** ARGENTINA. 11710.57 approx., August 1 at 0158, RAE varied again, S5 signal just barely modulated, but I think I hear an RAE ID go by (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** BOLIVIA. 6025, August 1 at 0110, JBA carrier on the FRG-7 squeezed between jamming/Martí 6030 and CRI/Albania 6020; and at 0147 also JBAC on the NRD-545. According to Aoki, the only station anywhen anywhere on 6025 is R. Illimani, 10 kW ND La Paz, Bolivia, 0930-0400 in Spanish/Aymara a.k.a. Red Patria Nueva, 0930-0300 in WRTH; but I would like a little modulation which would be more likely at 0930. However, HFCC A-15 has five stations on 6025! All imaginary/inactive? Only one at this hour, Lhasa which would be post-sunrise (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BRAZIL. 11855.41 approx., August 1 at 0202, Brazuguese talk, S5 from R. Aparecida (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CUBA [and non]. 590, August 1 at 0208, operatic solo by YL from NW/SE, 0212 brief Spanish announcement and more aria; must be R. Musical Nacional, and wow, no problem from Omaha, or Pueblo for that matter. WRTH shows CMBF, 25 kW at La Julia MB. Parallel IDing is not an option with the *only* other CMBF listed in WRTH on 1140. Website http://cmbfradio.cu mentions only 590 AM and 99.1 FM --- surely as serious/classical music network it`s mostly on FM ``tiny Caribbean`` island-wide? Sked chex, http://www.cmbfradio.cu/programacion.php?day=viernes&id=9 with `La Opera` at 2200-2228 EDT Fridays. And two hours later `A Coro`, which I don`t think is Arnie singing! They also claim to stream on Audio Real which launches as Windows Media, just as mixed up as RHC with its constant plugs for Real Audio (not). Indeed I try that: mms://media.enet.cu/radiomusicalnacional at 0442 and do hear choral music at only 32 kbps. Back to hi-fi/stereo KUSP I always listen to UT Saturdays 03-05 for `On Site` starting with local classical performances including the Carmel Bach Festival and the Cabrillo New Music Festival (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CUBA [and non]. 11775, August 1 at 0200, regular Cuban pulse jamming can be detected in the heavy sideband splash of 11780 RNA/RNB Brasil which however, is not putting out the usual further spurs. R. Martí has not used 11775 for several years now, but the DentroCuban Jamming Command doesn`t know or doesn`t care. Maybe one residual transmitter, as I don`t notice it when Anguilla or WHRI are running on 11775 earlier (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** EGYPT. 9315, August 1 at 0207, R. Cairo is S9+20 but OCDA to JBM in presumed English (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ETHIOPIA [non]. 15470, July 31 at 1703, no signal from alleged new clandestine in Amharic, which had been registered for Fridays only 1600-1800 via IRRS, which means via ROMANIA. Altho I reminded the DXLD yg about this shortly before, NO replies seen of anyone hearing it or even trying to hear it. BTW, BSKSA in Bambara is also registered exactly same time and frequency daily, presumably imaginary as IIRC Bambara was canceled? Altho not much audible on 19m, Saudi Arabia q.v. is making it else-frequency, so propagation sufficient (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** GREECE. 9420, August 1 at 0114, VOG with Greek music, but no // 9935 this time. However, at 0156 I find that same Avlis transmitter active on 11645 since it`s putting out humbuzz/propeller noise atop the talk modulation which is // 9420, still no 9935 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MEXICO [and non]. 620, July 31 at 0459 UT, ``La Norteñita`` briefly overrides KMKI The Metroplex, i.e. XEBU, Chihuahua2; and KMKI, technically Plano, is still Radio Disney tho it`s being sold to the cluster including KSKY-660 officially licensed to another suburb (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** NIGERIA. 9690-, July 31 at 0558, VON drumming prélude with extremely distorted modulation, // weaker 7255-, 0600 announcement opening Hausa is slightly better, merely suptorted on both (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** OKLAHOMA. *0148:14.5 UT August 1, my streetlite ignites with a wideband RF noise burst, which means it`s about time to check again for KETU/KEOR Catoosa/Sperry/Tulsa to cut off the 1120 air amid Mexican music, and that does happen at 0150:13.5*, which is 2 seconds later than last night. I wonder if it slips at a constant 2-second rate, à la Radio Chaski, or just varies/margin of error. Time will tell (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** OMAN. 9740, August 1 at 0113, poor signal in Arabic? Nothing on 9500, nor 15140, so presumably RSO only one frequency-late instead of two (9740 sked at 22-24). At 0205, JBAC on 9740: Iran in Urdu is scheduled 0120-0220 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SAUDI ARABIA. 