** CHAD. 6165, April 28 at 0542, no longer hearing Ndjamena underneath RHC, which for a while was making an obvious subaudible het sometimes with audio. Nor have I for a few nights now around this time. So are they completely gone again from SW? Thorsten Hallmann in Germany reported April 24:
``6165 RN Tchadienne: There is usually a little gap between 1757 (CRI off) and 1800 (BBC on) to indicate Chad activity which seems to be running not always till after 1900, when the channel becomes clear again. But not there in the gap on Thursday and Saturday`` [April 21 and 23] (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CHINA [and non]. 15590, April 28 at 1357, CNR1 jammer // 11785 atop algo, still at 1401. Target victim is VOA Chinese at 13-15, but shifting site at 14 from Thailand to Tinang (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CUBA. 17730.007, April 28 at 1230, I measure this RHC frequency once it has built up to blasting daytime level, also overmodulated & distorted. When tuning across it, I have long noticed a bit of a wobble against the BFO, also the case with several other RHC frequencies, but overall they do a good job of frequency accuracy. There, I said something positive! FYI, the way I do this on the R75, which came to me from Brandon Jordan accurately calibrated, is in USB or LSB mode, pick a frequency to three decimal places ending in zero on one side of the frequency to be measured, so it makes an audible het. Then tune to the other side to hear the same pitch and note the frequency there. Then punch in the exact frequency on the other side and hear if it match pitch. If not, make slight adjustments until they do. Then subtract the difference, divide by two and add the result to the lower measurement (or subtract from the upper position), and there you have the exact carrier frequency halfway in between. Depending on the strength it may also be possible to listen for a zero beat, tuning up and down in 1-Hz steps, but I think there is greater accuracy by the method described. (On the NRD-545 a similar technique, but it`s slightly out of calibration, so I am having to make adjustments of 1 or 2 Hz, somewhat less precise.) 19280, April 28 at 1257, JBA carrier from RHC, 2 x 9640; might also be one on 19070 = 2 x 9535 as before, but now that`s blocked by a blob from a local device (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** INDIA. 9870, April 28 at 1235, no signal from AIR VBS as supposedly restarting at 1230; but already on at next check 1249. Jose Jacob`s site has the accurate info: http://qsl.net/vu2jos/sw/freq.htm 9870 500 Bengaluru 0025-0440, 0900-1200, 1245-1740 (Vividh Bharati) But enjoy the Indian pop music while we can, as by 1300, CRI English will be colliding on 9870 until 1557. If it`s this bad over here, how much worse can it be in Asia? There`s also a collision with Turkey in Spanish at 0100-0150v, but Saudi`s use of 9870 at 18-23 fits neatly between VBS broadcasts. Both BSKSA and AIR make 9870 worth memorizing for their music (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** KURDISTAN [non]. 11600, April 28 at 1219, two stations adding up to poor-fair S8, atop in Chinese. Aoki shows 12-13 with RTI Taiwan in Amoy, and not jammed, but why not? Anyhow, this buries Denge Kurdistanye, which should have a clearer shot after 1300 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MEXICO. 660, April 28 at 1137, a twist of the wrist holding the DX-398 while hearing KTNN [see U S A], nulling that, brings in a Spanish partial ID for 102.9 FM, and that leads directly and only to XEEY, Aguascalientes2, 50/10 kW, La Kaliente (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SWEDEN [non]. 11874.935, April 27 at 1929, off-frequency S3-S6 signal stands out like sore thumb, as I bandscan in 1 kHz steps with BFO on R75. Sounds like vocal HOA or at least African music, then vaguely familiar sounder, 1930 drumming and tonal language. HFCC A-16 shows 11875 at 1900-2000 is IBRA via Woofferton UK, 300 kW, 170 degrees to CIRAF 46 in ``Und`` language. But would be unusual for WOF to be that far off frequency by -65 Hz --- suspect transmission has been switched to someplace like RSA or UAE capable of achieving this. How about it, Dave Porter? What do other listings show? Aoki, also Woofferton: since this is Day 4 = Wednesday: Going from Ful to Zar at 1930. EiBi agrees , but with abbrs. curtailed to FU and ZA. So what are they, really? FU is Fulani/Fulfulde, spoken in Nigeria, Niger and Burkina Faso. ZA is Zarma/Zama spoken by 2 Mega in Niger. CIRAF 46 is Nigeria & Niger, and westward to the coast (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** TAIWAN. 7445, April 28 at 1125, RTI in English is poor at S7. At least there is no CCCCCCI (Chinese Communist Chinese language co-channel interference), and this is probably our best chance to hear it in North America, since RTI blew off its audience here by canceling relays via WYFR and not renewing them on WRMI (unlike Spanish!). Rick Barton often reports 7445 RTI English from Arizona, but that`s at 4-5 am local! Like all Taiwan info, this transmission is banned by the ChiCom from appearing in HFCC, while they themselves do not include their own pervasive jamming disservices. Last year`s Aoki showed 7445 as 100 kW, 225 degrees from Paochung, hardly a suitable azimuth for us but directly off the back would be 45 degrees, and it was a*terisked then as jammed. WRTH 2016 shows only two English broadcasts left on SW from RTI, the other being 03-04 on 15320 via Tainan, both targeting SE Asia. O, I just noticed in Aoki that the 11-12 English is also listed on 11600 via Paochung and not marked as *jammed (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) See also KURDISTAN [non] ** U S A [and non]. WORLD OF RADIO 1822 monitoring: confirmed Wed April 27 at 2100 on WBCQ 7490 webcast; this time after the long WBCQ ID, a short almost-ID is inserted in the 2?