domenica 31 marzo 2013

Radio Romania International 1600-1656 on 9810 - two services

1600-1656 on  9810 GAL 300 kW / 135 deg to N/ME Romanian // 7315
1600-1656 on  9810 TIG 300 kW / 292 deg to WeEu French // 11950

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73!
Ivo

QTH: Sofia, Bulgaria
Equipment: Sony ICF-2001D 30 m. long wire

Absolutely new frequencies of Voice of Korea from March 31, added 2100-2350 new 9445, ex 9345

KOREA D.P.R.  Absolutely new frequencies of Voice of Korea from March 31:
0400-0457 NF  9445 KUJ 200 kW / non-dir to NEAs English, ex 9345
0500-0557 NF  9445 KUJ 200 kW / non-dir to NEAs Chinese, ex 9345
0600-0657 NF  9445 KUJ 200 kW / non-dir to NEAs English, ex 9345
0700-0757 NF  9875 KUJ 200 kW / 028 deg to FERu Russian, ex 9975
0800-0857 NF  9445 KUJ 200 kW / non-dir to NEAs Chinese, ex 9345
0800-0857 NF  9875 KUJ 200 kW / 028 deg to FERu Russian, ex 9975
0800-0857 NF  9445 KUJ 200 kW / non-dir to NEAs Chinese, ex 9345
0800-0857 NF  9875 KUJ 200 kW / 028 deg to FERu Russian, ex 9975
0900-0950 NF  9445 KUJ 200 kW / non-dir to NEAs Korean KCBS, ex 9345
1100-1157 NF  9445 KUJ 200 kW / non-dir to NEAs Chinese, ex 9345
1300-1357 NF  9435 KUJ 200 kW / 028 deg to NoAm English, ex 9335
1400-1457 NF  9435 KUJ 200 kW / 028 deg to NoAm French, ex 9335
1400-1457 NF  9425 KUJ 200 kW / 325 deg to EaEu Russian, ex 9325
1500-1557 NF  9425 KUJ 200 kW / 325 deg to EaEu Russian, ex 9325
1500-1557 NF  9435 KUJ 200 kW / 028 deg to NoAm English, ex 9335
1500-1557 NF  9890 KUJ 200 kW / 296 deg to N/ME Arabic, ex 9990
1500-1557 NF 11645 KUJ 200 kW / 296 deg to N/ME Arabic, ex 11545
1600-1657 NF  9425 KUJ 200 kW / 325 deg to WeEu German, ex 9325
1600-1657 NF  9435 KUJ 200 kW / 028 deg to NoAm French, ex 9335
1600-1657 NF  9890 KUJ 200 kW / 296 deg to N/ME English, ex 9990
1600-1657 NF 11645 KUJ 200 kW / 296 deg to N/ME English, ex 11545
1700-1757 NF  9425 KUJ 200 kW / 325 deg to EaEu Russian, ex 9325
1700-1750 NF  9435 KUJ 200 kW / 028 deg to NoAm Korean KCBS, ex 9335
1700-1757 NF  9890 KUJ 200 kW / 296 deg to N/ME Arabic, ex 9990
1700-1757 NF 11645 KUJ 200 kW / 296 deg to N/ME Arabic, ex 11545
1800-1857 NF  9425 KUJ 200 kW / 325 deg to WeEu German, ex 9325
1800-1857 NF  9875 KUJ 200 kW / 296 deg to N/ME French, ex 9975, please check
1800-1857 NF 11635 KUJ 200 kW / 296 deg to N/ME French, ex 11535, please check
1900-1957 NF  9425 KUJ 200 kW / 325 deg to WeEu German, ex 9325
1900-1957 NF  9875 KUJ 200 kW / 296 deg to N/ME English, ex 9975, please check
1900-1957 NF 11635 KUJ 200 kW / 296 deg to N/ME English, ex 11535, please check
2000-2050 NF  9425 KUJ 200 kW / 325 deg to WeEu Korean KCBS, ex 9325
2000-2050 NF  9875 KUJ 200 kW / 296 deg to N/ME Korean KCBS, ex 9975, please check
2000-2050 NF 11635 KUJ 200 kW / 296 deg to N/ME Korean KCBS, ex 11535, please check
2100-2157 NF  9445 KUJ 200 kW / non-dir to NEAs Chinese, ex 9345, please check
2100-2157 NF  9875 KUJ 200 kW / 271 deg to CHN  Chinese, ex 9975, please check
2100-2157 NF 11635 KUJ 200 kW / 271 deg to CHN  Chinese, ex 11535, please check
2200-2257 NF  9445 KUJ 200 kW / non-dir to NEAs Chinese, ex 9345, please check
2200-2257 NF  9875 KUJ 200 kW / 271 deg to CHN  Chinese, ex 9975, please check
2200-2257 NF 11635 KUJ 200 kW / 271 deg to CHN  Chinese, ex 11535, please check
2300-2350 NF  9445 KUJ 200 kW / non-dir to NEAs Korean KCBS, ex 9345, please check
2300-2350 NF  9875 KUJ 200 kW / 271 deg to CHN  Korean KCBS, ex 9975, please check
2300-2350 NF 11635 KUJ 200 kW / 271 deg to CHN  Korean KCBS, ex 11535, please check

Cancelled transmissions from summer A-13 of Voice of Korea
0300-0350 on  3250 PYO 100 kW / non-dir to NEAs Korean PBS
0300-0350 on  7220 KUJ 200 kW / non-dir to NEAs Korean PBS
0300-0350 on  9445 KUJ 200 kW / non-dir to NEAs Korean PBS
0300-0350 on  9730 KUJ 200 kW / non-dir to NEAs Korean PBS
0700-0757 on  7220 KUJ 200 kW / non-dir to NEAs Korean PBS
0700-0757 on  9445 KUJ 200 kW / non-dir to NEAs Korean PBS
0900-0950 on  9875 KUJ 200 kW / 028 deg to ERus Korean PBS
0900-0950 on 11735 KUJ 200 kW / 028 deg to ERus Korean PBS
0900-0950 on 13760 KUJ 200 kW / 325 deg to EaEu Korean PBS
0900-0950 on 15245 KUJ 200 kW / 325 deg to EaEu Korean PBS
1000-1050 on  7220 KUJ 200 kW / non-dir to NEAs Korean PBS
1000-1050 on  9445 KUJ 200 kW / non-dir to NEAs Korean PBS
1200-1257 on  7220 KUJ 200 kW / non-dir to NEAs Korean PBS
1200-1257 on  9445 KUJ 200 kW / non-dir to NEAs Korean PBS
1300-1357 on  3250 PYO 100 kW / non-dir to NEAs Korean PBS
1300-1357 on  9425 KUJ 200 kW / 325 deg to EaEu Korean PBS
1300-1357 on 12015 KUJ 200 kW / 325 deg to EaEu Korean PBS

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73!
Ivo

QTH: Sofia, Bulgaria
Equipment: Sony ICF-2001D 30 m. long wire

Glenn Hauser logs March 31, 2013

** AUSTRALIA [and non]. 11945, March 31 at 1415, RA now has heavy CCI in Arabic. HFCC A-13 shows ROMANIA at 14-15, and there are NO listings for SHP = Shepparton! Here we go again, some major station dropping out of HFCC to its own disadvantage. Fortunately, in DXLD 13-13 we do have the complete new RA schedule but not effective until April 7 when 11945 will be reduced to 06-10 & 11-13 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** BANGLADESH. 15105, March 31 at 1252, the 1230 BB English broadcast has faded in a bit, but still too poor to make out the topic vs its own humwhine; 1254.5 a quick carrier dropout (QCD?), music; also suffers ACI from stronger Chinese on 15110, i.e. CRI via Urumchi, East Turkistan.

15505, March 31 at 1408, BB with humwhine in Urdu; also audible scratchy parasites about 4.5 kHz above and below, which beat against the central carrier (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** CHINA. CNR1 Chinese classical string music, Sunday March 31 at 1242 // on 11785 (over other Chinese talk), 11775 under Anguilla, 11825, 11990, 12045, 15795.

More concert music at 1308 on 7445, 7385, 7365, 7310.

CNR1 also on 15115 at 1312 with CCI from VOA Chinese via Thailand; and on 15190 --- most of these no doubt jammers rather than legitimate broadcasts, but I`m not taking the trouble to figure out which for all of them.

17740, March 31 at 1409 poor with flutter in Chinese, i.e. vs VOA Tibetan via THAILAND (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) See also EAST TURKISTAN

** CUBA. 15220 & 15240, March 31 at 1250, weak buzz field audible peaking around here from defective RHC 15230 transmitter, as also heard last evening.

15340, March 31 at 1406, RHC is open carrier/dead air here this Sunday.

11760, March 31 at 1414, this one is off, but after confirming 11690, 11750 and 11860 are on, 11760 has also come back on (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** EAST TURKISTAN [and non]. 17630, March 31 at 1410, surprisingly VG signal from CRI English, about 2 sex ahead of 13740 Cuba. Surely cannot be MALI as previously scheduled in B-12: no, in A-13 the ChiCom have registered both Mali and Urumqi on 17630, all English:

12-15 500 kW, 308 degrees from URU and
14-16 100 kW,  85 degrees from BKO, presumably really not on the air at all (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) See also BANGLADESH

** INDONESIA [and non]. 9526-, March 31 at 1237, as long anticipated, VOI is now mercifully free of ACI from the Sino-American radio war on 9530. But that`s not much help when VOI itself is just barely modulated, and still quite a weak signal too. Can`t even determine the language now. There is also a het at 1237 from 9525, tho HFCC A-13 lists nothing until 1400 CRI Russia via SZG, which ruins VOI`s Indonesian hour, checked later at 1418. Maybe some cross-mod tho 9479 WTWW is not on yet before 1300. At 1305 VOI in presumed English, still no CCI or ACI this hour, but fluttery with too weak modulation and signal to copy (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** IRAN. 15150, March 31 at 1312, assertive, even strident, M&W in Arabic, with music background, but modulation considerably distorted; 1315 over to another calmer announcer. It`s VIRI`s A-13 NF at 0530-1430, 500 kW, 289 degrees from Zahedan per HFCC (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** JAPAN [non]. 11970, March 31 at 0510, if NHKWR in English is really here via FRANCE, it`s the JBA carrier, ex-9770 where it was well heard in B-12. Hope & expect 11970 will pick up as the spring weeks progress. How about 5975 if still // there via Woofferton? Inaudible too tho should be good for intended Europe. 11740 via Guiana French is indeed gone, final broadcast 24 hours earlier (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** KOREA SOUTH. 15575, March 31 at 1321, presumed KBSWR English for N America aimed at S America is still here with a song, but flutter and poor signal; no longer has to contend with self-destructed BBC Cyprus co-channel (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** MEXICO. 660, March 31 at 0553 UT, choral Mexican NA playing early before someone`s CST midnite; 0556 amid other QRMex, ID mentions Monterrey, i.e. XEFZ, 250 watts at night per IRCA (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** MEXICO. 1320, March 31 at 1208 UT, live DJ IDs as ``La Poderosa, 13-20 AM`` and also an FM I could not catch, with almanac items, including death/birth of Selena so 1213 plays her song ``Amor Prohibido`` (Forbidden Love), soon fades out, from southwest peak. Slogan fits for XECPN Piedras Negras, Coahuila, which is powerful only on day rig of 20 kW, night 100 watts per IRCA Log (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** NEW ZEALAND. 9655, March 31 at 1159 music, 1200 ``Radio New Zealand news at one o`clock`` starting with private plane crash. NZ has one more week of DST nonsensical UT+13 tho west of the Dateline. Sufficient signal but nowhere near what we get from Australia on 9580. 9655 is A-13 NF for RNZI now scheduled 1059-1258 for `Timor`, i.e. wrong direxion for the Pacific and US beyond.

