[HCDX] Glenn Hauser logs December 21, 2014
** BRAZIL. 11747 11813, Dec 21 at 0612, distorted music spurs from 11780.1 RNA/RNB (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CUBA. 11920, Dec 21 at 0223, surprised to hear RHC Spanish here, fading in and out --- it`s a mixing product of very strong 11760 over 11840 another 80 kHz higher, but in this case probably produced in the FRG-7 due to receiver overload (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** GREECE. 9420, Dec 21 at 0610, Greek music, F-G so ERTOpen is on, which is far from always the case (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** INTERNATIONAL VACUUM [non]. Robert Conrad, ``Sagegrush Bob`` host of `Weekend Radio` from WCLV and widely syndicated including on KUCO OK, mentioned Dec 22 that he is thinking of re-running one of the best radio serials ever, `Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy` within his one-hour weekly show. There would be 12 x 30 minute episodes, starting in March or April. Listener input requested on this idea. See http://www.ideastream.org/wclv/weekend or comments @ ideastream.org (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MEXICO. 960, Dec 21 at 0600-0605 UT, Fox-hole dead-air of KGWA Enid checked with tight null: tonight it`s inhabited by Spanish romantic song, 0601 choral NA, 0602.5 XEK Nuevo Laredo ID, more romx past 0605 when KGWA modulation cuts back on. Making fast SAH with the KGWA carrier (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MEXICO. 6185, Dec 21 at 0615, fair open carrier, must be XEPPM residual from nominal 0600*, and this goes off by 0616* (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SPAIN. 12030, Dec 21 at 1545, Castilian conversation, confirming that revived REE does start at early as 1500 on Sundays. 11940, 11685, 9620 inaudible now; 12030 is for the ME and the Indican Ocean (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. WORLD OF RADIO 1752 monitoring: confirmed UT Sunday Dec 21 at 0231 on KVOH, 9975; following usual opening procedure: 0225 praise music prélude, 0230 sign-on and program previews until 0500. VG signal, somewhat undermodulated but sufficient. Next: Sun 2300 on WRMI 11580 Mon 0400v on Area 51 via WBCQ 5110v-CUSB Mon 2201 on Global 24 via WRMI 9395 Tue 1200 on WRMI 9955 Wed 0401 on Global 24 via WRMI 9395 Wed 0730 1530 on Hamburger Lokalradio 7265-CUSB Wed 1415 on WRMI 9955 Wed 2200 on WBCQ 7490v Wed 2201 on Global 24 via WRMI 9395 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 9330-CUSB, UT Sun Dec 21 at 0226, WBCQ is unusually on the air, seldom-used frequency any more, VG signal with conversation. This schedule would have us believe that 9330 is not on air weekends at all, just M-F 23-24 with `Money Talks`, and UT Sat 01-02 only `AWWW`. http://schedule.wbcq.com/main.php?fn=skedfreq=9330 Axually, this program is probably duplicating 7490: Sa 7490 06:00PM 09:00PM ET 2300 0200 UTC Pirate Pizza Night Sa 7490 09:00PM 12:00AM ET 0200 0500 UTC Shortwave Saturday Night - The Other Pirate Joe Show or 5110, unchecked: Sa 5110 07:00PM 09:00PM ET 0200 UTC Radio Timtron Worldwide Sa 5110 09:00PM 10:00PM ET 0200 0300 UTC The Lumpy Gravy Radio Show Sa 5110 10:00PM 11:00PM ET 0300 0400 UTC The Lost Discs Radio Show Sa 5110 10:00PM 11:00PM ET 0300 0400 UTC The Eric Dolphy Mystery Hour Sa 5110 11:00PM 12:00AM ET 0400 0500 UTC Listener's Choice (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 5935, Dec 21 at 0614, WWCR-2 is very strong with DGS, not unusual, but off-tuning slightly to either sideband I am hearing higher-pitched musical crosstalk! And I can immediately match it on a second receiver to the programming on 3215, WWCR-1! After all these years, WWCR is unable to totally isolate the adjacent transmitters and antennas from each other (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 1010, UT Sun Dec 21 at 0625 UT, gospel huxter preaching in English, loops WSW/ENE, strong and steady, just like 24 hours earlier when Spanish here was from KXXT Tolleson AZ. Its Spanish hours are allegedly only on weeknites, so is this KXXT too, back to English? Program schedule at http://www.familyvaluesradio1010.com/ProgramGuideDaily/ shows this is what ought to be on now in MST: Sat 8:00 PM - 12:00 AM Arizona Sports Network while 24 hours later it would be more like what we hear: Sun The Bible Doctrine Hour, 11 pm - midnight So maybe this is KXEN or something else tonight. KXXT sked does show its Spanish hours in MST as generically: M-F 8:00 PM - 6:00 AM Tue-Sat Conexion Cristiana Not from 6 pm as I thought they announced. Also has a link to Foreign Language [Christian] Broadcasts: http://familyvaluesradio1010.com/foreign-language-broadcasts not on this station but many others, mostly webcasts (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 1010, Dec 21 at 0629 UT, ESPN Radio mentioned as QRM to gospel huxter dominant. If we were to believe the Wikipedia list of ESPN affils, it could only be WJXL Jacksonville Beach FL, 50/30 kW. However, the 2015 NRC AM Log has a
[HCDX] DX Listening Digest 14-51; World of Radio 1752
DX Listening Digest 14-51 has now been posted at http://www.w4uvh.net/dxld1451.txt and also soon, sometimes delayed at http://www.w4uvh.net/dxlatest.txt CONTENTS: WOR 1752 / ABKHAZIA / ALBANIA / ALGERIA non / ANGOLA / ANGUILLA / ANTARCTICA / ANTIGUA / ARGENTINA / AUSTRALIA VL8 / AUSTRALIA +non ABC/RA / AUSTRIA / BAHAMAS / BANGLADESH / BELARUS / BERMUDA / BHUTAN +non / BOLIVIA / BONAIRE ham / BRAZIL +non / CANADA CBGA1 / CANADA CFCW+ / CANADA CFVP / CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC / CHINA +non / COLOMBIA / CONGO DR / COSTA RICA / CUBA +non / EAST TURKISTAN / ECUADOR / EGYPT / ETHIOPIA +non / EUROPE Pirates / FINLAND / FRANCE / GERMANY +non / GOA / GREECE / GUATEMALA / HAWAII / INDIA +non / INDONESIA / INTERNATIONAL INTERNET VACUUM / IRAN / JAPAN non / KALININGRAD +non / KOREA NORTH / LIBERIA / MADAGASCAR / MALI / MEXICO / MOLDOVA / MONGOLIA / MOROCCO / MYANMAR / NEPAL / NEWFOUNDLAND / NEW ZEALAND non / NIGERIA +non / NORTH AMERICA pirates / NORWAY / OKLAHOMA KZLS / OMAN / PAKISTAN +non / PALAU / PAPUA NEW GUINEA / PERU / POLAND / ROMANIA / RUSSIA / SAUDI ARABIA / SOMALIA non / SOMALILAND / SPAIN / SUDAN +non / SUDAN SOUTH non / SWAZILAND / SWEDEN +ham / TAIWAN +non / THAILAND / TIBET / UKRAINE +non / USA Texas Army MARS / USA WLO / USA GNK/SZX / USA Triblade/CAP / USA W1AW/3 ham / USA WQGY434/KB99696 / USA VOA/BBG / USA FCC/HF / USA +non WOR/G24/WRMI/WWRB/KVOH/WBCQ/HLR / USA WRMI/Global 24 / USA KVOH / USA WBCQ / USA +non WJHR / USA WTWW / USA WRNO / USA KJES / USA WMLK / USA KWTO/KLVI / USA KHAC / USA KFLP+ / USA KCJB / USA KHRO / USA KGNO / USA KXEL/WMLK+ / USA KGFK / USA WFQZ702 / USA WRCR / USA WBOU-LP / VIETNAM +non / WESTERN SAHARA non / ZAMBIA / UNIDENTIFIED 4780 / UNIDENTIFIED 4863 / UNIDENTIFIED 4915 / UNIDENTIFIED 7115 / UNIDENTIFIED 9565+ / UNIDENTIFIED 13560 / TESTIMONIALS / PUBLICATIONS / MUSEA / TINY TRAP / RADIO PHILATELY / POWERLINE COMMUNICATIONS / DIGITAL BROADCASTING / RADIO EQUIPMENT FORUM / PROPAGATION For restrixions and searchable 2014 contents archive see http://www.worldofradio.com/dxldmid.html [also linx to previous years] NOTE: If you are a regular reader of DXLD, and a source of DX news but have not been sending it directly to us, please consider yourself obligated to do so. Thanks, Glenn WORLD OF RADIO 1752 CONTENTS: *DX and station news about: Ustralia, Austria, Bangladesh, Brazil, Costa Rica, Cuba, France, Germany and non, Mexico, North America, Papua New Guinea, Russia, Rwanda, Spain, Sweden, USA, Zambia, publications SHORTWAVE AIRINGS OF WORLD OF RADIO 1752, December 18-24, 2014 Thu 0430 WRMI 9955 [1751 replayed] Thu 1330 WRMI 9955 [off the air] Thu 2201 WRMI 9395 via Global 24 [confirmed] Fri 0001 WRMI 9395 via Global 24 [confirmed, no longer at 0030] Fri 2130 WRMI 7570 15770 [confirmed] Sat 0730 HLR 7265-CUSB Hamburger Lokalradio Sat 1000 WRMI 5850 Sat 1530 HLR 7265-CUSB Hamburger Lokalradio Sun 0200 WH2XDE-1 1750 Victor NY Sun 0231 KVOH 9975 [confirmed] Sun 2300 WRMI 11580 Mon 0400v WBCQ 5110v-CUSB Area 51 Mon 2201 WRMI 9395 via Global 24 Tue 1200 WRMI 9955 Wed 0401 WRMI 9395 via Global 24 Wed 0730 HLR 7265-CUSB Hamburger Lokalradio Wed 1415 WRMI 9955 Wed 1530 HLR 7265-CUSB Hamburger Lokalradio Wed 2200 WBCQ 7490v Wed 2201 WRMI 9395 via Global 24 Thu 0430 WRMI 9955 [or 1753 if ready in time] Latest edition of this schedule version, including AM, FM, satellite and webcasts with hotlinks to station sites and audio, is at: http://www.worldofradio.com/radioskd.html or http://schedule.worldofradio.org or http://sked.worldofradio.org For updates see our Anomaly Alert page: http://www.worldofradio.com/anomaly.html WORLD OF RADIO PODCASTS HAVE RESUMED starting with #1730: Tnx to Dr Harald Gabler and the Rhein-Main Radio Club. http://www.rmrc.de/index.php?option=com_podcastview=feedformat=rawItemid=156lang=de or directly via: http://bit.ly/1xD5yyn Also via [but still not back in service]: http://tunein.com/radio/World-of-Radio-p198/ AND NEW ALTERNATIVE, tnx Stephen Cooper, because RMRC was down: http://shortwave.am/wor.xml OUR ONDEMAND AUDIO: http://www.worldofradio.com/audiomid.html or http://wor.worldofradio.org DAY-BY-DAY ARCHIVE OF GLENN HAUSER`S LOG REPORTS: Unedited, uncondensed, unchanged from original version, many of them too complex, minutely researched, multi-frequency, opinionated, inconsequential, off-topic, or lengthy for some log editors to manage; and also ahead of their availability in these weekly issues: http://www.hard-core-dx.com/index.php?topic=Hauser Best DX wishes, Glenn Hauser _ Hard-Core-DX mailing list Hard-Core-DX@hard-core-dx.com 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
[HCDX] Glenn Hauser logs December 22-23, 2014
** BRAZIL. 11747 11813, Dec 22 at 0619, RNA 11780.1 distorted spurs are still audible (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CHINA. CNR1 jamming, lots showing up morning of Dec 22 in 11-14 MHz range, as a propagational window coöperates, but not 14-19 MHz: 11605, Dec 22 at 1501, CNR1 jammer has just started against Taiwan in Cantonese; carrier from one of them was already on at 1421 12560, Dec 22 at 1424, CNR1 jammer, fair with flutter 10960, Dec 22 at 1425, CNR1 jammer, fair with flutter 11430, Dec 22 at 1425, CNR1 jammer, very poor with flutter 11500, Dec 22 at 1426, CNR1 jammer, very poor with flutter 10870, Dec 22 at 1427, CNR1 jammer, fair with flutter 12910, Dec 22 at 1427, CNR1 jammer, poor with flutter 12870, Dec 22 at 1427, CNR1 jammer, very poor with flutter 13130, Dec 22 at 1428, CNR1 jammer, fair with flutter 13530, Dec 22 at 1428, CNR1 jammer, good with flutter; none higher (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CUBA. 15230, Dec 22 at 0622, RHC Spanish is still on here and propagating fairly. After two weeks, we still get the ICRT intercept when trying to reach http://radiohc.cu --- yet by Google searching, and then employing Google translate, we get to the frequency schedule page, http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=ensl=esu=http://www.radiohc.cu/prev=search which I assume is from an earlier cache (whatever happened to easy access to caches in Google searches??). Anyhow, this indeed shows 15230 (only) on the air in Spanish until 0700. But it still does NOT show 11950 on the expanded schedule we`ve been hearing, past 1400, and around 2100 --- just 12-14 Mesa Redonda at 00-01 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** EGYPT. 9965.35, approx., Dec 23 at 0112, R. Cairo, good signal with music, Arabic service 9860, Dec 23 at 0117, R. Cairo in Spanish, hum, suppressed muffled mod 12035, Dec 23 at 0128, R. Cairo Spanish, extremely distorted but good signal level, // 9860 13620, Dec 23 at 0128, two stations, maybe one Firedrake, and neither seems // 12035. This might be the current third frequency for Cairo`s Spanish service, as listed in Conexión Digital at 0045-0200; but at 0100-0200 IBB Kuwait in Tibetan is also on 13620, thus surely jammed. Other Cairo possibilities HFCC listed: 11670, 11710, 12080. They did start the B-14 season on 12080 instead of 11710, but not heard for several weeks (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** GREECE. 9935, Dec 23 at 0117, with BFO, carrier is detectable in huge sidebland splash of 9930 WTWW Xmas music, so must be ERTOpen. At 0201, WTWW is off, and now I can clearly hear the motorboating atop the ERT IS // clear 9420 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MEXICO. 1170, Dec 23 at 0136 UT, hoarse Spanish gospel huxter conversing with a better-voiced one, surprisingly dominant N/S with KFAQ Tulsa E/W easily nulled, except for a SAH of 112/minute = 1.87 Hz. Must be XERT Reynosa, Tamaulipas, supposedly a 5 kW daytimer. I am also getting Spanish on 1190, and from the San Juan/McAllen station on 1210. Conditions rather auroral. At 0142, 1170 talkers say they are ``ubicado a 1868 Norte Raúl Longoria, aquí en San Juan, Texas`` [not Tejas, where there are no 1170s at all]. San Juan is the closest trans-riverian town to Reynosa. Plug special Wed service at 7 pm (Xmas eve), more info from 956-702-3211 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MEXICO. UNIDENTIFIED, 1190, Dec 23 at 0144, Spanish discussion of navidad and niños, while I am getting 1170 XERT and 1210 KUBR; dominant N/S but with fast SAH. Could be Contacto 1190, Monterrey, previously logged, or XEWK Guadalajara; Tampico, or Orizaba, but my first choice would be cultural XEXQ San Luis Potosí which once upon a time was on SW 6045 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MEXICO. 1220, Dec 23 at 0146, Spanish from N/S, YL chatter mentions Antena Radio, i.e. an IMER station so I check 1570 XERF for //, and so it is, except XERF is running about a semisecond behind, satellite feed delay. So 1220 of course is XEB in the DF, allegedly 100 kW (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MEXICO. 6185, Dec 23 at 0109, XEPPM is JBM in Spanish; what a pity when they have a clear frequency and Brasil is no longer blasting on 6180 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** NEW ZEALAND. 11725, Dec 22 at 0619, no signal from RNZI as I tune in, then it cuts on a few seconds later (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** NIGERIA. 6090-, on the lo side, Dec 22 at 0620, ANGUILLA is off again, and now I am hearing some very distorted talk, language uncertain. Also some pulse jamming from Cuba, worse on the lo side. Presumed FRCN Kaduna, which has been reported by others in DXLD 14-51 with such modulation: Carlos Gonçalves, Portugal, 6089.9 at 2218 13 Dec, ``soremodulada, áudio de má qualidade``; and Wolfgang Büschel, Germany, 6089.858 circa 0600 Dec 15. And which WRTH 2015 lists as the only remaining Nigerian regional still active on SW (7275
[HCDX] Glenn Hauser logs December 23-24, 2014
** BRAZIL. 11747, Dec 23 at 0613, trace of the distorted spur here from 11780.1 RNA/RNB (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** FRANCE [non]. 9790, Dec 24 at 0420, RFI French making rippling fast SAH with CRI Chinese via CUBA, which is normally blasting in here, but propped-down tonight. RFI is 100 kW, 20 degrees via SOUTH AFRICA, per HFCC (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** GERMANY [non]. 9600, Dec 24 at 0418, English report on Ebola in Liberia, good // 9800. Both are Kigali, RWANDA, of course, in English at 04-06, but 9600 is due south and 9800 is non-dir (or due north?) (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** GREECE. 9415, Dec 23 at 0416, Greek music, good, // fair 9935. ERTOpen has been jumping around the last day or two between 9420 and 9415 again. 9935 back in whack (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** IRAN [and non]. 9710, Dec 24 at 0419, fair with flutter, VIRI or rather V. of Justice, concluding English to N America with contact info and off. No CubaRM co-channel and suspected off, but no, it`s merely greatly attenuated in disturbed propagation, since I can barely // trace of music then to 6060. I also quickly checked Iran // 7325 before 9710 was finished but no signal at all --- closed early or completely off today? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MOROCCO. 9575, Dec 24 at 0417, ME music, poor-fair, as Médi 1, Nador, is back on the air after missing a few days, so, yay, Morocco is not yet a dead SWBC country (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** NEW ZEALAND. 11725, Dec 23 at 0613 check, RNZI seems off --- no, there`s a JBA signal, maybe it; while Australia is not propagating either on 11945, 13630 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** NICARAGUA. 720, Dec 24 at 0431, last few bars of a national anthem, vaguely familiar, then off. With WGN weakened and nulled. I bet it`s YNA3RC, R. Católica --- yes, then looked up in WRTH 2015 and it`s one of the stations still listed with a schedule, odd sign-off time of 0430, and a YouTube of the NA matches well enough: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W_oppAlORos (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. GLOBAL 24 program schedule, 9395, continues to be updated, http://www.tinyurl.com/G24sked Now there is a DX-program lineup on Tuesday evenings [UT Wednesdays] 0030 Frequency Cast 0100 Chelmsford Calling [monthly] or other SW shows 0200 Frequency Cast [more? repeat? But now for an hour?] 0300 This Week in Amateur Radio RAIN Report 0330 Wavescan 0400 World of Radio 0430 Media Network Plus Also, three major broadcasters` hours in English are now stripped: 0500-0600 NHK World Radio M-F [? But originally only half an hour] 0600-0700 Radio France International, daily 0700-0800 Deutsche Welle, daily `Democracy Now` has been shifted once again to air at 1300-1400 (live) and 2300-2400 Monday-Friday (Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Following the above notice to the DXLD yg, I listen in: (9395) webcast of Global 24, checking out the new `DX block` per their revised program grid for UT Wednesdays. What I hear from 0030 to 0330 is not exactly what the sked shows. 0031 we`re amid a WRN block which turns out to be ``Radio Poland`` as Swavek Shefs is calling it now, much more succinctly than Polish Radio External Service, and this program continues for the rest of the hour, instead of `Frequency Cast` at 0030. At 0100, Feature Story News headlines from Washington, cut to G24 overmodulated ID, and into `Cheltenham Calling`, the monthly media and music magazine from the UK. 0116 it plugs fellow program `Frequency Cast` without saying when to hear it. 0118 ``Wireless Years`` segment of C.C., which is really about vintage music. Segment about VOA Radiogram and trying their own as Sunny Jim continues talking over the tones with test announcement, trying to prove something? 0142 ``Trance music``; 0155 only a few minutes left for ``Listening Post`` which is not DX news, but quick mailbag and publicity acknowledgments. At 0201, `Frequency Cast` really follows, #106. Seems it deals with various media and tech matters, not frequencies where one may pick stuff up!! What a misnomer. (Fortunately we have at least one DX program which is not number-shy!) 0221 guess who`s interviewed, Sunny Jim from the C.C. show, about SWBC vs Internet, numbers stations. Is not a full hour; closing at 0231 says next show will be in 2015y; 0232-0236 extended FS News from London instead of cutting it off after three headlines. 0236 RAIN, the ham news show starts, until 0255. 0257 fill with part of ``Mrs Robinson`` tune. Not on above sked at all, but at 0301 DX-Extra #7 from Hobart Radio International beginning with the confused story about Radio Dabanga starting 10 SW stations (instead of Sudan starting FM stations to counter it, as we have already discussed). 0331, AWR Wavescan opening with a Christmas Island story I recall hearing before. 0401 WORLD OF RADIO 1752. All the above heard on
Re: [HCDX] [dxld] Re: Radio Mi Amigo and Radio Marabu on shortwave over Christmas
Roger, it seems you missed these, or just being Euro-centric? And then there is the McMurdo Antarctica special Dec 24 at 2300 on 7995-USB (but being deep summer down there probably won`t get very far beyond). 73, Glenn Hauser ** U S A. 5109.76 approx., CUSB, UT Tue Dec 23 at 0110, I find that WBCQ is active with some dense instrumental rock music; not // 7490 and 9330 is off. 0114 announced as ``the first broadcast of Electro Space``, to be monthly; write radio @ electrospaceradio.com Says will continue to broadcast monthly as long as there is an interested audience. Only fair signal and hard to copy the music announcement details or enjoy the music which I would have with a better signal. Rechecked periodically on the PL-880 while I am bandscanning on the DX-398: 0121 some synthetic voices, ``Electro Space`` and 5 tones repeated several times, then adding more tonal variations. 0141 back-announce music, asking for reports again if listening on SW or internet. Next: All I Need, by a French(?) group, Wicked Eyes by ---; Electro Space with --- (DJ name, but can`t copy), on WBCQ. 0151, another ID, address, this time plus postal to Nelson Abby(?), P O Box 225, East Jordan MI 49727; 0158 Jingle Bells; 0159 AW`s promo for airtime on WBCQ and 0200 sign-off with classical music. A few weeks ago we heard Allan promoting cheap airtime on 50 kW 5110 for pirates to broadcast safely and legally, so this may be one of them. But I found him only by chance, and it`ll be a long 31-day wait until the next appearance (maybe). It`s not on the 5110 schedule at http://schedule.wbcq.com/main.php?fn=skedfreq=5110 nor is anything at all from Mon thru Thu. Better keep an ear on 5110 every evening for whatever else may show up without notice. Aha, trying www.electrospaceradio.com we get forwarded to http://nelsonogden.wix.com/electro-space So there`s the DJ, Nelson Ogden, and he says there will be another 5110 broadcast Thu Dec 25 at 11 pm Eastern = 0400-0500 UT Fri Dec 26. Reports wanted but he does not QSL; no podcasts, but streaming only during the SW broadcast (not working tonight, however). Is also on Facebook and a few reports already there; where also says: ``We don't have podcasting rights for the music on this show, but I'll post a link to a recording of the show for those that couldn't hear us on the radio:`` http://www.ocsnetwork.net/etc/electrospace/ElectroSpace001.mp3 So I do start listening to Electro Space there. Tnx for the show (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. GLOBAL 24 program schedule, 9395, continues to be updated, http://www.tinyurl.com/G24sked Now there is a DX-program lineup on Tuesday evenings [UT Wednesdays] 0030 Frequency Cast 0100 Chelmsford Calling [monthly] or other SW shows 0200 Frequency Cast [more? repeat? But now for an hour?] 0300 This Week in Amateur Radio RAIN Report 0330 Wavescan 0400 World of Radio 0430 Media Network Plus (Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Following the above notice to the DXLD yg, I listen in: (9395) webcast of Global 24, checking out the new `DX block` per their revised program grid for UT Wednesdays. What I hear from 0030 to 0330 is not exactly what the sked shows. 0031 we`re amid a WRN block which turns out to be ``Radio Poland`` as Swavek Shefs is calling it now, much more succinctly than Polish Radio External Service, and this program continues for the rest of the hour, instead of `Frequency Cast` at 0030. At 0100, Feature Story News headlines from Washington, cut to G24 overmodulated ID, and into `Cheltenham Calling`, the monthly media and music magazine from the UK. 0116 it plugs fellow program `Frequency Cast` without saying when to hear it. 0118 ``Wireless Years`` segment of C.C., which is really about vintage music. Segment about VOA Radiogram and trying their own as Sunny Jim continues talking over the tones with test announcement, trying to prove something? 0142 ``Trance music``; 0155 only a few minutes left for ``Listening Post`` which is not DX news, but quick mailbag and publicity acknowledgments. At 0201, `Frequency Cast` really follows, #106. Seems it deals with various media and tech matters, not frequencies where one may pick stuff up!! What a misnomer. (Fortunately we have at least one DX program which is not number-shy!) 0221 guess who`s interviewed, Sunny Jim from the C.C. show, about SWBC vs Internet, numbers stations. Is not a full hour; closing at 0231 says next show will be in 2015y; 0232-0236 extended FS News from London instead of cutting it off after three headlines. 0236 RAIN, the ham news show starts, until 0255. 0257 fill with part of ``Mrs Robinson`` tune. Not on above sked at all, but at 0301 DX-Extra #7 from Hobart Radio International beginning with the confused story about Radio Dabanga starting 10 SW stations (instead of Sudan starting 20 FM stations to counter it, as we have already discussed). 0331, AWR Wavescan opening with a Christmas Island story I
[HCDX] Glenn Hauser logs December 24-25, 2014
** ANTARCTICA [non]. 7995-USB, Dec 24 at 2300 checking for the publicized McMurdo station Xmas caroling: not expecting to hear it since this is near local noon in midsummer! (UT +12 zone officially, like NZ without DST). I do hear, however, occasional weak carriers on and off, which I can only assume are nasty ham spoilers, just in case some signal should get out of Antarctica (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BRAZIL. 11747, Dec 24 at 0701, distorted crackling spur from 11780.1, RNA/RNB is JBA (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CHINA. 11500 // 11600, Dec 25 at 0156, Chinese vocal music, very weak and //, no doubt CNR1 jammers as per Aoki, 11500 being Sound of Hope, and 11600 being Radio Free Asia relay via SOH, each available very long hours with 0.1 kW transmitters in Taiwan (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** GERMANY [non]. Checking for the Gruss an Bord Xmas eve specials, Dec 24 at 1900 UT, nothing audible on any of the 5 frequencies vs noise level here. Nor the other set at 2116. By 2257, however, most of them have JBA carriers at least, while 9765 has an open carrier, by 2259 just barely modulated, but this is probably CRI Khmer service via Nanning as scheduled from 2300 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** KUWAIT. 21540, Dec 24 at 1352, no signal from R. Kuwait; there should at least be a JBA carrier, since Saudi is there at very poor level on 21505. The day before, Dec 23, Ivo Ivanov had reported 21540 to be open carrier/dead air at 1215-1545, but today, not even that (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** NORTH AMERICA. 6940-USB, Dec 25 at 0145, blues music on big sig, likely Wolverine Radio: yes, ID as such at 0152; off at next check 0207 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** OKLAHOMA. RF 31 and RF 32, Dec 23 at 2132 UT, I notice that both KXOK-LP transmitters are off the air. And must have been for a few days, since I first noticed their cable channel, 15, was displaying ! WEAK SIGNAL. So no more easy access to color bars instead of Azteca and Mundo-Fox, and no more 24/7 infomercials on main channel. Good riddance! This thing had so much potential as Enid`s only local TV station, never fulfilled, altho originally had some local programming (Glenn Hauser, Enid, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** OKLAHOMA. RF 24, KOKH-TV OKC has added a third channel, 25.3 = Weather Nation, along with 25.2 ZUUS country music, and 25.1 FOX 25. This must have happened in the past week, as I happen to step thru the STB channels and suddenly find there is a 25.3 after 25.2. Weather Nation apparently is from elsewhere, carrying national weather maps, etc., but constant Fox 25 bug in LR, crawlers, and apparently total local breakways every 10 minutes on the 6`s (beating The Weather Channel on the 8`s --- sometimes). (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. WORLD OF RADIO 1752 monitoring: confirmed Wednesday Dec 23 at 1415:35 on WRMI 9955, fair signal, no jamming. Also confirmed Wed Dec 23 at 2200 on webcast of WBCQ 7490v; 2201 on webcast of Global 24 9395. WORLD OF RADIO 1753 monitoring. Ready for first broadcast at 0430 Thu: Thu 0430 on WRMI 9955 Thu 1330 on WRMI 9955 Thu 2201 on Global 24 via WRMI 9395 Fri 0001 on Global 24 via WRMI 9395 [ex-0030] Fri 2130 on WRMI 7570 15770 Sat 0730 1530 on Hamburger Lokalradio 7265-CUSB Sat 1000 on WRMI 5850 Sun 0231 on KVOH 9975 Sun 2300 on WRMI 11580 Mon 0400 on Area 51 via WBCQ 5110v-CUSB Mon 2201 on Global 24 via WRMI 9395 Tue 1200 on WRMI 9955 Wed 0401 on Global 24 via WRMI 9395 Wed 1415 on WRMI 9955 Wed 2200 on WBCQ 7490v Wed 2201 on Global 24 via WRMI 9395 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) WORLD OF RADIO [non] --- I hesitate to mention this, but Chris Smolinski has posted on HF Underground, December 24, 2014 at 2152 UT: ``World of Radio Parody to air 1200 UT 25 Dec 2014 --- Or so I hear. Not sure what frequency, possibly on or near 6925`` (Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 9395, Dec 24 at 1337 check, Global 24 via WRMI is still not carrying `Democracy Now` which it was planning to do M-F during the original live broadcast M-F at 13-14; instead, Deutsche Welle, about markets, blue wine, then something from Paris. At 1400 over to NHK, and 1430 KBS. Next check at 2301, `Democracy Now` is on, a time which does seem to be reliable (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 17775, Dec 24 at 1914, I settle on KVOH for napping music, as it`s one of the best signals, and not too offensive; praise/Xmas music in Spanish which also helps me brush up my SS lyrix. Modulation is good too this time. No announcements until live interruption at 1943, ``¡mucha atención!`` --- [summary translation] coming up at 12 UTC [sic] there will be 5 minutes of silence, then Spanish until 4 or 5 o`clock, and then English all-night. Then talking about some apps available from 25 Dec for listening on internet and cell phones. Also a new transmitter will be inaugurated next year for
[HCDX] Glenn Hauser logs December 25-26, 2014
** ALBANIA. 7425, Dec 26 at 0232, R. Tirana is playing Xmas music instead of news: `Silent Night`, 0233 `O Come All Ye Faithful` --- violating separation of church and state; fair with flutter, undermodulated (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BRAZIL. 11747 11813, Dec 26 at 0229, cannot detect spurs from 11780 RNA/RNB with VG signal. Trying harder with BFO at 0257, now I can just barely make out the one around 11747 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CHINA. 6970, Dec 25 at 1230, CNR1 jammer, timesignal, Beijing ID, fair. 9155, Dec 25 at 1233, CNR1 jammer, very poor (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CUBA. 11950, Dec 25 at 2105, RHC is OFF today, instead of running this frequency at unscheduled hour (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** INDIA [and non]. 9690, Dec 25 at 1425, nice sitar music from AIR GOS, fair signal, better than usual; tnx to WRMI for staying off 9690 which they initially used a year ago upon takeover of WYFR. AIR // 13710 is still ruined by CCI from CRI English via Kashgar and/or outright CNR1 jamming; NO tnx (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** KOREA NORTH [non]. 5910, Dec 25 at 1408, Sea Breeze is still here and still in English on Thursday, quick news items attributed to Daily NK, same stinger every minute, but with a long pause before starting it. Fair signal from JSR, JAPAN as we are close to our latest sunrise (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** NORTH AMERICA. 6965.0-AM, Dec 26 at 0214, vocal music, sounds religious, in Spanish? 0217 ID by British-accented YL, something radio at gmx.net. poor signal on the FRG-7, so I switch to the PL-880 and DX-398 in the upstairs shack, where it`s a little better. 0223 a carol, 0225 ``Joy to the World``; 0228 SSTV beeps; 0229 YL voice ID again with e-mail but uncopyable. Music which follows is rather distorted; 0234 ``Winter Wonderland``; 0239 beeps, fading down, 0240 announcement, off or faded out by 0245. This thread IDs it as BZN Radio, as proven by a couple of SSTV images http://www.hfunderground.com/board/index.php/topic,20041.0.html Everyone else who heard it was east of me. So what does BZN signify, and it is Zee or Zed? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SAUDI ARABIA. 15120, Dec 25 at 1444, S Asian signing, poor with flutter, 1446 into speech/sermon as declines to very poor. Aoki shows it`s BSKSA in Bengali (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 7457-USB, Dec 25 at 1410, AFE4TS, the NCS, calling any stations in Kentucky, then Mississippi; no answers in this Air Force MARS net on a holiday. See previous log of May 22, 2014, one UT hour earlier when on DST: ``AFE4TS in Tennessee is a.k.a. AFA4NQ, the Division Technical Services Manager, and the Division Training Manager, both for the Southeast Division.`` This time there is a 2 kHz het from a weak broadcaster on 7455, which per Aoki is VOA Deewa Radio via Thailand (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. WORLD OF RADIO 1753 monitoring: confirmed Thu Dec 25 at 1330 on WRMI, 9955 confirmed Thu Dec 25 at 2201 on Global 24 via WRMI, 9395. Next: Fri 2130 on WRMI 7570 15770 Sat 0730 1530 on Hamburger Lokalradio 7265-CUSB Sat 1000 on WRMI 5850 Sun 0231 on KVOH 9975 Sun 2300 on WRMI 11580 Mon 0400 on Area 51 via WBCQ 5110v-CUSB Mon 2201 on Global 24 via WRMI 9395 Tue 1200 on WRMI 9955 Wed 0401 on Global 24 via WRMI 9395 Wed 0730 1530 on Hamburger Lokalradio 7265-CUSB Wed 1415 on WRMI 9955 Wed 2200 on WBCQ 7490v Wed 2201 on Global 24 via WRMI 9395 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 9395, Thu Dec 25 at 1331, Global 24 via WRMI not with `Democracy Now` but instead talk about Xmas festival, then Korean Folk Tales, so it`s KBS World Radio relay. Today, `D.N.` is back in the 15 UT hour, checked at 1522 with Amy interviewing someone about the CIA; poor-fair. 9395, Thu Dec 25 at 2104, `1812 Overture` fill music playing yet again, instead of `Dialogos Greece`, which I`ve yet to hear. About it: http://about.global24radio.com/programs/international-broadcasts-global-24/dialogos-media/ (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 17775, Dec 25 at 1521, no sign of KVOH, taking Xmas off (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 15825, Dec 25 at 1520, WWCR gospel huxter with long/short path echo, becoming a DX catch at some 39 megameters the long way round. Can happen when the direct signal off the back is much attenuated, yet propagation eastward is really funxioning (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 9475, Dec 25 at 2014, WTWW-1 is on, but the other two are off, 9930 and 12105. 12105, Dec 26 at 0226, WTWW-3 is apparently on, but poor with flutter, open carrier/dead air. WTWW-1 is on 5830 as usual, but no WTWW-2 on 5085 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 820, Dec 25 at 0606 UT, WBAP is starting `Mannheim Streamroller`s American Christmas`, music special. A great relief from stupid far-right anti-American `Red Eye Radio`
[HCDX] Glenn Hauser logs December 26-27, 2014
** BRAZIL. 11747 11813, Dec 27 at 0642, crackling spurs from 11780.1 RNA/RNB are audible (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CUBA. 6000, Dec 27 at 0636, open carrier/dead air from RHC English, while the other four of The Cuban Five are nominal. Is no one at the site paying attention to a modulation meter needle stuck on zero? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** EGYPT. 12035, Dec 27 at 0118, R. Cairo, good signal but dead air 9965.3, Dec 27 at 0118, R. Cairo, very good signal with flutter, ME music; off-frequency as usual 9860.1, Dec 27 at 0119, R. Cairo, good with flutter, dead air. This one is also off-frequency 9905, Dec 27 at 0643, R. Cairo, very distorted but loud modulation in Arabic (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** GREECE. 9935, Dec 27 at 0132, ERTOpen is on tonight with music, vs much stronger ACI from 9930 WTWW, while // 9420 is in the clear. As best I can tell, 9935 is not motorboating. At 0649, 9420 is VG with Xmas/Hanukah/Kwanza song in English, outro in Greek as by Whitney Houston (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** NORTH AMERICA. 6769.9, Dec 27 at 0107, very poor signal from old time radio pirate -- enough to recognize, far too weak ever to enjoy (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** NORTH AMERICA. Chris Lobdell answers my question about BZN, 6965-AM: ``Hi Glenn, BZN: It is Zed - is the name of a very popular Dutch pop music group. All the music played on BZN Radio was by the group BZN. BZN Radio is project of Radio Dr. Tim in Germany - Chris Lobdell`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** OKLAHOMA [and non]. 1640, Dec 26 at 0646 UT, KZLS Enid is open carrier/dead air again, one of its principle formats, allowing WTNI sports et al., to be audible along with multiple SAHs (Glenn Hauser, Enid, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** PERU. 5980, Dec 27 until 0104:51.5* JBA carrier cuts off from R. Chaski. This is 23.5 seconds later than a quadrinite ago when last checked, 0104:28* Dec 23, so still slipping an average of 5.875 seconds later per 24 hours (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. WORLD OF RADIO 1753 monitoring: confirmed Friday Dec 26 at 2130.5 on WRMI 7570 15770, good on both. This transmission is always preceded by a Rudy Espinal ID at 2129.5, fill music at 2130.0, why? Next: Sunday 0231 on KVOH 9975 Sunday 2300 on WRMI 11580 Monday 2201 on Global 24 via WRMI 9395 Tuesday 1200 on WRMI 9955 Wednesday 0401 on Global 24 via WRMI 9395 Wednesday 0730 1530 on Hamburger Lokalradio 7265-CUSB Wednesday 1415 on WRMI 9955 Wednesday 2200 on WBCQ 7490v Wednesday 2201 on Global 24 via WRMI 9395 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 9330v-CUSB, UT Sat Dec 27 at 0112, WBCQ with `Allan Weiner Worldwide` in progress, as he`s saying, ``by mid-summer there will be a new and improved WBCQ – new building, bought new transmitting equipment this fall, and maybe more in the spring, hi-powered stuff; some clients are working on that``. Goes on to extol LED lighting as more efficient, and more and more of it to come in 2015; wind power. At 0128 takes an expected call from Bill Smith, who is a guest of the federal government. Says his prison sentence is for 5 more years, but hopes it will be reduced to 4, or maybe even out in 2015. Apparently an old friend of Allan`s, as they discuss technical developments, restricted internet access inside. I know of two Bill Smiths in the DX world --- is he a third? As usual, this live AWWW is also on the other two transmitters, but not synchronized. At the outset, best signal by far on 9330, but it`s 28 seconds behind 7490v-AM. 5110 is very poor with less of a delay behind 7490. By 0130, 9330 is fading down, inferior to 7490. Also tried 15420 which was maybe on but could not be sure if a trace was WBCQ (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 9395, Fri Dec 26 at 1350, Global 24 via WRMI with `Jazz from the Left`, contrary to current grid which shows `Democracy Now` M-F at 13-14, and `JftL` on Fridays at 14-16. At 1445 check, going from `Mrs Robinson` to `RESPECT`, which I think is fill music rather than the Jazz show. But at 1502, NOW, `Democracy Now` is starting (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 17775, Dec 26 at 1459, KVOH is back on for Boxing Day, having silenced itself on Xmas Day, ID as with pre-recorded program (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 5050, Dec 27 at 0125, WWRB with Brother Scare, while 3185 is off. Sometime in the next few hours, BS switches to 3185, often before 0500, for the rest of the night (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 9930, Dec 26 at 1446, WTWW-2 with Bible story, as this transmitter seems to be putting out humbuzz on both sides, QRMing 9955 WRMI. 9930, 9475, 12105, Dec 27 at 0120, all three WTWW transmitters are on; 9930 QRMing GREECE 9935 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. 15370, Dec 26 at 1957, open carrier/dead air, VG signal. Most likely RHC
[HCDX] Glenn Hauser logs December 28, 2014
** BRAZIL. 11747, Dec 28 at 0621, distorted spur from 11780.1 RNA/RNB, is very poor and JBA on 11813 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** EGYPT [non]. 9395, Sunday Dec 28 at 1414, ME fill music playing from R. Cairo in weekly 1300 relay by Global 24 via WRMI, good signal; YL wraps up with headlines until 1422, mentions frequency 9860 which is normally non- or barely-modulated at 0200-0330; then G24 fills with RESPECT. Tnx to G24, this allows us to hear R. Cairo in English at least once a week (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** KUWAIT. 21540, Dec 28 at 1511, R. Kuwait with good signal in Arabic, in fact better than the only other 13m audible, 21600 WHRI, not up to full blasting level yet. Kuwait had been AWOL for a while. Ivo Ivanov says 21540 just came back today, and it`s the same transmitter used for English at 1800-2100 on 15540, both 310 degrees toward W Europe, and thence North America. Is anyone hearing the 15540 broadcast now? Normally it`s inaudible here in the winter (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** OKLAHOMA. 97.7 WFM stereo, Dec 28 at 0240 UT, sound-and-light show at a private residence on the west edge of Enid, as also the case the past few Xmases. As in DXLD 14-01, last year it was on 99.9, but that`s now occupied by a local LPFM. House is at intersexion of Pheasant Run (also name of the addition, turn off west from North Garland), and Club House. Mostly Mannheim Steamroller, and somewhat different light array, more LEDs than before, which is the irreversible trend. Again, very limited Part 15 range on 97.7, losing it by the time we`re back on Garland. Then drove by the 89.5 Singing Xmas Trees site, but nothing heard or seen; already dark. It was at NE corner of West Oak and North Cleveland, not North Oakwood as I misreported a year ago (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. WORLD OF RADIO 1753 monitoring: confirmed UT Sunday Dec 28 at 0231 on KVOH 9975, following usual opening procedure. Next: Sunday 2300 on WRMI 11580 Monday 0400v on Area 51 via WBCQ 5109v-CUSB Monday 2201 on Global 24 via WRMI 9395 Tuesday 1200 on WRMI 9955 Wednesday 0401 on Global 24 via WRMI 9395 Wednesday 0730 1530 on Hamburger Lokalradio 7265-CUSB Wednesday 1415 on WRMI 9955 Wednesday 2200 on WBCQ 7490v Wednesday 2201 on Global 24 via WRMI 9395 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) This report dispatched at 1621 UT December 28 _ Hard-Core-DX mailing list Hard-Core-DX@hard-core-dx.com 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
[HCDX] DX Listening Digest 14-52; World of Radio 1753
DX Listening Digest 14-52 has now been posted at http://www.w4uvh.net/dxld1452.txt and also soon, sometimes delayed at http://www.w4uvh.net/dxlatest.txt CONTENTS: WOR 1753 / ALGERIA +non / ANGOLA / ANTARCTICA / ARGENTINA / AUSTRALIA X-band / AUSTRALIA Yacht race / AUSTRALIA RA/ABCRN/ABC Classic FM / AUSTRIA / AZERBAIJAN / BAHRAIN / BOTSWANA / BRAZIL / CANADA CKZN/CKZU / CANADA non Radio City / CHINA +non / COLOMBIA +non / CONGO / CUBA +non / CYPRUS non / DJIBOUTI / DOMINICAN REPUBLIC / ECUADOR / EGYPT / ETHIOPIA / EUROPE Pirate / FAROE ISLANDS / FRANCE non / GERMANY +non / GREECE / GREENLAND / INDIA / INDONESIA / INTERNATIONAL VACUUM WRN/WOR / INTERNATIONAL VACUUM non HHGTTG / IRAN +non / IRELAND / ISLE OF MAN / JAPAN / KASHMIR / KENYA / KOREA NORTH / KOREA SOUTH / KUWAIT / LIBERIA / MALI / MEXICO +non / MONGOLIA / MOROCCO / MYANMAR / NETHERLANDS non / NEW ZEALAND / NICARAGUA / NIGERIA +non / NORTH AMERICA Pirates / OKLAHOMA +non KGHM/KEBC+ / OKLAHOMA +non KOKC+ / OKLAHOMA KXOK-LD / OKLAHOMA KOKH / OMAN / PERU / ROMANIA / RWANDA / SAO TOME / SAUDI ARABIA / SERBIA non / SEYCHELLES non / SOMALIA non / SOUTH AFRICA / SOUTH CAROLINA non / SPAIN / SRI LANKA / SUDAN +non / SWEDEN / SYRIA / TAIWAN +non / TIBET non / UGANDA / UKRAINE / USA GNK/SZX / USA KLDE/WQGY434 / USA KTCL/KB99696 / USA BBG/BBC/VOA / USA +non WOR/WRMI/G24/KVOH/WBCQ/HLR +non / USA WRMI/Global 24 / USA WBCQ/Electro Space / USA +non KVOH+ / USA WEWN / USA WWCR / USA WTWW / USA WRNO / USA non AWR / USA KHAC / USA KVEL / USA KXXT / USA KTNZ+ / USA KJJK / USA KJBN / USA KEVA / USA KGNO / USA WPQZ702 / USA FCC / VATICAN +non / VIETNAM non / WESTERN SAHARA non / YEMEN / ZAMBIA / ZANZIBAR / UNIDENTIFIED 3200 / UNIDENTIFIED 3360 / UNIDENTIFIED 6115 / UNIDENTIFIED 6161 / UNIDENTIFIED 6400 / UNIDENTIFIED 7625 / UNIDENTIFIED 11532 / UNIDENTIFIED 15306 / UNIDENTIFIED 15573 / UNIDENTIFIED 15600 / UNIDENTIFIED 15632 / UNIDENTIFIED 29620 / UNIDENTIFIED Channel A2 / TESTIMONIALS / PUBLICATIONS / DX-PEDITIONS / CONVENTIONS CONFERENCES / WORLD OF HOROLOGY / MUSEA / DIGITAL BROADCASTING / RADIO EQUIPMENT FORUM / PROPAGATION For restrixions and searchable 2014 contents archive see http://www.worldofradio.com/dxldmid.html [also linx to previous years] NOTE: If you are a regular reader of DXLD, and a source of DX news but have not been sending it directly to us, please consider yourself obligated to do so. Thanks, Glenn WORLD OF RADIO 1753 CONTENTS: *DX and station news about: Australia, Azerbaijan, Bahrain, Djibouti, Germany, Greece, India, International Vacuum and non, Ireland, Mexico, Morocco, Netherlands non, Nicaragua, Perú, Somalia non, Spain, Sudan and non, Sweden, USA SHORTWAVE AIRINGS OF WORLD OF RADIO 1753, December 25-31, 2014 Thu 0430 WRMI 9955 [confirmed] Thu 1330 WRMI 9955 [confirmed] Thu 2201 WRMI 9395 via Global 24 [confirmed] Fri 0001 WRMI 9395 via Global 24 Fri 2130 WRMI 7570 15770 [confirmed] Sat 0730 HLR 7265-CUSB Hamburger Lokalradio Sat 1000 WRMI 5850 Sat 1530 HLR 7265-CUSB Hamburger Lokalradio Sun 0200 WH2XDE-1 1750 Victor NY Sun 0231 KVOH 9975 [confirmed] Sun 2300 WRMI 11580 Mon 0400v WBCQ 5110v-CUSB Area 51 Mon 2201 WRMI 9395 via Global 24 Tue 1200 WRMI 9955 Wed 0401 WRMI 9395 via Global 24 Wed 0730 HLR 7265-CUSB Hamburger Lokalradio Wed 1415 WRMI 9955 Wed 1530 HLR 7265-CUSB Hamburger Lokalradio Wed 2200 WBCQ 7490v Wed 2201 WRMI 9395 via Global 24 Thu 0430 WRMI 9955 [or 1754 if ready in time] Latest edition of this schedule version, including AM, FM, satellite and webcasts with hotlinks to station sites and audio, is at: http://www.worldofradio.com/radioskd.html or http://schedule.worldofradio.org or http://sked.worldofradio.org For updates see our Anomaly Alert page: http://www.worldofradio.com/anomaly.html WORLD OF RADIO PODCASTS HAVE RESUMED starting with #1730: Tnx to Dr Harald Gabler and the Rhein-Main Radio Club. http://www.rmrc.de/index.php?option=com_podcastview=feedformat=rawItemid=156lang=de or directly via: http://bit.ly/1xD5yyn Also via [but still not back in service]: http://tunein.com/radio/World-of-Radio-p198/ AND NEW ALTERNATIVE, tnx Stephen Cooper, because RMRC was down: http://shortwave.am/wor.xml OUR ONDEMAND AUDIO: http://www.worldofradio.com/audiomid.html or http://wor.worldofradio.org DAY-BY-DAY ARCHIVE OF GLENN HAUSER`S LOG REPORTS: Unedited, uncondensed, unchanged from original version, many of them too complex, minutely researched, multi-frequency, opinionated, inconsequential, off-topic, or lengthy for some log editors to manage; and also ahead of their availability in these weekly issues: http://www.hard-core-dx.com/index.php?topic=Hauser Best DX wishes, Glenn Hauser _ Hard-Core-DX mailing list Hard-Core-DX@hard-core-dx.com 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,
[HCDX] Glenn Hauser logs December 28-29-30, 2014
** ANGUILLA. 11775, Dec 30 at 1448 UT, Caribbean Beacon is AWOL again. BTW, note spelling, NOT ``Carribean`` as often shows up (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** AUSTRALIA. 17840, Dec 29 at 2115, R. Australia, in English, in fact the OSOB at this hour! But only fair signal at best. No longer using 17860 at all, nor 21740, which last B-season was remarkably good. 17840 like 21740 at 21-01 UT is on the 70-degree beam from Shepparton, most favorable for us in deep North America. At 23-01 we can still try // 19000 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** COLOMBIA. 5910, Dec 30 at 0631, romantic music, automated timecheck for 1:31, fair signal; 0633 next break with ID ONLY as ``La Voz de tu Conciencia``, not Alcaraván Radio. Perhaps this applies only to the daypart I usually monitor. I still see some other logs of Alcaraván Radio, but I believe only those which put the name in quotation marx. And whatever became of another ex-ID here, Marfil Estéreo? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** INDONESIA [non]. PK-AXC is the registration/wing number/callsign of the particular aircraft funxioning as Air Asia Flight QZ 8501, crashed into the sea, as a little Google research shows. So please refer to the unique aircraft, not the flight number when referring to this disaster! It you must refer to it by flight number, you must also include the date which was Dec 28. Otherwise there was another flight 8501 on Dec 29 which made the journey successfully, its callsign being PK-AXU, and surely many more to come by two or three other craft, etc., etc. See http://www.flightradar24.com/flight/qz8501 Will anyone pay attention to me this time? Of course not (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MEXICO. 630, Dec 30 at 1306, weather in Spanish from ``Radar 63`` including SR/SS times, then traffic, starting with the highway Monterrey-Laredo, so certainly XEFB Monterrey NL. Only poor signal, but strangely, hardly any QRM from US 630s; where are St Louis and Denver? Radar 63 is the name of the newscast on XEFB, not its total slogan. One can find it twice deep within the packed Facebook page at https://es-es.facebook.com/630radio ``El noticiero radiofónico con más tradición del Norte de México`` on ``FB 630``. Or more directly at http://fb630.com/ which shows Radar 63 M-F at 6-8 am, 2-3 6-7 pm [12-14, 20-21, Tue-Sat 00-01 UT]. Besides news, seems main format is Deportes with FB now standing for Fútbol, and in three different versions: Mexican, American, even Premier League! However, Facebook has a link for those who are Sick of Football: https://www.facebook.com/630radio/photos/pb.511315685570203.-220752.1419963232./788978541137248/?type=1theater `Mas Allá de las Pelotas` featuring a leggy woman at 3-4 pm weekdays, which however, is not on the current website schedule. After 20 local on weekdays, `Los Bellos Tiempos` which could be about anything, but at 21-06 CST overnights [03-12 UT], `Sólo Éxitos, 70s, 80s, 90s`, surely meaning hit music instead (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MEXICO. 940-, Dec 29 at 0606, low audible heterodyne from slightly on the lo side, ID as ``XEQ Radio`` from México DF. Sometimes it`s off frequency, sometimes not, perhaps due to two separate transmitters alternating (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SUDAN [non]. 15550, Dec 29 at 1543, continuous tone jamming mixing with R. Dabanga and USB WJHR, so the Sudanese do not find CCI from WJHR alone to be sufficient jamming over there, in fact, probably inaudible. Dabanga is via VATICAN (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 13993-SSB, Dec 29 at 2119, MARS net with very informal QSO about antennas, etc. One of them IDs only several times as ``Tango``; some interruptions by digital ute noises, including ``running water``; 2128 another says fonetikaly ``8DQ, out``. At 2129 finally a full fonetik ID from AAR8HM but who has ``no traffic``. Google- and UDXF yg searching on that call gets zero hits. On Sept 2, 2014 at 0600, Allan Stern reported to UDXF on 13993 USB, a USAF MARS Transcon Net with several AF-calls; but the AAR call implies Army (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. WORLD OF RADIO 1753 monitoring: confirmed Sunday Dec 28 at 2300 on WRMI 11580, good. Also confirmed at 0401 UT Monday Dec 29 on Area 51 webcast, and at 0426 also audible via WBCQ 5110v-CUSB. Also confirmed Monday Dec 29 at 2201 on Global 24 via WRMI, 9395. Next: Wed 0401 on Global 24 via WRMI 9395 Wed 0730 1530 on Hamburger Lokalradio 7265-CUSB Wed 1415 on WRMI 9955 Wed 2200 on WBCQ 7490v Wed 2201 on Global 24 via WRMI 9395 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 9955, Dec 28 at 2010, WRMI with African fill music instead of Brother Scare, an incomparable improvement in programming (BS is still on 9980 WWCR, 9370 WWRB and several other WRMI transmitters). 2019 to `Ode to Joy` variations on piano, 2021 talk about the Council of Europe in English, French,
[HCDX] Glenn Hauser logs December 31, 2014-January 1, 2015
** CUBA. 5040, Jan 1 at 0522, RHC in English // 6000, 6060, 6100, 6165. 5040 is supposed to stay in Spanish until 0600, then English, per own schedule, but this isn`t the first time we hear English on it also before 0600. Seems Arnie`s new 90m outlet, 3365? didn`t make it to air in 2014y (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** FRANCE [non]. See USA: WRMI ** KOREA SOUTH. 6348, Jan 1 at 1518, poor-fair signal in Korean talk, and // 6003 poor, i.e. Echo of Hope, clandestine to North Korea. No jamming audible but may still be there. Another weak signal on 6250, presumably yet another Echo of Hope at a time when N Korea is not listed to clash with Echo of Unification. I seldom bother to log these, but notable to hear them so late, more than a sesquihour after sunrise here. Several ChiCom frequencies also still in within 49mb. 6600, Jan 1 at 1518, more Korean with poor signal, which is Voice of the People, another clandestine from south to north. But nothing on // 6518 which we used to hear and is still in current Aoki, EiBi and WRTH 2015 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MEXICO [and non]. 620, Jan 1 at 1427 UT, only station audible is weakly in Spanish, re 2015 arriving in Chihuahua Capital, at La Norteñita, i.e. XEBU. This is half a sesquihour after our Enid sunrise of 1343 UT which will reach its latest of the year in another week, 1344 UT, per gaisma.com I suppose KMKI Plano (Dallas) TX, the Disney station is still on, unsold, just not propagating at 1427 UT. Yes, teeny-bopper music on groundwave at 2003 UT check Jan 1 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** NORTH AMERICA. 6945.15-USB, approx., Jan 1 at 0519, I`m checking for NYE pirate activity, once WORLD OF RADIO 1754 is finished. Only this, good signal with blues, 0520 informal announcement mentions taking requests from HFU posts, thinx he`s good for another 7-15 minutes. Says 2015 will be a good one for pirate radio. 0525 ID as something - radio, chiding listeners to wake up, 0530 mentions Oklahoma. I never could copy an ID, but from 31 posts at http://www.hfunderground.com/board/index.php/topic,20158.0.html it`s WDDR as in Drunken DJ Radio; and I see none from further west than Oklahoma (someone else) (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** OKLAHOMA [and non]. 780, Jan 1 at 1425 UT, open carrier/dead air from KSPI Stillwater, 250 watt daytimer on groundwave, often the case for this mis-managed station. January SR/SS times are 1345-2330 UT. A PSRA of ONE WATT is on file for Sept thru Feb, ha ha. Carrier allows thru a little music, probably KCEG in Colorado (Glenn Hauser, Enid, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** OKLAHOMA. 92.85-94.9 MHz, Dec 31 circa 1920 until at least 2022 UT recheck, on caradio near KLGB-LP 94.3 in Enid, the main channel is dead air, but that doesn`t prevent buzzy spurs from remaining audible above and below in this range wherever channels are more or less open. Its new dependent from same site, KVBN-LP 99.9 remains nominal and with no spurs audible from it (Glenn Hauser, Enid, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** OKLAHOMA. Checking FCC FM Query listings for Enid, I see that the CP for an LP on 100.9 has been relabeled NEW rather than with the east-of-Mississippi callsign previously granted, and appearing for months, WRML! For Radio Media Limited. Yet it has ``no callsign history``! Nor is there anything in the correspondence files to account for this strange mistake, or correcting it (Glenn Hauser, Enid, January 1, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** OKLAHOMA. Filler digital channels continue to jockey around on OKC TV market stations: Dec 31 at 2020 UT I notice that ZUUS (country music) is gone from 25.2 KOKH RF 24, replaced by GritTV; they had also just activated a 25.3 for Weather Nation. At same time I see that KAUT RF 40 now has a 43.2 of This-TV which has been on one or two other stations before. I may as well survey all of them circa 1630-1730 UT January 1, conveying the exact PSIP IDs with caps and spaces and punxuation; ARCBC = aspect ratio can be changed ARCNBC = aspect ratio cannot be changed RF 7, KOCO: 5.1, is KOCO-HD [ABC] ARCBC 5.2, is KOCO-ME [MeTV] ARCNBC RF 13, KETA: 13.1, is OETA-HD [primary PBS channel] ARCBC 13.2, is OKLA [more local shows reruns and PBS reruns] ARCNBC 13.3, is CREATE ARCNBC 13.4, is KIDS ARCNBC [lately these have almost been break-up free with leaves off the trees, but still need to rely on cable for 1 and 2, while 3 and 4 are not on cable; fortunately, little I want to watch on them] RF 15, KTBO: 14.1, is KTBO-D1 ARCNBC 14.2, is Church ARCNBC 14.3, is JUCE ARCNBC 14,4, is Enlace ARCNBC 14.5, is SOAC ARCNBC [and this one only with continuous super ID in lower right, white letters KTBO-TV / OKLAHOMA CITY, OK] RF 23, KSBI: 52.1, is KSBI-HD [but now with 9 KWTV bug in LR. KWTV has just acquired KSBI and plans to use it as backup for CBS programming when preempted on 9.1, rather than putting it on 9.2. Other RF 23 subchannels have been turned
[HCDX] Glenn Hauser logs January 1-2, 2015