-second gap before WOR playback starts: ``Free Speech Radio, WBC``. Also confirmed at 2330 Wed Apr 27 on WBCQ 9329.86-CUSB, fair. WORLD OF RADIO 1823 monitoring: confirmed first SW airing Thursday April 28 at 1130 on WRMI 9955, good at S9+10, no jamming, and still so at 1159 conclusion. Next: Thu 2100 WRMI 13695 to NW Thu 2330 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB to WSW 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 [confirmed last 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 Complete schedule including AM & FM, satellite, webcasts: http://www.worldofradio.com/radioskd.html (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 11583.0, April 27 after 1925 as I tune by, what`s this? WRMIBS is 3 kHz off, but at approx. 1925:49 it cuts off and back to 11580.0. This happened so quickly on the R75 that I could hardly believe my eyes & ears, but I do tend to attribute it to transmission anomaly rather than reception. 5765, April 28 at 0536, as I tune in WRMI, Brother HyStairical is yet again replaying his bit bouncing off me, ``the leading worldwide spoxeman for shortwave``. Well, that`s quite an unsolicited testimonial! I`ve yet to tune in before he starts this segment to get the whole thing, always in the second half of an hour (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 5050, Wed April 27 at 2331, WWRB is still AWOL; maybe back on air for the weekend? Check Friday/UT Saturday in case the `Pirates Cove` thing gets going (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 660, April 28 at 1132 UT, KTNN, Window Rock AZ with unique Navajo chanting and drumming, as this station is in another episode of running 50 kW ND day facility at night, as has been reported by numerous listeners to the east who normally can`t hear it. 50/50 kW U2 night pattern is supposed to be a circle tangent to the west, nothing eastward. It`s not merely a matter of going to day pattern too early, but all night per other reports (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** VANUATU [and non]. 7259.96, April 28 at 1200, I`m looking for R. Vanuatu, as reported by Ron Howard active on the 41 mb. At first on 7260.0, I hear a Chinese 5+1 timesignal but it`s 8.5 seconds late! That carrier stays on, without modulation? There is a second carrier, obviously making double-het with BFO offtuned to 7259.0. They add up to S6, also with some QRhaM on the upper side. The stronger carrier cuts off at 1205:35.5* uncovering the JBA one as then measured above presumed to be R. Vanuatu. Aoki does show -1205 for Urumqi 7260. Here`s the situation from Ron Howard, California: ``7260, R. Vanuatu on April 22, just at 1205 heard PBS Xinjiang go off the air here, leaving the frequency clear for RV reception; announcer and some pop songs; 1216 clear National Anthem ("Yumi, Yumi, Yumi"); audio ended at 1217, but they keep the transmitter on for a long time after that. Wish they would carry some filler music or something, seeing as the transmitter is on anyway! Thanks very much to Hiroyuki Komatsubara (Japan) for the tip about the post-1205 reception of Radio Vanuatu! Should be of help to many DXers`` WRTH 2016 scheduling indicates RV has a single 1.5 to 2 kW transmitter, on 7260 for day, 3945 at night. At 1221 I check 3945 where R. Nikkei 2, Japan is still on, this being a weekday until 1400 (while Sat/Sun it`s off after 0900), but detect a second carrier there too underneath, so could RV be running two transmitters now? (An AM ham could be confusing things; RN1 on 3925 is usually avoided by hams but now someone in LSB is right atop it.) At UT +11, approx. sundown in Vanuatu is 0700 UT, so 7260 after 1200 is way too late for ``day``. Confirming that RV is off-frequency to the lo side are several recent reports to the DXLD yg by Bryan Clark, Wolfgang Büschel and Mauno Ritola putting it on 7259.95, 7259.9555 and 7259.96; the 75m frequency as low as 3944.204. On 7260 one must also beware of listed Mongolia at 0655-1500. Via Mike Terry and José Miguel Romero2, RNZI has reported that there is a 100-day plan ending July 1 to return RV to its ``former glory of nationwide coverage`` by somehow upgrading shortwave, but a problem is informing the public of the correct frequencies to tune rather than spotty FM coverage, not to mention using SW receivers at all (WRTH 2016 shows the national broadcaster has only two low-power MW frequencies, one of which is off, and two even lower-power FMs at the same locations as MW). RNZI: ``New Zealand radio transmission engineer, Steve White, has made several trips to Vanuatu and other Pacific countries to help set up transmission equipment. He says the big advantage of short-wave radio is that receivers are extremely cheap to buy. Mr White says the other benefit is that the transmission is capable of covering enormous distances. STEVE WHITE: From Port Vila you can cover the entire country of Vanuatu, which spans something like 1100 kilometres in a roughly North-South direction, that can't be achieved by any other transmission mode`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** YEMEN [non]. 11860, April 28 at 1220, Republic of Yemen Radio is S7 in Arabic and triumphal music. After 6+ months we have no confirmation that site is Riyadh, Saudi Arabia as seems very likely by circumstantial evidence. Reception is no longer so amazingly loud and clear here, but varying a lot from day to day and hour to hour. We are also wondering how much longer this will last, as peace talks have finally started; Rodney Johnson forwards this to the DXLD yg: FINALLY, WARRING YEMEN SIDES SIT TOGETHER FOR NEGOTIATIONS [in Kuwait] --- Rebel team wants political transition before disarming and vacating territories http://gulfnews.com/news/gulf/yemen/finally-warring-yemen-sides-sit-together-for-negotiations-1.1719808 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) This report despatched at 1817 UT April 28 _ 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
