** ALASKA. 9920, May 23 at 1520, no signal from KNLS English hour; WRTH Update says it`s ``expected to return in May``, so hurry up. Went off the air in early March due to antenna damage, initially supposed to be back by late March. Must have been more serious than first thought. OTOH, even when on, reception is quite iffy here off the back in a Lower 48. A-15 sked is nominally continuous 08-18 UT alternating Russian, Chinese, English on four different 9 MHz channels and one 7 MHz (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CHINA. 13830, May 23 at 1315, big noise blob atop some talk modulation barely audible. Victim is IBB in ``Bod`` = Tibetan, via Tajikistan at 11-14. Normally we only hear CNR1 jamming. Nothing is too much to block this intrusion. This noise does not sound like DRM. 17665, Sat May 23 at 1320, CNR1 jammer, good signal // 15265. Latest HFCC of May 22 shows 17665 with nothing but IBB Tibetan (Bod) via Tinian at 01-02 Saturdays only. But Aoki adds BBC Uzbek via Oman at 1300-1330 on Sat/Sun/Thu, so China continues to interfere in the internal affairs of Uzbekistan. No others found 12-19 MHz except some more inbanders (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** GERMANY. 15640, May 23 at 0549, good signal with pop vocal music presumably in Arabic, 0554 chat in Arabic; 0600 multilingual ID as Voice of Hope, Radio Mundial Adventista, following program in French. It`s AWR, 250 kW from Nauen, switching from 128 to 188 degrees (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** KOREA SOUTH. 15575, Sat May 23 at 1354:46.5, Kevin O`Donovan in Farmington NM is on this week with listening tips on KBS World Radio, but he gets only 2.5 minutes and covers only three topix: Scandinavian Weekend Radio, Finland, hard to hear in N America so use a remote receiver, but it missed its May broadcast for technical problems; back with two more in June and fifteenth anniversary special in July; The Mighty KBC also difficult in NAm (except 9925), and now available on web with complicated URL I don`t manage to copy. Is that Kraig Krist`s? And KBS reception on 15575 improving with summer. He always closes with ``until next time`` but never says when that will be, as he`s not on every week (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** NIGERIA. 9689.9, May 23 at 0544, VON is already on, good signal with hilife music, presumably as prélude to Hausa at 0600-0630 which has been sporadically appearing. Then check // 7255- and it`s also on early with good signal (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SAO TOME. 4960, Sat May 23 at 0540, open carrier/dead air; must be VOA transmitter left on altho sked M-F only at 0530-0630 in French. Hausa is daily until 0530, and next transmission not until 0700 daily, more Hausa (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 11520, May 23 at 1326, no signal from WEWN English unlike 23.7 hours ago, but back properly on 15610 after 1300 with poor signal (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) This report posted at 1701 UT May 23 _ Hard-Core-DX mailing list Hard-Core-DX@hard-core-dx.com 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
