** CUBA. 17580, Dec 15 at 1505, today RHC is already off this frequency, while still on 17750 and much louder 17730 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** IRAN. 9700, Dec 15 at 1424, Qur`an poor at S5. It`s VIRI Bengali service, 1420-1520, 100 kW, 98 degrees from Sirjan, per HFCC. And tnx to RNZI NOT using 9700 now despite woodenly registering it as alternative on both antennas (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** KURDISTAN [non]. 9400, Dec 15 at 1509, Kurdish talk at S7 from Denge Kurdistane. According to Ivo Ivanov, this is the last day that 9400 will be in use. Nothing yet on 11600, which had been their only summer frequency: ``Denge Kurdistan is on air with new start/end of broadcast 0330-2130 on 9400 various transmitters to WeAs Kurdish, ex 0400-2200 Upcoming frequency changes of Denge Kurdistan, effective from Dec 16: 0330-0600 NF 7400 KCH 300 kW / 130 deg to WeAs Kurdish, ex 9400 KCH 0600-0800 NF 11600 KCH 300 kW / 130 deg to WeAs Kurdish, ex 9400 KCH 0800-1200 NF 11600 KCH 300 kW / 130 deg to WeAs Kurdish, ex 9400 ERV 1200-1400 NF 11600 KCH 300 kW / 116 deg to WeAs Kurdish, ex 9400 KCH 1400-1500 NF 11600 SCB*100 kW / 090 deg to WeAs Kurdish, ex 9400 KCH 1500-1600 NF 11600 SCB*100 kW / 090 deg to WeAs Kurdish, ex 9400 SCB 1600-1700 NF 7455 ISS*250 kW / 090 deg to WeAs Kurdish, ex 9400 SCB 1700-2000 NF 7455 ISS*250 kW / 090 deg to WeAs Kurdish, ex 9400 ISS 2000-2130 NF 7455 KCH 300 kW / 116 deg to WeAs Kurdish, ex 9400 KCH *SCB=Secretbrod/ISS=Issoudun not confirmed, registered as Grigoriopol (Observer 6:44 PM Dec 14 via WORLD OF RADIO 1856, DXLD)`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MADAGASCAR. 17640, Dec 14 at 2024, MWV English is on, fair signal at S8 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** NORTH AMERICA. 5790, Dec 15 at 0339, JBA carrier, presumed [Station YHWH] as tipped by Tim Tromp, MI at 0325 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** OKLAHOMA. 4600, Dec 15 at 1357 UT, weak but clearly audible signal matching 1390 KCRC Enid sportstalk, again making appearances. Not a plain old harmonic, and previously logged early this year: ``4600, Jan 28 at 1352 UT, JBA talk, which on a hunch I match to local KCRC 1390, ESPN, so it`s some kind of local mix, not a harmonic`` Had I researched my archive further then, I would have found this strange computation from 2014y: ``4600, May 18 at 0112, JBA modulation from local Enid mix // 1390 KCRC ESPN audio. But our other strong signal, 960 KGWA has to be involved. Formula: 4 x 1390 = 5560, minus 960 = 4600`` No longer with ESPN. But there is no sign of audio on 4600 from KGWA (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** OMAN. 15140.5, Dec 15 at 1511, no signal from RSO here nor on 15140.0 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A [and non]. WORLD OF RADIO 1855 monitoring: confirmed Wed Dec 14 at 2200 on WBCQ, 7490. WORLD OF RADIO 1856 monitoring: ready for first SW broadcasts Dec 15: Thu 1230 WRMI 9955 to SSE Thu 2130 WRMI 13695 to NW Fri 0030 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB to WSW Sat 0030 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB to WSW Sat 0730 HLR 6190-CUSB to SW Sat 1530 HLR 7265-CUSB to SW Sat 2030v WA0RCR 1860-AM ND Sat 2330 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB to WSW Sun 0410v WA0RCR 1860-AM ND Sun 1130 HLR 9485-CUSB to SW Mon 0030 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB to WSW Mon 0400v WBCQ 5130v Area 51 to WSW Mon 0430 WRMI 9955 to SSE Tue 0030 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB to WSW Tue 0030 WRMI 7730 to WNW Tue 1200 WRMI 9955 to SSE Tue 2130 WRMI 15770 to NE Tue 2300 WRMI 9955 to SSE Wed 0030 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB to WSW Wed 2200 WBCQ 7490v to WSW Thu 0030 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB to WSW (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 7730 // stronger 5850, Thu Dec 15 at 0709, WRMI with an Xmas story involving a mouse and an organ, Dutch accent, so something from the RN archives, via PCJ Radio International?? No publicity about this, and only `World Music` on the 7730 grid for this hour Thursdays (but `Media Network Plus` on Fridays, yet to be heard instead of `Viva Miami`, last weeks). The transmission grid continues to show Xmtrs 12 & 13, 5850 & 7730 both with `Worship in Your Home` this hour, only on Sundays. 11580, Dec 15 before and after 1430, this hour continues to be a reliable source for `World Music` on WRMI, altho never specified as such in schedules (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 9275, Dec 14 at 2024, S9+10 but poor signal, just enough to recognize DEJOM intoning, so WMLK is on today. Latest from their FB: ``December 13 at 2:38pm · Public The engineer checking the new/used power supply for the 24 volt DC Requirements. The internal 24 volt battery backup and 24 volt DC set system could no longer adequately supply the necessary 24 volt supply so, we replaced it with this Lambda supply. This upgraded supply made it more stable and the set now functions as it should. We have now returned to broadcasting from 12:00 to 5:00 DST [sic!]. We also had to replace the audio attenuator as it failed yesterday 12/12/16. Always something! The parts are old but most of the time they can be repaired in house or replaced Good News! Received our first WMLK Radio broadcast response from Japan! The reception report was based on the broadcast on 12/12/16. We were broadcasting at 150 KW. Praise Almighty Yahweh for steering the signal in that direction/location! December 13 at 4:14pm · Public Ian Loctar: The reception was very good. The audio and signal strength was like that of a 250kw transmitter ! Edited · Yesterday at 6:28am`` No such wonderful signal and modulation here. Registered azimuth for this is 53 degrees, CIRAF targets 27, 28 and 39, i.e. Europe. 9275.035, Dec 15 at 1656, open carrier, 1700 sharp starts music and talk modulation, presumed sign-on but too weak to copy (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 17775, Dec 15 at 1505, no signal yet from KVOH; is it on and just not propagating? Still nothing at 1655, so apparently off (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ZANZIBAR. 11735, Dec 14 at 2050, ZBC fair with nice Ungujan music, no announcements until fragment of one at 2059 cut to open carrier, off at 2100* (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. Trans-Pacific JBA MW carrier search, December 15, UT: 594-NW at 1335 747-NW at 1335 774-NW at 1338 - this one is now tougher due to continuous music splash instead of talk from 780 KSPI Stillwater OK 1098-W at 1340 1566-NW at 1341, strongest of the lot, but still no audio Enid sunrise today: 1336 UT; will reach latest circa January 6 at 1343 (meanwhile, earliest sunset already passed a week ago at 2316, creeping later now) (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. 11670, Dec 15 at 1506, NO signal except maybe trace of a carrier, unlike 24 hours ago when there was a strong signal in Arabic. (11860 YEMEN non is still very good S9+20 now). Maybe it was a mistake or a test. Unless someone have an SDR recording covering this on Dec 14, we may never know whence (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) This report dispatched at 1724 UT December 15 _ 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
