** ASCENSION. 6135.00, April 7 at 0551, open carrier, what`s this? 0553 comes to life with undermodulated YL saying ``BBCHausa.com``, as scheduled 0530-0600; slight het on hi side, Aparecida? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** BANGLADESH. 15505, April 7 at 1359, Bangladesh Betar, open carrier at S3, barely enough to perceive ending of the mis-timesignal today at 1400:27, to commence the Urdu service (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BRAZIL. 6180.75, April 7 at 0545, RNA is on with one carrier peak, and totally overriding 6180.0 VOA SAO TOME, which expected to have frequency to self at 0530-0630 M-F; will have to move? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** INDIA. 9690, April 7 at 1340 AIR in English, 1350 classical vocal music, S9, better than usual. 1403 ID and plug www.airworldservice.org then GOS of AIR ID, into Ravi Shankar sitar concert for some special occasion (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** KURDISTAN [non]. 11600, April 7 at 1324, JBA carrier is all I get from presumed Denge Kurdistanye; earlier check at 1300 heard CHINA closing with timesignal and nothing further. Must be a bad propagation day. On April 3, Ivo Ivanov issued a ``final update of Denge Kurdistan transmitter sites: 0300-0500 11600 ISS 250 kW / 090 deg to WeAs 0500-1300 11600 KCH 300 kW / 116 deg to WeAs 1300-1700 11600 SCB 100 kW / 090 deg to WeAs + 2nd harmonic 23200 1700-1930 11600 ISS 250 kW / 090 deg to WeAs ex Grigoriopol KCH 1930-2100 11600 KCH 300 kW / 116 deg to WeAs ex 1700-2100 UT`` ISS = FRANCE; KCH = PRIDNESTROVYE; SCB = BULGARIA (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** NEW ZEALAND [non]. 11725, Thu April 7 at 0541, no signal from RNZI; also 9700, Thu April 7 at 1340, no signal, or rather something else very weak, and no RNZI on 6170 either. Must be maintenance day again, with half the transmitters already down. Nothing else listed on 9700, so possibly RNZI itself on minimal power? Australia is inbooming as usual on 9580 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SOUTH CAROLINA [non]. 5890, April 7 at 0556, very lo-fi clips of Brother Scare via WWCR, and no better on non-synch // 7570 WRMI. Seems he is playing YouTubes of reception of him via Radio Africa Network recorded outside Africa, which he says is transmitted by World Harvest Radio! While we all know RAN is via WRMI, geez (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** TIBET [non]. 11513, April 7 at 1304, very poor talk, no doubt V. of Tibet via TAJIKISTAN on signature split frequency. And likewise JBA carrier on 15567 at 1304, but in a few seconds off and then found on 15552 instead. No CNR1 jammer carriers audible 2 or 3 kHz from any of these (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** TURKEY. 15450.024, April 7 at 1245, VOT in English at fair level; 1307 with Turkish music (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U A E. 17680, Thu April 7 at 1315, music-box IS heard once, very poor S6, and into BaBcoCk IS. Gone at 1337 recheck. This had been TWR via UAE, in Afar, scheduled Thu-Fri-Sat-Sun only at 1300-1315, 250 kW, 230 degrees from Dhabbaya (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A [and non]. WORLD OF RADIO 1819 monitoring: confirmed Wed April 6 at 2100 on WBCQ webcast, after bit of intrusive noise and ``I`ve yet ---`` between ID and WOR start; and at 2127 check on WBCQ 7489.962-AM (by 2329 recheck this has drifted to 7489.840). WOR also confirmed Wed April 6 from 2329.5, poor on WBCQ 9329.972-CUSB. WORLD OF RADIO 1820 monitoring: ready for first airings April 7: Thu 1130 WRMI 9955 to SSE Thu 2100 WRMI 13695 to NW Thu 2329.5 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB to WSW Fri 0830 Unique Radio 3210 NSW low-power Fri 2130 WRMI 15770 to NE Fri 2130.5 WRMI 13695 to NW Fri 2330 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB to WSW Sat 0630 HLR 6190-CUSB to SW [or off air this week and next?] Sat 0700 Unique Radio 3210 NSW low-power Sat 1400 Unique Radio 3210 NSW low-power Sat 1430 HLR 7265-CUSB to SW [or off air this week and next?] Sat 1930v WA0RCR 1860-AM ND Sat 2230 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB to WSW Sun 0310v WA0RCR 1860-AM ND Sun 0830 Unique Radio 3210 NSW low-power Sun 2330 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB to WSW Mon 0030 WRMI 7730 to WNW [new] Mon 0300v WBCQ 5130v Area 51 to WSW Mon 0330 WRMI 9955 to SSE Mon 2330 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB to WSW Tue 1100 WRMI 9955 to SSE Tue 2130 WRMI 15770 to NE [new] Tue 2330 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB to WSW Wed 1315.5 WRMI 9955 to SSE Wed 2100 WBCQ 7490v to WSW Wed 2330 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB to WSW (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** YEMEN [non]. 11860, April 7 at 1324, nothing but a JBA carrier instead of bigsig from Republic of Yemen Radio. Must be a bad propagation day from Sa`udi Arabia, or wherever. Slightly better and recognizable at 1400 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) This report dispatched at 1733 UT April 7 _ 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
