** ALBANIA. 9590, Sept 30 at 0542, CRI relay in Arabic modulation is not so distorted as it was 24 hours earlier, about same as // 9515 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** BANGLADESH. 15105, Sept 30 at 1241, despite being Sunday, BB is on the air, poor signal with YL in English about border security incidents; 1243 on to music. You never know with this station, which still doesn`t have its act together: Brian Alexander noted that on Sept 28 it signed on late at *1241. 1314 check and later today, nothing on 15105, still no Nepali. 15505, more reliable Urdu is also absent Sept 30 at 1400; but at 1419 recheck it`s on late with music, poor signal (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BRAZIL. 6180, Sept 30 at 0526 check, RNA is still missing here, and still on 11780 at least (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BRAZIL [and non]. 28630-USB, Sept 29 at 1827 I find that 10m is hopping, at least from here: PY5QW in Curitiba spells his name more than once: Vigand, contact in English. Strange name for a Brazilian, but look at his last name, in QRZ.com PY5QW VIGAND OLSSON RUA PADRE DEHON, 1326 CURITIBA-PR CEP- 81630-090 Brazil Which also has several shots of his antenna farm. UNIDENTIFIEDs: 27 MHz freeband was also hopping; e.g. tuned down exactly one MHz to 27630-SSB at 1829 and heard what sounded like French Creole. 25772-FM, also someone in Spanish 2-way, with music playing in background (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CANADA. 9555, Sept 30 at 0526, Sackville has managed to put VOV Vietnamese back on correct frequency instead of 6175 last night (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) See also JAPAN [non] ** CHINA. Firedrake Sept 30, before 1300: 12230, fair at 1254 13130, good at 1253 with flutter; none in the 14s 15555, good at 1246 with flutter, het on lo side 15795, fair at 1246 in mix with CNR1 and AIR Chinese 15900, very good at 1247 15970, very good at 1248 16600, poor at 1249 16980, very poor at 1248 17370, JBA at 1248 18200, even more JBA at 1250 with flutter After 1300: 15495, fair at 1308, het on hi side 15565, good at 1308 with flutter, het on lo side After 1400: 15610, Sept 30 at 1420, fair squeezed between WEWN 15615 and WEWN spur 15605 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) See also EAST TURKISTAN ** CUBA. 17730 et al., Sunday Sept 30 at 1335, RHC ``En Contacto`` #40 for 2012y, DX program starting with usual roster of week`s birthdays among listeners, staffers. A few weeks ago, host Manolo de la Rosa was joined by a new-co-hostess, María Elena ---, months after his wife Malena Negrín had retired (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** EAST TURKISTAN. 9685, Sept 30 at 1216, MPK ID in Russian (= CRI), surprised to hear here instead of 9675 on the other side of the 9680 mess. Rechecking HFCC, I see that 9685 is 12-13 via Urumqi, while 9675 is not until 13-14 via SZG site in China proper (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** GUAM. 15215, Sept 30 at 1310, poor signal, slow talk in S Asian language, 1311 music and ID I think AWR; yes, it`s KSDA in Bengali, 1300-1330, 100 kW, 285 degrees from Agat per HFCC. Gone at 1334 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** GUIANA FRENCH. 11995, Sept 30 at 0539, the open carrier with hum is on again, presumably not turned off after RTI Spanish relay ending at 0300 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** IRAN. 21500, Sept 30 at 1251, VP signal seems Chinese aside much bigger 21505 BSKSA. First time this heard, a CNR1 jammer? No, HFCC shows IRIB at 12-13 in Chinese, 500 kW, 76 degrees from Sirjan; another sign of the annual bump in 13m propagation. At 1254, VIRI also audible on 21650 in Chinese (12-13, 500 kW, 65 degrees from Kamalabad) and very weak 21670 (1230-1330, in Malay, 500 kW, 107 degrees from Sirjan), both of which as heard previously (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** IRELAND [non]. 