** ANGUILLA [and non]. 12180, May 22 at 0510, very weak signal with talk modulation. Probably a second harmonic since no station intentionally transmits farther out-of-this-band than 12160 WWCR. Yes, at 0520 I am able to // this to 6090 PMS! Don`t believe I`ve heard an harmonic from this before. Propagation was wide-open from the Caribbean; altho RHC had signed off, huge carrier on 12215 at 0514, with intermittent digital data bursts from the Cuban spies. In case Caribbean Beacon`s day frequency also harmonicize, patrol 23550 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CHINA. Firedrake May 22, before 1300: 17450, poor at 1249 17100, poor at 1248 with flutter 16920, very poor at 1248 with flutter 16100, fair at 1248 with flutter 15970, poor at 1249 15555, very poor at 1252 15250, at 1254 the usual CNR1 echojamming maybe with some FD added? 14950, very poor at 1255 14600, poor at 1255 13920, poor at 1255; none in the 12s Before 1400: 16920, very poor at 1357 16100, very poor at 1357 15970, very poor at 1359 15900, very poor at 1359; out of time to check lower (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CUBA [and non]. 17580, May 22 at 1400:35, RHC cuts modulation during its own IS, and carrier off a few sex later; meanwhile all the other frequencies are still announcing both 17730 and 17580 as on the air until 1500; what do they know? 17580 uncovered something else much weaker, presumably YFR Bengali via Wertachtal at 13-15. I`m sure RHC is going off for its own reasons, not in deference to this (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** GERMANY [non]. 17810, May 22 at 1245, station in French talking about Congo-Brazzaville, and // weaker 17820. It`s DW, via RWANDA aimed USward at 325 degrees, and Woofferton UK aimed due south, respectively (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** INDONESIA. 9526-, May 22 at 1302, S9+10 carrier, just barely modulated with music rather than talk as one would expect from VOI at the beginning of the English hour on Tuesdays co-produced with RRI Banjarmasin, if they are still doing that. Still on at 1403 causing usual het to CRI Russian USward accurately on 9525.0. One editor took pains to point out with my previous log that this is only ``presumed``. I have no doubt whatsoever that this futility is still VOI as logged numerous times before with enough modulation on exactly this off-off-frequency. There is still hope: Wolfgang Büschel reported earlier May 20 on a later broadcast: ``9525.974, Surprisingly excellent feeder audio quality noted today. The TX will have been well repaired. VoINS Cimanggis in Arabic logged at 1636 UT women singer chorus, S=9+15dB signal strength in Germany`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** JAPAN. 9595, Tuesday May 22 at 1308, R. Nikkei in Japanese discussing various German words, such as ``arbeiten``, 1312 ``Frau und Herr``, ``Klavier``, another advanced language lesson instead of English yesterday at this time (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** OKLAHOMA. 48, May 21 [correct] at 0502-0512+ UT, KOCY-LP in OKC is locked up! Audio bits in Spanish are cutting on and off rapidly at the rate of 6 per second (360 per minute), and the video is frozen. Not snow-free and hard to make out, but various geometric figures, maybe tiling, and possibly some lettering. I suppose an input problem from the Estrella TV network downlink? Something wonderfully digital even tho the ultimate transmission is still analog. W9WI.com has three listings for this: licensed as 18.1 kW; application for 10.6 kW; and CP for LD = digital 15 kW, all at same site. I am dreading the day this may flash-cut to DTV, the last of my near-local analog TV signals (Glenn Hauser, Enid, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** OKLAHOMA. 780, May 22 at 0125 UT, as I am checking out 770 KKOB, notice that KSPI Stillwater is already off the air, unlike yesterday. Official May sunset is 0130 UT (June and July: 0145). Conversely, this daytimer sometimes leaves its carrier on past sunset, or even all-night (Glenn Hauser, Enid, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** OKLAHOMA. 1430, May 22 at 0553, good signal with a caller from Scottsdale on ``Extra Sports 910``. Soon faded to nothing, then back up. I was expecting something more exotic than KTBZ Tulsa, but slogan chex for KGME in Phoenix on 910, and both of them are on the Fox Sports Network. No other likely sportstalkers on 1430 around here (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** PHILIPPINES. 15765 & 15785, May 22 at 1252, the IBB Tinang transmitter with VOA Korean at 21 degrees, also USward on 15775, has developed a pair of very distorted roaring FMy spurs with no specific carriers. The fundamental still sounds fine. Still the same at 1408 altho all are weaker. Fortunately, nothing else is scheduled on either spur frequency per HFCC and Aoki (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SRI LANKA [non]. 