RNZI also on new A-13 channel 6170 ex-5950, March 31 at 1309 with music, initially good vs the noise level, one of the best signals on 49m half a sesquihour after sunrise here. 6170 now scheduled 1300-1650 toward Pacific. Onward toward Summer Solstice, will get progressively worse on this end of path (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** RUSSIA. 15670, March 31 at 1246, VOR wrapping up in English a music program long before hourtop, fair with flutter. HFCC shows this is 250 kW, 145 degrees from Novosibirsk, at 11-15, not necessarily entirely in English.

15585, March 31 at 1330, ``Golos Rossii, novosti``, fair signal. HFCC shows 12-19, 250 kW, 117 degrees from a Moskva site (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** SPAIN [and non]. 11815, Sunday March 31 at 1241, poor signal in Spanish is atop very poor NHK music, with monthly SW propagation outlook, so REE via COSTA RICA southward is confirmed with `Amigos de la Onda Corta` shifted one UT hour earlier. Unfortunately, we have now lost the secret Noblejas weekend frequency toward disallowed N America, 17595, nor is it on after 1300. Maybe on a better day, 21610 will be propagating. Will the other `ADLOC` airing be at 23 UT Sunday or 00 UT Monday, as REE self-contradicts?

BTW, 21515 has replaced 21540 from REE, says Eike Bierwirth, so out from under Kuwait at last; he heard it during the DX program, but HFCC-available all the way from 09 to 17 UT, not necessarily the full span in reality, or daily (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** TURKEY. 11980, March 31 at 0512, Turkish talk on fair signal. With all those umlauts I at first suspected Hungarian: that`ll be the day. This is the A-13 replacement for 9700, now occupied by Romania, for TRT at 04-06 toward Europe (and US beyond). Should be playing a lot of music, always good for bedtime here.

15450, March 31 at 1248, VOT English with Seref Isler talking about different species of big fish; fair signal, and a great improvement over 12035 which was mostly inaudible all winter for the English when at 1330. What a difference 3415 kHz makes (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U K [non]. 7355, March 31 at 0517, BBCWS is VG during `Weekend` show, with report by Steve Rosenberg in Moscow on all the Russian bans, interviewing Vladimir Pozner, who remarx that post-USSR, there is a ``sense of revenge, envy`` against the West, and ``the rot is everywhere``, i.e. corruption, with the Kremlin behind Duma`s anti-democratic measures. This new frequency is on at 05-06 only, via ASCENSION, inadvertently serving us well, no more 7255 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 9805, sometime before 1300 March 31, R. Martí with religious service in Spanish, again violating Separation of Church & State. Does BBG approve this or even know about it? Or just don`t get it?

13820, March 31 at 1302, apparently Easter mass vs Cuban jamming, then mentions Urbi et Orbi, so live from Vatican? At 1307 checked 7405 and now `Aleluya` hymn is playing. So R. Martí is a defacto Catholic station?!?! What about all the other religions which have just as much of a right to get their angles into Cuba?

As yet unspecified cutbacks to transmission-hours at Greenville probably involve R. Martí. At 1415, no signal, and even no jamming on 11845, tho the DCJC kept it going sporadically during the entire B-12 season when RM was not even scheduled on that frequency. 11930 tho is on with jamming. At 1405, 15330 still with wall-of-noise jamming, despite RM`s extremely predictable abandonment of this band during A-seasons. At 1740, inaudible on 9565, neither RM nor jamming, but it`s the lowest and least propagable of daytime frequencies. RM seems to be there under heavy jamming on 11930, 13820.

Need to check the full planned A-13 RM schedule for other absences. The A-13 HFCC registered R. Martí GB transmissions as of March 28:
 5980 07-12
 6030 22-13
 7365 00-04
 7405 12-14, 03-07
 9565 17-24
 9805 09-13
11775 00-03
11845 13-17
11930 14-24
13820 13-22
Except all take a break UT Mondays 03-09 UT (but not the jammers).
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 6095, March 31 at 1309, funny tones as I tune by --- o yes, it`s the weekly Sunday-only VOA Radiogram experiment, then Kim Elliott barely audible, poor signal in storm noise season. I assume the rationale is to discover how well the various modes do, despite deliberately deficient frequency scheduling on a QRP transmitter.

Kim must be really busy with Radiogram stuff and/or his day job, since there were zero entries on
http://www.kimandrewelliott.com between March 24 and 30. There is still nothing about the new VOA language Bambara, and yahoo-searching on his entire site still brings up only a mention of that word in January, 2007.

Kim does however now provide a much-needed VOA 5-page pdf sked:

``See VOA transmission schedule, 31 March 2013 through 26 October 2013 (not available at voanews.com). This schedule is for transmissions through IBB-owned shortwave and medium wave transmitters and does not include broadcasts that are through partner stations in target countries.``
http://www.kimandrewelliott.com/files/VOA_transmission_schedule_Mar2013.pdf

And guess what, it shows NOTHING IN SPANISH any more from VOA on SW, as we feared would be among the sequestration-excuse cancellations.

However, as Peter Hansen points out to the dxldyg, the VOA English portion only is now here:
http://www.voanews.com/info/frequencies_and_schedules/2218.html
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A [non]. 15775, March 31 at 1320, VG signal in Korean, i.e. VOA back on its A-season channel instead of 9800 in B-seasons, 21 degrees from Tinang, PHILIPPINES, and consequently carrying on USward. If only KBS could do as well trying to broadcast to N America on 15575 [see KOREA SOUTH] as VOA does, trying not to (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. WORLD OF RADIO 1662 monitoring: confirmed on WTWW-1 5830, UT Sunday March 31 at 0400-0430, excellent signal. In case there be another bonus this Sunday, check 9930 at 2315 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A [and non]. 12105, March 31 at 1256, WTWW-3 with dramatized Russian Bible, but heavy QRM from Asian language, SAH of about 3 Hz and also CODAR QRM. I.e. KSDA in Chinese; aiming NW from GUAM does not mean there is no signal into deep North America! KSDA and WTWW are FCC-scheduled to overlap at 13-15, except WTWW is already on before 1300. Yesterday I heard on WTWW-2 a promo for WTWW-3`s ``10 languages on 12.1 MHz`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 690, March 31 at 0558 UT, El Paso ad vs KGGF open carrier, and IBOC noise from WLW 700, i.e. KTSM; 690 earlier bore SS, probably XEN, see UNIDENTIFIED (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 960, March 31 at 0503-0505 UT during another KGWA Fox-hole, blues guitar music dominates, presumably WABG Greenwood MS. Others have concluded WABG is sometimes running day facilities at night, which could explain its sporadic appearances under KGWA carrier. The previous few nights, KGWA kept modulating (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 1400, March 31 at 0500-0507 UT perfunctory try for the WKBI Pennsylvania DX test when sweeps and code IDs were to be running, but nothing audible with heavy KCRC 1390 splash even with BFO tuned to 1402. It would have to penetrate the maximum signal from my closest local which normally makes 1400 a useless DX frequency here (Glenn Hauser, Enid OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** VIETNAM. 15310, March 31 at 1406, siren jamming against nothing! Wake up, commie jammers: R Free Asia in Vietnamese via Tinian is no longer on 15310, but instead BBC English via Oman, unheard either (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

UNIDENTIFIED. 690, March 31 at 0548 UT, SS report about Pemex, peaks SSW, so most likely XEN in DF with news/talk format. Slow SAH with open carrier, no doubt KGGF KS again; see also KTSM log (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

UNIDENTIFIED. 1350, March 31 at 0534 UT, ``Viva México`` song; DF fits for KCOR San Antonio, Tejas, the usual SS dominator, but would they play such a song? Can you imagine any Mexican station playing USA patriotic music?? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

UNIDENTIFIED. 1470, March 31 at 0531 UT mention of ``davenportradio.com`` which I hoped would lead right to a station in or around Davenport IA, but the two Iowans on 1470 are too far away, and that website is a ``private blog`` with a login. Wonder what that`s about? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

UNIDENTIFIED. 1490, March 31 at 1201 UT, some graveyarder is playing the `Star Spangled Banner`, still far too unusual on US radio dials. While the SSB is easily recognized in all the QRM, could not make out the announcement which followed, and then ``How Great Thou Art``, maybe from same transmitter. Could be just my nearest 1490 which owns 1490 once skywave is done, Jimmy Swaggart`s KMFS Guthrie OK (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

UNIDENTIFIED. TP carrier search around sunrise here 1219 UT March 31: At 1216, barely audible ones on 774, 738, 702, 657; at 1219 on 828, 882. I usually check 774 first and assume it`s Japan, but companion 747 is missing! Then I more carefully DF these and find they are peaking from W/E, not NW/SE, ergo not from Asia but from Australia/Pacific. With nothing but carriers and rough DFs, likely: 774 3LO Melbourne; 738 Tahiti; 702 2BL Sydney; 657 RNZ Wellington; but 828 & 882 nothing above 10 kW in Pacific (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

Glenn Hauser logs March 30-31, 2013

** ALBANIA. Early A-13 chex for R. Tirana, now scheduled to N America:
0130-0200 9850 English except UT Mondays
2300-2400 9850 Albanian daily

instead of in B-12:
0230-0300 6100 English except UT Mondays
0000-0100 7465 Albanian daily

But at 0155 UT Sunday March 31, nothing on 9850,
and at 0232 UT Sunday March 31, nothing on 6100 or 9850
So we`ll have to wait until Monday night = UT Tuesday to check the new frequency in English. The only other English broadcast is now 2000-2030 Mon-Sat on 7465 for Europe (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** CUBA. 15170-15220 & 15240-15290, tell-tale noise field surrounding 15230 RHC Spanish, March 31 at 0135, comes & goes while 15230 itself is not especially strong, and the immediate adjacent frequencies 15225 and 15235 are clear. Worst at 15220 and 15240, diminishing gradually up and down. Must have swapped transmitters with 11840 which was thus infested last week, but is now free of parasites (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** GUIANA FRENCH. 9490, UT March 31 at 0059, R. República IS and ID, well over jamming, still strong enough to be GUF, and in fact it definitely is, since the persistent squeaky spur is still there around 9505! This daily 00-02 UT transmission is moving to Issoudun, France site presumably 24 hours later, even tho it`s now officially A-13. This must be the final final broadcast from Montsinéry, as R. Japan already indicated last week that it would end after the UT Saturday relays. Indeed, nothing on 5960 after 0200, which had been following R.R. in Japanese with same spur constellation as 9490. Instead of closing at 0157 as had been happening, 9490 stayed on until almost a minute after R.R. quit modulating, until 0201* (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** KOREA SOUTH [non]. 9605, March 31 at 0059 big open carrier; 0100 KBS in Spanish, so the new WHRI relay begins, replacing defunct French Guiana relay on 11635. Excellent signal here, yet KBSWR makes English speakers in N America strain to hear them direct at 13-14 on 15575 (maybe, as not HFCC registered for A-13; must reconfirm) (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** PERU [and non]. 5980, March 31 at 0052, slightly wavering carrier detectable under distant T-storm noise level, probably Doppler rather than transmitter problem, and some talk modulation from R. Chaski --- and 5990 CRI Cuba relay is in open carrier only, an omen of things to come? No, just another anomaly as these relays normally make no seasonal changes and it`s still there in HFCC A-13 until 0100. It`s a nice clear night and the local streetlight does not fire on until 0100; it`s too far away to help read the DX-398 dial on the porch or my watch or my logbook, but for the first time this year there is still enough daylight so I don`t need the porch light yet, fortunately since when I do turn it on later it`s starting to draw in the bugs. Spring has sprung. Will have to yellowize it. Back to the business at hand: R. Chaski cuts its carrier at 0102:08.5, five sex later than last night (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 

