** ALBANIA. 13665, April 22 at 1240, S9 signal in English about China, 1243 it`s `Life in China`. This is the Albanian relay of CRI, 1100-1300, 150 kW at 310 degrees to W Europe, prolonged to Oklahoma, best signal on band. Wish we could ever hear R. Tirana this well (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** AUSTRALIA. 9580, April 22 at 1241 check, R. Australia is back on the air, unlike 24 hours ago (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BIAFRA [non]. 11700, April 21 at 2028, JBA carrier, presumed Radio Biafra. At 2033 has QRM on lo side from ``running water`` ute, but those bursts are brief. I was not at the dials at 1800, but DXLD yg members confirm it did start up a day later than it had promised, altho with some audio outages. Is the site still BULGARIA? Ivo Ivanov says it is. 11700 is as useless here as 11600 was; retune at 2105 still JBA carrier, just in time to hear it cut off the air at 2105:24.5*, which correlates with the 2106 abrupt cutoff time reported by José Miguel Romero2, Spain, after some very bad modulation. (At 2036 April 21 I have a very poor S5 signal on 11600 with some talk, presumably Denge Kurdistanye on the frequency Kostinbrod allowed it to usurp from Radio Biafra} (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CUBA. 9535, April 22 at 0421, RHC is S9 but dead air or maybe just barely modulated. Scheduled to be on until 0500, never very strong here (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** EGYPT. 12085.05, April 22 at 0404, lo hum at S4 to S5, i.e. Cairo`s reactivated A-16 frequency to waste, scheduled as 0200-0700, to western Europe and eastern North America, 250 kW, 315 degrees from Abis in Arabic, i.e. replacing 9745 with the same disservice in B-15. At least this opens 9745 for Bahrain after 0200 until which Cairo is still on there at 0045-0200 in ``Spanish`` (and 9745 remains an alternate to 12085). I find this much more interesting than APR via MWV which I have just left on 9480. 9965.00, April 22 at 0416, R. Cairo with whine, flutter, undermodulated but sufficient Qur`an, S9+25. Still here, but often offset plus, or minus (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** GREECE. 11645, April 22 at 0411, S7 Greek? song, and no whine!!! // stronger S9+10 9420, and 9935 is off. I bet the whine is not gone for good, tho. Has some ACI from 11650 R. Tamazuj via Madagascar, unless 11645 tuned on LSB. Aoki shows Helliniki Radiophonia not starting 11645 until 0500 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** INDIA. 4920, April 22 at 1218, man talking with occasional comments by woman at S7; almost sounds domestic, could be a western language, English or Spanish but can`t recognize anything. 1229 a bit of music, and then mostly YL speaking. First I checked whether it`s // 1640 KZLS local, which does put a 2x harmonic on 3280, but not on 3x = 4920. Not tonal Tibetan or Chinese, so that leaves us with AIR Chennai listed in Hindi at this time, but also has Tamil, and some short news segments in English at other times; Holy Tibet is also in English but not now. Many other Asian carriers on 60m matching East Turkistan, India, China, Indonesia frequencies (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** INDONESIA. Correcting: date was April 21 not 20, and sunrise was at 1149 UT, not 1249, fixed: 4869.91, April 21 at 1250, JBA carrier, surely RRI Wamena on distinctive off-frequency, reported by Ron Howard to have been re-active on April 17 and 18. Also stronger with music on 4749.97 approx., no doubt Makassar, with het from Bangladesh or China. Enid sunrise today: 1149 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** KOREA NORTH. 11735, April 22 at 0409, stilted Spanish about Vietnam, and then an harmonious song. Yes, it`s Voice of Korear, which starts its extensive daily usage of 11735 at 0330 with Spanish. S3-S4, but much better than Argentina 11710.7 is doing in reversely scheduled Chinese (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MADAGASCAR. 6150, April 22 at 0348, tune-in to La Voz Alegre with address in Cuba, and credit to Radiodifusora Cristiana Mundial, which must be the official Spanish version of World Christian Broadcasting. This is S9+. 9480, April 22 at 0401, English hour from MWV is underway at S9+20, with South African choral group in gospel tune, then ``re-live the launching of African Pathways Radio with us``, quoting Psalm 180:24 --- oops, they stop at 150 or 151 depending on your sect, but who has that many more? Maybe misheard. The entire tone of APR is rather condescending; after all, they are addressing heathen Africans! I continue bandscanning, next: EGYPT (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MEXICO. 540, April 22 at 1145, Mexican music owns the frequency and in less than a minute, ``La Ranchera de Paquimé, 540 AM y 90.5 FM`` frequent ID from XETX, Nuevo Casas Grandes, Chihuahua. Just before sunrise here at 1148 UT. 620, April 22 at 1149, ``La Norteñita`` ID still being used by XEBU, Chihuahua2. Not much else audible lowband from N/W Mexico as the sun is rising here (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** OKLAHOMA [non]. 