** CHINA. CNR1 jammers, early UT January 2: 12045, Jan 2 at 0124, CNR1 jammer, poor 13580, Jan 2 at 0126, CNR1 jammer, fair with flutter, not synch 12045 13920, Jan 2 at 0127, CNR1 jammer, good with flutter, and synch 12045 14920, Jan 2 at 0130, CNR1 jammer, very poor with flutter, // 13920 16100, Jan 2 at 0137, CNR1 jammer, very poor with flutter, // 13920 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CHINA. 15125, Jan 2 at 0131, English news, poor with flutter, time check for 32 past the hour, item about the Air Asia crash, mispronouncing Surabaya with the middle A long (I`ve also heard a US cable network anchor mix up the consonants, apparently never having heard before of the second largest city in Indonesia, 2.765 million). This station speaks with an American accent, so I dare to hope it is one of VOA`s non-canceled services, but NO! Aoki shows it`s just CRI, 215 degrees from Beijing site, of course. It is also inadvisable to give time chex like that to Asia where there are half-hour zones all the way from Myanmar to Iran (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CUBA [and non]. 6000, Jan 2 at 0141, RHC English has fast SAH and some CCI, no doubt 500 kW from Turkey despite aiming 72 degrees from Emirler, leaving only 6165 for good RHC reception (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** EAST TURKISTAN. 5060, Jan 2 at 0115, very poor signal on AM with talk; not a mix of nearby stations on 5 MHz, nor an image from 5960 where there is nothing. 0118 some music, 0120 sounds Chinese talk. I am getting it on both the DX-398 and PL-880. No doubt it is the only broadcaster in the world on 5060 at this time and have heard before, PBS Xinjiang, 100 kW, 230 degrees from Urumqi per Aoki. Still there at 0153. That means the other three 60m frequencies should also be audible, and indeed they are, but only as JBA carriers: 4980 in Uighur; 4850 in Kazakh; 4500 in Mongolian. Of course, the Chinese service is first among ``equals``, tho 4980 has same parameters. 4850 is 100 kW ND, and 4500 is 50 kW ND (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** EGYPT. 9860.0, Jan 2 at 0122, R. Cairo Spanish is open carrier/dead air or perhaps just barely modulated; fair signal level, not off frequency this time 9965+, Jan 2 at 0123, R. Cairo, Arabic, fair with flutter, whine 12035, Jan 2 at 0124, R. Cairo, Spanish supposedly, open carrier/dead air on fair-good signal (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MEXICO. 700, Jan 2 at 0144, Spanish from SSW, discussing Premio Nobel de la Paz, probably year-in-review show, 0146 ID as ``Radio Red AM``, which is XEDKR, Guadalajara, Jalisco, 1/150 watts, so still on day power? Lucking out that WLW is inaudible, must be in fade cycle as e.g. Chicagoans are not knocked out by aurora. Yes, by 0151, WLW is back with silly ballgame, tho still can be nulled for something Spanish making slow SAH (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** PERU [and non]. 5980, Jan 2 at 0104, I`m tuned in time to the JBA carrier here presumed to be R. Chaski. Last monitored 6 days ago cutting off at 0104:51.5*. So by now it should have slipped/precessed to approximately 0105:27. Instead the signal drops noticeably at approx. 0105:31 but does not go off completely. So it was mixing with the other 5980 transmission which continues, BBC via UAE. Further tracking will now be facilitated by WRMI`s elimination of Brother Scare from 5985 where he had been for a couple months. But Cuban pulse jamming is on 5980 tonight, residual for the full-bore jamming of R. Martí after 0700 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. WORLD OF RADIO 1754 monitoring: confirmed Thursday January 1 at 2201, and UT Friday January 2 at 0001 on Global 24 via WRMI, 9395. Next: Friday 2130.5 on WRMI 7570 15770; usw. (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 7455, WRMI: checking out the new `System-D` hour at 00-01 UT January 2: tune-in at 0028 to find `Moments in Bible Prophecy` ending; 0029 classic repurposed WRUL ID for WRMI; 0030 ``Ukrainian Radio`` (not IDing as R. Ukraine International) in English. The latter is presumably stripped 7 days a week at this new time and frequency, but does it replace 2330 UT on 11580, as still shown on the schedule still lacking the new 7455 block? ``MIBP`` is also on 11580 at 2315 Mon-Thu, so if the 7455 hour duplicates 11580, that could also mean WORLD OF RADIO UT Mondays at . Altho much stronger here than 11580, trouble with 7455 is constant RTTY QRM. I remain astounded that after a year, neither WRMI nor the RTTY station are bothered by the collision. But then the same was happening even before that to WYFR on 7455 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. Hi, Glenn. Just a heads-up that KVOH is expanding hours effective today, adding 9975 kHz from to 0500 UT Tue-Sat (6-11 pm Central, Mon-Fri). This is still using one of our two 50 kW RCA transmitters while our newly acquired Harris 100 kW unit continues to be
[HCDX] Glenn Hauser logs January 2, 2015
** ALGERIA [non]. 5865, Jan 2 at 0611, RTA via FRANCE in Qur`an, fair signal. I don`t think I`ve been hearing this after 0600, so sked change as of January? But HFCC, EiBi and Aoki all have 5865 registered for the entire B-14 season at 04-07 UT, in three segments. Aoki shows French expanded to 0600-0615, then Qur`an, but it`s not so tonight. // 7295 stops by 0600 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BOLIVIA [and non]. 6135v, Jan 2 at 0614, BBC French via Woofferton has big het and CCI, typical of off-frequency 6134.8 Radio Santa Cruz, but which normally closes much earlier; maybe on extended schedule even tho past New Year`s Eve (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CUBA. 9550, Jan 2 at 1453, RHC is on here playing ``Guantanamera``, with SAH/CCI from China in Vietnamese. Also on 9640, 9820, 11760, 11860, 11950, 15230, 15370, 17730. 9550 is scheduled for only one hour, 14-15, why? All four morning hours would collide with CRI. I take a look at RHC online schedule and recompile the morning hours to show which frequencies are supposed to be on in each: 12-14, 6000, 9640, 9820, 9850, 11760, 11860, 11950, 15230, 17730 14-15, 9550, 9640, 9820, 11760, 11860, 15230, 15370, 17730 15-16, 9640, 9820, 11760,15230, 15370, 17730 [my original font lines up the spaces and frequencies; sorry if recipients` does not] That makes 11950 the odd one in at 14-15. Also, on a google translation of the schedule, I am astounded to see target area for 9710 at 22-06 and 9640 at 12-16 as ``Netherlands``. In the original Spanish it`s more sensibly ``Antillas`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MEXICO. 960, Jan 2 at 0601 UT, tonight`s Fox-hole by local KGWA 960 Enid is occupied by XEK, as immediately obvious by their proud announcement of founding in 1937y, and ``estamos en la cuarta generación``. [Since that was 78 years ago, just how long is a ``generation``? This vague term is ill-defined in English and Spanish. Should it be the average age over the entire population at which a woman bears her first child? Or only within a certain population group? Or should it be the median age at which a woman has borne all her children? The length of time will certainly have varied greatly not only geographically but over the ages, so what use is the term, anyway? How about women who are nulliparous --- do they figure into the equation? Wikipedia says ``In developed nations the average familial generation length is in the high 20s and has even reached 30 years in some nations``. Of course, ``millennial`` and other groupings of ``generations`` are completely arbitrary, as all ``generations`` are totally overlapping each other as procreation continues apace.] Getting back to XEK`s generations, ``now in the fourth`` after 78 years could mean they take about 25 years each, as the third would have ended at 75 years = 2012. Unless at the outset 1937 that was somewhere in the middle of a ``generation``. O, this is too confusing. Speaking of arousal, XEK goes on to play ``Cuando Calienta el Sol``, altho Nuevo Laredo is far from a beach, unless they refer to the Rio Bravo or dammed-up parts of it. That love song is really steamy, as monolinguals may not realize. No NA heard during this window. KGWA carrier is much hummier than usual, impeding XEK but it remains atop somethings much weaker in English until KGWA modulation resumes at 0605 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** OKLAHOMA. 1640, Jan 2 at 1443 UT check, KZLS Enid++ is in open carrier/dead air again. Why bother to broadcast at all? (Glenn Hauser, Enid, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SUDAN [non]. 15550, Jan 2 at 1457, good open carrier modulating WJHR USB and now the frequencies match for good pitch; 15400 carrier is even stronger, both preceding R. Tamazuj via VATICAN, with sign-on in Arabish from 1459, after which both manage to modulate programming today (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 9955, Jan 2 at 0617 check, WRMI is back to BS instead of RFI Spanish relay as heard 24 hours earlier. Was experiment or misfeed? By Jan 2, the new 7455 System D schedule appears: -0015 daily: Hymns of Praise 0015-0030 Mon-Fri Moments in Bible Prophecy 0015-0030 Sat Sun Viva Miami 0030-0100 daily: Radio Ukraine International [sic] However, the extra-frequency schedules are headed ``Times are UTC; days are local days in the Americas``, so taking that literally, the VM UT days would really be Sunday and Monday. Meanwhile, the 11580 block at 23-24 UT is still shown, also with ``RUI`` at 2330 daily, and WOR Sundays at 2300 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENINIG DIGEST) ** U S A. 9395, Jan 2 at 1503, Global 24 via WRMI with `Democracy Now`, Amy interview about retiring Sen. Udall contemplating releasing the entire CIA torture report as seems to be his option. Then about the Pentagon Papers, apparently Daniel Ellsberg himself. Fair signal with fading requires close
[HCDX] Glenn Hauser logs January 2-3, 2015
** COLOMBIA [non]. 5910, Jan 3 at 0324, no signal from HJDH, or anything else here, since we`re in the sesquihour break between Romania and Lithuania. Too bad the Voice of Thy Conscience doesn`t take advantage of it (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CUBA [non]. 4765, Jan 3 at 0322, no signal from R. Progreso, which had been scheduled 0130-0500 (not 0030-0400 as in Aoki: that`s DST timing). Hope it hasn`t been canceled with a new calendar year (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MEXICO. 1130, Jan 3 at 0348, weak signal in Spanish, best from the NW/SE, but that`s influenced by needing to null KMOX IBOC from the NE. Mentions a .mx website so that narrows it down to four of the seven XEs not in the West. Nothing from KWKH as I tune in, must be in a fade, then back up a bit, but it`s always weak at night here on tight westward pattern (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** OKLAHOMA. 627-653 kHz, Jan 2 at 2112 UT check, IBOC noise is certainly on from 640 KWPN Moore, but I never hear any at night, and daytime is sporadic (Glenn Hauser, Enid, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** OKLAHOMA [and non]. 1460, Jan 2 at 2123 UT on caradio, sports talk station in English by skywave is already overriding groundwave KZUE El Reno, R. Fórmula. Too many possibilities in adjacent and second-adjacent states, and no DFing possible on vertical antenna. I do count a SAH between the two of 185/minute = 3.08 Hz, if that help (Glenn Hauser, Enid, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** OKLAHOMA. 104.9 WFM, Jan 2 at 2110 UT on caradio, a too-infrequent full FM bandscan includes a good signal here: can it be the new KEUC in Ringwood OK west of Enid, 400 watts at 78 meters? No, soon ID as ``Wild 104.9`` and promising new fart jokes for 2015 when they are back on Monday, blt. That`s 6 kW, 100 meter KKWD in much further Bethany (western suburb of OKC), with KEUC apparently not yet active (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SOMALILAND. 7120, Jan 2 at 0327-0340+, still no signals from R. Hargeisa. Can anyone find out what happened? Breakdown or political decision; ever to come back? Maybe their QSL manager in Europe knows (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SUDAN. 7200.0, Jan 3 at 0322 open carrier from Omdurman; by 0330 some music and talk lowly modulated, LSB QRhaM; 0338 its music competes with whistling amateur; Arabic talk then a little stronger (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SWAZILAND. 3240, Jan 3 at 0319, vocal music and African language talk, poor signal, i.e. TWR in Shona scheduled until 0325, after which I hear nothing, tho Ndau is supposed to follow at 0325-0340 daily. Maybe there was just a long pause between languages. It was weaker than 3320 Sonder Grense, RSA with rock music (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A [and non]. WORLD OF RADIO 1754 monitoring: confirmed Fri Jan 2 at 2130.5 on WRMI 7570, stronger than // 15770. Next: Saturday 0730 1530 on Hamburger Lokalradio 7265-CUSB Saturday 1000 on WRMI 5850 Sunday 0231 on KVOH 9975 Sunday 2300 on WRMI 11580 Monday 0400v on Area 51 via WBCQ 5110v-CUSB Monday 2201 on Global 24 via WRMI 9395 Tuesday 1200 on WRMI 9955 Wednesday 0401 on Global 24 via WRMI 9395 Wednesday 0730 1530 on Hamburger Lokalradio 7265-CUSB Wednesday 1415 on WRMI 9955 Wednesday 2200 on WBCQ 7490v Wednesday 2201 on Global 24 via WRMI 9395 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 9955, Fri Jan 2 at 2327 check, WRMI is amid Chelmsford Calling World Service, the monthly media/music show, pre-empting the usual Media Network monthly one-hour edition from PCJ Radio International. 11580, Fri Jan 2 at 2330, WRMI is still relaying Ukrainian Radio, ID after IS; so 0030 on 7455 is an extra repeat just started (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 9265, Jan 3 at 0329, open carrier/dead air, good signal. EiBi thinx WMLK finishes at 0300; but subject to variation. Unless it`s WMLK testing, fat chance. WINB website shows in a relatively recently updated schedule as of Dec 21, http://www.winb.com/schedule.htm the final Friday show *starting at 0300 UT Saturday (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 12105, Jan 3 at 0335, YL gospel huxter sure sounds like PMS --- yes! Big news: WTWW-3 has a new client. She`s // but 14 seconds behind 5935 WWCR and 6090 Anguilla, the latter two synchronized, so why does she need WTWW? At the moment, propagation has not yet dropped out as it surely will later into the night if still on; schedule span remains to be discovered, and how it might affect Bibling Worldwide. You`d think she`d be put on WTWW-2 which has had no paid programming for months, but that transmitter is off, no 5085, nor was 9930 on in the day. Breakdown again? Nothing about this yet on the WTWW website http://wtww.us/pages/schedule.php (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 9975, Jan 3 at 0341, no signal from KVOH, which just started nightly programming yesterday. At least I think not ---
Re: [HCDX] Identifications UNID 6660
Correct frequency is 6600, not 6660, and 6600 shows on your receiver display. Yet no one mentions this in the YouTube comments. Could you please be more careful? 73, Glenn Hauser On Sun, 2/1/15, Daniel Wyllyans danieln...@gmail.com wrote: Subject: [HCDX] Identifications UNID To: hard-core-dx@hard-core-dx.com, danielnx18.ju...@blogger.com Date: Sunday, February 1, 2015, 1:48 AM 6660 khz YL Locutora em comentarios , . clandestine station Voice of the People from South Korea 6660 khz Indentification by Sederjaer , Thanks 73s Dexista PT 9008 SWL Antena long wire 10 metros T por 20 M. de largura. 35222 foi as 21;11 utc de 28/01 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oEHfTKWLGEc _ Hard-Core-DX mailing list Hard-Core-DX@hard-core-dx.com 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
[HCDX] DX Listening Digest 15-04; World of Radio 1758
DX Listening Digest 15-04 has now been posted at http://www.w4uvh.net/dxld1504.txt and also soon, sometimes delayed at http://www.w4uvh.net/dxlatest.txt CONTENTS: WOR 1758 / ALASKA +non / ALBANIA / ANDAMAN NICOBAR ISLANDS / ANGOLA / ANGUILLA / ARGENTINA / AUSTRALIA X-band / AUSTRALIA Symban / AUSTRALIA Vintage FM/Ozyradio / AUSTRALIA VL8 / AUSTRALIA RA / AUSTRALIA ABC / AUSTRALIA RBA / BANGLADESH / BARBADOS +non / BHUTAN / BOLIVIA / BOTSWANA / BRAZIL +non / BULGARIA +non / CAMBODIA +non / CANADA CINA / CANADA +non CFRX / CANADA OTA TV / CHILE / CHINA +non / COLOMBIA +non / CRIMEA / CUBA / CYPRUS non / DOMINICAN REPUBLIC / EAST TURKISTAN +non / EGYPT / ERITREA non / ETHIOPIA non / EUROPE Pirates / FRANCE +non / GERMANY +non / GOA / GREECE / GUATEMALA / GUYANA / HONG KONG non / INDIA +non / INDONESIA +non / INTERNATIONAL INTERNET GCR / INTERNATIONAL INTERNET TGV / IRAN +non / ITALY / JAPAN +non / KASHMIR non / KOREA NORTH +non / KOREA SOUTH +non / KURDISTAN non / KUWAIT / MADAGASCAR / MALAYSIA / MALI / MARSHALL ISLANDS / MEXICO / MICRONESIA / MONTSERRAT / MYANMAR +non / NAVASSA ham / NETHERLANDS non / NEW ZEALAND / NIGERIA non / NORTH AMERICA Pirates / NORWAY / OKLAHOMA WKY / OKLAHOMA KGWA / OKLAHOMA KEOR / OKLAHOMA KGYN / OKLAHOMA +non KOKC / OKLAHOMA +non KYGN / OKLAHOMA K253BC / OKLAHOMA K288FX/KROU/KGFX/KWCO+ / OKLAHOMA KWTV / OKLAHOMA KTUZ/KUOK-CD/KOCY-LP/KUOK / OKLAHOMA KXOK-LD/WQOS306 / OKLAHOMA Earthquakes / OMAN / PAPUA NEW GUINEA / PERU +non / PHILIPPINES / ROMANIA / RUSSIA +non / RWANDA / SAAR / SAUDI ARABIA / SERBIA non / SEYCHELLES non / SOLOMON ISLANDS / SOUTH AFRICA / SOUTH CAROLINA non / SPAIN +non / SRI LANKA +non / SUDAN +non / SWAZILAND / SWEDEN / TAIWAN +non / TAJIKISTAN / THAILAND / TIBET +non / UGANDA / UKRAINE +non / UK BBCR4 / UK +non BBCWS / UK +non BBC/PBS / USA YHWH/FCC / USA Navy MARS/NNN0PQU/NNN0UTE / USA KLDE / USA BBG / USA RL / USA +non VOA / USA +non WOR/WRMI/G24/KVOH/WBCQ/HLR / USA WRMI/Global 24+ / USA KVOH / USA WBCQ / USA WWRB / USA WTWW / USA WWCR / USA WOKV / USA KAMA / USA KMTL / USA WFNO / USA WGUE / USA WFDF / USA KMA / USA WFFG/WSUA / USA WOC/KTOE / USA WERM / USA KBED / USA +non KOLM+ / USA WTRI / USA KMIC / USA WVON / USA WRCR+ / USA NPR / USA Joe Franklin / URUGUAY / UZBEKISTAN / VANUATU / VATICAN +non / VIETNAM +non / YEMEN / ZAMBIA / ZANZIBAR / UNIDENTIFIED 774 / UNIDENTIFIED 1349 / UNIDENTIFIED 1520 / UNIDENTIFIED 1566/TP Carriers / UNIDENTIFIED 2660 / UNIDENTIFIED 4895 / UNIDENTIFIED 4937 / UNIDENTIFIED 6001 / UNIDENTIFIED 7013-7178 / UNIDENTIFIED 9440/12065 / UNIDENTIFIED 13891 / UNIDENTIFIED 13950 / UNIDENTIFIED 15070 / UNIDENTIFIED 15350 / UNIDENTIFIED 17665 / TESTIMONIALS / PUBLICATIONS / CONVENTIONS CONFERENCES / WORLD OF HOROLOGY / DX-PEDITIONS / DIGITAL BROADCASTING / POWERLINE COMMUNICATIONS / RADIO EQUIPMENT FORUM / PROPAGATION For restrixions and searchable 2015 contents archive see http://www.worldofradio.com/dxldmid.html [also linx to previous years] NOTE: If you are a regular reader of DXLD, and a source of DX news but have not been sending it directly to us, please consider yourself obligated to do so. Thanks, Glenn WORLD OF RADIO 1758 CONTENTS: *DX and station news about: Alaska, Australia, Bhutan, Bulgaria, China and non, Cuba, Greece, Guyana, India, Indonesia, International Internet, Iran non, Korea North South and non, Mali, México, Navassa, Nigeria non, Papua New Guinea, Perú, Russia, Sudan non, Taiwan non, Tibet, Ukraine non, USA, Vanuatu, Zambia SHORTWAVE AIRINGS OF WORLD OF RADIO 1758, January 29-February 4, 2015 Thu 0430 WRMI 9955 [confirmed] Thu 1330 WRMI 9955 [confirmed] Thu 2201 WRMI 9395 via Global 24 [no show] Fri 0001 WRMI 9395 via Global 24 [confirmed] Fri 2130 WRMI 7570 15770 [confirmed] Sat 0730 HLR 7265-CUSB Hamburger Lokalradio Sat 1000 WRMI 5850 Sat 1530 HLR 7265-CUSB Hamburger Lokalradio Sun 0200 WH2XDE-1 1750 Victor NY Sun 0231 KVOH 9975 [confirmed] Sun 2300 WRMI 11580 [confirmed] Mon 0400v WBCQ 5110v Area 51 [confirmed] Mon 2201 WRMI 9395 via Global 24 [confirmed] Tue 1200 WRMI 9955 Wed 0401 WRMI 9395 via Global 24 Wed 0730 HLR 7265-CUSB Hamburger Lokalradio Wed 1415 WRMI 9955 Wed 1530 HLR 7265-CUSB Hamburger Lokalradio Wed 2200 WBCQ 7490v Wed 2201 WRMI 9395 via Global 24 Thu 0430 WRMI 9955 [or 1759 if ready in time] Latest edition of this schedule version, including AM, FM, satellite and webcasts with hotlinks to station sites and audio, is at: http://www.worldofradio.com/radioskd.html or http://schedule.worldofradio.org or http://sked.worldofradio.org For updates see our Anomaly Alert page: http://www.worldofradio.com/anomaly.html WORLD OF RADIO PODCASTS HAVE RESUMED starting with #1730: Tnx to Dr Harald Gabler and the Rhein-Main Radio Club. http://www.rmrc.de/index.php?option=com_podcastview=feedformat=rawItemid=156lang=de or directly via: http://bit.ly/1xD5yyn Also via [but still not back in service]:
[HCDX] Glenn Hauser logs February 5-6, 2015
** AUSTRALIA. 17840, Feb 6 at 0258, R. Australia still good signal wrapping up `World Today`, // 15240 only fair (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BRAZIL [and non]. 11712, Feb 6 at 0310, second-order extremely distorted crackling spur from RNA 11780.1v is centered about here, QRMing neighbour Radiodifusión Argentina al Exterior during presumed English broadcast, but too poor to tell, with this added to the 11710 het against RAE always off-frequency closer to 11711. As always, the first-order RNB/RNA spurs are even stronger, now centered approx. 11747 and 11813 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CUBA. 9790, Feb 6 at 0306, CRI English relay with usual bigsig but modulation is quite low with hum (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** EGYPT. 9965, Feb 6 at 0304, R. Cairo mainly whine, JBM but signal level is good with flutter, in Arabic service. 9860, Feb 6 at 0305, R. Cairo, JBM with low hum, supposedly English service, fair signal (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MEXICO [and non]. 620, Feb 6 at 0332, full ID for XEBU in Chihuahua, 10,000 watts, also on FM, temp 13 C. WRTH lists as 5/1 kW, NRC as non-direxional always, so maybe the 10 kW applies to FM. Not so dominant a signal as it used to be and I feared it might have closed AM already. Somewhat separable from KMKI Plano TX, still on with Disney (which I read has an STA to run night facility also in daytime --- that means 4.5 instead of 5 kW, and major lobes to the NW and SW, rather than a broad lobe from SW to NW to NE (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MEXICO. 770, Feb 6 at 0328, political ad for Partido del Trabajo, then full ID from Radio Fórmula Monterrey, XEACH, 770, 25,000 watts, street address, phone numbers. ``Siempre Viva Voz`` slogan, then feature/promo with marimba for San Cristóbal de las Casas, Chiapas as a great place to visit; pause at 0330, then resuming program `Fórmula Financiera` with YL hostess. Dominant signal on 770, but best with WBBM 767 IBOC nulled, which is pretty far off the angle from Monterrey. Supposedly cuts to only 1 kW at night, per WRTH. We hear and see a lot of political advertising in Mexico, so when is the elexion? Timeanddate.com says there will not be a general elexion until July 1, 2018 (6-yearly). What we have this year per Wikipedia means four more months of campaigning: ``Legislative elections are scheduled to be held in Mexico on June 7, 2015. Voters will elect 500 deputies (300 by their respective constituencies, 200 by proportional representation) to sit in the Chamber of Deputies for the 63rd Congress`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** NORTH AMERICA. 6925-AM, slightly on hi side, Feb 6 at 0259, poor signal with pirate music, seemed to quit at 0309. No announcements heard. Several logs from 0150 to 0247 say it was Liquid Radio then: http://www.hfunderground.com/board/index.php/topic,20554.0.html (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** OMAN. 15140, Feb 5 at 2157, RSO with ME music, good signal, much better than they manage in the mornings for the English hour at 14. Wonder if they have boosted their signal in honor of the A-15 HFCC Conference which is just wrapping up in Muscat (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SOUTH CAROLINA [non]. 5890, Feb 6 at 0301, WWCR with non-BS; that hour is sold to E. C. Fulcher of Truth House Ministries, who used to run his own SW club; meanwhile, BS is back on 7570 WRMI, and a couple seconds behind on 5050 WWRB. About the anomalies earlier on Feb 5, Jeff White would have to check with Okeechobee since he was in Muscat for the A-15 HFCC Conference (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SPAIN. 12030 good, 11940 fair with flutter, 11685 just barely audible, 9620 very good, REE is back on all four frequencies Feb 5 at 2150 check. Ivo Ivanov had noted that 11685 and 12030 were missing on Jan 31 and Feb 3 as I mention on WORLD OF RADIO 1759. Responding to complaints from faraway mariners, REE was going to ``optimize`` its frequency usage, but not until A-15. They wanted REE back on 15, 17 and 21 MHz bands, and so do we (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. WORLD OF RADIO 1759 monitoring: for the second week, no show at 2201 UT Thursday, Feb 5 on Global 24 via WRMI 9395. Instead, `Dialogos Greece` keeps playing past 2200 during a commentary, at least until 2206. Recheck at 2228, European News Network, News Review is wrapping up, so apparently that filled from about 2215. Is D.G. habitually running more than 60 minutes, or does it start later than scheduled 2100? Anyhow, WOR continues to appear at 2200 Thursdays on the Global 24 schedule grid, but lacking any definite info from G24, we have to conclude WOR is no longer really on the schedule at that time, only two hours before the next airing at 0001 UT Fridays which is maintained and confirmed Feb 6. Next: Fri 2130 on WRMI 7570 15770 Sat 0730 1530 on Hamburger Lokalradio 7265-CUSB Sat 1000 on WRMI
[HCDX] Glenn Hauser logs February 6-7, 2015
** BOLIVIA. 5952.28 approx., Feb 7 at 0106, Radio Pio Doce with Andean music, very poor, but always circa this split frequency. Usually reported more like 5952.44 as on Feb 1 by Bob Wilkner, but that would have required four more 40 Hz clix on my DX-398 compared to WWV 5000.000 kHz. Yet my indirect method is likely less accurate (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BRAZIL. 11935-, Feb 7 at 0126, ``Rádio R-B Dois, AM 14-30`` ID. With BFO, compared to WWV 10 MHz and stepping 5 kHz up and down around 11935, this station is a smidgin on the lo side, probably less than 40 Hz. And now we know the gender of the ``2`` in its name, masculine; why? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CUBA. 11670, Feb 7 at 0047, surprised at how weak RHC is here in Spanish, MUF/fadeout? But // 11760 is still inbooming; how come? As an outlaw station, RHC refuses to participate in HFCC, but Aoki shows alleged powers and azimuths. At this time, 11670 is listed as 100 kW ND, while 11760 is 250 kW at 160 degrees, i.e. away from us much like 9955 WRMI (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** EGYPT. 9860, Feb 7 at 0044, R. Cairo, good signal but suppressed/distorted music modulation 9965, Feb 7 at 0045, R. Cairo, good signal, open carrier with whine 12035, Feb 7 at 0049, R. Cairo, good signal with loud but extremely distorted modulation, supposedly Spanish, and atop any CCI (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** GREECE. 9935, Feb 7 at 0045, ERTOpen with severe motorboating and carrier wobble during music but good signal level, // unmarred 9420 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** NORTH AMERICA. 6930-USB, Feb 7 at 0041, pirate music, with YL parlato at the moment, 0047 wild rock, 0050 ``X-L-R-8`` ID, more music; 0131 another XLR8 ID but this one by synthetic voice, pause and more music; good signal (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST ** PAPUA NEW GUINEA. 7325-, Feb 6 at 1408, JBA carrier slightly on the low side. As before on Feb 2, this is during the half-hour window when strong CRI signal is taking a break, a sign that Wantok Radio Light, 1 kW, is active again. If not, what else is it? The WRTH National Radio update issued today says unequivocally that WRL is back, but I`ve yet to see any definite logs of it, not even by Ron Howard in California. As in DXLD 15-04: Rick Barton in AZ presumed he heard it in Englishish on Jan 23 Ron Howard in CA could not hear even a carrier on Jan 24 or 25, but reminds us the frequency had been 7324.96 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** PERU [and non]. 5980, Feb 7 at 0040, JBA carrier presumed R. Chaski; at 0100 now seems like there are two JBA carriers, with BBCWS via UAE added, and traces of modulation. At 0101:36 one of them goes off, which would be Chaski. Now to try to track progression of approx. 5.83 seconds later per 24 hours, but the BBC QRM doesn`t facilitate it (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** UKRAINE [non]. 11580, Feb 7 at 0045, Ukrainian Radio, English via WRMI is still here at 0030 as well as presumed 2330, about a publishers` forum concerning culture vs propaganda, mentioning Ukraine. Altho I hear it ID as above at the opening, Alan Roe says it`s still R. Ukraine International on the one-hour webcasts; repackaged for WRMI? 11580 is sufficient here but not super like e.g. 7570 with Brother Scare (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. WORLD OF RADIO 1759 monitoring: confirmed Friday Feb at 2130.5 on WRMI 7570 and // now much stronger 15770. Next: Sat 0730 1530 on Hamburger Lokalradio 7265-CUSB Sat 1000 on WRMI 5850 Sun 0231 on KVOH 9975 Sun 2300 on WRMI 11580 Mon 0400v on Area 51 via WBCQ 5110v Mon 2201 on Global 24 via WRMI 9395 Tue 1200 on WRMI 9955 Wed 0401 on Global 24 via WRMI 9395 Wed 0730 1530 on Hamburger Lokalradio 7265-CUSB Wed 1415 on WRMI 9955 Wed 2200 on WBCQ 7490v Wed 2201 on Global 24 via WRMI 9395 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 9395, Feb 7 at 0124, Global 24 via WRMI with Bach fill music yet again. Scheduled at this time per grid is `Jazz from the Left` at 01-04 Saturdays (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 5111.16 approx., Feb 7 at 0056, WBCQ was not on at 0040 but it is now with IS ID loop, and shifted more than 1 kHz to the hi side of nominal 5110. 9330 remains absent when it used to be on for `Allan Weiner Worldwide` from 0100 UT Saturdays. That does start at 0100 with ``William Tell Overture`` but now I am listening to 7489.86 approx., apparently using the ex-9330 transmitter. Allan starts off saying he wants to concentrate on mechanical rather than electronical things this time, such as a 106-year old car he is restoring, as he buys and sells antique autos. (A week or two ago he said he was giving an antique firetruck to St. Augustine to restore). Yes, he`s still in Fla-land, temp in the 50s while it`s minus 6 F in Monticello and tnx to his staff there who keeps the station going. Soon interrupted by listener
[HCDX] Glenn Hauser logs February 2-3, 2015
** BANGLADESH. 15505, Feb 3 at 1400, Bangladesh Betar is JBA, but I tune in too late to hear the mistimesignal which is probably still ending before 1400. Starting to propagate again after nothing over the winter hump (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BRAZIL. 9725, Feb 3 at 0637, very poor signal with Rosary in Brazuguese, so RB2 is active here, and also on 11935 which is fair; 6040 unchecked. However, I hear the same thing on 11855 R. Aparecida, and by golly, they are // but slightly out of synch, 0638 both going into Ave Maria song. What a waste (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BRAZIL. 11710, 11745 11815, Feb 3 at 0641, crackling spurs from music on 11780.1, RNA/RNB are stronger than usual, such that the second-order one on 11710 is audible, but no match on 11850 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** GUAM. 15190, Feb 3 at 1406, fair steady signal, preacher with curious Britishish accent, asserting his religion is the real one; BDXC`s Broadcasts in English booklet by the radio IDs it right away as KTWR (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** GUYANA. 3290-, Feb 3 at 0643, very poor signal from V. of Guyana, presumably with BBCWS overnite relay, marred by ute blob circa 3287, but then it goes off (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MEXICO. 1410, Feb 3 at 1342 UT, Mexican news in Spanish looping southwest, then talking about the Carretera Mazatlán, so XECF, Los Mochis, Sinaloa, 1/500 watts, La Mexicana, per IRCA Log. I have also logged it once a year starting in 2011 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MEXICO. NTSC channel A2, 59.75 MHz, Feb 2 at 2212 UT as I turn on tune in, there is Spanish audio, not much video, antenna south, soon faded out, so a bit of a sporadic E opening, surely from XH-land (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** NAVASSA. 21205-USB, Feb 2 at 2111, here`s K1N, preferred fonetix kilo-one-november, the DX-pedition. Says he has been on the island for three days but took a while to get set up. Pileups on the hi side, more than one frequency, yet somehams keep calling on the DX frequency, such as K3CH, until he is shamed by another ham. A couple contacts: W8WY, 59 at 2112; EA8BPX, 59 at 2113. As customary, K1N cannot spare the time to utter his own call with every contact, and his correspondents utter only their own calls --- many repeated countless times hoping to get a split-second opening in the pileups before success. There are also occasional AM carriers near the DX frequency, by spoilers. K1N team have a plan to track down such destructive interferers, so good luck. Website says: ``Deliberate QRM is at expected levels; you are encouraged to fill out a DQRM report to help isolate the location of those transmitters. There's a DQRM button on every page of our website. In addition, you can go directly to http://www.dqrmreport.com and file there`` Then I tune around 10m and 17m, don`t find any K1Ns, but do hear various hams discussing the event. Nor on 12m. 18150, 18145, 18140 all have pileups at 2146 Feb 2, presumably in honor of K1N, but I can`t find that op on 18135 or anywhere else. 21205-USB, Feb 3 at 1434, this is still the K1N frequency, and there are pileups on 21215, 21225, 21230 at least. K1N says ``10 up`` after which W4DEE calls him immediately on 21205! But for the most part 21205 stays clear, and if not, some other hams will rudely run off the intruders. During a one-minute period, I count K1N making five contacts, but one or two required more than one transmission to nail down the calls, so with a little luck he could squeeze in six or seven. Say six, during continuous operation by one op/transmitter, so that adds up to 600 per hour or 14,400 per 24-hour day. What else could matter? Brock Whaley agrees it`s a mess: ``Glenn, I heard K1N Navassa Island pop on at 1200 UT on 21205 USB. Good signal here, but a huge mess of a pile-up, often rude, extends from 21210 to 21160, no kidding. I'm sure the excitement will calm down, but right now it's amateur after amateur yelling out their calls, and putting each other down. Ham radio at its finest (Brock Whaley, Ireland, Feb 3 for DXLD)`` Still no specific frequencies on website: ``The QRM problem is one reason we are not publishing our operating frequencies, but we will be on or near the usual DXpedition frequencies`` But latest news: http://www.navassadx.com --- ``3 February 2015 --- Weather delays have plagued and delayed deployment. We were hoping to get four helicopter loads in yesterday, but only one made it because of Jamaica weather. We have ten ops on the island. We have 160M 80M dipoles at 160 feet from top of light house ...and other dipoles lower from nearly each window. It has been VERY WINDY and very hot...and very dirty. We have heavy rains every evening, collected for washing, as we all feel very grubby. We have four stations QRV, five by the end of the day. SteppIR's going up today.
[HCDX] Glenn Hauser logs February 8, 2015
** CUBA. 6100, Sunday Feb 8 at 0701, RHC opening weekly Esperanto, with frequencies for the three broadcasts, this one as ``6000``, which has been used before, but 6100 is on the sked now. 6000 is still on the air, however, at 0703 with unscheduled Spanish, while 6165, 6060 and 5040 are all off. 17730, Feb 8 at 1437, RHC AWOL from here, not propagation as 17790 WRMI is in as well as usual; by 1520, 17730 is on. At 1504, I find 11950 11860 are on with dead air, while 11760, 9820, 9640, 15370 modulate, and perhaps 15230. 11860 is supposed to quit at 1500, 11950 and 1400 but stays on another hour (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** GUYANA. 3290-, Feb 8 at 0657, VOG with fair signal, seems rather undermodulated; missed local ID if any before 0700 BBC pips about one second behind WWV, BBCWS ID and news relay; roused at 0800, music continues past hourtop, so BBC relay must be over (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 9395, Sunday Feb 8 at 1346, Global 24 via WRMI with a song, but unseems Cairo which had been scheduled at 1300-1420, missing again. 1400 ``Global 24 News``, bringing in correspondent Priscilla in Washington about one topic, SCOTUS and gay marriage, by 1402 back to music; poor signal squeezed with 9390 9400 ACI (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 11550 12050, Feb 8 at 1503, WEWN Spanish are as usual, 11550 OK, and 12050 with the squeal, but not the humwhine I have been hearing on night frequency 11870, which must be from one of the same transmitters (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 1360, Feb 8 at 0718 UT, ``Christian programming all day and all night here on WMOB, Mobile`` AL and country gospel tune. As others have concluded, can`t be on night power and pattern of 200 watts southwards into the Gulf; day power is 9 kW and supposedly also south only, so really ND? There are also 1360 stations in the Ark-La-Miss between us, being overcome, unheard (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 1540, Feb 8 at 0658 UT, something in English instead of KEDA San Antonio Tejano usually dominant; DJ mentions GE Studios, 1-877 phone. So this is KGBC Galveston TX, which mainly relays CRI English from the ChiCom; only 250 watts at night and // 1520 KYND Cypress TX hitting Houston from another angle, but nothing of that audible now vs KOKC/KOLM mess. At 0706 UT, KEDA is gaining, making fast SAH with KGBC music, so apparently not a CRI relay at this time. Note GE has other 1540 stations, 50/30 kW U4 CHIN Toronto; and 50 kW D3 = direxional daytimer WNWR Philadelphia. What I am getting does loop further counter-clockwise from KEDA, but not that much (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) This report dispatched at 1810 UT Feb 8 _ Hard-Core-DX mailing list Hard-Core-DX@hard-core-dx.com 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
[HCDX] Glenn Hauser logs February 7-8, 2015
** BRAZIL. 4885, Feb 8 at 0313, just as I tune by, ``Belém, Pará``, easiest log ever, from ZY`s #1 signal on 60m, but only fair at best (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BRAZIL. 11747 11813, Feb 7 at 0646, crackling spurs from 11780.1v, RNA/RNB; circa 11713 also an occasional modulation spike spur; these being only approx. peaks with no carriers to pin. 11747 11813, Feb 8 at 03027, crackling spurs, but none heard circa 11714 (Glenn Hauser, oK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CHINA. 9455, Feb 7 at 2034, Firedragon, poor with heavy flutter 9355, Feb 7 at 2034, Firedragon, JBA, but // 9355. These now seem to be our best chance to hear this kind of jamming rather than CNR1 programming; both vs. Radio Free Asia, Saipan, unheard. Firedragon? Yes, as David Kernick has suggested, this is more culturally apt than Firedrake (Peking Duck?), so I`m going to start calling it that now. I doubt that either would mean anything to the ChiCom, if they have any name at all for this particular raucous jammusic. There could however be a play on ideographs we would not get unless it were explained. How about it, native Chinese? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** EGYPT. 9905, Feb 7 at 2032, very poor with humbuzz, distorted talk, unknown language, signatures of R. Cairo. At this hour it`s supposed to be French on 315 degree beam to Europe, also North America beyond 9860, Feb 8 at 0324, R. Cairo, suppressed/distorted modulation seems English, closing headlines? They had such a good deal going to get a decent transmitter on 9395, WRMI, Global 24, Sunday 1300-1420, but it`s been missing for a few weeks, failing to send G24 a file; and now? 9905, Feb 8 at 0324, R. Cairo, good with flutter, Qur`an 9965, Feb 8 at 0325, R. Cairo, ME music, undermodulated but not distorted, yay; Arabic service (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** GUYANA. 3290-, Feb 7 at 0651, Voice of Guyana with BBCWS relay in English, SINPO 25432. Feb 8 at 0310, only a JBA carrier; wonder if the power level has dropped from 1 kW (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** INDIA. 9380, Feb 7 at 1353, open carrier/dead air, fair with flutter, then 1357 a trace of music, so AIR National Channel is not a total total loss. Same situation a few days ago. Can`t they tell at Aligarh that modulation is missing?? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** IRAN [and non]. 9710, Feb 8 at 0324, Iran NA attempting to introduce the so-called Voice of Justice = English to North America, at only slightly louder level than collision with Cuba in Spanish, which looks like it will last the rest of B-14 season due to mutually incompetent frequency management (and don`t they get reception reports from real listeners complaining about it??). In A-15 VIRI plans to resume last A-14`s collision on 11780 with Brazil (not in HFCC, so that 250 kW does not exist). And // 13650 which maybe will clash with Egypt`s Swahili service from 0400 if it isn`t imaginary. Geez. 13650 is also a well-known (to listeners) North Korean frequency, currently in use at that very hour (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** KUWAIT. 17550, Feb 7 at 2022, JBA carrier with Doppler flutter; and at 2023, 15540, very poor with music, can`t be sure it`s Western, but probably; so R. Kuwait`s 500 kW each at 310 degrees, Arabic and English respectively, are starting to propagate to North America, after wasting their watts all winter, hardly even reaching Europe for ignorance of Propagation 101. My eyebrows remain raised at their frequency mis-management (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** NAVASSA. 28305-USB, Feb 7 at 2019, K1N calling QRZ, with ACI and CCI; pileups circa 28330, 28345, 28350, 28355 presumably all for him. A few minutes earlier, nothing on 21205 where last I heard K1N, but pileups on ``15`` m ranged from 21280 to 21300, so presumably he too was higher. Instead I bagged St. Martin, q.v. (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** OKLAHOMA. Earth tremors detected in our second-floor radio room: UT Feb 7 at 0047:10 and another at 0049:35. These don`t show on the USGS roster, I suppose under 2.5 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** OKLAHOMA. 1120, Feb 7 at 2057 UT, KEOR Catoosa/Sperry/Tulsa is still open carrier dead air. How long has it been? Latest spate I first noted January 19, so that makes 19 days at least so far (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** OKLAHOMA. 1360v 1420v, Feb 7 at 2038 UT, spurhets are back from strongest local, 1390 KCRC. This time I`m on the porch, nice sunny afternoon, DFing with the DX-398, and they do point to KCRC. Stronger het is on 1360, since victim KPHN El Dorado KS, EWTN has more of a signal than 1420, KTJS Hobart OK. The pitches are slightly different, estimated per my keyboard which doesn`t go that low, but trying to match an octave higher: approx. 170 Hz on 1360, 155 Hz on 1420. (At night on 1420 there is a much bigger rumble, some other station way off.) (Glenn
[HCDX] Glenn Hauser logs February 1-2, 2015
** AUSTRALIA [and non]. 12085 12065, Feb 1 after 1800, JBA carriers here, as all three RA frequencies are useless here at midday, along with 9580. The same can be said of all three frequencies starting at 2100, when 17840 is audible but only fair and fades after dark, while 15415 and 15240 are poor, not aimed at us, and likely to be above the night MUF. After 1800 Feb 1, can`t hear Ascension`s Dandal Kura either on 12065 nor any carrier on 12055 which is also in the WEWN 12050 splash zone (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BRAZIL. 11745 11815, Feb 2 at 0647, crackling spurs from 11780.1v RNA/RNB remain audible, barely (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CHINA. 9155, Feb 2 at 1528, CNR1 jammer, fair with flutter. Then a quick cursory tuneup OOB from 10 to 16 MHz finds no more propagating (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CUBA. 5040, Feb 2 at 0627, now this RHC frequency is in wrong language, Spanish instead of English. Not unusual to find one on late with Spanish or in wrong language somewhere. English remains on: 6000 undermodulated, 6060 absent!, 6100 6165 very good, still overkill. 11950, Feb 2 at 1426, RHC is OFF. Maybe finally realized this was supposed to quit at 1400 instead of 1500 as had been customary (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** FRANCE. 24950-USB, Feb 2 at 1425, F5BBD is calling CQ 12 in English, Daniel from northern France a few km from the Belgian border, making quick pro-forma US contacts such as with N9ETB; says running 300 watts. QRZ.com shows: F5BBD DANIEL TAQUET LE PRESBYTERE - LAVAQUERESSE F-02450 BOUE France Little else making it on 12m, let alone 15, least of all K1N Navassa (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** GUYANA. Hi Glenn, I have the Voice of Guyana on the air at, don't laugh, 400 watts. 3.290 MHz is the freq. I am going to repair a few more amplifiers and get them up to about a kilowatt for now. Have to reconfigure the combiner though. The antenna is in rough shape, but surprisingly being heard well down into interior Guyana, which is the main purpose. (On a portable no less!!) I'll keep you posted on how it's going. It's 80 degrees and very tropical here now. Best Regards (Jamie Labadia, visiting Guyana, 0147 UT Feb 2, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Checking around 0300 UT Feb 2, I do have a JBA carrier on 3290- via the DX-398 but not the PL-880 - could be it. Slightly on the lo side; much weaker than 3320 S Africa, 3330 Canada. Will it be on all-night? After local noise sources diminish, Feb 2 at 0629 I try again, and now a very poor signal on 3290- in English sounds like BBCWS, but not // or not synchro with 9460. Meanwhile after I post this news ASAP on the DXLDyg, reports come in: Brandon Jordan in TN had it at 0333 on 3289.973, 0359 switching to BBC overnight feed just like they used to do. Bruce Portzer in Seattle also had a carrier around 0500. Daniel Wyllyans in Brasil was already hearing it as an unID. Forwarded these reports to Jamie and he replies at 1127 UT Feb 2: ``Yes, That's us!! That was a repeat of the Sunday afternoon program. Made for great listening while working on the amplifiers --- Nat King Cole, Glenn Miller, Woody Herman. Thanks to all of the great DXers out there. I will be working on the transmitter until just after local sundown, then leave it on the air until the next morning. Glenn, thank you very much for this great resource. Surprised more engineers aren't using it as their remote S meter!! Jamie`` He said he planned to put V of Guyana on a higher frequency for better domestic coverage. 5950 used to be the daytime channel on the originally 10-kW transmitter, and it might be OK in the daytime now with possible het from Bolivia on 5952+, but at night there would be clashes from Germany, Iran, Ethiopia; and R. Pio XII until it closes (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** INDIA. 9380, Feb 2 at 1402, open carrier/dead air, fair with flutter and still at 1410. Presumed AIR Aligarh where National Channel is supposed to start (including modulation) at 1320 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** INDONESIA. 9526-, Feb 2 at 1404, Voice of Indonesia, JBA carrier on BFO but hardly strong enough even to make a 4+ kHz het with the China Radio War on 9530. It`s been detectable every morning for a long time, but never any more than that, so I have not bothered to log it. For the record, I do today. At 1525 its presence is revealed by the 1 kHz het it makes with East Turkistan, CRI English via Kashgar, on 9525.0. Atsunori Ishida, http://rri.jpn.org logged it on the air every day since November 20 but with some partial lapses and ``often poor modulation or no modulation``. So the Voice of Indonesia has been reliably on air, but totally useless (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** KOREA NORTH. 9850, Feb 2 at 1407, strident distorted talk in Korean, poor signal, obviously VOK, audible once Havana quits circa 1400. Its entire span 11-14 collides
[HCDX] DX Listening Digest 15-05; World of Radio 1759
DX Listening Digest 15-05 has now been posted at http://www.w4uvh.net/dxld1505.txt and also soon, sometimes delayed at http://www.w4uvh.net/dxlatest.txt CONTENTS: WOR 1759 / AFGHANISTAN non / ALASKA / ALBANIA / ALGERIA +non / ANTARCTICA / AUSTRALIA X-band / AUSTRALIA Vintage FM/Ozyradio / AUSTRALIA +non RA/ABC / AUSTRALIA non RBA / AUSTRALIA 151-153 MHz / AUSTRIA / AZERBAIJAN / BAHRAIN / non / BANGLADESH / BELARUS / BERMUDA / BHUTAN / BOLIVIA / BRAZIL +non / BULGARIA / CAMBODIA non / CANADA YHD / CANADA CJLO / CANADA CFRX / CANADA CBC/Ghomeshi / CANADA non KRPI / CHILE / CHINA +non / COLOMBIA / CUBA +non / CYPRUS +non / DIEGO GARCIA / DJIBOUTI / DOMINICAN REPUBLIC / EGYPT +non / ERITREA non / ETHIOPIA +non / EUROPE Pirate / FRANCE +non ham+ / GERMANY +non / GOA / GREECE / GUAM / GUATEMALA / GUYANA / HEARD ISLAND ham / HUNGARY ham / INDIA / INDONESIA / INTERNATIONAL INTERNET HRI Pirates / INTERNATIONAL INTERNET 1Radio News / INTERNATIONAL VACUUM Worldspace / IRAN +non / IRELAND non / ITALY non / JAPAN +non / KAZAKHSTAN / KOREA NORTH +non KURDISTAN non / KUWAIT +non / LIBERIA / LITHUANIA / MALAYSIA / MALI / MEXICO +non / MONGOLIA / MYANMAR / NAVASSA ham / NEPAL / NETHERLANDS non / NEW ZEALAND / NICARAGUA / NIGERIA +non / NORTH AMERICA Pirates / OKLAHOMA KQCV/KOCO / OKLAHOMA +non KEOR / OKLAHOMA +non KCRC/KPHN/KDJW/KTJS / OKLAHOMA KREF / OKLAHOMA KGFF / OKLAHOMA WQCL720 / OKLAHOMA +non KZLS+ / OKLAHOMA K288FX / OKLAHOMA KEIF+ / OKLAHOMA El Rey / PAPUA NEW GUINEA / PERU / POLAND / PRIDNESTROVYE / RUSSIA +non / RWANDA / SOCTLAND ham / SOLOMON ISLANDS / SOMALIA non / SOMALILAND / SOUTH CAROLINA non / SPAIN / SUDAN +non / SURINAME / SWEDEN +non / TAIWAN +non / THAILAND / TIBET non / TURKEY / UKRAINE +non / UK MSF / UK +non BBCWS / USA Liberty Net ham / USA KSM/K6KPH / USA YHWH/FCC / USA CAP / USA KMK282/KOVR-TV / USA RadioTV Marti / USA +non VOA / USA +non WOR/WRMI/G24/KVOH/WBCQ/A51/HLR / USA WRMI/Global 24 / USA WBCQ/WA3PUN / USA KVOH / USA WWRB / USA WRNO / USA WTWW / USA WJHR / USA WINB / USA WNAX/KLIF / USA WSCR/KLTT/KWPN / USA WLW/KHSE / USA WGN / USA KXOI / USA WCCO / USA WHAS/KTIC / USA KOA+ / USA KKOW / USA KFJZ / USA WWL / USA KHAC/KRVN / USA WHO / USA KRCN / USA KDRY / USA KMOX/KEOR / USA WOAI / USA WODT / USA KBRL / USA KGNO / USA KCZZ/KQAM / USA WBBP / USA KYND / USA KVDW / USA KGBT / USA KXEL / USA KKLE / USA KRZI / USA WOZN / USA KRJO / USA KDDZ / USA Joe Franklin / USA Public Media / UZBEKISTAN +non / VANUATU / VATICAN +non / VIETNAM +non / VIRGIN ISLANDS US / YEMEN +non / ZANZIBAR / UNIDENTIFIED 740 / UNIDENTIFIED 760 / UNIDENTIFIED 880 / UNIDENTIFIED 960 / UNIDENTIFIED 970 / UNIDENTIFIED 1000 / UNIDENTIFIED 1100 / UNIDENTIFIED 1250 / UNIDENTIFIED 1520 / UNIDENTIFIED 1680 / UNIDENTIFIED 2660 / UNIDENTIFIED 6165 / UNIDENTIFIED 15431 / UNIDENTIFIED 17493 / TESTIMONIALS / PUBLICATIONS / LANGUAGE LESSONS/ TINY TRAP / CONVENTIONS CONFERENCES / DX-PEDITIONS / WORLD OF HOROLOGY / DIGITAL BROADCASTiNG / RADIO EQUIPMENT FORUM / PROPAGATION For restrixions and searchable 2015 contents archive see http://www.worldofradio.com/dxldmid.html [also linx to previous years] NOTE: If you are a regular reader of DXLD, and a source of DX news but have not been sending it directly to us, please consider yourself obligated to do so. Thanks, Glenn WORLD OF RADIO 1759 CONTENTS: *DX and station news about: Alaska, Australia, Azerbaijan, Brazil, Canada, Chile, China, Cuba non, Cyprus, Guyana, Japan, Myanmar, Navassa, New Zealand, Nigeria non, Rwanda, Spain, Sudan, Ukraine, USA, Vanuatu, Yemen SHORTWAVE AIRINGS OF WORLD OF RADIO 1759, February 5-11, 2015 Thu 0430 WRMI 9955 [confirmed] Thu 1330 WRMI 9955 [confirmed] Thu 2201 WRMI 9395 via Global 24 [no show, again] Fri 0001 WRMI 9395 via Global 24 [confirmed] Fri 2130 WRMI 7570 15770 [confirmed] Sat 0730 HLR 7265-CUSB Hamburger Lokalradio Sat 1000 WRMI 5850 Sat 1530 HLR 7265-CUSB Hamburger Lokalradio Sun 0200 WH2XDE-1 1750 Victor NY Sun 0231 KVOH 9975 [confirmed] Sun 2300 WRMI 11580 [confirmed] Mon 0400v WBCQ 5110v Area 51 Mon 2201 WRMI 9395 via Global 24 Tue 1200 WRMI 9955 Wed 0401 WRMI 9395 via Global 24 Wed 0730 HLR 7265-CUSB Hamburger Lokalradio Wed 1415 WRMI 9955 Wed 1530 HLR 7265-CUSB Hamburger Lokalradio Wed 2200 WBCQ 7490v Wed 2201 WRMI 9395 via Global 24 Thu 0430 WRMI 9955 [or 1760 if ready in time] Latest edition of this schedule version, including AM, FM, satellite and webcasts with hotlinks to station sites and audio, is at: http://www.worldofradio.com/radioskd.html or http://schedule.worldofradio.org or http://sked.worldofradio.org For updates see our Anomaly Alert page: http://www.worldofradio.com/anomaly.html WORLD OF RADIO PODCASTS: Tnx to Dr Harald Gabler and the Rhein-Main Radio Club. http://www.rmrc.de/index.php?option=com_podcastview=feedformat=rawItemid=156lang=de or directly via: http://bit.ly/1xD5yyn AND ALTERNATIVE, tnx Stephen Cooper:
[HCDX] Glenn Hauser logs January 14-15-16, 2015
** AUSTRALIA. 9475, Jan 16 at 0712, R. Australia talking about a Jamaican DJ, Yellow Man, and playing some reggae; fair signal // 9710, 11945, and maybe 9660, all to be ditched in a biweek. Scheduled show at 07-08 this Friday is: `Island Music - A History of Reggae`. RA program schedule website fails to link to further program info (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CUBA [and non]. 530, Jan 16 at 0440-0455, enjoying the music from R. Enciclopedia, approaching Enid from OKC on caradio, and no sign of ``K530AM`` Vance AFB TIS on 530, even in downtown Enid. The thing has been getting weaker and weaker with its endless useless loops of irrelevant PSAs such as what to do in a hurricane. Had been hard to hear even in the daytime; solar powered? Cuban is playing knockoff instrumentals of ``I`ll Only Love You``, ``Whiter Shade of Pale``, etc., with soft-spoken YL DJ leading up to midnight. So comforting (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CUBA. 4765, Jan 16 at 0431, I can tell that R. Progreso is still on, by a signal from something audible inside the car on the G8 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** GREECE. 9420, Jan 14 at 0642 check, ERTOpen is back here with fair-good signal in Greek, after foray to 9415 a few hours earlier at 0211 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** KOREA NORTH [non]. 5910, Jan 15 at 1410, Shiokaze is still audible but poorly, YL seems to be in English again, no piano music now. Ron Howard confirms that Sea Breeze is back in English this Thursday after a two-week break (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** NEW ZEALAND. 9630, Jan 15 at 1403, good signal, something new with news in English, mentions `Canterbury South` which are keywords for NZ, not England! Yes, it`s RNZI, 1404 a bit of music, 1405 weather, ID as RNZ National, 1406 short story reading for nightowls. Still on 9630 at 1458 check with music. Fortunately nothing to collide with on this unscheduled frequency --- or rather no QRM heard, but HFCC has CNR LIN site from China at 1200-1706. It also shows RNZI DRM on 9630 starting at 1550 but no doubt another wooden one, as RNZI sked itself shows DRM from 1551 on 9775-9780-9785. Yet another anomaly from RNZI, showing up on 9630, a frequency used years ago, but not on the current schedule. http://www.radionz.co.nz/international/listen At 1300-1550 is supposed to be, and usually audible, on 5950, but nothing there now next to Australia still on 5940. Next day, Jan 16 at 1345 check, RNZI AM is back on 5950, not 9630. So was it another programming mistake? Experiment? Maybe at midsummer some Pacific station relayers expected better nightmiddle propagation on 9 than 6 MHz. 11725, Jan 16 at 0715, RNZI absent from AM frequency supposed to be on until 0759, but DRM noise remains on 11685-11690-11695. No, not on 9630 now either, but AM may well have been on some other unchecked wrong frequency (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** OKLAHOMA. The afternoon of Jan 15 we had to go to OKC in order to view the movie `The Imitation Game` about Alan Turing and the ENIGMA machine, a great film which of course has never made it to Enid`s sole cinema. So also worked in some local FM spectrum monitoring on caradio and G8, far from exhaustive in the time available: 107.7, while shopping at the Homeland grocery in The Village, a pair from KRXO 107.7 were doing a live remote with what else, sports talk. I never listen to it voluntarily, but the van outside had 107.7 THE FRANCHISE emblazoned on it. It looks like they have managed to come up with a unique sports-related slogan, as the WTFDA FM database finds no other Franchise anywhere in North America! (but doesn`t cover AM). 92.9, Jan 15 at 2115 UT here is rap non-music, only IDs saying ``Now 96.5 and 92.9``. Well, yes, same thing on 96.5. These both have to be nothing but translators, blocking full power Tulsans from getting into OKC. WTFDA DB shows: 92.9, K225BN // KRXO HD-3, CHR Format 96.5, K243BJ // KRXO HD-3, CHR Format But transmitter site coordinates are different. Presumably this pair, 200 and 250 watts respectively, reach more listeners than the HD-3 channel of 107.7 starting out with total 92 kW from yet another site! 95.7, and 102.3 are another matching pair with `Focus on the Family` gospel-huxter show at 2145 UT Jan 15. Local level signal on 95.7 despite KXLS Enid/Lahoma. WTFDA shows neither licensed to OKC but: 95.7, K239BT, The Village, 250 watts H/V, // KQCV 95.1, 100 kW from Shawnee, Bott religion, presumably also // KQCV 800, not checked 102.3, K272FD, Del City [NOT Dell as in WTFDA], 215 watts H/V, // KQCV 800. So, 800 and 95.1 not being enough, Bott has low-power relays on the NW and SE sides of OKC. 104.5, at 2153 UT Jan 15, the original classic rock format of KRXO 107.7 remains here via a translator only, having been banished from main channel for yet more stupid sports talk (see above). However, DJ is heard asserting ``God talks to
[HCDX] Glenn Hauser logs January 19-20, 2015
