** AUSTRALIA. 12075, April 4 at 1326 I check RBA 24 hours later, and here it is again with medley leadup to S Asian transmission, good with some flutter, and at 1330 again claims to be on 11590! I retune at 1429 to detect whether there is a collision with IBB Burmese via Tinian as in HFCC for 1430-1500. At first seems like there is, but no, was only own RBA music mixing with talk, for from 1430 talk only there is no CCI.
1451 recheck, 12075 is off! By now, Aoki has 12075 instead of 11590 for RBA, but at 1330-1445 only, no English --- BBC Singapore in Urdu is on 12075 from 1500 so that`s why, but where did RBA English go? Still not back on 11590. I scan the entire 25m band but find it nowhere. The other S Asian service in English is presumably what is poorly audible on 15340 at 1455 and will last until 1530? Not per Aoki, which on this frequency now shows a gap from 1445 to 1515, then English at 1515-1600. Searching Aoki, there is no replacement for 12075/11590 English at 1445-1530. What I heard on 15340 at 1455 could have been instead of RBA, SOH/CNR1 jamming up to 1630. Time for another try at the RBA website for possible accurate update? http://www.reachbeyond.org.au/site/DefaultSite/filesystem/documents/publications/Reach/Beyond/Australia/A15/Program/Schedule.pdf No, it`s still ``V 1.0, March 5 2015`` [sic; a month old!] claiming to run separate English at 1445-1530 on 15340 and 11590. But this is labeled ``Listeners Edition`` --- so maybe it`s disinfo and they really have an internal schedule about what they are really doing, not to be shared. BTW, in this part of my previous report I wrote 11580 instead of 11590, corrected: Ivo Ivanov later noticed that 15340 stayed on late today until 1600, while 11590 was off since April 1, but he hadn`t found 12075. Extended probably because of ``Good Friday`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BANGLADESH. 15505, April 4 at 1359-1400+, not even a JBA carrier detectable from BB today to clock its mistimesignal, so suspect it`s off. + 6 MHz matcher for fine tuning, 21505 Sa`udi is in well enough (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BRAZIL. 11815, 11745 & 11710, April 4 at 0116 crackling spurs from 11780.1v RNA/RNB. The 11745 one seems to be wider than usual down past 11740, but it`s rather blending with splatter from 11730, now at 0118 VATICAN IS direct to S Asia at 0040-0200, the final third-hour in English (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BULGARIA [non]. Utwente hears no signal on 9525 at 1820-1845 UT. Please check around the 31mb (or beyond?) in case there is an unknown replacement for the Global 24 Saturday broadcast, which last week was 18-22 UT, starting with The Rock Pile at 18-20, Blues Radio International at 20-21, G24 News at 2100-2130, World of Radio at 2130-2200. As I mentioned before, CRI Russian in A-15 is now scheduled from Beijing site on 9525 at 19-21, which would make a big collision (also Indonesia could be on 9526-). I asked Jeff Demers about this and he says that Bulgaria gave them no options for this week, so not sure if that means staying on 9525, or nothing at all. It`s also not clear whether the previous WRMI transmissions will be happening this weekend. Rechecking Utwente remote at 1857, still nothing on 9525, but 9515 is on with CRI prélude, 1900 opening Czech; back to 9525, and now it`s on in Russian, bigsig and nothing else (Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CHINA. CNR1 jammers morning of April 4; none in the 18s or 16s but: 17900, April 4 at 1425, CNR1 jammer, very poor with flutter and ute? QRM. Unusual spot; latest Aoki shows unusually precise frequencies: 17900.293 2330-1330 TWN * SOH Xi Wang Zhi Sheng Chi ? 1-7 I don`t try to measure it. At this time the only other 16mb signals are 17790 WRMI, 17730 RHC, 17615 Cairo; not even the East Turkistanis 12870, April 4 at 1432, CNR1 jammer, good with flutter 12910, April 4 at 1432, CNR1 jammer, good with flutter 12980, April 4 at 1432, CNR1 jammer, good with flutter 13530, April 4 at 1434, CNR1 jammer, good with flutter 14870, April 4 at 1435, CNR1 jammer, very good with flutter 14920, April 4 at 1435, CNR1 jammer, very good with flutter 15970, April 4 at 1435, CNR1 jammer, good with flutter 15775, April 4 at 1435, CNR1 jammer, good with flutter 15115, April 4 at 1436, CNR1 jammer, very good with flutter, CCI 11785, April 4 at 1442, CNR1 jammer poor with flutter 11500, April 4 at 1443, CNR1 jammer, fair 11470, April 4 at 1443, CNR1 jamer, poor with flutter 10870, April 4 at 1444, CNR1 jammer, fair with flutter; none in the 9s, 8s or 7s After logging all these I put one receiver on 14870 and quickly recheck the others for synchrony: the only ones matching 14870 are 14920 and 11500; but I can`t be sure all the others are synchro with each other (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** EGYPT [and non]. 