12250, May 22 at 1501, again today a JBA carrier and more flutter than yesterday, presumed new Tamil clandestine Nathaam, from unknown site. Swopan Chakroborty in NE India reports they were only playing music yesterday: ``Heard non stop music at 1500-1600 UT on 12250 kHz, 21 May 2012. Here two audio files recorded at 1531 & 1535. https://www.box.com/s/83e37becfa5655caddf2 https://www.box.com/s/722a4ce8c7ca22a25135 Thanks, Swopan Chakroborty`` The files play but nothing is audible for me. Nor when downloaded and played on Winamp tho displaying modulation visibly. What kind of music is it? What about today? Reports promptly from DXLD yg members May 22: ``Dear Glenn, I can receive UnID station on 12250 kHz May 22 from 1500 UT. This station is strong to fair signal, but the audio modulation is poor. As for the music, LA Music totally irrelevant to Sri Lanka is broadcasted. Where will a transmission site be from? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z7HfQNy5hUM on May 21 by Hiroshi Inoue. S. Hasegawa, Japan`` ``I haven’t been able to receive the station here in Ohio, but I was able to play the recordings using my Web browser. It does sound like non-descript light Latin pop music, which I definitely wasn’t expecting. --Larry Cunningham`` ``50 secs audio file at 1556 UT today: http://soundcloud.com/alokesh/unid-12250-1556utc-22may2012 ``Alokesh Gupta, New Delhi`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SWAZILAND. 15360-, May 22 at 1412, TWR Urdu service is only poor today with music, but I decide to measure this off-frequency by my technique: BFO on, zero-beat WWV 15000.0000 on the YB-400, tune to 15360.0 and compare the pitch of the het with my keyboard, which almost matches at F below middle-C, i.e. 175 Hz. That makes it 15359.825. On May 18, Wolfgang Büschel measured this at 15359.655 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A [non]. 17605, May 21 at 1325, YFR Burmese is still a good signal, far, far, away from the target, and the transmitter. As I reported before, site shown as Tashkent in HFCC, but Kishinov in WRTH, so I asked Dan Elyea at WYFR which is correct? ``Hi Dan, Have been getting YFR Burmese broadcast at 13-14 UT on 17605, with quite a good signal. This was registered in HFCC as TAC = Uzbekistan site, but WRTH update shows it as KCH = Moldova. I could not believe it was that good from Uzbekistan, and seems to me it`s too strong even for Moldova here. Could it be Germany? Please confirm what the correct site is. Thanks, Glenn`` Dan replies: ``The registration was correct, Glenn, but maintenance at the TAC site temporarily prevents their provision of the service (no date for restoration). So the WRTH update is actually correct with the KCH. That's 500 kW on a 4/8/0.8 antenna.`` ``Dan, Thanks for the explanation. KCH must put plenty of signal off the back. Do you know if TAC site is totally down? Or have all FSI transmissions at least been moved elsewhere too, details? (I assume there were more scheduled, haven`t checked). Glenn`` to Dan. Dan replies again: ``Agreed, Glen[n]; one of the sidelobes must fall near 325 degrees for you to get such a good signal. FSI presently has a TAC transmission to India, 500 kW, 4/4/1, 14-15 UTC, 15450 kHz, Assamese. So TAC is not totally down. 73, Dan`` Once again May 22 at 1316 with hymn in Burmese, 17605 has good signal and modulation but with flutter, and held up well for the rest of the hour. If Grigoriopol` is aiming right at Yangon, directly off the back would enter America at the eastern tip of Venezuela, far off from here (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 770, KKOB NM, was in with a steady signal at eclipse-time, UT May 21, so I check it again 24 hours later, UT May 22 at 0125-0130+ in exactly the same situation, out in the field with the portable DX-398. This time the sky is cloudless and the moonless setting sun is unimpeded, but NO signal from KKOB. There could be other variables, but now I`m thinking maybe the partial eclipse did have something to do with its audibility yesterday, even here far off the track. KKOB official UT sunrise/sunset times: May 1200-0200, June 1145-0215, July 1200-0215 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ---[Start Commercial]--------------------- Order your WRTH 2011: http://www.hard-core-dx.com/redirect2.php?id=wrth2011 ---[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. It may be copied, distributed and/or modified under the conditions set down in the Design Science License published by Michael Stutz at http://www.gnu.org/licenses/dsl.html