** OKLAHOMA. 640-700, Jan 20 at 2036 UT, KWPM Moore splatter is audible up to 60 kHz above fundamental, even in Enid, like I was hearing in OKC last week, altho not as strong here of course. It`s enough to QRM 690 KGGF Coffeyville KS; and 700 KHSE Wylie (Dallas) TX which runs only one sesquikW. Also extends below 640, but harder to detect there with several strong stations. KWPM IBOC is also on, but the splatter is more analogic (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** OKLAHOMA [and non]. 1120, Jan 19 at 2039 UT, KEOR Catoosa is again, or more likely *still* open carrier dead air, as noted earlier today after sunrise time of 1330 UT. Still so at 2210 UT on caradio now that KMOX is propagating, making a SAH of 320/minute = 5 and a third Hz. So my earlier remark ``KEOR is now a regular reliable groundwave daytime signal`` may have jinxed it. Not to be confused with another Tulsa suburb, Jenks [sic, no X]. Jan 20 at 1512 UT, I am still getting an 1120 open carrier from the direxion of Tulsa, but it`s very weak, not the full licensed 10 kW, and the SAH with remnant KMOX is now 280/minute = 4 and two thirds Hz. Such a disparity ought to make us suspect a third station is involved, but why shouldn`t KEOR add frequency instability to all its other defects? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. WORLD OF RADIO 1756 monitoring: missed checking Mon Jan 19 at 2201 on Global 24 via WRMI 9395, but confident was on. If anyone heard it not, please notify. Confirmed subsequent before 1230 UT Tue Jan 20 on WRMI 9955, good signal. Next: Wed 0401 on Global 24 via WRMI 9395 [remember G24 has a DX Block with several other shows Wed 01-05 UT] Wed 0730 1530 on Hamburger Lokalradio 7265-CUSB Wed 1415 on WRMI 9955 Wed 2200 on WBCQ 7490v Wed 2201 on Global 24 via WRMI 9395 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 7490-, Jan 20 at 0615, surprise VG signal playing continuous music; reminds me of the style of STF, Super Time Force, the video game specials from Toronto, which WBCQ and other stations had aired twice as specials. Cuts off abruptly at 0622* with no announcement by TimTron or anyone. Since frequency is off, it must be WBCQ rather than WHRI or WWCR which also use or have used 7490. 15420-, Jan 20 at 1452, poor open carrier here, off frequency, so WBCQ again. No modulation past 1501, 1515+. WBCQ is allegedly installing some new (or rather used, but new to them) transmitters, which may account for more and more testing anomalies from Monticello. However, as long as the frequencies heard are typical of the old offsets, likely to be same old transmitters (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 17775, Jan 20 at 1422, KVOH must be the JBA carrier. I do leave a receiver tuned with BFO while breakfasting in the next room. Buildup seems gradual rather than abrupt, by 1445 a good signal in Spanish, organ music and preaching (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 11550, Jan 20 at 1400, WEWN Spanish is back on here after missing a few days, // 12050, the latter with the usual squeal, but no squeal on 11550 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 910, Jan 20 at 0656 UT, ``EWTN Global Catholic Radio`` non-ID in English, peaking N/S, ergo KATH, Frisco (Dallas) TX, 1/0.5 kW, the only such station listed in NRC AM Log. What an ideal callsign: the other half of it, OLIC, would have to be in Czechia. NRC Pattern Book shows in daytime it`s NW/SE, and nighttime SW, neither much good for us (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTIENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 1480, Jan 20 at 0637 UT check, no sign of KBXD Dallas; however there is a LAH against other stations, looping WNW/ESE, which requires further investigation. Come to think of it, KBXD not noted for a month or so, and here`s why, per the latest AM Switch in NRC DX News: ``SILENT STATIONS --- Stations informing the FCC that they are silent: 1480, KBXD, TX, Dallas – Silent Dec. 17, station owners are bankrupt and tower owners have locked them out``. Then searched radioinsight.com but zero hits on KBXD! So it lasted a bit more than two years. FCC shows from 1989 to 2006 there were six different calls on 1480. The 1480 facility in Dallas, originally KBOX, had been silent for some years, but was being refurbished in 2012: see DXLD issues from that year for numerous progress reports. Finally it was first heard testing Nov 6, 2012 at 2354 UT as in http://www.w4uvh.net/dxld1245.txt A DX test publicized for the following March was a no-show. KBXD could manage a bigsig here in Enid, once skywave set in, bad news for KQAM Wichita, and the two always made a severe SAH; tho I can`t be positive which one was further off, I have not noted such a SAH between KQAM and other 1480s. Altho there was talk of running 12.5 kW daytime, current FCC info shows licensed at only 5/1.9 kW, but a CP for 50/1.9 kW, which would have required 6 towers rather than 2. Nothing recent in the correspondence file, and at AM
[HCDX] Glenn Hauser logs January 16-17, 2015
** BRAZIL. 6135, Jan 17 at 0218 poor signal with music, no het, so Bolivia must be off already, and this is // 9630v, 11855, so no doubt it`s Rádio Aparecida (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** EGYPT. 9965+, Jan 17 at 0223, R. Cairo, good signal but heavy flutter, ME music, no whine audible for a change 9905+, Jan 17 at 0223, R. Cairo, open carrier, or maybe JBM, the other Arabic service, equal signal to 9965+ 9860.0, Jan 17 at 0224, R. Cairo, just barely modulated in presumed English, not off-frequency (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** KOREA NORTH [non]. 9975, Sat Jan 17 at 1515, fair signal with apparent Korean talk, cleanly separable from bigsig 9980 WWCR since it`s unmodulated until 1519. Aoki shows: ``9975 Wind from Japan il bon ue baram 1500-1530 1234567 Korean 100 345 Palau Medorn PLW 0721N 13431E _JCI T8WH Angel5 b14 BAB`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** KOREA NORTH [non]. 9985, Sat Jan 17 at 1513, good signal in Korean, and NO ACI for a change from bigsig 9980 which is unmodulated, until 1519 resuming. This Korean is assertive, but not to the level attained by the DPRK. Aoki shows it`s Radio Free Asia, 250 kW, 321 degrees from TINIAN at 15-17. Somewhat stronger than 9975 from Palau on the other side. The FRG-7 ``normal`` bandwidth is a bit less than 5 kHz, such that there is no 5-kHz het audible tuning between 9980 and 9985 at their relative levels, but there is a trace of one between 9980 and weaker 9975 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MEXICO. 640, Jan 17 at 0241, best signal from E/W in full null of Okie SSE, rapid national Mexican news in Spanish referring to Iguala, CNDH, whales, with stingers; 0243 music bit, swishes, 0245 interview about violence toward women. No doubt it`s XEJUA in Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua, listed by IRCA as with Milenio TV audio simulcast, 5 kW daytimer. Cantú agrees on daytime, nombre as BM Radio, which is a major group in the state. So when do they sign off? WRTH shows power as 5 without a d, implying it is really full-time. During this, hardly any KFI to be heard underneath (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MEXICO. 660, Jan 17 at 0247, live Spanish coverage of a SBG, looping NE/SW, crowd roars, announcer has to compete with loud PA from the venue; 0247 mentions ``Dorados de Chihuahua`` which is enough for me to conclude it`s XEACB in Ciudad Delicias, 3/1 kW per IRCA, breaking from otherwise ROMantic music format; Cantú agrees on power but WRTH 2015 shows 5 kW fulltime. However, somewhat stale Wikipedia entries indicate Dorados de Chihuahua were both a baseball and a basketball team, but both were going to move elsewhere out of state. However2, further searching to latinbasket.com indicates this name is still active as BKB in Chih and I suppose even in Mexico, baloncesto is more likely than béisbol in January (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MEXICO. 1550, Jan 17 at 0237, bouncy Mexican music from NE/SW, 0238 ``La Rancherita, 15-50 AM``, ad, then losing to something in English. IRCA Log shows it`s our closest, XENU in Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas, 5000/250 watts --- and WRTH 2015, Cantú both agree on all this! Quite a coincidence. But is it really on night power? Both ND (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** NORTH AMERICA. 6975-AM, Jan 17 at 0216, scan of pirate band finds poor signal with music, logged by many others on hfunderground as X-FM; also something weaker at 0217 on 6925-AM, which during previous hour at least was logged by several as Liquid Radio (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) See also USA: WBCQ for WAZU ** OKLAHOMA. 530, various daytime chex Jan 16, `K530AM`, Vance AFB TIS is indeed off, no longer even a weak signal audible. Just as well, as the thing never met 1% of its potential (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** OKLAHOMA. 1640, Jan 15-UT Jan 16, chex of KZLS Enid while in OKC, and on the way back to Enid finds heavy QRM and SAH, mostly from WTNI Biloxi MS, so KZLS is unable to get a usable signal into its primary (?) market at night. Still suspect WTNI is running 10 instead of 1 kW (as KZLS sometimes does when obvious from local range). It would help if the two would zero-beat; no chance of that (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. Next WORLD OF RADIO opportunities this weekend: UT Sun 0231 on KVOH 9975 UT Sun 2300 on WRMI 11580 UT Mon 0400v on Area 51 via WBCQ 5109v-CUSB (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. Updating my previous remark, as of Jan 16, Keith Perron and Phil Workman confirm that PCJ Radio International programming has resumed on Global 24 via WRMI 9395. See http://tinyurl.com/G24sked (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 5109+v-CUSB, UT Sat Jan 17 at 0215, WBCQ, piratical show with foul language referring to the S.F.O.A., must be current, also mentioning now pending SCOTUS ruling on same-sex marriage, in exaggerated faux-announcer voice. 0221 decrying
[HCDX] Glenn Hauser logs January 18-19, 2015
** BOLIVIA [and non]. 6155v, Jan 19 at 0328, Channel Africa on 6155.0 has a low audible heterodyne, likely from R. Fides still on the air; recheck at 0621, Austria has no het, but now there is pulse jamming spur no doubt from Cuba (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BRAZIL. 11746-11747 11813-11814 approx., Jan 19 at 0317, crackling distorted spurs from 11780.1 RNA/RNB are back! Weak but detectable and // modulation peaks on fundamental. Little else but Brasil audible on 25m now, 11765v and 11855. Recheck at 0629, now the spurs are much stronger --- can`t miss them, tho hardly anyone else bothers to log this crud which should be eliminated once and for all (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CUBA. 900, Jan 19 at 0632, YL jazz singer in English dominates, loops toward Cuba, and soon confirmed as such by // 890 with WLS nulled. So both are R. Progreso, but 900 is much stronger. So how do we explain this? 890 is WRTH-listed as 200 kW in Ciego de Ávila, while 900 is only 50 kW in further Holguín. It would be nice to know about Cuban MW direxional patterns, if any. Is there any source for such info? Don`t bother asking Arnie (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CUBA. Re: ``15370, Jan 18 at 0015, RHC French is somewhat overmodulated and splattering 15360-15380 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)`` --- I should also have noted that according to RHC`s own website, et al., this semihour is supposed to be the only Quechua broadcast of RHC ``to Buenos Aires`` --- so has that language expired, like Guarani did several years ago tho prolonged on some imaginary skeds? 9550, 9640, 9820, Jan 19 at 1501, all three RHC 31m channels are still on; best on 9640, 9550 with Vietnamese QRM, 9820 weak as usual; about béisbol, then ``que sigue la música`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** EGYPT. 9860.0, Jan 19 at 0320, R. Cairo supposedly English, fair signal with open carrier/dead air. Not off-frequency, anyway 9905+, Jan 19 at 0320, R. Cairo, good signal with flutter in Qur`an, but extremely distorted, suppressed modulation; off frequency high 9965, Jan 19 at 0321, R. Cairo, good with flutter, ME music not very distorted; RTTY QRM on lo side. As for missing relay via Global 24: see U S A (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** FRANCE. 24940-USB, Jan 19 at 1454, F5POJ in northern France calling CQ 12 in English after QSO as Phil with a W4. Just about the OSOB in voice, besides several CW on the low end. 10m not open. QRZ.com: PHILIPPE BALEUX 2 BIS RUE EDOUARD MAMBOUR 02260 LA CAPELLE France (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MEXICO. 970, Jan 19 around 0600, 0630 and 1345 chex, nothing detectable from XEJ Ciudad Juárez which used to be regular; just US stations in English. Now like John Wilkins, CO, I also wonder what`s become of XEJ. Is it completely off, or QRP? Supposedly 10/5 kW, 24h NSP per IRCA. A DXer in El Paso could tell us (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** OKLAHOMA. 1120, Jan 19 at 1329-1332+ UT, open carrier looping toward Tulsa, while KMOX and presumed KTXW are mixing when it`s nulled. Tired of waiting for KEOR to start modulating, but 1330 UT is the official Catoosa sunrise in January (Feb: 1315 UT). KEOR is now a regular reliable groundwave daytime signal. I think it`s still religious, but I see in FCC that it`s now owned by La Zeta 95.7 of Springdale AR, not to be confused with OKC-based KTUZ 1270. Why is Zeta such a popular radio handle in Spanish? Likes to be associated with narcotrafficking? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SAUDI ARABIA. 17705, Jan 19 at 1451, BSKSA poor in Arabic, not // better 17615 Qur`an. Ivo Ivanov says 17705 is ``permanently off`` for a one-hour break at 13-14 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SOUTH AFRICA [and non]. 6155.0, Jan 19 at 0328, Channel Africa, poor signal in English with low audible heterodyne (LAH) which is of more interest, likely from R. Fides, BOLIVIA, q.v., still on air and typically off-frequency. 3345, Monday Jan 19 at 0333, poor AM signal with open carrier/dead air, whence? Recheck at 0338, now MW talk in English, and of course it`s // 6155, so Channel Africa too. Both are registered with HFCC as 0300-0400 M-F only: 3345, 100 kW, 5 degrees from Meyerton 6155, 250 kW, 19 degrees from Meyerton (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SOUTH CAROLINA [non]. 3185, Jan 19 at 0619, WWRB with big humbuzz, while BS is saying as of January 15 a secret Russian weapon will be able to destroy any part of the planet, oh my!! Humbuzz is not quite as bad on 7570 WRMI. So much modulation crud comes out of the Walterboro feed that affiliates need to filter it severely before putting it on their transmitters --- not because BS can ever sound rational or even fluent, but to avoid QRMing adjacent frequencies and out of self-respect (??) (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SUDAN. 7200, Jan 19 at 0327, VG signal with dead air --- no, it`s
[HCDX] Glenn Hauser logs January 20-21, 2015
** ALBANIA [and non]. 7465, Jan 21 at 0026 check, R. Tirana, Albanian to N America is poor-fair and suffering from splash de 7455 WRMI. Seems we need to give wider berth to such QRMers; but when the B-14 season began, 7455 was not starting until 0100 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BRAZIL [and non] 11780.1 approx., Jan 21 at 0036, RNA/RNB is still off-frequency, usually not a problem, but now there is a het from something weak on 11780.0 --- I bet it`s China, which is all over the place: yes, Aoki shows only CRI this hour in Chinese, 500 kW, 59 degrees from Jinhua 831 site. At least no spurs from RNA are audible now while 11780.1 is very good with flutter (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CHINA. CNR1 jammers, early UT January 21: 9200, Jan 21 at 0028, CNR1 jammer presumed, very poor with hash 13890, Jan 21 at 0042, CNR1 jammer, very good with flutter. Of all the others logged next few minutes, only 15385 is synchro with 13890 13920, Jan 21 at 0042, CNR1 jammer, good with flutter, about 2 seconds ahead of 13890. Except for 15385, all the rest are synch with 13920 14500, Jan 21 at 0044, CNR1 jammer, very good 14870, Jan 21 at 0044, CNR1 jammer, fair 15385, Jan 21 at 0045, CNR1 jammer, very good with flutter, // 13890 15800, Jan 21 at 0047, CNR1 jammer, fair with flutter, almost // 13920 16160, Jan 21 at 0047, CNR1 jammer, poor with flutter, echo from 13920 16920, Jan 21 at 0048, CNR1 jammer, very poor 16980, Jan 21 at 0048, CNR1 jammer, fair 17200, Jan 21 at 0049, CNR1 jammer, good Risking wearing out the 5-kHz step-up button the old DX-398, I`ve scanned completely from 13550 to 19000, and also checked 19900-2, but nothing further (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CHINA. 6100, Jan 21 at 0018, soft romantic music, fair with flutter, sounds Portuguese. Aoki indicates most likely it`s the CRI Portuguese service, 500 kW, 318 degrees direct from Beijing 572 site, way off target here, but along the grayline. Note that to hit Brasil from Beijing across the darkside they have to aim toward the northwest. Only thing else at this hour is North Korea (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CHINA [and non]. 7315, Jan 21 at 0021, WHRI has VG signal despite beaming south from SC, but something else is audible under it. Aoki shows nothing but CNR2, 150 kW ND from Xi`an 594 site until 0100 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) See also BRAZIL ** CUBA. Stray pulse jammers presumed from Cuba proliferate: Jan 21 at 0024 on 7430 and 7440, but not synchronized. The 7430 one has been there for a long time. Jan 21 at 0034, another pair around 10030 and 10040, the latter one running faster (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** EGYPT. 9965+, Jan 21 at 0033, R. Cairo, open carrier/dead air except for whine, on very good signal (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** OKLAHOMA. 530, Jan 21 at 1940 UT I have driven down to the Visitors Center (with a number of mounted aircraft exhibits outside) at the north side of Vance AFB, and even here there is no `K530AM` to be heard. I am not pursuing this with the powers that be at Vance, since they may not have noticed it`s off, and I`d rather have it gone so R. Enciclopedia et al. are unimpeded. Indeed the electronic sign beside Southgate on the way to Vance gate, still flashes ``TUNE INTO / 530 AM`` along with hours of various gates. On the way earlier at 1930 UT Jan 21, I make a point of driving along the next E-W street to the north, Rupe, where there are hi-voltage lines/de facto Beverage antennas? Which re-radiate MW signals along with the noise and used to mix with K530AM, but never identified. I park at one peak point and monitor 530 for a while. It doesn`t take long to recognize the main audio is just local KGWA // 960, with an ag report. Weaker audio I realize must be from our other local, KCRC 1390, since, guess what, 1390 minus 430 = 960 and 960 minus 430 = 530. In other words, a leapfrog between these two which are not at the same site, with the assistance of OGE [local electric company, no gas except maybe partly to generate the juice]. While at the VC, since it`s a quiet location without overhead powerlines, I perform a quick MW bandscan, including: 590-640, splatter from KWPM Moore can now be detected also on the low side, QRMing Omaha 590, Kansas City 610, and probably on 580 too but WIBW is strong enough to block it (and audibilize the usual weak groundwave signal under, which must be remnant of 500-watt KRFE Lubbock TX. Other non-Oklahoma logs are filed under USA (Glenn Hauser, Enid, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** OKLAHOMA. 1120, Jan 21 at 1856 UT on caradio, KEOR is still open carrier/dead air (no BFO, but one can tell a carrier is there lowering the noise level compared to relatively vacant 1110, 1100, etc.) At 1946 UT recheck, trace of talk under, which is most likely KMOX already (Glenn Hauser, Enid, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** OMAN. 11650, Jan 21 at 0035, Arabic
[HCDX] Glenn Hauser logs January 21-22, 2015
** BRAZIL. 9725.0, Jan 22 at 0644, fair signal with Brazuguese call-in, 0646 mentions R. Nove de Julho, São Paulo, but this isn`t 9820v. It`s the reactivated RB2 from Curitiba, Paraná, which has been back a few weeks but this is the first time I`ve ever heard it during my regular bandscans between 06 and 07 UT, so just went 24 hours? Quickly confirmed as such by finding much weaker //s on 11935, and 6040, the latter the last one just to come up per reports from Brasil. Previous logs put 9 MHz channel 15 Hz low, but compared to NZ on 11725, it seems closer than that. Format is now Catholic, as if yet another one of those were needed on ZY SW. Apparently many are inter-related if not simulcast. All three of these RB2s missed being entered into the WRTH 2015. They last appeared in the WRTH 2010, the upper two as *inactive, all 7.5 kW then and with the same callsign ZYE725; normally each frequency gets a distinct, usually consecutive call number, as evidenced by numerous other multi-band stations. Strangely, 6040 and 9725 were named R. Clube B2, while 11935 was still R. Clube Paranaense (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CHINA. CNR1 jammers, morning of Jan 22: 9200, Jan 22 at 1357, CNR1 jammer, very good with flutter; no time for a full bandscan, but next hour before 1500 I don`t find any up to 18 MHz (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** IRAN. 9585, Jan 22 at 1419, VIRI in Japanese mentioning ``IRIB``, fair signal holding its own against 9580 Australia; 1420 music IS to 1421*. It`s 60 degrees from Sirjan. Then tuned to 9580 but could not hear Ahwaz starting the 26-degree Russian hour under RA (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** JAPAN. 5910, Jan 22 at 1359, Shiokaze is still here and still in English on Thursday; after pause, 1400 YL restarting show with callsign JSR, Tokyo, Sea Breeze, piano music; fair signal (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** KURDISTAN [non]. 9400, Jan 22 at 1425, Denge Kurdistane, another nice concert from the PKK terrorists for Turkey via PRIDNESTROVYE: solo flutish to frenzied strumming, yelling in unison, 1430 solo singing; fair signal, much more than 9395 Global 24 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MEXICO. Quick check of regular sunrise-skip XEs, Jan 22 at 1340-1345 in case some are lost to the FM transition: definitely still 650 XETNT with 6:40 TC and ``agenda de hoy``; 730 XEHB with joint ID for 107.1 FM; presumed 870 XETAR with announcements in Spanish; and 710 XEDP, Spanish not off-frequency (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** OKLAHOMA. Altho the PSIP of 48.1, on RF 29 KTUZ, is still KUOK-CD, the full-screen ID on this Estrella TV outlet is KOCY 48.1 Oklahoma City. KOCY was the original analog call of the LPTV on RF 48, which is no longer needed, or is it still on the air anyway, DTV or not? I haven`t been able to trace it, but required some tropo enhancement. This is all very confusing. FCC TV Query shows KUOK-CD is on RF 36 in OKC with 7.3 kW. It previously was the tail wagging the dog of the real KUOK in far-off Woodward, RF 35, now listed with only 8 kW. KOCY-LP is still listed on RF 48 thrice: licensed for 18.1 kW, CP for LD as 15 kW, and application for TX (analog) with 13.5 kW; IIRC from two or three different sites last I checked. Anyhow, whatever it`s call-ed in OKC, Estrella TV is well worth watching at least as wallpaper: silly game/variety shows with lots of girls prancing around in bikinis or short-shorts halters/bustiers; often with fat or very short guys for contrast. E.g. `Don Cheto` at 1600 UT Jan 22. I find it is frequently necessary to switch between Squeezed or not for proper proportions; why? When viewing curvy girls you certainly don`t want them slimmed. BTW, KOCY was the original 1340 in OKC, once a hot rocker, long gone, Later applied to 1560 from 2003 to 2010y (Glenn Hauser, Enid, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SWEDEN. 9875, Jan 22 at 1409, JBA carrier with heavy ACI from 9870 and 9880, so maybe it`s the Radio Revival, Sala test as publicized during this hour for today; true, nothing else scheduled on 9875, but inadvisable to be only 5 kHz away from India, China and China bigsigs. Before 1400 could not hear even a carrier on 9865 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. WORLD OF RADIO 1756 monitoring: confirmed Wed Jan 21 at 2200 on WBCQ 7489.9v; BBC via Thailand has just changed schedule on 7490 to daily at 22-23, Fridays only at 23-24, but at the earlier hour no significant QRM here; by 2230 I do detect a slight het from on-frequency 7490.0 BBC. WOR 1756 also confirmed at 2201 on Global 24 via WRMI 9955. Both sufficient, first checked on webcast. The G24 `cast is still at very low volume level, and also at 1545 UT Jan 22. WORLD OF RADIO 1757 monitoring: confirmed first airing at 1330 UT Thursday Jan 22 on WRMI 9955, good with no jamming. Next: Thu 2201 on Global 24 via WRMI 9395 Fri 0001 on Global 24 via WRMI 9395 Fri 2130 on WRMI 7570
Re: [HCDX] [dxld] Glenn Hauser logs January 21-22, 2015
Correxion: Did it again! 9395, not 9955 as first written: WOR 1756 also confirmed at 2201 on Global 24 via WRMI 9395. Both sufficient, first checked on webcast. The G24 `cast is still at very low volume level, and also at 1545 UT Jan 22. _ Hard-Core-DX mailing list Hard-Core-DX@hard-core-dx.com 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
[HCDX] Glenn Hauser logs February 17-18, 2015
** BANGLADESH. 15505, Feb 17 at 1359:10, BB IS starts; timesignal ends at 1359:49.5 so steadily drawing closer to 1400:00, which maybe it will hit in a few days by chance. Very poor signal (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CHINA [and non]. 11580.0, Feb 17 at 1349, CNR1 jammer today is underneath Brother Scare on WRMI; no het. Ivo has been reporting Radio Free Asia on 11580.2, probably Sound of Hope Taiwan transmitter unheard here on that offset. At 1449 recheck, only BS is audible. 9155, Feb 17 at 1453, CNR1 jammer, fair; none higher noted in the OOB ranges from cursory rather than complete scan, but suspect the FE MUF is down today (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CUBA. 15370, Feb 17 at 1410, no signal from RHC which is supposed to start at 1400; while 15230 is undermodulated and breaking up audio. 15700, Feb 17 at 1456, CRI English via Habana with usual bigsig, but undermodulated with hum. Here in the boresight, certainly not a `weak` signal as Ivo Ivanov had reported Feb 12, presumably monitored from Blgaria itself rather than remotely (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** GREECE. 9935, Feb 17 at 0542, Avlis transmitter whine is louder than the Greek musical modulation, // 9420 which is very good (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** INDONESIA. 9526-, Feb 17 at 1448, VOI carrier detectable again, totally useless, and Atsunori Ishida agrees it`s back today after taking Feb 15 and 16 off (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** KURDISTAN [non]. 9400, Feb 17 at 1400, Denge Kurdistane in the clear after FEBC Philippines quits hetting from 9400.39 or so; Kurdish talk as I await a mistimesignal, which finally comes, but I only detect 3 pips, at 1401:31.5, more than a sesquiminute late (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** PHILIPPINES [and non]. 9400.39 approx., Feb 17 at 1345 FEBC Chinese is making het with presumed Denge Kurdistane, presumed close to 9400.0, close to G4 on my keyboard or slightly down toward F#4 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. WORLD OF RADIO 1760 monitoring: confirmed Wed Feb 18 at 0401 on Global 24 via WRMI. Next: Wed 0730 1530 on Hamburger Lokalradio 7265-CUSB Wed 1415 on WRMI 9955 Wed 2200 on WBCQ 7490v Wed 2201 on Global 24 via WRMI 9395 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 9975, Feb 17 at 0542, KVOH extended transmission another hour this week, with what? Discussion of hazardous methanol in Aspertame (??); sounds somewhat familiar, and yes, it`s // 7455, i.e. WRMI with `TruNews`. So KVOH has T.N. weeknights both at 00-01 and now 05-06 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 15825, Feb 17 at 1407, WWCR with VG signal, still modulation distortion today, and with spurfield matching modulation peaks from 1 to 15650, peaking circa 15630; lesser spur field 16020-16050, and second-order below circa 15420. At 1437 recheck, fundamental signal has faded way down (after an apparent sporadic-E boost earlier), and the spurs are below threshold. It may well be the spurs are there all the time, and it just takes sufficient field strength to audiblize them here. 1454, stronger again on 15825 with some distortion, but no spur audible around 15630. At 1501, I can hear // spikes circa 15410, 15630, 16030. One more check today at 2134: modulation still distorted but without the spurs. Ivo Ivanov in Blgaria also noted the distortion on 15825 from 1400 Feb 17 but no mention of spurs (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** VATICAN. 15400, Feb 17 at 1459, R. Tamazuj clandestine to Sudan opening via SMG site, with long/short path echo. Normally we only get short path off the back but today that is a bit weaker than usual. // 15550 with too much WJHR USB QRM to evaluate an echo (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** VATICAN [non]. 12050, Feb 17 at 1442, RV relay in Spanish via WEWN about station getting an award from the Real Academia Española, something to do with World Radio Day? Fr. Lombardi, Popal spoxecelibate and longtime head of VR, drops Marconi name as founder as he accepts award in Spanish, but not Castilian, and with an Italian accent lilt, like the accompanying announcer too. Lombardi calls it Radio Vaticano, while announcer says Radio Vaticana, i.e. Italian usage vs Spanish. WEWN adds squeal from this transmitter and the China radio war adds ACI from 12045 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) This report dispatched at 0412 UT February 18 _ Hard-Core-DX mailing list Hard-Core-DX@hard-core-dx.com 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
[HCDX] Glenn Hauser logs February 15-16, 2015
** BANGLADESH. 15505, Feb 16 at 1359:10, BB IS starts, but not time for much of it before the always-way-fast timesignal which ends today at 1359:46.5 --- poor signal with flutter, opening Urdu (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** GREECE. 9420, Feb 16 at 1451, folk song in English about Route 66, ``California, Here I Come`` (but not the song ``right back where I started frum``), fair signal confirmed as ERT-whatever by // 15630, also fair, 1454 into Greek phone conversation. At this hour I wonder whether 9420 could be arriving by long path; no echo (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** INDONESIA. 9526-, Feb 16 at 1357, no signal from VOI, not even a carrier; also yesterday I noticed the 4+ kHz het against 9530 China radio war was missing. Atsunori Ishida, http://rri.jpn.org agrees that after many weeks of daily activity, VOI was absent Feb 15 and 16 (of course that activity is pointless unless modulation can be achieved) (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGET) ** KOREA NORTH [non]. 5985, Feb 16 at 1335, Japanese with piano background, so Shiokaze has just jumped back again to an alternate frequency. No het, so Myanmar must still be on 5985.0 too. Had been on 6135 for several weeks at 1330-1430: 6135, Feb 16 at 1339, noise jamming and a carrier detectable now that Shiokaze has QSYed back to 5985; presumably Voice of Freedom, from Korea South site. Ron Howard makes the same observations today (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** KURDISTAN [non]. 9400.0, Feb 16 at 1355, Denge Kurdistane always has CCI from FEBC Philippines, q.v., until 1400, but now it`s even worse as FEBC has varied up to 9400.2 or so. After clocking the mistimesignal from Bangladesh, q.v., I get back to 9400 before it`s too late to hear Denge Kurdistane`s mistimesignal, not watching my watch, but very close to a full minute late at 1401! No more het, but poor signal as its winter peak of reception is steadily declining. Still a sesquimonth to go; should revert to 25m for A-15 from March 29: yes, 11510 is registered in Kurdish via KCH all the way from 03 to 19 UT, 300 kW, 116 degrees as a BRB client (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** PHILIPPINES. 9400.2 or so, Feb 16 at 1355, FEBC in Chinese making het with presumed Denge Kurdistane via Pridnestrovye. Usually no het, but I confirm that FEBC is the one which has strayed upward. D.K. is also weakening with spring conditions, q.v. (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U K [non]. 9460, Feb 16 at 0626, BBCWS via ASCENSION is back on here, after missing 23.5 hours earlier (Glenn Hasuer, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. WORLD OF RADIO 1760 monitoring: confirmed Sunday Feb 15 after 2300 on WRMI 11580, sufficient. Also confirmed UT Monday Feb 16 at 0401 on Area 51 webcast, also before 0430 via WBCQ 5110v. Next: Mon 2201 on Global 24 via WRMI 9395 Tue 1200 on WRMI 9955 Wed 0401 on Global 24 via WRMI 9395 Wed 0730 1530 on Hamburger Lokalradio 7265-CUSB Wed 1415 on WRMI 9955 Wed 2200 on WBCQ 7490v Wed 2201 on Global 24 via WRMI 9395 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 17775, Feb 16 at 1448, KVOH with VG signal but rough modulation, and carrier wobbling slightly with BFO on; enthusiastic pro-American preacher in Spanish prayerfully thanking God for the USA. As usual, if KVOH really started promptly at *1400, no signal propagating here at the outset. No SAH either today, that anomaly still unexplained (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 15795, Feb 16 at 1405, WWCR-1 has failed to QSY to 15825 at 1300, broadcasting Barack of all people, only because of a clip about cyber-security during USA Radio News. Good signal and still there at 1444 check with Afrin ad. Next check at 1755, however, not on either frequency! The other three transmitters are in well enough on 13845, 12160, 9980; #1 is doing penance? WWCR website shows thru March 7 the switch time is supposed to be 1300, but HFCC B-14 registrations claim 1400 UT during standard time, back to 1300 from March 8 *DST. In any event, it continues to collide with ChiCom jamming and All India Radio Chinese in DRM centered on 15795 at 1145-1315 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 1220, Feb 16 at 0704 UT, ``Network Indiana`` news atop channel from perpetual cheater WSLM Salem IN, 5 kW day power instead of 82 watts licensed for night; same pattern day and night, tightly slightly clockwise from east/west, should that even be maintained (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. 840, Feb 16 at 0710 UT, steady preacher in English with WHAS nulled, on alleged scriptural prophecy, loops about WNW/ESE, 0713 UT taking a caller from Nevada, thanking him for his teaching on global warming; mentions 1-800-ENDTIME, or http://endtime.com This guy sounds rather rational rather than hySTAIRical, but wacky message is the same. How about KXNT 50/25 kW, North Las Vegas, which however is supposed to have a deep null toward
[HCDX] Glenn Hauser logs February 18, 2015
** AUSTRALIA [and non]. 12065, Feb 18 at 1350, R. Australia on NNW beam to E Asia has heavy CCI, i.e. BBC Bengali via SINGAPORE; lessens a bit at 1400 when BBC swings 15 degrees counterclockwise for Hindi; and RA will continue to collide with BBC scheduled until 1430 and again 1500-1630. This may maintain until A-15 begins when BBC plans to evacuate 12065 while RA continues at 09-21. But if they`re smart, BBC will get outta there right away ASAP, forthwith. RA tentative A-15 includes some options, assuming they will continue running only three transmitters at a time: 09-21: 6080 at 5 degrees or 12065 at 355, 6150 or 12085 at 30, 9580 at 70 21-09: 15415 at 355 degrees, 15240 at 30, 13630 or 17840 at 70 degrees (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** AUSTRALIA. 12115, Feb 18 at 1401, RBA neat medley of hymn tunes on several instruments, mixed with IDs preceding the 1405 English block. Truly the best time to listen to Kununurra, before gospel-huxtering begins, 1405 about ``little people used by a big god``. Speak for yourself (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BANGLADESH. 15505, Feb 18 at 1358, Bangladesh Betar IS, very poor, but enough to copy the 5+1 mistimesignal ending at 1359:24.5, opening Urdu (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** COLOMBIA. 5910, Feb 18 at 0645, ID as ``La Voz de tu Conciencia del Sistema Alcaraván Radio``, promo some show at 4 pm; fair and this time well over the LAH from TWR Austria just starting Polish (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGET) ** KOREA NORTH [non]. 11860, Feb 18 at 1351, emphatic Korean is way atop RHC, i.e. V. of Wilderness, clandestine via RVA Palauig-Zambales, PHILIPPINES, 250 kW at 10 degrees also carrying on over eastern North America. Aoki says RHC is also aimed 10 degrees with 100 kW (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** PHILIPPINES. 11870, Feb 18 at 1352, S Asian song on VG signal, which is RVA Hindi service, 250 kW, 300 degrees from Palauig-Zambales, and just 10 kHz above 11860 clandestine to KOREA NORTH, q.v., from same site. 11850 too? No, Vatican relay in Russian there is via IBB Tinang, 1357 closing with ``LIC``, 1358 IS, also VG but with hum; violating separation of church and state. All non-Catholic gospel huxters now have an equally illegitimate claim for equal time on USG SW transmitters! God forbid (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** RWANDA. 15700, Feb 18 at 0626, very poor, AWR theme, French announcement and off 0627*. It was the OSOB except equally poor 15255, no doubt S Africa. 15700 is Kigali at 295 degrees, so if anything would be propagating nightside from Africa, this doomed site is it. Registered to run until 0630 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. WORLD OF RADIO 1760 monitoring: confirmed Wed Feb 18 at 1415 on WRMI 9955, good without jamming. Next: Wed 2200 on WBCQ 7490v Wed 2201 on Global 24 via WRMI 9395 We hope to have new 1761 ready to go by UT Thu 0430 on WRMI 9955 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 9955, Wed Feb 18 at 1409, WRMI with European News Network, again playing the same `evergreen` default backup show as one week ago, 2010y interview with Dame Vera Lynn, including her Cypriot connexion. Is no new news coming out of Famagusta any more, or just failing to upload new shows? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 840, Feb 18 at 0629 UT, I`m back here to recapture the gospel-huxter in English Feb 16, believed to be KWDF in Ball LA, cheating daytimer. But no sign of it now; in the WHAS null, Spanish instead, of which there was no sign when I was getting KWDF. Do they take turns? But KVJY Pharr TX is authorized for 1 kW at night, pattern a broad cardioid, null northeast toward WHAS, peaking southwest, and not much to the north either. As I tune in, Autozone ad, promo with a ``goal``, mentions canal 31.2 (DTV subchannel); something about ``Hits Tamaulipas`` which makes me wonder if I am getting XEMY in Ciudad Mante down toward Tampico, but it is supposedly a daytimer with grupera format, per IRCA. Border area of Tamps. is certainly prime coverage for KVJY too. Heavy SAH of 7 Hz vs WHAS when de-nulled. Kids voices in another ad; 0631 UT ``-AM`` ID but can`t catch the letters. 0635 UT back to programming which is a discussion of politix and fútbol in El Salvador; show referred to in passing as ``en F-B`` (?). I will certainly not jump to any conclusion that this is Holy-Bible station YSFB. I`m back on 840 at 0659 UT, when ESPN Deportes is mentioned, top-of-hour ``840 AM Pharr`` in Spanish, but no letters heard and maybe no legal letters transmitted, back to discussion about CentroAmérica (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) This report despatched at 1736 UT February 18 _ Hard-Core-DX mailing list Hard-Core-DX@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/hard-core-dx http://www.hard-core-dx.com/ ___ THE INFORMATION IN THIS ARTICLE IS
[HCDX] Glenn Hauser logs February 18-19, 2015
** AUSTRIA. 11880, Feb 19 at 0634, choral music, poor-fair, roughly equal to 11870 WEWN, but have not noticed this before. 0641 Arabic talk but weakening. HFCC shows it`s AWR via Moosbrunn at 0600-0700, 300 kW at 190 degrees (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BRAZIL. 11747 11813, Feb 19 at 0635, very poor but detectable crackling spurs from 11780.1v, RNB/RNA (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CHINA [and non]. 9495, Feb 19 at 1504, very heavy CCI from more than one CNR1 jammer an echo apart, along with target RFA Chinese via SAIPAN during this hour only, and just the same situation on 9440. CNR1 jammer has less QRM on 9680 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CUBA. 15230 9820, Feb 19 at 1527 are the only two RHC frequencies heard, absent from 17730, 15370, 11760 which are all supposed to be on until 1600. Altho I forgot to check 9640. 15700 CRI relay is not missing (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** FRANCE. 7390, Feb 19 at 0639, RFI French under stronger carrier causing fast SAH; recheck 0656, RFI still on but the other carrier is already off (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** KURDISTAN [non]. 9400, Feb 19 at 1440, Denge Kurdistane has regained a fair enough signal to enable enjoyment of the Kurdish music concert; 1455 adding a recitation. I`m listening carefully at 1500 for a site switch as Ivo Ivanov has reported, and yes, about 1500:10 the signal drops dramatically, otherwise no break in the music. That`s when the `Secretbrod` site in BULGARIA now takes over from PRIDNESTROVYE. Perhaps in the Turkish target area the change is even less noticeable. At local range, he also hears it on 18800 = 2 x 9400 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MEXICO. 700, Feb 19 at 1259, big hum looping NE/SW on open carrier, 1300 Spanish news starts without any ID. Possibly two different stations, but I doubt it: hummer would be XEGD, La Poderosa, Hidalgo del Parral, Chihuahua, 5/1 kW per IRCA Cantú, 5/0.25 kW per WRTH (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MEXICO. 740-, Feb 19 at 1245 UT, horrible low audible het to KRMG Tulsa as often the case on the low side, also in the evenings, but this time with SSB tuning to help, and nulling KRMG as much as possible (not a lot), I manage to copy some of the Spanish, mentioning ``noticias Torreón``, and later Coahuila, so that`s it: XEQN, R. Fórmula, 10/1 kW per IRCA, Cantú and WRTH (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MEXICO. 900, Feb 19 at 1302, Chihuahua anthem concludes, full ID by XEDT 910 and XHDT 98.3 with 25 kW [but 5/1.5 or 1 kW on 900!], street address in Colonia Centro, Ciudad Chuauhtémoc, ``una estación de Cadena Hits`` and into ``el programa número uno de Chihuahua``, con música country en inglés. Earlier around 1230 I was hearing Spanish newscast on 900, probably XEOK Monterrey. Forget about XEW and its ``250`` kW (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** OKLAHOMA. 1000, Feb 19 at 1323 UT as I am tuning across KTOK OKC, quick carrier break, presumably late switch from night to day facility, as official FCC sunrise in Feb is 1315 UT (March: 1245 UT) (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SUDAN [and non]. 15550, Feb 19 at 1537, Sudanese tone jammer is JBA here under R. Dabanga via VATICAN and WJHR USB FL. So jammer no longer way off on 15560 or previous 1. Time for SMG to jump its frequency again (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. WORLD OF RADIO 1760 monitoring: confirmed on webcasts of: WBCQ 7490v, Wed Feb 18 at 2200; Global 24 via WRMI 9395, Wed Feb 18 at 2201. WORLD OF RADIO 1761 monitoring: first airing confirmed on webcast of WRMI 9955, Thu Feb 19 at 0430; also on 9955 itself, Thu Feb 19 at 1330, good atop lite pulse jamming; tnx a lot, Arnie! BTW, not a problem but an oddity: almost always before WOR starts on WRMI, following the gh/WRMI ID there is a brief snatch of extraneous fill music, as the ID runs a few seconds less than :30. Next: Fri 0001 on Global 24 via WRMI 9395 Fri 2130 on WRMI 7570 15770 Sat 0730 1530 on Hamburger Lokalradio 7265-CUSB Sat 1000 on WRMI 5850 Sun 0231 on KVOH 9975 Sun 2300 on WRMI 11580 Mon 0400v on Area 51 via WBCQ 5110v Mon 2201 on Global 24 via WRMI 9395 Tue 1200 on WRMI 9955 Wed 0401 on Global 24 via WRMI 9395 Wed 0730 1530 on Hamburger Lokalradio 7265-CUSB Wed 1415 on WRMI 9955 Wed 2200 on WBCQ 7490v Wed 2201 on Global 24 via WRMI 9395 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 9395, Feb 19 at 1229, Global 24 via WRMI playing fill music, 1812 Overture; next check 1331, still/again the same! During what should have been World Radio Network at 12, and `Democracy Now` at 13. `Upstate Radio Theater` has succeeded after 14, by 1431 check with Woodbury ad closing Bing Crosby Show of 9/18/34, then into `Sam Spade` of 11/28/48. That Bing date seems awfully familiar: Yes, the very same episode I logged last Nov 29 and Dec 4! Are they replaying the same Upstate Radio Theater over and
[HCDX] Glenn Hauser logs February 16-17, 2015
** BRAZIL. 11747 11813, Feb 17 at 0125, crackling spurs from 11780.1v, RNA/RNB, now edging against legit AM signals on 11810, 11750 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CHINA. CNR1 jammers, 16 of them, mid-morning in China Feb 17, mostly arriving here with very heavy flutter, u.o.s.: 11500, Feb 17 at 0128, CNR1 jammer, good 11430, Feb 17 at 0128, CNR1 jammer, very poor with flutter 12910, Feb 17 at 0129, CNR1 jammer, fair with flutter; has an accurate 1+1 (2-pip) timesignal on the half-hour 12430, Feb 17 at 0132, CNR1 jammer, poor with flutter, not synch 11500 12190, Feb 17 at 0133, CNR1 jammer, very poor with flutter, and CODAR 13980, Feb 17 at 0134, CNR1 jammer, fair with flutter, // 12910 13820, Feb 17 at 0135, CNR1 jammer, poor with flutter; not synch 12910 14800, Feb 17 at 0137, CNR1 jammer, very good, // 12910 16100, Feb 17 at 0140, CNR1 jammer, good // 12910 16320, Feb 17 at 0141, CNR1 jammer presumed, good but dead air 16920, Feb 17 at 0142, CNR1 jammer, very good // 12910 17200, Feb 17 at 0143, CNR1 jammer, good // 12910 17535, Feb 17 at 0144, CNR1 jammer, good // 12910 17550, Feb 17 at 0144, CNR1 jammer, poor // 12910 17730, Feb 17 at 0145, CNR1 jammer, poor, and usual het from off-frequency secret Mongolian transmitter of RFA Tibetan until 0300 17890, Feb 17 at 0145, CNR1 jammer, poor // 12910; none in the 18s (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CUBA. 6000 6060, Feb 17 at 0110, RHC English and Spanish both with flutter, but nonesuch on 6165 or R Rebelde 5025, while 5040 RHC has some flutter but less. There must be somewhat of a propagation disturbance; close to transpolar signals are heavily fluttering but it`s unusual for Cuba, maybe depending on different azimuths and signals bouncing back off the disturbed auroral zone area. WWV reported at : ``Geophysical Alert Message #Solar-terrestrial indices for 16 February follow. Solar flux 118 and estimated planetary A-index 5. The estimated planetary K-index at UTC on 17 February was 3. No space weather storms were observed for the past 24 hours. No space weather storms are predicted for the next 24 hours`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** EGYPT. 9860, Feb 17 at 0120, R. Cairo good signal but open carrier/dead air 9965, Feb 17 at 0121, R. Cairo, good signal with flutter, lite whine, but just barely modulated. This one usually has best modulation 12080, Feb 17 at 0123, R. Cairo, fair with very heavy flutter, dead air 12035, Feb 17 at 0123, R. Cairo, fair with less flutter, JBM (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** GREECE. 9935, Feb 16 at 2204, ERT with humwhine // clear 9420 as ``ERA Spor`` is announced. Feb 17 at 0121, 9935`s whine is louder than the modulation (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** INDIA. 9380, Feb 17 at 0116, AIR VBS good with heavy flutter, and for the morning broadcast, Aligarh manages to modulate with S Asian vocal music // 9870 Bengaluru but slightly behind it, similar signal. While the same 9380 transmitter from 1320 when it carries the National Channel at night has been caught more than twice broadcasting dead air as late as 1350. 11710-11715-11720, Feb 17 at 0126, very ragged DRM noise is already on for the AIR Nepali service at 0130 from Delhi-Aligarh site, disaudiblizing Argentina on 11711v. One wonders if at least in target Nepal this mess morphs into a loud clear signal, and, if anyone is there with a DRM receiver to decode it (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** KOREA SOUTH. 15575, Feb 17 at 0139, open carrier, good with heavy flutter, much like all the ChiCom jammers above and below it; presumably KBSWR already on the air prior to 0200 Spanish service (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MEXICO. 1370, Feb 17 at 0155, Mexican NA is in progress, by children`s choir, followed by three more verses at 0156, 0157 and 0158, finally stops at 0159 with no announcement but steady carrier which has been dominating frequency stays on a while. As the only 1370 XE listed by IRCA to sign-off at 0200, and the closet one, this is surely XEGNK in Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas. IRCA shows as 5/0.5 kW, Fiesta Mexicana, Mariachi Estéreo (but no FM attached). Cantú agrees, no FM, so must we conclude it`s AM stereo? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MEXICO. 6185, Feb 17 at 0109, XEPPM is lamentably just barely modulated, but does a nice job of quieting the frequency compared to the noisy adjacents (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** NORTH AMERICA. 6950-USB, Feb 17 at 0107, pirate music, 0111 brief announcement but missed it, pause and 0112 more music; 0115 another ID as X-L-R-8 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** OMAN. 15140, Feb 17 at 0138, very poor signal with Qur`an, instead of the zero signal on 11650 where RSO is supposed to be now (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. WORLD OF RADIO 1760 monitoring: confirmed Monday Feb 16 at 2201 on Global 24 via WRMI 9395, sufficient. Next: Tue
[HCDX] Glenn Hauser logs January 26-27, 2015
** BRAZIL. 11745 11815, Jan 27 at 0624, crackling spurs from 11780.1v RNA/RNB are weakly audible, now centered closer to mid-channels (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CANADA [and non]. Re collisions with CFRX, 6070, I meant to say A-15 HFCC, not B-15 quite yet! Corrected: In A-15 HFCC [not including North Korea, Brasil, etc.] registered conflicts will continue to be the 25 kW ROB, Germany, 24 hours; Vatican Latin at 0530-0615 (hour earlier than now) and also 2040-2100 in Arabic; and IBB São Tomé at 2000-2030 daily in French. CFRX is not registered, nor are CBC on 6160 6160, nor anything on that frequency. I vaguely recall that before its demise, RCI would courteously register the other Canadians (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CUBA. 15700, Jan 27 at 1408, CRI English relay, discussing horible prison conditions in Heilongjiang; is still here for a second day, ex-13740. No ICDs today, but big hum; wiggle that patchcord! 1508 recheck, now awful bigger hum surges and recedes; also splatters from 15680 to 15715, edging against 15720 NHK via Madagascar in Hindi from 1430. Maybe the Cubans did not want to move from 13 to 15 MHz as originally planned last summer, because they knew the transmitter couldn`t take it, and they were right. Still need to check whether 9570 is still on at 12-14 instead of 13 MHz (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** GREECE. 9420, Jan 26 at 2157, ERTOpen is on in Greek // weaker 9935 15630, Jan 27 at 1508, Greek talk, fair with echo (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** KOREA NORTH. 2850, Jan 27 at 1319, very poor signal in Korean; so KCBS is making it, while no TP carriers are, inside the MWBC band. 3480 clandestine is stronger to poor level (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MEXICO. 1570, Jan 27 at 0608 UT, XERF is playing what must be the state song, after the national anthem. I keep trying to hear Coahuila mentioned in the lyrix, but do not. Yet it`s frequently repeated per: http://parrascoah.mx.tripod.com/himnocoahuilense.htm 0610 on to full ID for AM and FM (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** NIGERIA [non]. 11580, Tue Jan 27 at 0556 check, WRMI is VG tonight and back to BS, singing, instead of Hamada Radio International relay as heard last week, so I ask Jeff White: ``Hi Jeff, Could you please explain what`s going on with Hamada Radio International. Last week we were hearing it at 0530-0600 UT on 11580, but last night it`s back to TOM. I can`t find anything about this on your website. A test? If not on WRMI, is it going to be active again via MBR, and if so when and where? Glenn`` And he replies Jan 27: ``Hamada was a test on WRMI for one week. It's on from Media Broadcast [Nauen, GERMANY] 0530-0600 on 7350 and 1930-2000 on 11865. The 1930 bc is Mon-Fri; 0530 is 7 days a week. Jeff`` Jeff, Tnx, however, the two broadcasts you mention are not in current B-14 skeds from HFCC, Aoki or EiBi, so are you sure they are currently active? Or maybe just restarted, if so, when? They were listed in A-14. I`ve yet to check either by monitoring. And Jeff re-replies: ``Yes they are active. Just recently activated, started January 19. Jeff`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** OKLAHOMA. Earthquake shook WOR HQ computer screen and chair, Jan 27 at 1558:55 UT. USGS says it was 4.0, 19 km S of Medford (i.e. toward Enid), 3.0 km deep at 1558:40. As usual, several seconds earlier. If the times ever match, I suppose it will be a direct hit (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** OKLAHOMA. 1120, Jan 26 at 1557-1600+ UT on caradio, KEOR Catoosa/Sperry/Tulsa, is *still* open carrier/dead air. Also at another check 2138 UT. And still OC/DA by 2011 UT Jan 27. Is the management so out of it, they don`t even know they are burning kW for nothing over a few days now? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** OKLAHOMA. 1650, Jan 27 at 1330 UT, ``ABC Sports Radio update``; why do we need this when we have various ESPNs? 1333 UT, joining Radio Oklahoma Network for ag news, but first an ad for a bank in Sallisaw and Fort Smith [AR], so it`s KYHN. Some SS CCI presumably El Paso (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** OKLAHOMA. 105.5, Jan 26 at 2112 UT, one of my wildest dreams has come true. The local Enid translator is off the air! This allows OU`s public radio station on 105.7, KROU Spencer OK to be audible inside Enid, at least on the caradio; some picket-fencing, but usable, now during the BBC news hour. On 105.5 itself there is now a weak signal from Stillwater, at 2141 UT Jan 26 ID as ``Cowboy Country 105.5``. That`s KGFY with 4.2 kW ERP. It has ACI from 105.3 KINB Kingfisher; hard to believe it`s only 930 watts. 105.5 in North Enid is, or was: K288FX, 250 watt translator of Educational Media Foundation, a national gospel-huxter front. Tho COL is North Enid (why??), site is Broadway Tower in downtown plain old Enid, along with several other FM relays, and KXOK RF 31 32 [q.v.].