11897-11913, April 4 at 0110, no blob tonight from R. Cairo as reported last night, a horrible wideband FMy distorted mess. So now I try to figure out where it was coming from. Of the previously listed alternative registered frequencies from Abis, 12035 is not on the air, but on 11935, RB2, Brasil has some CCI making a LAH since ZY is always off-frequency. 12070 is on as usual, very suptorted during Spanish service. Recheck at 0145, I can now barely tell that the music under Brasil is // 12070, so that`s it! But this 11935 Cairo signal is even weaker than Brasil, nowhere near the level it was putting out as an extremely distorted spur. 13850, April 4 at 0531, this distorted Cairo frequency now has wobbly spurs at plus and minus 10, QRMing R. Japan in French on 13840 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** OMAN. 9500, April 4 at 0124, fair signal with Qur`an, i.e. RSO, as now registered for 00-02 on 315 degree antenna for W Europe, but easily carrying on to N America. How many Europeans are up in the middle of the night to listen to this?? It isn`t even Ramadan yet. Stronger than 9510 Iran, which we heard Qur`aning 24.5 hours earlier, but no 9500 then. Currently registered alternatives for the 00-02 period from RSO are 9650, 12015. Of course, from previous behavior, they could also show up on earlier frequencies supposed to end at 2400 or even 2200 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** PERU. 5980, April 4 at *0107 my streetlite fires up, clear sky after sunset at 0055*. And at 0107 the JBA carrier of R. Chaski is on until cutoff at 0107:14.5*. This time it was so clear that I could tell it did so in two steps, first step weakened, then in a split second, totally off*. Last nite it was timed at 0107:09.5* so this is 5.0 seconds later (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SPAIN. 15490, Saturday April 4 at 1455, REE is fair here with silly ballgame hype, but no signal on 15450; 17715 has a JBA carrier, maybe this; no 17855 and nothing on 21 MHz. April 4 at 1906-1908 after any frequency changes should have happened, I look for REE again: 17715 fair and 15490 good, none of the others: no 17855, leaving France 17850 unscathed; nothing on 21 MHz; no 15450, 17755; and for good measure nothing audible on former 12030, 11940 or 9620 but unlikely to propagate anyway now (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SRI LANKA. 11905, in the clear April 4 at 0115, but zero signal from SLBC, so no mistimesignal to monitor either. Were they scared off by the Cairo blob last night? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. WORLD OF RADIO 1767 monitoring: confirmed Friday April 3 at 2130.5 on WRMI 7570 AND still 15770 (a new schedule showed 7570 only, maybe from next week?) Next, including further WRMI changes: Sat 1930v WA0RCR 1860-AM Sat 2130 Global 24 9525 via BULGARIA [last week; but apparently not this week; see BULGARIA] Sun 0315v WA0RCR 1860-AM Sun 2100 WRMI 15770 NEW Sun 2300 WRMI 11580 Mon 0300v WBCQ 5110v Area 51 [SW not on air last week but webcast] Tue 1100 WRMI 9955 Wed 0630 HLR 7265-CUSB Hamburger Lokalradio Wed 1315 WRMI 9955 Wed 1430 HLR 7265-CUSB Hamburger Lokalradio Wed 2100 WBCQ 7490v Thu 0330 WRMI 9955 [or 1768 if ready in time] Thu 1230 WRMI 9955 [ditto] Thu 2100 WRMI 7570 [ditto; NEW] (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 11580 // 9955, UT Sat April 4 at 0122, confirmed RMI main channel 9955 programming is now getting duplicated for a bihour on 11580, as shown in the graphic sked for 9-11 pm [EDT = 01-03 UT]. `Walking in Power`, pervasive preaching is wrapping up on both with Miami address; and at 0135 `Wavescan` is underway with Jeff quoting Solomon Islands and Vanuatu cyclone info from DSWCI. 11580 is on 44 degree antenna toward Europe, while 9955 remains on 160 to Caribbean and S America --- but here, 11580 is quite stronger (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 7490v, April 4 at 0108, WBCQ with UT Sat`s `Allan Weiner Worldwide` now in his second hour with timeshift to start at 0000 UT. Nothing on 5110, 9330 or 15420, so it appears The Planet is down to only one funxional transmitter! But at 0115 he`s bragging about 7490 being hi fidelity, due to a hi-modulation level exciter tnx to TimTron, who can make any transmitter sound like a much more powerful one by optimizing modulation, which is more important than sheer power on AM. He rebuilt the exciter to make this the ``highest fidelity shortwave station, period, on the Planet, guaranteed``. Recheck at 0120 he`s nevertheless talking about programming on 5110 (sounds familiar, is