15205, July 31 at 1707, bits of Qur`an and plain talk in Arabic from BSKSA, scheduled 16-18 but achieving only poor S3 signal; better S7 with different Arabic service on 15435. Both HFCC listed with exactly same parameters, 500 kW, 320 degrees USward, 25 degree slew, 216 antenna, so why the disparity? A propagation check since nothing on 15470 audible for ETHIOPIA [non], q.v. (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 7261.0-USB, August 1 at 0232, I am bandscanning thru the 40/41 mb in USB mode to find something besides hams, but here`s a ham in USB mode! Ragchewer finally IDs as KJ5GT, I think, no fonetix, and his Js sounds like his Gs; much weaker contact is also in USB mode. I guess LSB on 40m is a convention, not a requirement, so why not? ARRL shows: CHAVEZ, ALFRED A, KJ5GT, ALBUQUERQUE, NM 87110 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 7425, August 1 at 0238, music and talk in Spanish, mentions ``la capital habanera`` so something to do with Cuba. O, it`s // 7365 R. Martí mixed with some weaker Spanish, i.e. // Vatican Radio relay (violating Separation of Church and State --- how much longer before Brother Scare demands airtime from IBB?) on 7305 --- so a rare leapfrog mixing product from Greenville, 7305 over 7365 another 60 kHz higher (should also check for mirror/reverse leapfrog on 7245). 7425 audible on both the NRD-545 and PL-880 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A [and non]. WORLD OF RADIO 1784 monitoring: confirmed Friday July 31 at 2130 on WRMI 15770; and at 2130:34 on WRMI 7570: roughly equal only fair signals now with 15770 at right angle to us and 7570 toward us but absorbed. Next: 0630 UT Saturday HLR 7265-CUSB 1430 UT Saturday HLR 7265-CUSB 1930vUT Saturday WA0RCR 1860-AM 0315vUT Sunday WA0RCR 1860-AM 2100 UT Sunday WRMI 15770 2300 UT Sunday WRMI 11580 0300vUT Monday WBCQ 5110v Area 51 0330 UT Monday WRMI 9955 1100 UT Tuesday WRMI 9955 0630 UT Wednesday HLR 7265-CUSB 1315 UT Wednesday WRMI 9955 1430 UT Wednesday HLR 7265-CUSB 2100 UT Wednesday WBCQ 7490v (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 15550-USB, July 31 at 1704, no signal detectable from WJHR; often buried in the noise level, but not even the NRD-545 can pull anything, while neighbor 15610 WEWN is sufficient. So, off the air? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 770, July 31 at 0500 UT, CBS news from E/W running one word *ahead* of 780 WBBM, 0505 UT national ad, no ID, 0506 `Red Eye Radio`. Must be KKOB Albuquerque NM, an RER carrier, but the last I knew it was with ABC news (and that always seemed out of place, as originally NBC along with KOB-TV). NRC AM Log of a year ago had it with ABC. Website sked http://www.770kkob.com/on-air-programs/ doesn`t bother to mention news on the hour, but does now carry some CBS extended news programs especially weekends. I guess `Perspective` from ABC news is also gone. As for the website, it depends on linking to CNN for news stories (IIRC, CNN is no longer in the radio network news biz). Usual quandary here whether I am hearing 50 kW North Valley main transmitter bleeding around the edges of its pattern supposedly protecting WABC in almost the same direxion but a hazard to balloonists; and/or the 230-watt ND fill-in KKOB in Santa Fe on the air only at night. Couldn`t the latter at least be granted a separate callsign, like KKOB-1? I am still espering for someone to arrange a DX test on Santa Fe with the Albuquerque deliberately turned off, however briefly in the middle of the night (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 810, August 1 at 0215 UT, cowboy instrumental music including steel guitar, coming in fine on the NRD-545 with N/S shortwire, but ``looping`` east/west on the PL-880 ferrite (which I have to keep away from the noisy NRD display panel); 0217 UT ``Santa Fe`s best hoedown country music, AM 810``. KSWV NM has long been a hybrid, ``Qué Suave`` but bilingual; still partly Spanish? I haven`t had a chance to listen to it locally in far too long. Obviously on 5 kW day power, not 10 watts night, both ND. Oops, official July sunset is 0215 UT, from tomorrow in local August, 0200 UT. Should have stayed with KSWV longer to note when they really disappeared. 770 KKOB already overtaken by something in Spanish (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) This report despatched at 0537 UT August 1 _ 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