[HCDX] Glenn Hauser logs January 28-29, 2015
** ALBANIA. 7465, Jan 28 at 0048, R. Tirana, Albanian song, poor, but no longer any QRM from WRMI 7455, as the 00-01 programming has been moved to 11580, q.v. (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** AUSTRALIA. Sorry, I continue to belatedly spot some errors, which must be corrected [minor obvious spelling ones of words I just fix in DXLD compilation if in time, or maybe in archive]: 13630, not 13600 as first written; fixed: 11945 is one of many frequencies RA will be dumping as of February 1, but has been quite reliable here during this hour. Tonight [Jan 23] also // stronger 13630 and weaker 15240. RA may be phasing out some of these early, as not always audible, or is it just propagation? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** AUSTRALIA. 9580, also // much weaker 9475, 6150, 5955, 5950, very pleased to hear some intelligent talk rather than `Triple J Unearthed` pop music on RA, Wed Jan 28 at 1323. JJJ had been starting at 1300 weekdays. This turns out to be `Conversations with Richard Fidler` (long I), as IDed at 1331, guest discussion also before an audience about ``faking it on stage``. Said it was his first show of 2015y, so just back from summer break. (Jan seems to be the major holiday month DU, instead of Feb (=Aug in northern hem)). 1400 outro ID as on ABCRN, no news, and now switch to Triple J. Online sked now shows Fidler M-F at 13-14, and also Tue-Fri at 00-01 UT when we might hear it on 19000 for a few more days, next week on 17840 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1758, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BRAZIL. 11745 11815, Jan 28 at 0112, crackling spurs from 11780.1v RNA/RNB are audible. Also Jan 28 at 0632 the crackles are audible but very poorly (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BRAZIL. 11935, Jan 28 at 0113, `RB2 fair with singing and // much weaker 6040, but nothing on 9725 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CUBA. 9570, Jan 28 at 1323 check, CRI English relay is still here, not moved to 13 MHz; and presumably the preceding hour in Cantonese too. 15700, Jan 28 at 1503 check, CRI English via CUBA remains here still with some hum, distortion and splattering plus/minus 15 kHz (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1758, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CYPRUS [non]. 9955, Wed Jan 28 at 1414 just before WORLD OF RADIO on WRMI, `European News Network` announces that from this coming Saturday [Jan 31] the weekly 1845 broadcast will be on 5905, ex-5925. Secret site for that is BULGARIA per Ivo Ivanov, and IIRC, they were going to make such a move several weeks ago but it did not ensue. Reason: collision with Iran`s Albanian service. Presumably HFCC`s list on 5905 for Voice of Russia DRM in German is totally imaginary (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** EAST TURKISTAN. 7425, Jan 28 at 0053, CRI English, then translating Chinese, poor-fair, site? Kashgar, 100 kW at 174 degrees, this hour only (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** GREECE. Re: ``KOREA NORTH. 11645, Jan 26 at 1505, humwhine on poor carrier, no other modulation audible. Aoki shows VOK in Arabic, so probably that, altho HFCC also has a wooden(?) registration for Pakistan in Urdu, quite capable of similar noise (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)`` Open carrier/dead air of ERTOpen on 11645 from 1200 till 1520. Change to 9935 at 1700 UT. Videos will be uploaded later today -- 73! (Ivo Ivanov, QTH: Sofia, Bulgaria, DX LISTENING DIGEST) So that was probably it; 11645/9935 bear the defective Avlis transmitter (Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** GREECE. 9420 Jan 28 at 0055, ERTOpen with Greek music, very good // somewhat weaker 9935, the latter with whinebuzz (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** OKLAHOMA [and non]. 1650, Jan 28 at 0100 UT, CBS News from KYHN, but checking 1120 KMOX, not //, 0104 UT KMOX already back to local while KYHN has another minute of national news (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** OKLAHOMA. 105.5, Jan 28 at 0122 UT, K288FX North Enid is back on the air, shux, and // weaker 88.9 KYLV OKC. So much for temporary access to 105.7 KROU Spencer/OKC, public radio from the University of Oklahoma. Unshux: next day, from 1522 UT and all day and evening Jan 28-29, K288FX is off again and KROU is in again. Manipulating a portable antenna, I am hearing two weak stations on 105.5, besides KGFY Stillwater, perhaps KWCO-FM, 3.3 kW in Chickasha [attn non-Okies: pronounced CHICK-uh-SHAY] (Glenn Hauser, Enid, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** PERU [non]. 5980, Jan 28 at 0048, JBA carrier, maybe two of them. Have not checked for Chaski cutoff since January 21 when it happened at 0107:23*. So it should be approx. 0108:18 now after a week. But remonitoring continuously from 0107, no cutoff now until 0109:23.5* so that does not fit --- then it comes back on about a second later! and still on at 0111, so this time I suspect it is the otherstation, BBC via UAE which merely had a brief transmitter outage; so Chaski either reset to earlier closing,
[HCDX] Glenn Hauser logs January 29, 2015
** AFGHANISTAN [non]. 12075, Jan 29 at 1451, SW Asian pop music reminiscent of what R. Sohl used to play, since this is also for Afghanistan, good signal, 1500 ID as Radio Ashná, and habari. HFCC shows IBB via Woofferton UK in Pashto Persian (= Dari) at 1430-1530 (also 1330-1430 via Biblis, Germany and Aoki clarifies that this hour is R. Azadi = Free Afghanistan). 12075 fits neatly between the two Radio Australias on 12065 and 12085, both of which will continue in Feb at 09-21 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BRAZIL. 11745 11815 approx., Jan 29 at 0644, poor level crackling spurs matching musical modulation peaks on fundamental 11780.1v of RNA/RNB. Yes, this is tiresome; but only when they stop transmitting them, shall I stop logging them (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CUBA. 6060, Jan 29 at 0636, RHC is in Spanish instead of English on this frequency only, with usual LAH, presumably off-frequency Brasil, SRDA Curitiba (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CUBA. 15700, Jan 29 at 1417, CRI English relay continues, with usual dirty signal. Now that there are two of these blasting in on 19m, along with RHC 15370 both until 1600, if the transmitters antennas are physically close enough, leapfrog mixing products should be possible on 15040 and 16030, but none audible yet (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** GREECE. 9935, Jan 29 at 0642, ERTOpen in Greek, motorboating but readable, // stronger 9420. With BFO, 9935 carrier is obviously wobbling rapidly (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** IRAN [non]. 12005, Jan 29 at 1449, R. Farda ID and pop music. 13615, Jan 29 at 1454, here`s another R. Farda, about one second ahead of 12005; both good with deep fading. Per HFCC, on Jan 12, 12005 usage changed starting at 1430: had been Lampertheim, Germany; now it`s due east from Woofferton UK with 300 kW until 1730, also replacing Biblis at 1530-1730. 13615 remains Lampertheim, GERMANY (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** JAPAN. 6055, Jan 29 at 1352, R. Nikkei I with usual English lesson on Thursdays, starting Grades 3 and 4, on theme: elexions. Apparently presented entirely in (American) English; fair signal (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** JAPAN. 6135, Thu Jan 29 at 1354, atop SAH but no jamming audible, weekly English; 1355 ``Shiokaze - Sea Breeze from Tokyo, Japan``; lengthy closing from 1356 with contact info spelled out, including P O Box 222, Tokyo CPO. And also plugs special broadcast on 15740 in Feb; did not copy details now but previous info in Aoki was: Furusato no Kaze Specials, Sat Feb 14 at 0700-0930; and Sun Feb 15 at 0400-0630, both in Japanese, 100 kW, 2 degrees from Tamsui District, Taiwan (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** OKLAHOMA. 105.5, Jan 29 at 1415 UT, K288FX North Enid is back on the air again today, blocking 105.7 KROU. When I was getting KROU, and KWOU 88.1 Woodward, found the latter to be behind by about one satellite delay (Glenn Hauser, Enid, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. WORLD OF RADIO 1758 monitoring: confirmed Thursday Jan 29 at 1330 on WRMI 9955, good with no jamming. Next: Thu 2201 on Global 24 via WRMI 9395 Fri 0001 on Global 24 via WRMI 9395 Fri 2130 on WRMI 7570 15770 Sat 0730 1530 on Hamburger Lokalradio 7265-CUSB Sat 1000 on WRMI 5850 Sun 0231 on KVOH 9975 Sun 2300 on WRMI 11580 Mon 0400v on Area 51 via WBCQ 5110v Mon 2201 on Global 24 via WRMI 9395 Tue 1200 on WRMI 9955 Wed 0401 on Global 24 via WRMI 9395 Wed 0730 1530 on Hamburger Lokalradio 7265-CUSB Wed 1415 on WRMI 9955 Wed 2200 on WBCQ 7490v Wed 2201 on Global 24 via WRMI 9395 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 1480, Jan 29 at 1344 UT, Spanish ad for AutoLite in dólares, another for Goodwill, so obviously a US station, CCI from KQAM Wichita in English about 4 Hz away. Probably the closest one, KCZZ Mission KS (Kansas City), 1000/500 watts U4, a Radio Luz, i.e. religious. Close to same direxion as Wichita but somewhat separable. Per NRC AM Log, all the other US SS on 1480 are much further, in CA, FL, FL, ID, MI, SC, VA, VA, WA, WI, PR. Madison WI might be possible, but day pattern goes NW, nite pattern NE. KCCZ day pattern goes east, nite southeast. KQAM aims westward day nite which explains its less than strong signal here to the SSW (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 1520, Jan 29 at 1341 UT, KOKC is on, but with tough CCI in English mentioning Hong Kong, ``program from GE Studios``. It`s KYND Cypress (Houston) TX, almost the same angle as OKC from here, making usual slow SAH just after sunrise. Streema.com explains, ``KYND is a broadcast radio station in Cypress, Texas, United States. As part of GE Studio, KYND provides Chinese Entertainment, and News and Talk shows about China to the Houston, Texas area, with content from EasyFM, an English-language broadcast radio station from China Radio International (CRI), Beijing, China``. So GE is a front organization for
Re: [HCDX] Glenn Hauser logs January 28-29, 2015
No, at the time of my log is was not the other way. It all depends on when you listen (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) On Thu, 1/29/15, Karel Honzík karel-hon...@volny.cz wrote: Subject: Re: [HCDX] Glenn Hauser logs January 28-29, 2015 To: hard-core-dx@hard-core-dx.com Date: Thursday, January 29, 2015, 9:05 AM ** BRAZIL. 11935, Jan 28 at 0113, `RB2 fair with singing and // much weaker 6040, but nothing on 9725 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Is not it the other way? These days there is an excellent signal on 6040 and 9725kHz and no signal on 11935kHz. Or do they change transmitters acc. to day/night reception conditions? Perhaps one of the 3 TXs is broken? (I was listening mostly between 0600-0900). Karel _ Hard-Core-DX mailing list Hard-Core-DX@hard-core-dx.com 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
[HCDX] Glenn Hauser logs January 29-30, 2015
** AUSTRALIA. 9580, 5995, 5940, Jan 30 at 1358, RA with jazz music, presumably fill after Fidler talk show, 1359.5 promo for `Between the Lines` on RN, Sundays at 10 am [UT Saturdays 2300], 1400 switch to Triple J. Less than 24 hours left for the old 6-transmitter Radio Australia; from 1300 Jan 31, cut to only 3, fortunately retaining 9580 USward at 09-21. Broadcast Australia, Shepparton, could still rent out the extras, but has no way of accessing live feeds other than via satellite, says Keith Perron (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BRAZIL. 11710, Jan 30 at 0619, second-order spur from RNA/RNB 11780.1v is audible here 70 kHz down, crackling away, weaker than first-orders 35 kHz away around 11745 and 11815, but can`t hear a match on 11850. 11710 will of course QRM neighbor RAE Argentina earlier in evenings, but what do they care? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CHINA. 9200, Jan 30 at 1457, CNR1 jammer, fair, off after 1500. Per Aoki, the excuse for 9200 is the possibility of a 100-watt Sound of Hope nuisance transmitter on Taiwan any time between 2054 and 1600, which presumably just went off too. No search for more up to 19 MHz, but doubt the higher bands were propagating from East Jammerstan today (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) CHINA [non]. See CUBA ** CUBA. 9570, Jan 30 at 1400, CRI English relay supposed to be over now, but still going, opening CRI News. I quickly check the next frequency, 15700 and it is already on plus hum, so these are two separate transmitters, confirmed with two receivers, both heard at once briefly until 15700 crashes from 1401* to *1402 resuming. Recheck at 1532, Paul says it`s :35 minutes past the hour! amid bigger hum. 15230, Jan 30 at 1534, open carrier/dead air, usual weak but steady signal, presumably RHC supposed to be on until 1600 like 15370 which is nominal (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** GREECE. 9935, Jan 30 at 0617, ERTOpen is motorboating here but clear on stronger // 9420 in Greek (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** IRAN. 13570, Jan 30 at 1529, Qur`an-like singing, fair signal vs CODAR, 1530 three chimes and news theme, Arabic ID for VIRI. It`s Kamalabad at 1020-1700 per Aoki, 259 degrees with 500 kW (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** KURDISTAN [non]. 9400, Jan 30 at 1440, via PRIDNESTROVYE, ``Denge Kurdistane`` ID amid Kurdish vocal music concert, much stronger than adjacent 9395 Global 24 apparently with NHK relay. At 1455, fast SAH starts on 9400 from some other station, 1459 unID music modulation mixing. DK does not start talking until 1503. By 1526 final check, not much is left. Nothing to account for this in Aoki or EiBi, but HFCC shows a registration from Spaceline in Sofia, Bulgaria on 9400 both before and after 1500 with DRM in English (and this is not DRM). I also try this on http://shortwave.am Entering 9400, it also brings up all adjacent 9395 and 9405 listings, and starts searching before all the blanx are filled in, i.e. the exact time, lacking a GO button. Nothing else here on 9400 other than FEBC until 1400*. I suspect it is the Bulgarian transmitter, known to test this and that on 9400 without notice. Could even be another relay of Denge Kurdistane. Nothing recently from Ivo Ivanov about 9400, but I expect he`ll be looking into it (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MEXICO. Another minor winter sporadic-E opening, but we value any and all of them: analog channel A2, Jan 30 at 0026 UT, antenna still stuck south, weak video CCI and traces of audio, but can`t be sure it`s in Spanish. 6m Es map shows multiple paths crossing somewhere between Little Rock and Memphis, so not ideal for Mexico to here, but estimated MUF 58 MHz i.e. enough to propagate channel 2 video, just like I am getting. At 0059 it`s a bit stronger, enough to clearly see the Azteca 7 big bug number in the upper-right corner, during a movie/drama, so it`s likely the common XHTAU in Tampico, Tamaulipas. How much longer will it remain in analog on 2? Time is running out. And this opening soon fades tho I leave ch 2 on for a few hours more (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** OKLAHOMA. Digital cable channel 59, via Suddenlink here in Enid has been activated as of Jan 29, encountered Jan 30 at 1515 UT with something labeled EL REY, so is it in Spanish? No, playing Miami Vice after Miami Vice in original English. Checking TVGuide online skeds for it, lots of M.V., other action movies and old series, and lots of infomercial time. What a waste. Logobug in LR is a crooked golden crown. ``El Rey (TV network) El Rey (Spanish for The King) is an English language American television channel targeting Latino audiences. Launched by Robert Rodríguez in 2013 in a deal with Univisión, it is available on Comcast, DirecTV, Time Warner Cable, Cox Communications and Dish Network``, says the top search hit. Suddenlink has also moved BBC America from high tier to DCC
[HCDX] Glenn Hauser logs January 30-31, 2015
** EGYPT. 9965++, Jan 31 at 0118, R. Cairo, ME music, undermodulated and as usual considerably off-frequency to hi side 9860+, Jan 31 at 0119, R. Cairo, distorted and undermodulated presumed Spanish; slightly on the hi side 12080, Jan 31 at 0119, R. Cairo? Very poor with flutter 12035, Jan 31 at 0120, R. Cairo, fair with flutter, just barely modulated. Aoki lists both 12080 and 12035 for Spanish, but I rarely hear both at the same time; nothing else listed now for either (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** GREECE. 9935, Jan 31 at 0118, horrible whine and motorboating atop program modulation in Greek from ERTOpen; no such problem on stronger // 9420 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MEXICO. 960, Jan 31 at 0200 with local KGWA precisely nulled during a silly ballgame, I have been hearing songs in English, [see UNIDENTIFIED] and hope for an ID now, but instead it`s XEK Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas, announcing 5,000 watts, and then playing `XEW` chimes, four descending, plus a fifth lower, immediately followed by American Legion PSA in English for veterans, which surely was from some other, US station (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** OKLAHOMA. I`ve been wondering just how high the Broadway Tower (to be Hotel?) in downtown Enid is; I count 14 stories, plus another penthouse occupied by broadcast transmitters. If 10 feet per story is standard, that makes about 150 feet, or 46 meters to the roof level where all the FM and TV transmitting antennas grow. K288FX on 105.5 (which remains on the air now), is licensed at 60 meters = 197 feet, which would be about right adding some mast height. Remember that KEIF-LP 104.7 lost its license for being on this building, too high for an LPFM (Glenn Hauser, Enid, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. WORLD OF RADIO 1758 monitoring: confirmed on WRMI 7570 15770, Friday January 30 at 2130:33. Next: Sat 0730 1530 on Hamburger Lokalradio 7265-CUSB Sat 1000 on WRMI 5850 Sun 0231 on KVOH 9975 Sun 2300 on WRMI 11580 Mon 0400v on Area 51 via WBCQ 5110v Mon 2201 on Global 24 via WRMI 9395 Tue 1200 on WRMI 9955 Wed 0401 on Global 24 via WRMI 9395 Wed 0730 1530 on Hamburger Lokalradio 7265-CUSB Wed 1415 on WRMI 9955 Wed 2200 on WBCQ 7490v Wed 2201 on Global 24 via WRMI 9395 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 7489.88 approx., UT Sat Jan 31 at 0100, `Allan Weiner Worldwide` on WBCQ and 31 seconds delayed on 5109.81 approx., but 9330 is not on (nor 15420). I listen during the next half hour and note the following from what he says, first confirming my observations of better signals on 7490v and 5110v: the ``new 7490 signal is super-modulated at widest bandwidth``; 5110 is also ``high-fidelitigh``, which is another way of saying no longer compatible USB only, ``as we rebuild our main exciter``. So I guess these are not totally new transmitters? Allan in a sad mood also goes on to lament people who have been ``lost`` in the past year: Jim Cedarstrom of Money Talks, but his heirs continue the program with some reruns; Ed Bolton, in late November/early December for ``evil and bad reasons``. Earlier, Michael Ketter almost 10 years ago; Allan`s wife Jennifer a year and a half ago; Bill Cooper. Video from (Florida) studio is also being webcast via U-screen, and Dr Becker called to say it`s also via http://wbcq.tv Allan says he is not goofing off in Florida, but now you can run a radio station from anywhere with a smart phone and that is what he does. Just look at the weather in Monticello by searching on ZIP 04760! Kudos to his staff back in Maine who keep it going, for not much pay as ``all`` income goes to the electric power company, taxes, etc. Also at the SW site are MW FM stations. WBCQ FM 94.7 is ``Kix FM``, with classic country not from a syndicator but programmed by Jason Tom. Says in 1981 he and first wife Sarah had owned WOZI 101.7 in Presque Isle, how as a rocker he didn`t know anything about country but was persuaded to put such a format on it. Later a caller wanted to supply a program on cassette tape, but Allan said that`s not possible any longer, as everything has to be on a computer audio file; then relented, that if really necessary, they`d take a tape and then convert it. Also could one do a monthly show instead of weekly? Yes, but subject to time being sold to a weekly (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 7505.36 approx., Jan 31 at 0207, WRNO is on with ID interrupting preacher, and OK modulation but always off-frequency (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. Jan 30 at 1913 UT, only 41 minutes after local mean noon, I find a good steady signal from WGN 720. Winter daytime skywave is in play. I`m driving away from neighborhood and household noise sources, so in central Enid I keep driving until pervasive line noise and plasma screens are minimal, parking first by a warehouse near the intersexion of Walnut Jefferson. No DFing on the caradio with
[HCDX] Glenn Hauser logs January 24, 2015
** BRAZIL. 11935, Jan 24 at 0617, RB2 is on with call-in in Brazuguese, poor. 9725, Jan 24 at 0631, this RB2 is on again, poor signal with call-in; seems they do a lot of those (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CUBA. 11840, Jan 24 at 0616, good signal with open carrier/dead air, no doubt RHC failed to turn off again at 0600. Worse? 9710, Jan 24 at 0618, RHC in Spanish is still going here, and very good signal, with excerpt of hoary old Fidel speech. Also still on 9535 at 0619 Jan 24 with much lower modulation, both supposed to quit at 0600 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CUBA. 9330, Sat Jan 24 at 0627, large carrier of dead air --- could be another WBCQ test, but on more regular schedule is Cuban 5-digit YL Spanish numbers/digital bursts; now this is during a pause. Ivo Ivanov has observed a new pattern for ``Cuban Spy Number HM01 with new start/end of transmissions: xx59-xx21 broadcasts 22 minutes; xx21-xx29 open carrier/dead air xx29-xx51 broadcasts 22 minutes; xx51-xx59 change of frequencies including 9330: 0559-0651 9330 UNID secret transmitter site Spanish Tue/Thu/Sat 0659-0751 9330 UNID secret transmitter site Spanish Sun/Mon/Wed/Fri`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** FRANCE [non]. 9395, UT Sat Jan 24 at 0620 I tune in RFI via Global 24 as she is announcing winners of a quiz, then questions about tigers on a new quiz; deadline for that is 9 March and prizes announced 14 March. One address is english.service @ rfi.fr I did not hear what the prizes were or will be, but the program segment is `Sound Kitchen`, ``where you never know what you`ll be served``, amounting to a brief mailbag, hostessed by Susan Owensby. Will be back next Saturday at 0452, 0622, 0752; 0626 on to a press review. So S.K. is apparently only a few minutes, but it was already going 2 minutes before 0622 today. Does this mean all features repeat on a sesquihour cycle? Anyhow, G24 carries only the 06-07 hour, and usually, as this time, the signal has built up to very good level, unlike daytime or earlier in evenings (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** GREECE. 9420, Jan 24 at 0620, ERTOpen is on with good signal, classical guitar music. Hadn`t heard it for a few days (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** OKLAHOMA. Earthquake felt here with wobbling of computer screen, UT Jan 24 at 0223:40. USGS registered it as mag 3.6, 14 km WSW of Enid, 5.4 km deep, at 0223:24Z --- so it took 16 seconds to reach here, or margin of error? Sorry, OT but I keep track of signif quakes here. I`m sure it was mentioned on the radio and TV too (Glenn Hauser, Enid, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** OKLAHOMA. 960, Jan 24 at 1344-1400 UT, KGWA Enid in open carrier/dead air, missing IIRC the Cowboy show, the whole hour? And audiblizing others when nulled, definitely KMA: See U S A. KGWA mod cuts back on at 1400 UT for Fox ``news``, so it`s a negative Fox-hole (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SOUTH CAROLINA [non]. 9955, Jan 24 at 0632 tune-by, Brother Scare is enumerating some of his MW stations on ``all-night``, the first frequency I hear: 1480 --- that must have been KBXD Dallas, except it went bankrupt and off the air about 5 weeks ago; doesn`t he know? Still on his list, which can never be taken as accurate, definitive: ftp://www.overcomerministry.org/RadioSchedule/AM%20Radio%20Stations.htm Also mentions WWVA, WCKY, WNAH 1360 in Nashville, and something in Syracuse not on the list. Pray, why doesn`t God grant His Last Day Prophet the gift of accuracy? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SRI LANKA. 9990, Jan 24 at 1357, very poor with S? Asian music, 1400 time signal about 10 seconds late! (and half an hour off in the target). Then sounds like Burmese? No, R. Farda in Persian is listed by HFCC and Aoki at 1300-1430, 250 kW, 315 degrees via Iranawila (also 0830-1300 via Kuwait). What is it about SL and timesignals? Cf. SLBC 11905, always 18-20 seconds late with 0115 UT tri-pips (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 960, Jan 24 at 1344 UT, local KGWA Enid is not modulating, so I null it to find two or three other stations. There is such a big perpetual hum on KGWA, however, that peaks at precise null point, why? So I have to offset it slightly to pull thru the DX. At 1352, ``sports here on KMA`` ID in passing, from Shenandoah IA, my #1 suspect outside Mexico. LSR was 1339 UT (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 1420, Jan 24 at 0637, `Coast to Coast AM` from two stations making a slight reverb, both roughly NE/SW. And Google searching on the C2C station list for 1420 gets only two hits: WOC Davenport IA, and KTOE Mankato MN (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. Trans-Pacific MW carrier search, circa 1339 UT sunrise here Jan 24: full bandscan finally pays off, with JBA carriers looping NW on 1566 at 1333; 774 at 1335; 882 at 1337; 918 at 1337. 1566 would be 250 kW HLAZ in Korea South; 774 of course the most
[HCDX] Glenn Hauser logs January 31-February 1, 2015
** AUSTRALIA [and non]. 12065, Jan 31 at 2007, NO signal from R. Australia, supposedly scheduled here at 0900-2100 toward North America. Remains to be heard whether the last known 3-transmitter schedule will be enacted as published. [BTW, look out for the new target broadcast, sponsored by USAID for Nigeria, Dandal Kura, at 1800-1900 daily on 12065 via Ascension, per WRTH Update, which would collide with RA; except show`s tweets say 12055 instead; Ivo Ivanov did record it on 12065 Jan 28, but that was before RA was supposed to expand 12065 hours; and Dandal Kura is also via ASC at 0500-0600 on undisputed 9440]. However, 17840, Feb 1 at 0030, RA is on here as before and per new sked with fair signal, show about Johann Strauss` career with his waltzes. No longer on 19000. The 21-09 schedule also calls for 15415 and 15240, where I detect nothing but JBA carriers. This certainly is not `Future Tense` as on the RA schedule for 0030 UT Sundays; plugged into Classic FM net instead? No, no Strauss on the `Sunday Morning` playlist. I was about to award 17840 OSOB status, but kept tuning down and eventually found very poor signals at 0037 on 17520 and 17510, which Aoki shows as KSDA in Chinese, and RFA Burmese via TINIAN, respectively; and then on 17490 the real SSOB, CRI Cantonese via Beijing site at 193 degrees, fair with heavy flutter. Since this is so strong, I tune OOB and find a whole bunch of CNR1 jammers (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BRAZIL. 11815 11745, Feb 1 at 0052, crackling spurs from RNA/RNB 11780.1v, and a weaker one around 11710, but no Argentina to hit on weekends (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CHINA. CNR1 jammers, early UT February 1, most with very heavy flutter, u.o.s., and in different synchronized groups: 16980, Feb 1 at 0033, CNR1 jammer, good 16100, Feb 1 at 0034, CNR1 jammer, good 15940, Feb 1 at 0035, CNR1 jammer, good 15800, Feb 1 at 0035, CNR1 jammer, fair 15550, Feb 1 at 0036, CNR1 jammer, very poor 15340, Feb 1 at 0038, CNR1 jammer, good, a reverb apart from 16100 15295, Feb 1 at 0038, CNR1 jammer, fair 14980, Feb 1 at 0039, CNR1 jammer, good 14920, Feb 1 at 0039, CNR1 jammer, good with less flutter and a split second behind the 16100 group 14870, Feb 1 at 0040, CNR1 jammer, good, 2 seconds behind 16100 14800, Feb 1 at 0041, CNR1 jammer, poor, // synch with 15340 13890, Feb 1 at 0043, CNR1 jammer, good, // synch with 14870 13870, Feb 1 at 0044, CNR1 jammer, fair under heavy RTTY, // 16100, and also distorted spurs out to 13830 apparently from this 13820, Feb 1 at 0046, CNR1 jammer, fair // 14870, also with residual Cuban pulse jamming against Radio Martí [non], Commies vs Commies! 13610, Feb 1 at 0047, CNR1 jammer, poor with flutter, a word behind 16100 12980, Feb 1 at 0048, CNR1 jammer, poor and not much flutter, // 16100 12950, Feb 1 at 0048, CNR1 jammer, good with flutter // 16100 12775, Feb 1 at 0049, CNR1 jammer, fair with flutter // 16100; unusual OOB to end in -5, but ya gotta go where the victim is 12430, Feb 1 at 0049, CNR1 jammer, good with heavy flutter //16100 12045, Feb 1 at 0050, CNR1 jammer, poor // 16100 11960, Feb 1 at 0051, CNR1 jammer, fair with flutter // 16100 11925, Feb 1 at 0052, CNR1 jammer, good // 16100 11750, Feb 1 at 0052, CNR1 jammer, poor // 16100 11530, Feb 1 at 0054, CNR1 jammer, very poor with flutter, // 16100 That`s 24 heard at once! None further down in the 11s or 10s. If by any chance one of these is not really a jammer, I offer my abject apologies to the ChiCom (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** EGYPT [and non]. 12080, Feb 1 at 0050, open carrier/dead air, fair-good, presumed R. Cairo in Spanish [non]. 12035, Feb 1 at 0050, R. Cairo, extremely distorted, presumed Spanish as scheduled, also with CCI, but unseems // all the CNR1 jammers. Aoki says it`s CRI in Chinese via Xi`an 9860.0, Feb 1 at 0102, R. Cairo fair signal is JBM, distorted, humwhine 9965+, Feb 1 at 0102, R. Cairo good signal in Arabic, but undermodulated, distorted and crackling, humwhine higher pitched than 9860 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MEXICO. 1030, Feb 1 at 0127, ``Chihuahua Vive`` PSA et al., dominating from SW, so XEYC Juárez, 1/1 kW (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** NETHERLANDS [non]. 7375, Feb 1 at 0110, The Mighty KBC via Nauen, GERMANY is fair with flutter, soon hearing Uncle Eric with The Giant Jukebox; 0130, Kim Elliot introduces MFSK64 for 1:25 about ``radio dials look great in the dark``, fair but fading down (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** NORTH AMERICA. 6925.1-USB, Feb 1 at 0104, good signal from pirate, music style could be Whisky Redneck Radio; but 0113 ``This is Rock Roll Radio; stay tuned for more rock roll``. So a new one? No, same station at 0117 interjects ``Wolverine Radio`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** PERU [and non]. 5980, Feb 2 at 0058-0110+, JBA carrier continues, so presumed BBCWS Hindi via UAE. Official start
[HCDX] Glenn Hauser logs February 1, 2015
** AUSTRALIA. 9580, Feb 1 at 1259, R. Australia is back on prime frequency toward, but not for, North America, 70 degree azimuth, with VG signal as `Sunday Night`, wide-ranging religion show on RN RA is about to take a break. Also on // 12085 and 12065, not on 9475 or any 5-6 MHz channels now kaput. 12085 is much stronger than 12065, which is in accordance with the official schedule now, 30 degree antenna on 12085, 355 degrees on 12065; a reversal of the pre-January 31 arrangement. At 1311 ``The Inquisition`` segment starts, religious quiz for callers usually displaying their ignorance. I assume losers don`t get flogged or burned at the stake. Recheck at 1635: 12085 is now strongest but only fair, while 9580 is weakened by daytime absorption, and 12065 on the farthest beam from USward is JBA. At least the only three scheduled frequencies are really on the air today. Must recheck between 18 and 19, whether the new Nigerian target broadcast [q.v.] from Ascension, Dandal Kura, is colliding on 12065, or now on 12055 as claimed in their tweets (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CUBA. 11840, Feb 1 at 0609, very poor in Spanish, so another overrun by RHC (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** INDIA. 9690, Feb 1 at 1400, AIR with unusually fair signal, speech about India`s leadership in S Asia, and just as I am getting into it, dumps off the air at 1402* for a sesquiminute until *1403.5 carrier back on, 1403.8 resume modulation. Meanwhile I check the two //: 13710 blocked as usual by CRI English; 11620 very poor, unusable (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** KURDISTAN [non]. 9400, Feb 1 at 1441, Denge Kurdistane via PRIDNESTROVYE with two or three gunshots, then crowd noises and music. A bit unnerving, but I supposed to be expected from the PKK terrorists, as Turkey sees them (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** KUWAIT [and non]. 21540, Feb 1 at 1415, R. Kuwait, good with Qur`an, back on proper frequency after excursion to 21580 yesterday; but at 1442 recheck it`s off earlier than scheduled; while 21505 Saudi in Arabic remains fair with flutter (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MEXICO. 1480, Feb 1 at 0623, time check for :23 and ``Rancherita regional con música norteña``. I make the DF about southwest, but slogan matches IRCA Mexican Log for XETKR, Monterrey NL, which is SSW, 10/1 kW with NOR/RAN formats. 1480 has become a more DXable frequency with the demise of KBXD Dallas (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** NIGERIA [non]. 9440, Feb 1 at 0520 tune-in for new US AID broadcast via Ascension, Dandal Kura, which starts at 0500: good signal in tonal African language; 0526 music group singing briefly, talk, 0528 another bit of music. Then lo-fi phoners from noisy locations with lots of crowd, background noise. 0548 music, 0551 better studio audio. [0553 compare to 7350 Hamada Radio International via RMI via GERMANY and find inferior reception here]. I can`t understand any Kanuri, except for ``Nigeria`` and ``www --- dot.com`` in the closing. Haven`t they adopted a single word from English? The British colonialists failed. Dead air 0558:18-0600*. [9460, then BBCWS in English as usual via Ascension from 0600, may or may not be same transmitter. At 0606 check, there is something else on 9440, poor-fair in Arabic. Aoki shows that as Bible Voice = Radio Dardasha 7 via GERMANY at 0600-0615 daily] Ivo Ivanov quotes this from somewhere: ``Kanuri is a dialect continuum spoken by 4 million people in Nigeria, Niger, Chad, Cameroon, and small minorities in southern Libya, and by a diaspora in Sudan. It belongs to the Western Saharan subphylum of Nilo-Saharan`` His Videos on Jan. 28 29 [but more useful for their Audios]: http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2015/01/unidentified-broadcast-via-babcock-is.html My question is, why have US AID bestowed such a 2-hour SW service upon the Kanuri while there are countless other minority ethnic groups in Nigeria and elsewhere which have no such benefits? May require a search deeper into the USAID Political Transition Initiatives website than I have undertaken. Perhaps Boko Haram terrorism in the area has something to do with it (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) See also AUSTRALIA ** U S A. 9395, Sunday Feb 1 at 1309, R. Cairo has failed again to provide a show to Global 24 via WRMI, so back to the 1812 Overture (please! Get a greater variety of fill music). And at 1358 and 1414 chex, 9395 is off the air (WRMI 9955 still on well, but 17790 also absent at 1416 while 15770, 11825 and 11580 are all on with BS so not an Okee power outage). Next check at 1440, 9395 is back on with `Switzerland in Sound`, Bob Zanotti interviewing somewoman. 1445, 17790 R. Africa via WRMI is still missing, unimpeding some weak OTH radar around 17765-17790 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 810, Sunday Feb 1 at 1338 UT, Rosary in responsive Spanish, something about a woman with a growth
Re: [HCDX] 3290 kHz UNID Reception Anyone know? alguem sabe?
** GUYANA. Hi Glenn, I have the Voice of Guyana on the air at, don't laugh, 400 watts. 3.290 MHz is the freq. I am going to repair a few more amplifiers and get them up to about a kilowatt for now. Have to reconfigure the combiner though. The antenna is in rough shape, but surprisingly being heard well down into interior Guyana, which is the main purpose. (On a portable no less!!) I'll keep you posted on how it's going. It's 80 degrees and very tropical here now. Best Regards (Jamie Labadia, visiting Guyana, 0147 UT Feb 2, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Checking around 0300 UT Feb 2, I do have a JBA carrier on 3290 - could be it. Will it be on all-night? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Likely Guyana on 3289.973 at 0333 UT tune-in playing Indian Love Call by The Browns. More non-stop US easy pop music, Nat King Cole at 0346, Brandy at 0350. Nice S5-S6 signal for 400 watts. Deep voiced male announcer with time check at 0356, mentioning farewell until next time and finishing with Goodbye To Love by the Carpenters. Audio switched to BBC feed at 0359. 73, (Brandon Jordan, WA4230SWL Fayette County, TN EM55gc http://www.swldx.us WinRadio G33DDC G313-e | RFSpace SDR-IQ NetSDR | Elad FDM-S2 | Icom R75 IC-7200 Array Solutions AS-SAL-30 Shared Apex Loop DX Engineering NCC-1 Phased ARAV3 Verticals dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) I'm getting a carrier just below 3290 kHz at 0455-0508, averaging about 15 db above the noise in Seattle. Little if any audio at this point (Bruce Portzer, WA, UT Feb 2, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) On Mon, 2/2/15, Daniel Wyllyans danieln...@gmail.com wrote: Subject: [HCDX] 3290 khz UNID Reception Anyone know ? alguem sabe? To: hard-core-dx@hard-core-dx.com Date: Monday, February 2, 2015, 4:34 AM UNID Reception Anyone know ? alguem sabe? A alguns dias venho monitorando com o meu novo recptor ,hoje consegui melhor sinal as 02;55 utc passando musicas, seria NBC ? Ou Voice of Guyana reativada ? Obrigado se puderem indentificar. Dexista PT 9008 SWL se quiser via email e danieln...@gmail.com https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DvkeK7vWW1Efeature=youtu.be _ Hard-Core-DX mailing list Hard-Core-DX@hard-core-dx.com 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 _ Hard-Core-DX mailing list Hard-Core-DX@hard-core-dx.com 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
[HCDX] Glenn Hauser logs January 4-6, 2015
** ALBANIA. 7425, Jan 6 at 0230, R. Tirana, fair signal but English so undermodulated it`s unreadable (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BRAZIL [and non]. 9665-, Jan 5 at 0630, praise music in Portuguese with a het, i.e. R. Voz Missionária, vs at this hour must be KCBS Pyongyang (which had been inactive for a while). It was also hetting presumed RFI more than a bihour earlier; see FRANCE [non]. Nothing audible from 9645v or 9630v other ZYs at this hour (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BRAZIL. 11746 11814 approx., Jan 5 at 0414, crackling spurs from 11780v RNA/RNB seem to have shifted just a bit to be centered around these at plus/minus 34 kHz instead of 33. At 0633 Jan 5, however, tho 11780 remains quite strong, I don`t hear the spurs (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CHINA. 11810.0, Jan 5 at at 2216, language unknown, I am again hearing the transmitter with carrier breaking up severely, seems to be too much for mere Doppler effect, as also logged January 4 at 0127, and pinned on CNR8 from Beijing 491 site. Aoki now shows this starting only on Dec 31, 2055-2100 Chinese, 2100-0600 Mongolian. For one thing, nothing else on 11810 would have a span covering my two logs. This would also cause QRM to BBCWS English via Ascension until 22 M-F (but Aoki says it`s deliberately *jammed anyway by the ChiCom), and also KBSWR English direct from Korea South to Europe at 22-23 daily. How does that sound in Europe this winter? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CUBA. 1620, Jan 6 at 0243, YL in Spanish here is not // R. Rebelde on 5025 which has OM with SBG during which Matanzas is ahead 7-1. Therefore, I assume the 1620 R. Rebelde has switched to Rebelde FM relay. At 0249, I find 5025 to be // echoey 1180 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CUBA. 6165, Jan 5 at 0625, I happen to catch a bit of RHC DXers Unlimited, as Arnie is talking about his plans for a 90m outlet on 3365 --- still in future tense. Says frequency was used by R. Rebelde years ago with a 5 kW transmitter and a full-wave dipole, getting good reports from all over Cuba and neighboring countries; and it also had a lobe up 15 degrees bringing in reports from afar. Next transmitter for 3365 will be a Snieg 50 kW, air-cooled in like-new condition tho it`s almost a semicentury old, and with excellent audio quality (which is more than could be said of // 6000 which is very undermodulated now). So has it been on the air at all or just mothballed? But why the delay? I wonder if it is the same transmitter that R. Progreso has been using on 4765, now vanished? And being rejiggered? Jan 6 at 0237, still no 3365, nor 4765 except for a JBA carrier, Tajikistan or Brasil? It will be interesting to note whether 3365, 4765 and 5025 are ever all on the air at same time from Cuba. 17730, Jan 5 at 1446, no signal from AWOL RHC here, tho 17790 WRMI and 17775 KVOH are in well, 6270, Jan 6 at 0233, RHC leapfrog mixing product, poor signal, Spanish slightly louder than English, i.e. 6060 over 6165 another 105 kHz higher. After 0500 both are in English (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) See also EAST TURKISTAN 9710 ** EAST TURKISTAN. 9710, Jan 6 at 0228, Chinese lesson for Spanish, fair with flutter, i.e. CRI, 500 kW, 294 degrees from Kashgar at 01-03 for CIRAF 12-14 = most of South America. Not a hint of RHC which is scheduled on 9710 at 22-06, 250 kW, 315 degrees from Habana, but never very strong here, so I don`t believe that Aoki listing, as it would be equivalent to the China relay on 9790 at 03-05, 250 kW at 305 degrees, which blasts in. Okeechobee signals on 31m now are poor RHC website gives 9710 target as Antillas, which is totally vague about real azimuth but surely not 315 USward! Maybe RHC is propped-out now, as on other occasions we hear the two mixing badly. Way to go, Arnie! Why don`t you co-ordinate with your ChiCom buddies? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** EGYPT. 9905, Jan 5 at 0405, R. Cairo good signal but humbuzz, bits of suppressed music in Arabic service; offsets not checked this date 9965, Jan 5 at 0405, R. Cairo, other Arabic service is distorted 9965++, Jan 6 at 0221, R. Cairo, poor with whine, Arabic? Heavy flutter; further off-frequency than 9905 9905+, Jan 6 at 0222, R. Cairo, open carrier/dead air, heavy flutter 9860.0, Jan 6 at 0223, R. Cairo, very poor in presumed English, heavy flutter, modulated better at first, under- at 0227 check. Not off-frequency (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** FRANCE [non]. 9665, Jan 5 at 0406, something in French mixing with het from perpetually off-frequency Brazilian, Voz Missionária. Nothing such scheduled in four references, but I bet it`s RFI via SOUTH AFRICA, which does start 9665 at 0430 for Swahili --- on the air early by yet another SENTECH mistake, or a new transmission. RFI does start French service at 0400 on other frequencies via Issoudun. Meanwhile, whether it be at 0400
[HCDX] DX Programs, Hitlist, WOR skeds updated
World of Radio schedules: http://www.worldofradio.com/radioskd.html DX/SWL/Media Programs: http://www.worldofradio.com/dxpgms.html Alan Roe`s Hitlist of SWBC stations: http://www.w4uvh.net/hitlist.htm 73, Glenn Hauser _ Hard-Core-DX mailing list Hard-Core-DX@hard-core-dx.com 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
[HCDX] Glenn Hauser logs January 9-10, 2015
** CHINA [and non]. 6075+, Jan 10 at 1415, CNR1 jammer // 6145, and a het less than 1 kHz on the hi side. Aoki shows RTI in Chinese from Kouhu site at 14-17 is of course *jammed. Likely it`s TAIWAN which is typically off-frequency, just making matters worse. But the ChiCom also have to jam one of their own broadcasts to accomplish this, 1400-1557, CRI Urdu via Kashgar, hee hee (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CUBA. 9710, Jan 9 at 0613, surprised to find RHC still going here in Spanish after nominal 0600*; seemingly live program, but hardly, at 1+ am local, giving Habana studio phone number for callers: 874-26-19. Usual lo-fi audio on this transmitter, and slightly distorted. Show name as `Revista Informativa de la Noche`, i.e. originally of early evening, then `Efemérides` segment for 8 de enero, Cuban historical events, namely in 1881, José Martí departed Nueva York for a 12-day voyage to at which point the slopperator at RadioCuba turns off the modulation and a few seconds later the transmitter too at 0615* 17730, Jan 10 at 1422, RHC is back on here after missing a few days, with some hum (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** GREECE. 9420, Jan 10 at 0616, ERTOpen, Greek fair with flutter. Haven`t noted it in a while with irregular operation. Not heard on 9935, and would not expect anything higher to propagate if on. But Ivo Ivanov in Blgaria noted at 09-14 this date, 9420 was the only active frequency (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** KOREA NORTH [non]. 5910, Fri Jan 9 at 1425 shortly before closing, Shiokaze remains with a poor signal only, but sounds like Korean today (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MEXICO. 650, Jan 9 at 1416, poor signal in Spanish mentioning PAN de Sinaloa, so XETNT Los Mochis hasn`t quite faded out yet (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MEXICO. 6185, Jan 9 at 0611, open carrier, no doubt XEPPM not having turned off its transmitter yet (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SPAIN. 11685, Jan 10 at 1523, REE is very poor with silly ballgame, // much stronger 12030, where the language is so rapidly excited I at first am not even sure it`s Castilian. So no longer can say I`ve never heard the 11685 frequency; usual RTTY QRM on the hi side, from NAA? Nothing audible on 11940 except a JBA carrier, so that one is surely off altho nothing else is scheduled; and 9620 if on, not propagating to here beyond a JBA carrier. Another question arises: weekends starting at *1500, so does this mean Spanish SBGs never kick off earlier than 4 pm local? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A [non]. 9550, Sat Jan 10 at 0619, very poor signal with rock music, IDed by // stronger 15580 as VOA English to Africa. 9550 is 124 degrees from SÃO TOMÉ, and 15580 is 350 degrees from BOTSWANA; the latter only occasionally propagates across the wintry Atlantic night. So with its self-limited airtime and resources, why is VOA emitting rock music instead of first-class world news? Ha (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. WORLD OF RADIO 1755 monitoring: confirmed after 2130.5 Friday Jan 9 on WRMI, stronger on 7570 than // 15770. Next: Sun 0231 on KVOH 9975 Sun 2300 on WRMI 11580 Mon 0400 on Area 51 via WBCQ 5110v-CUSB Mon 2201 on Global 24 via WRMI 9395 Tue 1200 on WRMI 9955 Wed 0401 on Global 24 via WRMI 9395 Wed 0730 1530 on Hamburger Lokalradio 7265-CUSB Wed 1415 on WRMI 9955 Wed 2200 on WBCQ 7490v Wed 2201 on Global 24 via WRMI 9395 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 690, Friday Jan 9 at 1407 UT, I remember to check KGGF Coffeyville KS, whether they are playing another episode of `Perspective` from KSU like last week at this same hour --- no, so as I suspected that was holiday filler, but well worth a regular spot, which possibly it has elsewhen. This roster http://www.ksre.ksu.edu/News/p.aspx?tabid=61 shows KGGF does carry it with an X in the block, but time unknown like most of the three other KSU shows and affiliates: someone needs to research complete info! Now instead it`s a local KGGF talk show about the new state legislative session. 1447 UT recheck, obits including scheduling of funerals. KGGF identifies first with Independence KS, tho COL remains Coffeyville --- each populated about 10K in 2010y (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) _ Hard-Core-DX mailing list Hard-Core-DX@hard-core-dx.com 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
[HCDX] DX Listening Digest 15-01; World of Radio 1755
DX Listening Digest 15-01 has now been posted at http://www.w4uvh.net/dxld1501.txt and also soon, sometimes delayed at http://www.w4uvh.net/dxlatest.txt CONTENTS: WOR 1755 / ALBANIA / ALGERIA non / ANGOLA / ANTARCTICA / AUSTRALIA Symnban / AUSTRALIA VL8K / AUSTRALIA +non RA / AUSTRIA / AZERBAIJAN / BANGLADESH / BHUTAN non / BOLIVIA +non / BRAZIL +non / BULGARIA +non / CAMBODIA non / CANADA CFVP / CANADA CFRX/CKZN/CKZU / CHILE / CHINA +non / COLOMBIA / CONGO DR / CUBA +non / CZECHIA +non / EAST TURKISTAN / ECUADOR / EGYPT / ETHIOPIA +non / EUROPE PIrates / FINLAND / FRANCE +non / GERMANY +non / GREECE / GUYANA / HONDURAS / INDIA +non / INDONESIA / INTERNATIONAL INTERNET / IRAN +non / IRELAND / JAPAN +non / KOREA NORTH +non / KURDISTAN non / KUWAIT / KYRGYZSTAN +non / LAOS +non / LIBERIA / MADAGASCAR / MALAYSIA / MEXICO / MICRONESIA / MONGOLIA +non / MOROCCO / MYANMAR / NETHERLANDS non / NEW ZEALAND / NIGERIA +non / NORTH AMERICA Pirates / NORWAY / OKLAHOMA KWPN / OKLAHOMA +non KSPI+ / OKLAHOMA +non KZUE+ / OKLAHOMA KZLS / OKLAHOMA KLGB / OKLAHOMA WRML+ / OKLAHOMA KKWD/KEUC / OKLAHOMA KOCO/KETA/KTBO/KSBI/KOKH/KFOR/KTUZ/KUOK/KOCB/KWTV/KAUT/KOCM/KOPX / PAKISTAN / PAPUA NEW GUINEA +non / PERU +non / PHILIPPINES / PORTUGAL / ROMANIA +non / RUSSIA +non / RWANDA / SAUDI ARABIA +non / SERBIA non / SLOVAKIA non / SOLOMON ISLANDS / SOMALIA non / SOMALILAND / SOUTH CAROLINA non / SPAIN / SRI LANKA / SUDAN +non / SWAZILAND +non / SWEDEN / TAIWAN / TAJIKISTAN / THAILAND / TURKEY / UGANDA / UKRAINE / UAE / UK BBCWS / USA N7WST ham / USA KLDE/WQGY434 / USA non IBB / USA VOA / USA +non WOR/WRMI/G24/WBCQ/KVOH/HLR / USA WRMI/Global 24 / USA WBCQ / USA KVOH/KIMF / USA WHRI / USA WTWW / USA WWCR / USA WINB/WMLK / USA WEWN / USA non AWR / USA KTNN/KKOB/KHAC / USA KGGF/KSU / USA +non KBMB / USA WBAP / USA KHAC/KRVN / USA KFXR / USA KFLC / USA KGNO / USA KEDA / USA 87.9 SC Pirate / USA KFTI/KKGQ / USA CPR/KDSP+ / VANUATU / VATICAN non / VIETNAM / YEMEN / ZAMBIA / ZANZIBAR / ZIMBABWE +non / UNIDENTIFIED 820 / UNIDENTIFIED 1160 / UNIDENTIFIED 1240 / UNIDENTIFIED 3350 / UNIDENTIFIED 4875 / UNIDENTIFIED 5085 / UNIDENTIFIED 5905 / UNIDENTIFIED 5990 / UNIDENTIFIED 11810 / UNIDENTIFIED 19545 / TESTMONIALS / PUBLICATIONS / CONVENTIONS CONFERENCES / WORLD OF HOROLOGY / MUSEA / DIGITAL BROADCASTING / POWERLINE COMMUNICATIONS / RADIO EQUIPMENT FORUM / PROPAGATION For restrixions and searchable 2015 contents archive see http://www.worldofradio.com/dxldmid.html [also linx to previous years] NOTE: If you are a regular reader of DXLD, and a source of DX news but have not been sending it directly to us, please consider yourself obligated to do so. Thanks, Glenn WORLD OF RADIO 1755 CONTENTS: *DX and station news about: Bolivia, Brazil, Bulgaria, Chile, China, Colombia, Congo DR, Cuba, Czechia and non, Ecuador, Ethiopia non, Europe, France non, Germany, India, Internet, Kyrgyzstan, Liberia, Madagascar, Mongolia non, Myanmar, Netherlands non, North America, Norway, Papua New Guinea, Portugal, Russia and non, Slovakia non, Solomon Islands, Sweden, Tibet, Ukraine non, USA SHORTWAVE AIRINGS OF WORLD OF RADIO 1755, January 8-14, 2015 Thu 0430 WRMI 9955 [confirmed] Thu 1330 WRMI 9955 [confirmed] Thu 2201 WRMI 9395 via Global 24 [confirmed] Fri 0001 WRMI 9395 via Global 24 [confirmed] Fri 2130 WRMI 7570 15770 [confirmed] Sat 0730 HLR 7265-CUSB Hamburger Lokalradio Sat 1000 WRMI 5850 Sat 1530 HLR 7265-CUSB Hamburger Lokalradio Sun 0200 WH2XDE-1 1750 Victor NY Sun 0231 KVOH 9975 [confirmed] Sun 2300 WRMI 11580 [confirmed] Mon 0400v WBCQ 5110v-CUSB Area 51 Mon 2201 WRMI 9395 via Global 24 Tue 1200 WRMI 9955 Wed 0401 WRMI 9395 via Global 24 Wed 0730 HLR 7265-CUSB Hamburger Lokalradio Wed 1415 WRMI 9955 Wed 1530 HLR 7265-CUSB Hamburger Lokalradio Wed 2200 WBCQ 7490v Wed 2201 WRMI 9395 via Global 24 Thu 0430 WRMI 9955 [or 1756 if ready in time] Latest edition of this schedule version, including AM, FM, satellite and webcasts with hotlinks to station sites and audio, is at: http://www.worldofradio.com/radioskd.html or http://schedule.worldofradio.org or http://sked.worldofradio.org For updates see our Anomaly Alert page: http://www.worldofradio.com/anomaly.html WORLD OF RADIO PODCASTS HAVE RESUMED starting with #1730: Tnx to Dr Harald Gabler and the Rhein-Main Radio Club. http://www.rmrc.de/index.php?option=com_podcastview=feedformat=rawItemid=156lang=de or directly via: http://bit.ly/1xD5yyn Also via [but still not back in service]: http://tunein.com/radio/World-of-Radio-p198/ AND NEW ALTERNATIVE, tnx Stephen Cooper, because RMRC was down: http://shortwave.am/wor.xml OUR ONDEMAND AUDIO: http://www.worldofradio.com/audiomid.html or http://wor.worldofradio.org DAY-BY-DAY ARCHIVE OF GLENN HAUSER`S LOG REPORTS: Unedited, uncondensed, unchanged from original version, many of them too complex, minutely researched, multi-frequency, opinionated, inconsequential, off-topic,
[HCDX] Glenn Hauser logs January 11-12, 2015
** CUBA. 6165, Jan 11 at 0659 just as I tune in RHC, English program intro is abruptly cut to Spanish historical promo past 0700, and same on 6060, 6000 briefly, while 5040 is open carrier. Last to go off is 6000 at 0703*. Meanwhile, at 0701, only 6100 is starting the weekly Sunday Esperanto broadcast as scheduled (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MEXICO. Finally a half-decent winter sporadic-E opening, as the analog TV era in Mexico has less than a year left. January 11 opening is in progress as I turn on and tune in, antenna still stuck at southward, all times UT: 1438 on 2, Azteca 7 bug in UR, animation fades in and out, video only. Probably usual XHTAU Tampico, Tamaulipas. 1617 on 2, fade-in some more after more than a sesquihour of snow, AV, Spanish about Veracruz, SCT promotion for Puerto de Veracruz. Perhaps live, says there has been a 4.0 sismo (earthquake) there. Captions to the news items include a logo that looks like API TV, not at all sure of the letters. Anyhow, it must be XHFM in Veracruz. 1634 on 2, still some CCI, and trace until 1700 or so. Meanwhile, 6-m Es maps show some skip has moved from southern US to eastern US. 1900-2100 UT roughly, not checked UT January 12: 0230 on 2, Spanish CCI, also some on 4 0240 on 5, MUF up to here some video, and 4 with music 0248 on 4, seems music video show, video squeezed, YL VJ between them, a little bug in the UR I can`t make out. 0250 mentions Xalapa, which is also in Veracruz 0249 on 5, news in Spanish, continuous crawler abottom; large square bug in LR with complicated design in it. I do believe it`s XHAJ Las Lajas, Veracruz as per Danny`s logo reference 0256 on 4, now behind the VJ can make out program title (?) PLAY LIST, and soon a TV MAS ID; 0257 shows VERACRUZ. So it`s XHGV, Las Lajas too 6m Es maps now have the opening centered over SE TX, which is a bit too far east for Vcz to OK 0302 on 6, video MUF up to here with new TRECE bug in UR (just the word, rather than the old Azteca swishes; Danny still hasn`t updated his national logos since 2013 to show this). Close-up of singers wielding hand mikes. Per W9WI.com, the closest 13s on 6 to Veracruz are XHPUR, 100 kW in Puebla, Puebla; and XHVHT, 24.31 kW in Villahermosa, Tabasco. The 6m Es map would favor the latter 0312 on 88.1 rock music fades in for a minute or so, and out 0316 on 5, Televisa 5 bug in LR; could be XHGC itself, but there are lots of others like XHZ in Zamorano, Querétaro 0330 opening fading, still some CCI on 2 and traces another semihour (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. WORLD OF RADIO 1755 monitoring: confirmed Sunday Jan 11 at 2300 on WRMI 11580, sufficient. And confirmed UT Monday Jan 12 at 0400 on Area 51 via WBCQ 5109+CUSB. Next: Mon 2201 on Global 24 via WRMI 9395 Tue 1200 on WRMI 9955 Wed 0401 on Global 24 via WRMI 9395 Wed 0730 1530 on Hamburger Lokalradio 7265-CUSB Wed 1415 on WRMI 9955 Wed 2200 on WBCQ 7490v Wed 2201 on Global 24 via WRMI 9395 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. Re: ``1190, Jan 11 at 0218 UT, Rosary in English briefly overcomes the QRM, from NE/SW, so surely the recent acquisition by EWTN in Kansas City MO, KPHN, 5000/500 watts.`` Later: I search radio-locator.com on KPHN as I want to see whether their map puts the transmitter site in KS or MO, but what comes up? 1360 in El Dorado KS! It is another EWTN station, but call there has been KAHS, per NRC AM Log. It`s just NE of Wichita. To confuse matters further, station`s address is in Tulsa OK!! What happens if I search radio-locator.com on KAHS? I get KAHS-LP FM in Aberdeen WA 106.5! Bringing up their full list of KC MO stations, we find that 1190 is now KDMR. That nighttime coverage map cross is SE of KC, i.e. in MO. FCC AM Query agrees that the call of 1360 El Dorado is now KPHN, since last August 14, so that change just missed the editorial deadline for the 2014-2015 NRC AM log. And on the same date, 1190 changed from KPHN to KDMR. One wonders, why bother, and what significance each call has to the Catholic Radio Network (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. 1540, Jan 11 at 0706 UT, something mixing with KEDA, in English, ID sounds like ``America`s Best Music on 1540 KWHN Radio``. But letters must be only fuzzily similar. ABM is a Westwood One syndicated format. Most similar call is KDYN in Ozark AR, 500/1 watt, but I can`t find a format match on their website http://www.kdyn.com where it`s apparently a duplicate of True Country 92.7 KLYR. Googling for other ABM`s on 1540 leads to KBOA Kennett MO, 1000/1 watt; and WBCO in Bucyrus OH, 500 watt daytimer. KBOA brands itself as Music of Your Life, which is close to ABM, in case there has been a change. WBCO website http://wbco.com does not use either brand, but the music format fits (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) _ Hard-Core-DX mailing list Hard-Core-DX@hard-core-dx.com
[HCDX] Glenn Hauser logs January 13-14, 2015
** CUBA. 4765, Jan 14 at 0222, R. Progreso is back on after a silent period; first returned Jan 13 per Ron Howard when I was not monitoring: ``Hi Glenn, Jan 13 heard R. Progreso back on 4765 at 0228, with Progreso having the primary/strong audio, but also heard secondary audio underneath (weak), which also seemed to be in Spanish; 0229 ID and time check.`` Not hearing any secondary audio now, but it is somewhat distorted, which was not the case before the crash. Still no 3365 yet from RHC (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** EGYPT. 9965.0, Jan 14 at 0212, R. Cairo in Arabic, good with flutter, but somewhat distorted; not off-frequency 9905+, Jan 14 at 0213, R. Cairo, other Arabic service is dead air, good level with flutter and slightly on hi side 9860.0, Jan 14 at 0214, R. Cairo, poor with flutter, just barely modulated music during presumed English (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** GREECE. 9415, Jan 14 at 0211, ERTOpen with good signal in Greek // weaker 9935 but at least it`s not motorboating tonight (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MEXICO [and non]. 1060+, Jan 14 at 0227, horrible rumbling het: east/west open carrier from KIJN TX, always off-frequency, vs north/south new XERDO Reynosa, Tamaulipas, even more off-frequency (some have measured it 76 Hz high). Federal PSA for Instituto Nacional Electoral (name change? used to be Instituto Federal Electoral --- IFE); 0228 full ID as ``XERDO, La Raza, 10-60, 10 mil watts de potencia``, etc. by overlapping SHVA segments. Or maybe it was 7 as in Cantú, also with a different name: 1060 XERDO La Radio Matamoros, Tamps. 7,000 2,500 Right after this I find that USB tuning on the DX-398 helps to minimize the QRM on the lo side; and then I rotate again to hear a third station, from the west thru the KIJN carrier, 0230 UT ID as KXPL, El Paso, TX [continued under USA] (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** NORTH AMERICA. 6940-USB, Jan 14 at 0208 just as I tune in to some music, it stops. Logs here agree it was Hummingbird Radio and came back on later: http://www.hfunderground.com/board/index.php/topic,20303.0.html (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** RUSSIA [non]. 15770, Jan 13 at 2100, trying to hear the From Moscow With Love special from R. Sputnik via WRMI, but just too weak to be worth it. Instead tuned to 15580 for VOA: see USA. Recheck at 2130, now WRMI has faded in better, too late (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 15580, Jan 13 at 2105 after perfunctory newscast, via good Greenville signal, ``VOA One`` is now the ID for the music show of rock music hosted by Larry London, to which I try to doze for a semihour (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. WORLD OF RADIO 1755 monitoring: confirmed on Global 24 via WMRI 9395, UT Wednesday Jan 14 at 0401. Next: Wed 0730 1530 on Hamburger Lokalradio 7265-CUSB Wed 1415 on WRMI 9955 Wed 2200 on WBCQ 7490v Wed 2201 on Global 24 via WRMI 9395 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 9395, Tue Jan 13 at 2203, Global 24 via WRMI with new show `Travel with Rick Steves`, starting with Lake Titicaca; replacing The Happy Station, as Keith Perron has pulled PCJ programs from G24. 9395, next check after 0200 Wed Jan 14, now it`s amid `Frequencycast` which doesn`t seem to deal in frequencies, VG signal. After WORLD OF RADIO at 0401, `Blues Radio International` has replaced `Media Network Plus` as confirmed on webcast before 0500 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 5110-CUSB, Jan 14 at 0207, monthly `Electrospace Radio` is on as scheduled via WBCQ, fair signal. I find it better to listen on the PL-880 in AM mode than try to get the SSB offset just right for the unfamiliar music. Frequent announcements, asking for reports, into Tangerine Dream; 0215 I am not hearing it any more and BFO confirms it`s off completely; and that WBCQ cuts back on at *0217:23; 0220 `Sound of Silence` in electronic version (not real silence as before 0217). 0224 another break asking for reports to radio @ electrospaceradio.com I expect to listen to the hour online later: http://nelsonogden.wix.com/electro-space Later learnt that another unpirate client is on at 04-05 UT; I wonder if 5110 stayed on between 02 and 04 with something? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 12105, Jan 14 at 0210, algo very poor, must be WTWW-3; earlier in the afternoon of Jan 13 I noticed it was on again with non-English Bibling. WTWW-2 is also on at 0210 with on 5830, but WTWW-2 is on neither 5085 nor 9930 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 7505+, Jan 14 at 0218, WRNO is still AWOL, altho Ron Howard did hear it intermittently the night before: Jan 13, heard WRNO back on the air again, but only intermittently, with EZL music. Heard at 0209 on 7505.24v; at 0222 off the air; heard 0237 on 7505.30v and 0250 on 7505.28v and final check at 0302 off the air.`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) **
[HCDX] Glenn Hauser logs January 12-13, 2014
