** AFGHANISTAN [non]. 17685, May 24 at 1217, talk in unID language, with 2 beeps every few sex --- presumably antiquated phone warning of recording in progress, in splash from CHILE 17680. It`s R. Azadi (R. Free Afghanistan), 250 kW, 340 degrees so also USward from Iranawila, SRI LANKA at 1130-1230 in Pashto. 17685 also alternates Dari and Pashto hours at 0830-1130, but site then is Thailand (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CHINA. Firedrake May 24, before 1200: 16980, poor at 1154, none in the 17s 16920, fair at 1154 16100, very good at 1154 15940, fair at 1156 14950, fair at 1157 14700, fair at 1157 13920, poor at 1157 13430, poor at 1158-1200*, deep in CODAR territory. New frequency? Almost: only previous report from Ron Howard, California, May 9 0430+ 12600, very poor at 1159 12230, JBA at 1158 11500, poor at 1159 After 1200: 13430, poor at 1223, back on in this hour Before 1300: 16980, very good at 1246 16100, very good at 1250 15900, very good at 1246 15555, good at 1244 After 1300: 16100, very good at 1321 15570, good at 1322, het on lo side 15500, fair at 1322, het on lo side 14700, good at 1322 13430, fair at 1326, still in this hour 12600, JBA at 1327 12230, fair at 1327 After 1400: 15615, poor at 1402 under WEWN (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MEXICO. Very brief sporadic-E opening, UT May 24 at 0211: analog signal fades in on ch 2 which I have been monitoring snowily for hours; antenna is at south. Looks like a newscast with clips and anchors, grafix, but no audio. 0216, still on ch 2, animated ID with an italic 3 in an oval moving across the screen, recognizable as the Grupo Pacífico logo. Danny Oglethorpe`s http://tvdxtips.com/mexlogosch2.html explains that it must be the only XHQ on channel 2, in Guamuchil, Sinaloa, a full-time relayer of XHQ ch 3 in Culiacán (and not to be confused with two other same group transmitters on channel 2 with the same logo design except for a 2). Also found it peaked more toward the southwest (Glenn Hauser, Enid OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** PHILIPPINES [and non]. 15785, May 24 at 1245, there is a very poor carrier here as I am checking VOA Korean via Tinang 15775 for the spurs previously heard. However, there is no carrier on 15765. Nothing intentionally scheduled now on 15785 unless Galei Zahal went back here again? No, still a JBA carrier on 15850, presumably from it (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SRI LANKA [non]. 12225, May 24 at 1522, JBA carrier on the FRG-7, but a bit stronger on the DX-398 on the porch so I can tell music of some sort is being played. The new Tamil clandestine, Naatham, switched yesterday from 12250 to 12225, which explains why I was not getting anything on 12250 when I checked after 1500 May 23. S. Hasegawa, Japan reported 12225 was still playing nothing but music then, and Victor Goonetilleke, Sri Lanka suspects it`s coming from a central Asian site, as there is some hum on it (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** TAIWAN. 11430, May 24 at 1223, very poor signal, YL with Chinese numbers --- groups of 8 tonal syllables. Occasionally all 8 (or maybe 7) would be identical --- what are the chances of that, if they are ``random numbers`` as Aoki alleges for this XingXing guangbo diantai 3, a.k.a. Star-Star, 10 kW non-direxional from Kuanyin, in H3E mode, for half an hour at 0500, 0600, 1200, 1300? Numbers cadence broke for other announcement at 1228, a few more numbers, sign-off? and open carrier to 1230:24*. I ran across this as I was tuning up from 9430 FEBC to 13430 to confirm the new frequency of Firedrake (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. WORLD OF RADIO 1618 monitoring: first airing UT Thursday May 24 at 0331 confirmed on WRMI webcast; 9955 checked a dekaminute later was nothing but a wall of noise from Cuban jamming. Tnx a lot, Arnie! Next airings: Thu 2100 on WTWW 9479; UT Fri 0330v on WWRB 5050; UT Sat 0130v on Area 51 via WBCQ 5110v-CUSB; UT Sun 0400 on WTWW 5755. And on WRMI 9955: Sat 0800, 1500, 1730, Sun 0800, 1530, 1730, Mon 0500, 1130. On Hamburger Lokalradio, 5980, Tue 0930. Also on WRN via SiriusXM 120: Sat & Sun 1730, Sun 0830 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A [non]. 17605, May 24 at 1316, YFR Burmese still has a good signal, unlike yesterday, tho fadey, presumably still via PRIDNESTROVYE substituting for Uzbekistan. 15570, May 24 at 1403, YFR theme, poor signal, S Asian language. Listed as Oriya due east from Nauen, GERMANY (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. 1420, May 24 at 1144 UT, I am tuning the hi end of MW band while there is still some skywave (today`s Enid sunrise was 1118, and it will be earliest in a biweek at 1113), and hear an ID as ``Classic Country KCKM (or KCKN?)``. KCKM is 1330 in Monahans TX, and related KCKN is 1020 in Roswell NM. NRC-AM log says 1330 sometimes relays 1020, as ``Kickin` Country``, but that slogan is not on the 1020 entry. But 1420? Nothing remotely similar among the callsigns listed there, anywhere. DF seemed WSW/ENE, but the DX-398 has misled me before. In the NRC AM Log 2011-2012, there is an intriguing 1420 entry in NM: a CP for Rowe, 2.5/0.103 kW, both non-direxional. Rowe? Never heard of it. Can`t be near Roswell, which has a local 1430. Rand McNally atlas skips it in the index. Info from FCC AM Query shows coördinates, and I quickly find Rowe on the atlas map, just across I-25 from Pecos NM --- between Las Vegas and Santa Fe, so I have driven by it multiple times. Could this CP now be on, at least testing, somehow with programming from KCKN or KCKM? CP holder is Sangre de Cristo Broadcasting (named for a mountain range which can look blood-red at sunset, hardly the only one, not literally for the blood of Christ), which is licensee of 540 KNMX Las Vegas, and FCC AM Query shows it also has applications for 1290 and 1370 in `Vegas. Inquired of Jerry Kiefer at KCKN and he replied immediately: ``Hi Glenn, Strange one, I will pass this along to Bob Souza down in Monahans. Like Sgt. Schultz, "We know nothing about nothing". Can't believe a harmonic would do this; like you say, maybe somebody is playing games. At that time we have a decent signal into that area and we are playing music from Roswell. If I hear of anything unusual I'll let you know. We are "classic country" and Monahans IDs as "kickin country". Though mixing of frequencies in Roswell proper (1020 & 1230), we do have an image around 1410 but doesn't make it out of town. Know nothing about 1420, I doubt if they will have much signal south of I-40. 540 is a case, even though they are DA to the NW with a null to protect 550 in Midland, you can hear a fringe signal on a car radio in Roswell. Lot to be said about good conductivity: 710 out of Amarillo has a whole lot better signal in Roswell than 770 out of ABQ. On a side note, we're started building out 1480 in Dallas; by July I expect you'll have some critical hours RF up your way. She should have close to 300 kW ERP to the NNW. No target date yet but hopefully early July. We caught one stealing new rolls of cooper by way of fingerprints and the cops nabbed him. 21 year old from the area. With the activity in the area, not much action now. Thanks, Jerry`` (Glenn Hauser, Enid OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 1510-, May 24 at 1146 UT, dominant signal still skywave with local ad for Olathe Kia, and still off-frequency to low side producing audible het (with Denver?), i.e. KCTE, Independence MO, 10 kW daytimer (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. 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