA, and this is too, HFCC saying 04-06, 250 kW, 19 degrees from Meyerton in Arabic both hours (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 9955, Nov 1 at 0523, surprised to hear on WRMI the tobacco-stained voice of Doctor Jerry Plummer, and that of Brady Murray, on a stale `Ask WWCR` we heard weeks ago discussing the mid-September HFCC Dallas conference and some of the people they met, not including yours truly. Scheduled at 0515 UT Tuesdays is `Viva Miami`, apparently ceded to WWCR this week. Also with pulse jamming courtesy Coro & Co. (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. BTW2, while consulting HFCC about WYFR on 6875, re unID q.v. pirate on 6925, I see that WWCR also has a new wooden registration for 6875! The 46-degree rhombic at 23-02 from 7 November to 10 March, 22-01 UT before and after while DST reigns. That wood be alternate to 3195, which is also shown not only at 22-01/23-02 but also unchanging 06-10, the latter also obviously wooden alternate to 3215. 5070 might also be used instead of 5890 at 07-12 on the 90-degree antenna. WWCR now has posted not only their Week Of Confusion transmitter schedule, but the next one from Nov 7 at: http://www.wwcr.com/transmitter-sched.html which indeed does *not* show 6875 or the other alternates above (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 12105, Nov 1 at 1320, WTWW-3 Arabic JBA due to propagation disturbance instead of usual loud & clear; WTWW-1 PPP was better tho not up to usual powerhouse level. WWV reported: ``Solar-terrestrial indices for 31 October follow. Solar flux 138 and mid-latitude A-index 7. The mid-latitude K-index at 1200 UTC on 01 November was 5 (93 nT). The mid-latitude K-index at 1500 UTC on 01 November was 3 (36 nT). Space weather for the past 24 hours has been minor. Geomagnetic storms reaching the G1 level occurred. Space weather for the next 24 hours is predicted to be minor. Radio blackouts reaching the R1 level are likely.`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 21630, Nov 1 at 1759, WHRI is not solid, but plenty strong, and with heavy short/longpath echo before sign-off. Strange propagation today, meaning that this had to transit the darkside over a 38-megameter path to get here the long/wrong way (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 770, Nov 1 at *1345 UT, KKOB Albuquerque cuts on non-direxional 50 kW day pattern with programming about stox in progress, no greeting to us eastward listeners. Good signal held up for several minutes despite starting a semihour later than in Oct. Official sunrise gets later and later, 1400 in Dec, 1415 in Jan, while sunset is oblately at its earliest, 0000 UT, both in Nov and Dec (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 1460, Nov 1 at 1332, long list of unrecognizable local businesses, but one mentioned Burleson, and area code 817-645 ----. Show seems to be named ``Trade Fare`` (Fair?), i.e. KCLE in Cleburne but COL Burleson TX, 11 kW day power, way over KZUE in OK which is the 1460 occupant here daytimes once skywave dies out (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** VATICAN [non]. 9790, Nov 1 at 1312 VR goes from music bit to IS, as they habitually do at the *end* of transmissions. This being new frequency of the PUG = Palauig, PHILIPPINES relay courtesy RVA, 1228-1315 in Chinese, 250 kW, 331 degrees (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED [and non]. 6925 AM, Nov 1 at 0506, music marred by one of my cable DTV boxes which has decided it will bubble-jam this frequency tonight! 0508 announcement about a story, mentions Boris Karlov, ``Just Inside the Cemetery``. Hope someone such as Brian Alexander got an ID on this one, as he did of my previous log on 6940 as: Radio Malta, Europirate! BTW, RTI via WYFR is back on 6875 at 03-07, in Mandarin at the moment, pushing S9+25+, so strong that it desensitizes reception around it. Pirates need to stay at least 40 kHz away from 6875 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. 13380, Nov 1 at 0458, huge S9+22 open carrier, still at 0514. Suspiciously like Cuban intelligence; did not monitor continuously in case there were any digital data bursts. Retune just in time to hear it cut off at 0526:45* tho there may have been other offs-and-ons meanwhile or later. Once the Revolution fracases, we can hope the truth about all this, and jamming facilities come out (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