UPDATED: World of Radio schedules: http://www.worldofradio.com/radioskd.html DX/SWL/Media Programs: http://www.worldofradio.com/dxpgms.html Alan Roe`s Hitlist of SWBC stations: http://www.w4uvh.net/hitlist.htm 73, (Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** AUSTRALIA [and non]. Drastic cuts are underway at Radio Australia. 9965, Jan 13 at 1358, no signal any more from the PALAU relay which had been scheduled at 1300-1430. In BDXC-UK yg, Mike German had heard it as recently as Jan 11 at 1353. But in the January issue of BDXC-UK Communication we see this: ``The ABC has announced major cuts to Radio Australia shortwave transmissions. From 1 January all overseas relays (via Dhabaya, Kranji and Palau) will end.. From 1 January all shortwave transmissions to Asia will cease. From 31 January the Brandon shortwave site will close. From 31 January output from Shepparton will be reduced from six full time transmitters to only three transmitters, all operating 24 hours per day with the following schedule: 0900-2100 on 6080 6150 9580 2100-0900 on 15240 15415 17840 (Radio Australia via WRTH via Jan BDXC-UK Communication via DXLD)`` So the date for closing Palau relay must have slipped, but note what`s coming at monthend if that stix: We will no longer have numerous other RA frequencies, such as 19000, 15300, 13630, 12065. Best of the lot remaining, if still on same azimuths toward N America, should be 9580 and 17840. Jan 13 at 1356 I am still hearing RA on 5940, 5995-Brandon, 9475 [WTWW silent], 9580, 12065. I think I heard 12085 recently too, which was for Asia, so that also lasted past Jan 1 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CHINA. 15745, Jan 12 at 1445, CNR1 jammer, poor-fair: vs. VOA Tibetan via Thailand during this hour only (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CUBA. 11860, Jan 13 at 1508, open carrier/dead air from RHC, while still modulating on 11760, and 11950 is already off. At 1509, 11860 is turned off too (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** FRANCE. 7390, Jan 13 at 0648, once again RFI in French is beneath a stronger unmodulated carrier far enough away to cause a fast SAH. Is it another Issoudun transmitter? Albania fired up early? Or maybe a closer utility in what is really a fixed band? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** GREECE. 9415, Jan 13 at 0641, ERTOpen in Greek, good with flutter, // 9935, poor with flutter. The Avlis SW facility could be in danger. Christos Rigas, Chicago, forwarded this to the DXLD yg: Most powerful Greek Radio transmitter looted by burglars after having been abandoned Destruction of the allegedly most powerful medium wave transmitter of the Greek public broadcasting Service was reported during the Christmas holidays, few days after the power disruption ordered by the administrators of the estate of former ERT who reside in Athens. As reported by the local press, the burglars took advantage of the interruption of transmitions, invaded the transmitter facilities in Kalithea Rhodes [1260 kHz, only 100 kW per WRTH 2015] and took loot. They stole all precious metal of the transmitter and its facilities, the cost of which exceeds EUR 100,000.`` [. . .] read the rest! Source: http://www.thegreekradio.com/node/9756 ``Apart from the Rhodes transmitter, the mediumwave transmitters of ERA Sport and Filia Radio in Megara and other regional facilities were lost after having been looted in a similar way, whereas the Ministry attempted to sell the metal of the Avlida shortwave transmitter for recycling`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** INDIA. 13640, Jan 13 at 1511, 1 kHz tone, poor signal, 1513 AIR IS starts before the 1515-1600 Gujarati service, 500 kW, 240 degrees from Bengaluru (and per Aoki to be followed by Persian, Arabic, French until 2030, but colliding with Iran in English on same at 1920-2020). Music still audible with flutter during Persian at 1714 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ISRAEL [non]. (9395), Jan 13 at 0530 check of Global 24 Radio webcast, Israel Radio is still being relayed from WRN for morning newscast until 0545, despite not appearing on the G24 program schedule. Evidently daily except Sat instead of NHK for a full hour. As long as it last, this puts Israel back on the SW map but how many listings will note it? BTW, Keith Perron says he is pulling all PCJ Radio programming off Global 24 as of Jan 12, for lack of contact with the management (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** KOREA NORTH [non]. 5910, Tue Jan 13 at 1355, Shiokaze fair with Chinese, piano, still here from JSR Tokyo (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** OMAN. 15140, Jan 13 at 1430, very poor signal, YL talking maybe in English news as scheduled from RSO; 1448 back to music, now only poor. Ivo Ivanov had noted this frequency missing Jan 8 and 9 at least (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. WORLD OF RADIO 1755 monitoring: confirmed Monday Jan 12 at 2201 on Global 24
[HCDX] Glenn Hauser logs February 8-9, 2015
** BANGLADESH. 15505, Feb 9 at 1359, tune-in BB just in time to hear mistimesignal ending at 1359:31.5 to open Urdu service; just barely audible (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BRAZIL. 11713-11714, Feb 9 at 0433, second-order extremely distorted spur from mostly music 11780.1v, RNA/RNB, peaks in this area, while hi side match circa 11846 is JBA; first-orders of course even worse and roughly equal circa 11747-11748 and 11812-11813; determined by 1-kHz stepping on the DX-398. 11780.1v, Feb 9 at 0557, now RNA/RNB is in dead air! So blessèd relief, no spurs to mis-modulate (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CANADA. 2598 2749-USB decommissioned? Hi Bill, Random chex evenings here have not turned up any of the marine weather broadcasts on these frequencies. I believe the were about to be decommissioned this year, so have they been now? 73, Glenn Hauser (Feb 9 to William Hepburn, of http://www.dxinfocentre.com/mb.htm via DXLD) Hi Glenn, All USCG wx on 2670 kHz has been decommissioned, but as far as I know the Canadians are still on. Heard Rivière au Renard simulcast on both frequencies the other night (Bill Hepburn, Feb 9, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CHINA. CNR1 jammers, Feb 9 morning: 16920, Feb 9 at 1346, CNR1 jammer, poor with flutter Started bandscan after getting CRI EAST TURKISTAN [q.v.] on 17650, but not much else found, none in the 14s, 13s, 12s, 10s, only: 15265, Feb 9 at 1349, CNR1 jammer, with usual het from off-frequency Taiwan target, and not synch with 16920 11655, Feb 9 at 1355, CNR1 jammer, very good with flutter // 15265 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** COLOMBIA [and non]. 5910+, Feb 9 at 0414, HJDH on with music, poor signal, slightly on the hi side. Didn`t stay for ID, whether Conciencia and/or Alcaraván this time. It`s missing a lot, or when on, at the `wrong` hours making a LAH with major stations, such as at 0432, when NHK in Russian eastward via LITHUANIA at 0430-0500 is nevertheless more than a match for HJDH; much worse is ROMANIA at 01-03 in Romanian to North America. Also 0641-0659 M-F, TWR Polish via AUSTRIA. Otherwise clear all night except for VOA Radiogram Saturdays at 0930-1000 from Greenville. But you never know when the Puerto Lleras transmitters will be on or off. 6010, Feb 9 at 0414, the other HJDH which IDs only as La Voz de tu Conciencia, with non // music and Spanish preaching, similar signal level, and at 0432 continuing with no CCI, not even a het tho this one is also slightly on the hi side. Both listed as 5 kW in WRTH 2015 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** EAST TURKISTAN. 17650, Feb 9 at 1345, CRI in French, good signal but heavy flutter, going into chinois leçon. This is 500 kW, 308 degrees from Kashi-Saibagh 2022 site for Europe. There used to be two other CRI services like this in the same band area, but only this one now (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** EGYPT. 9905+, Feb 9 at 0552, R. Cairo, good signal level but suppressed/distorted [supp/dist?] modulation of ME music, also flutter and slightly on the hi side (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** GUATEMALA. 4055, Feb 9 at 1209, R. Verdad with favorite banjo music, reminiscent of `Workin` on the Railroad` but workin` in gospel tunes too, including RR crossing warning bells; presumably outro for Dr. Madrid`s signature show `El Tren del Evangelio`; 1210 YL TC for 6:12; 1211 full ID with Apartado 5, Chiquimula address; 1212 `Ode to Joy` theme introduces a Bible study program in Spanish. Today`s sunrise there is 1225 UT, so may remain for another semihour. News on Feb 8 that a volcano had erupted in Guatemala, but the item I heard didn`t name it or locate it. It was Fuego, SW of Guat City, while Chiquimula is further ENE of the capital, closer to Honduras, so I suppose no problem for TGAV (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** INDIA. 9380, Feb 9 at 1357, open carrier, maybe JBM, with flutter, the rule rather than the exception from AIR National Channel via Aligarh (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** IRAN. 9550, Feb 9 at 0425, Qur`an and responses, good signal but with hum, flutter. HFCC shows it`s VIRI in Turkish, 0420-0550, 500 kW, 298 degrees from Kamalabad (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** IRAN [non]. 9430, Feb 9 at 0424, ``A Summer Place`` tune, announcement in presumed Farsi, as R. Farda is here at 0200-0530, 100 kW, 108 degrees from Lampertheim, GERMANY. Per HFCC, from Feb 11, the 0500-0530 part to be dropped (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** JAPAN [non]. 5985 6195, NHK World Radio Japón in Spanish, Feb 9 at 0419 with Japanese lesson, way out of synch with each other; 5985 at 222 degrees from WRMI, and 6195 at 167 degrees from WHRI. So two frequencies for Spanish and zero for English to North America. 5985 has considerable CCI, i.e. AWR Turkish, 120 degrees from AUSTRIA, so 300 degrees USward off the back during the same 0400 semihour (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
[HCDX] Glenn Hauser logs February 12-13, 2015
** ASCENSION. 15105, Feb 12 at 1948, heavily accented French but it`s just waiting to be translated to Hausa, which is the language this semihour of BBCWS, good signal but with a pronounced hum --- typical of at least one of the Ascension transmitters, which indeed this is as registered. Why don`t they repair it, or at least filter out the hum? A shameful situation for a major SW site (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BANGLADESH. 15505, Feb 13 at 1359:27, tuned in just in time to hear mistimesignal ending from Bangladesh Betar; very poor (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CHILE. 21412-USB, Feb 12 at 2351, XQ3PC is calling for check-ins to a maritime net, one of the better signals on 15m now; sounds like an American, and most of his contacts are from the USA. Substituting for the NCS, wherever that may be, in case somestations can copy him better. John Norfolk`s final April 2007 Nets2you roster had a Pacific Maritime net at 2200 daily on this frequency. QRZ.com lists: XQ3PC James Thurston Edwards Capitan Orella 2775 Ñuñoa - Santiago 7750525 Chile QSL: CASILLA 207-11 SANTIAGO (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CHINA. 15970, Feb 12 at 2345, JBA signal from algo modulated, presumably CNR1 jammer since Aoki has this as an *, which is far more likely than the 100-watt Sound of Hope from Taiwan. 12950, Feb 12 at 2358, CNR1 jammer, poor with flutter; retune just before 2400 timesignal and off, sounded like the last few notes of the Cuban national anthem, of all things, so part of CNR1 programming (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** EGYPT. 15800, Feb 13 at 1515, fair signal, fading, with open carrier/dead air, or maybe JBM with music. What else but R. Cairo, the laughingstock of international broadcasting, scheduled here at 13-16 UT via Abis site in Arabic. Earlier that UT day, I had skipped noting the usual defects of 9965, 9905, 9860 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** JAPAN [and non]. 13650, Feb 12 at 2356, big clash between choral music and talk in Burmese; the music cuts off at 2356:45 leaving NHK closing in the clear. This is R. Japan`s Thai/Vietnamese/Burmese hour equally split into thirds, while the otherstation was of course CRI Portuguese via CUBA (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** KUWAIT [and non]. 15140, Feb 12 at 1947, Radio Sultanate of Oman has a standout signal with ME music, Arabic, as hardly anything else is audible in the lower part of the 15 MHz band [except ASCENSION, q.v.] --- yet 15540, R. Kuwait English service is nothing but a JBA carrier. How can there be such a disparity? Let us compare the HFCC registered parameters: 15140 is 100 kW, 315 degrees from Thumrait to CIRAF 28, 39N; ant 218 15540 is 250 kW, 310 degrees from Kabd to CIRAF 27,29; antenna 211 I.e., almost same azimuths toward western Europe, and consequently North America beyond, yet allegedly 2.5 times the power from the much weaker one. Thumrait site is in southwest Oman not far from the Yemen border, but far from Musqat and the BBC A`Seela site in northeast Oman, as obvious from the slick color map on page 57 of the WRTH 2015. Kuwait is quite a bit further north, but also further west and it turns out that the great-circle paths to Enid from the two are virtually identical, reaching no further north than 65 degrees over Iceland. You never know whether a station is really running anywhere near its rated transmitter power, but chances are it is not, and of course antenna type and gain can also make a big difference. Vertical takeoff angle is another important factor often overlooked. Kuwait`s may be higher, meaning better coverage closer in, worse further out. Modifying my remark about *no* activity now on the 18-19 MHz band, not quite: 0430-1130, when we can never hear it, R. Azadi (Free Afghanistan) is running via Kuwait, alternating Dari and Pashto hours (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** OKLAHOMA. 94.3, Feb 12 circa 1930 UT I notice that KLGB-LP is open carrier/dead air --- or rather, with volume up to max I can barely hear some music, which proves to be bleedover from other LP at same site, KVBN-LP 99.9, which otherwise is still funxioning normally. I had first noticed something was wrong, when on caradio near KLGB site, I was getting QRM to 91.7 KOSU apparently on one side or the other, later confirmed to be same 99.9 audio source. Driving by KLGB, we can see there are *no* cars parked by the building, evidently running unattended. Next check at 1528 UT Feb 13, 94.3 is *still* (almost) silent. I have a modest suggestion, that the licensee of any US radio station should lose it forthwith, if dead air is allowed to occur for more than, say, one hour; and that would be extremely generous. If there had been another applicant for the frequency, they should get it as a result. 88.3, Feb 12 and 13 chex, note that the Fámily Radio translator in Enid is off the air again, and may have been for some time:
[HCDX] Glenn Hauser logs February 13-14, 2015
** ALBANIA. 7425, Feb 14 at 0230, no signal from R. Tirana for next few minutes at least, tho 7420 Iran is audible (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BANGLADESH. 15505, Feb 14 at 1359, BB IS, mistimesignal of 5+1 pips ending at 1359:36, fair with flutter, opening Urdu (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BRAZIL. 11747 11813, Feb 14 at 0216, crackling spurs from 11780.1v RNA/RNB are audible. By 0629 next check they are quite louder, and also audible the weaker second-order one around 11714 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CHINA. CNR1 jammers, morning of Feb 14: 13920, Feb 14 at 1327, CNR1 jammer, but gone after 1330 15540, Feb 14 at 1334, CNR1 jammer, good with flutter, cuts off at 1335.5*. Must have been against Voice of Tibet, 15542, via Tajikistan at 1314-1335 per Aoki, altho I did not notice a 15542 het/carrier 15570, Feb 14 at 1336, weak carrier here, must be a CNR1 jammer against 15568 V of Tibet via Tajikistan, which I am hearing, q.v. 13890, Feb 14 at 1338, CNR1 jammer, VG with flutter; none in the 14s 13530, Feb 14 at 1339, CNR1 jammer, VG with flutter // 13890 12560, Feb 14 at 1340, CNR1 jammer, VG with flutter // 13890 12980, Feb 14 at 1340, CNR1 jammer, VG with flutter but a split second behind the above ones 11580, Feb 14 at 1345, CNR1 jammer, good and way over WRMI with Brother Scare, tsk2; // 13890. Aoki shows it`s here because of a 0.1 kW Sound of Hope, Taiwan relay of R. Free Asia which could be active any time between 2300 and 1610; not necessarily on a daily schedule 11430, Feb 14 at 1346, CNR1 jammer, good with flutter; None in the 17s, 16s or 10s 13920, Feb 14 at 1441, CNR1 jammer, good with heavy flutter (no longer on 13890 as previous hour) 12500, Feb 14 at 1443, CNR1 jammer, good with heavy flutter 12910, Feb 14 at 1443, CNR1 jammer, very good with heavy flutter 12980, Feb 14 at 1443, CNR1 jammer, good with heavy flutter 15745, Feb 14 at 1444, CNR1 jammer, good with heavy flutter; no 16s 17585, Feb 14 at 1447, CNR1 jammer, fair with flutter, // 13920 but an echo apart. 15745 and 17585 are vs VOA Tibetan via Thailand and Lampertheim, Germany, respectively, this hour only, daily, and not jumping frequencies (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CUBA. 4765, Feb 14 at 0308, R. Progreso quite undermodulated and hummy, also suffering from CODAR QRM. This once adequate transmitter is ailing. Meanwhile we`re still waiting for Arnie`s 3365 to activate with RHC. Has he said anything about that lately on DXUL? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CUBA. 11840, Feb 14 at 0628, very poor in Spanish, so now it`s the turn of this RHC transmitter to run overtime past 0600 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** EGYPT [and non]. 9860, Feb 14 at 0218, R. Cairo is axually modulating sufficiently to copy during news in English! and only lightly distorted. Yet I`m just making a quick check and don`t have time to keep listening, missing the chance of a lifetime. Then: 9965+, Feb 14 at 0218, R. Cairo Arabic resembles the situation on 9860, but with added whine. 9905, Feb 14 at 0220, R. Cairo`s other Arabic is minus any modulation, but that means less QRM for the OTH radar pulses (Cyprus?) spanning 9898-9923 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** FRANCE [non]. 9395, UT Sat Feb 14 at 0622, RFI via WRN via Global 24 via WRMI, I happen to catch `The Sound Kitchen` again with Susan Owensby, with winners of a previous quiz, in Nigeria, Denmark, Gambia, something about naming the American hostage recently released by Cuba. Next quiz is to name the top two presidential contenders in Nigeria and their parties. Good luck! Deadline for entries is 23 March, and results to be announced 28 March. It seems these quizzes are weekly, but with 5+ week deadlines ahead. She reminds us times for this segment are Saturdays at 0452, 0622 and 0752 (UT), even tho it was already underway when I tuned in at 0622. Closes with a requested Valentine tune, partly talked over, `Annie`s Song` by John Denver. VG signal now from G24 as habitual this late, unlike earlier (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** GUYANA. 3290-, Feb 14 at 0617, Voice of Guyana, talk in English in BBCWS relay, seems same as on 9460 Ascension, but a few words out of synch. Very poor signal as we wonder if still running 1 kW. Presumably Jamie is waiting for replacement parts to arrive, and he may have gone home to NY in the meantime (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** KUWAIT. In my remark about the only 18-19 MHz band activity, R. Azadi at 0430-1130, WTFK? 19010 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MEXICO. Correxion: call of this station on 900 is XEDT, not XEDP as I erred in original report (XEDP is the 710 in same city). Tnx to Bruce Conti for catching this. I also must have mis-spoken it on WOR. Corrected here: 900, Feb 9 at 1313 UT, Spanish music, then DJ greets `la comunidad de Mojita`` [? no such place found in Tejas or
[HCDX] Glenn Hauser logs February 10-11, 2015
** BANGLADESH. 15505, Feb 10 at 1359:05, BB IS starts on carrier already running, and mistimesignal ends at 1359:32, then opening Urdu (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BRAZIL. 11745 11815, Feb 11 at 0119, crackling spurs from 11780.1v RNA/RNB are audible but very poor level; probably building up later at night (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CHINA [and non]. 17585, Feb 10 at 1449, CNR1 jammer, fair with flutter, and its target is also audible under, i.e. VOA Tibetan via Lampertheim, GERMANY during this hour only, per Aoki. 15745, Feb 10 at 1451, CNR1 jammer, fair with flutter, // 17585 but no target audible, which is also VOA Tibetan, but via Thailand. No jammers heard in the 16s, 14s, 13s (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CUBA. 6000, UT Tue Feb 10 at 0640, RHC English is undermodulated here; 6100 modulation is breaking up, but 6165, 6060 and 5040 are overkill OK, as ``Ed Newman`` introduces `Focus on Africa` which he says in on alternate Mondays, and plugs the frequency for Africa (but not now), 11880 (Glenn Hauser,, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** EGYPT. 9965+, Feb 11 at 0108, R. Cairo, undermodulated Arabic with whine, slightly on hi side 9860.0, Feb 11 at 0109, R. Cairo, dead air, or JBM with hum 12035, Feb 11 at 0117, R. Cairo, VG signal, mod suppressed/distorted 12080, Feb 11 at 0118, R. Cairo, good but dead air; all during Spanish (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** FRANCE [and non?]. 7390, Feb 10 at 0642, RFI French is underneath a stronger open carrier, making a SAH, as I have frequently but not always noted during this hour --- another station or just Issoudun mistakenly running another transmitter? Still awaiting an explanation for this (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** NORTH AMERICA. 6950-USB, Feb 11 at 0103, pirate music, good signal playing ``When I Was Young``, 0106 pause and another song. Seems to have some co-channel USB 2-way QRM, peskies? Can`t tell if in Spanish or English, but pirate pumps plenty power to overcome any local harmonic QRM from KCRC Enid, 5 x 1390 which can usually be heard when nothing else is on 6950. May have missed a quick ID at 0108 as I was bandscanning on other receiver, but 0116 caught ``X-L-R-8``. Off at next check 0141 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** PERU [and non]. 5980, Feb 11 at 0059, two JBA carriers a few Hz apart beating against each other, i.e. BBC via UAE, and R. Chaski, until the latter goes off at 0101:58*. The remainder is wobbling a bit with Doppler. Last check 4 nights ago on Feb 7 had the Chaski offgo at 0101:36, i.e. 22 seconds earlier, which is about right averaging 5.5 seconds later per (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SOMALILAND. 7120, Feb 11 at 0327, R. Hargeisa reactivated!! Open carrier, fair signal, 0330 music, 0331 Qur`an, 0333 announcement and talk in presumed Somali. CW and SSB QRM, plus intermittent carrier jamming presumably by ham. Good to hear it again. I periodically have checked for Hargeisa around sign-on but not reported negative results. Kouji Hashimoto in Japan used to log its slightly variable closing time around 1900 every night, and says he last heard it Nov 10 and will resume monitoring in the spring. Ron Howard first reported 7120 back this morning, Feb 10 at 1536-1550 by long path to California; Wolfgang Büschel reports the IARU intruder-watchers in Europe have jumped right on it. Pity during its hiatus, R. Hargeisa did not redesign itself not to intrude, on some other frequency. Now to see if I can detect a carrier by LP before its 1400* break (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SRI LANKA. 11905, Feb 11 at 0114, on VG carrier, music prélude starts at 0114:47.5, mistimeisgnal ends at 0115:18.5, right on habitual schedule, sign-on mentions Sri Lanka Broadcasting Corporation in unEnglish (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SUDAN [non]. 15550, Feb 10 at 1514, R. Tamazuj via VATICAN is back on its original frequency, after shifting to 1 starting January 25, why? Now it`s colliding with WJHR-USB again, // 15400 SMG in the clear, and both remain quite strong for something so far off-target, as does the other SMG transmitter on 15100 at same time with R. Veritas Asia relay in Filipino to the ME. 15550 presumably re-applies also to R. Dabanga from 1529, unchecked yet, but which frequency will the Sudanese tone jammer be on now? And what about the morning broadcasts of Tamazuj Dabanga, at 0400-0557 which also shifted from 15550 to 1, in that case via Madagascar? At 0507 check Feb 11, I have a JBA carrier on 15550, not 1 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. WORLD OF RADIO 1759 monitoring: confirmed UT Wed Feb 11 at 0401 on Global 24 via WRMI 9395 webcast. Next: Wed 0730 1530 on Hamburger Lokalradio 7265-CUSB Wed 1415 on WRMI 9955 Wed 2200 on WBCQ 7490v Wed 2201 on Global 24 via WRMI 9395 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 9395, UT Wed Feb 11
[HCDX] Glenn Hauser logs February 11-12, 2015
** BANGLADESH. 15505, Feb 12 at 1355, Bangladesh Betar carrier is already on, very poor; 1359 barely audible IS, and mistimesignal ending at 1359:33.5 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BRAZIL. 11747 11814 approx., Feb 12 at 0628, crackling spurs are audible from 11780.1v, RNA/RNB (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CHINA. CNR1 jammers, morning of Feb 11, total of 14 heard: 15940, Feb 11 at 1435, CNR1 jammer, very poor with flutter 15745, Feb 11 at 1436, CNR1 jammer, fair with flutter 16920, Feb 11 at 1439, CNR1 jammer, poor with flutter, stronger than 15940 and not synchronized 14870, Feb 11 at 1440, CNR1 jammer, good with flutter // 15940 14980, Feb 11 at 1441, CNR1 jammer, fair with flutter // 14870 12045, Feb 11 at 1442, CNR1 jammer, good with flutter, not synch with others; and none in the 13s 11500, Feb 11 at 1444, CNR1 jammer, poor, not synchronized with 14870 10870, Feb 11 at 1445, CNR1 jammer, good with flutter, ditto 9680, Feb 11 at 1447, CNR1 jammer, not synch with 10870 9530, Feb 11 at 1448, CNR1 jammer, not synch with 10870, and *Firedragon* music also mixed in with VOA Chinese 9200, Feb 11 at 1449, CNR1 jammer, poor, not synch 10870 7445, Feb 11 at 1450, CNR1 jammer, good with CCI, not synch 10870 7385, Feb 11 at 1450, CNR1 jammer, good with flutter, ditto 6145, Feb 11 at 1451, CNR1 jammer, fair, ditto; so 10870 the odd one CNR1 jamming Feb 12 morning: 15745, Feb 12 at 1440, CNR1 jammer, good with heavy flutter; none higher 12045, Feb 12 at 1445, usual CNR1 jammer mixed with target here; none in the 14s, 13s, low 11s or 10s 12980, Feb 12 at 1446, CNR1 jammer, good with flutter (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CHINA. 5915, Feb 11 at 1316 poor signal with a song. Nice if it were Myanmar, but fat chance of that with CRI Russian via Hohhot also here this hour, even tho aimed 345 degrees, with 100 kW. 5925, Feb 11 at 1318, poor signal in Chinese with hum, not // 6125 CNR1. Aoki shows 5925 is CNR5 at 1000-1705 in Chinese, 100 kW, 163 degrees from Beijing 491 site. WRTH identifies fifth program as Zhonghua News Radio or Voice of Zhonghua (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CUBA [and non]. 13800-13840, Feb 12 at 1443, pulse jamming spike spurs out to this range from 13820 where wall-of-noise fails to block R. Martí which is well atop it, promoting also via Radio Caracol, WSUA 1260, daily at 10-pm to 12 [= 03-05 UT; WSUA`s 20 kW night pattern is broad, centered ESE from Miami, so maybe gets better into eastern Cuba; we`d not be surprised if they happen to run 50 kW day power. WRTH lists only one Cuban on 1260, 2.5 kW R. Progreso relay in Granma] (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CUBA. 9710, Feb 11 at 0640, good and steady signal with open carrier/dead air; what else but RHC, not turned off at 0600? 15230, which alone is scheduled to run until 0700, has been very poorly audible in Spanish (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** KOREA SOUTH. 15575, Feb 12 at 1345, KBS World Radio is struggling to get its 1300 English broadcast into North America, now a fair-good signal, but with *very* heavy flutter, news about North Korea. The signal weakens during the following hour in Korean (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** KUWAIT [and non]. 21540, Feb 11 at 1433 and later, no signal from R. Kuwait. Must be off, as Sa`udi 21505 is still audible. 21540, Feb 12 at 1402, R. Kuwait is back on today with good signal, mixture of music and Arabic talk but with frequent IADs [intermittent audio dropouts], very annoying; 21505 BSKSA is also audible, and by 1407 I notice that it`s // 21540! But running about 4 seconds behind Kuwait. No IADs on the Sa`udi version. These two running // has happened before, perhaps something to do with the GCC. Also // 17705 BSKSA. But by 1438 they`ve split again, 21540 with Qur`an, 21505 with something secular. Speaking of Kuwait, currently there is zero activity on the 18-19 MHz band, but in A-15, R. Free Asia in Tibetan plans to resume at 11-14 UT, switching frequencies every hour and every day of the week, ranging from 18930 to 19010; so the ChiCom jammers will be back too, only needing to refer to HFCC to keep up with RFA jumps, so why bother? Because they can. Never mind that this forces any listeners to try to keep up with them too, lacking handy HFCC schedules. Sound of Hope could also appear on 18970 or so, for jammer-pouncing (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MEXICO. 650, Feb 12 at 1300 UT, noticiero `Altavoz` opening, mentions Grupo Chávez, Sinaloa, so XETNT Los Mochis, a regular here on sunrise skip; dominant signal now. Our Enid sunrise today: 1323 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MEXICO. 660, Feb 12 at 1302, DJ mentions ``La Lupe 98.9`` at least thrice, with phone numbers, presumably for requests, i.e. XEACB, Ciudad Delicias, Chihuahua, another AM demoted to a mere FM simulcast (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MEXICO. 680, Feb 12 at
[HCDX] Glenn Hauser logs February 14-15, 2015
** BANGLADESH. 15505, Feb 15 at 1359 BB IS to mistimesignal ending at 1359:40.5, very poor signal (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BRAZIL. 11747 11813, Feb 15 at 0653, crackling spurs from 11780.1v RNB/RNA provide only very poor signals, but they`re there and shouldn`t be at all (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CHINA. CNR1 jammers late UT Feb 14: 13920, Feb 14 at 2329, CNR1 jammer, fair with heavy flutter 13890, Feb 14 at 2329, CNR1 jammer, fair with heavy flutter And morning of Feb 15: 11720, Feb 15 at 1510, CNR1 jammer with giveaway sounder, fair with flutter, // 9680 at 1516. 11720 is vs RFA Tibetan via Kuwait (and followed at 16-17 by VOA Tibetan via Thailand also *jammed per Aoki) 11865, Feb 15 at 1512, CNR1 jammer with sounder, mixed with its victim which is RFA Tibetan via UAE; // 9680 9280, Feb 15 at 1518, CNR1 jammer, very good with flutter but not synchronized with 9680; vs 100-watt RFA relay via Sound of Hope 9440, Feb 15 at 1519, CNR1 jammer, good // 9680, CCI. Vs RFA Chinese via Saipan. No exhaustive OOBandscan undertaken now (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** FRANCE [and non?]. 7390, Feb 15 at 0655, RFI in French with QRM from another carrier making a very fast almost rippling subaudible heterodyne. 0700 check, both are off. Next task is to monitor continuously whether they both go off at the same time or not (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** GREECE. 9935, Feb 14 at 2337, ERTOpen good with music and not motorboating at the moment, // stronger 9420. Both not on every night. 9420, Feb 15 at 0653, good with Greek music, 9935 not on now. Reports are that new government will be reviving ERA (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** GUYANA. 3290, Feb 15 at 0659, BBCWS IDs, timesignal one second slow past 0700, billboard `Weekend` show to follow the news. Does Voice of Guyana not insert any local top-of-hour IDs during the BBC overnight relay? Usual poor signal but enough to copy the above; I had just found BBCWS itself missing from 9460 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** INDIA. 13600-13605-13610, Feb 14 at 2331, heavy noise, very rough unlike the usual DRM sound, but with sharp edges. HFCC shows AIR in English at 2230-0045 from Bengaluru as NOT DRM, but Aoki says it is digital. But no Aoki aste*isk as for the 10-11 AIR GOS on 13605 which is analog and is jammed. Maybe we are getting DRM and ChiCom noise jamming both now, the latter also perhaps a variant of DRM (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** NEW ZEALAND. 11725, Feb 15 at 0652, RNZI is audible with newsy report, only fair signal but quite an improvement over 24 hours earlier (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** UKRAINE [non]. 11580, Feb 14 at 2335, RUI via WRMI, outroducing news with ID as ``Radio Ukraine International``, unlike the sign-on which says ``Ukrainian Radio`; and next the announcer introducing the ``Saturday program`` shortens it to just ``Radio Ukraine``, so maybe all these variations are really insignificant. (Just so they don`t ever have to call it ``Radio New Russia``.) Good signal but there is a bit of overmodulation/distortion not noticed before (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U K [non]. 9460, Feb 14 at 0654, no signal from BBCWS English relay via ASCENSION, which is normally reliable during this hour. Poor signal still on 9915 as always with ute hash ACI on the lo side. In an HFCC schedule last modified 9 Dec, 9460 is supposed to be on from 06 to 07, and 9915 from 06 to 08 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 9395, Sunday Feb 15 at 1356, Global 24 announcement rather than R. Cairo, which I assume is still missing from this relay, altho still on the schedule grid whose URL I miniaturized to http://www.tinyurl.com/G24sked as 1300-1430 Sundays (and 1100-1220 Mondays). The sked is still dated December 2014, tho I think some changes have been made since then but still not fully updated to mesh with reality (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 5890, Feb 14 at 2325, surprised to find VG signal here on a WWCR frequency, with rock/blues music. Feb 1 edition of online WWCR sked shows #4 is supposed to be OFF THE AIR on Saturdays from 2300 until 0500 UT Sundays --- and when it is on then, during the M-F 23-03 UT Tue-Sat span, it`s on 7520, not 5890. But further listening reveals this show is `Last Radio Playing` with Alan/Alun/Alynn/Allan/Allen Gray/Grey/Graigh, via WWCR. At 2333 introduces Clarence Carter with ``That Road of Love``. Local references to Nashville area, so an in-house produxion? A secret transmission of WWCR: will it be on every week? Title is not in the alfabetical listing of programs, but searching the entire sked, it`s spelt Allan Gray, with non-secret times: Sat 07-08 on 4840 and 3215; Sat 20-21 on 12160, Mon 21-22 on 9350; UT Wed 00-01 on 5070 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 1120, Sat Feb 14 at 2347 UT, anti-radical-Islam talk show,
[HCDX] Glenn Hauser logs February 4-5, 2015
** AUSTRALIA. 15240, Feb 5 at 0647, fair signal from RA, but this semihour M-F is in Tok Pisin; we can hope this become more reliable as we get into Equinox, on the air from 21 to 09 UT on 30 degree antenna toward Alaska. 12085, 12065 and 9580 are all audible Feb 5 at 1516, with 12065 weakest as befits the 355 degree azimuth, and atop some CCI or flutter. Ivo Ivanov points out that BBC Urdu via Singapore is already on 12065 at 1500-1600. It must be awful in Asia. This kind of collision is unforgivable --- obviously some bureaucrat at ABC who knows nothing about SW picked some existing frequencies and ordered them expanded to 12 hours a day each, no matter who else may already be using them. I suppose they disposed of Bernd Friedewald`s outsourced frequency management some time ago. At 1803 check Feb 6, 12085 12065 are JBA carriers, and 9580, if any, is at imagination level (Glenn Hauser, WORLD OF RADIO 1759, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BANGLADESH. 15505, Feb 5 at 1358, Bangladesh Betar IS, very poor with flutter, and 5+1 mistimesignal ends at 1359:31, 29 seconds fast! Opening Urdu service with theme (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BRAZIL. 11710, Feb 4 at 0606, crackling spur from RNA/RNB 11780.1v is audible again on second order along with first-order 11815 11745 spurs really bad. 11745 11815, Feb 5 at 0645, spurs are audible here despite hi local noise level (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CHINA. 9230, Feb 5 at 1349, CNR1 jammer fair, and 9200 very poor. No time for full band search up to 19 MHz (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** GUYANA. 3290-, Feb 4 at 0615, Voice of Guiana is better, now that Jamie has upped the power from 400 to 1000 watts, and it is // 9460 BBCWS but about half a second ahead of Ascension. No QRM now from the ute on the lo side, or anything, but still tough copy. Earlier that evening we heard from Jamie Labadia: ``Hi Glenn, Thank you and your members very much. I appreciate you pulling us out through all the noise. I will work on some form of QSL method for everyone. I now have the transmitter running at 1,000 watts. It's the best I can do with what parts were on hand. Here are some pictures for you. The one accompanying this E-mail is the Broadband Dipole for the shortwave. (Kind of hard to see, due to the background light.) This is a picture of all three transmitters: Transmitter Left - 20 Kilowatt Medium-wave on 560 K.C. Transmitter Center- 5 Kilowatt Medium-wave on 560 K.C. (Back-up) Transmitter Right- 10 Kilowatt Shortwave on 3.290 MHz. Currently only at 1 kW. That is me behind the transmitter, working on one of the amplifiers. The second picture is the single amplifier you guys did/barely/or didn't hear the past few nights. Now there are two. (Woh!!) Thanks`` Pictures were attached to my DXLD yg posts about this (gh) My next check at 0640 Feb 5: hi local noise level here prevented anything but detecting the 3290- carrier (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1759, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** HUNGARY. Correxion: 24940-USB not 25940 originally typoed; fixed: 24940-USB, Jan 31 at 1502, HA3NU making quick contacts with US stations; is there a contest? QRZ.com shows: HA3NU LASZLO WEISZ ZRINYI U. 99. SZEKSZARD H-7100 Hungary And refers to his own homepage: http://radioamator.honlapepites.hu/?p=365 headed by an impressive photo of the town viewed thru his quad antenna, altho all antennas were destroyed in a storm. Turn radio back on at 1645, and HA3NU is still going, cleaning up on US contacts (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** KOREA SOUTH. 15575, Feb 5 at 1459, poor signal with flutter during KBSWR theme music and off, i.e. conclusion of Korean hour to North America, doggedly stuck here on too high a frequency for winter night path, but should gradually improve. See also UNIDENTIFIED 15573 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MEXICO. NTSC channel A2, Feb 5 at 0230 UT, some winter sporadic E persists attaining 60 MHz, antenna south, Spanish and CCI; 0233 Azteca 7 net bug visible in upper right, likely the usual XHTAU in Tampico; 0240 somestation with a PRD political ad; some signals last past 0300 UT. Momentarily some video on 4 appeared, 67.25 MHz. Also on ch A2 analog had an unID meteor scatter burst at 1639 UT February 4 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** NAVASSA [and non]. 21205-USB, Feb 5 at 1504, K1N DX-pedition continues here with occasional carrier jammers, and clueless KV4KVK calling him on same frequency (or something similar; nothing in ARRL or QRZ.com for that call or permutations with B instead of V). VA2BYO courteously inquires twice with Québecois accent ``is this frequency in use?`` and stops after someone tells him it is. You bet it is! At 1506 and again at 1507, NC8N also tries to reach K1N on simplex, between which I at least hear a definite kilo-one-november ID. The pileups continue on some higher frequencies (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
[HCDX] Glenn Hauser logs January 3-4, 2015
** AUSTRALIA. 13630, Jan 3 at 2127, English discussion, poor but // fair 17840, so R. Australia as scheduled 21-23 on 65 degrees from Shepparton. BTW, HFCC shows CRI English via Mali also here at 2100-2130 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BOLIVIA. 4717-, Jan 4 at 0130, very poor with music, no doubt R. Yura, as Bob Wilkner reported reactivated lately at least sporadically (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BRAZIL. 11747 11813, Jan 3 at 0708, spurs from 11780.1 RNA/RNB are detectable, but not 23 hours later (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CUBA [non]. 4765, Jan 4 at 0131, still no R. Progreso, nor at 0149 recheck; canceled for 2015y? However, there is a JBA carrier, and running-water ute QRM. I assume it`s TAJIKISTAN, which EiBi has on a 24-hour schedule, altho Aoki shows 4765 off at 20-03; WRTH 2015 shows on at 23-19 UT, and HFCC misses it completely. EiBi also has two Brazilians on the air at this hour; WRTH only one as irregular (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CUBA. 5025, Jan 4 at 0149, not only is R. Progreso AWOL from 4765, but no Rebelde here either. At 0142, however, a R. Rebelde is dominating 1620 kHz. 0619 recheck, 5025 is back on (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CUBA. 15230, Jan 4 at 1427, RHC is poor, undermodulation breaking up, much inferior to 15370. 11860, Sun Jan 4 at 1435, RHC `En Contacto` is replaying its annual tribute to the 159 ``most active`` listeners, i.e. ones they have heard from, grouped country by country in countdown from the least to the most, nothing but reading off name after name. As usual there are only 5 from the Estados Unidos, all unrecognized Hispanic names. Topping the list is: CUBA, as RHC is the one SW station dentro-Cubanos know they can listen to without getting into trouble (and adding FM in Habana no doubt helps). Instrumental background music starts as ``Jingle Bells``, by Brasil switches to something more apropos, and concludes with ``Deck the Halls`` and ``Merry Little Xmas`` --- raulforbid they should play any sacred Xmas music (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** EGYPT. 9965.0, Jan 4 at 0115, R. Cairo is not off-frequency for a change, fair with flutter, Arabic music 9860.0, Jan 4 at 0116, R. Cairo is not off-frequency here either, less flutter than 9965, but open carrier/dead air in ``Spanish``. 9860 is 325 degrees from Abis, 9965 is 331 from same, should be no difference. 12080, Jan 4 at 0129, R. Cairo Spanish, suppressed distorted modulation, but better than nothing; fair with flutter (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ETHIOPIA [non]. 17630, Sat Jan 3 at 1600, HOA music and announcement in Somali, fair with some noise, jamming/DRM? 1602 sounds like Qur`an. HFCC B-14 shows this merely as some MBR transmission from FRANCE. Aoki specifies it as Radio Xoriyo Ogaden, Tue Sat 1600-1630, 500 kW, 130 degrees from Issoudun. Despite the language, it`s not for Somalia, as filed in WRTH 2015 under ETHIOPIA target broadcasts. Originates in Toronto, Canada from the Ogaden National Liberation Front. The Ogaden makes up 29% of the area of Ethiopia (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** GREECE. 15650, Jan 3 at 1603, open carrier/dead air, fair with flutter. Surely ERTOpen as often defaults with them. Yet in HFCC where no Avlis registrations appear any more, the only 15650 entry is a NEW one for 24 hours, 7 days a week, covering ALL CIRAF zones 1 thru 85, from: SMG = Vatican, 100 kW ND. That pretty well covers it (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** INDIA. 9595, Jan 3 at 1611, tone test, 1613 AIR IS, poor; 1615 unreadable YL announcement. HFCC shows it`s the Russian service registered early from 1600 to 1715, 500 kW, 325 degrees from Bengaluru (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** NETHERLANDS [non]. 7375, UT Sun Jan 4 at 0110, at first The Mighty KBC via GERMANY seems missing, then very poor signal can be pulled with music. 0136 a bit better at poor-fair, but still a strain to listen. Bad propagation from Europe tonight? Yet Romania is good on 7325, 7340 at 0112. There is very little difference among Nauen, Galbeni and Tiganeshti in great circle path to Enid, all peaking tangent approx. 62 degrees north between Iceland and Greenland (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** NIGERIA [and non]. 11770-, Jan 3 at 2125, slightly on the lo side, African language poor-fair with hum, squeezing 11775 Anguilla along with 11780 Brasil from its other side. I could not recognize this as Arabic but so listed by Aoki at 21-22, and think it must be Hausa as in WRTH 2015 --- but VON language scheduling is very erratic (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** NORTH AMERICA. 6950-USB, Jan 4 at 0134, fair signal with distorted music; 0135-0137 SSTV tones; 0137-0140 music, 0140-0141 pause. Best sound on the PL-880 when tuned to 6949.95 or so. More music and pauses. Still going past 0202. If there were any voice announcements, they were
Re: [HCDX] [dxld] Laser Hot Hits on 15700,3 kHz
Ivo, Please give the times in your original notices. 3 audios at 1453, 1540, 1555. And your receiver displays 15705.3, 15705.4, not 15700++ 73, Glenn Hauser On Sun, 1/4/15, Ivo Observer ivo.obser...@gmail.com [dxld] d...@yahoogroups.com wrote: Subject: [dxld] Laser Hot Hits on 15700,3 kHz Date: Sunday, January 4, 2015, 5:52 PM Euro Pirate Laser Hot Hits on new 15700,3 kHz on Jan.4 http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2015/01/euro-pirate-laser-hot-hits-on-new.html -- 73!Ivo Ivanov QTH: Sofia, BulgariaEquipment: Sony ICF-2001D 30 m. long wireWeb: http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/ _ Hard-Core-DX mailing list Hard-Core-DX@hard-core-dx.com 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
[HCDX] DX Listening Digest 14-53; World of Radio 1754
DX Listening Digest 14-53 has now been posted at http://www.w4uvh.net/dxld1453.txt and also soon, sometimes delayed at http://www.w4uvh.net/dxlatest.txt CONTENTS: WOR 1754 / ALBANIA / ANGUILLA +non / ANTARCTICA / ARGENTINA / AUSTRALIA Symban / AUSTRALIA RA / AUSTRIA / AZERBAIJAN / BANGLADESH / BELARUS / BOLIVIA / BRAZIL / CANADA CBQM / CANADA CFVP / CANADA CKZU/CKZN / CANADA CFRX / CANADA non BVB / CHINA +non / COLOMBIA / CONGO DR / CUBA / CYPRUS non / DOMINICAN REPUBLIC / ECUADOR +non / EGYPT +non / EUROPE Pirates / FRANCE +non / GEORGIA +non / GERMANY / GOA / GREECE / HAITI / INDIA +non / INDONESIA non / INTERNATIONAL WATERS / IRAN +non / IRELAND / JAPAN +non / KIRIBATI / KOREA NORTH +non / KUWAIT / LIBERIA / LITHUANIA / MALAYSIA / MEXICO / MONGOLIA non / MOROCCO / MYANMAR / NAVASSA ham / NETHERLANDS non / NEWFOUNDLAND LABRADOR / NIGERIA / NORTH AMERICA Pirates / OKLAHOMA KZLS / OKLAHOMA KYHN / OKLAHOMA Xmas light show 97.7 / OKLAHOMA KLBG / OKLAHOMA KVBN / OKLAHOMA KEIF / OKLAHOMA KSBI/KWTV / OMAN / PAPUA NEW GUINEA / PERU / POLAND / RUSSIA / SARAWAK non / SAUDI ARABIA +non / SEYCHELLES non / SOLOMON ISLANDS / OSOMALIA non / SPAIN /; SUDAN +non / SWEDEN / TAIWAN /TIBET non / TINIAN / UK non BBCWS / USA MARS / USA WQGY434/KLDE / USA KB99696 / USA non RL / USA BBG / USA +non VOA/KBC / USA +non WOR/WRMI/Global24/KVOH/WBCQ/HLR / USA WRMI/Global 24 / USA +non WBCQ / USA KVOH / USA WWRB / USA WWCR / USA WEWN / USA WTWW / USA WBAP / USA KVOZ / USA KFXR / USA KEVA+ / USA KDIS+ / USA +non KANI/WERM/KMVL/XERDO / USA ABC / USA KKGQ / USA W244BE/W202CB/W207BU/W275AZ+ / VATICAN +non / VENEZUELA / VIETNAM / VIRGIN ISLANDS BRITISH / YEMEN / ZANZIBAR / UNIDENTIFIED 960 / UNIDENTIFIED 9700 /UNIDENTIFIED 11735 / UNIDENTIFIED 15370 / UNIDENTIFIED 15649 / TESTIMONIALS / PUBLICATIONS / CONVENTIONS CONFERENCES / DIGITAL BROADCASTING / RADIO EQUIPMENT FORUM / PROPAGATION For restrixions and searchable 2014 contents archive see http://www.worldofradio.com/dxldmid.html [also linx to previous years] NOTE: If you are a regular reader of DXLD, and a source of DX news but have not been sending it directly to us, please consider yourself obligated to do so. Thanks, Glenn WORLD OF RADIO 1754 CONTENTS: *DX and station news about: Albania, Argentina, Australia, Azerbaijan, Bolivia, China, Cyprus non, Europe, France, Germany, Greece, Indonesia, Iran non, Ireland, Kiribati, Kuwait, Madagascar, México, Myanmar, Oman, Perú, Russia, Solomon Islands, Sudan and non, USA, Vatican, intruders, conventions conferences SHORTWAVE AIRINGS OF WORLD OF RADIO 1754, January 1-7, 2015 Thu 0430 WRMI 9955 [confirmed] Thu 1330 WRMI 9955 [confirmed] Thu 2201 WRMI 9395 via Global 24 [confirmed] Fri 0001 WRMI 9395 via Global 24 [confirmed] Fri 2130 WRMI 7570 15770 [confirmed] Sat 0730 HLR 7265-CUSB Hamburger Lokalradio Sat 1000 WRMI 5850 Sat 1530 HLR 7265-CUSB Hamburger Lokalradio Sun 0200 WH2XDE-1 1750 Victor NY Sun 0231 KVOH 9975 [confirmed] Sun 2300 WRMI 11580 [confirmed] Mon 0400v WBCQ 5110v-CUSB Area 51 Mon 2201 WRMI 9395 via Global 24 Tue 1200 WRMI 9955 Wed 0401 WRMI 9395 via Global 24 Wed 0730 HLR 7265-CUSB Hamburger Lokalradio Wed 1415 WRMI 9955 Wed 1530 HLR 7265-CUSB Hamburger Lokalradio Wed 2200 WBCQ 7490v Wed 2201 WRMI 9395 via Global 24 Thu 0430 WRMI 9955 [or 1755 if ready in time] Latest edition of this schedule version, including AM, FM, satellite and webcasts with hotlinks to station sites and audio, is at: http://www.worldofradio.com/radioskd.html or http://schedule.worldofradio.org or http://sked.worldofradio.org For updates see our Anomaly Alert page: http://www.worldofradio.com/anomaly.html WORLD OF RADIO PODCASTS HAVE RESUMED starting with #1730: Tnx to Dr Harald Gabler and the Rhein-Main Radio Club. http://www.rmrc.de/index.php?option=com_podcastview=feedformat=rawItemid=156lang=de or directly via: http://bit.ly/1xD5yyn Also via [but still not back in service]: http://tunein.com/radio/World-of-Radio-p198/ AND NEW ALTERNATIVE, tnx Stephen Cooper, because RMRC was down: http://shortwave.am/wor.xml OUR ONDEMAND AUDIO: http://www.worldofradio.com/audiomid.html or http://wor.worldofradio.org DAY-BY-DAY ARCHIVE OF GLENN HAUSER`S LOG REPORTS: Unedited, uncondensed, unchanged from original version, many of them too complex, minutely researched, multi-frequency, opinionated, inconsequential, off-topic, or lengthy for some log editors to manage; and also ahead of their availability in these weekly issues: http://www.hard-core-dx.com/index.php?topic=Hauser Best DX wishes, Glenn Hauser _ Hard-Core-DX mailing list Hard-Core-DX@hard-core-dx.com 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
[HCDX] Glenn Hauser logs January 5-6-7-8, 2015
** BRAZIL. 11814 11746, Jan 7 at 0618, crackling spurs from 11780.1v, RNA/RNB are audible; but not 24 hours later (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CUBA. 15370, Jan 6 at 1430, RHC VG signal but modulation is breaking up during IS, and also during news sounder. S meter dips but the carrier does not cut off completely. Wiggle that patchcord? Short in the antenna array? 17730 continues to be AWOL at 1505 check Jan 6, despite per own sked being allegedly on air until 1600 toward Rio de Janeiro (BTW, if you`re going to pronounce Janeiro as if it were a Spanish word, you might as well change it to Enero! But you never hear that altho the other megacity is casually rendered into Spanish as San Pablo.) (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** EGYPT. 9905, Jan 7 at 0615, R. Cairo is open carrier/dead air, fair with flutter (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** FRANCE. 7390, Jan 8 at 0639, RFI in French is below a stronger open carrier, making fast SAH. I wish some Europeans or at least Eastern Hemispherians would check this out, as I have had two carriers on here before, my hypothesis being that Issoudun is messing up, leaving a second transmitter on the frequency, QRMing itself. Or Albania, not supposed to be on 7390 until 0800? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) See also FRANCE [non]! ** FRANCE [non]. (9395), Jan 8 at 0600 I make a point of monitoring R. France International at the first English opportunity on SW following the terrorist attack on Charlie Hebdo which was about 18 hours earlier --- but RFI has no commitment to 24-hour service in French, much less English. Tnx anyway to Global 24 for relaying this hour, but 9395 is inaudible tonight beyond a JBA carrier with K-index of 4, so back to its webcast. Axually I tuned in a few minutes before 0600 and may have been RFI already instead of Vatican, but that station also about Topic-A did not get a chance to ID before the G24 TOH break. This was indeed the main story during the first 20 minutes or RFI before straying into stupid ballgames and stuff about Africa, but I`m afraid I didn`t learn anything new, after a full day of wall-to-wall coverage on US cable TV news networks (not that I watched all of that, but every time I checked, NOTHING ELSE MATTERED, anywhere in the world.) [Also, I am appalled by the gross ignorance of basic French language some US reporters and anchors, even sporting PhD`s, revealed when suddenly called upon to pronounce words like: François, as in Hollande, turning him into a YL: ``Françoise`` heard more than once Reims: ``Reems``?? Hebdo: ``Hedbo``, or ``Hebdoo``] (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** KOREA NORTH [non]. 5910, Jan 8 at 1336 I turn on the FRG-7 which had been getting HJDH until 0645, and here`s Shiokaze, but this Thursday it`s not in English, but Chinese, with typical piano riffs. Hold on, let`s not assume there has been a permanent schedule change or English eliminated, as it may be just another anomaly. Also it`s about time for an abrupt change to an alternate frequency (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** KURDISTAN [non]. 9400, Jan 7 at 1427, Denge Kurdistan in open carrier/dead air, yet a stronger signal now than 9395 Global 24 with NHK relay; by 1445 recheck, DK is back to ululating, still stronger than WRMI (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** RWANDA. 15275 17800, Jan 8 at 1848, VG signals in Hausa from DW relay sked 18-19 UT, 310 and 295 degrees respectively, with 17800 stronger, just as good if not better (and better modulated) than the only two other signals on 16m, 17775 KVOH and 17790 WRMI. Furthermore, 15275 is essentially the only non-North American audible on 19m, except for a poor 15580, VOA Botswana at 350 degrees. This demonstrates what great use could be made of the Kigali relay by any SW broadcaster who cared enough to reach North America any more (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SOUTH CAROLINA [non]. 5850, Jan 6 at 0715, Brother Scare is still here via WRMI, after TruNews finishes at 0700. And now 5850 is good, much better than via // 5890 WWCR. WRMI has the skip zone advantage, at this later hour with half-as-far WWCR overskipping, if propagating anywhere. Latest WRMI sked shows BS on *only* 5 frequencies in the 07-10 UT period, the others being 7570, 9955, 11580, 15770 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. WORLD OF RADIO 1754 monitoring: confirmed on webcast of WRN to North America at additional new time of 0230 UT Monday January 5; a direct link is updated on our http://www.worldofradio.com/radiosked http://shoutcast.wrn.org:8000/listen.pls Also applicable to Saturday 1830 Confirmed Tuesday Jan 6 after 1200 on WRMI 9955, a time I am rarely awake to do so, but it` JBA (and so is G24 on 9395) --- yet RHC is VG on 9850, why? Habana is only slightly further than Okeechobee and several degrees further south in azimuth. Confirmed UT Wednesday Jan 7 after 0401 on
[HCDX] Glenn Hauser logs March 22, 2015
** CHINA. 13920, March 22 at 1349, CNR1 jammer, fair with flutter 14920, March 22 at 1351, CNR1 jammer, fair with heavy flutter 15265, March 22 at 1352, CNR1 jammer, poor with flutter, not synch, but same Sunday-evening cultural show featuring traditional a cappella singing and Chinese announcements. None in the 17s, 16s, 12s, but also on usual 11655 11640 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MEXICO. 1170, March 22 at 1255 UT, YL gospel huxter speaks good Spanish, but still with an American accent, goes thru hourtop, seems wrapping up at 1302 UT with hymn ``Nada es imposible``, address as PO Box 2693 in McAllen TX. Until this thought it might be KJJD in Colorado, but RGV station XERT Reynosa is still propagating (and others on 840, 890). With KFAQ Tulsa almost nulled, SAH of 116/minute = almost 2 Hz. Today`s Enid sunrise: 1232; Reynosa: 1235 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SOLOMON ISLANDS. 5020, March 22 at 1200, JBA carrier in Cuba splash, no doubt SIBC since it autocuts off at 1200:23.5* (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. Global 24 has now posted their schedule via WRMI for March 22 into UT Monday March 23 (no 9525 Bulgaria broadcast today): March 22, 2015 Sunday 2200 UTC on 11825 kHz – Jazz from the Left Sunday 2300 UTC on 11825 kHz – Jazz from the Left Sunday 2300 UTC on 5850 kHz – World News Explorations March 23, 2015 Monday UTC on 11825 kHz – Jazz from the Left Monday 0100 UTC on 11825 kHz – Classics and Beyond – Classical Music See more at: http://about.global24radio.com/weekends-schedule/ (Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 7505.3, March 22 at 1206, VG signal with gospel music, so WRNO is on at this odd hour; maybe was all-night? I may not have checked this range around 0600. Still on at 1347 with gospel huxter past 1400 and weakening, no ID. 7505 has always been registered with HFCC and FCC for much longer hours than they ever used it, currently 22-16 UT, but until now self-restricted to prime time only, 01v-04 UT. Remains to be heard whether an anomaly, a Sunday-only thing or ??? Still going at 1552 check. Also has an imaginary daytime frequency 15590 at 16-22, both inherited from KTBN. Wonder if that will ever appear? Not today: at 1619, 7505.3 is still on but unmodulated carrier. At this hour it must still be full power, not just exciter, as often detectable overnight. Incomplete program schedule still limited to evenings only: http://wrnoradio.com/?page_id=4014 fails to mention newscasts at odd times cribbed from Deutsche Welle (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 980, March 22 at 1308 UT, YL sports talk from ENE/WSW, and a word or two behind stronger // 1010. Per KAZ tip, it`s KICA Clovis NM, reactivated and now a satellite of KTNZ Amarillo with ESPN. KICA is 1400/172 watts U1. Constant QRM from 2 or 3 other stations in other direxions, but several minutes later at 1330 UT kept getting the delayed // with 1010 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 1060, March 22 at 0557 UT, EWTN programming in English, loops NW/SE, no doubt KRCN Longmont CO, and also noticed a few hours earlier around 0140, so on 50 kW day power again instead of 111 watts night. Plenty of QRM, notably off-frequency KIJN and XERDO, but holds its own unless nulled (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 1090, March 22 at 0615 UT, Fox Sports Radio promoting some app for radio on phone, 0617 UT promo jobs at FSR by phoning 972-977-2239 (Dallas overlay), another app, promo Fox Sports One [TV]. Loops E/W, no doubt KVOP Plainview TX again, which http://plainviewradio.com/1090.php shows does carry FSR at 6 pm-midnight weekdays, but Texas Overnight after midnight. BUT no schedule at all on site for weekends! Who cares? Maybe they plug into FSR and forget it till Monday morning (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 1110, March 22 at 1312 UT, song called ``Woman``, ID as ``Your classic rock station, Eagle 100.5`` during its ``multi-platinum weekend``; 1316 UT outro as ``Dirty White Boy``. Adstring including something on NBC(TV) Saturday night April 11; Ashley (?) Furniture Home Store offering ``free`` HDTVs with large furniture purchases; 1321 UT another slogan ID as above, never any mention of 1110. 1327 UT losing out to Spanish, probably XEWR Juárez. Both looping ENE/WSW. Prime suspect is the Humble City NM (Hobbs market) station in NRC AM Log, 5 kW daytimer KYKK, listed as Talk/Sport format with a translator tail on 100.5, K263AZ wagging the dog of 1110. Wikipedia informs that it has now morphed into KEJL, with same translator and branding as Eagle 100.5; same company has KYKK now on 95.7 with classic rock. FCC AM Query for Facility 48593 shows 1110 changed from KYKK to KPER on Aug 21, 2014, and again from KPER to KEJL on Sept 1. I had previously logged 1110 when it was still KYKK, March 5, 2014 at 1345 UT as in DXLD 14-10. Humble March sunrise is 1300 UT; April 1230 UT.