** RUSSIA [non]. 9665, March 31 at 0109, VOR English to *Latin* America has made its seasonal move up from 7290 via PRIDNESTROVYE, VG strength and with same humroar as before; interview about Jewish Refusenix. Also a slight het, probably poor Brasilian (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** SERBIA [non]. Early in A-13, March 31 around 0125 I am searching for IRS, nothing on 6190 or usual summer frequency 9685. This station refuses to participate in HFCC, forcing us to hunt for it. EiBi reminds us that a year ago in A-12, they were on 9685 until 0130, the final semihour being in English on Sundays, rather than 0030-0100 Tue-Sat. Wouldn`t you know it, the ``program schedule`` (no program titles, really a transmission schedule) at
http://voiceofserbia.org/program-schedule
is still for B-12 with everything an hour later (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** TAIWAN [non]. 11565, March 31 at 0112, VG signal in Spanish with somewhere temps, Chinese song --- not, it`s a jingle, ending with letters pronounced in English, R-T-I! 0113 opening post-news show with M&M, ``Bajo la Lupa`` (Under Scrutiny) about what`s happening on the Mainland under new dictatorship. So the final hour at least of the registered 23-02 UT WYFR broadcast at 140 degrees now carries RTI Spanish (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** TURKEY. Checking VOT at B-12/A-13 transition time: English hour March 30 not audible before 2300 on 9830, nor after 2300 on 5960 but one of them may have got lost in the burgeoning proto-summer noise level. At 0055 I am hearing the TRT IS at good strength but with flutter on new 9870, atop AIR VBS. Way to go, TRT! Poor VBS gets more QRM as if ChiCom were not enough, and likely worse in much closer S Asian areas with back-radiation from Emirler. 0057 I find another TRT IS on 9770, but no CCI here. Instead of evenly-spaced pauses between iterations, one time there is a long pause, another time none at all. At 0100 both turn out to be new frequencies in Spanish from VOT; missed the frequency announcement but TRT is typically mixed up about correct times and frequencies especially around changeover dates. HFCC listed: 290 degrees on 9870, 270 on 9770 and of course now shifted one UT hour earlier, tho that hardly matches in any target except Cuba where DST
 happened two sesquiweeks ago in lockstep with Yankee Imperialism (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. WORLD OF RADIO 1662 monitoring: confirmed new time since last week on WTWW-2, 9930, starting a sesquiminute after 2330 UT Saturday March 30, so ran a bit past 2400; followed by no ID or sign-off announcement, but played nice harmonious duet version of `Star Spangled Banner` and off at 0002 UT March 31. No following transmission on 5085 tonight. Kudos to Ted for playing Our National Anthem, which I have been advocating, but most US SW stations ignore.
Next: UT Sunday 0400 on WTWW-1 5830. Last week, Ted also replayed WOR Sunday at 2315 on 9930, but no promises on that.

Earlier on Saturday afternoon, George McClintock was testing 9930, for me to monitor the spurs and wobble I keep hearing. Spurs were there part of the time, and the carrier wobble with BFO was obvious to me. Yet George can`t hear any on his spectrum analyzer. I consistently hear it from the WTWW-2 transmitter, altho its severity varies. When I do hear it, other strong transmitters nearby such as 9980 WWCR are *not* doing it, so I don`t think it`s my FRG-7 receiver to blame like George does. He thinks it may be an adverse reaxion by a PLL receiver circuit to the amount of carrier reduxion employed, but I also hear same on the DX-398 and YB-400. Quite a mystery. It would be most helpful if other listeners would check 9930 for this wobble and let us know if they can hear or see it, like Sunday when presumably on air after 2100 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 5050, March 31 at 0053, WWRB is on with gospel huxter; T storm noise level is too high now for any DX on 120, 105, 90, 65 or 60 metres, so WWRB now needs to make seasonal transition to 5050 being the primary, or only evening frequency for non-BS programming, instead of 3195 which is also still on after 0200 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 9860, March 31 at 0057, huge open carrier with lite humroar, rather live waves crashing on a distant beach, IIRC; it`s been so long for me away from the sea. Fear it`s WHRI; yes, praise music at 0107. A-13 shows it`s available 00-03 at 315 degrees toward ``Canada``, but as usual only certain fragments will really be on the air. Hope it will not bother R. Tirana when it gets going on 9850; see ALBANIA (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A [and non]. 7375, March 31 at 0126, KBC says ``we want what you want`` then ad in Dutch for their multiband radios (I want to hear that in English); back to English for ID ``We are the Mighty KBC``. Feared I missed Kim`s digital text test, but retune at 0133 to tail of ``running water`` mode, immediately followed by music at 0134.

5745, March 31 at 0233 check, VOA`s own weekly Radiogram test is hardly the solid signal we have come to expect from Greenville B, presumably because it`s a low power (80 kW) transmitter aimed south, fading, and furthermore is undermodulated as Kim is explaining MFSK (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** UZBEKISTAN. 11590, March 31 at 0123, fair signal in S Asian language. HFCC A-13 shows it`s now NHK Hindi via Tashkent at 0100-0130 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

sabato 30 marzo 2013

Glenn Hauser logs March 29-30, 2013

** AUSTRALIA. 19000, March 30 at 0059, quick check for RA as waiting for Chaski: no signal! Must have been break for antenna swap from 65 to 70 degrees, as *0059:30 carrier, off and back on, then adding RA modulation (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** BANGLADESH. 15505, March 30 at 1359 no signal until *1401:05 open carrier, off and back on, 1401:25 add hum and music theme, 1402:15 ID and Urdu program late; poor signal today from Bangladesh Betar. Why do they have so much trouble starting on time??

HFCC A-13 is again replete with imaginary wooden registrations from DKA on all bands from 6 to 17 MHz, covering the few transmissions which really exist including this one at 290 degrees, in timespans beyond reality (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** BRAZIL. 10000, March 30 at 0102, weak time pips every dekasecond mixing with WWV, and talk in between, barely making out an ``Obsevatório Nacional`` here and there, i.e. PPE, Rio de Janeiro. Even audible during following minute when WWV is in toning, which is quite weak as often the case after sunset, skipping over from less than a megameter away. Someone reported the pips were 10 sex apart but at 5/15/25, etc. Not so now, precisely coördinated with WWV, 00/10/20/30, etc. (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** CHINA [and non]. Firedrake March 30 before 1400, most with flutter:
15595, fair at 1354, het on hi side, i.e. per Aoki 15597, V. of Tibet, 95 degrees from TAJIKISTAN at 1343-1400. No FD in the 16s
14750, good at 1355
13920, good at 1355
12230, poor at 1356
11970, fair at 1357; none in the 10s
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** GERMANY [non]. 15275, March 30 at 1321, DW in Hausa except for program title in English ``Learn by Ear``, something about Johannesburg. If not Hausa, why don`t they say it in German?? Fair signal, 310 degrees from RWANDA, so also USward during this hour, beyond Nigeria (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** KOREA NORTH. 11710, March 30 at 1310, VOK`s hyper-assertive English announcer-creatures are a bit bellicose, threatening with nuclear first-strikes to burn to ashes targets on the US mainland, Hawaii, Guam Island, other bases in Pacific, and of course, South Korea.

Well atop constant Chinese-language CCI, both of which would remain mysteries if consulting nothing but HFCC, but Aoki suggests CNR1 is also here from Beijing 572, and not as a jammer! Plus AIR Burmese until 1315. I was suspecting the CCCCI might have been self-QRM from VOK itself (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** NORTH AMERICA. 6930-AM, UT Saturday March 30 at 0535 (just having missed R. Japan`s final 0500 relay via Guiana French!), here`s a pirate at S9+12 vs storm and other noise level, with mostly folk music, ``O, Freedom``. 0537 announcement, asking for reception reports but can`t catch full name beyond ---
shortwave@gmail.com  Also deep fades so only occasional words readable. 0539 back to music, 0546 segué, folk ballads; 0554 another segué, no announcement; 0557 one I recognize easily, ``Bésame Mucho``; 0558.5 voice-over ID amid the tune, ``you`re listening to ----? Shortwave``. 0604 segué to bluegrass banjo; 0608 a ``work song``. Now the signal has grown to S9+18 at peaks; 0611 ``Your Cheatin` Heart``; 0615 ID twice and I still can`t make it out. Pirates, please speak slowly and distinctly, even spell out name/address, and ID frequently, as listeners are straining to copy against all the odds. 0631 ``Sweet Dreams``; music still going at 0641 when I
 QRT.

Uplooked later at
http://www.hfunderground.com/board/index.php/topic,10671.0.html
it`s Grizzly Bear Shortwave, as confirmed by the operator himself (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** PERU [and non]. 5980, March 30 at 0058, another R. Chaski-check, confronting T-storm noise from the next county in OK. Music is audible and seemingly no Cuban noise jamming, plus 5990 CRI Cuba relay splash is already off, very unusual. By 0100 however, pulse jamming is also weakly audible vs OA carrier and QRN. 0101 Spanish announcement mentions ``sábado``, and usual sounder, cut off the air at 0102:03.5*, prolonging the tradition of 5-seconds-later-each-night (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** SAIPAN. 7165.5-LSB, March 30 at 1252, AH0BT with rapid contest contacts amid co-channel pileups. Where`s this? An American-sequence callsign, but not from the CONUS? QRZ.com reveals:

AH0BT Mariana Islands
SAIPAN BBQ CONTEST CLUB
BEACH RD CHALAN KANOA, PO BOX 504168
SAIPAN, MP 96950
USA

QTH: Northern Mariana Islands, Saipan Island
Grid Locator: QK25  IOTA: OC-086

He had an accent; apparently this club is really made up of Japanese guys, and the contest is apparently: ``MAR, 2013, CQ World Wide WPX Contest SSB``. Contacts consisted of 59 + a consecutive serial number rather than power or location (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** TUNISIA. 7275 & 7335, March 30 at 0622, IWT is still on with Arabic talk and music; by 0627, 7275 has closed as usual. I missed mentioning its reactivation on this week`s WORLD OF RADIO (Glenn hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. WORLD OF RADIO 1662 monitoring: tnx to Tim Noonan for confirming the WWRB airing UT Friday March 29 at 0330v on 3195: ``Glenn, I heard it; it started about a minute early``.

One of our many webcasters is ACB Mainstream, nominally scheduled on a 2-hour repeat cycle thruout UT Fridays, starting at 0100, but for some time, the next day`s programming has been starting at 2300 UT. This Friday, Des Preston reports it was not on at 2100 either. May have been a pledge drive instead as I checked before 2300.

The WOR schedule has now been updated at
http://www.worldofradio.com/radioskd.html

Tnx to Allan Weiner concluding his `Worldwide` with a stay-tuned on 5110-CUSB for World of Radio, ``one of the last great shortwave shows``, which started at 0135.5, i.e. on Area 51 via WBCQ.

On WRMI 9955, Saturday at 1500: at 1512 I can almost recognize myself on the JBA signal with a fast SAH (IBB Tibetan via Tinian and/or ChiCom jamming) and equally weak traces of Cuban jamming. How is it in WRMI`s boresight toward Venezuela and beyond? No one ever tells me. WRMI is rather low in frequency, measured by Wolfgang Büschel at -50 Hz in Oct & Dec, -43 Hz in Nov 2012.

