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** BRAZIL. 11750 & 11810, May 18 at 0545, big dirty parasitic spurs of
extremely distorted music obviously // and emanating from 11780 RNA transmitter
which itself is slightly overmodulated. Also can hear a JBA second-order one
another 30 kHz up at 11840, but not at 11720 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** CHINA. 17855, May 18 at 0539, very poor signal in Chinese, another E.T.
transmission to go with CRI German on 17820? No, HFCC shows 05-06, CRI English,
500 kW, 288 degrees from Beijing site. BUT that`s a false lead since in Aoki we
find what else is there: RFA Chinese at 03-06, 100 kW, 310 degrees from SAIPAN
and thus *jammed, likely the latter we are hearing.
17735, May 18 at 1306, CNR1 jammer during pop music show, good // 11785. This
one is vs BBC Uzbek via Thailand at 1300-1330 only.
19010, May 18 at *1308 very good open carrier comes on, 1308:45 adding CNR1
modulation. At 1307 I had been unable to hear any RFA Tibetan via Kuwait on
19010 or any other frequency on this band, but the ChiCom must have found it.
Per Aoki, 19010 is its Sunday-only frequency at 11-12 & 13-14. CNR1 jammer
19010 still in well at 1336.
17300, May 18 at 1336, CNR1 jammer, good with Chinese pop music show
16920, May 18 at 1336, CNR1 jammer, good
15565, May 18 at 1354, CNR1 jammer, poor, no hets audible
15265, 15195, 15115, May 18 at 1337, usual CNR1 jammers, vs targets
14600, May 18 at 1339, CNR1 jammer, good with C-pop; none in 13s, 12s
11805 & 11785, May 18 at 1340, usual CNR1 jammers, vs targets
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CYPRUS. 15804-15827, May 18 at 0540, OTH radar pulsing, presumed from here
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** EAST TURKISTAN. 17820, May 18 at 0538, in German about China, and Chinese
music, poor with flutter; it`s CRI via Urumqi at 05-07, 500 kW, 308 degrees
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** SUDAN [and non]. 15550, May 18 at 0542, multiple tones jamming, and hardly
anything audible from R. Dabanga itself, via UAE. Just like on 11650 via
Vatican (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** TAIWAN. On May 1, Keith Perron notified us that the first tests of PCJ
Radio`s own 20 kW transmitter in Taiwan would be Sunday May 18 at 13-14 UT on
11765; so we were looking for it: at 1257, JBA carrier, probably end of RTI
Vietnamese as scheduled; after 1300 and some further chex, zero, but could be
on and not making it here, also heavy RHC on 11760.
Later we learn that the test frequency was changed to 15680, but Keith never
told us, just put it on Facebook. Too late for us to check 15680. Before
posting a reminder of the ``11765`` test, I had looked for any update at
http://www.pcjmedia.com/ but found nothing at all about it (nor any link to
Facebook). Info limited to Facebook does NOT reach everyone in the DX world,
including yours truly. Alan Pennington in UK pointed out that 15680 was
occupied by R. Farda, via Lampertheim, Germany site. Sei-ichi Hasegawa in Japan
was able to hear PCJ fair to good on 15680, not Lampertheim, and he adds,
``Probably 15680 kHz is thought to be the same transmitter and antenna in QSY
from 11765 kHz Paochung 100 kW 205 degrees`` which would not be PCJ`s own unit
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 5830, WTWW-1 fair and 5085, WTWW-2 poor, still on at 1343 Sunday May
18, and 12105, WTWW-3 not on yet. So they`re back to 1400v for the change to
9475 and 9930, having done it circa 1300 on May 16; still undecided (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** VATICAN. 15570, May 18 at 0541, VR very good in Luso Portuguese to Africa;
while 15595 with Latin mass is much weaker. Per Aoki the difference is:
15570, 500 kW at 175 degrees
15595, 100 kW at 107 degrees (on Sundays, but 250 kW other days)
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
This report despatched at 1547 UT May 18
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