[HCDX] Glenn Hauser logs March 15, 2015
** CHINA [and non]. 15535, March 15 at 1354, CNR1 jammer with Sunday-night opera, poor hetting 15537, i.e. V. of Tibet, per Aoki 1337-1400 due east from TAJIKISTAN (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** GUAM [and non]. 11580, March 15 at 1309, KTWR with sermon in English interrupted by consecutive translation to Vietnamese; about equal level with Brother Scare via WRMI as these two continue to collide: WRMI 24 hours (also some other programming), and KTWR at 1245-1330, -1345 on Saturdays. HFCC also shows on 11580 at other hours: India and Pakistan, the latter probably imaginary (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** NEW ZEALAND. 9700, Sunday March 15 at 1315, RNZI with reports extremely critical of the Australian government over treatment of asylum seekers detained on Nauru and elsewhere. Among other things, thousands of letters to the detainees were intercepted and returned to senders. Show outro at 1335 with strange title in Maori(?) tho it was all in English; RNZI ID with SFX, 1336 into Feature Album, ``Breakin` Away``. RNZI sked in UT+13 shows this was: ``2:05 AM Tagata o te Moana --- A weekly Pacific magazine programme features New Zealand and regional Pacific news, issues, information`` and music [and next entry not until:] ``6:00 AM Pacific Regional News`` tho Tagata is only a 29 minute show! specifically this one: ``Tagata o te Moana for 14 March 2015 (28'39) http://www.radionz.co.nz/international/programmes/tagata-o-te-moana/audio/20170931/tagata-o-te-moana-for-14-march-2015 Monster storm makes its way through Vanuatu; Repair work continues on vital Kiribati causeway; Torture concerns surrounding Australian action in the Pacific; Letters of support to Nauru refugees are returned to sender; There's a muted response from Fiji over NZ spying reports; Uncertainty continues around a multi-billion dollar project on Tahiti`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U A E. 21780, March 15 at 1351, very poor signal with talk, normally unheard at all. HFCC says at 13-14, DW Hausa via UAE. Much weaker than the SSOB, 21505 Riyadh (and still no 21540 Kuwait) (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. Re KVOH missing from 9975 around 0200 UT Mar 15, Ray Robinson replies: ``Hi, Glenn. Equipment failure again, I'm afraid, but the good news is we think we found the cause of the undermodulation. We should be back on Monday on both frequencies, but it's unclear at this point whether or not we will be able to run on 9975 tomorrow [UT Monday March 16]. We most likely will be off for the weekend. Sigh`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 5760-SSB, Sunday March 15 at 1338, long discourse about reducing current draw of battery-powered radio equipment, which most of the time is only receiving rather than transmitting. Finally 1348 outro as ``training topic this week``, and finally ID of this station as 6TG, contacts with 6QE and 6IA. Good steady signals. Probably some nearby MARS net, with truncated calls, but wasted enough time searching for calls and frequency with no results. Air Force? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) This report dispatched at 1612 UT March 15 _ Hard-Core-DX mailing list Hard-Core-DX@hard-core-dx.com 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
[HCDX] Glenn Hauser logs March 14-15, 2015
** BRAZIL. 9725, March 15 at 0103, RB2 is on this air now, // stronger 11935, and by 0112 I can also // it to much weaker 6040 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BRAZIL. 11745 11815, March 15 at 0114, crackling spurs are barely audible, while fundamental 11780.1 RNA/RNB seems as strong as ever (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** EGYPT. This time I measure each Cairo frequency in addition to noting the modulation defects. 12080.04 approx., March 15 at 0112, R. Cairo, VG signal but presumed Spanish suptorted and whining; occasional JBA irregular beeps too; slightly on hi side 12035.08 approx., March 15 at 0113, R. Cairo, VG signal equal to 12080.04, but only a trace of suptorted modulation, also beeps. More to the hi side than 12080.04 is. These readings indicate one and two 40-Hz clix above the even frequency as compared to WWV 9965.0, March 15 at 0117, R. Cairo is JBM with whine; good signal, i.e. not as strong as the 12 MHzers on the meter but not off frequency 9860.0, March 15 at 0118, R. Cairo, suptorted music, not off frequency (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MEXICO. 1040, March 15 at 0136 UT with WHO nulled, Spanish news about Papa Francisco, quick hi pip sounders, ``nuestras noticias``, website in .com; fades for full? ID; 0137 MOR music; 0142 UT timecheck ``son las 6 con 42 minutos`` and ID as R. Sensación, and then 94.1 Stereo Sensación, y 1040-AM``, more music. So this is in a state with UT-7 MST still in effect, like Sonora or non-border Chihuahua: As in Cantú and IRCA, everything matches for XEHES in Chihuahua city, 5000/250 watts (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MEXICO. 1110, March 15 at 0134 UT, Rosary in Spanish with KFAB nulled, presumed XEWR, R. Guadalupana, Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** NETHERLANDS [non]. 7570, March 14 at 2300, as publicized, WRMI preëmpts Brother Scare for a 2-hour PCJ Radio International special on its sixth anniversary of revival in Taiwan. Keith Perron sings, offers prizes, plays music and archival interviews, Happy Station broadcast clips from Eddie Startz, Tom Meijer; Dick Speekman`s last appearance; quite an improvement over the usual fare on this frequency. Glad it`s preëmptable with the best sig right across North America. Another 7570 special is scheduled for 01-02 UT Monday March 16, belated 70th anniversary show about Radio Canada International (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** PERU [and non]. 5980.0, March 15 at 0104, JBA carrier or two; not much of a beat and not off-frequency either, but at approx. 0105:13 the carrier weakens as R. Chaski goes off leaving BBC/UAE. That`s 6.5 seconds later than last night when there was a sharp Chaski cutoff (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SRI LANKA. 11905, March 15 at 0115 tune-in, prélude is playing, and 2+1 timesignal ends at 0115:12, SLBC opening, on very good but fluttery transpolar signal (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. WORLD OF RADIO 1764 monitoring: this week started a bit earlier on WA0RCR, 1860-AM, 0318 UT March 15, nominally from 0315. Next: Sun 2300 on WRMI 11580 Mon 0300v on Area 51 via WBCQ 5110v Tue 1100 on WRMI 9955 Wed 0730 1530 on Hamburger Lokalradio 7265-CUSB Wed 1315 on WRMI 9955 Wed 2100 on WBCQ 7490v As chances to hear WOR on SW are reduced, you may want to subscribe to a podcast: three different sources are linked atop http://www.worldofradio.com (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A [and non]. 9975, March 15 at 0159, S Asian music, poor and certainly not KVOH. I know it was on around an hour earlier, but still very undermodulated, so another crash, or just turned off? KVOH has cleared the frequency for its co-Christian competitor, CVC The Voice Asia, southward from Uzbekistan in Hindi at 01-04 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 9955, UT Sunday March 15 at 0200, a quick check of WRMI for the other ``Global 24`` reactivated semi-hour. Yes, after WRMI Spanish ID, Global 24 ID and another replay of AWR Wavescan, like Friday at 0030 on 11580 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 1300, March 15 at 0129 UT, soul/gospel music, loops NW/SE, 0130 UT maybe sung ID unreadable; go-to-church promo, plug Sunday 6 am show on ``the Gospel Powerhouse``, 0131 UT American Optometric Association PSA/ad?, then ``KSYB, Shreveport`s Premier Station``. It`s 5000/30 watts non-direxional; guess which? Neither slogan is in NRC AM Log. Can`t find any own website, just numerous streaming aggregators (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** URUGUAY. 6125+, March 15 at 0057, JBA carrier on the hi side, and this time I make a point to keep checking it after 0100, when RNU is supposed to be the only station on frequency, China finishing at that hour. Local noise level is hi, and some splash from second adjacents, but with BFO, I do keep barely detecting it at further chex 0100+, 0107, 0122, 0155. Much, much weaker
[HCDX] Glenn Hauser logs March 15-16, 2015
** BANGLADESH. 15505, March 16 at 1359, Bangladesh Betar IS is JBA, but the mistimesignal cuts thru, ending at 1359:17.5 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BRAZIL. 11705-11715, 11735-11745, 11810-11820, March 16 at 0535 check, ranges of crackling extremely distorted spurs from 11780.1v RNA/RNB, worst peaks in the middle of each of them (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CHINA. CNR1 jammers morning of March 16: none in the 17s, 14s, 13s 15970, March 16 at 1354, CNR1 jammer, fair with flutter 15775, March 16 at 1355, CNR1 jammer, good with flutter // 15970 16100, March 16 at 1356, CNR1 jammer, good with flutter 12910, March 16 at 1358, CNR1 jammer, very good with flutter; 15970, March 16 at 1433, CNR1 jammer, fair with flutter, on again 15745, March 16 at 1434, CNR1 jammer, fair with flutter 16920, March 16 at 1435, CNR1 jammer, fair with flutter 14920, March 16 at 1435, CNR1 jammer, good with flutter 13530, March 16 at 1435, CNR1 jammer, fair with flutter, CODAR 12980, March 16 at 1436, CNR1 jammer, fair-good with flutter 12560, March 16 at 1436, CNR1 jammer, poor with flutter; none now in the 17s, low 11s or 10s (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CUBA. 11930, March 16 at 0545, wall-of-noise jamming far beyond the hours R. Martí is ever on this frequency; not too strong now but with strange accompaniment, with BFO, series of rapid beeps of various pitches = carrier frequencies, pauses, unlike anything normally associated with Cuban jamming (in addition to more regular beeping at a constant lower pitch.) A sample at 0549 March 16, tuned to 11930.0 with BFO on; could this be conveying any intelligence? http://www.w4uvh.net/11930beepjam.rm (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 7150.0-LSB, March 16 at 0554, very strong ham signal in English with heavy accent, but always employing fonetix, AA3DP in Murfreesboro TN: CQDX, then asking for calls from TA/Turkey stations only. No takers, so re-broadens it to anyone; then worx KJ6SWX, who has similar accent? Seemingly exchange a few words in non-English. AA3DP spells his own name too quickly to copy, but here he is in ARRL lookup: PERWER, DILOVAN, AA3DP 1536 Canterbury Ln Murfreesboro, TN 37130 Previous call sign: KG4HST While the other seems Italian: Olcese, Riccardo, KJ6SWX 3184 Heidi Ln Topanga, CA 90290 I think it is safe to conclude that AA3DP is originally from Turkey. Murfreesboro is a 100K+ city down I-24 obscured by the metropolis of Nashville. Not to be confused with much smaller Murphysboro, which is in IL near Carbondale (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. WORLD OF RADIO 1764 monitoring: confirmed Sunday March 15 at 2300 on WRMI 11580; sufficient. Also confirmed on Area 51 webcast UT Monday March 16 from 0303; also on WBCQ 5110- (slightly on the low side), before 0330, fair. Next: Tue 1100 on WRMI 9955 Wed 0730 1530 on Hamburger Lokalradio 7265-CUSB Wed 1315 on WRMI 9955 Wed 2100 on WBCQ 7490v As chances to hear WOR on SW are reduced, you may want to subscribe to a podcast: three different sources are linked atop http://www.worldofradio.com Altho TuneIn apparently still can`t connect to WOR podcasts, I happened to check it at 0159 UT Monday March 16, searched on Hauser (not World of Radio) and got back to the WOR page, http://tunein.com/radio/World-of-Radio-p198/ which was playing WRN North America, just after the 0130 WOR airing there, so smart enough to figure that out. It has also displayed linx before to the WOR times on World FM, NZ. Hello to my 222 followers at TuneIn (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 9975, March 16 at 0535, KVOH is back on with DGS, no longer very undermodulated either, but back to `normal` lofi with some hum. Ray Robinson says they got it back on at 0350. 17775 also on as normal after 1400 Monday (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 5850, March 16 at 0602, I monitor Rick Wiles via WRMI for a minute to get an idea where he is coming from: this is whence: major conflagration coming by end of this year as the BRIC countries try to take over world financial control from the Rothschilds Bildenbergs; O, god (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) This report dispatched at 1638 UT March 16 _ Hard-Core-DX mailing list Hard-Core-DX@hard-core-dx.com 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
[HCDX] Glenn Hauser logs March 21-22, 2015
** ANGUILLA [non]. 6090, March 22 at 0126, CBB is still AWOL, uncovering weak signal presumably Brasil (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BRAZIL. 11745 11815, March 21 at 0529, crackling spurs from 11780.1v RNA/RNB are still here but weak, maybe having been reduced but not eliminated. Likewise at 0142 check March 22 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CUBA [and non]. 670, March 22 at 0111, R. Rebelde is dominant, and nulling it, just no WSCR at all with auroral conditions continuing another night. At 0135 I survey: the following `clears` from northerly US stations are inaudible or maybe a trace: 670 WSCR, 700 WLW, 720 WGN, 780 WBBM, 830 WCCO, 890 WLS. The following are still audible, mostly from slightly lower latitudes: 650 WSM, 750 WSB, 840 WHAS, 850 KOA, 1110 KFAB, 1120 KMOX. On 680 I strained to hear any Progreso // 4765 or Rebelde // 5025 but nothing (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** EGYPT. 12035, March 22 at 0143, R. Cairo VG signal, music suptorted 12080, March 22 at 0143, R. Cairo music // 12035, not distorted, but much weaker signal; normally these two Spanish are more similar levels 9965, March 22 at 0144, R. Cairo, fair signal with whine, Arabic? JBM 9860, March 22 at 0145, R. Cairo, poor and dead air or JBM (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** INTERNATIONAL VACUUM [non]. 90.1, UT Sunday March 22 at 0330, KUCO Edmond/OKC playing `Hitchhiker`s Guide to the Galaxy`, episode 1 of 12. Great to hear this superb serial once again, tnx to Robert Conrad on `Weekend Radio` originating at WCLV Cleveland OH. I warned you before that this would be starting tonight, but if you missed it there are several more webcasting stations scheduling it on Sundays. See http://publicradiofan.com/cgibin/program.pl?programid=682 but better confirm directly from station websites as info is constantly changing. The first half of this end`s `Weekend Radio` is other SF material (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MADAGASCAR. 17575, March 21 at 1706, VG Christian hymn and talk in Swahili, from AWR. Losing RWANDA, maybe will add more via here in A-15? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MEXICO. 660, March 21 at 0209 on caradio, dominant signal IDs in Spanish as ``ABC Radio``, plays Queen. Guess its format is classic rock in English; i.e. XEFZ, 10/1 kW in Monterrey NL. It`s still dominant on home radios, March 21 at 0541, ``ABC Radio 660 AM``, rock in English (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** PERU. 5980, March 22 at 0104, I have escaped to the porch to reduce the noisy computer QRM from inside: enough to hear two very poor carriers beating from BBC/UAE and R. Chaski, the latter no doubt the one also with some talk modulation. It cuts off at 0105:54.5* leaving a weaker single carrier from BBC. Previous timing 7 nights ago was 0105:13* on March 15, so that averages 5.9 seconds later per 24 hours, still moving the slippery autotimer right along at its usual rate of precession (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SRI LANKA. 11905, March 22 I tune in for SLBC cut-on a bit early and am rewarded by a brief upstart of only a few seconds at 0112:25, off again. Back to stay from *0114:10.5, and it`s only fair, not the usual bigsig. 0114:46.5 standard musical prélude; 2+1 mistimesignal ends at 0115:19, now back to its favorite imposition (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A [and non]. 9525, Sat March 21 at 2047, no signal from Global 24, when their new weekend schedule supposedly showed WORLD OF RADIO. I asked Jeff White about it and he says he knows nothing about this frequency. Original sked on G24 website did not specify sites, but now reveals 9525 is 100 kW due east from BULGARIA, not WRMI. So how was it in Europe and beyond? Tnx to monitoring by Alan Gale in England who heard WOR`s last 5 minutes at 2125 on 9525, it`s now clear that the WOR time was not 2030, but 2100 Sat, i.e. third third of a sesquihour broadcast starting at 2000, following World News and Wavescan. I had assumed the news would merely be headlines like before in a one-hour transmission, rather than a full semihour of news to start a full sesquihour. Jeff Demers of G24 forwards a report from Iwao Nagatani in Japan: ``March 21, 2015, Time of Reception (UTC): 2115-2132 Frequency: 9525 Program name and/or details: World of Radio. Reception tips of Mighty KBC on 7375 kHz, Radio Australia, accident of Voice of Nigeria, some US medium wave stations, etc. Reception quality: SINPO 35333. Signal was fair and no interference. Comments about our programming: This is the first time that I heard your radio broadcast. I hope you will broadcast East Asia. I would like to listen to your own program.`` WORLD OF RADIO 1765 monitoring: confirmed on WA0RCR, 1860-AM near St Louis MO starting a few seconds before 0314 UT Sunday March 22, theme truncated. Next: Sun 2300 on WRMI 11580 Mon 0300v on Area 51 via WBCQ 5110v Mon 1100 on WRMI 9955 Wed 0730 1530
[HCDX] Glenn Hauser logs March 18-19, 2015
** ANGUILLA. 11775, March 19 at 1305, CBB still AWOL also from day frequency (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CHINA. 5050-, March 19 at 1251, slightly on the low side, very poor signal with flutter, music and sounds like Chinese. Presumably Beibu Bay Radio, Nanning, which Aoki says is in Vietnamese at this hour. However, it was recently reported by Ron Howard thusly: ``5050, Guangxi Beibu Bay Radio, 1320, March 8. ID in English; believe I now have it correctly - Are you ready? Hi everyone. This is Beibu Bay Radio, the Voice of Guangxi, China; English/Chinese segment about edible chocolate-lined coffee cups``. I don`t find any recent reports from Ron or others with a precise off-frequency (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CHINA. 16160, March 19 at 1347, CNR1 jammer, very poor with flutter. 14920, March 19 at 1351, CNR1 jammer, fair with heavy flutter. No others found in the 12s, 13s, 15s or 17s (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CUBA. 15370, March 19 at 1349, RHC with live(?) speech about Los 5, unseems Raúl, but heavy applause, worsening the splatter out to 15 kHz above and below. Also some other crosstalk audio underneath (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** INDONESIA. 3325-, March 19 at 1235, very poor signal, slightly on the low side compared to 2325 Australia; and weaker than the North Koreans on 3320 3250. Presumed RRI Palangkaraya, active today. Ron Howard says on March 17 it was on 3324.886, carrier only. Atsunori Ishida says it was active March 18 until 1700* and also heard today (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** INDONESIA. 4870-, March 19 at 1238 (one minute after sunrise here), very poor signal sounds Indonesian intonation, must be RRI Wamena on usual offset frequency. At 1241 switches to English! clearly enunciated, but only a word here and there recognizable, mostly W M dialog. 1247 song break, 1250 back to English talk. As Ron Howard has often reported, this is the regular Thursday `Kang Guru` (Aussie) English lesson. In fact he also heard it today, better upon Asilomar State Beach, California: ``4869.89, RRI Wamena with Kang Guru Indonesia starting at 1230, March 19, with program no. 8904; fairly readable; the best I have heard them; info about February 2 - World Wetlands Day. Audio at https://app.box.com/s/vn5whlyc9gmlyashk37n8qlfh6cx0ap9 `` and he transcribed a lot of it for the DXLD yg. His clip is still tough copy: WRTH lists the power as 10 kW in the back, but no opinion under Indonesia; Aoki says only 300 watts. 60m with blessèd low local noise level here for a change was full of many other weak signals this morning corresponding to China, Tibet and India frequencies. But I could hear an occasional distant lightning crash while tuned to 4870- (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** KOREA NORTH [non]. 5985, March 19 at 1333, Sea Breeze is very poor with sounders and YL in English as usual on Thursdays only from JSR Tokyo, JAPAN. We are about to lose access to it until fall, as they keep to various 6 MHz frequencies only and this far east, it`s already almost an hour after sunrise (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MEXICO. UNIDENTIFIED. 1100, March 19 at 0607 UT, no WTAM OH as its northerly signal is still depressed by lingering auroral effects. Dominant is instead Spanish music looping SSW. At 0617 and once earlier between songs, a quick liner is inserted, but can`t understand the super-hype voice actor. Yet it`s beating with something at approx. 170/minute making SAH of 2.83 Hz (probably KDRY Álamo Heights TX). There are 8 Mexicans on 1100, of which four are likely by looping toward central Mexico, and of those, three are on at night per IRCA Log. More recent Cantú lists only six on 1100, as AM stations are dropping like flies onto FM, but still the four like IRCA, i.e. in Guanajuato, Guerrero, SLP and Zacatecas. Per Cantú, Guerrero is a daytimer, narrowing it down to three, if we can rely on that. No USA SS on 1100 around here (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** OKLAHOMA. 1210, March 19 at 0639 UT, ``Today`s Country for Perryton, 12-10 KGYN``. As usual, much more signal at night than there should be, if Guymon is really protecting Philadelphia. Perryton is a smaller town across the line in the NE TX Panhandle. Last time I was there it stank from hog farming, nixed a motel stay. I also used to have a cousin of some sort in Perryton (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 12350-USB, March 19 at 1308, long informal broadcast about Caribbean weather, mostly wind speed forecasts in knots, and seas (in feet?) along coasts of Honduras, Belize, Panamá, southern Cuba, etc. Very poor signal with complete fadeouts, but readable on peaks. 1316 ID as ``Marine Weather Center, Whiskey Charlie Yankee`` and standing by for responses or relays. Then takes some specific questions from sailors advising best times to take certain voyages, e.g. Frances Ray
[HCDX] Glenn Hauser logs March 17-18, 2015
** ANGUILLA. 6090, March 18 at 0534, CBB is gone again! Also gone from day frequency 11775 at 1255 March 18 check (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BRAZIL [and non]. 11710, March 18 at 0331, crackling spur from 11780.1v RNA, not strong now, and RAE, Argentina, 11711v English hour is anyway inaudible, only making a het with CRI Russian via Urumqi, East Turkistan. On the PL-880 1-kHz steps, I detect the first-order crackle out to these ranges from each peak: 11734-11751 (QRMing something on 11750 which would be IBB Somali via Sri Lanka); 11808-11821, and the fundamental also splashes out to 11768-11793 or so (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BRAZIL. 11855, March 18 at 0537, R. Aparecida talk, and a couple words later same on 11935, RB2, fair signals. 11765 SRDA is also on and audible. At the moment, 11745 11815 spurs from 11780 are not so bad as they were two hours earlier (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGESTE) ** CUBA. 11840, March 18 at 0336, very good open carrier/dead air, no doubt RHC failing to modulate. (11760 is not on the air now, per Aoki stopping at 0300). 11840 is supposed to stay until 0600 (make that 0500 with DST) (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** FRANCE. 13740, March 17 at 2005, music, very poor vs local noise and hi K-index propagation disturbance; first thought it might be RHC which uses this frequency elsewhen, but not // 11760 French or 17730 talk. At 2010, still very poor in talk, maybe African-accented French, so tentatively RFI which since March 1 has been scheduled here but only until 2000 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MEXICO [and non]. 570, March 18 at 0550, romantic crooner in Spanish but American-style, 0551 full ID for ``XEBJB, Nueva Vida 570 AM`` (no FM mentioned), street address, and into kid choral national anthem way early before local midnight in Monterrey; makes slow SAH of 90/minute = 1.5 Hz with KLIF Dallas. Somewhat enhanced auroral conditions, and of course, our sky is overcast. Must be change of name and format for XEBJB: `Nueva Vida` implies Christian, and that song may have been praise. WRTH 2015 has XEBJB as `Noti Radio 570` as does IRCA Log 2014 with a // FM on 95.7; Cantú merely as `Radio 570`, all as 5/0.5 kW. This website for the group a.k.a. Grupo Radio Alegría with a bunch of other stations agrees on the Nueva Vida branding now on 570: http://www.epsilonmedia.mx/?page_id=15313 ``Nueva Vida 570 es una estación cuyo propósito es fomentar valores y principios para la edificación personal familiar y social`` --- probably stealth Christian (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** PANAMA [non]. 5985, UT Wed March 18 at 0430, WRMI with Rudy Espinal Spanish ID, then `Antena DX`, program produced in Panamá. Incorrect airtimes for this have been widely circulated, so I am confirming this is correct and trying to get the host to convert local and UT properly. Other WRMI airings are Mon 1230, Wed 1100, UT Fri 0100, all on 9955 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** RUSSIA [non]. `FROM RUSSIA WITH LOVE` --- From R. Sputnik, still on WRMI 15770, Tue March 17. Just caught the end of it at 2122: Vasily gives WRMI airtimes but misses this one at 2100. Final song is ``Radio Silence`` hinting that something will happen in March, and this is an earlier show from Feb? # 200. Episodes are not numbered on their website. 2126 over to WRMI fill music, oud. A later edition in March heard on web was reported to be the finale (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SOMALILAND. 7120, March 18 at 0329, fair open carrier; 0329:50 some just barely-modulation starts, military band with NA, 0331 way undermodulated announcement and Qur`an. R. Hargeisa, of course. I was wondering if it would come thru, with K index of 6, geomag storms reaching G4 level, and radio blackouts reaching R1 level, during last 24 hours, per WWV at 0300 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. WORLD OF RADIO 1764 monitoring: confirmed Wed March 18 at 1315 on WRMI 9955. Next: Wed 2100 on WBCQ 7490 (which checked other days is now virtually inaudible here into daytime absorption). Hope to have new 1765 ready for first airing 0330 UT Thursday on 9955. Note: while stations getting WOR by ftp will have no problem, our w4uvh.net site is still down being reconfigured, so there may be a delay there or alternative delivery needed (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 9975, March 18 at 0310, KVOH is on, fair signal with deep fades, during ``TruNews, end-time news`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 17790, March 18 at 1358, WRMI with strange music/SFX prélude to Radio Africa Network, 1359 signing on as such, 17790 and 15190 [later] ``from the WRMI studios in Okeechobee`` --- really, no longer out of Cupertino CA? So RAN is back, while yesterday Brother Scare ran on 17790 from before 1400 until 1800 when RAN finally came on, says Ivo Ivanov. Has happened before. Is TOM a
[HCDX] Glenn Hauser logs March 19-20, 2015
** ANGUILLA. 11775, March 20 at 1322 check, CBB is still missing (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CHINA. Regarding my March 19 log of 5050, Ron Howard replies: ``Glenn - Cannot say I have noticed them off frequency as such, but perhaps was so slight I just didn't notice it? March 19, Chinese / English segment at 1320 with topic of China building a nation of avid readers; March 18 topic - China's Four Comprehensives. 1300-1400 is in Chinese, not Vietnamese. Think Aoki's database is a little outdated for BBR. The ID at top of hour is Guangxi Beibu Bay Radio, whereas at 1320 it is given as just Beibu Bay Radio. Ron`` (Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CUBA. 680, March 20 at 0420, I decide to try to hear a R. Rebelde here next to main frequency 670. I think I do have a very weak // to it and/or 5025, but uplooked later, WRTH shows no Cuban on 680. Rebelde website http://www.radiorebelde.cu is no help with no frequency list, and even searching on 670, let alone 680, goes nowhere. Terry Krueger however linx to this listing http://www.radiocubana.cu/index.php/directorio-de-radio-emisoras-cubanas but it`s woefully incomplete, doesn`t show very many frequencies. Terry`s own historical roster by frequency, https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=vpid=sitessrcid=ZGVmYXVsdGRvbWFpbnxmbG9yaWRhZHhufGd4OjU0MzRiMDQwYzUxNWJjYTI shows there used to be three Radio Progresos on 680, and in 2001-2007y one R. Rebelde on 680 in Ciego de Ávila. Mauricio Molano`s article from 2011y lists nothing on 680: https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=vpid=sitessrcid=ZGVmYXVsdGRvbWFpbnxmbG9yaWRhZHhufGd4OjdmMmJhYmI4Y2ViMTBhYmQ (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CUBA. 890, March 20 at 0427, once I have nulled KVOZ in the RGV, nothing from aurorally-blocked WLS, but instead R. Progreso mentioning radioprogreso.cu and onda corta 4765 (which would have signed off at 0400, but unchecked tonight); nothing much on 900 from further Progreso outlet as often audible. 890 is Chambas, Ciego de Ávila (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** INDIA. 4895, March 20 at 1255 after sunrise here, fairly good carrier, at first seeming open, then just-barely-modulated with S Asian? music at 1257 past 1300, no timesignal, 1301 announcement. Presumed AIR Kurseong, 50 kW, rather than Mongolia 10 kW. Was one of the better signal levels on 60m, outshining 4835 Australia, but nowhere near the leading level of 4940- Fuzhou, China (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MEXICO. 650, March 20 at 0445, Spanish is totally dominant, maybe a trace of WSM if I null it. Auroral conditions are still blocking many but not all of the USA big`uns. But even with aurora it`s tough to pull anything here beyond Mexico or Cuba. Loops NE/SW so suspect usual XETNT, Los Mochis, Sinaloa. Información segment is historical about Topolobampo (right near Los Mochis) and Don Miguel Ángel Carillo, interviewing YL on phone for a few minutes; 0449 timecheck for ``11 para las 10``, i.e. UT -7, and ``sigue con nosotros, Guardián de la Noche`` (program title?) 0450 PSA for Tribunal Estatal Electoral, de Sinaloa (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MEXICO. 680, March 20 at 0421, Spanish from NE/SW with ad for Pancho el mecánico; ``arriba Sinaloa --- la radio que nunca`` slogan, maybe a word missing there, 0422 into polca with thumping tuba in the lead. Surely no other state would promote Sinaloa, so this is XEORO, la Mera Jefe in Guasave, 1000/500 watts per IRCA. Then I null it and try for Cuba, q.v. (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MEXICO. 740-, March 20 at 0423, overcoming KRMG, easily nulled, with that awful lo audible heterodyne, YLs conversing on phone in Spanish; already IDed as from XEQN in Torreón, Coahuila (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MEXICO. 760, March 20 at 0451, seldom-heard ``Guadalajara`` song looping slightly clockwise from N/S, dominant with a JBA trace of WJR if I null it. There is a tapatía station on 760, XEZZ with 5/1 kW, R. Gallito, but as expected this is really from the DF, since followed at 0454 by ID as ABC Radio, 70/10 kW XEABC really in the adjacent EdoMex (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MEXICO. 780-, March 20 at 0455, Spanish talk, then music dominating, making that awful lo audible heterodyne ruining WBBM reception at night, even tho WBBM is now JBA if I null it. Also would beat against any other USA 780s such as Colorado (and Stillwater if on). The het here is of a slightly higher pitch than the one against 740 KRMG. It was tracked to XEWGR in this report from last year: ``779.93, XEWGR, Monclova, Coah., AUG 28, 1226 - Noted with talk by man announcer, occasional ads, CDT time checks; no ID heard. Fair at best and fading by 1300. Logged on this frequency a few times in 2009-2010, but last logged on exactly 780 in 2012. Semi-local 780 KCEG was off the air but are back on now (John Wilkins, Wheat Ridge CO; Drake R8, 4-foot box loop, NRC IDXD 5 Sept via
[HCDX] Glenn Hauser logs March 17, 2015
** BRAZIL. Multiple extremely distorted spurs out of the 11780.1v RNA/RNB transmitter are about the worst I have ever heard them now, at ~35 kHz intervals, March 17 at 0532-0540 UT: 11745 11815, first-order spurs are extremely strong such that one can understand the talk modulation, usually not the case. 11710, second-order spur is almost as bad. Matching second-order on other side, 11850 is weaker but audible when often it is not. It is interfering with 11855, R. Aparecida, another Brazilian. These three cover at least 10 kHz each, making any other reception impossible on those frequency ranges. 11675, third-order spur 105 (3 x 35) kHz out is audible, more than a trace. Likewise plus 105 on 11885. 11640, fourth-order spur, 140 kHz out, is detectable at trace level, but not one on the hi side (which would be 11920). 11605, fifth-order spur 175 kHz out, is also detectable at trace level, but not on the hi side (would be 11955). While it is impossible to pinpoint these blobs with no specific carrier, seems to peak closer to 11603, which would make for 35.4 kHz separations. Propagation from Brasil may be stronger than usual, as both 11855 and 11935 stations are audible, but very weak compared to 11780 and its primary spurs (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MEXICO [and non?]. 1130, March 17 at 0548 UT, I`m getting music in Spanish, tropical? Peaking somewhat counterclockwise from KWKH LA sportstalk, which is to the SE, so this would be more like ESE/WNW, ruling out Mexico (and there is NO Cuban listed on 1130). Makes medium SAH with KWKH, whose signal is not very strong, way off its westward lobe here. Also need to null IBOC from KMOX 1120 as much as possible, and it`s to the NE, so that means least of it aiming SE. NRC AM Log shows US SS on 1130 are supposedly daytimers, in GA, TN and TX. TN and TX are religious, while WLBA 10 kW in Gainesville GA is ``La Mejor``, presumably including secular music. That direxion would fit. There is also 10 kW SS fulltime KSDO San Diego CA, but also religious. I have dozed off, but awaken at 0604 UT March 17 when a choral Mexican NA is playing on 1130. May be different station than above, as now it`s less separable from KWKH. NA soon finished, and it`s overcoming KWKH, so manage to pull ID as ``La Comadre, la nueva 11-30 AM``, which means it is XETOL, 10/5 kW in Toluca, Estado de México (next to DF). Comadre literally means midwife (co-mother), maybe alluding to helping to birth wonderful new programming? If it were Portuguese, the primary meaning would be bedpan, says Google translate (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. The World of Radio site containing WOR audio files, DXLD archive, etc., www.w4uvh.net became inaccessible March 16 and still so March 17. Issues with too much bandwidth usage, so I have removed a lot of duplicated audio files, but host says it may be another 24 hours before it`s back, if they accept my solution. Any further info about this will be posted at http://www.worldofadio.com/anomaly.html People needing to hear recent WORs, I hope can still reach them via the podcasters. Should this be prolonged, I`ll start posting the latest DXLD at the other site (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 9975, March 17 at 0542, KVOH is off again, another breakdown? Or experimental carriage of Pastor Melissa Scott may have concluded. Aha, it may be the latter, as program schedule http://kvoh.net/wp-content/uploads/KVOH-Program-Grid-English.pdf has been updated March 16, removing Melissa, back to 0400* sign-off. 17775, March 17 at 1412, JBA carrier, maybe KVOH is on, but propagation very degraded. 1615 definitely on but JBA as 16mb still hasn`t recovered from geomag storm with K=8 at 1500 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 17790, March 17 at 1355, WRMI with Brother Scare // 11825 et al. This is when prélude to Radio Africa Network would normally be playing on 17790. BS is JBA, OSOB except for poor 17730 Cuba due to severe G4 geomagnetic storms, K index of 6 at 1200, reaching 8! at 1500 per WWV, and more to come. 1415 still JBA on 17790, but surges to good level at 1417, still BS not RAN. At 1615 check, still JBA but with BS intonation matchable to 11825, no RAN (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. 870, March 17 at 0624 UT, open carrier with WWL nulled, maybe ~10 Hz SAH. Most likely daytimer KFJZ Fort Worth TX (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. 1290, March 17 at 0607 UT, choice of Jimbo from NE/SW, or C2CAM from NW/SE, mutually nullable, both vs lots of CCI. Most likely closest are KOIL Omaha NE and KOWB Laramie WY, respectively (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) This report dispatched at 1650 UT March 17 _ Hard-Core-DX mailing list Hard-Core-DX@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/hard-core-dx http://www.hard-core-dx.com/ ___ THE INFORMATION IN
[HCDX] Glenn Hauser logs March 8-9, 2015
** ANGOLA. 4950-, March 9 at 0521, very poor carrier, JBM, presumed RNA as always off-frequency. Must be about to fade around local sunrise, 0511 today at Luanda per gaisma.com. Latest precise measurement of it was 4949.75 by Carlos Gonçalves, Portugal, who also said modulation was extremely low, March 1 at 2252 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** AUSTRIA [and non]. 9630, March 9 at 0527, AWR theme, way atop but with LAH obviously from off-frequency R. Aparecida, Brasil, AWR off by 0529. It was per HFCC, 300 kW, 190 degrees from Moosbrunn at 0500-0530 [sic] in Hausa; Adventists vs Catholix! Or more broadly, Christians vs Christians! (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BANGLADESH. 15505, March 9 at 1355, carrier already on from BB, fair with flutter, 1358 IS, 1359:17 mistimesignal ends, opening Urdu (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BRAZIL. 11710 11745 11815, March 9 at 0530, crackling spurs from 11780.1v RNA/RNB (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CUBA. Confirming some expected DST shifts, but not all checked yet: 11760, Sunday March 8 at 1955, RHC with classical guitar, and interviewing the performer in English, so first English of the day has made usual DST change to one hour earlier, 1900-2000. 11760, Sunday March 8 at 2259, Arnie Coro propagation feature cuts off and back on the air, and wrapup of `En Contacto` confirming that its second airing has shifted one UT hour earlier, 2245 on this and several other frequencies; sometimes it would start 5 minutes earlier so list it as 2240v. 11950 11860, March 9 at 1408, RHC carriers are still on openly, while 11760, 17730 et al., remain modulated. Guess what? As of 1557 UT March 9, the schedule at http://www.radiohc.cu/interesantes/estaticas/frecuencias still hasn`t been updated to show DST changes (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CUBA [non]. 5980, March 9 at 1206, R. Martí very good with no jamming audible, bad news about Sen. Menéndez. 5980 runs until 1300 UT even during Cubano=Americano DST, while 6030 is off after 1200. In A-15, 5980 is registered for 07-10 only. BTW, there is a proposal to ``privatize`` R. Martí organizationally, but still pay for it with USG funds, trying to have it both ways, hoping the Cuban Commies will appreciate such a modification (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CZECHIA [non]. 9955, Monday March 9 at 1210, lively banjo band playing novelty music from 1928y with Czech lyrix; 1215 as ``Sunday music show from Radio Prague``; clear of jamming at first but by 1217, pulse jamming is ramping up; WRMI relay, of course. New DST program grid effective March 8 shows R. Prague times are now: English: Mon-Sat 1200-1230, Tue-Sat 0030-0100, Sun-Mon 0300-0330 Spanish: Mon-Fri 1000-1030, Mon-Sat 0200-0230 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** INDIA [and non]. Correxion: 9380, not typoed 9830! (It so happens RTTY is almost constantly really on 9830 but not 9380. I wonder if the RTTY station also made a punch-up typo?) Any publication of the incorrect log MUST also publish this correxion, sooner or later, ASAP, tnx. Fixed as really heard: 9380, March 7 at 1354, RTTY QRM dominates, but can hear some programming under, so AIR has managed to modulate today (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** KUWAIT [non]. 21540, March 9 at 1353 check, chalk up another day with no signal from R. Kuwait, leaving weak 21505 Sau`di the OSOB. Will Kuwait ever come back, and with it the 15540 English at 18-21? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MEXICO. 1560, March 9 at 0558, full ID including street address in Ciudad Juárez, from R. Vida ID, into NA now with local midnite in UT - 6 zoneshift to MDT. I.e., per IRCA 2014 and Cantú as of Feb 19 printout, XEJPV still called ``Indie`` as a 1 kW daytimer! I wonder if the call has changed too, unheard this time (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MICRONESIA. 4755+, March 9 at 1200, very poor carrier until cutoff at approx. 1200:12*, surely PMA The Cross, V6MP in standard auto-behavior. Latest exact measurement was 4755.58 by Christoph Ratzer, Austria, A-DX via SWB, Feb 28 at *2000 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. WORLD OF RADIO 1763 monitoring: confirmed Sunday March 8 at 2300 on WRMI 11580, sufficient (on non-9955 services, no timeshift). Also confirmed UT Monday March 9 from 0302 on Area 51 webcast and also at 0319 check on 5110-, WBCQ. Next: Tue 1100 on WRMI 9955 Wed 0730 1530 on Hamburger Lokalradio 7265-CUSB Wed 1315 on WRMI 9955 Wed 2100 on WBCQ 7490v As chances to hear WOR on SW are reduced, you may want to subscribe to a podcast: three different sources are linked atop http://www.worldofradio.com (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 17775, March 9 at 1354, open carrier already from KVOH, poor-fair; 1400 JBA music. Ray Robinson tells us that KVOH will no longer be making DST shifts, so new schedule is still: Spanish 14-19 M-F on 17775; English
[HCDX] Glenn Hauser logs March 9 11, 2015
** ANGUILLA [non]. 6090, March 11 at 0600 no signal; 11775, March 11 at 1342, Caribbean Beacon remains off, clearing the latter for weak AIR signal. Meanwhile, circa 0610 we could still hear PMS both on 9975 KVOH, and 34 seconds earlier on 5935 WWCR (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BANGLADESH. 15505, March 11 at 1359, BB IS, very poor; mistimesignal ending at 1359:19.5 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BRAZIL. 11710 11745 11815, March 11 at 0538, crackling spurs from 11780.1v RNA/RNB remain unmistakable here, somewhat weaker on 11710 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CHINA. CNR1 jammers, morning of March 11: 14920, March 11 at 1350, CNR1 jammer, good with flutter; no 12s or 13s 14870, March 11 at 1351, CNR1 jammer, fair with flutter; out of synch with the others by several words; none in the OOB 15s 16750, March 11 at 1353, CNR1 jammer, poor, ahead of 14920 16530, March 11 at 1353, CNR1 jammer, good 16450, March 11 at 1353, CNR1 jammer, good with flutter 17170, March 11 at 1354, CNR1 jammer, fair, almost // 16530 17200, March 11 at 1354, CNR1 jammer, poor 16920, March 11 at 1424, CNR1 jammer, fair with flutter; no 13s, 15s 16530, March 11 at 1424, CNR1 jammer, // 16920, fair with flutter (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CUBA. 5040, March 11 at 0600, RHC is off this frequency, neither Spanish nor English: need to check it earlier. Now the others are all in overkill English: 6000, 6060, 6100, 6165: or rather jazz music at the moment (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CUBA [and non]. 7405, March 11 at 0608, Cuban music, R. Martí VG with no jamming audible; but pulse jamming vs nothing on 7365, and 6030 beneath wall-of-noise jamming. Seems the DentroCuban Jamming Command is confused as usual by the DST time shifts, even tho both Cuba and US do it in lockstep (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** INDIA. 9690, March 11 at 1329, miscellaneous pop music, never IS, 1330 opening AIR GOS in English announcing 9690, 11620, 13710; poor but clear, into news; 1340 Comment[a]ry about India-Sri Lanka relations: Tamils need to coöperate. At 1347 I have bandscanned up to 13710 and find a much better signal here during vocal music, good with flutter (but to be ruined by CRI in a few minutes) (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** NEW ZEALAND. 9700, March 11 at 1323, RNZI `Dateline Pacific` with news from island after island, now about Cook Islands getting some new coinage, including one that`s triangular. Only fair signal, not as good as usual (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** OKLAHOMA [and non]. 1650, March 11 at 0639 UT, KCNZ Iowa ID in passing; even when aimed toward Sallisaw I get KCNZ and no trace of KYHN. But at 1258 UT March 11, KYHN poor signal promoting Iphone and Android access, ``Arklahoma`s conservative talk radio``. Must be underpowered and/or sporadic (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** OKLAHOMA. (RF 13, virtual 13.2), OETA OKLA channel, March 9 at 1700 UT is really screwed up. `Charlie Rose` is supposed to replay now, but instead we`re getting `Antiques Roadshow`, then for a few minutes video if not audio replaced by `Technical Difficulties` slide in the style of traditional circular test patterns, photoed: http://www.w4uvh.net/OETAtechpat.jpg This screenshot is from a tape and loses a lot of resolution; fine print at bottom are IDs for the four main stations of the network. But the tool icons in the middle show up nicely. Finally gets this unravelled and joins Charlie Rose in progress a few minutes later. May have something to do with current `Festival` fundraiser disrupting normal programming. (Axually I was watching this on Suddenlink cable 140, but could have seen it directly, with constant breakup as both my external antennas can`t pull in OETA reliably, unlike OKC full-power stations on UHF.) The Oklahoma Network claims it is the medium most trusted by Oklahomans, and has the most (proportional?) viewership of any PBS sub-network; yet The Oklahoma Observer, March Observerscope column says: ``Dart: to the Republican-dominated Legislature, starving the state`s crown jewel, OETA --- now the lowest-funded public television network in America``. That`s Oklahoma for you! (Glenn Hauser, Enid, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A [and non]. WORLD OF RADIO 1763 monitoring: confirmed Wed March 11 from 1315:40 on WRMI 9955, rather weak with ACI on both sides, persistent RTTY on hi, Japanese clandestines via Taiwan to N Korea on lo side. Also confirmed via the Wide-band WebSDR Utwente tuned to 7265-USB at 1535 UT Wed March 11, quite sufficient, but by 1540 I`m hearing some CCI singing underneath, which per Aoki would come from CRI via Kashgar in Hindi, or CNR2 via Baoji-Sifangshan 724 site. Clear again a few minutes before 1600, then total takeover by CRI in Russian, Beijing site listed to the northwest, as Hamburger Lokalradio is over. Next WOR: Wed 2100 [new shifted time] on
[HCDX] DX Programs, WOR skeds updated
DX/SWL/Media Programs has been updated for DST effective March 8: http://www.worldofradio.com/dxpgms.html Also WORLD OF RADIO schedule: http://www.worldofradio.com/radioskd.html Alan Roe`s Hitlist should be updated shortly; check the date at the bottom: http://www.w4uvh.net/hitlist.htm 73, Glenn Hauser _ Hard-Core-DX mailing list Hard-Core-DX@hard-core-dx.com 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
[HCDX] Glenn Hauser logs March 5-6, 2015
** BANGLADESH. 15505, March 6 at 1357, BB open carrier, poor with flutter; IS begins at 1359:05.5, mistimesignal ends at 1359:24.5, theme and opening Urdu (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BOTSWANA. 15580, March 6 at 1458, overmodulated and distorted music on fair signal, presumably VOA Music Mix, 1500 VOA theme and news less distorted (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BRAZIL. 4885, March 6 at 0609, lively Brazilian music vs CODAR swooshes, so R. Clube do Pará, Belém, is back to 24-hour service after missing a week or so; at 0710 some ads mentioning Pará. The other 4885 ZY, in Rio Branco, is listed in WRTH as 09-04 UT (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BRAZIL. 11745 11815, March 5 at 2323, crackling spurs from 11780.1v RNA/RNB are already barely audible, surely to build up along with the fundamental as the night progresses (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CHINA [and non]. 9875, March 5 at 2315, Chinese talk, CNR1 jamming // 9825 mixing with Firedragon and something else: i.e., RFA Tibetan via LITHUANIA during this hour only. 9825 is vs RFA Mandarin via Tinian this hour only.. 11945, March 6 at 1504, CNR1 jammers with echo, good with flutter and CCI, which is victim RFA Mandarin via TAJIKISTAN during this bihour only (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CHINA. 9870, March 6 at 1352, CRI English, fair with flutter, and ahead of // Cuba 9570. Not a trace of AIR VBS from Bengaluru supposed to be here at 1230-1740. CRI listed as Xi`an site at 1300-1557 (and BTW another collision on 9870 is Iran in Arabic from 1430). Why won`t these stations/nations get their acts together, or rather, apart? 9585, March 6 at 1355, CRI English is gone from here after unexplained appearance yesterday, reaudiblizing Iran in Japanese, very poor (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CUBA. 9845-9855 at least, March 6 at 1351, huge dirty noise blob as this RHC transmitter is totally out of order. By tuning precisely to center 9850 one can make out some program modulation // 11760 and all the other frequencies which are OK. If there was any doubt the same unit moves to 15370 around 1400, it`s now removed: 15365-15375 at least, March 6 at 1357, huge dirty noise blob as this RHC transmitter is totally out of order; they just moved it up from 9850 without noticing the problem! By 1435 recheck it`s back in whack (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** EGYPT. 12035, March 5 at 2321, open carrier, dead air from R. Cairo. Nice clean signal, no hum or traces of distorted modulation; congratulations! O, really just warming up, Abis at 2330-0045 Arabic, 0045-0200 Spanish (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** GUATEMALA. 4055, March 6 at 0609, R. Verdad in national anthem by children`s choir. Much like the Mexican, it goes on and on with repeating multiverses (but different lyrix?), too much distortion to understand anything. Cadence slows down for finale, ending at 0613.5 and carrier on a while longer (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** PERU [and non]. 5980-, March 6 at 0059, two JBA carriers beating against each other with BFO, at least one slightly on the lo side compared to MW 980 signals. One of them, R. Chaski, goes away about 0104:17.5* which is 37 seconds later than last check a sextanight ago, i.e. averaging 6+ seconds per; margin of error as I could not get a precise timing on the cutoff under these difficult circumstances. At least no Cuban pulse jamming against nothing this time. Remaining carrier no doubt is BBC via UAE. What will the situation be in A-15? Of course, Perú is too out of it to participate in HFCC; BBC will be gone from 5980, but ``YFR`` will be back on 5985 from 0100. Maybe with Jeff White now heading HFCC, he can get the YFR abbr. retired and replaced by RMI? Or OKE? RMI is on the roster for the defunct Hialeah Gardens original site (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SPAIN. 9620, March 5 at 2317, REE is still on air instead of closing at 2300, political news, not even a silly ballgame! Very good here // poor-fair 11940, not heard on presumed unpropagating 17755, nor on 15490 until at 2325 I find that // JBA. Finally at 2330, into sign-off routine ``until 1900`` cluelessly announcing out of date frequencies! ``11685, 11940, 9620, 12030``, plus irrelevant satellite frequencies and polarizations --- don`t you have to give all the satellite transmission parameters for them to be of any use? Forward error correction gets a bit too technical? And how do you express that in Castilian? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 9395, March 5 at 2320, WRMI with TruNews here and not on 11550, which used to run 18-24 UT, and same transmitter from 01 is not heard on 5015 either, so 24h on 9395 appears to replace them both, and then some. Checked at 1713 UT March 6, the WRMI grid has been updated as of March 8, showing no use at all of transmitters 1, 3 and 5, and some others swapped
[HCDX] DX Listening Digest 15-09; World of Radio 1763