this really a rerun instead of live?), Tuesday night shows at 9 and 11 pm ET; Thursdays at 8 pm, the Lakeside church, 9 pm DJ Fred Moe (originally supposed to be a one-shot), 11 pm Report of the Week (?); says to check the website for sked. OK, but now this is all it shows for 5110 on local Tue or Thu: Tu 5110 11:00PM 12:00AM ET 0300 0400 UTC VORW Th 5110 11:00PM 12:00AM ET 0300 0400 UTC VORW And the only link to more info about that is from our report in January, quoting RW Observer on hfunderground. Apparently still operating remotely from the Land of Fla, AW thinx 5110 is also on the air, but going thru the current e-mail, someone said there was a carrier but no modulation earlier in the hour (I check again: still nothing at all now). By next check at 0141, 7490 has reverted to Brother Scare and his big Passover event, // 9370 WWRB but not synched, solo hymn with organ ``Calvary Love`` [I notice that original MS Word spellcheck redlines this, trying to get us to change it to Cavalry?!] (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 7555, April 4 at 0534, no signal from WEWN Spanish, just the hash from French military on the hi side. Other two transmitters are on, 11520 English, and 11870 Spanish, with, what else, ``dolorosa pasión`` lamentations every few seconds (which they also do every afternoon, when there is precious little moonlight), but as I tune across this time, it`s a YL caller reciting it rather than the unxuous OM host (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 1510, April 4 at 0133 UT, plug the show on now, ``weeknights at 7-10 on The Rock``, from NW/SE amid heavy CCI, ergo KCKK Littleton CO, 10/25 kW (correct) (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 1580, April 4 at 0130 UT, ``Hometown Radio, KGAF`` ID in the QRM, soon overtaken by sportstalk, presumably KREL CO. KGAF is 250/250 watts U2 from Gainesville TX, which is almost-Oklahoma. Night pattern lobito is supposed to head southwest but we are NNW from it. IIRC, KGAF calls used to apply to a bigger station on another frequency, 910? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 1630, April 4 at 0614 UT, as often at bedtime, I had dozed off while bandscanning MW, but wake up a bit now to hear what sounds like ``La Jota de Igualá, 94.7 FM y 1630 AM` during music break. I had earlier nulled KCJJ and was wondering where KKGM in Dallas was. All the while it`s making a fast SAH with one or the other. Thought I had discovered a new Mexican! But fully awake, I realize it was just KRND in Fox Farm WY and what they really must have said was `` La Jota Mexicana``, i.e. NOT Mexican. 94.7 is its FM: See previous logs in DXLD 15-09 and 15-11 and this follow-up: As for the `Jota` name, Rick Barton, AZ, replies: ``I did a double take when I saw your log. You see, the other definition of the word I am familiar with -- is a Mexican slang word for a Lesbian (La Jota being the feminine version, and El Joto or Jotito being the masculine, i.e., "gay"). With that definition in mind, that radio station slogan was amusing to me. But I`m sure that is not the correct answer here`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** URUGUAY. 6125.1, April 4 at 0138, JBA carrier, surely the slow sinking 150-watt Rdif. Nacional del Uruguay on its characteristic off-frequency. HFCC A-15 shows nighttime 6125.0 competition is now only: 0230-0300 IBRA via UAE in Persian 0300-0400 DW via South Africa in Swahili I think we can dispense with RRI Nabire, Indonesia, supposedly at 23-02 & 05-08 which even if active would be local daytime (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** VATICAN. 21550, April 4 at 1905, Catholic cantor in Latin, soon with YL English commentary, good signal but deep fading in Vatican Radio special, since it`s ``Holy Saturday``. Then I look for others: 21560, April 4 at 1905, don`t have to look far for here is same but weaker in Portuguese. 17590, April 4 at 1907, here`s another weaker //, Latin bit, but not staying for translation as I know I can then look all these up at: http://en.radiovaticana.va/special-broadcast Which shows I found all but one, as far as SW goes: Easter Vigil began at 1830, and as always no length specified: 21550 to Africa in English, 9535 to Asia in Chinese 21560 to Africa in Portuguese 17590 to Africa in French While we`re at it, what`s in store for the Big Day tomorrow? Sunday April 5 from 0815 UT, Holy Mass & Easter Message, Urbi et Orbi 21550 to Africa in English 17590 to ME in Arabic 21560 to Africa in Portuguese 21570 to Africa in French VR obviously appreciates that SW really helps the Orbi bit (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) See also BRAZIL _ 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