WOR next airings: Saturday 1730 on WRN via SiriusXM 120; Saturday 2330 [NEW] on WTWW-2 9930; UT Sunday 0400 on WTWW-1 5830 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 13570, March 29 at 2055, WINB in Spanish, certainly a minority language there, good signal and modulation levels but carrier is wobbly; soon Spanish outro as program having been Englishly-titled, `Guidelines`; 2057 English ID and address, but cut off without any QSY announcement. How are anyone but WINB fanatix or well-informed SWLs to know where to hear them next?? 2102 check, now they are on 9265 but weaker (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 687 & 713 kHz, March 30 at 0618 UT, IBOC noise peaks, obviously from WLW; haven`t noticed this before. Did they just turn it back on? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** VATICAN [and non]. 15570, Friday March 29 at 2018, sacred choral music, initially good signal, but less than 15580 VOA Greenville; normally nothing here, so it`s a VR live special for ``Good Friday``, which is never on the same date from one year to the next (and likely more to come this weekend, to be specified somewhere on the VR website). 2019 Italian being voiced-over into Portuguese. 2025 `Lord`s Prayer` in Latin, then repeated numerous times separated by bits of other mumbo-jumbo. The RCC god must have an unlimited craving for suckulence, really the result of human projexion.

13765, March 29 at 2042, LPs in LL are here too, but with English voice-overs.

13830, March 29 at 2054, LPs in LL, with Spanish translation, in this case via WEWN.

7250, March 30 at 0622, Gregorian chant, then unknown language, but presumably Albanian again as VR turns on its transmitter early putting this language back on SW despite dropping from official schedule. Seemed to be // 6075 weaker, but 9645 blocked by 9650 DRM from Romania. 3975 not audible, maybe not on.

From March 31, all this shifts one UT hour earlier with the imposition by secularists of daylight shifting in Europe including Italy including Vatican; i.e. 7250 nominally starts Latin mass at 0530 instead of 0630. I signed up for VR`s full schedule by e-mail but nothing in yet. Hope they get those out at the beginning rather than ending of seasons as they did by p-mail (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

UNIDENTIFIED. 1310 & 1440, March 30 at 0606 UT, two stations on same network, but which? with Abbott & Costello ``Hu`s On First`` classic routine (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

Tips "Girolla"

7120,R Hargeisa SOM Hargeisa,1700 17Mar, px loc noise Ham,33333
4835,VL8A AUS Alice Springs,1710 17Mar, px mx talk ABC ,33333
4319,AFN DGA Diego Garcia,1725 17Mar,USB px loc relay,33333
5765,AFN GUM Barrigada,1730 17Mar,USB px loc relay,33333
9835,RTM MLA Kajan,1740 17mar, //11665 px mx WAI FM,44444
11510,Denge Kurdistane CLA,1755 17Mar, px mx local,33333
15345,RAE ARG Buenos Aires,1940 17mar, px de musica in S,44444
2485,VL8K AUS Katherine,1950 17Mar, px mx talk ABC //4835,23333
11735,R Transmundial B santa Maria,1955 17Mar, px local OFF tx at 2000utc,33333
2325,VL8T AUS Tennant CreeK,2008 17Mar, px mx talk ABC //4835,23333
15189.95,R Inconfidencia B Belo Horizonte,2015 17Ma, px loc + ID,23333
9610,AWR D Nauen,1003 24Mar,px "Studio DX"in Italiano,44444
11945,R Australia AUS shepperton,1020 24MAR,px talk,33333
13363.6,LTA Argentina Armed Forces ARG Buenos Aires,1519 24Mar,LSB mode px relay tentative,11111
4750,Bangladesh Betar BGD Dhaka,1610 24mar, px loc mx,33333
4880,AIR IND Lucknow,1620 24Mar, flute px local song  // 4810 Bhopal,33333
4557,Voice of the People CLA,1630 24Mar,px jammed,12222
1566,Radio Kolbe I Schio,1640 24Mar, px rel in Italiano,23333
 
UTE
4067,Tashkent Meteo UZB ,1845 19Mar,fax chart 120/576,23
22542,JJC Kyodo J Tokio,1530 23Mar, fax press Kyodo//12745khz  Lpm60/120index,45

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Log Roberto Pavanello

  828 22/3 22.00 Hit FM - Terrasa SS ID e MX buono
 1485 22/3 22.58 R. Alcoi - SS ID e pubblicità locale buono
 1610 23/3 05.00 Caribbean Beacon - Anguilla EE sermone buono
 1620 23/3 04.45 R. Rebelde - Habana SS NX suff.
 1660 23/3 04.50 WGIT - San Juan SS talk su pobreza suff.
 3310 23/3 23.55 R. Mosoj Chaski - Cochabamba SS MX buono
 4747 23/3 23.30 R. Huanta 2000 - Quechua MX suff.
 4775 23/3 23.35 R. Tarma - SS MX buono
 4835 23/3 23.45 R. Ondas del Sur Oriente - Quillabamba SS MX suff.
 4955 23/3 23.35 R. Cultural Amauta - Huanta SS avisos buono
 4976 20/3 19.25 UBC R. - Kampala EE afro MX suff.
 5910 24/3 00.05 R. Alcaravan - Puerto Lleras SS MX buono
 5915 22/3 17.50 ZNBC - Lusaka Vern. talk OM suff.
 6005 24/3 09.30 R. Atlantic 2000 - FF ID e MX buono
 6285 24/3 09.50 Tip and Elvis Show - EE ID e MX suff.
 7120 22/3 17.55 R. Hargeisa - Somalo talk OM suff.
11725 20/3 19.20 R. New Zeland Int. - Wellington EE rugby buono
15190 20/3 19.10 R. Pilipinas - Manila Filippino talk YL buono

Il prossimo week-end niente tips causa partecipazione, come spettatore, alla corsa ciclistica del Giro delle Fiandre.

Roberto Pavanello
Vercelli / Italia

Escuchas Onda Media Javier Robledillo Jaén

ARGELIA
1.422 kHz, Radio Mitadja, Argel, 29-03-13, 2251-2254. Música y comentarios de locutor con referencias al Top 10 musical, en francés. SINPO 55555

ESPAÑA
1.386 kHz, Euskadi Irratia, Bilbao, 29-03-13, 2254-2301. Música, identificación emisora y noticias, en euskera. SINPO 55555

FRANCIA
1.467 kHz, Trans World Radio, Roumoules, 29-03-13, 2223-2226. Locutores con comentarios, en inglés. SINPO 55454
1.557 kHz, France Info, Nice-Fontbonnes, 29-03-13, 2203-2207. Locutora con noticias sobre política y declaraciones grabadas, en francés. SINPO 54444

MOLDAVIA
1.548 kHz, Voz de Rusia, Grigoriopol, 29-03-13, 2207-2214. Identificación emisora y locutores con comentarios, en italiano. SINPO 34322

REINO UNIDO
1.458 kHz, Sunrise Radio, Brokmans Park, 29-03-13, 2227-2248. Música, identificación emisora y comentarios de locutor, en inglés. SINPO 34333

Javier Robledillo Jaén
Elche (Alicante)
EA5-1028
Rx: Sangean ATS909
Ant: Tecsun AN-200
http://cuadernodebitacoradx.blogspot.com.es

venerdì 29 marzo 2013

Ascolti AM Luca Botto Fiora

Auguri a tutti di Buona Pasqua!

Ascolti AM (orari UTC)

Segnale/Signal
IN - Insufficiente/Poor
SF - Sufficiente/Fair
BN - Buono/Good
MB - Molto buono/Very good

***

Martedì 26 marzo 2013
13.33 - 15265 kHz
CNR 1 JAMMER + FIREDRAKE
Segnali buoni
-
13.37 - 15375 kHz
CNR 1 JAMMERS (multi-tx echos)
Segnali molto buoni
-
13.46 - 15517 kHz
VOICE OF TIBET - Yangi Yul (Tajikistan)
Tibetano, tk OM+YL e musica locale.
Segnale buono-sufficiente
Alle 13.49:
15515 s/on Firedrake
15517 Portante muta
15597 Voice of Tibet
-
13.52 - 15610 WEWN (USA), EE, tk YL. BN
13.55 - 15825 WWCR 1 (USA), Gospel R&B. BN-SF
13.56 - 14750 FIREDRAKE. BN-MB!!!
14.02 - 13845 WWCR 3 (USA), EE, tel. YL. SF
-
14.05 - 13735 kHz
SIREN JAMMING + RFA Vietnamese
Segnali buoni
In 30 di radioascolto non avevo mai sentito una roba così!
RFA Vietnamese 12130 not jammed!
-
14.26 - 11560 kHz
Test tx? Musica classica.
Segnale buono
-
14.27 - 11500 FIREDRAKE. SF-IN
14.29!!! - 10051U GANDER VOLMET (Canada), EE, wx OM-PC. SF-IN
-
14.30 - 9975 kHz
KTWR - Agana (Guam)
Mandarino, int/sig e annunci OM.
Segnale buono
-
14.34 - 9950 kHz
FURUSATO NO KAZE - Koror (Palau)
Giapponese, parlato OM.
Segnale buono-sufficiente
-
14.40 - 9835 kHz
RTM SARAWAK FM - Kajang (Malaysia)
Musica rock.
Segnale sufficiente-insufficiente
-
14.43 - 9780v kHz
YEMEN RTV - Sana'a
Musica pop locale.
Segnale buono
-
14.48 - 9677,5 kHz
Portante muta. Mi è già capitato un'altra volta a quest'ora di captare questa attivazione non modulata, ma non ricordo il giorno. E' difficile dire se si trattasse del tx di Stephanakert, salvo fossero prove di manutenzione, perché il 26 marzo era martedì e Voice of Justice modula in altri giorni. Segnale buono-sufficiente
-
14.52 - 9525,9 kHz
VOICE OF INDONESIA - Cimanggis
Canzone melodica OM.
Segnale buono
-
15.30 - 15595 kHz
R. VATICANA - Tinian (Marianne del Nord)
Inglese, int/sig e nxs OM+YL.
Segnale buono-sufficiente
-
*16.30 - 11635 kHz
TWR AFRICA - Dhabbaya (UAE)
Somali, int/sig e parlato OM.
Segnale buono

***

Luca Botto Fiora
QTH G.C. 09E13 - 44N21
Rapallo (Genova) - Italia

***

Rack 1 (LW-MW-SW)
RICEVITORI
R7 Drake
VR5000DSP Yaesu
PL-660 Tecsun
-
ANTENNE
1) Da 70 kHz a 2 MHz:
Loop in ferrite di 75 cm ACA modificata per LW-VLF
Preamplificatore RF K0LR-WA1ION autocostruito (escludibile)
-
2) Da 2 a 5-6 MHz:
Loop magnetico interno tipo KR1ST 150x100 cm su finestra
-
3) Da 5-6 a 30 MHz:
Dipolo aperto esterno 21 m
Balun 1:32 su toroide FT-140/43 ACA

-
ACCESSORI
Su antenne HF:
Eliminatore di QRM MFJ 1026 modificato W8JI (escludibile)
Preamplificatore RF kit LX1456 NE (escludibile)
-
Splitters 0-1000 MHz a 2 vie GBC

***

Rack 2 (LW-MW)
RICEVITORE
E5 Etón
-
ANTENNE
Loop in ferrite di 75 cm ACA

***

REGISTRATORI
Digitali Sony
ICD-B500 (R7)
ICD-BX112 (VR5000DSP - E5)
ICD-BX800 (PL-660)
-
Musicassette
TRC-1149 Sanyo (R7)

***

SOFTWARE (Mac OSX)
Audacity 2.0.3 (acquisizione-conversione audio)
DXToolbox 4.1.1 demo (propagazione)
EarthDesk 6.1.1 demo (scrivania-orologio mondiale)
HourWorld 3.4.4 demo (orologio mondiale)
Multimode 6.3.1 demo Black Cat Systems (UTEs)
TimePalette 6.1.1 demo (orologio mondiale)

***

DATABASE
Kindle 4 Amazon

Glenn Hauser logs March 28-29, 2013

** BANGLADESH [and non]. 15505, March 29 at 1358, no signal from BB, nor is much expected with degraded propagation today; but at 1401 there is a JBA carrier, growing by 1426 to music audible poorly with heavy flutter. WWV reports K-index at 12 was 4, at 15 was 3, but ``no space weather storms`` observed or predicted.

