** BULGARIA. 15700, R. Bulgaria, usual strong signal at S9+18, Dec 9 at 1430, talking Bulgarian over accordion combo, about the EU, parliament, presidency; too bad the modulation is rather distorted (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CHINA. Firedrake Dec 9 at 1427: just barely audible on 8400; nothing audible on 9000, 10210 or 11300. E Asian conditions have been quite poor lately (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CUBA. RHC missing from 11760, Dec 9 at 1454, but on as usual via 11730 and always-distorted 11800 --- who would ever choose to listen to that frequency voluntarily? 1505, after the transmitter and frequency swapping for mid-day service, active on all 11690, 11730, 11760 and 11800 plus Venezuela relay on 11680 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** INDIA. 9425, AIR National Channel via Bengaluru, Dec 9 at 1435 during almost-daily English segment, playing bits of ``Eleanor Rigby`` and lecture about spirituality. Maybe involving the Beatles` fascination with India? But hard to tell due to poor reception and accent. Meanwhile, for those with more fragmented attention spans, hyper VBS programming on 9870 from same site with usual much stronger signal, Dec 9 at 1444 in Hindi but spelling out URL in English, http://www.vividhbharati.co.cp and also had just given a g-mail address; Hindi pop song with SFX. That URL does not work, but I was wondering since it certainly did not end in .in; perhaps some other similar-sounding suffix. But then no AIR sites were working when I tried (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** KOREA NORTH [non]. 5985, Sea Breeze, in English Wednesday Dec 9, YL telling story of an abductee in the 1970s. Via JSR, JAPAN. As always, no QRM audible here, fair signal (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MEXICO [and non]. 6185, XEPPM with piano concerto atop rumble from Vatican at 0619 Dec 9, the latter soon vanishing leaving Radio Educación in the clear for the time being (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** OKLAHOMA. 1210, KGYN Guymon signal is still seldom at its `normal` good daytime groundwave level. Bandscan Dec 8 at a hotspot in western Enid on caradio at 1854 UT did find it audible but poorly with country music. 1120, KEOR, Catoosa-Tulsa-Sperry, Dec 8 at 1855 UT with ID only for the station it is relaying, ``KJMU, Hot 1340 The Groove`` and PSA for The 100 Black Men of Tulsa, an interventionist group. Googling that, I quickly see that there are 100 Black Men chapters all over the US and some abroad: http://www.100blackmen.org/ This early, no skywave QRM from KMOX audible. 1040, on my caradio at 1857 UT Dec 8 I am getting a clear weak signal from local KGWA-960, instead of IA or TX, with local ads matching during national talkshow. Not sure if a genuine spur. I was not parked in the immediate vicinity of the transmitter site. Nor on the 10-kHz step tuner only, can I be sure it was exactly on 1040, but sounded so (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** TUNISIA. 7275, RTT, Dec 9 at 0629 was off the air tho it had been on a few minutes earlier; // 7335 remained on in Arabic, having started at least an hour earlier than scheduled (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. WJHR, Milton FL, probably just got program test authority allowing it to transmit on Dec 8. But Dec 9 nothing audible on 15550-incompatible USB at 1430 or 1526. However, it`s a bit too close for reliable reception on 19m with no help from sporadic E (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 9955, WRMI, still weak and not enough to overcome lite DentroCuban jamming pulses, Dec 9 at 1505 during R. Prague relay as they played Moldau theme. Apparently WRMI is still stuck on the SSE antenna only, the NW one unusable (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. 1200, on caradio Dec 8 at 1854, WOAI was weakly audible, presumably skywave, but with a fast SAH estimated at about 15 Hz. What could that be? WOAI has to be on exactly 1200.000 for IBOC, and so listed in mwoffsetts, but nothing in USA there at plus or minus 15 Hz. My first guess would have been KFNW in ND, but that`s shown as only 2 Hz low. Other possibilities are Nashville, Chicago, for which no offsets are known, or even the little Bólivar MO station. Or maybe an as yet undiscovered Talking House transmitter nearby (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. 14000, FRG-7 puts an internal birdie/carrier on even MHz, but along with it Dec 9 at 1456 I was hearing other stuff; bit of talk, tone, ``testing 1-2-3-4``, and V on CW; the latter could be from a real ham at 14001 or so. 1501 the talk on 14000 was more audible, in English and soon matched S9+22 signal from 13740, CRI via Habana. May have just been cross-modulation in receiver (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ### ---[Start Commercial]--------------------- Order your WRTH 2009: http://www.hard-core-dx.com/redirect2.php?id=wrth2009 ---[End Commercial]----------------------- ________________________________________ Hard-Core-DX mailing list Hard-Core-DX@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/hard-core-dx http://www.hard-core-dx.com/ _______________________________________________ THE INFORMATION IN THIS ARTICLE IS FREE. 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