** BOUGAINVILLE [and non]. 3325, Aug 19 at 1146, S7-S9 music, presumed NBC; but recheck 3 minutes later at 1149 has become a JBA carrier --- rather than a quick fadedown, I bet in the interim NBC signed off uncovering RRI Palangkaraya. Perhaps Ron or someone had kept listening and can confirm. Our sunrise now 1153 UT, latening at the rate of 5 or 6 minutes per week.
3325, Aug 20 at 1149 music at S8-S6, 1152 drops to S6-S5, tho similar weak music. Wonder if the same transition happened (Glenn Hauser, Enid OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** COLOMBIA. 5910.368, Aug 19 at 0601, tropical song, S9-S8, better than usual, 0615 ID as ``Alcaraván Radio`` --- yes that`s what they really say, not Radio Alcaraván (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CUBA. 14680, Aug 20 at 0109, JBA talk, // 7340 as second harmonic of RHC; meanwhile, 14670 CHU is inaudible, even tho it is no longer on 7335. 2 x 7850 = 15700 where one should seek it if propagation ever be excellent. Not surprising, as K index is 4 amid G1 storms. Perhaps Sun will be putting on an unusual show if this keep up at totality (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CUBA [non]. 7365, August 20 at 0516, R. Martí playing rock song in English mixed with ``CW``, apparently SFX in the music rather than part of the jamming underneath. Various dits unseemed real Morse code (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MEXICO. 710, August 20 at 1133, promo news show lunes a viernes 5:40-6:45 am, on ``La Ranchera de Cuauhtémoc, 89.7 FM``, XEDP jingle and back to music. Dominant signal now. 620, Aug 20 circa 1135, no sign of XEBU, Chihuahua2, tho other NW Mexicans are in on 550, 650, 710, etc. So wonder if it`s still on AM? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** NEW ZEALAND. 9700, Aug 19 at 0617, surprised to find RNZI back here, during discussion of MAD; only a JBA carrier on 9630 where it moved July 28, presumably to avoid clash with Romania at 0600 on 9700 --- but nothing of that audible now underneath. 9630 now has a JBA carrier, probably the Brazilian apparition. RNZI sked as of Aug 19: http://www.radionz.co.nz/international/listen still show 9630 at 0459-0658, so did someone forget and go back to the old frequency? 7425 at 1146 is at good level, implying it`s 100 kW still/again on the NNE antenna rahther than the NNW. 9630, Aug 20 at *0459, Bell Bird from RNZI back here after switch to 9700 last night (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** OKLAHOMA. 1040, Aug 19 at 1800 UT, YL with Fox News, running ahead of // 1000 KTOK OKC. Hmm, could this be WHO barely on groundwave, or the Metroplex station? NO! I forgot that local 960 KGWA puts spurs on plus/minus 80 kHz, as so IDed at 1805 UT. The other one is more blocked by KRVN, and neither can be heard at night (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** OKLAHOMA. 1157 & 1183 kHz, Aug 19 at 1757 UT, IBOC noiseblobs peaking here, i.e. out of KFAQ 1170 Tulsa. Had not heard any IBOC from them, day or night, for many weeks/months (Glenn Hauser, Enid, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** OKLAHOMA. 3450, Aug 20 at 1154, JBA talk on the R75 with preamp-2 but gone with 1 or none; suspect an image or harmonic mix --- CBS Sports Radio ID which means it`s from 1390 KCRC, but haven`t figured out the math of possible mix with 960 KGWA (Glenn Hauser, Enid, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SOLOMON ISLANDS. 9545, Aug 20 at 0459 tune in just in time to hear a JBA carrier which cuts off at 0500, presumed SIBC, which Bryan Clark, NZ, recently reported reactivated on this band. 5020, Aug 20 at 1157, very poor carrier in splash of 5025 Cuba, certainly SIBC and this one cuts off at 1200* sharp (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A [and non]. WORLD OF RADIO 1891 monitoring: confirmed Friday August 18 at 2330 on WBCQ, 9331.520v-CUSB, fair (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Can anyone in Europe confirm whether HLR is back on 7265 as it is supposed to be? Via UTwente, nothing but noise heard instead of World of Radio at 1431 (Glenn, 1431 UT Sat Aug 19, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Only China Radio International in Sinhala at 1441 on 7265 via Kashi, no signal from HLR & WOR -- 73! (Ivo Ivanov, Sofia, Bulgaria, Equipment: Sony ICF-2001D 30 m. long wire, ibid.) Hi Glen[n], Yes, I'm just listening to World of Radio on there at the moment. Nothing was audible until around 1410 UT when it suddenly faded up here, average to fair signal at the moment. I've often checked the Twente SDR during the afternoons and Channel 292 [6070] has not been audible on it, even though it was being received here in north west England. Just the propagation I think, it must be passing right over the Netherlands at that time of day, and I'm just in the right location for 6/7 MHz skip (Alan Gale, ibid.) GERMANY, 7264.998, HLR via Schwerin Göhren, listen to the S=6-7 Signal in southern Germany, at 1448 UT on Aug 19. Glenn's WoRadio program in progress. 2 Hertz frequency lower side, Also S=5-6 poor signals from Asia adjacent, 7260 PBS Xinjiang Chinese from Urumqi China and 7270, some 3-4 different programmes mixture, terrible sound, TWN and CHN jamming, another Hohot Mongolian language sce, probably also AIR Madras in Sinhala ??? 73 wolfie df5sx (Wolfgang Büschel, ibid.) WOR 1891 confirmed Saturday Aug 19 at 2230 on WBCQ, 9331.36v-CUSB, good. Also confirmed Sat Aug 19 at 2300 on WRMI 11580, S9+20 to S9. Also confirmed UT Sunday Aug 20 after 0200 on WRMI 11580, fair. Also confirmed UT Sunday Aug 20 starting 0331 on WA0RCR, 1860-AM, fair. Next: Sun 2330 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB to WSW Mon 0300v WBCQ 5130v Area 51 to WSW Mon 0330 WRMI 9955 to SSE Mon 2330 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB to WSW Tue 0030 WRMI 7730 to WNW (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 9930, Sat Aug 19 at 1800, WTWW-2 is still missing from this frequency, no `Theater Organ in the Ozarx`. 9475 WTWW-1 remains on but undermodulated/distorted. 12105 WTWW-3 remains totally off. It seems that the site may have had a lightning strike messing up at least two of the transmitters. Once modulation modules have been damaged, you can`t compensate by trying to force more audio thru them; that merely over-drives them, causing distortion, a symptom we encounter repeatedly at other SW stations (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 1130, Aug 19 at 1758 UT, weak signal of music? too weak to be KLEY nearby Wellington KS; also inferior to 1120, 1140 and 1150 stations. KLEY had been AWOL earlier, came back, and may have been off for some time again, not checked for recently. 1130 KWKH Shreveport would not be playing music except incidentally during sports talk. There is another possibility, 25 kW direxional daytimer KTMR Converse TX (Houston market), listed last year as Spanish religion. Pattern is flattened with a null toward KWKH, of course, major lobes WNW/ESE, including some to the NNW, ourway. But really too far for daytime over-Texas groundwave, except maybe a remnant (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) This report despatched at 1436 UT August 20 _ 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
