** ALBANIA. 7465, Jan 30 at 0228, R. Tirana IS at S7, which is insufficient, but quite a bit stronger than the adjacents on 7460 and 7470. 0230 sign-on is too weak to copy what the frequency announcement says. Needs modulation processing boost, such as OPTIMOD (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CUBA. 4765, Jan 30 at 0226, again no signal from R. Progreso; altho I did not report it, 24.6 hours earlier, Jan 29 at 0149, I had noted it was on, with music. So quite unreliable now. Presumably not the source of the 4765 I heard at 1300 Jan 29, rather Tajikistan, altho Cuba was still audible on 5025. Official sked of Cuba 4765 is only 0130-0500 UT during winter time, altho Aoki fails to make the shift from summer timing as 0030-0400 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** KOREA NORTH. 3320, Jan 30 at 1356, very poor, talk seems Korean, which fits for only listing, Pyongyang BS as in Aoki, or PBS Pyongyang Pansong as in EiBi. Also a few minutes earlier had weak 2850, KCBS Pyongyang as in both, but separate services altho same site coördinates per Aoki, and both 50 kW ND (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** OKLAHOMA [and non]. 3280, Jan 30 at 1357 UT, S7 music and talk which matches 1640 KZLS, so second harmonic. Since this attenuates but does not go away as I reduce RF sensitivity on the R75, I think it is really propagated from east of Hennessey site rather than receiver overload. Fortunately there is no longer an Ecuadorian to block here at night, tho there is in EiBi: OYR Aasiaat Radio, Greenland, in English presumably marine weather broadcasts for 10 minutes (USB?) at various H+:05 and H+:35 night and day including 0335, 0635 UT (Glenn Hauser, Enid, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A [and non]. WORLD OF RADIO 1810 monitoring: confirmed on UTwente SDR, Netherlands, Saturday Jan 30 underway at 1535 UT on 7265-CUSB, Hamburger Lokalradio, Göhren, Germany; today I`m copied at R5, well over the CCI from CRI --- what a difference this week, compared to last and other weeks. Next: Sat 2030v WA0RCR 1860-AM ND? Sun 0410v WA0RCR 1860-AM ND? Sun 0900 WRMI 5850 to NW Mon 0400v WBCQ 5110v-CUSB Area 51 to WSW Mon 0430.5 WRMI 9955 to SSE Tue 1200 WRMI 9955 to SSE Wed 1415.5 WRMI 9955 to SSE Wed 2200 WBCQ 7490v to WSW (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 5109.7-CUSB, UT Sat Jan 30 at 0221 rock music, 0223 live(?) timecheck as 23 past the hour, outro as Joe Jackson, Blaze of Glory, Radio Free Dishnuts ID, plugging another show coming up at top-of-hour, contact [email protected], i.e. Ray Mahorney, and RFD ID. So this is on for another Friday night, altho supposedly was only on Jan 2 as an experiment; I also heard it last week Jan 23, despite never appearing on the WBCQ 5110 schedule! Larry Will has circulated new programming info for WBCQ, not including this, or maybe he is just not aware of it, but does say: ``minus: Sat 0200-0300 5110 Grogcast (last broadcast for now was 16 Jan 2016)``. Meanwhile at 0221 Jan 30, 9330 is off, and only 7489.92 has `Allan Weiner Worldwide` for a few more minutes before JIPping to Brother Scare. But from Feb 2, the 0200-0300 hour 7 days a week on 9330 will be occupied by: ``0200-0300 9330 Word of Deliverance (starting 2 Feb 2016)`` per Larry Will, and bumping WORLD OF RADIO UT Fridays to an hour later from 0300 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 3195, Jan 30 at 0240, another rant from Dave, pushing for evangelists to broadcast to Cuba over WWRB as Cubans have to use SW to learn English. Is fed up with the ``pastor two-step`` he`s heard for 20 years, i.e. excuses from religionists for not buying SW time, rather concentrating on local building funds, etc. (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** VATICAN [non]. 7425, Jan 30 at 0227, VR IS at S8 mixing with R. Martí audio, tnx to the Greenville leapfrog mixing product of 7305 over 7365 for another few minutes. Altho I have reported this repeatedly, and it is certainly a regular transmission, 7425 has failed to be listed by Aoki or EiBi, let alone HFCC, discriminating against mixing products despite their proven existence. Aoki also shows a strange timing of 0150-0245 for VR on 7305, one of the components of this, rather than 0145-0230, an unexpected B-15 shift from 0200-0245 previously in A-15 (altho the 7305 carrier is on as much as 10 minutes earlier, producing the 7425 mixing by 0135, but only with Martí audio, which can also be heard barely bleeding into 7305 itself) (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** YEMEN [non]. 11860, Jan 30 at 1455, usual amazingly good signal from R. Sana`a with music, 1500 sharp into Arabish talk, and --- Maghrib sunset call to prayer is back, whew! starting at 1500:27.5, back in step with gaisma.com calculated sunsets today: 1500 UT both in Sana`a and Aden (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. 1500, Jan 30 at 0220-0255 UT, like last night, the double-mystery remains here, with KSTP nulled as much as possible, ringing/screeching sound coming out of some demented transmitter, and blues music coming from another, never any announcements heard, let alone ID, altho I am not listening constantly, but at 0220 UT, 0235 UT, 0255 UT chex (this time from 0258 I`m on 1530 in case Yankee Doodle makes it under WCKY from Pinheira: not) (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. 3325, Jan 30 circa 1355, JBA music, Indonesia? I`m scanning the 90m band for a new signal, as Ian in Oz has been tantalizing us with hints about a reactivated Oceania station with a new 10 kW transmitter. Later it`s revealed to be NBC Bougainville here and on day frequency testing sporadically at night, 6020, both of which Ron Howard has now heard and IDed. Trouble is, RRI is still on 3325 as well, say Ron and Tony Magon in NSW! Geez, when making a comeback, why in the world don`t they do it on a clear frequency?? Clues from Ian included ``Cu``, leading me to PNG where there are several copper mines, but which? Wewak 3335/6140 would have worked too. Due to secessionism during previous SW activity, we granted BOUGAINVILLE separate radio country status, which is no more dubious than some club already breaking up PNG into more than one country for QSL and counting purposes. Current WRTH 2016 does not mark 3325 as inactive, but does for 6020. They are listed as: ``NBC Buka, `Maus Bilong Sankamap`, Buka ARB`` Which means the Voice of the Sunrise, but what`s ARB? Altho integrated within PNG now, it`s Autonomous Region of Bougainville, and BTW, ARB is so far out that unlike the rest of PNG on UT +10, this is on UT +11, just to be different. See also UNID 5960- log (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. 3360, Jan 30 at 1355, JBA carrier here during my 90m scan for new signals. Nothing listed here except in Aoki, long-defunct Upano, Ecuador. Could be MW harmonic from 1680, 1120, 840 or 560 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. 5055-USB, Jan 30 at 1348, 2-way in Spanish exchanging max and min Celsius temperature readings, rainfall (lluvia) amounts, etc. Some trouble copying each other. Sounds like it`s something serious and official, at least à la MARS, rather than poachers interjecting putas every few seconds. Seems Mexico has no rules requiring such stations to identify (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. 5960-, Jan 30 at 1340, again hearing a JBA carrier off-frequency here, like Radio Fly once was, by a PNG copper-mining company, making me wonder if this was the hinted mystery reactivation instead of 3325/6020, q.v. (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) This report despatched at 1836 UT January 30 _ 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