Much lower-latitude path from TINIAN was still propagating Vatican IS well, tho aimed westward after Vietnamese before 1400, on 15495 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** BOLIVIA. 5580.36, March 29 at 0106, music is weakly audible here. I often check this around 0100: usually a JBA carrier at best, from R. San José, San José de Chiquitos, Santa Cruz, which WRTH says is 250 watts until sign-off varying around 0200. Chiquitos is a province within Santa Cruz department (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** BOLIVIA. 5952+, March XXIX at CV, YL timecheck in Spanish mentioning ``IV minutos``, but the rest of it is incomprehensible, back into Aymara or Quechua? Then some shouting. From Radio Pio XII, Siglo XX, as usual the #II signal ex Bolivia following RSC 6135-, and enough oomph to muscle aside the pointless Cuban jamming on 5955.

(We are spared the frequency in Roman numerals since that would involve the difficult task of putting a line over a V for 5000+). How boring it is now; habemus papam with a I or rather no numeral at all! (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** CHINA. Firedrake, March 29 before 1400, all with flutter:
13530, very poor at 1351; none in the 12s, 11s
13920, very poor at 1352
13970, poor at 1352
14750, very poor at 1353; none audible higher with poor propagation but probably active. Even RHC is JBA on 17 MHz! (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** CUBA. 9540, March 29 at 1321, weak RHC signal has CCI not only from Kunming but from pulse jamming! Belying the too-close relationship (same site?) between RHC and the DentroCuban Jamming Command. Jamming cleared up a few minutes later. Chinese Commies vs Cuban Commies vs Cuban Commies!

BTW, RHC has already sent out an A-13 schedule effective April 1, showing no further changes in English, but a few frequency changes in Spanish et al., distributed to the DXLD yg so far (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** GUAM. 9650, March 29 at 1331, Golos Nadezhdiy, with Moscow timecheck, M&M&W chatting, good signal, playing a bit of ``Wonderful, Merciful Savior`` in English, 1333 back to Russian mentioning Minsk. Is AWR 1330-1400 Russian broadcast from KSDA, i.e. Voice of Hope, a pervasive catch-slogan with the 7DA. ``Radio Nadezhda`` was also name of a former SW clandestine against Estonia, and now of WRBS, a Christian station in Boston, and maybe also NY/NJ (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** IRAN [and non]. 9665, March 29 at 1329, VIRI IS, poor with flutter and Korean CCI, 1330 sign-on in Japanese, NA. ! Yes, VIRI scheduled here, 500 kW, 60 degrees from Sirjan since Dec 9, says Aoki. What were they thinking?! With KCBS on 9665 for ages; but never in HFCC so maybe IRIB didn`t know about it, not bothering to turn on a radio or consult DX sources before picking a new frequency. Anyhow, for A-13, Iran is moving elsewhere (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 

** OKLAHOMA. 1120, March 28 at 1957 UT, KEOR is back on with praise music in Spanish; after long pause, at 2000 finally an ID: ``la mejor música, Radio Victoria, KEOR desde Tulsa, Oclajoma``, back to music. Now sounds subjectively stronger on caradio, and may well be on new 7 kW CP, up from 2 kW, as well as starting regular service. I know it was not on the air the previous overnight, as nulled KMOX around 0530 to be sure. Still on at 1703 UT March 29, but now not so strong vs lightning crashes and neighborhood noise (Glenn Hauser, Enid, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** OKLAHOMA. Another new obstacle to SW reception: March 29 at 1313, a wideband noise field between 21550 and 23100 kHz (at least), also with an additional pulse tone regularly every few sex. Hope it`s not an electric fence, as a neighbor has been planning to install to keep loose dogs on-property (or did he really mean a sonic fence? I hope). Later at 1355, still the noise but without the tones. Meanwhile nothing is propagating on 13m, not even Kuwait 21540 (Glenn Hauser, Enid, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** OKLAHOMA. RF 31 & 32 = virtual 31-3, KXOK, Enid, March 29 around 1600 UT, with Azteca on third subchannel, axually present instead of black screen, silent sound, but very likely to fail again for days at a time (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** PERU [and non]. 5980, March 29 at 0100, I barely have time for a Chaski-check, but do manage it before too late: Cuban pulse jamming plus carrier; 0101:20 the usual sounder, cut off at 0101:58.5* which is another 5 sex later than last night.

This time, it leaves a JBA carrier on 5980 from something else. Nothing is scheduled, but maybe Iranawila, Sri Lanka has not turned off carrier yet after 0000-0100 VOA Tibetan, and/or the CNR1 jammer both of which have normally been fading out well before 0100, unlike earlier in winter. Another 5980 possibility is R. Guarujá, 10 kW in Florianópolis SC, Brasil, potentially 24 hours, but doubt it is active as never heard a sign of it in my nightly Chaski-checking; altho the 1 kW Brazilian on 5940 can often be detected by its off-frequency het. What about A-13? HFCC shows nothing of a major nature at all scheduled between 21 and 03 on 5980 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. WORLD OF RADIO 1662 monitoring: confirmed on WTWW-1, 9479, Thursday March 28 at 2100:33, usual excellent signal. Next: 0330v UT Friday on WWRB 3195, unconfirmed; did anyone hear it? UT Saturday 0130v on Area 51 via WBCQ 5110v-CUSB; Saturday 0630 & 1430 on Hamburger Lokalradio 7265-CUSB; Saturday 1500 on WRMI 9955; Saturday 1730 on WRN via SiriusXM 120; Saturday 2330 [NEW] on WTWW-2 9930; UT Sunday 0400 on WTWW-1 5830 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 9689, March 29 at 1335, AIR GOS English news has a constant het on the lo side of less than a kHz --- until I attenuate the FRG-7 a bit, and it disappears. This is not a transmitted spur, but result of receiver overload from deliberately offset 9479 WTWW, which causes such hets at various spots on the 31m band. If it were on-frequency there would merely be cross modulation to eliminate by attenuation (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 11715, March 29 at 1344, not even a JBA carrier from KJES between 11710 DPRK and 11720 Iran, which nominally starts during DST at *1300. Still nothing after 1400 either, when often it inbooms. US signals above 10 MHz are poorly propagating today, so can`t be positive it`s really off the air, at a megameter skip distance (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 690, March 29 at 0512 UT, open carrier/dead air again no doubt from 10/5 kW KGGF, Coffeyville KS, which has an appalling record of no one-minding-the-store, like my log of an afternoon game lacking audio except for the commercial breaks July 18, 2010, and almost as bad on October 3 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 830, March 28 at 0539 UT check, no WUMY Memphis TN even with WCCO nulled, so our fun is over after several nights of daytime-like operation instead of 2 watts (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 1050, March 29 0517 UT, altho XET 990 was inbooming, XEG 1050 must have been in a fade, as hardly needed nulling, when I heard an ID for ``Radio 10-50, KJBS``, briefly awakening me from my doze. This turned out to be the only significant log during this midnite bedtime session; uplooked later, it must have been KJBN, Little Rock AR, as there is no KJBS anywhere, nor anything fuzzily similar on 1050. But KJBN is supposed to be 19 watts at night, 1 kW day U1, with 64-watt PSRA (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 88.7, Friday March 29 at 1435 UT, KRZA Alamosa CO/Taos NM, never audible here except by webcast (how I wish I were in their FM coverage area!), but I often check the 1430 UT strip of `Spotlight on Upper Rio Grande` Mon/Tue/Thu/Fri local shows, which axually have a complicated day/week rotation schedule not shown on their grid, but today the Spring Fund Drive is in progress, very interesting conversation between current and a former general manager about their San Antonio Mountain (NM) transmitter site, where after lightning damage they had to replace transmitter and move tower.

Even tho it`s very remote with no one around normally, measurements showed too much RF at ground level, requiring a fence. Now the new setup has improved coverage toward Taos and Santa Fe. Currently however, only running 40% power until the ground thaws and some repair can be made. KRZA has long served Taos secondarily (apparently too small to support its own public/community radio station), but now they have a Taos phone number and plans to build a studio equal to the one in Alamosa. The two GMs never identified themselves, but per website the current one is Holly Felmlee, who refers to KRZA`s ``founding mothers``.

I think KRZA also needs a better studio clock, as they frequently have trouble meeting NPR news at 1501 UT, upcut today, and completely missed Jim Hightower at 1506 for which they later apologized.

Bombshell within that NPR newscast today: `Talk of the Nation` will be canceled this summer [at the end of July], and host Neal Conan is leaving NPR. To be replaced by `Here & Now`, from WBUR but then with more NPR participation; a shame to lose TOTN, but `Science Friday` will continue. There have really been more hours of talk programming, ``a glut`` between Morning Edition and ATC than affiliates can fit in; something needed to go, and H&N clearances should then go up. The live TOTN time is currently 18-20 UT. Much more about this:
http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2013/03/29/175677788/talkofthenation
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

giovedì 28 marzo 2013

Glenn Hauser logs March 28, 2013

** ANTARCTICA. 15476, March 28 at 1320 check, for the record, still no trace of LRA36! Whatever became of their plans to reactivate this fall/winter season with a refurbished transmitter?? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** BANGLADESH. 15105, March 28 at 1249, JBA signal but with that Bangladesh-Betar hum, so the 1230 English broadcast is starting to propagate this far west; while the 1400 Urdu service on 15505 has been coming thru well, but not today: 1358 very poor with tone, 1358.6 going to IS, 1400 timesignal 3.5 seconds slow (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** BOLIVIA. 6135-, March 28 at 0107, grammar lesson about the word ``trabajar`` (to work) presented entirely in Spanish, i.e. Radio Santa Cruz. Still the biggest signal out of Bolivia. Has lucked out in B-12 with no major broadcaster CCI, and A-13 looks good too, with nothing scheduled anywhere on 6135 between 23 and 03 (not counting minor Brasilian and Korean transmitters) (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** CANADA [and non]. 990, March 28 at 0536 UT I am observing the collision between CBW Winnipeg and XET Monterrey (which is not supposed to happen with XET beaming exclusively southward at night). They take turns dominating, and in between there is a huge SAH of about 6 Hz. Initially, XET is so strong it is even splatter-QRMing 1000 KTOK OKC unless side-tuned upward.