17685, Sept 30 at 1304, fair signal from RTE relay via UK for replay of hurling championship which was a tie on original Sept 9 broadcast. JBA signal, if any, via South Africa on 17540. Excited commentary at 1334; has the game started? I thought it was all lead-up until 1430. At 1408 recheck still no 17540, and 17685 has Chinese atop! Explanation: IBB Tibetan via Lampertheim at 1400-1500, except it`s only on day 7 = Saturday per HFCC, but the ChiCom CNR1 jam it also on Sundays, the same problem as two sesquiweeks ago. Another warning: beware of jammed frequencies even if you think they will be clear at your own special time (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ITALY [non]. 15215, Sept 30 at 1406, Brother Scare very poor and not synchronized with WWRB 9370. See DXLD 12-39 for an enlightening conversation with IRRS CEO Alfredo Cotroneo; among other things his justification for keeping the transmitter sites secret: http://www.w4uvh.net/dxld1239.txt (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** JAPAN [non]. 6110, UT Sunday Sept 30 at 0510, NHKWR via CANADA is devoting `Friends Around the World` to interviewing Toshi Ohtake on the sixtieth anniversary of the Japan SW Club. Says started with 20 members, cost 300 yen or $1; now has few foreign members. 0523 offering special eQSL or if you send rp, pQSL; closed with Toshi`s music request, Sakura2; 0527 plug ``We Love Japanese Songs`` contest, send your videos (including audio presumably) of performance to be aired in January. Also heard Toshi interview repeat as tuned by 6120 after 1210 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** KUWAIT. R. Kuwait check at 2055 Sept 29: 15540 good with western pop music; but 17550 very poor in Arabic music, the MUF somewhere in between (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MAURITANIA. 7245, Sept 30 at 0543 check, IGIM is still missing. I wonder if it is still active, but signing on much later? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MOROCCO. 9579+, Sept 30 at 0542, Médi Un is back on wrong frequency, making het with Gabon 9580.0, altho missing 24 hours earlier. Other Nador transmitter 15349.1 for IMM was still missing Sept 29 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** OKLAHOMA [and non]. 960, Sept 30 at 0500 during local KGWA`s 5 minutes of dead air instead of news, I null it and turn up the volume. I can make out ABC News again, with a slight reverb, so maybe both KMA and WERC, plus something else in the mix. I expect that KMA Shenandoah IA is the dominant one. Need to check other hourtops especially late at night in case KGWA silence itself elsewhen. Obviously no one at the station itself listens to KGWA (Glenn Hauser, Enid, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SOMALILAND. 7120, Sept 30 at 0330 check, R. Hargeisa carrier is on; did not stay with it but Brian Alexander reported modulation started before 0331 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SPAIN. 21610, Sunday Sept 30 at 1252 REE with music, while `Amigos de la Onda Corta` should be on, but also missing last week. (I believe I did notice its first airing this week, UT Sat Sept 29 after 0505 on several frequencies.) At 1306, `Mundofonías` world music show is still starting, and 21610 is the best frequency by far, // 15585 very weak as usual, and 11880 Costa Rica relay is missing, the latter supposed to be off only on Saturdays. At 1330 during an announcement I can again hear a long/short path echo. It seems REE has been without a leader for some 5 months, people are losing their jobs, and the place is falling apart, which goes a long way to explaining all these disruptions. As Alexandr Diadischev, Ukraine, reported Sept 24 in the dxldyg and DXLD 12-39 and WORLD OF RADIO 1636: ``According to Svetlana Demidova, presenter of REE's Russian service, REE did not participate in B12 [HFCC Paris] conference "due to complicated situation inside REE". She said that their technical service can say nothing certain so far. Svetlana also mentioned staff dismissals, wage cuts, transferring of employees to other departments of RTVE and so on. Besides, REE has been without director for five months now. But still, she hopes that the station will continue on short wave in B12`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. George McClintock phoned me during a traffic jam a few hours earlier that WTWW-2 would be on with another Ted Randall show, starting at 0000 UT Sept 30 on 9990, switching to 5085 at 0100-0400. So I publicized it to the dxldyg, but did not