DX Listening Digest 15-09 has now been posted at http://www.w4uvh.net/dxld1509.txt and also soon, sometimes delayed at http://www.w4uvh.net/dxlatest.txt CONTENTS: WOR 1763 / AFGHANISTAN non / ALASKA / ALBANIA / ANGOLA / ASCENSION / AUSTRALIA VL8 AUSTRALIA +non RA / AUSTRIA +non / AZERBAIJAN / BAHRAIN / BANGLADESH +non / BHUTAN / BOLIVIA / BRAZIL / BULGARIA / CAMBODIA non / CANADA CHHA / CANADA CKUT / CANADA RCI / CANADA +non TV / CHILE / CHINA / COLOMBIA / CONGO DR / CUBA +non / CYPRUS non / EAST TURKISTAN / ECUADOR +non / EGYPT / EQUATORIAL GUINEA non / ERITREA / ETHIOPIA non / EUROPE Pirate / FRANCE / GERMANY +non / GOA +non / GREECE / GREENLAND / GUATEMALA / GUYANA / INDONESIA / IRAN +non / ISRAEL non / KASHMIR / KOREA NORTH +non / KOREA SOUTH non / KUWAIT +non / LIBERIA +non / MACEDONIA / MADAGASCAR / MADEIRA / MEXICO / MONGOLIA +non / MOROCCO / MYANMAR / NAVASSA ham / NETHERLANDS non / NEW ZEALAND / NIGERIA +non / NORTH AMERICA Pirates / OKLAHOMA KZLS / OKLAHOMA KWLB / OMAN / PAPUA NEW GUINEA / PERU +non / PHILIPPINES +non / PRIDNESTROVYE / ROMANIA / RUSSIA +non / RWANDA / SOLOMON ISLANDS / SOMALIA non / SOMALILAND / SOUTH CAROLINA non / SPAIN +non / SRI LANKA / SUDAN +non / SURINAME / SWEDEN / SYRIA non / TAIWAN +non / TAJIKISTAN / TIBET non / TROMELIN ham / TURKEY / UKRAINE / USA K6FRC / USA KLDE / USA BBG/NBC / USA VOA / USA +non WOR/WA0RCR/G24/WRMI/WBCQ/KVOH/HLR / USA Global 24 /USA WRMI / USA KVOH / USA WBCQ / USA WRNO / USA WINB / USA +non WTWW / USA WWCR / USA WJHR / USA KFI / USA KSAH / USA KBNN / USA KKOW / USA WMVP / USA KSIS / USA KRCN / USA WAMB / USA WSLM / USA KMMO / USA KWOD/KMAN / USA KCKK / USA WLGC / USA KVDW / USA WLZR/WINT / USA WFME+ / USA KGYM / USA KRND / USA WPRR / VANUATU / VATICAN / VIETNAM +non / WESTERN SAHARA non / ZANZIBAR / UNIDENTIFIED 702 / UNIDENTIFIED 1080/1134 / UNIDENTIFIED 6925 / UNIDENTIFIED 7175 / UNIDENTIFIED 9550/9600 / UNIDENTIFIED 9700 / UNIDENTIFIED 9702 / UNIDENTIFIED 15909 / UNIDENTIFIED 17665 / TESTIMONIALS / PUBLICATIONS / LANGUAGE LESSONS / CONVENTIONS CONFEFRENCES / DIGITAL BROADCASTING / RADIO EQUIPMENT FORUM / PROPAGATION For restrixions and searchable 2015 contents archive see http://www.worldofradio.com/dxldmid.html [also linx to previous years] NOTE: If you are a regular reader of DXLD, and a source of DX news but have not been sending it directly to us, please consider yourself obligated to do so. Thanks, Glenn WORLD OF RADIO 1763 CONTENTS: *DX and station news about: Albania, Australia, Brazil, Bulgaria, Cambodia non, Canada, Congo DR, Eritrea, Germany, Greece, Greenland, Korea North non, Kuwait, Madagascar, Philippines, Solomon Islands, Spain, Sudan non, Syria non, Taiwan, USA, Vatican SHORTWAVE AIRINGS OF WORLD OF RADIO 1763, March 5-11, 2015 Thu 0430 WRMI 9955 [repeated 1762] Thu 1330 WRMI 9955 [confirmed] Fri 2130 WRMI 7570 15770 [confirmed] Sat 0730 HLR 7265-CUSB Hamburger Lokalradio Sat 1000 WRMI 5850 Sat 1530 HLR 7265-CUSB Hamburger Lokalradio Sat 2030v WA0RCR 1860-AM [NEW] Sun 0200 WH2XDE-1 1750 Victor NY Sun 0415v WA0RCR 1860-AM [NEW: confirmed at 0424] Sun 2300 WRMI 11580 [confirmed] Mon 0300v WBCQ 5110v Area 51 Tue 1100 WRMI 9955 Wed 0730 HLR 7265-CUSB Hamburger Lokalradio Wed 1315 WRMI 9955 Wed 1530 HLR 7265-CUSB Hamburger Lokalradio Wed 2100 WBCQ 7490v Thu 0330 WRMI 9955 [or 1764 if ready in time] Latest edition of this schedule version, including AM, FM, satellite and webcasts with hotlinks to station sites and audio, is at: http://www.worldofradio.com/radioskd.html or http://schedule.worldofradio.org or http://sked.worldofradio.org For updates see our Anomaly Alert page: http://www.worldofradio.com/anomaly.html WORLD OF RADIO PODCASTS: Tnx to Dr Harald Gabler and the Rhein-Main Radio Club. http://www.rmrc.de/index.php?option=com_podcastview=feedformat=rawItemid=156lang=de or directly via: http://bit.ly/1xD5yyn AND ALTERNATIVE, tnx Stephen Cooper: http://shortwave.am/wor.xml AND ANOTHER ALTERNATIVE, tnx to Keith Weston: http://feeds.feedburner.com/GlennHausersWorldOfRadio Also via [but still not back in service]: http://tunein.com/radio/World-of-Radio-p198/ OUR ONDEMAND AUDIO: http://www.worldofradio.com/audiomid.html or http://wor.worldofradio.org DAY-BY-DAY ARCHIVE OF GLENN HAUSER`S LOG REPORTS: Unedited, uncondensed, unchanged from original version, many of them too complex, minutely researched, multi-frequency, opinionated, inconsequential, off-topic, or lengthy for some log editors to manage; and also ahead of their availability in these weekly issues: http://www.hard-core-dx.com/index.php?topic=Hauser Best DX wishes, Glenn Hauser _ Hard-Core-DX mailing list Hard-Core-DX@hard-core-dx.com 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
[HCDX] DX Listening Digest 15-09; World of Radio 1763
DX Listening Digest 15-09 has now been posted at http://www.w4uvh.net/dxld1509.txt and also soon, sometimes delayed at http://www.w4uvh.net/dxlatest.txt CONTENTS: WOR 1763 / AFGHANISTAN non / ALASKA / ALBANIA / ANGOLA / ASCENSION / AUSTRALIA VL8 AUSTRALIA +non RA / AUSTRIA +non / AZERBAIJAN / BAHRAIN / BANGLADESH +non / BHUTAN / BOLIVIA / BRAZIL / BULGARIA / CAMBODIA non / CANADA CHHA / CANADA CKUT / CANADA RCI / CANADA +non TV / CHILE / CHINA / COLOMBIA / CONGO DR / CUBA +non / CYPRUS non / EAST TURKISTAN / ECUADOR +non / EGYPT / EQUATORIAL GUINEA non / ERITREA / ETHIOPIA non / EUROPE Pirate / FRANCE / GERMANY +non / GOA +non / GREECE / GREENLAND / GUATEMALA / GUYANA / INDONESIA / IRAN +non / ISRAEL non / KASHMIR / KOREA NORTH +non / KOREA SOUTH non / KUWAIT +non / LIBERIA +non / MACEDONIA / MADAGASCAR / MADEIRA / MEXICO / MONGOLIA +non / MOROCCO / MYANMAR / NAVASSA ham / NETHERLANDS non / NEW ZEALAND / NIGERIA +non / NORTH AMERICA Pirates / OKLAHOMA KZLS / OKLAHOMA KWLB / OMAN / PAPUA NEW GUINEA / PERU +non / PHILIPPINES +non / PRIDNESTROVYE / ROMANIA / RUSSIA +non / RWANDA / SOLOMON ISLANDS / SOMALIA non / SOMALILAND / SOUTH CAROLINA non / SPAIN +non / SRI LANKA / SUDAN +non / SURINAME / SWEDEN / SYRIA non / TAIWAN +non / TAJIKISTAN / TIBET non / TROMELIN ham / TURKEY / UKRAINE / USA K6FRC / USA KLDE / USA BBG/NBC / USA VOA / USA +non WOR/WA0RCR/G24/WRMI/WBCQ/KVOH/HLR / USA Global 24 /USA WRMI / USA KVOH / USA WBCQ / USA WRNO / USA WINB / USA +non WTWW / USA WWCR / USA WJHR / USA KFI / USA KSAH / USA KBNN / USA KKOW / USA WMVP / USA KSIS / USA KRCN / USA WAMB / USA WSLM / USA KMMO / USA KWOD/KMAN / USA KCKK / USA WLGC / USA KVDW / USA WLZR/WINT / USA WFME+ / USA KGYM / USA KRND / USA WPRR / VANUATU / VATICAN / VIETNAM +non / WESTERN SAHARA non / ZANZIBAR / UNIDENTIFIED 702 / UNIDENTIFIED 1080/1134 / UNIDENTIFIED 6925 / UNIDENTIFIED 7175 / UNIDENTIFIED 9550/9600 / UNIDENTIFIED 9700 / UNIDENTIFIED 9702 / UNIDENTIFIED 15909 / UNIDENTIFIED 17665 / TESTIMONIALS / PUBLICATIONS / LANGUAGE LESSONS / CONVENTIONS CONFEFRENCES / DIGITAL BROADCASTING / RADIO EQUIPMENT FORUM / PROPAGATION For restrixions and searchable 2015 contents archive see http://www.worldofradio.com/dxldmid.html [also linx to previous years] NOTE: If you are a regular reader of DXLD, and a source of DX news but have not been sending it directly to us, please consider yourself obligated to do so. Thanks, Glenn WORLD OF RADIO 1763 CONTENTS: *DX and station news about: Albania, Australia, Brazil, Bulgaria, Cambodia non, Canada, Congo DR, Eritrea, Germany, Greece, Greenland, Korea North non, Kuwait, Madagascar, Philippines, Solomon Islands, Spain, Sudan non, Syria non, Taiwan, USA, Vatican SHORTWAVE AIRINGS OF WORLD OF RADIO 1763, March 5-11, 2015 Thu 0430 WRMI 9955 [repeated 1762] Thu 1330 WRMI 9955 [confirmed] Fri 2130 WRMI 7570 15770 [confirmed] Sat 0730 HLR 7265-CUSB Hamburger Lokalradio Sat 1000 WRMI 5850 Sat 1530 HLR 7265-CUSB Hamburger Lokalradio Sat 2030v WA0RCR 1860-AM [NEW] Sun 0200 WH2XDE-1 1750 Victor NY Sun 0415v WA0RCR 1860-AM [NEW: confirmed at 0424] Sun 2300 WRMI 11580 [confirmed] Mon 0300v WBCQ 5110v Area 51 Tue 1100 WRMI 9955 Wed 0730 HLR 7265-CUSB Hamburger Lokalradio Wed 1315 WRMI 9955 Wed 1530 HLR 7265-CUSB Hamburger Lokalradio Wed 2100 WBCQ 7490v Thu 0330 WRMI 9955 [or 1764 if ready in time] Latest edition of this schedule version, including AM, FM, satellite and webcasts with hotlinks to station sites and audio, is at: http://www.worldofradio.com/radioskd.html or http://schedule.worldofradio.org or http://sked.worldofradio.org For updates see our Anomaly Alert page: http://www.worldofradio.com/anomaly.html WORLD OF RADIO PODCASTS: Tnx to Dr Harald Gabler and the Rhein-Main Radio Club. http://www.rmrc.de/index.php?option=com_podcastview=feedformat=rawItemid=156lang=de or directly via: http://bit.ly/1xD5yyn AND ALTERNATIVE, tnx Stephen Cooper: http://shortwave.am/wor.xml AND ANOTHER ALTERNATIVE, tnx to Keith Weston: http://feeds.feedburner.com/GlennHausersWorldOfRadio Also via [but still not back in service]: http://tunein.com/radio/World-of-Radio-p198/ OUR ONDEMAND AUDIO: http://www.worldofradio.com/audiomid.html or http://wor.worldofradio.org DAY-BY-DAY ARCHIVE OF GLENN HAUSER`S LOG REPORTS: Unedited, uncondensed, unchanged from original version, many of them too complex, minutely researched, multi-frequency, opinionated, inconsequential, off-topic, or lengthy for some log editors to manage; and also ahead of their availability in these weekly issues: http://www.hard-core-dx.com/index.php?topic=Hauser Best DX wishes, Glenn Hauser _ Hard-Core-DX mailing list Hard-Core-DX@hard-core-dx.com 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
[HCDX] Glenn Hauser logs March 7, 2015
** BANGLADESH. 15505, barely audible March 7 from before 1359, BB IS, mistimesignal ending at 1359:19, opening Urdu (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BRAZIL. 9665v, March 7 at 0622, tho defunct, David Miranda is heard wailing just like in the good ole days, but a minute later some non-wailer is talking, so apparently just a tribute clip. Voz Missionária, weak signal with usual het, presumably North Korea. Other 31m ZYs also audible with poor signals: 9819v, R Nove de Julho; 9645v, R. Bandeirantes (also hetting algo); 9630v, R. Aparecida; 9587v, SRDA São Paulo; but no 9565 SRDA Curitiba detected vs remnant Cuban jamming. At 0624, 9587v also has a bit o` Miranda, but not // 9665v (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BRAZIL. 11675 approx., March 7 at 0625, now the spurs out of 11780.1 RNA/RNB are much stronger than usual, such that a third-order one audiblizes cracklingly way out here, 105 kHz = 3 x 35 kHz below. This means that second-order 11710 is above `normal` level, and 11745 is unbearable, like 11815. However, also as usual, matches on the hi side of the fundamental are lesser: barely detectable on 11850 and not on 11885 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CHINA. 15940, March 7 at 1522, CNR1 jammer, poor 14980, March 7 at 1528, CNR1 jammer, fair; none in the 12s, 13s, 16s, 17s, 18s (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CUBA. 15370, March 7 at 1355, QSY from 9850 has already been made by RHC, and not out of whack today. March 8 begins DST in Cuba, since they must follow what the Yanquis do, so based on previous summery experience, without any advance info this time from station, I expect some changes like this: English on 11760 at 19 instead of 20 English on 11880 to Africa at 23 instead of 22 (yes, one UT hour LATER rather than earlier) English on 5040 to Carib at 23 instead of 00, which makes it // 11880 Spanish morning at 11-15 instead of 12-16 (but 11760 stays on midday) Spanish afternoon at 21-23 instead of 22-24, including to Europe Spanish evening until 05 instead of 06 on most frequencies (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** INDIA [and non]. 9830, March 7 at 1354, RTTY QRM dominates, but can hear some programming under, so AIR has managed to modulate today (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** IRAN. 11675, March 7 at 1350, IRIB manages only an open carrier with hum, while // Urdu also via Kamalabad, 11730 is OK (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** NEW ZEALAND. 11725, March 7 at 0645, RNZN via RNZI, not dumping off the air early tonight, with `Saturday Night Nostalgia` request show, VG signal as usual --- great music variety, as I doze off, rouse by 0735 during ``I Still Haven`t Found What I`m Looking For`` by The Temptations. 0739 outro as a request by a couple in Washington DC. Were they listening on SW? Can`t seem to find this song audio online by Temptations, just U2, Cher, etc. Show page http://www.radionz.co.nz/national/programmes/saturdaynight with contact info, pre-planned playlist not including late requests like this one (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** NIGERIA. 15120-, March 7 at 0629, good signal from VON, and sufficient modulation! Slightly on the lo side as usual compared to 1120.0 KMOX on the FRG-7. Playing songs, sounding like French, 0634 segué. It`s the second SSOB rivaling 15240 Australia, and not much else on 19m. Supposed to be programming in English at +05-07 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A [non]. 17895, Sat March 7 at 1525, Hyper Heather starting an interview on `Music Time in Africa` from VOA, surprisingly good signal while 15580 is very poor. 17895 is 100 kW, 100 degrees from São Tomé while 15580 is 100 kW, 10 degrees from Botswana. MTIA was also on Friday 21-22 via bigsig Greenville on 15580, same episode? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 1100, March 7 at 1347 UT, outdoors show including ``conservation``, hunting, website http://www.bbkoradio.com so it`s Big Billy Kinder Outdoors. Site is overflowing with advertising; one heard on air is for a store in Cleburne and Weatherford TX, so it this TX? NW/SE DF, so I figure it`s really KNZZ Grand Junxion CO, now 50 kW day power from 1330 UT (April: 1245 UT), as the only 1100 Texan, KDRY in San Antonio is Christian teaching. Website shows BBKO flagship station is WBAP, distributed by Salem, and yes, KNZZ is on the roster, 6-8 am MT Saturdays (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 1250, March 7 at 1332 UT and still at 1346 UT, open carrier, dead air looping NE/SW, surely the SRS and almost-daytime groundwave inhabitant, KYYS Kansas City KS, automation failed so La Equis isn`t so super when no one at or with the station is looking after it. The OC allows ESPN in English to be heard underneath, no doubt KZDC San Antonio (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 1550, March 7 at 1322 UT, ``Cape Radio 100.3 News-Talk`` thru the CCI including Branson/Springfield a
[HCDX] Glenn Hauser logs March 6-7, 2015
** ARGENTINA. 28480-usb, March 6 at 2114, LU8YE, fair signal making quick contacts in Spanish and English, such as WD9IDV at 2115. When vox is open, background noise of other voices so must be a multi-operator station. The Y after the number indicates it`s in a remote part of Argentina (Z would even be Antarctic), as call-regions are lettered rather than numbered. Yes, QRZ.com shows: LU8YE RADIO CLUB DE LOS ANDES LOS PEHUENES 1 Y LAS RETAMAS SAN MARTIN DE LOS ANDES - PATAGONIA, NQ 8370 Argentina ``The Radio Club de los Andes, located in the city of San Martin de los Andes, besides the Lanin National Park with superb natural surroundings, offers big lakes and clear water rivers. It is a beautiful tourist place, we invite you to visit (video of our city)`` http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=At9aEk5DJSY They are gearing up for this weekend`s ARRL DX contest which doesn`t start until UT March 7 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** COSTA RICA. 24950-USB, March 6 at 2111, virtually the only phone signal on 12m, and certainly the biggest, is TI5/M0DXR, making quick contacts, maybe warming up for the ARRL DX Contest? Which does not start until UT March 7. Someone mentioned 5-9 as if that were also a contest name. Mostly contacting US stations, weak here as most of the country is beyond skip range at this frequency and/or they certainly aren`t aiming at OK (unless in the Pacific Northeast). One worked is N1DS at 2113. Per QRZ.com, while he`s operated from many extra-UKOGBANI locales, nothing in particular about the current TI5; just home info: Mark Haynes 196 The Downs Harlow, Essex. CM20 3RH England (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CUBA. 6000, March 7 at 0127, RHC is off, leaving English only on 6165 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** EGYPT. 9900, March 6 at 2126, R. Cairo English to Europe first seems dead air, then can make out some suptorted just-barely modulation, also some hum, poor with flutter. Suptorted == suppressed distorted. 12035, March 7 at 0119, R. Cairo, good signal but dead air 9860, March 7 at 0124, R. Cairo, fair signal, dead air 9905, March 7 at 0125, R. Cairo, Arabic music, talk, whine, distorted (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** GUATEMALA. 28500-USB, March 6 at 2117, TG9AHM calling CQDX, poor signal. From Guatemala City, has quite a gallery of family, pets, certificates, shack on his QRZ.com page: TG9AHM EMMANUEL H. MIERES G. (Manny) P.O. BOX 2,789 CORREO CENTRAL, ZONA 1 , 01001 Guatemala (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** PERU [and non]. 5980, March 7 at 0101, JBA carriers beating; one, i.e. R. Chaski, goes off at 0104:23.5, which is 6 seconds later than last night, while BBC/UAE remains. I can usually hear this on both the PL-880 and DX-398, but now on the latter only (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SAUDI ARABIA. 9555, March 6 at 2122, ME music, very poor with flutter, not // better Holy Qur`an on 11815, 11915, as unlike them, this is the BSKSA General First Program. Tuning on up, I hear the same music but considerably unsynchronized, why? on much better 9870, good signal. And why such a disparity in quality? Both are registered as 500 kW: 9555 at 295 degrees from Riyadh and 9870 at 310, which is certainly closer to USward, but only 15 degrees difference (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SRI LANKA. 11905, March 7 at 0118, very poor signal with flutter, seems unmodulated, quite a change from the usual good signal from SLBC Trincomalee (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. WORLD OF RADIO 1763 monitoring: confirmed Friday March 6 at 2130:30 on WRMI 7570 15770, about equal levels here. Next: Sat 0730 1530 on Hamburger Lokalradio 7265-CUSB Sat 1000 on WRMI 5850 Sat 2030v on WA0RCR 1860-AM Gateway 160 Meter Radio Newsletter, MO Sun 0415v on WA0RCR 1860-AM Gateway 160 Meter Radio Newsletter, MO Sun 2300 on WRMI 11580 [USA DST shifts now in effect!:] Mon 0300v on Area 51 via WBCQ 5110v Tue 1100 on WRMI 9955 Wed 0730 1530 on Hamburger Lokalradio 7265-CUSB Wed 1315 on WRMI 9955 Wed 2100 on WBCQ 7490v As chances to hear WOR on SW are reduced, I suggest you may want to subscribe to a podcast: three different sources are linked atop http://www.worldofradio.com (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 5111.0, UT Saturday March 7 at 0102, William Tell Overture, but no Allan Weiner, as Tom is substituting tonight (and I don`t think he interjected a word when the theme paused a beat). 0110 checking WBCQ // 7490.0, and find that program on 5111 is 29 seconds behind (travelling to Maryland and back on the internet?). Yes, measured very close to 5111.0 but Tom says ``5110``, and 7490.0 is not 1 kHz off. Tom seems to be vamping, as he is multi-tasking, also running the AM station; opens to calls and soon hears from John in Bermuda at 0116 (Glenn Hausr, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 11580, March 6 at 2127, ute chirping QRM about 11578 on the lo side of WRMI
[HCDX] Glenn Hauser logs March 12-13, 2015 [more]
** ANGUILLA [non]. 11775, March 13 at 1340, still silence from the PMS/DGS station, some weak instead, presumably AIR. The new service via KVOH 9975 at 04-07 continues to be quite undermodulated (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CUBA [and non]. 11930, March 13 at 1341, R. Martí good atop pulse jamming, and no RHC CCI for a third day, but I should have checked earlier (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MEXICO. 900, March 13 at 1317, Spanish with PSAs about Nuevo León, no doubt XEOK Monterrey; tuning on up, 990 XET and 1050 XEG are still in with good signals (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MEXICO. 1170, March 13 at 1323, manage to null KFAQ Tulsa tightly for something in Spanish, making SAH of 80/minute = one and one third Hz; plugging something at 10 am, ``Ke Buena`` in passing, so it`s XERT Reynosa, Tamaulipas, closest Mexican in keeping with SRS opening from this area on lower frequencies. One must always take care not to be fooled by KJJD Windsor CO, daytimer also listed as Spanish, slogan ``La Ley``. Further confusion could arise since a Mexican also is ``La Ley`` on 1170, per Cantú IRCA, XEMDA, Monclova, Coahuila; surely not all-legal formats, but implying some kind of leadership (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 5830, March 13 at 0550, WTWW-1 is still open carrier/dead air, passing the 24 hour mark since I first noticed it. And still at 1337; and also after QSY to 9475 at 1402, and still at 1652. It seems that whoever is running WTWW in TN has no interest in axually listening to the station to know if it`s modulating. Likewise, back at SFAW HQ in CO, axually turning on a radio to hear what`s happening is beyond their capabilities, or interest. We find this incredibly amusing (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 570, March 13 at 0621 UT, open carrier, dead air and some hum, loops NE/SW, much stronger than KLIF with Bohannon. Very likely it`s the only US station which fits, Las Cruces NM, currently called KWML with 5 kW day power rather than 155 watts night, both non-direxional. BTW, FCC AM Query brings up a third Las Cruces entry, on 890, NEW, 10/1 kW, direxional at nite, broad cardioid toward SW, null toward WLS. But most info is lacking, not even who owns it or address! Apparently it`s an application which has been granted, but not yet specified as a CP (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 720, March 12 at 1752 UT as I turn on the caradio, there is WGN Chicago IL, and it`s almost noon! Poor signal but completely readable; stronger than it ever gets by groundwave at midsummer. A reminder of the city-to-city distance, Chicago-Enid: 667 statute miles, 1074 km. 670, March 12 at 1752 UT, sports talk is also dominant here instead of groundwave remnant of KLTT Denver, so WSCR is also making it tho as always not as well as WGN. Something`s screwing with the D-layer which should be blocking skywave on a bright sunny almost-spring day. I reset my destination to the powerless kitefield but by the time I get there at 1800 UT, WGN has faded to JBA, and nothing else unusual, no 1690 WVON Chicago either. ((It turns out, tho powerlines are distant from the middle of the field, I am still getting some low noise level, and additionally strong whine of same pitch against every frequency (unless a strong blocker) 1010-1260 kHz! Then it cuts off a couple minutes later. Maybe coming from a nearby oil rig, or the Autry Tech Center, as this is in its backyard.)) After lunch nearby, I check 720 again at 1830 UT and WGN is reaudible with sports talk, also a SAH (San Antonio?) and fading down again. Local mean noon here is always 1832 UT. When I get home again a few minutes later, before local noise overtakes, WGN can be heard, now with some musical CCI, KSAH? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 720, March 13 at 1313 UT, ``Ahora en dos frecuencias, 104.1 FM y 720 AM, La Estación de La Raza``, i.e. KSAH Universal City (San Antonio) TX; fair signal and alone on frequency, no WGN. Also was just getting CW on 680, no doubt KKYX San Antonio. The 104.1 would be KSAH-FM, licensed to Pearsall, which is way down I-35 southwest of San Antonio, while Universal City is on the northeast edge. Since the rebranding from ESPN Deportes, 104.1 replaces the // 103.1 KHHL listed in the NRC AM Log. FCC info on 104.1 is interesting. Besides 100 kW KSAH-FM there is also a 20 kW KSAH-FM1 booster on same frequency, diexional with reduced signal from 320 clockwise to 90 degrees, i.e. toward San Antonio, (the opposite of what one would expect) from site east of Pearsall, but not much closer to the metropolis, near Jourdanton: http://transition.fcc.gov/fcc-bin/fmq?list=0facid=161921 Still co-owned KHHL 103.1 is only 34 kW, in Karnes City, SE of SATEX on US 181, about the same distance out as Pearsall to the SW ; long live rimshooting (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 840, March 13
[HCDX] Glenn Hauser logs March 13-14, 2015
** ANGUILLA. CBB still missing March 13 at 2133 check of 11775, and March 14 at 0043 check of 6090. FWIW these are still registered by Jerry Plummer for HFCC in A-15, 100 kW at 320 degrees, 10-22 22-10 UT, but what does he know? My nearest steetlite has just fired up with an RF noise burst at 0042 UT March 14; sky nearly clear at orange sunset, officially 0037 UT per gaisma.com (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CUBA. 5040, March 14 at 0041, RHC in French, having shifted one hour earlier before DST began, and presumably paired with Creole at -0030 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** EGYPT. 12080, March 14 at 0045, R. Cairo VG signal level but suptorted music 12035, March 14 at 0045 I have just tuned down from 12080 in time to hear a mistimesignal in progress ending at 0045:27.5 to open the Cairo Spanish service. Same VG signal here and also same suptortion. 9860, March 14 at 0047, the third R. Cairo Spanish frequency is weaker, merely good level, undermodulated but not so distorted at least during music. 9965, March 14 at 0047, R. Cairo in Arabic, good level like 9860 but suptorted, plus whine, and scratching crosstalk from some other modulation source. So impressed am I by the various defects of Abis transmitters that I have not been checking them for frequency accuracy lately, but someone did find 9965 recently was askew (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** PERU. 5980.0, March 14 at 0056, JBA carrier, and by 0100 I am pulling some Spanishish modulation, talk with some brief musical bits, presumably themes for gospel modules on the Red Radio Integridad relay. On one receiver I listen to the content and on the other with BFO offset for precision of the anticipated autocutoff of R. Chaski: these do occur simultaneously at 0105:06.5* which is 43 seconds later than 7 nights ago at 0104:23.5, so averaging 6.14 seconds later per 24-hour period. No sign of BBC/UAE carrier this time, but presumably still on without propagating (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SRI LANKA. 11905, March 14, will SLBC be back tonight, a no-show last night? Yes, but late: cuts on at 0115:10.5, very good with flutter, adding modulation about 10 seconds later, just missing the mistimesignal! Already opening announcement joined in progress, 0115:47 into S Asian songs (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. WORLD OF RADIO 1764 monitoring: confirmed Friday March 13 at 2130:32 on WRMI 15770, // now much weaker in the noise 7570 even tho the latter is aimed this way while 15770 is not: MUF/LUHF advantage. Next: Sat 0730 1530 on Hamburger Lokalradio 7265-CUSB Sat 1000 on WRMI 5850 Sat 1930v on WA0RCR 1860-AM Gateway 160 Meter Radio Newsletter, MO Sun 0315v on WA0RCR 1860-AM Gateway 160 Meter Radio Newsletter, MO Sun 2300 on WRMI 11580 Mon 0300v on Area 51 via WBCQ 5110v Tue 1100 on WRMI 9955 Wed 0730 1530 on Hamburger Lokalradio 7265-CUSB Wed 1315 on WRMI 9955 Wed 2100 on WBCQ 7490v As chances to hear WOR on SW are reduced, you may want to subscribe to a podcast: three different sources are linked atop http://www.worldofradio.com (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 7490-, March 14 at UT [now timeshifted one hour earlier] I`m all set from `Allan Weiner Worldwide`, first listening on WBCQ webcast; but the first 5 minutes are misc. fill music and bits of phone instruxions which weren`t supposed to go on the air. 0005 finally another ID and ``William Tell Overture`` theme. Some problem with the usual feed from Florida so AW is using dialup phoneline instead; he`s feeling awful having caught a cold, and also depressed by the death last Monday of his ``Wizard of Wireless`` co-host (by phone) Mal Fuller, heart failure. Rest of hour is mostly anecdotal about him, repeated countless times as ``a good man``. I do glean a few other things: 1390, WEGP, Presque Isle ME went off the air two weeks ago! (evidently permanently), was 25/10 kW with talk format. As a result, AW`s station on 780, WXME Monticello, 5/0.06 kW, has converted to talk. (WEGP was an easy catch in European logbooks, often reported, tnx to being on a good split frequency and its cardioid pattern toward Europe with null toward the rest of US.) TimTron has been working on the 7490 WBCQ transmitter so it should now have more power, better modulation and fidelity than ever; reports wanted (and several phoners seemed to agree). In fact, Allan boasts that 7490 is the highest fidelity of any US SW station. By 0030 I`m on the porch really listening to 7490-, still slightly on the lo side. Around 0100 AW is talking about new programming on 5110; Thursdays at 8 pm ET [UT Fri ] is a church in Ontario, I think he called it `Lakeside Lifeline`, followed next Thursday only by a one-time show from Fred Moe, `Radio Thrift Shop`, at 9 pm [UT Fri 0100]. And starting right now on 5110 is WAZU --- except it doesn`t, when checked at 0106, much weaker 5110 is still AWWW, 41
[HCDX] Glenn Hauser logs March 14, 2015
** ANGUILLA. 6090, March 14 at 0534, Caribbean Beacon is back on with PMS, usual very good signal, slight het from off-frequency competition. This and the day frequency 11775 had been off for at least four days since absence first noted March 10 at 0535. Strange thing about these silences: we never notice any problem with transmission before they happen. But some kind of breakdown, or maintenance? 11775, March 14 at 1305, CBB also confirmed back on air in daytime, well atop the AIR CCI (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BRAZIL. 11705-11720, March 14 at 0527, the RNA second-order crackling spur is very bad now, audible over this 15 kHz range, so maybe centred slightly above usual 11710. Even louder and more obnoxious are the first-orders circa 11745 11815. Fundamental 11780.1v modulation is blasting but not very distorted: I say again, if they would only back off the mod level on that, the spurs might go away (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CUBA [and non]. 9550, March 14 at 1259, RHC IS under open carrier with flutter, 1300 stronger CRI theme and opening Vietnamese. RHC is announcing that 11950 and 9850 and 6000 are now closing (but of course, 11950 keeps going, while 9850 is already off a few minutes earlier). Until DST was imposed by Yanqui (economic?) imperialism, RHC was running 9550 for only one hour at 14-15 UT, but now evidently switched one real hour earlier like other morning frequency usage. But either way, there is a Commie vs Commie collision with CRI, which runs Vietnamese straight thru from 1100 to 1557; despite 193 beam from Beijing, its 500 kW easily trumps RHC`s signal even here. 11950, March 14 at 1306, RHC is still on despite announcement at 1300 that it was closing (now nominally shifted an hour earlier for DST); while 11930 bears no RHC, just wall-of-noise jamming (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** INDIA. 13710, March 14 at 1330, AIR GOS good with flutter, as I am enjoying equinoxial reception from the station/nation which has always refused even to try to serve North America. This is 500 kW, 108 degrees from Bengaluru toward SE Asia, official CIRAF targets: 49, 50 and 54, i.e. Myanmar to Philippines to Indonesia. Opening after unrelated music, depriving us of their wonderful IS, then 1330 sign-on with quotation of the day, ``The mind acts like an enemy for those who do not control it. ~ The Bhagavad Gita``. Have they always done this? Not noticed before. Good roundup of Asian and world news for 10 minutes; 1340 Comment[a]ry on the Delhi Dialogue with 10 ASEAN nations; 1345 plug new website http://www.airworldservice.org and program summary for rest of transmission up to 1500; 1346 into `Light Music`. But after 1400 ruined as always by CRI English I. // 11620 and 9690 are unusable (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** IRAN. 11730, March 14 at 1304, VIRI modulation is suppressed, while on // 11675 it`s OK, but poor levels with flutter. Both are Kamalabad in Urdu at 1250-1420, but with very different results. At 1327 during Qur`an, they are about equal; by 1357 they again sound very different, more hum and less modulation on 11730; at 1418, 11730 is already off, but 11675 not off until 1419 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** OKLAHOMA. 1170, March 14 at 1252 UT, KFAQ Tulsa is out of order: carrier breaking up with modulation peaks, sounds bad on AM, and obvious with BFO; recheck at 1430 UT, it`s back in whack. This has happened before (Glenn Hauser, Enid, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SUDAN [and non]. 7316, March 14 at 0531, carrier jammer to R. Dabanga on 7315 via VATICAN, making 1-kHz het. Determined by careful tuning to be the case, rather than a 7315 transmission with 1 kHz tone jamming, as an alternative method: nothing on 7314 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 9605, March 14 at 1255, talk about María in Spanish, i.e. Vatican Radio relay via the Voice of the Catholic Republic of America --- what? You say, this is not a Catholic Republic? Then, why in the world is the US government transmitter in Greenville broadcasting Vatican Radio to the exclusion of all other religions? So it can violate Separation of Church and State, the consequences be damned! Furthermore, Vatican already has its own US station, WEWN, which also relays VR in Spanish (but not English) twice a day, making VOA relays even more uncalled-for. Further2more, as listed at http://www.hfcc.org/data/schedbybrc.php?seas=B14broadc=VAT there are several more VR relays via USG IBB transmitters in TINIAN, and Tinang, PHILIPPINES --- despite Vatican already having its own SW station there too, Radio Veritas Asia! At 1259, 9605 is wrapping up with VR IS. BTW, this transmission was originally at 1130 on 7305, same frequency as nite service at 0200, but when DST ended last November, there was a surprise switch to one hour later on a higher band. So now with DST resumed, why hasn`t it switched back to 1130?
[HCDX] Glenn Hauser logs March 9-10, 2015
** ANGUILLA [non]. 6090, March 10 at 0535, Caribbean Beacon is off! Maybe that`s why Pastor Melissa Scott has suddenly shown up on extended KVOH 9975 transmission, confirmed at 0541 check, except it`s Dead Gene Scott at the moment, explaining about the significance of definite articles in Greek. Anguilla day frequency 11775 is also absent at 1339, 1429, 1703 March 10 chex. Could she be closing down Anguilla? Or is it kaput? But outages keep happening and then coming back. PMS after all is a hometown girl in Los Ángeles. Strangely, the KVOH schedule does not mention The University Network or DGS, but labels the 04-07 daily block as ``Faith Center, Glendale, California`` and giveaway linking to http://www.pastormelissascott.com/ (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BRAZIL. 11815 11745, March 10 at 0545, crackling spurs from 11780.1 RNA/RNB; also a trace on the second-order 11710 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CHINA. 11645-11650, March 10 at 1345, noisy spurblob of CNR1 audio matching that on 11640 jammer against RTI, which is apparently out of order. Another CNR1 jammer on 11655 against VOA is not synchronized, but the spurs fill up the intervening space (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CUBA. Further confirmations of DST shifts in RHC transmissions: 11880, March 9 at 2305, RHC English now, ex one hour earlier (not later!), and // much weaker 5040 now in too much daylight, which is one hour earlier than before. 11880 is for Africa, and it makes no difference to RHC that this timing puts it at 11 pm, midnight, 1 or 2 am in African timezones. In fact, 22-23 UT was already too late for most of Africa. 5040, March 10 at 0532 check, RHC in Spanish, not English, and // 6060 and 6100 are also Spanish, leaving English on 6000 and 6165 only. Supposedly after 05 during DST season, all five would be in English. Confused about the clock at RadioCuba? Or deliberate change? We won`t know until RHC gets around to updating their schedule at http://www.radiohc.cu/interesantes/estaticas/frecuencias which is still pretending it`s on winter time scheduling; and further monitoring (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CUBA [and non]. 11930, March 10 at 1342 UT, very strange! RHC Spanish is here mixing with Radio Martí, instead of noise jamming. Can this be accidental? Main noise jamming probably emanates from same site as overt RHC. Makes SAH of about 6 Hz, roughly equal levels. RHC is // 11950 11760 but an echo apart from them, i.e. the two different sites. 11860 RHC is also still on with usual CCI during this hour from V. of Wilderness, clandestine via Philippines to Korea North. Maybe the regular noise jamming was unavailable for some reason, so had to emergency substitute RHC as jammer instead?? Or simply feed mixup. By 1428 recheck, 11930 jamming has ``normalized`` to noise pulsing instead of RHC which on 11760 is still blabbing about Los 5 Héroes, i.e. ex-cons (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** KUWAIT [non]. 21540, March 10 at 1430 check, another day with no R. Kuwait, just 21505 Sa`udi (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** OKLAHOMA [and non]. 640, March 9 at 1746 UT, KWPN Moore, IBOC is off, allowing clear reception of 20 kW 660, KSKY The Metroplex (yes, when on, and it usually is in the daytime, the Okie IBOC even messes this up 20 kHz away,); and 660 is so clear that I can now even hear Omaha underneath it, i.e. 1 kW KCRO (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** OKLAHOMA. 1120, March 9 at 1750 UT, KETU Catoosa/Sperry/Tulsa, dead carrier is still detectable on caradio via daytime groundwave after at least a sesquimonth, altho seems weaker than before, nominally 10 kW now, but no comparison whatsoever to 50 kW ND 1170 KFAQ. However, pattern shows null at 310 degrees (Enid is more like 280), and another at 70; major broad lobe centered at 190 degrees, and minor at 10. http://transition.fcc.gov/ftp/Bureaus/MB/Databases/AM_DA_patterns/1553082-121213.pdf This is because site is on the north side of Tulsa --- not that any of this matters as long as they fail to modulate (Glenn Hauser, Enid, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** OKLAHOMA. 1170, March 10 circa 1315 UT, KFAQ Tulsa local far-right talk show makes excuses for rampant racism at OU fraternities, implies the video was by an infiltraitor. At least its IBOC is off at the moment; usually on 24 hours, ruining KSL 1160 and other neighbors (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** OKLAHOMA. 1360 1420, March 9 at 1751 UT check on caradio, weak hets still audible on KS and OK stations, i.e. matching spurs from local 1390 KCRC Enid. Pitch on 1360 is lower than on 1420, so one or more of the three stations are slightly off-frequency (Glenn Hauser, Enid, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** OKLAHOMA. 1650, March 10 at 0551 UT, `Red Eye Radio` audible and a few words ahead of // 1640 KZLS, so this confirms KYHN Sallisaw is still on the air, but it`s no longer dominant vs tri-station
[HCDX] Glenn Hauser logs March 12-13, 2015
** BOLIVIA. 5952.45 approx., March 13 at 0039, Radio Pio XII, Siglo XX, in nicely at fair level, from talk to Andean music, later talk unseems Spanish (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BRAZIL. 6040, March 13 at 0046, Brazuguese mentions ``canal aberto`` --- not exactly, but it`s RB2, much better on 11935v. Not heard on 9725 lately tho I have not pursued it there assiduously (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BRAZIL [and non]. 6090-, March 13 at 0044, ANGUILLA is still AWOL, audiblizing Brazuguese weak signal slightly on the lo side and hetting an even weaker signal; it`s R. Bandeirantes, as // 9645v, also off-frequency causing a different-pitch het. The only other station scheduled on 6090 at this time is CNR2 in Geermu, China, circa grayline which also appears on 4800 with CNR1. We can safely disregard long-gone R. Esperanza, Temuco, Chile, despite retention on Aoki list (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BRAZIL. 11745 11815, March 13 at 0131, let`s get the distorted crackling modulation spike peaks log out of the way early tonight, tho lacking any further out such as 11710. // 11780.1 fundamental source of RNA/RNB (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** EGYPT. 9860, March 13 at 0111, R. Cairo, overmodulated and horribly distorted Spanish (I think), good signal level. 12035, March 13 at 0111, R. Cairo with open carrier/dead air instead of Spanish, very good signal, tho, and with a humwhine. 9965, March 13 at 0112, R. Cairo, good signal, undermodulated Arabic not distorted, and humwhine at same pitch as 12035: both Abis. 12080, March 13 at 0117, R. Cairo, fair signal, suptorted music modulation matchable to 9860 Spanish service: both Abis too per HFCC (hunting thru HFCC, I see that the other size ABZ, Abu Zabaal, is not scheduled anywhere between 0045 and 0400 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** GREECE. 9420, March 13 at 0114, no signal from Voice of Greece, which is the case more often than not, but now logged to definitize it. Non-logs of stations missing from where they are supposed to be are at least as significant as the contrary (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** IRAN. 6100, March 13 at 0123, Qur`an on poor but clear signal, from one cantor, then another. Q at this hourpart is mandatory from IRIB (except for multi-hour services already in progress), and sure enough that`s this: Urdu at 0120-0220, 500 kW, 94 degrees from Kamalabad. 0126 YL announcement in S Asian language, mentions habari; then OM low key talking; 0129 music; 0130 three rising chimes, presumed ID and news theme, but not the one I was expecting (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** NORTH AMERICA. 6876.05-AM, approx., March 13 0056, finding nothing in the 6.9s, but here is a fair musical signal on the typical Crystal Ship frequency, slightly on the hi side. I discovered this all by myself; no tipoff received from John Poet tonight. Soon a Beatles tune; 0102 ``You are tuned to the TCS shortwave relay network`` last couple words echoing, then synthetic YL voice with address tcsshortw...@gmail.com and then a sea chanty(?); 0108 ``You`re riding The Crystal Ship Bubblegum Express on the TCS shortwave relay network``, ``Mr Tambourine Man``, more music, but at 0119 check it`s off (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** PERU [and non]. 5980, March 13 at 0035, JBA carrier, presumed R. Chaski; from 0102 I am monitoring intently as there now seem to be two carriers slightly apart beating with BFO. Projected Chaski cutoff 6 nights since last check should be circa 0105:41 but cannot detect any difference then or for two more minutes, but still beating, so maybe both Chaski and BBC/UAE are still on, or it`s just propagational wavering from UAE (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SRI LANKA [non]. 11905, March 13 at 0115, no mistimesignal to log from SLBC, as the Trincomalee transmitter must be missing; and still not heard at 0133. Not a propagation problem, as AIR Urdu service is in at usual fair level with flutter on 11620. However, I do get a JBA carrier on 11905: CNR6 Amoy service, 100 kW from Beijing site is also listed (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 5110, March 13 at 0107, WBCQ is off, but I know it was on with something when I previously tuned across before 0100. Maybe it was an `Allan Weiner Worldwide` repeat despite nothing on the 5110 program schedule for weekdays. By now, 0108 UT, much stronger WBCQ 7490 is Brother Scare, timeshifted to 01-03 except UT Mondays, and with an extra hour until 04 on UT Sundays, says the sked (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 9475, March 12 at 2048, WTWW-1 is still open carrier/dead air. And still March 13 at 0109, 0133 chex; and back on night frequency 5830, March 13 at 0212, 0304, 0337, 0418 still dead. Closing in on at least 24 hours of dead air, including two frequency changes. Maybe they are automatic, or accomplished by remote control
[HCDX] Glenn Hauser logs March 11-12, 2015
** ANGUILLA. Caribbean Beacon still missing for a third day, checked as follows with NO signals: March 11: 2125 UT 11775; March 12: 0516 UT 6090; 1345 UT 11775 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) See USA KVOH ** BANGLADESH. 15505, March 12 at 1359, BB IS, very poor with flutter, mistimesignal ending at 1359:15.5 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BRAZIL. 11675, 11710, 11745, 11815, 11850, March 12 at 0523, panoply of cracking spurs from 11780.1v RNA/RNB: the outer ones are just a trace, while the inner ones are awful (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CHINA. 9200, March 12 at 1238, CNR1 jammer, poor-fair with flutter; still there at 1317 with target CCI, and // 9350. 15940, March 12 at 1357, CNR1 jammer, good with flutter 16530, March 12 at 1358, CNR1 jammer, good with flutter; no 17s, 14s 16100, March 12 at 1358, CNR1 jammer, good with flutter (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CHINA [non]. 7220, March 12 at 0521, CCI clash as always during this hour since B-14 started: ROMANIA in Romanian, and the other must be CRI English via ALBANIA; what were they thinking? Yes, they are aiming near-opposite direxions, but two European sources that close are bound to interfere with each other even inside respective targets (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CUBA. 9535, March 12 at 0515, RHC Spanish is still running here and on // stronger 9710. Outdated sked prior to DST shows 9535 was supposed to finish at 0500, 9710 at 0600. RHC English is on all 5 overkill frequencies at 0516 March 12: 5040, 6000, 6060, 6100, 6165. 11930 is again on with unlisted RHC colliding with Martí: see separate log (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CUBA [and non]. 7405, March 12 at 0519, wall-of-noise jamming against Radio Martí (unlike 23 hours earlier when clear of jamming). 5980, March 12 at 1254, R. Martí fair with no jamming, as the DentroCuban Jamming Command is apparently still out of synch. 11930, March 12 at 1342, RHC Spanish is again colliding with R. Martí, on unlisted frequency, playing games? Normally these two avoid each other and leave the jamming to noise transmitters. It`s an echo apart from 11950 RHC, while 11860 11760 are also on with their own QRM problems. At 1344 some pulse jamming is briefly added to 11930. By 1418 next check, all Cubans gone, but RM is remarkably weak, while 13820 is heavily jammed (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** INDIA. 13710, March 12 at 1346, AIR GOS good with flutter, ``Indian Melodies`` from the movie ``Hiway``, much stronger than // 9690 and 11620. But overcome at 1400 by CRI English on 13710 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** INDONESIA. 3345-, March 12 at 1241, very poor talk, 1252 losing but still detectable by 1300. No doubt it`s RRI Ternate, as heard the day before, much better by Ron Howard and Walt Salmaniw on the west coasts, measured 3344.85 or 3344.864. They were also getting 3325- RRI Palangkaraya, but I can`t detect even a carrier from that today. Maybe off again? March 11 they both closed around 1502-1503* (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MALAYSIA [and non]. 11665, March 12 at 1419, poor signals, music and talk mixed, so CRI English via Urumqi, EAST TURKISTAN, ruining what little signal we can get from RTM Wai FM. 9835, March 12 at 1419, different music than on 11665, no CCI, but ACI from usual 9830 RTTY, very poor from RTM Sarawak FM (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** RWANDA. 15700, March 12 at 0527, VG signal, WM in strangely accented Arabish, maybe because it`s Adventish, this hour via doomed Kigali site; tho beamed 30 degrees, it`s the SSOB by far, between some deep fades; 0529 pop music, 0531 segué to more from AWR (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SUDAN [non]. 15550, March 12 at 0528, tone jamming against nothing; since on 1 we hear Arabic YL with R. Tamazuj IDs in passing, poor. So they`ve outsmarted the jammers again. The 04-06 ``PNW FPU`` broadcast via MADAGASCAR is still listed on 15550 by HFCC, Aoki EiBi. Usage may vary from day to day. R. Dabanga follows at 0530 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. WORLD OF RADIO 1764 monitoring: confirmed first airing UT Thu March 12 at 0330 on WRMI 9955, fair; and 1230 March 12 also on WRMI 9955, good signal, no jamming. Next: Fri 2130 on WRMI 7570 15770 Sat 0730 1530 on Hamburger Lokalradio 7265-CUSB Sat 1000 on WRMI 5850 Sat 1930v on WA0RCR 1860-AM Gateway 160 Meter Radio Newsletter, MO Sun 0315v on WA0RCR 1860-AM Gateway 160 Meter Radio Newsletter, MO Sun 2300 on WRMI 11580 Mon 0300v on Area 51 via WBCQ 5110v Tue 1100 on WRMI 9955 Wed 0730 1530 on Hamburger Lokalradio 7265-CUSB Wed 1315 on WRMI 9955 Wed 2100 on WBCQ 7490v As chances to hear WOR on SW are reduced, you may want to subscribe to a podcast: three different sources are linked atop http://www.worldofradio.com (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 9975, March 12 at 0330, KVOH is just
Re: [HCDX] [dxld] Voice of Nigeria gone and back
I would say this report of both stations at same time recently is reliable: ** NIGERIA [and non]. 6089.87, Radio Nigeria, Kaduna in the clear 0541 13 Mar with news report, later commercials. Followed past 0620 with no Caribbean Beacon. Slight interference from second very weak station on 6089.97 which I was later able to confirm as Rádio Bandeirantes Brazil parallel to 9645.4 (Bryan Clark, Mangawhai, Northland, New Zealand - AOR7030+ and EWE antennas to NE, East and SE, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1765, DX LISTENING DIGEST) On Wed, 3/25/15, Wolfgang Bueschel_DF5SX buesch...@email.de wrote: Subject: Re: [HCDX] [dxld] Voice of Nigeria gone and back To: DXLD d...@yahoogroups.com, HCDX hard-core-dx@hard-core-dx.com Date: Wednesday, March 25, 2015, 5:03 AM Despite some DXer report still Kaduna Nigeria in past weeks, I'm not happy so, didn't heard Kaduna close to 6089.8v kHz channel since about 6 weeks anymore. Kaduna was a regular server in past decades, despite always 150-200 Hertz odd frequency outlet on lower side. Checked this morning 6090 kHz channel again, nothing heard from Anguilla prayer station, I see a weak tiny stn string on 6089.958 kHz only, but MY GUESS is - that should be the Brazilian station Rádio Bandeirantes, São Paulo, SP outlet wb _ Hard-Core-DX mailing list Hard-Core-DX@hard-core-dx.com 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
[HCDX] Glenn Hauser logs March 28, 2015
** BRAZIL. 11710 trace, 11745 11815 poor, March 28 at 0546 check, crackling spurs still emanate from the defective 11780.15v 250 kW transmitter of RNA/RNB (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGESET) ** BULGARIA. 9525, March 28 at 2012, as expected, no signal audible here from Global 24 via Secretbrod, so at 2055 I tune in the Twente, Netherlands remote instead. No signal there either! Just wideband whine on the 31m band, something wrong with the receiver? But I leave it on 9525 and it pops on at *2057. As a second-hand reception, I can`t be sure whether that was what the transmitter did, or the receiver did. In time to hear Blues Radio International closing with Boca Ratón FL address; 2059 ``Global 24 on WRMI`` ID (NOT: still using old recordings). And into `Feature Story News` for 5 minutes starting with the NYC fire which makes me suspect it`s from yesterday. 2105 Global 24 Radio promo, like us on Facebook; and very familiar music fill interspersed with ads: ``RESPECT``, 2108 SDR from Universal et al., ``Mashed Potatoes``; 2111 ``Mrs. Robinson``; 2114 Ears to Our World; 2115 waltz theme and `News Review from European News Network`. Lead story refers to plane crash being ``yesterday``, so apparently recorded three days ago, usual Wednesday produxion. So far reception via Twente has been very good! But at 2121, some local noise starts cutting on and off irregularly, mostly on, like something shorting in the electrical lines around, bad transformer. 2123 lets up a little, then worsens again. 2126, ENN concludes with ``Out on a Song``, some retro artist. 2129 promo another ENN program (which isn`t on G24 or SW, AFAIK), `Anything Goes`, on Mondays and Fridays. 2130.5 Global 24 ID ``on 9395 kHz``, also outdated; 2131:09 (with webcast delay), start WORLD OF RADIO 1766 and played to completion at 2200. The noise bursts continue to QRM. At 2145 ACI also cuts on, i.e. 9530 with HCJB`s Radio Akhbar Mufriha, 250 kW, 27 degrees from ASCENSION. I`ve been listening with relatively wide (default?) bandwidth on the remote, but now narrow it to lessen this and off-tune to 9524, which helps. Still it gets worse at 2155. What about from next week in A-15? G24/BUL still isn`t registered. HFCC shows that HCJB/ASC will be gone from 9530, but 9525 will have CRI Russian from 19 to 21, aimed NW from Beijing site, so that will be no good for Bulgaria around Eurasia during that bihour (this Saturday start scheduled at 1800 with two hours of `The Rock Pile`). Will WOR stay at 2130 or shift to 2030? TBA (Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CANADA. 7230.0-LSB, March 28 at 0552, XL3A is making his contact #710 in the WPX DX Contest, but whence? QRZ.com shows: XL3A, Ron Vander Kraats, 9 Jopling Avenue South, Islington, ON M9B 3P4, Canada; QSL: VE3AT --- who, AAMOF, has exactly the same name and address. But XL3A is so much more exotic a prefix. Hambands have continued to be crammed this weekend tnx to the contest, but with the MARTINIQUE log, this is about the extent of my monitoring of it (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CHINA. CNR1 jammers, morning of March 28: 17830, March 28 at 1418, CNR1 jammer, poor with heavy flutter. Had not noticed this inband one before, but I bet it`s against VOA Tibetan --- yes, Aoki shows via Tinang, Philippines, this hour only 17585, March 28 at 1418, CNR1 jammer, fair with heavy flutter. This one is vs VOA Tibetan via Lampertheim, Germany 16920, March 28 at 1418, CNR1 jammer, good with heavy flutter 15970, March 28 at 1419, CNR1 jammer, good with flutter 15745, March 28 at 1419, CNR1 jammer, good with heavy flutter 14980, March 28 at 1421, CNR1 jammer, fair-good with flutter 14920, March 28 at 1421, CNR1 jammer but dead air until 1422 modulation, good with flutter 12560, March 28 at 1424, CNR1 jammer, fair with flutter (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** KUWAIT. 17550, March 28 at 2004, R. Kuwait ID in passing, Arabic, fair, registering 27-38 dbu on the PL-880 with short random wire; by 2023 it`s down to 20-35 dbu, and keeps weakening. Believe it`s the first time this year I have heard this strange service to Central Western North America at 20-24 UT. Riding the MUF, reception will continue to vary widely from day to day. And still NO signal on 15540 for the 18-21 English service, transmitter defunct? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MARTINIQUE. 7279.5-LSB, March 28 at 0549, ham TO4C making quick contest QSOs, having reached #923 sequentially. Fortunately always utters call fonetikaly, but where in the world is that? Must find himself in Region 2 to reside in this bandpart. QRZ.com shows: TO4C, Richard Brokenshaw M5RIC, QSL Via M0OXO, OQRS Preferred, Martinique. Active from Martinique NA-107 from: 26 March - 01 April 2014 including an entry in CQWW WPX SSB. 22 March - 29 March 2015 including an entry in CQWW WPX SSB. No doubt he got that odd call to diversify the prefixes available rather than plain old FM-
[HCDX] Glenn Hauser logs March 28-29, 2015