At 0609, CBW is atop with `The World` also afternoons on public radio in the USA, about fracking causing earthquakes in Oklahoma! Next story about bee die-out loses to XET, announcer saying this is his show number 18,280 since 1963y. His speech is rather slurred; must be a bit tired by now or maybe it`s just the late hour. Assuming that`s 50 years` worth, the number works out just right for 365 shows a year! (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** COSTA RICA. 9600-9660, March 28 at 0104, extent of the audible spread of REE DRM noise centered on 9630, again belying DRM Consortium claims that this very flawed mode occupies only 10 kHz of bandwidth. This bihour is a major reason why DRM should never have been allowed inside the standard AM SWBC bands, and should still be moved out to fixed utility bands. In this case silly Spain even interferes with itself on 9620-AM direct (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** CUBA. 5073, March 28 at 0106, approx. center of Cuban-type pulse jamming, a stray? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** JAPAN [non]. 15190, March 28 at 1242, NHK World Radio Japan IS loop with IDs in Japanese and English, good signal, but off at next check 1248. Doomed GUIANA FRENCH relay left transmitter on beyond 1230 end of English which will air only two more days before oblivion, like the only other surviving N American broadcast, 0500 on 11740. It sounded so lonely (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** MEXICO. 700, March 28 at 1202 UT, mentions ``red de Radio Red``, i.e. per Cantú:
700 XEDKR Radio Red AM Guadalajara, Jal. 10,000 150
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** MEXICO. 750, March 28 at 1201 UT, XE NA, 1202 unfamiliar state anthem, 1204 full ID for La Huasteca, XHTI y XETI, sub-slogan ``la gigante``, i.e. per Cantú:
750 XETI La Huasteca + FM 90.5 Tempoal, Ver. 10,000 250
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** MEXICO. 780, March 28 at 1205 UT, with KSPI Stillwater OK nulled (deeply tnx to groundwave), YL plugging website, can`t copy it, but no problem since then she says ``Buenos días, Coahuila,`` temp in Monclova, so it is per Cantú:
780 XEWGR Exa FM + FM 101.1 Monclova, Coah. 10,000 250
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** MEXICO. 830, March 28 at 1159 UT, partial singing ID for ``Piedras Negras, Coahuila, la cien punto nueve FM``. So obviously XEIK, common border station here, altho Cantú does not yet show it on any FM dupe:
830 XEIK La Norteñita Piedras Negras, Coah. 5,000 D
But IRCA does, as XHIK 100.9 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** MEXICO [and non]. 990, March 28 at 0536 UT I am observing the collision between CBW Winnipeg and XET Monterrey (which is not supposed to happen with XET beaming exclusively southward at night). They take turns dominating, and in between there is a huge SAH of about 6 Hz. Initially, XET is so strong it is even splatter-QRMing 1000 KTOK OKC unless side-tuned upward.

At 0609, CBW is atop with `The World` also on public radio in the USA, about fracking causing earthquakes in Oklahoma! Next story about bee die-out loses to XET, announcer saying this is his show number 18,280 since 1963y. His speech is rather slurred; must be a bit tired by now or maybe it`s just the late hour. Assuming that`s 50 years` worth, the number works out just right for 365 shows a year! (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** MEXICO. 1030, March 28 at 0603 UT, ``La Ke Buena`` slogan, romantic music; seems NE/SW but of the dozen 1030s in Cantú, two are allegedly daytimers and the only Ke Buena is:
1030 XELJ Ke buena + FM 105.7 León, Gto. 20,000 2,000

IRCA Mexican log agrees XELJ is the only Ke Buena on 1030, but shows it as 5/1 kW at 13-01 UT, and transmitter at Lagos de Moreno, Jalisco. WRTH 2013 also shows it must be XELJ but agrees with Cantú on the power, with IRCA on the site.

Could be a US station? No such slogan in NRC AM Log, but there is a SS in Memphis TN, 50/1/10 kW, WGSF, Radio Abiente [should be Ambiente = means background, great name for a station? Or more positively, environment] (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** NIGERIA. 15120, March 28 at 0552, gangnam-like music, fair signal from VON so it`s both on and propagating tonight, but with some hum, and the carrier is wobbly; then English announcement about the Nigerian music scene. If it`s got gangnam, it`s dispensable. Bring back traditional music (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** PERU [and non]. 5980, March 28 at 0056, lite pulse jamming but tonight R. Chaski has enough signal to be recognizable as Spanish; streetlite fires on at 0056:50, 8 minutes after sunset here. 0059, Spanish is almost readable vs jamming, maybe only one unit funxioning, but 5990 CRI via CUBA and its splash again runs late past 0100 as `Beyond Beijing` is futilely opening in English, off before 0101 so I can then clearly hear the usual R. Chaski sounder and time the cutoff at 0101:53.5* which is another 5 sex later than last night (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** ROMANIA. 17530, March 28 at 1250, great Romanian folk music, outro as the `Skylark` show, one of my all-time favorites, already over at 1253 for a 2-minute `Cooking Show` with a recipe which you`d better be taping if you want to copy the details; 1255 into sign-off routine with all the satellite parameters, ``good-bye`` and a few IS interations before going off. 17530 was the SSOB except for Cuba, // weaker 17765.

As usual with the A-seasons, in three more days RRI will be depriving deep North America of this morning hour in English, since it`s really for closer Europe, and like everything will be moving one UT hour earlier for the summer duration, at 11-12 on 17510 & 15210 USward, 15430 & 17670 elseward. Later on maybe we can still get some of it, if awake before 12.

Then there`s too long a gap until the next English hour at 17, on 9535 & 11740, also USward but on bands too low in the summer for us (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** SOUTH AFRICA. 3320, March 28 at 0104, poor-fair signal in almost-Dutch Afrikaans, ergo R. Sonder Grense, helpfully running all-night (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 15590, March 28 at 1245, VOA Spanish plugging `Música Country` show, 1246 back to morning news magazine `Buenos Días, América`. NO Cuban jamming audible, nor on stronger // 13750, weaker 9885. For some reason Cuba seems to concentrate its jamming on VOA`s evening broadcasts (and 12000 jamming can be heard at many other hours against nothing); and/or still confused by the abrupt one-hour-earlier timeshift VOA inexplicably imposes only on its Spanish service when DST starts in Wáshington, for local convenience?

VOA Spanish SW broadcasts are endangered! Bombshell press release from March 26 says ``cross-border`` broadcasts to Latin America will be curtailed, among many others. The non-specific wording:

``The transmission reductions allow VOA to comply with budget cuts required by sequestration and to avoid furloughs of staff members.

When the new broadcast schedule goes into effect on March 31st, cross-border shortwave and medium wave broadcasts to Albania, Georgia, Iran and Latin America will be curtailed, along with English language broadcasts to the Middle East and Afghanistan.

VOA will continue to provide audiences in these regions with up-to-date news and information through a host of other platforms, including radio and TV affiliate stations, direct-to-home satellite, web streaming, mobile sites and social media.

The new broadcast schedule calls for reductions in some shortwave and medium wave radio broadcasts in Cantonese, Dari/Pashto, English to Africa, Khmer, Kurdish, Mandarin, Portuguese, Urdu and Vietnamese. Direct radio broadcasts to all of these regions will continue.``

The latest A-13 HFCC of March 28 still shows all the VOA Spanish broadcasts as originally planned thru Oct 27, but may really last only two more days, all Greenville:
Daily   1200-1300 on 9885, 13750, 15590
Mon-Fri 2330-0100 Tue-Sat on 5890, 9885, 12000

Greenville is losing 20 hours of programming, but not yet clear just what. VOA Spanish amounts to 14.5 hours per week (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. WORLD OF RADIO 1662: completed in time for first airing on WRMI 9955, UT Thursday March 28 at 0330; unconfirmed. Next:

Thursday 2100 on WTWW 9479; UT Friday 0330v on WWRB 3195 (and maybe 5050); UT Saturday 0130v on Area 51 via WBCQ 5110v-CUSB; Saturday 0630 & 1430 on HLR 7265-CUSB; Saturday 1500 on WRMI 9955; Saturday 1730 on WRN via SiriusXM 120; Saturday 2330 [NEW] on WTWW 9930; UT Sunday 0400 on WTWW 5830 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. Re my reception of KSEY DX test, this e-mail received March 28 from the arranger and provider of the test material: ``Glenn, Based upon the details of your report for March 24, 2013 I can hereby confirm your reception of KSEY AM 1230 Seymour, TX at the times mentioned in your report. Thank you for taking the time to listen and file a reception report! Paul Walker``

I was hoping for an e-QSL card; available by p-mail only? Paul replies again: ``There's no e-qsl design. But a paper QSL is bring designed for mailed reports`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 1340, March 28 at 1217 UT, atop the graveyard, ``Sportsradio 13-40, the band(?)`` Not sure of last word, plugs website, facebook, twitter. Loops ENE/WSW so not my groundwaver KGHM OKC. 1219 mentions Texas Tech. Aha, it`s really ``The Fan`` as in KKAM Lubbock TX, vide
http://1340thefan.com/ Distance between cities, if not transmitter/receiver sites, but close: 479 km = 298 miles. I don`t suppose that is a GY record (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

UNIDENTIFIED. Encouraged by neighbor Richard Allen`s recent reports, I look for TP carriers March 28 before 1223 UT sunrise in Enid, finding these very weakies:
 774 at 1207 (surely Japan, but no 747 or 828)
 702 at 1208 (probably Australia)
 882 at 1209 (North Korea?)
1314 at 1210 (nothing over 50 kW in Japan, China)
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

UNIDENTIFIED. 1060, March 28 at 0601 UT, Mexican music, no fast SAH so I am hoping it`s something other than 10 kW daytime gospel cheater KIJN Farwell TX on the NM border, which is off-frequency and usually heard with the fast SAH if there is any competition. Then the fast SAH comes and goes. Maybe KIJN is just peaking so strong as to overcome any SAH-producer (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

UNIDENTIFIED. 1410, March 28 at 0602 UT, gospel huxter in Spanish with perceptible gringo accent atop the QRM for a moment, and seems NE/SW. IRCA Mexican Log has no 1410 station with a specifically religious format; the NRC AM Log for the USA points to KHCH Huntsville TX, Radio Amistad, but it was silent as of last April, and that`s at a right angle from the Houston market. Current status? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

UNIDENTIFIED. 1520, March 28 at 1214 UT, KOKC with heavy SAH of 32/minute = 0.53 Hz, but absolutely no other audio than KOKC with `America`s Morning News`. Some station not modulating, warming up for sign-on? Still there by 1230 during KOKC local news headlines. I also suspected KOKC self-QRM by running backup transmitter, but the SAH seemed to peak in its null (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

UNIDENTIFIED. 4775, March 28 at 0058 definitely two carriers here with BFO, one surely R. Tarma, Perú; R. Congonhas, Brasil, has not been confirmed active lately, leaving one other possibility, AIR Imphal, India. Same situation as my Feb 9 log (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

mercoledì 27 marzo 2013

Glenn Hauser logs March 26-27, 2013

** AUSTRALIA. 2368.5, March 27 at 1232, JBA carrier and trace of music, presumably R. Symban, much weaker than 2325 and 2485 which themselves are too weak to copy.

This correlates with Mike Gilchrist`s report from Iowa today:
``I spent some time carefully adjusting the oscillator on the SDR-IQ and measuring the station I believe to be Radio Symban. 130327, 1205, 2368.475, R Symban, Peats Ridge—Gosford NSW, Australia, 33232. Signal peaking here at local sunrise. Female vocals, some dialog, more music. Still no ID, but am all but certain this is Symban.``

and with Ron Howard`s from California:
``2368.48, Radio Symban (presumed) – 1244-1312 with EZL pop songs
of the Pacific region; one of their better days, but heavy QRN.
Still broadcasting on their extended schedule.

BTW – The QSL card I received from Johno Wright indicated location as "Leppington (near Sydney) N.S.W."
https://www.box.com/s/v2cwajn900termgplxs4
Copy of QSL card`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** BANGLADESH. 15505, March 27 at 1358, BB IS with flutter, timesignal to 1359:55 again 5 sex fast, opening Urdu. Hum is worse than usual almost atop the intentional audio (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** CHINA. Firedrake March 27 at 1350-1353: none found 18-11 MHz. Asian conditions were quite depressed above 12 MHz (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** CUBA. 5040, March 27 at 0517, RHC English with continuous rather than intermittent audio dropouts (CADs?) as has happened before on this frequency but not on any of the // overkill quartet on 6 MHz.