check until 0110 and there was nothing on either frequency; others noted 9990 did not show up. What happened? However, by 0229 check, 5085 was on, Ted playing classic rock/country tunes and prompting phone calls and e-mail. Super signal. Stayed on past 0400 and asked for mail from Oklahoma after hearing from Texas. So I sent him a quick message. At 0405 he replied on air, with unsolicited testimonial about me and WOR, and furthermore after the next tune even suggested people contribute financially to World of Radio. Thanks, Ted! Also mentioned that he had plans to put WOR on WTWW-2 Saturday evenings along with his own programming. George had indicated WTWW-2 is about ready to go with regular service, time being sold to a variety of programs, rather than a single client as on 1 and 3. 5085 stayed on much later, still going at 0500 ID and 0529 when I quit (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. WORLD OF RADIO 1636 monitoring: confirmed on WTWW-1, new 5745, UT Sunday Sept 30 at 0400, starting intact just after legal ID and ex-5755 announcement. (The canned ID was almost synchronized with Ted Randall on WTWW-2; see separate log.) Remaining repeats on WRMI 9955: Monday 0500, 1130 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 9825, UT Sunday Sept 30 at 0405, only a very poor signal from algo; 0425 recheck I can barely recognize the tones of Chris Lobdell, so `DXing With Cumbre` is still on WHRI, even SW at this hour; last week I could not hear it at all. What happened to their bigsig? MUF and/or skip zone got `em, I guess; meanwhile, WOR was inbooming on 5745 WTWW (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A [non]. 17800, Sept 30 at 1406, nice carillon music and unID language; HFCC shows it`s YFR in Sinhala at 14-15, 500 kW due east from Wertachtal, GERMANY (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 1000, Sept 30 at 1230 UT, with KTOK OKC nulled as best I can, same station as before making slow SAH like Sept 28 when measured as 1.47 Hz, in English, and now the ID is definite: KKIM, 505-AC phone numbers; 1231 ``KKIM AM & FM, --- radio for New Mexico``. (NRC AM Log fills in the blanx: Christian Talk Radio for NM; FM is 94.7). Like I said with previous log: ``non-direxional, 10 kW day, but not if it is really running night power of 38 watts or psra of 12.2 watts!`` Official FCC sunrise at KKIM for Sept is 1245 UT; from tomorrow in Oct it will be 1315; naaah, why bother, just leave it at 10 kW all the time (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 1210, UT Sunday Sept 30 at 0508, hear deep voice talk // WOAI 1200 and countless others, sub host? Tho not in synch, ergo must be Coast to Coast, and KGYN must be behaving itself tonight. I searched the C2C website and found the only affiliate listed on 1210 is WPHT Philadelphia, which has become a rarity here. Then also discovered that C2C is ``B`` in NRC AM Log coding for networks, where it is also the only B on 1210. Trouble is, on Sundays it supposedly does not start on WPHT until 2 am EDT = 0600+. I try to check http://philadelphia.cbslocal.com/ but there is no link to a program schedule, just lots of chaff (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. 1030, Sept 30 at 0505 UT, big open carrier with hum, still there and dominating at 0525; loops N-S, so very likely it`s the 50 kW nondirexional daytimer KCTA Corpus Christi TX, testing. There is another 50 kW in Minnesota, WCTS, but it`s direxional north, and also has 1 kW at night (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. 1630, Sept 30 at 0534 UT, ``16-30, La Jota Mexicana``, makes it thru the QRM, i.e. KRND Fox Farm (Cheyenne) WY. NRC AM Log shows it`s 10/1 kW U1 = non-direxional, and has a CP to become U4 = direxional at night --- but there is now no such CP shown at http://transition.fcc.gov/fcc-bin/amq?list=0&facid=87155 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. 1650, Sept 30 at 1218 UT, weak signal with romantic music in Spanish, vs. Spanish preacher looping further north. Nothing from Iowa at the moment. I suppose the religion is KBJD Denver, romx is KSVE in El Paso TX per format info, but still no definite ID nor do I see any other reports of it whatsoever (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