** ALBANIA. A-15 has just begun, but not every station switches to new schedule immediately. March 29 at 0128 I am looking for R. Tirana on 9850, where it`s to be in English to North America at shifted time of 0130-0200 --- but no signal here past 0133, nor on other possibilities 9855, 7465 or 7425. 9855, March 29 at 0226, R. Tirana IS is on here! This is the winter timing to be abandoned, and the frequency registered for the Albanian broadcast at 2300-2400 (unchecked yet). But no English starts at 0230, just keeps playing IS on fair signal past 0233 when I quit. Maybe this will all be straightened out by UT Tuesday at 0130, since there is no English broadcast on UT Monday anyway (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** AUSTRALIA. 17840, March 29 at 0119, R. Australia is still here as A-15 starts, poor signal, rather than alternate 13630. 17840 has however been holding up well late into the night on occasion (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CUBA. 6165, March 29 at 0120, open carrier/dead air, while English is nominal on 6000; 0134 now both are modulating with an Arnie Coro non-DX talk (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** EGYPT. 12070, March 29 at 0110, new R. Cairo A-15 frequency, open carrier/dead air, with lite whine; nothing more on 12080 or 12035 9965++, March 29 at 0115, R. Cairo, Arabic, undermodulated, whine, very good level, with flutter. This one unchanged. Off to hi side 9315.0, March 29 at 0118, open carrier/dead air, poor-fair; by 0227 it`s only poor. This would be the 0200-0330 English frequency, ex-9860 where there is nothing. Another alternate registered is 9720 13850+, March 29 at 0228, Qur`an? suptorted, fair with flutter, R. Cairo ex-9905, Off to hi side, not as much as 9965 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** INDIA. 11985, March 29 at 0111, S Asian music, fair with flutter, gone at 0132 recheck. HFCC A-15 shows it`s AIR Sinhala service only until 0115, 250 kW, 174 degrees from Delhi site (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** OMAN [and non]. 11650, March 29 at 0113, R. Sultanate of Oman is still here, in Qur`an, with CCI in Chinese which is CRI, Urumqi, East Turkistan on A-15 schedule; 11650 is not registered for Oman in A-15; instead at 00-02, 9500 or 9650 or 12015 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** PERU. 5980, March 29 at 0105, JBA carrier, only one, it seems, i.e. R. Chaski. Sharp cutoff at 0106:38.5* leaving nothing, as BBC is now gone from 5980 UAE for A-15. Furthermore, no ACI from 5985 WRMI --- tho registered as available, not yet in use. This is 11.5 seconds later than a binite ago when last checked, i.e. slipping average 5.75 later per uniday (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SRI LANKA. 11905, March 29 at *0114:12, carrier on, 0114:46 musical prélude starts (not exactly an IS?), 2+1 timesignal ends at 0115:12.5, SLBC sign-on; fair with flutter (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A [and non]. WORLD OF RADIO 1766 monitoring: confirmed on WA0RCR, 1860-AM, UT Sunday March 29 from 0315. Also confirmed Saturday March 28 at 2130 on Global 24 via 9525 BULGARIA: see previous report: Next: Sun 2300 WRMI 11580 Mon 0300v WBCQ5110v Area 51 Tue 1100 WRMI9955 Wed 0630 HLR 7265-CUSB Hamburger Lokalradio [time shift for DST] Wed 1315 WRMI9955 Wed 1430 HLR 7265-CUSB Hamburger Lokalradio [time shift for DST] Wed 2100 WBCQ7490v Thu 0330 WRMI9955 [or 1767 if ready in time] (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 11920, March 29 at 0111, Family Radio in Spanish, fair; new A-15 WRMI sked shows this at 01-02, plus RTI Spanish at 02-03 (and another Taiwan Spanish at 03-04 on 7730). At 0225, 11920 is fair-good airing Chinese lesson for Spanish speakers. 11825, UT Sun March 29 at 0112, `Travel with Rick Steves`, which is Global 24 via WRMI, VG (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 1590, March 29 at 0128 UT, general newscast, 0130 ``ESPN Radio`` and ``KGAS Carthage`` ID inserted, thank you very much, and into sports talk. Can we depend on all ESPN affils to ID like this on the semihour? Initially dominating from SE/NW, soon fades down as if power cut. But its official March sunset was an hour earlier at 0030 UT (April: 0045 UT). KGAS is 2500/128 watts U1. Carthage is in E Texas, just SW of Shreveport LA (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** VIETNAM [non]. 12005, March 29 at 0110, VOV English to N America is back here for A-15, via Woofferton UT, ex-6175 where there is nothing now. Good with flutter, but there is CCI underneath: probably VOA Deewa Radio via Sri Lanka, still on B-14 frequency tho it should not be, and presumably will be gone by tomorrow (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. 1460, March 29 at 0125 UT tune-by, ID as ``The Outlaw, non-stop country music``, loops about SSE/NNW. Can`t find that slogan for any 1460 in the NRC AM Log. The only country station around here is KCWM in Hondo TX, but
[HCDX] Glenn Hauser logs March 29, 2015
** AUSTRALIA. 11590, March 29 at 1423, S Asian song, good signal. HFCC shows this is the new English frequency from RBA, 1325-1530, 100 kW, 305 degrees from Kununurra; replaces 12115 which started at 1400. In B-14, 11590 was in S Asian languages only (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CHINA. 13920, March 29 at 1324, Chinese drama, CNR1 jammer mixing with RTTY. No time for a full 12-18 MHz bandscan today (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) See also EAST TURKISTAN ** CUBA [non]. 13605, March 29 at 1322, Spanish and music, as R. Martí has jumped from 13820 to 13605 for A-15; no jamming here, but wall-of-noise still on 13820, faking out the DentroCuban Jamming Command which is too out of it just to consult HFCC. Here I excerpt RM for A-15: 5980 07-10 6030 00-12 7365 00-03 7405 03-07 12-14 9565 20-24 9805 10-13 11930 14-24 13605 13-20 Or in time order by the two Greenville transmitters: 00-12 6030, 12-14 7405, 14-24 11930 00-03 7365, 03-07 7405, 07-10 5980, 10-13 9805, 13-20 13605, 20-24 9565 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** EAST TURKISTAN. 17630, March 29 at 1418, CRI English, good signal, lite flutter, new for A-15. HFCC shows the ubiquitous 308 degree antenna, 500 kW from Urumqi for Europe at 12-15. But also registered is CRI English via Mali, 100 kW at 85 degrees, at 14-16. No sign of a second signal here! I bet some list-loggers will again assume this is Mali instead of East Turkistan (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SPAIN. 17855, March 29 at 1416, VG signal in Castilian about Armenia, of all things. Obviously REE on unexpected frequency, and starting an hour earlier with DST in Europe, *1400 on weekends. Surely this is on a NAm antenna, a great improvement over 9620 which was completely non-funxional for a midday path. Finally they have studied a bit of Propagation 101! Confirmed source by // much weaker 15490. 17855 is in fact registered in HFCC A-15, but not at this hour: 16-24 Sat/Sun, 20-24 M-F, 200 kW(?? odd power), 290 degrees to CIRAFs 4, and 6-11 = all of contiguous USA, Canada east of Manitoba, all of Mexico, Central America, Caribbean. We had suspected the times in these Noblejas registrations were erroneous, CEST = UT +2, instead of UT, and this appears to confirm it. Transmissions should now end circa 2200 UT, not 2400 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A [non]. 11990, March 29 at 1421, VOA Korean on new frequency, into music, good signal here, better than another new //, 11935 but which is not synchronized. HFCC A-15 shows: 11990 is 250 kW at 21 degrees from Tinang, PHILIPPINES at 12-15 11935 is 250 kW at 333 degrees from TINIAN at 13-15 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A [and non]. 5850, March 29 at 0553, very surprised to encounter ``radiogram`` beeping on this WRMI frequency, instead of TruNews, which continues on 7455 and 9395. 0554 followed by more melodic intoning, and synthetic voice announcement of address q...@stfradio.com and postal address for Capibara Games Inc., in Toronto. More tones follow, 0559:30 cut to classic WRMI ID, 0600 into ME fill music (a CD Jeff picked up in Oman??) rather than back to TruNews. Signal VG as usual on this frequency. Meanwhile, adjacent 5855 Cuban numbers transmitter was open carrier/dead air at 0553, by 0600 YL started voice numbers. It too would include `radiogram` digital modes. What companionship. We had seen absolutely no advance publicity about another STF special broadcast, maybe started at 0500? Was it on WRMI`s Facebook where station news sometimes appears exclusively? NO. Meanwhile, WRMI has made a number of schedule changes, and the new A-15 transmitter/frequency grid in UT is up at: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1nEVwCMB9RSKowLzLXamyayVpCzjmPAw_SB1r3YOdzQc/edit?pli=1#gid=0 Among other things, note that 11580 and 15770 are no longer 24 hours, but still on partly with TOM and as previously with other programming, including WORLD OF RADIO Sunday at 2300 on 11580, Friday at 2130 on 15770 (also 7570). Revised program schedule for 9955 presented in EDT = UT -4: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AivhtkIEGb3_dENObnZrMkt1YmtUWGxkbkd3TGNzOXchl=en#gid=0 9955 is off the air again at 1429 check March 29. The program sked shows TOM is still supposed to be on 9955 at 14-21! No mention of webcast only during the daytime; but the frequency sked does show a 9955 gap at 14-21 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A [and non]. 9840, March 29 at 1428, YL gospel huxter in English, poor signal made worse by het from perpetually off-frequency VIETNAM, as WHRI has never figured out this could be a problem; it registers 9840 available for very long hours (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** VATICAN [non]. 11890, March 29 at 1317, surprised to hear good signal with YL in Luso-Portuguese summarizing Pope`s Palm Sunday homily, interspersed with clips of the original in Italian. HFCC A-15 shows two Vatican
[HCDX] Glenn Hauser logs March 31-April 1, 2015
** ALBANIA. 9855, March 31 at 2356, R. Tirana Albanian hour to N America in closing music, 2357 national anthem, 2358 IS and off. Fair signal, no interference co- or adjacent. Nearest signal is Chinese on 9865, no problem. *2359 pops on 9850 instead with carrier and then IS until 2400*, i.e. setting up for the next broadcast, English at 0130 on 5 kHz lower. There is a slight QRM overlap, but not a big problem. By 2357 or so I am hearing something underneath 9855, clear but poor at 2359, which turns out to be VOA Tibetan via Kuwait, with a VOA jingle at 0001. 9850, April 1 at 0127, R. Tirana IS, fair with flutter. On the PL-880 with short random wire, dbu ranges 31-51, average about 46. There are storms not far away to the south in Oklahoma, and the noise floor level on unoccupied 9840 ranges 19-23 dbu. No adjacent or co-channel interference plus 5 or 10. In fact, the only significants are bookends Turkey in Spanish back on same frequencies as last A, 9770 and 9870. 0130 sign-on with correct times and frequencies for the two English broadcasts starting March 29, into news. Recheck at 0155 during closing music, still no QRM problem, dbu ranges 37-49; 0157 theme, 0158 IS to 0158.5*. So both frequencies are working well in the new season. However, modulation is not sufficient; as Wolfy suggests, should add an OPTIMOD to boost it (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ALGERIA [non]. 13820, March 31 at 1942, music on very poor signal, must be RTA via FRANCE as scheduled 18-20 UT, audible now that Cuba has moved all its jammers to 13605 following Martí (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BRAZIL. 11745 11815, March 31 at 2355, crackling spurs from RNA 11780.1v are audible already, and a trace on 11710 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CUBA [and non]. 13605, March 31 at 1941, DentroCuban Jamming Command finally hits R. Martí`s A-frequency instead of B-frequency 13820 as they were still doing this morning. RM is still atop the wall-of-noise and easily readable. Arnie must have finally got around to reading my logs ridiculing their incompetence; Sorry, Martí, but this was no secret, as in HFCC for all to see (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) See ALGERIA [non] ** GREECE. 15650, March 31 at 1939, dbu range 25-44, poor signal in music, sounds ME or Greek, 1943 Greekish WM talk; 1957 Greek music, plays past 2000, but their clock is slow since a timesignal ends at 2000:49! Then surprise ID for ``Radiophonikos Stathmos Makedonias``, theme, a bit of open carrier, and cut off at 2001:41*. Maybe moved to 9420 but would not propagate now, and I`ve not heard that for at least a week at night when it would (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** KUWAIT. 17550, March 31 at 2002, no signal from R. Kuwait, tho previous frequency 13650 was audible poorly before 2000 and off now. By 2003 with BFO I can detect a JBA carrier on 17550, so apparently it`s on but not a good day to propagate. As always, nothing on 15540, the former English frequency (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SPAIN [and non]. 17855, March 31 at 1935, no signal from REE, the new frequency it started March 29 and 30 --- leaving 17850 FRANCE without QRM. Did they see and act on my remark about absurdity of such adjacency on an almost empty band? Tuning around, I find REE instead on 17715, poor signal in Castilian, so is it still the North American beam? // fair 15490. Tuning further, at 1940 I find the third frequency is another new one, 15450! Where will they be tomorrow? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 5850, March 31 at 2355, Global 24 via WRMI continues during the 23-24 hour only on weekdays, but it`s a good one: `Democracy Now`, which now has coverage filling in numerous radio gaps, including Oklahoma. WRMI 11825 now off the air at this hour except weekends with Global 24 (Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 12105, March 31 at 1941, WTWW-3, Bible story in English with dramatic music, VG signal, contrary to nominal schedule of Spanish this hour. Recheck 2006 now it`s in Brazuguese, scheduled as Portuguese (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. March 31 at 1943, I notice that WTWW 9475 is audibly much weaker than neighbor in TN, WWCR 9980, which continues to blast in despite some daytime absorption affecting other USA 30-31 mb signals (and suspected mostly running underpowered, too, and/or unfavorable antennas). So just for comparison, on the PL-880 with a few meters of random wire, I take dbu readings for them all within a few minutes at 1949-1956 UT, rearranged from weakest to strongest: 9515, 18-20, no signal measuring noise floor 9395, 20-26, WRMI 9265, 23-30, WINB 9840, 28-36, WHRI 9370, 27-47, WWRB 9475, 30-49, WTWW 1, 50-53, WWV --- note steadiest and second strongest, only 10 kW 9980, 58-65, WWCR 9955, 20-24, no signal from WRMI, noise floor here (Greenville/Martí doesn`t start until 2000; WBCQ still
[HCDX] Glenn Hauser logs March 26-27, 2015
** ANGUILLA. 6090, March 27 at 0147 check, CBB is on (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** GERMANY [and non]. D-AIPX is the unique call of the plane crashed into the Alps, as I have NEVER heard mentioned on any of the news about it. I had to look it up on flightradar.com Referring to it as ``Flight U9525`` is totally ambiguous as the same route and flight number has been and will be carried out daily by a variety of other aircraft which, let us hope will not crash (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MEXICO. 970, March 27 at 0129, weak Spanish station from SW, fortunately close to the null against local adjacent 960 KGWA. ID as Radio Madera, automated timecheck for 6:29 by YL voice, mentions FM 96.1, back to music; 0132 next break another full ID mentions Chihuahua, 6:31 TC, more music; some CCI from an ABC station in English, NW/SE but mostly nullable; 0135 yet another break with ID, ads, gobierno del estado PSA; promo a show lunes a viernes 6 a 7 de la mañana; 0137 auto YL TC for 6:37; 0140 gone. No sign of XEJ Juárez which we have not heard for months and believed to be off the air. Instead it is the other Chihuahuan on 970, as in Cantú: XESW, Radio Madera, La Mera Mera, +FM 96.5 [sic], Cd. Madera, 5000 watt daytimer. IRCA agrees, yet schedule as 14-05 UT. Cantú also linx to station website http://www.radiomadera.com/ which acknowledges that it is on 96.1, not 96.5; and the 5-letter call for FM, XHESW is more like what I heard announced. Where is Ciudad Madera (Wood City), anyway? It`s not in my Rand McNally; a larger atlas shows it in the remote west-central Chihuahua mountains, not far from the Sonora state line. And Cantú has this as the only radio station in the town, altho the website shows sibling outlets with corporate HQ in Chihuahua capital. A strange thing on the schedule, auto-displaying for Friday already: among the programs with titles are four other blox labeled SIN PROG., apparently meaning ``without programming`` --- so do they axually take breaks off the air? Those are at 07:00-07:30, 09:00-13:30, 15:00-16:00, 16:30-21:00 local, which per the TCs heard is still MST = UT -7, to become MDT = UT -6 the first Sunday in April, like the rest of Mexico beyond the Border starting a quadriweek later than in El Norte. No, a full-week program grid shows no such breaks: http://www.radiomadera.com/portada.php?p=proga=programacion Also linx to the cheesecake-prone state journal Vozenred.com I`m wondering if Quintana Roo, since it alone last year switched to EST = UT -5 to be in step with tourists from eastern USA, will also switch to EDT = UT -4, better late than never, on April 5? Here`s a handy Mexico timezone map along with adjacent USA, showing current but not future situation, and linx to others: http://www.worldtimezone.com/time-mexico12.php Anyhow XHESW does have live streaming. And per Cantú, there is only one TV channel in Madera, relay Televisa-2 Canal de las Estrellas, XHMAC on channel 7 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** NORTH AMERICA. 6876-AM, March 27 at 0055, as I tune in, music stops and synthetic YL with ``thecrystalshipshortw...@gmail.com`` address twice; fair signal, back to music, still at 0103, but off at 0135 check. Tnx to notification from John Poet a sesquihour earlier that the relay had just started. It was heard better by Stephen C. Wood in Massachusetts as late as 0110 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** OKLAHOMA. 1520, March 27 at 0055 UT, I`m surprised to find a VG signal from KOKC, already back on the air within 24 hours of its towers being destroyed by tornado. Item from CBS News about a procedure the FDA has approved to turn brown eyes blue by messing with melanin levels. Then PSA from Oklahoma Bureau of Narcotix, 0056 ``News-Talk 1520, K-OKC``. How did they do it? Somehow load the single tower which was not downed but merely broken in two? Or swift change to some other site? Sounds like full power, in fact better than it had been before the disaster! There is less CCI from Rochester, but at 0112 UT, a tell-tale het on the hi side, no doubt Saudi Arabia, 1521, which I had not heard since sometime last fall. Presumably KEBC gets to resume its normal programming on 1560, but just after sunset it`s already lost in the QRM. Paul B Walker forwards the answer: ``From KOMA Engineer Mike Fields via the I Take pictures of transmitter sites facebook group: we are on the air at 1520 kHz with new folded vertical radiator and a slightly modified simple L network. Makes 10 kW with 1.07 VSWR They are using a portion of the only remaining tower from 1520, the only one that didn`t collapse because of the tornado`` Regarding the additional info about this in my last report: strangely enough the story from Epoch Times is the Falungong, responsible for Sound of Hope and consequently pervasive ChiCom jamming all over SW (credits AP however as main source of KOKC story). As for this one:
[HCDX] Glenn Hauser logs March 23-26, 2015
** ANGUILLA. 6090, March 24 at 0557, CBB is still on, after first noted at 0132. 11775, March 24 at 1407, CBB also on now but with CCI, India 6090, March 25 at 0204 is off again 11775, March 26 at 1351, PMS is on again (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1766, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** AUSTRALIA [and non]. 12085, March 25 at 1403, RA with news about cannabis, Yemen, Amanda Knox, quite stronger than // 12065 with CCI from BBC Singapore; 1405 joining Triple J starting with someone visiting Texas for a year, including SXSW. I assume this is the last newscast we will be getting for a few hours as RA stays with JJJ. RA also plans to maintain these two frequencies in A-15 at 09-21, but BBC will be gone; instead, Iran will collide with both: 12085 at 1420-1520 in Russian; 12065 at 1150-1450 in Dari. HFCC A-15 does show a few changes or alternatives: New 6080 at 09-21, 5 degree azimuth to CIRAF 51 only – i.e. New Guineas --- will this be a regular service from a reactivated fourth transmitter, or just for contingency?? 355 degree azimuth: 12065 at 09-21, 15415 at 21-09 30 degree azimuth: New 6150 AND/OR 12085 at 09-21, 15240 at 21-09 70 degree azimuth [extending right across North America]: 9580 at 09-21; New 13630 AND/OR 17840 at 21-09 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BANGLADESH. 15505, March 24 at 1359:20, mistimesignal ends from JBA BB. 15505, March 25 ending at 1359:56, mistimesignal after IS is still fast but much later than usual (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BRAZIL. Re my March 24 log of Bolivia on 6134.84 with het from Brasil on 6135.22, approxes., I was surprised to see later a log from Bob Wilkner, FL of something else! ``6135.2 Brasil Radio Alvorada, Parintins 0930 to 0940 instrumental music and om chat in Portuguese this // 4965 on 15 March (Wilkner)`` Radio Alvorada is not the station on 6135, but R. Aparecida. If it was // 4965, it must have been only a relay of Aparecida, or both stations relaying something else, since Alvorada is also obviously Roman Catholic per its homepage, but going on to the programação page link: http://alvoradaparintins.com.br/programa%C3%A7%C3%A3o.html we find it only says LOREN IPSUM, but with a link at the left to a full page of Latin nonsense, no doubt in tribute to the RCC: http://alvoradaparintins.com.br/esporte/copa-alvorada/49-texto-loren-ipsum-8.html Tnx, Bob, for eventually leading us to this amusement (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CUBA. 6000, March 24 at 0553, RHC English with a fast SAH and slightly offset double audio, ergo two transmitters at once; historical nostalgic MW discussion about how RHC relayed Voice of Vietnam during The War, not directly but by reading scripts off teleprinter; also mentioned Radio Free Dixie [which IIRC was on 690]; how RHC itself was on a hi power MW transmitter, 1040 to the distress of WHO (I don`t remember that, but Radio Moscow). Ah, the good ole days! Shortly the second 6000 transmitter goes off; maybe just a brief overlap. 11760, March 25 at 0202, open carrier/dead air from RHC, whilst nominal on 11670 and much stronger // 11840 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MEXICO. UNIDENTIFIED. 1040, March 26 at 1319, very poor signal, YL in Spanish with temps and predicted highs for several cities including Hidalgo del Parral, then listing today`s (Catholic) saints. No 1040 in Parral, but one in Chihuahua city, XEHES, Estéreo Sensación which I have IDed recently, maybe this (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** OKLAHOMA. Earthquake report: March 23 at 2330:09 UT, my chair and computer screen shake. USGS soon reports this: 4.0, 22 km SSE of Medford, OK, 2015-03-23 23:29:54 UTC 1.4 km deep That`s about 20 miles NE of Enid. We get dozens of frackin` quakes in the 3`s every week! Usually unfelt, but when they hit 4.0 magnitude, they get our attention. Note the 15-second delay in timing from the epicenter (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** OKLAHOMA. March 25, tornado season is underway! Big 3 network affiliates in OKC blow away network news at 2230 UT for continuing wall-to-wall coverage of approaching storm. Who cares what`s happening in the rest of the world? No access to NBC or ABC news, but KWTV RF 39 implements its new backup plan to put CBS on the other full-power station it acquired last year, KSBI ``52.1`` RF 23, rather than on ``9.2`` which continues replaying old newscast from noon! Yet as late as last Sunday, the second half of Face the Nation, which KWTV refuses to carry on its main channel, was still on 9.2. KFOR could put NBC on 4.2 instead of ANT-TV or on its substation, KAUT RF 40, ``43``, but won`t. KOCO`s only alternative would be 5.2 but that would pre-empt MeTV. KFOR, KOCO and KWTV main channels all pre-empt the entire primetime network schedules until 0300 UT March 26; meanwhile tornados did hit Moore (and Sand Springs near Tulsa). I assume CBS primetime continued on KSBI instead of whatever it
[HCDX] DX Listening Digest 15-12; World of Radio 1766
DX Listening Digest 15-12 has now been posted at http://www.w4uvh.net/dxld1512.txt and also soon, sometimes delayed at http://www.w4uvh.net/dxlatest.txt Alternatively, latest DXLD 15-12 is also here until next issue: http://www.worldofradio.com/dxlatest.txt CONTENTS: WOR 1766 / ALBANIA A15 / ALGERIA +non / ANDAMAN NICOBAR / ANGUILLA +non / ARGENTINA / AUSTRALIA 4QD / AUSTRALIA Symban / AUSTRALIA RBA A15 / AUSTRALIA +non RA / AUSTRALIA VMW / BAHAMAS / BAHRAIN +non / BANGLADESH / BOLIVIA +non / BRAZIL +non / BULGARIA / CAMBODIA non / CHINA / COLOMBIA / CONGO / CONGO DR / CUBA +non / DJIBOUTI / EGYPT / ERITREA +non / ETHIOPIA +non / EUROPE Pirates / FALKLAND ISLANDS / FRANCE / GERMANY +non / GREECE / GUATEMALA / GUYANA / HONDURAS / INDIA / INDONESIA / INTERNATIONAL BRB A15 / INTERNATIONAL VACUUM non HHGTTG / IRAN non / IRELAND +non / ITALY +non / KOREA NORTH +non A15 / KOREA SOUTH / KURDISTAN non / KUWAIT / LAOS / LIBERIA non / LITHUANIA / LUXEMBOURG / MADAGASCAR / MALAYSIA / MEXICO +non / MICRONESIA / MOROCCO / NETHERLANDS non / NEW ZEALAND A15 / NICARAGUA / NIGERIA +non / NORTH AMERICA Pirates / OKLAHOMA Earthquake / OKLAHOMA +non KRMG+ / OKLAHOMA KETU / OKLAHOMA KFAQ / OKLAHOMA KGYN / OKLAHOMA +non KOKC/KEBC / OKLAHOMA KZLS / OKLAHOMA non EGN / OKLAHOMA KWTV/KSBI/KFOR/KOCO / PAPUA NEW GUINEA / PERU / PHILIPPINES / ROMANIA A15 / RUSSIA +non / RWANDA +non / SAINT KITTS NEVIS / SAO TOME E PRINCIPE / SAUDI ARABIA / SOLOMON ISLANDS +non / SOMALILAND / SOUTH CAROLINA non / SPAIN +non A15 / SRI LANKA / SUDAN non / SWAN ISLANDS / SWEDEN +non / TAIWAN +non / TAJIKISTAN / THAILAND / TIBET non / UGANDA / UKRAINE / UAE / UK Talksport / UK BBCWS / USA AF MARS / USA WCY / USA MTI / USA BBG / USA VOA / USA +non WOR/G24/WRMI/WBCQ/WA0RCR/HLR+ / USA +non Global 24 / USA WRMI / USA WBCQ / USA WRNO / USA WTWW / USA WWRB / USA WEWN / USA KNMX / USA KCCV / USA +non WFNO+ / USA KVOZ/KUBR / USA KICA/KTNZ / USA KRCN / USA KVOP/KRLD / USA KEJL+ / USA KTXW/KMOX / USA KLTK / USA WUMY / USA KQQZ / USA WOAI / USA KDHN / USA Public Media / USA FCC / USA WQSH / USA NBC / URUGUAY / VANUATU +non / VENEZUELA +non / YEMEN / ZAMBIA / UNIDENTIFIED 690 / UNIDENTIFIED 702 / UNIDENTIFIED 1240 / UNIDENTIFIED 1340 / UNIDENTIFIED 1500 / UNIDENTIFIED 3345 / UNIDENTIFIED 3370 / UNIDENTIFIED 4956 / UNIDENTIFIED 4989 / UNIDENTIFIED 7850 / UNIDENTIIFED 9550/9600 / UNIDENTIFIED 11719 / UNIDENTIFIED 16413 / UNIDENTIFIED 17887 / UNIDENTIFIED 25910 / TESTIMONIALS / PUBLICATIONS / WORLD OF HOROLOGY / DIGITAL BROADCASTING / RADIO EQUIPMENT FORUM / PROPAGATION For restrixions and searchable 2015 contents archive see http://www.worldofradio.com/dxldmid.html [also linx to previous years] NOTE: If you are a regular reader of DXLD, and a source of DX news but have not been sending it directly to us, please consider yourself obligated to do so. Thanks, Glenn WORLD OF RADIO 1766 CONTENTS: *DX and station news about: Albania, Anguilla, Australia, Brazil, Bulgaria, China, Eritrea and non, Germany, Indonesia, Iran non, Madagascar, México, New Zealand, Nigeria non, Oklahoma, Romania, Russia, Rwanda, Saudi Arabia, Spain non, Taiwan non, Uganda, USA, Vanuatu SHORTWAVE AIRINGS OF WORLD OF RADIO 1766, March 26-April 1, 2015 Thu 0330 WRMI9955 [1765 replayed] Thu 1230 WRMI9955 [confirmed] Fri 2130 WRMI 15770 7570 [confirmed] Sat 0730 HLR 7265-CUSB Hamburger Lokalradio Sat 1000 WRMI5850 Sat 1530 HLR 7265-CUSB Hamburger Lokalradio Sat 1930v WA0RCR 1860-AM Sat 2130 Global 24 9525 via BULGARIA [confirmed in Japan] NEW Sun 0315v WA0RCR 1860-AM [confirmed] Sun 2300 WRMI 11580 [confirmed] Mon 0300v WBCQ5110v Area 51 [off air, confirmed on webcast] Tue 1100 WRMI9955 Wed 0630 HLR 7265-CUSB Hamburger Lokalradio [summer time shift] Wed 1315 WRMI9955 Wed 1430 HLR 7265-CUSB Hamburger Lokalradio [summer time shift] Wed 2100 WBCQ7490v Thu 0330 WRMI9955 [or 1767 if ready in time] Latest edition of this schedule version, including AM, FM, satellite and webcasts with hotlinks to station sites and audio, is at: http://www.worldofradio.com/radioskd.html or http://schedule.worldofradio.org or http://sked.worldofradio.org For updates see our Anomaly Alert page: http://www.worldofradio.com/anomaly.html WORLD OF RADIO PODCASTS: Tnx to Dr Harald Gabler and the Rhein-Main Radio Club. http://www.rmrc.de/index.php/rmrc-service/podcast/glenn-hauser-wor Alternative podcasts: http://shortwave.am/wor.xml http://feeds.feedburner.com/GlennHausersWorldOfRadio Also via [but still not back in service]: http://tunein.com/radio/World-of-Radio-p198/ OUR ONDEMAND AUDIO: http://www.worldofradio.com/audiomid.html or http://wor.worldofradio.org DAY-BY-DAY ARCHIVE OF GLENN HAUSER`S LOG REPORTS: Unedited, uncondensed, unchanged from original version, many of them too complex, minutely researched, multi-frequency, opinionated, inconsequential, off-topic, or lengthy for some log editors to manage; and
[HCDX] Glenn Hauser logs February 27-28, 2015
** BRAZIL. 11747 11813, Feb 28 at 0647, crackling spurs from RNA/RNB 11780.1v remain, as obviously nothing is being done about them, and my frequent reports appearing i.a. on the radioescutas group are no longer spurring anyone to action (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CUBA. 17730, Feb 28 at 1421, RHC is doing an annoying voice-over translation from English to Spanish, evidently from a (live?) press conference in Wáshington about the negotiations to normalize diplomatic relations with USA. Mentions Vienna Convention. It`s annoying because the original English is about as loud as the Spanish, and I am unable to ignore one and concentrate on the other. Do they ever listen to their own broadcasts and notice such a problem? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ETHIOPIA [non]. 15515, Sat Feb 28 at 1502, poor signal in unID language. Only thing at this hour in HFCC B-14 is ``Milano``, i.e. IRRS, 150 kW, 145 degrees in Somali on day-6 only == Friday. That was R. Xoriyo, as in WRTH 2015, of the Ogaden National Liberation Front. Aoki has it better now: ``15515 Raadiyoo Warra Wangeelaa 1500-1530 Day-7 = Sat Oromo/English 150 165 Saftica ROU 4442N 02606E IRRS b14`` I.e. via ROMANIA. And no more Xoriyo on this frequency. The first log we had of RWW was Oct 4, 2014 from Kouji Hashimoto, Japan. But did not make it into WRTH 2015, not in Target Broadcasts section under Somalia, Ethiopia, or Eritrea. A version 2 of B-14 pdf update has now been posted dated 23 Feb: http://www.wrth.com/files/WRTH2015IntRadioSuppl1_B14SchedulesUpdate.pdf It is in there, not under Targets, but under ITALY, IRRS as if it is not clandestine. Per Facebook it is instead religious [Christian]: https://www.facebook.com/Radiowarrawangeelaa ``Radio Warra Wangeelaa is a weekly Afan Oromo Gospel radio to the Horn of Africa. The radio broadcasts every Saturday 15:00-15:30 GMT on 15515 kHz on SW`` http://www.uoece.org/ Back in the WRTH 2015 itself, page 470, IRRS listings do not include either 15515 broadcast. The V2 update has a few additions in red, such as two targets to NIGERIA, but still misses ISRAEL being back on SW, tnx to WRN via Global 24 via WRMI 9395 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ETHIOPIA [non]. 17850, Sat Feb 28 at 1602, fair signal in unID language, lo-fi talk, no jamming until noise (DRM?) starts at 1603.5. Latest HFCC has nothing on 17850 between 15 and 17, but RFI Issouodun before and after. Aoki, however, maintains an A14 schedule: ``17850 Oromo Voice Radio 1600-1630 .2.4..7 Oromo 100 130 Issoudun F 4657N 00159E OVR a14`` The Ethiopian DRM jamming is a constant problem for VOA Radiogram reception in Germany, say Roger`s weekly reports, bleeding over onto 17860 where we are hearing its toning clearly. This is also the one reported with an English broadcast on Mondays only at 1616-1630, Radiyo Sagalee Oromoo, Oromo Voice Radio. It`s in WRTH 2015 page 507 in the Target sexion (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** IRAN [non]. 9430, Feb 28 at 0217, fair signal with ME-ish song, at first wondering if Greece had jumped up to here from 9420, but it`s only Radio Farda per ID which soon follows; this at 02-05 via Lampertheim, GERMANY, and Greece is still AWOL (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** KUWAIT. 21540, Feb 28 at 1418, R. Kuwait is still missing, and 21505 Sa`udi is still there to prove propagation is not the cause. Ivo Ivanov reported Feb 25 that since Feb 24, one of the transmitters was temporarily off, which silences all of the following: 05-09 15515 Arabic, 10-12 21580 Filipino, 1205-1555 21540 Arabic, 16-18 15540 Urdu, 18-21 15540 English (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** NETHERLANDS [non]. 9395, Sat Feb 28 at 1326, Global 24 via WRMI during `Happy Station`, Keith Perron discussing the deletion of Radio Nederland Wereldomroep`s online archives as ``audio genocide``. His comments strongly resemble those in a DXLD yg post this week. More about this currently atop the homepage of http://pcjmedia.com ending with an address he also spelt on the air for those who would like to object: save.the.archive.of@gmail.com --- don`t forget all the dots, or ``periods`` as Keith calls them (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** NEW ZEALAND. 11725-AM, Sat Feb 28 at 0649, just as I am tuning in to enjoy a bit of RNZN`s Saturday-night request show, usual good signal playing some music from the 1930s, dumps off the air at 0650* and never comes back by final check 0721. 11725 is supposed to stay on until 0759 switch to AM 9765, but this cutoff is suspicious, as 0651 is the scheduled time for DRM to start on 11690, but M-F only. Another mixup in computer automation programming? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** PERU [and non]. 5980, Feb 28 at 0103, JBA carriers beating slightly against each other, I monitor intently so that I can tell when one of them goes off: 0103:40.5*, leaving an even weaker single signal, i.e. BBCWS
[HCDX] Glenn Hauser logs March 1-2, 2015
** BANGLADESH. 15505, March 2 at 1359, Bangladesh Betar IS, mistimesignal ending at 1359:30, opening Urdu, very poor (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BRAZIL. 11813 11747, March 2 at 0625, the 11780.1v RNA/RNB distorted, crackly spurs are very poorly audible (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** EQUATORIAL GUINEA [non]. 17790, March 2 at 1441 and 1528 chex, no signal from R. Africa Network via WRMI; next check at 1612, it is on (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ETHIOPIA [and non]. 17850, Monday March 2 at 1615, Oromo Voice via FRANCE is opening weekly English segment; YL says ``every Monday at 7:15 pm [Ogaden?] time``; into talk by OM. LSB synch detexion on the PL-880 helps a little, but too much DRM noise jamming to understand anything further (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** IRAN. 13820, March 2 at 0627, Qur`an, very poor, then talk mixed with overtime Cuban pulse jamming against Martí[non]. HFCC shows the Albanian hour of VIRI via Kamalabad has just opened. Overnight MUF is picking up with spring oncoming (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MEXICO. 960, March 2 at 0601, XEK Nuevo Laredo with ID and choral NA, atop the QRM during the Fox-hole of no modulation from local KGWA, once it is carefully nulled. From March 9 due to the imposition of daylight shifting, the KGWA Fox-hole will move to 0500-0505 UT, but not every night. Being from a border city subject to American economic pressure, XEK should also move to CDT early, retaining the NA at local midnite (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** NIGERIA. 15120, March 2 at 0630, good carrier, just barely modulated music, so VON has improved over 24 hours earlier when no modulation at all could be detected, but still useless (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** PHILIPPINES. 15620, March 2 at 1401, good signal with gamelan bells, talk sounds Indonesian mentioning SMS number. This really stands out, while 15610 WEWN is JBA. HFCC shows it`s Javanese instead at 1400-1430, 100 kW, 200 degrees from FEBC Bocaue. I wonder how close Javanese is to Bahasa Indonesia, to what extent they are mutually understandable (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** RWANDA. 15700, March 2 at 0628 something with music, off at 0630 recheck. HFCC shows it was AWR in French via Kigali. This is a broadcast eligible for special QSL stamp, offered by Adrian Peterson: ``ADVENTIST WORLD RADIO OFFERS SPECIAL QSL STAMP FOR KIGALI BROADCASTS At the beginning of this current Transmission Period B14 October 6, 2014, Adventist World Radio began a relay service from the Deutsche Welle shortwave relay station near Kigali in Rwanda Africa. The AWR relay via DW Kigali is on the air for a total of 2½ transmitter hours daily in three languages, French, Amharic Fulfulde. In one particular time block, two transmitters carry the programming in parallel. However, Deutsche Welle has subsequently announced that they plan to close their African relay station at the end of this current Transmission Period B14 March 28, 2015 and then dismantle the station. The last AWR broadcasts from DW Kigali will therefore also end at the same time. For those who would like to receive a QSL card for these now short term broadcasts, AWR would welcome all reception reports from listeners in any part of the world. Each reception report will be verified with a QSL card (not an Email QSL), and the envelope will be affixed with genuine postage stamps, not postal labels. In addition, while supplies last, a special QSL stamp showing Kigali will be attached to the QSL card. It is not necessary to send an off-air recording of your reception. We just need your honest reception report on paper. Where possible, please enclose return postage in the form of currency notes in any international currency, or mint postage stamps. Please note that IRC coupons are too expensive for you to buy, and they are no longer valid in the United States. Also please enclose your address label. The only address for the special Kigali QSL stamp is the Indianapolis address at:- Adventist World Radio, Box 29235, Indianapolis, Indiana 46229, USA. All reception reports, including all that have already been received, will be QSLed in due course. However, please be patient with us as we already hold uncounted hundreds of reception reports still pending, and it may take us many months to process them all. The current AWR website shows the following scheduling for the daily Kigali transmissions:- 0600 - 0630 15700 French 0600 - 0630 17800 French 1700 - 1730 9490 Amharic 1930 - 2000 17800 Fulfulde 2000 - 2030 17800 French`` As in DXLD 15-08. The 17800 broadcasts also put good signals into North America. But will the real postage stamps on the mail be from real Rwanda? I suppose that would be too much to expect. It`s also not clear whether the ``special QSL stamp`` is rubber or paper (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SUDAN
[HCDX] Glenn Hauser logs February 27, 2015
** GOA [and non]. 11775, Feb 27 at 1420, PMS ANGUILLA mixing with an open carrier making rapid SAH, presumably the AIR Nepali service at 1330-1430 via Panaji, except failing to modulate (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** GUYANA. 3290-, Feb 27 at 0654, Voice of Guyana attains poor-fair carrier level, but just barely modulated, presumably with BBCWS (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** KOREA SOUTH [non]. 9395, Fri Feb 27 at 1430, Global 24 via WRMI, with WRN ID and into KBS World Radio. This is contrary to G24 sked at http://www.tinyurl.com/G24sked which shows `Jazz from the Left` Fridays at 14-16 UT. When is KBSWR supposed to be on? It shows: Sunday thru Friday 0900-1000 Monday 2000 (followed by Israel Radio and Vatican Radio until 2100) Saturday 2100-2200. KBS no doubt occupies various otherwise unspecified WRN blox, but when I heard it is not even one of those. Anyhow, if you happen to catch it on 9395, this is a great improvement over KBS direct to ``North America`` on 15575 at 1300-1400 which is subject to degraded or no propagation at least until spring/summer (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** KUWAIT [non]. 21540, Feb 27 at 1412, R. Kuwait still AWOL, while 21505 Riyadh continues to propagate (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SUDAN [and non]. 15550, Feb 27 at 1523, surprised to hear no Radio Tamazuj, but the Sudanese tone jammer is already on, messing with WJHR USB. No signal on 15400 either, both of which had been VATICAN broadcasting Tamazuj without jamming at 1500-1530; another SMG transmitter is as usual on 15100 with unreasonably big signal relaying RVA in Filipino away from us, so it`s hardly accidental or a power problem that 15400 15550 are missing. I hunt thru the entire 19m band and do not find them anywhere else. 13800, however, is still on at 1525 with R. Tamazuj, ID at 1529 closing and 1530 into R. Dabanga, only fair signal. Then I go back to 15550 and find that has now come on with Dabanga too vs WJHR and tone jamming which got a head start. 13800 is listed as MADAGASCAR at 1500-1600, but the second half of Dabanga at 1600-1630 scheduled to switch back to Vatican, unchecked today. Latest HFCC of Feb 27 shows SMG still supposed to be on 15400 and 15550 starting at 1500 thru March 28 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 9395, Feb 27 at 1520, Global 24 via WRMI apparently just finished an unscheduled European News Net airing with their waltz theme, into survivalist commercial. This is during the 14-16 Friday period when `Jazz from the Left` is supposed to appear. See also KOREA SOUTH [non] (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 17775, Feb 27 at 1414, KVOH signal has built up to day level earlier than usual, but correlates with earlying sunrises and westward ionization. However, from March 8 it will no doubt start signing on an hour earlier at 1300, putting it back into the dark zone for starters (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 17790, Feb 27 at 1414, gospel music and not // 15770 or other Overcomer frequencies, so Radio Africa Network via WRMI is back, after a bihour of BS yesterday (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 9265, Feb 27 at 1519, no signal from WINB. Only a biweek ago did they start broadcasting weekdays as early as 1400, with `Manning Report`. Aha, a new sked dated March 1 has already been posted at http://www.winb.com/schedule.htm showing weekday start is now 1600, with `Classic Redneck Radio`, so Manning sure didn`t last long --- found coverage was inadequate? What was it about? What else but, as described in Wikipedia: ``Through the ATLAH church, Manning hosts an online series called The Manning Report, which features criticism on such topics as the negative influence of black celebrities, homosexuality and the alleged criminal acts of current U.S. President Barack Obama.`` `TruNews` M-F at 19-20 is also gone, replaced by `Voice of Evangelism`. No doubt there are further changes amongst all the gospel huxters. Saturday start is now 1500; Sunday 1230. Listened online to a minute of `Redneck` Feb 27 at 1652 --- it`s talk about survivalism, stockpiling food so you don`t have to eat slugs out in the field! (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 1530, Feb 27 at 0659 UT, Arkansas religious event calendar continues past 0700 UT, atop the BS from WCKY, so it`s again the cheatin` KVDW England AR, 2.5 kW `daytimer`, for whom breaking FCC rules and licensing is obviously no sin (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 1600, Feb 27 at 0657 UT, ID in passing as KGYM, weather and local sports for Iowa. First I did double-take as sounded like KGYN, which is already taken by 1210 Guymon OK. This on FRG-7 with E-W longwire; surprised to have this dominating 1600 rather than St Louis or Denver or even Vietnam [non]. Forget about my closest, KUSH Cushing OK, only 70 watts at night. KGYM is 5/5 kW U2 in Cedar Rapids
[HCDX] Glenn Hauser logs February 26-27, 2015
** BRAZIL. 11745 11815, Feb 27 at 0206, crackle spurs from 11780.1 RNA/RNB. 11760 RHC is also splattering, so I make sure the garbage around 11745 modulation spikes are matching 11780.1 on another receiver, not 11760 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** EGYPT. Not having paid much attn to R. Cairo lately, I do so now: 9860, UT Fri Feb 27 at 0201, good signal, undermodulated but sufficient with ME music as the English sesquihour is underway. Not distorted – that is, until the YL announcer comes on at 0202; bad studio mike and ambience are part of the problem. Bits of music; 0203 program summary but hard to follow; 0204 over to OM, ``Radio Cairo presents --- this is Islam``, a weekly show. It`s slightly more readable but the accent is a problem. I try to get something out of it but cannot. Now, when are they going to expound on ``this is Coptic``? Then timesignal ends at 0214:36.5 --- who would want to set his chronometer at that odd hour? News theme tape wows or snags, as did the one introducing the Islam show. Now the YL newscaster modulation is too high, causing some distortion. Their studio equipment must be very old and worn out; transmitters too. And so it goes. 9905, Feb 27 at 0205, R. Cairo, good signal in Arabic, suppressed and distorted modulation 9965, Feb 27 at 0205, R. Cairo, good signal in other Arabic, this one JBM with whine; no 12s audible now (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** IRAN. 9445, Feb 27 at 0218.5 just as I am tuning across a weak station, it cuts off the air in mid-word. It was Voz de la República Islámica de Irán, depriving Spanish listeners of the last sesquiminute of their broadcast, 500 kW, 304 degrees from Kamalabad to Mexico and Caribbean (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** OKLAHOMA. 1640, Feb 27 at 0146 UT, and several other times lately, as I am rotating the DX-398 on my easel checking for DX in stronger station nulls, I keep finding KZLS nulling and thus peaking in a wrong direxion. It`s supposed to be about the same as OKC stations to the SSE altho less than half as far, east of Hennessey, but I keep getting a null considerably clockwise from there, i.e. further west if it`s still to the south of here. I recheck several OKC and other ground- and skywave stations and they appear to null at the proper spots. Maybe something around here is skewing my readings, but only in the X-band? Or KZLS has secretly moved transmitter site, or maybe has a backup site? Unlikely; no such info at radio-locator.com or FCC AM Query. Will have to check further, DF from other locations (Glenn Hauser, Enid, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SRI LANKA. 11905, Feb 27 at 0114:47.5, music prélude starts, 0115:11.5 mistimesignal ends from SLBC, very poor (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. WORLD OF RADIO 1762 monitoring: confirmed UT Friday Feb 27 at 0001:10 on Global 24 via WRMI 9395. Next: Fri 2130 on WRMI 7570 15770 Sat 0730 1530 on Hamburger Lokalradio 7265-CUSB Sat 1000 on WRMI 5850 Sat 2030v on WA0RCR 1860-AM Gateway 160 Meter Radio Newsletter, MO NEW Sun 0231 on KVOH 9975 Sun 0415v on WA0RCR 1860-AM Gateway 160 Meter Radio Newsletter, MO NEW Sun 2300 on WRMI 11580 Mon 0400v on Area 51 via WBCQ 5110v Mon 2201 on Global 24 via WRMI 9395 Tue 1200 on WRMI 9955 Wed 0401 on Global 24 via WRMI 9395 Wed 0730 1530 on Hamburger Lokalradio 7265-CUSB Wed 1415 on WRMI 9955 Wed 2200 on WBCQ 7490v Wed 2201 on Global 24 via WRMI 9395 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 9395, Thu Feb 26 at 2156, Global 24 via WRMI, `Dialogos Greece` says it is about to finish, with a final musical selexion. So this week not running over an hour; 2200 no ID but change to waltz theme and opening European News Network, no evergreen but a new one leading with this week`s suicide bombing in Kano (did he say Europe??). G24 program grid continues to allege that WORLD OF RADIO is aired at this time, as indeed it was until Feb (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 7490-v, Feb 27 at 0159, WBCQ with talk show going into a break, throws in some Hebrew expressions, phone 845-345-1010, but just as I anticipated, he`s cut off for canned ID in time to join Brother Hystairical in progress at 0200, who takes priority over everything. Yes, it was Rabbi Yaakov Spivak, as now sked UT Tue thru Fri at 01-02. I wonder what his show is about (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 7505.35 approx., Feb 27 at 0157, WRNO is on before nominal *0200, as a program from Crosslinechurch.com is concluding. VG signal and VG modulation too! Now if they can only keep that up, and we`ll try to overlook being so far off-frequency. After 0214 when I am measuring the frequency, YL DJ claims twice to be on ``7.505``. Hey, wouldn`t it be neat if once, just once, some off-frequency SW station announced its real exact frequency?! DHYB; ignorance is bliss (and deniable). (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 1220, Feb 27 at 0152
[HCDX] Glenn Hauser logs March 3-4, 2015
** BRAZIL. Re my previous report of no signal on 4885 around 0630: ``4885, Rádio Clube do Pará noted with early sign off at 2300 UT on Feb 28 and at 2230 on March 1. So most likely new reduced schedule on SW. 73 Thomas Nilsson, Sweden`` (Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BRAZIL. 11710 approx., March 4 at 0641, crackling spurs from RNA/RNB 11780.1v are stronger than usual tonight, audiblizing this second-order one which earlier in evening would have QRMed Argentina. 11745 11815 are really loud, but can`t make out a second-order match on the hi side, circa 11850 (plus and minus ~35 kHz, and then 70 kHz). I keep reporting these but nothing is done about them. DXers Rudolf Grimm and Huelbe Garcia in different parts of Brazil say they have tried to hear the spurs but cannot, and it seems no one else ever bothers to report them from North America. For those who may doubt they exist, I have finally bothered to record a sample tonight for 100+ seconds at 0643 March 4 on the analog-tuned FRG-7: http://www.w4uvh.net/RNASpurs.rm I start on 11710 and you can hear the crackling, then tune up to NZ on 11725 (English), then the major spur on 11745, then RNA fundamental 11780.1v, then the matching spur on 11815, back down to 11780 and a bit back and forth as the sidebands are noisy too, 11745 garbage again, past 11725 NZ again, and ending on 11710 spur again. You may notice the similarity of the spur modulation to that on the clear fundamental. I assure you that there would be a total match if you compared them on two receivers (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CHINA. 14920, March 4 at 1354, CNR1 jammer, fair // 9680; none in the 12s, or inband 13s. 15775, March 4 at 1357, CNR1 jammer, poor, abutting the BS on 15770. HFCC has nothing on 15775 except Vatican at 1530 in AM, but that`s really DRM. Aoki shows, you guessed it, a 100-watt Sound of Hope available for long hours on 15775, attracting the jammer, but not necessarily at all times on all days. 16100, March 4 at 1358, CNR1 jammer, fair 16450, March 4 at 1359, CNR1 jammer, very poor; none in the 17s (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CUBA. 17730, March 4 at 1401, open carrier/dead air from RHC; all other frequencies on 15, 11, 9 MHz check out OK. Finally at 1414 some modulation sporadically starts, but causes(?) the unit to dump off the air, back on and off and on with modulation added, eventually settles down and stays on (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** IRAN. 11675, March 4 at 1350, VIRI in Urdu with hum, undermodulation, by 1406 seems somewhat distorted and suppressed; while // 11730 has good clear audio, barely a reverb apart. HFCC shows both of these are 500 kW Kamalabad transmitters; but sounding very different (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** KUWAIT. 21540, March 4 at 1402, R. Kuwait is still AWOL from Arabic, while 21505 Sa`udi is not. According to Ivo, it`s the same transmitter used on 15540 for 1800-2100 English, which is therefore also off the air, for how much longer? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SOMALILAND. 7120-, March 4 at 1340, JBA carrier amid the QRhaM, presumably remnant of R. Hargeisa longpath. BTW, Rob Ross in Ontario got a proxy QSL in the P-mail thru the usual consultant in Germany: ``Radio Hargeisa, Baldur Drobnica DJ6SI - Consulate to Somalia, Zedernweg 6, D-50127 Bergheim, GERMANY`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SOUTH CAROLINA [non]. 9370 WWRB 9980 WWCR, March 4 at 1422, both Brother Scare transmitters have some crackle in the modulation, 9980 being worse, and some also detectable on 11825 WRMI. Apparently defective feed emanating from Walterboro. This is not really unusual; and corresponding to the defective theology erupted (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. WORLD OF RADIO 1762 monitoring: confirmed UT Wednesday March 4 at 0401 on Global 24 webcast, but no longer on WRMI 9395, so that removes some more SW opportunities to hear WOR! But still confirmed Wednesday March 4 at 1415 on WRMI itself, 9955; no jamming. Next: Wed 2200 on WBCQ 7490v Wed 2201 on Global 24 webcast? http://67.239.246.10:8000 Since the webcast was also set up in conjunxion with WRMI, unclear whether this will remain. No --- it`s gone too: After 1900 March 4 I am hearing unfamiliar songs in English, then French, rather than Polish Radio on G24 sked. It`s the same music as on 9955 WRMI stream during the daytime when SW is off the air, probably RFI-Musique; yes, ID as such at 1912 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. Global24 bit the dust? Today at Z Global24 on 9395 kHz went off the air and some time later a religious station took the spot (Art, VE7WAE, Witmans, Canada, 0153 UT March 4, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Jeff, How come TruNews is on 9395, as well as 5850, 7455? At 0217 UT check, after someone reported it had been that way since [sic]. Global 24 programming appears normal on its webcast, British
