** CHINA [and non]. 6145, Dec 16 at 1437, CNR1 echoing at S9+10, plus fast SAH as it double-jams RTI Chinese at 14-17, stronger than any Asian signal on 49m; // single CNR1 on 6180 also jamming RTI at 10-16; nevermind additional ChiCom stations also sked: 6145 PBS Qinghai; 6180 CNR-17 Kazakh via Lingshi (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CUBA. 6100, Sunday December 16 at 0713, RHC in undermodulated but S9+10 Esperanto. ALL other RHC frequencies are off. So weekly Es`po too has revered to summer timing of 0700 instead of 0800 as on Arnie`s original B-18 schedules. Wolfgang Bueschel, via N American remotes, also heard Esperanto on 6100 until 0730. Something`s always wrong(?) at RHC. Other alleged Esperanto Sunday times are 1600 on 11760 (also 15140? Missed checking again); and 2330 on 15730 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CUBA. 13700, Sun Dec 16 at 1442 during RHC `En Contacto`, Arnie speaks so fast it`s almost like an artificial speedup; pause for co- host Marta Ríos to read slowly and clearly enunciated, a break Arnie wrote for her listing the meterbands in use, ending with ``29``, a typo instead of 19, she does not even recognize as such. Something`s always wrong at RHC (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CUBA. 15282.985, Dec 16 at 1554, VP S1 scratchy signal with trace of music, likely a spur, but from what? Hardly anything of interest on 19m any more in the propagation doldrums. I soon make a match to 15230 RHC! But no match ~53 kHz below around 15177. So could it be a spur out of the other RHC on 15140? Yes! There is a match on 14996.930, i.e. ~143 kHz above and below. Both spurs are really wobbly. These compensate nicely for lack of any FM spurs on 13 MHz band today. Something`s always wrong at RHC (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** KUWAIT. 11629.76, Dec 16 at 1425, R. Kuwait Qur`an, pretty music with no het at S9-S7, always off-frequency yet I see some logs of it as ``11630`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** OKLAHOMA. 800, Dec 16 at 1413 UT, gospel-huxter in progress, so KQCV OKC is already running unlike Dec 13 when it cut on at *1415 (Glenn Hauser, Enid, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** TURKEY. 12035.019, Dec 16 at 1423, VOT English finishing with IS, measured almost on-frequency just in time before cutoff. 11815.800, Dec 16 at 1423, VOT Turkish is the one way off-frequency here today during commentary with crowd noise, bursts of excitement, perhaps a silly ballgame (aptal top oyunu), or wrestling? Better signal than 12035.019 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A [and non]. WORLD OF RADIO 1960 monitoring: confirmed UT Sunday December 16 at 0426 on WA0RCR, 1860-AM, Wentzville MO, S9+20 but noisy, about 13 minutes into show so started circa 0413. Next: 2130 UT Sunday WRMI 7780 to NE 0230 UT Monday WRMI 5950 to WNW, 9395 to NNW 0400vUT Monday WBCQ *5130v Area 51 to WSW 0430 UT Monday WRMI *9955 to SSE 0930 UT Monday Unique 5045 low-power NSW Australia * also webcast; direct linx to these and many others at: Complete updated WOR sked, all affiliates, satellite, webcast, AM&FM: http://www.worldofradio.com/radioskd.html (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 5850 & 7730, Sunday December 16 at 0712, no signals from WRMIs; while 5950 is still RFI in Spanish. Latest skedgrid confirms the pair are now running 0800-0900 UT Sundays only, with `Shortwave Radiogram` and at 0830 WORLD OF RADIO (which I have yet to confirm, myself; gotta sleep sometime). So `Broad Spectrum Radio` is gone again, ex 0700-0800. For a while there was another airing on WRMI, but nowhere on sked now. Quite unclear what`s going on with James Branum, who apparently has been changing hats; his BSR website remains unupdated since June, and his disgraced FB too except for one entry dated Nov 18 when his latest thing was the anti-war Objector Church, on their disgraced FB linking to his intro of it recorded earlier in November in Oakland CA: https://www.facebook.com/objector.church/videos/1939819562762773/ which is a 5-minute off-mike audio-only ``video``. in which he says he is starting that up in OKC, see https://objector.church --- so is he no longer a Mennonite, pastor? Another of his projects is part 15 in far NW OKC on 1610 and 88.7: http://broadspectrumradio.com/sonador-radio/ but on my occasional visits to the area, have not been able to hear it; suspended? Without permission, it`s auto-streaming anyway a sermon of his from the website (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 15555-USB, Dec 16 at 1552, trace of talk from WJHR, back from 15550-USB, and a good idea too, as the Sudanese services occupy 15550-AM at 1500-1600; so is WJHR back to stay on 15555-USB at all hours? I had them on 15550-USB Dec 5, 7 and 8, and no one else but Ivo ever reported WJHR on 15550. Many other days inaudible on either, but what would you expect from a 1 kW PEP ham transmitter pretending to be an SWBC station? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** VATICAN. 9645, Sunday December 16 at 0720, Catholic chanting, poor but better than anything else from Europe on 31 m, i.e. VR`s weekly liturgy in Ukrainian, sked 0705-0800, 250 kW at 50 degrees so way off -beam thisaway, another SMG anomaly; to be followed by Romanian liturgy at 0810-0920 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) This report dispatched at 1825 UT December 16 _ 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