7489.9-AM, Thu April 21 at 2310, `Broad Spectrum Radio` as James Branum has just reminded us, just back from a cruise to Belize and Roatán, is on WBCQ this hour, with his Hobby Radio segment. Among other things he was surprised he couldn`t get RHC very well, but I expect it`s due to being in the skip zone for all but the lowest frequencies. I confess to listening to the 7490 webcast at first, since I was busy on the computer, but later confirmed also on 7489.9, and 2330 switching to `Nappy Roots Radio`, the same episode that aired one week earlier, and which I thought was the `Okie Show`; NRR also has roots in Oklahoma like much of his programming (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** RUSSIA. 9996, April 22 at 0414, CW time pips from RWM; just before top of minute, 2 or 3 pips are skipped, and then a double pip at ToM. At next minute 0415, however, no skips, and ToM is prolonged. Occasional double-pips are heard during rest of minute. No doubt this behavior is all significant and carefully scheduled (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SUDAN. 7206.0, April 22 at 0352, S8 just barely modulated Arabic presumed from Radio Omdurman, its latest 1-kHz frequency jump, as already reported by Thorsten Hallmann, ``all day`` April 21. The nominal 7205 transmitter has also tried 7204. Still a JBA carrier on 7206 at 0517. Slippery keyboard punching? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A [and non]. WORLD OF RADIO 1822 monitoring: confirmed Thursday April 21 at 2100 on WRMI 13695, VG S9+20. Also confirmed Thu April 21 at 2330 on WBCQ 9329.87-CUSB, poor. Next: 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 [back on air from this week?] Sat 0700 Unique Radio 3210 NSW low-power Sat 1400 Unique Radio 3210 NSW low-power Sat 1430 HLR 7265-CUSB to SW [back on air from this week?] 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 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 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) ** U S A. 9955, Fri April 22 at 1151, on WRMI, Jeff White interviewing the Famagusta Radio guy during his visit to Cyprus; I know I heard this several weeks ago, I thought on `Viva Miami`, but this is a `Wavescan` slot (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 7505-, April 22 at 0349 check, for the record, WRNO is still gone. So what`s the latest problem? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 5980, April 22 at 1157, S6 signal with Brother Scare, a WWCR leapfrog mixing product of 5890 over 5935 another 45 kHz higher, and no longer blocked by Cuban jamming and Radio Martí. Both 5890 and 5935 are about to go off in a minute or two putting an end to this intermodulation for today (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 660, April 22 at 1148 UT, C&W music from E/W, fades 1153 UT before I can hear any announcement or switch to Navajo chanting, after our sunrise 1148 UT. I don`t see how it could be anything other than KTNN Window Rock AZ, which would have to be on 50 kW ND day pattern. Its official sunrise in April is not until 1245 UT (May: 1215 UT). I bet they are (deliberately?) confused by MDT which is rampant on the Res and NM, but not in the rest of AZ (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 920, April 22 at 1202 UT, ad for a car dealer on I-270, and another ad for something at 1235 N Washington Ave. The latter could apply to just about anytown, but I-270? 3-digit interstate hiway numbers can be duplicated anywhere along 2-digit routes, and in this case 270s go around Denver, St Louis, Columbus OH, and Washington DC. This loops NE or ENE, and there is no 920 around Denver; Columbus despite a 920 station there and certainly Washington DC are too far and too far into the dayside, so that leaves: WGNU Granite City IL, 450/500 [sic] watts U4, address in St Louis. Day and night patterns helpfully point toward us, and this is already 14 minutes after sunrise here. Soon overtaken by an hymn, no doubt KYFR Shenandoah IA (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 1200, April 22 at 1211 UT, ad for Carnicería Jiménez, with meat prices weighed in libras, and website carneceriasjimenez.com which chex for West Chicago among other IL locations. Typically WRTO Chicago manages to overcome WOAI just after sunrise with its 20 kW day power into a broad pattern from SW, clockwise to E, nulling toward SE (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** VATICAN. 11625, April 21 at 2035, S6 signal in French with modulation cutting on for 2 or 3 syllables every few seconds; 2036 recovers without breaks, but 2041 check, again cutting on and off. It`s Vatican Radio from SMG site as scheduled 2030-2115 in French, end of a long day of 11625 use by VR from SMG or Madagascar sites. 9645, April 22 at 0420, S9 in Arabic talking about Ecuador, Vatican Radio as scheduled 0400-0430 direct from SMG, and with slight het on hi side audible from R. Bandeirantes (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. 4915+, April 22 at 1218, JBA carrier, much weaker than some modulation on 4920, like heard yesterday at 1250 which was an hour after sunrise here, not at sunrise as I mis-stated, and not on April 20; I really messed that one up, so corrected: UNIDENTIFIED. 4915.07, April 21 at 1250, JBA carrier. No Asians are listed on this frequency, so what, an AIR off-frequency again? Also getting lots of 60m carriers on Indian/Chinese/ East Turkistani frequencies, an hour after sunrise here (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. 12035, April 22 at 1246 1 kHz tone but carrier off at 1247*. Nothing listed now, but perhaps Deewa Radio via Thailand prior to *1300 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) This report dispatched at 1731 UT April 22 _ 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