9850, March 27 at 1305, RHC Spanish news is still going past nominal 1300* so I keep listening to time when this slipshod operation will cut itself off: 1307* (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** EAST TURKISTAN. 6005, March 27 at 0054, CRI English about Chinese Opera (with voices!), closing `In the Spotlite` show, into language lesson filler, and // 6020 via Albania. 6005 is 100 kW, 174 degrees from Kashgar at 00-01 only (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** GOA [and non]. 11775, March 27 at 1353, Dead Gene Scott is taking a break, no ANGUILLA, so we may hear the Sino-Bharatian radio war in all its splendour, i.e. CNR1 jamming against AIR Nepali, 1330-1430, 250 kW, 25 degrees via Panaji. Is this an ancillary victim following the 1215-1330 Tibetan service on same, or are the ChiCom now deliberately jamming AIR Nepali as well? Not the first time. Usually they are quite precise in their jamtiming, e.g. cutting off at 1315* along with AIR Chinese on 15795 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** MEXICO. 600, March 27 at 1207 UT, frenetic music, ID mentioning 102.7 FM y 600 AM, poor signal but in the clear, barely a SAH from anything else. Cantú matches the frequencies as:
600 XEHW La Mejor + FM 102.7 Mazatlán, Sin. 5,000 1,000
However, lists three other 600s with no known FM, yet. And IRCA Log conflicts, showing XEHW as in Rosario, 5/1 kW, // 90.1 FM, as Ovni Radio, which means UFO (object flying non-identified). WRTH 2013 splits the difference, as La Kañona in Rosario! So which is it?

Back to Cantú where there is still a webpage link working to
http://www.lamejor.com.mx/mazatlan/
which features an amateur cheesecake gallery, but hard to find any frequency mentioned. Listening online at 1535 UT, there`s a Sinaloa political discussion. Finally at 1546 after ad- and PSA-string, another ID as ``La Mejor, 102.7 y 600``, back to `Línea Directa`, 8:46 timecheck. Apparently La Mejor is a nationwide brand, but I am hearing local origination (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** MEXICO. 720, March 27 at 1205 UT, ``La Kaliente 105.7 y 720`` by SHVA, then 6:04 TC by live DJ. It`s XEDE Saltillo, Coahuila, 8/0.25 kW per Cantú (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** MEXICO. 990, March 27 at 1206 UT, ``XET, La T Grande, Monterrey, 50 mil watts, cubriendo todo México; then opening second hour of news, ``Enlace 99``. ``All`` of Mexico, that is except where the ten other 990 stations can overcome it! In fact, XET dominates here now at night, not just at dawn and dusk; haven`t heard CBW in quite a while, conditions? Had to consult the NRC Pattern Book again to reassure myself that XET at night is supposed to radiate a circle tangent southward only, altho non-direxional daytime. Today`s Monterrey sunrise would be 1238 UT, while in Enid it`s 1224 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** OKLAHOMA. 93.1, March 26 afternoon, ``straw sucking almost empty cup`` translator K226BR of KIMY Watonga 93.9, has been missing for some time, uncovering Hutchinson/Pratt KS station. Hope it`s gone for good (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** PERU [and non]. 5980, March 27 at 0053, DentroCuban Jamming Command continues to pulse here every night against nothing but R. Chaski; in fact, it`s worse than usual, maybe two transmitters mixing, judging from irregularity of pulses. At least 5990 CRI relay and its splash are off by 0059, and the 5980 Urubamba carrier is still detectable with BFO until cut off at 0101:48.5 which is 5 sex later than last nite (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A [non]. 7530, March 27 at 1357 tone test; 1358 full ``Voice of America, Washington, DC, signing-on`` routine with Yankee Doodle Dandy, then repeated at 1359. 1400 heard no announcement in English of language to follow, just music and into that language which is: Tibetan, per HFCC this hour only, 250 kW, 275 degrees from Tinang, PHILIPPINES; poor, and soon fading. No jamming audible (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

UNIDENTIFIED. 2620, March 27 at 1237 UT, music and English talk somewhat distorted, fade up and then out; presumably something harmonicizing from 1310. Also some JBA music on 2660, i.e. KGLD Tyler TX from 1330 kHz at 1240, really too late after 1224 sunrise here (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

martedì 26 marzo 2013

Test from Vidin on 576

Test of new Thomson transmitter in Vidin on 576 kHz / 200 kW on March 23-25http://vbox7.com/play:e3ce88ee26 - Sofia at 1100 on March 23http://vbox7.com/play:602c19babf - Sofia at 1200 on March 23http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w6j4r2EMud4 - Troyan at 1051 on March 23http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dTW_623OEYY - Troyan at 1103 on March 23http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r0JaQ1SXwcU - Troyan at 1250 on March 23http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aP8XrBiZGxI - Troyan at 1500 on March 23http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2nHEpqTD2WA - Troyan at 1843 on March 23http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q6eHqGeUTDw - Troyan at 2225 on March 23http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yv9sRYaz4zk - Troyan at 2227 on March 23http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YIR9DLWU6ig - Troyan at 0127 on March 24http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r0JaQ1SXwcU - Troyan at 0327 on March 24http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nBVq2klQ4Vg - Troyan at 0430 on March 24http://youtu.be/o0G24KAm6EM - Varna at 0445 on March 25

--
73!
Ivo

QTH: Sofia, Bulgaria
Equipment: Sony ICF-2001D 30 m. long wire

Voice of Justice

Another new transmissions of Voice of Justice was monitored on March 26:
0400-0427 on 9680.0 SPK 010 kW / non-dir to CeAs Azeri Tue but no signal
0900-0959 on 9677.6 SPK 010 kW / non-dir to CeAs Azeri Tue and maybe Wed
1200-1259 on 9677.6 SPK 010 kW / non-dir to CeAs Azeri Tue and maybe Wed
1500-1559 on 9677.6 SPK 010 kW / non-dir to CeAs Azeri Tue and maybe Wed
--
73!
Ivo
QTH: Sofia, Bulgaria
Equipment: Sony ICF-2001D 30 m. long wire

Glenn Hauser logs March 26, 2013

** AUSTRALIA [and non]. 15340, March 26 at 1334, HCJB with Hindi talk about English words, carbohydrates, protein, water, audible thanks to absence of CUBA, which often has one transmitter missing in the mornings, but you never know which frequency it will be (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** BANGLADESH. 15505, March 26 at 1359, Bangladesh Betar IS with wow and hum, 6-pip timesignal 5 seconds fast, opening Urdu, poor (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** CHINA. 9720, March 26 at 1226 startled to hear Spanish, Radio Internacional de China ID, and then mentioning frequency 12.110 MHz in English! Got to be ``Filipino`` which integrates those two languages into its own. Yes, CRI scheduled 1200-1230, 500 kW, 145 degrees from Xi`an, and off at 1227*, soon replaced by Thailand, q.v. What`s with 12110? Nothing at all scheduled there now or recently or futurely in A13 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** CHINA. Firedrake March 26 before 1400:
14750, good at 1353, none in 13s, 12s
15515, fair-good at 1349 with het on hi side from VOT; none in 16s
17300, poor at 1352; none in 18s
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** EGYPT. 9720, March 26 at 0104, good strength, but just barely modulated, can`t even be positive it`s Spanish, but obviously R. El Cairo, back to abnormal after managing to modulate 24 hours earlier (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** IRAN. 12025, March 26 at 0527, VIRI IS, fair with heavy flutter, preceding what? Nothing: it`s the end of the 0500 Russian broadcast, 500 kW, 358 degrees from Kamalabad, gone at 0529, leaving nothing but CODAR.

17550, March 26 at 1325, Arabic chanting not Qur`an, but perhaps pious, with considerable audio distortion; 1330 three chimes, VIRI ID, news theme. Is 500 kW, 259 degrees from Kamalabad at 1030-1630 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** KOREA NORTH [and non]. 9665, March 26 at 1245, song from KCBS // better 11680, but with a wavering LAH (low audible heterodyne). KCBS used to be perpetually off-frequency, but Wolfgang Büschel recently found these and many other channels on-frequency, presumably thanks to brand-new ChiCom transmitters, so have they reverted to an old unit? Maybe, but another explanation is ChiCom jamming during this hour against RTI in Chinese also on 9665. Jamming always takes priority over everything else (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** MEXICO. 720, March 26 at 0555, usual slow SAH with WGN, and with that nulled, ID for 105.7, and XEDE Saltillo, 11:54 timecheck, choral NA which lasts only 2 minutes! until 0557 another automated TC as 11:56, ID again. Male SHVA alternates with less hyped female announcer (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** MEXICO. 6185, March 26 at 0534, almost enough carrier to overcome adjacent Brasil 6180, but just barely modulated is XEPPM, a constant problem with them; schedule until 0600 will become 0500* from Mexican DST season starting April 7 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** PERU [and non]. 5980, March 26 at 0059, four minutes after my streetlite kix on, pulse jamming from Cuba against nothing is dominant, along with splash from CRI/Cuba 5990, which lasts a bit past 0101 as CRI English is futilely opening with note that this `Beijing Hour` was recorded at 7 am = 2300 UT.

But still, there is a carrier detectable with BFO from R. Chaski, and it cuts off at 0101:43.5 which is 6 sex later than last nite, altho I may have been slightly off as the very weak signal fades a bit and may have done so at turn-off time. I fear there will be no more audio coming thru from Urubamba, but I did post a couple clips of it a few weeks ago (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** ROMANIA [and non]. 7210, March 26 at 0530, RRI Enescu theme mixing about equal level with Arabic, i.e. CRI via ALBANIA, a collision thruout B-12 during this semihour of RRI in Russian via Tiganeshti. Yes, the targets are quite different, but it`s absurd for two sites as close together as these to be co-channel, no matter what the azimuths and different targets. Neither of these listed in HFCC A-13, but I bet they resume their close relationship in B-13 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** THAILAND. 9720, March 26 at 1227 open carrier comes on a few sex after CRI Filipino closes; thought it could be same site with another language, but no, at 1230 sliver of a gong, march music, open live broadcast from the Public Relations Department, Radio Thailand`s evening news in English; sufficient signal via Udorn which from next week/month/season moves to 9390 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 830, March 26 at 0505 UT, Willie Nelson singing ``All of Me``, dominant with WCCO nulled, otherwise making SAH of about 8 Hz with it, i.e. WUMY Memphis TN as first heard two nights ago, also by many others, presumably running new 8 kW nondirexional day power, which FCC still shows as a CP to replace licensed 3 kW daytime only, and also with a CP for TWO WATTS at night. That`s just not enough to bother with!

But doesn`t WCCO care? Some `clear` channel. I can only hear it by nulling WUMY, fortunately close to 90 degrees apart from here, and then there is a slower 132/minute SAH from something else 2.2 Hz away from `CCO, XEIK? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 790, March 26 at 1258 UT, obscure lo-key concert band music, some sour notes, loops E/W, unusual morning fare. I bet it`s KURM in Rogers AR. Yes, at 1300 ID for ``super-radio coverage`` on KURM and several FM stations too quick to copy. Was the Bentonville Concert Band, adstring of band sponsors, 1302 music resumes, but no ID of what it is and was. In the concert-band subculture there is lots of obscure modern music by XX or XXI-century composers/band directors.

