** ASCENSION. 6005, Oct 6 at 0607, BBCWS hummy transmitter is back here. Too late to check whether 5960 Dandal Kura was hummy before 0600* (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** BOLIVIA. 5935, Oct 5 at 2333, not even a JBA carrier from presumed R. Yura, but there is one by 2356 just before WWCR blasts on. It will take a schedule change, a WWCR breakdown, and/or a very auroral situation to pump it into here (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CUBA. 11950, Oct 5 at 2342, S9+45 of dead air from RHC instead of `Mesa Redonda` TV soundtrack simulcast, which however remains modulated on its only other frequency 6000, also S9+45 but some hum. 11950 still dead at 2357. ¡Despiértese, RadioCuba! 11670, Oct 5 at 2344, RHC mainstream Spanish is undermodulated compared to // 11840 during musical mailbag, requests. 6145, Oct 6 at 0606, no signal from RHC English here, remaining on 6100, 6060, 6000. Somethings are always wrong at RHC and: 5025, Oct 6 at 0609, S9+10 of dead air from Radio Rebelde (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** EAST TURKISTAN. 15245, Oct 6 at 1508, CRI S8 to S9+10 with flutter in English, about two words ahead of 13740 via CUBA. 15245 is one of the ubiquitous 308 degree beams toward Europe from Kashgar. No sign of VOK which otherwise owns 15245 including French at this hour (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** FRANCE. 15299.853, Oct 5 at 1824 S4-S6 with flutter music and talk. Only thing scheduled is RFI, 500 kW from Issoudun, long hours on a variety of azimuths but this hour is 200 degrees. You`d think MBR/TDF could do much better with frequency accuracy. 15373.941, Oct 5 at 1826, another way off-frequency, VP S3 and flutter with music, lest I dismiss it as a birdie. NDXC/Aoki`s only 15375 entry is for Radio Taiwan International, 250 kW at 185 degrees, this hour only in French, but only on Sundays while this is Thursday. Latest HFCC agrees 500 kW Sundays only at 1800-1900 but as RFI itself at 500 kW. It also has a presumably wooden entry on 15375 for RS Oman at 1400-1800 daily. Searching on that odd frequency 15373 I get this from 2013 year: ``TAIWAN [and non]. 9410/9773.973/15373, Fu Hsing BS from Kuanyin is seemingly not on air today May 4. But heard a strange two-tone signal on 15373.225/15373.345 kHz, on remote SDR unit in Tokyo. Only CNR5 program heard on 9410 kHz in Tokyo at S=9+15dB level, \\ 5925 and 7410 kHz (Wolfgang Büschel, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews May 4, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1668, DXLD)`` Nothing recently reported in my archives on 15374 or 15375 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** GERMANY. 15605, Oct 6 at 1510, YL in S Asian language, S5-S9, a frequency normally vacant. It`s AWR via Nauen in Punjabi, this semihour only (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** GREECE. 9420, Oct 5 at 2350, VOG is on with music at S9+30 and now 9935 is off (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** INDONESIA. 3325, Oct 6 at 1251, RRI with songs at S9=S7, thru hourtop, 1301 clear R-R-I (air-air-eee) Palangkaraya ID, finally 5-pip timesignal ending at 1301:34.5! Then Palangkaraya mentioned a few times more, 1303 promo for berita but no news now, 1305 back to songs. 9525.942, Oct 6 at 1306, VOI has much inferior signal to 3325! Can`t even confirm it`s in English as scheduled (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** KASHMIR. 4950, Oct 6 at 1256, JBA carrier, presumably the only Asian listee, AIR Srinagar, 50 kW ND. Several other AIR frequencies also JBACs: 5050, 5040, 5010, etc. (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** PERU. 5980, Oct 5 at 2329, JBA carrier from Red Radio Integridad via Radio Chaski, Urubamba, until autocutoff at 2330:58.5*. That is sliding 20.5 seconds later than last catch October 2 until 2330:38*, or averaging 6.83 seconds later per (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SAUDI ARABIA. 15435, Oct 6 at 1510, BSKSA going from melodic Qur`an to Arabic talk, good modulation here, S9 with flutter (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. WORLD OF RADIO 1898 monitoring: confirmed Thursday October 5 at 2332 the 2330 on WBCQ 9330.13v-CUSB, good S9+20. Next: Fri 2330 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB to WSW Sat 0630 HLR 6190-CUSB to WSW Sat 1431 HLR 7265-CUSB to WSW Sat 1930v WA0RCR 1860-AM ND Sat 2130 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB to WSW [ex-2230] Sat 2300 WRMI 11580 to NE Sun 0200 WRMI 11580 to NE Sun 0315v WA0RCR 1860-AM ND Sun 1030 HLR 9485-CUSB to WSW 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. 