By 1306, KFYO Lubbock TX is overtaking, talking about the LSO = Lubbock Symphony Orchestra. We are not at a loss for high culture on the Llano Estacado or Walmart-land, and even in Enid we have our concert bands and symphony orchestra; and of course the Tri-State Music Festival in early May (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 890, March 26 at 1254 UT with KTLR OKC nulled, immediate ID for KGGN plugging its Facebook and streaming, ``News in a Minute`` from ``American Urban Radio Network``. Whence? Gladstone MO, per NRC AM Log, 960-watt daytimer. Where`s Gladstone? A suburb to the north of Kansas City. This close to a border, one must research which state the antenna really inhabit. If at the center of the FCC topo map with no pin, it`s indeed in Missouri between Gladstone and Liberty. I previously logged this on Nov 26, 2010 at 1312, as in DXLD 10-48 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

UNIDENTIFIED. 1420, March 26 at 1314 UT, sounds like Don Imus, looping NW/SE but fading out half a sesquihour after sunrise here. Can`t find any 1420 affiliate on Imus website in adjacent or second-adjacent states. KULY Ulysses KS is supposedly country, and KJCK Junxion City KS program schedule confirms no Imus there (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

UNIDENTIFIED. 12859.5-SSB, March 26 at 1356, encountered this during bandscan for Firedrake: 2-way in colloquial Spanish very poorly enunciated, one with constant background noise and replete with ``puta madre`` swearing (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

New schedule for Voice of Justice

New schedule for Voice of Justice, according to monitoring on March 23:
0400-0427 on  9680 SPK 010 kW / non-dir to CeAs Azeri Fri/Sat, new time
0900-0959 on  9677vSPK 010 kW / non-dir to CeAs Azeri Fri/Sat, new time
1200-1259 on  9677vSPK 010 kW / non-dir to CeAs Azeri Fri/Sat, new time
1500-1559 on  9677vSPK 010 kW / non-dir to CeAs Azeri Fri/Sat, new time

See video recordings from March 23. Also observed in Sofia on March 22:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UZExcWuw8aI at 0415 UTC on March 23,2013http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qPbfKwx56NI at 0902 UTC on March 23,2013http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=etiIhXXPwLI at 0918 UTC on March 23,2013http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OrFJOxcpaM0 at 0955 UTC on March 23,2013http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=azKEs9JfDPQ at 1230 UTC on March 23,2013http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Klr6oVckhuc at 1239 UTC on March 23,2013http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wP6l2OxaEbs at 1253 UTC on March 23,2013http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yZtVnHPZMHw at 1538 UTC on March 23,2013http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=suJaNNnsf1c at 1558 UTC on March 23,2013

1400-1427 on  9677vSPK 010 kW / non-dir to CeAs Azeri Wed/Fri cancelled
0600-0657 on  9677vSPK 010 kW / non-dir to CeAs Azeri Thu/Sat cancelled

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73!
Ivo

QTH: Sofia, Bulgaria
Equipment: Sony ICF-2001D 30 m. long wire

lunedì 25 marzo 2013

Glenn Hauser logs March 24-25, 2013

** ARGENTINA. 13363.5-LSB, UT Monday March 25 at 0054, Spanish conversation, then music, fair signal from LTA feeder of unknown Bs As station. Similar conversation on 15345v-AM, LRA R. Nacional, both of which are more likely to be active on weekends. When I got back to 13363.5 after nightly Chaski-check, it was off. Previously the alternate 15820.36-LSB on March 4 also went off before 0100. No sign now of AFN Guam 13362-USB (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** BANGLADESH. 15505, March 25 at 1400, tho S Asia is certainly propagating, e.g. AIR DRM 15045-15055, no signal from Bangladesh Betar until cuts on at *1401:20 with carrier, soon hum and joining music in progress; 1402 `Yih Bangladesh` ID in Urdu; 1411 into music as I always wonder whether during this semihour the lyrix are in Urdu or Bengali.

So missed the variable timesignal today, but that`s no excuse: BB had 15 minutes to get 15505 tuned up after the Nepali service presumably still on 7250 until 1345. At 1415 stepping 1 kHz on the DX-398, it`s also obvious that besides the lo-frequency hum on 15505, there are separate roaring parasitic spurs at discrete frequencies 15500.5 and 15509.5. And this is a `new` transmitter?? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** CHINA. Firedrake March 25 after 1330:
11500, poor at 1331
11970, good at 1334
12370, good at 1335
12670, good at 1335; none in the 13s, 14s
15515, good at 1336 with flutter; 1356 with heavy flutter
16160, fair at 1336; none in the 17s
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) See also INDIA [and non]

** CUBA. 12060, March 25 at 0104, lite pulse jamming audible here on 2 x 6030 against Martí.

11840, March 25 at 0106, RHC Spanish with no buzz around it, strangely enough. Don`t count on it being permanently repaired (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) See also PERU [and non]

** EGYPT. 9720, March 25 at 0108, Spanish about Mali, 0109 outro news with R. Cairo ID, theme music, then 0110 `Noticias y Análisis`, Fátima mentioned, maybe name of the announceress. Remarkably, the modulation is at decent if not 100% level! Unlike English normally JBM after 0200 on same transmission, 250 kW, 330 degrees from Abu Zaabal. What happened? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** GUIANA FRENCH. 9504, March 25 at 0117, weak spur with squealing Spanish from 9490, R. República via RMI via MSY relay, more so than the match around 9476. Soon, no more spurs, and no more fundamentals either from GUF!

Despite destroying the GUF facilities, TDF does not lose this business: from A-13, same frequency at 00-02 daily moves to Issoudun, FRANCE, 250 kW, 275 degrees toward Cuba; hefty, but less of a match for the jamming, and bound to be weaker here, no longer directly beyond the target (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) See also KOREA SOUTH [non]

** INDIA [and non]. 9870, March 25 at 1255, enjoying AIR VBS music, but not for long: *1259 on comes Chinese, as CRI English is finishing the language-lesson filler. It`s about time AIR became frequency-flexible in the face of all this CCCCCCI, but some stations just won`t change, no matter what. Except when transmitters wander around on their own (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** INDONESIA [and non]. 3325, March 25 at 1233 M&W conversation in Indonesian, RRI Palangkaraya, poor signal but better than usual. Only other Asian on 90 m is weaker 3205, presumably PNG; only other tropical Indonesian is 4750 mixed with offset carrier, presumably Bangladesh (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** INDONESIA. 9526-, March 25 circa 1250, I can tell the VOI carrier is on due to 4+ kHz het with 9530 Chinese-American radio war, still past 1300 when English scheduled. Ron Howard confirms it`s back today after missing since last heard March 12 per Atsunori Ishida. Still useless here, too weak vs ACI, regardless of modulation level (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** KOREA SOUTH [non]. 11635, March 25 at 0107, KBSWR good in Spanish about Korea North, i.e. doomed GUIANA FRENCH relay entering its final week, altho missing from HFCC B-12 listings; to be replaced in A-13 at 01-02 by WHRI on 9605, which is off the air this UT Monday, having cleared out whatever it had on there one night a week (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** MEXICO. 800, UT Monday March 25 at 0505, surprised to hear the Mexican NA on a fixed radio, so hoping for anything but XEROK, quickly grab the DX-398 to get a DF on it, but too late, only hearing XEROK, which would normally be antheming at local midnite MDT = 0600 UT; however, maybe Sunday nites only plays it right after `La Hora Nacional` which originates live from DF at 0400-0500 UT until the rest of Mexico goes on DST April 7 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) See also UNIDENTIFIED 1480

** MEXICO. 2910-, March 25 at 0535 UT, very weak music, slightly on lo side, presumably 3 x 970, XEVT, Villahermosa, Tabasco, as per my previous extensive tracking. Mike Gilchrist in east-central Iowa has also been hearing this lately, not yet with a definite ID. As I found they are extremely rarely given.

Schedule is roughly 11-06 UT, presumably to become 10-05 UT with Mexican DST which does not start until April 7, a date originally coördinated with USA, until we moved it almost a month earlier, dragging border towns along with us (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** OKLAHOMA [and non]. 960, UT Monday March 25 at 0500-0505 UT, KGWA Fox-hole, dead air but the hum level is worse than usual, and all I can hear underneath at precise null is ABC News, i.e. KMA, Shenandoah IA. Often on UT Mondays there is no hole, but you never know whether there will be one or not from KGWA Enid (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** PERU [and non]. 5980, March 25 at 0054, Cuban pulse jamming against nothing is worse than usual, but with BFO, the carrier from R. Chaski still detectable. 5990 CRI/CUBA splash lasts a semiminute past 0100, still jamming on 5980, no modulation audible, but the carrier goes off at 0101:37.5* = 5 sex later than last night.

Our sunset was at 0047 UT and the streetlight came on about 0055. In two weeks, Enid SS will be at 0100, and the Chaski signal, even if unimpeded, will be degrading progressively at this end of the path. In a trimonth circa Solstice, our SS will reach 0153 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** THAILAND. 9950, March 25 at 1405, YL with strange accent in English about the price of gold: it`s R. Thailand on poor signal, which I have somehow missed logging here thruout B-12.

Unusually, A-13 HFCC for NBT shows no change, still 9950 at 1400-1430, but the rest of English will be: 9390 at 1230-1300, 1900-2000, 2030-2045; 15275 at 0000-0030, 0030-0100, 0200-0230; 17770 at 0530-0600 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** TUNISIA. 7275, March 25 at 0526, IWT is back! This morning service in Arabic at 0400v-0626* went missing on March 15. The other absentee, 7335 is also back for the 0600v-0810 overlapping transmission checked at 0608 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A [non]. 12005, March 25 at 0104, fair signal with flutter in SW Asian language. It`s Pashto from Deewa Radio via Iranawila, SRI LANKA, 340 degrees at 01-04 per Aoki and HFCC.

But in a week with A-13, 12005 will be taken over by Voice of VIETNAM`s N American service, starting with English, 282 degrees via Woofferton, UK. Let`s hope it does better than 9640 in the B-season; at least it`ll get away from the REE/Costa Rica QRDRM from 9630. Is 282 the best beam WOF can manage for eastern USA, CIRAF 8? The only land it strikes is Florida around Jacksonville (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) See also VIETNAM [non]

** U S A. 12105, March 25 at 1403, WTWW English ID, Bible ``in 10 different languages`` [not yet!], going from Russian to Arabic, amid heavy QRM from Burmese, i.e. R. Free Asia via SRI LANKA overlapping until 1430. In A-13 the collision instead will be KSDA in Chinese until 1500. Can`t FCC and IBB coördinate a bit better? Not if they are not living in the real world of SW reception far beyond designated targets (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. WORLD OF RADIO 1661 monitoring: as advised by Ted Randall, he had some time to fill on WTWW-2 9930, so played WOR again at 2315 UT Sunday March 24; very good here at midpoint 2330 check. This was presumably a one-off, unlike the new Saturday 2330 airing. After 2345 back to music, and circa 0000 March 25, change to 5085 for a while longer including a preacher.

11995, March 25 at 0105, Pastor Pete Peters mixed with music, on the DX-398, i.e. 5830 WTWW-1 coöperating with another super-signal on 6165, RHC, adding up to 11995 due to receiver overload, *not* transmission, so 11995 is not to be reported as a real frequency for either (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 690, March 25 at 0547 UT, open carrier/dead air presumed from KGGF Coffeyville KS again, with KTSM El Paso audible underneath (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** VIETNAM [non]. 6175, March 25 at 0528, WHRI is still imposing its own stuff on the tail of VOV relay: Worldvision commercial, 0529 full ID with `OCS` (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) see also USA non]

UNIDENTIFIED. 1480, March 25 at 0600 UT I am again trying to ID the Mexican in the mix instead of KBXD. Very heavy QRM, sounds like ``La Voz del Tiempo``, maybe mentions Los Mochis, but there is no Sinaloan on 1480.

Closest match to that slogan in Cantú is La Voz del Pueblo Hña-Hñú, XECARH, Ixmiquilpan, Hidalgo, 5 kW daytimer, which would certainly be an exotic catch. IRCA shows 2.5 kW day at 1200-2300, unknown at night. WRTH shows 2.5 kW fulltime and location as Cárdonal, Hgo., 1300-2300 in Spanish, Otomí and Náhuatl (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)