9955, Friday Oct 6 at 1345, WRMI with `Viva Miami`, as I finally have a chance to listen to the whole thing. Jeff is recording from Doha, Qatar, a stopover on his flight from Miami to Cape Town (not very direct! none available) for HFCC in August, admittedly recorded August 15, now almost a bimonth ago. A bit about Al Jazeera being a local TV station in Arabic, English; reading some stories from Gulf Times; about a new Urdu language station on FM 107 (with some singing from it); Big Ben silenced for four years; flood in Nepal. On another occasion I heard Jeff assure us that the locals pronounce it Catár, not ``Gutter`` as some American media make it. However, I assume the Arabic letter transformed to Q in English is not exactly the same phoneme as K (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 17775, Oct 5 at 1832, KVOH is poor, only S5-S7 peaks, while shortly after *1400 I had noticed it was VG. WWV reported at 1800 a K index of only 1, and no space weather storms past 24 hours nor predicted (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 9475-, Oct 5 at 1839, WTWW-1 is OFF; as always, so is 9930, WTWW-2; and even more so, 12105, WTWW-3 not heard for months. Next check at 2349, 9475- is back as PPPP is talking about his ``thumb trick`` promising to explain how he does it later. What has this to do with white identity? OT (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 660, Oct 6 at 1234 UT, ``The Answer`` local weather, traffic break, and back to talk show, with hiccups/glitches every couple seconds in the modulation, not the carrier: KSKY, 20/0.7 kW U4 from Balch Springs TX, address in Irving, and long known as a Dallas station within The Metroplex. Must be claim to fame of ugly-named Balch Springs which is ESE of downtown Dallas next to Mesquite, but B.S. claims 24K inhabitants itself. With a neat call like KSKY, why downplay it for kooky slogan, also in some other markets, related far-right stations? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. Re: ``UNIDENTIFIED. 1010, Sunday October 1 around 1237 UT, preacher in Spanish with somewhat strange accent, but not exactly gringo. Loops E/W or slightly counterclockwise. #1 suspect is KXXT Tolleson AZ (Phœnix market), Family Values Radio, 15000/250 watts U5. Official FCC October sunrise is not until 1330 UT. Day pattern is circle tangent eastward, good for us. Schedule is overwhelmingly in English, but the daily lineup has lots of gaps including now: http://familyvaluesradio1010.com/programguidedaily/ There is a `Conexión Cristiana` at unknown time, and even a woman holding up a Brazilian flag, so could emit some Brazuguese too (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)`` This would explain my unID: I had thought of KTNZ, my nearest 1010 to the west, but could not find any update of format change for it from stupid ballgame talk on ESPN en inglés; from Neil Kazaross, IL, Oct 3, in IRCA, et al.: ``KTNZ 1010 Amarillo now Spanish Religion --- I've heard their calls followed by Radio Católica Mundial slogans the past couple days at sunrise. This is EWTN Spanish. 73 KAZ Barrington IL`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. Trans-Pacific JBA MW carrier search, October 6 at 1226-1231 UT: 828 (2 carriers?), 882, 1035, 1512 from WSW; 1098 west; 1566-NW. Sunrise here: 1231 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. 5838.00-USB, Oct 5 at 2355, 2-way in colloquial Spanish (before WTWW comes up on 5830), INTRUDERS if we claim broadcasting down to 5800, or 5745 as with ex-Greenville (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. 6008.7-USB, Oct 5 at 2335, 2-way in Spanish but mostly pauses. Big het from 6009.7-AM presumably HJDH but which I can notch, leaving a little het from something closer to 6010.0, presumably ZYE521. Anyhow, not a good frequency choice for the INTRUDERS unless they hoped to go more unnoticed (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. 7581.1-USB, Oct 5 at 2353, 2-way in Spanish, whistling (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. 21310-USB, Oct 6 at 1420, looking for anysignals on 14m, one here extremely weak S2 about equal to noise level, and slightly off-frequency low, requiring precision tuning for best sound, but all I can make out is `OD5V`, fonetikally, which looks like Lebanon but no such call in QRZ.com, and so poor I can`t tell if it`s the caller or callee. About to declare this the OSOB, I then find one other equally poor on 21285-USB, calling North America. At 1428 I think he spells his name as M-I-L, as short for Milton? Anyhow, 21505 BSKSA is fairly audible, so band is almost open from that area (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) This report dispatched at 1836 UT October 6 _ 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
