** CHINA [and non]. 4800, Feb 9 at 0053, two very poor signals, but atop is matched to 960, i.e. 5 x 960 local KGWA Enid, vs CNR1 Geermu (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** EGYPT. 15710, Feb 9 at 1859, R. Cairo news theme (I almost took it for national anthem at this hour and so pervasive), then talk before 1900 arrived in distorted language, listed Hausa at 18-21, 250 kW, 241 degrees from Abis. 11560, Feb 9 at 1902, fair signal better than 15710, language noted as Arabish, with reverb. Certainly did not lock in as German, which is listed from 1900, 200 kW, 325 degrees from Abis (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** GERMANY [non]. 6035, Feb 9 at 2232 I seek the publicized RMRC special in memoriam Roger Kirk, which was publicized for this date at 22-23 from unmentioned site; nothing but a JBA carrier here in the fringes of the heavy Cuban radio war on 6030, but not intended for N America anyway. He was with Radio Northsea International, died last December 4. See http://rmrc.de/wordpress/?p=136 This frequency-hour is not registered for anywhere, so what`s the site, pirate? In reminding DXLD yg of it just ahead of time, Kai Ludwig replied, ``I think all RMRC transmissions since the closure of the Ulbroka [Latvia] transmitter, for which they had provided the last hurrah, went out from Sitkunai,`` i.e. LITHUANIA. How was it in Europe? (Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** GUAM [and non]. 15370, Feb 9 at 2246, CCI making a rumble to a LAH, both poor, but one must be RHC in scheduled French, and the other KSDA in Chinese to the northwest; RHC abnormally weak, compared to 15340 Spanish. I wonder which one is further off frequency (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** INDIA. 13605, Feb 9 at 2243, wonderful haunting AIR IS can still be heard here and now, unlike before the 1330 English broadcast; 2245 opening GOS with frequencies for SE and NE Asia; fair with flutter and plenty CODAR. Amazingly, this is the OSOB all the way up to 13830 & 13845 US signals, altho after 2300 Cuban relays will show up (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** PERU [and non]. 5980.0, Feb 10 at 0058, mostly CNR1 jammer in Chinese; 5990 splasher from CRI/Cuba is already off by 0059 for a change, and no noise jamming audible. After 0100 timesignal from CNR1 at closing, JBA carrier remains, no doubt R. Chaski, Urubamba, and just as expected, cuts off the air 5 seconds later than last night, at precisely 0105:45* (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SOMALIA [non]. 11615, Feb 9 at 1903, good signal with HoA music. HFCC says it`s Babcock in Somali at 1830-1930, 300 kW, 122 degrees from Woofferton, but what? A drawback of HFCC not giving us the real name of stations, just the transmission provider. For that we go to Aoki: R. Damal (V. of Somali People) (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. WORLD OF RADIO 1655 monitoring: confirmed Sat 1830 broadcast Feb 9 on WRN via WRMI at 1855 check on 9955: poor signal with fadeouts but no jamming audible. Further airings are Sun 0900, 1600, Mon 0530, Tue 1200 on 9955. On WTWW: UT Sunday 0500 on 5830 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. Anomalies from WBCQ, Feb 9, perhaps due to weather: 15420-CUSB, Feb 9 at 1912, instead of androgynous anapestic preaching, rock/soul music. 7490, Feb 9 at 2234, gospel huxter rather than ``I Sing``. Altho I have only one receiver handy on the 43-degree porch, it seems to be // 9330-CUSB. Instantaneous frequency switching is impossible on the DX-398. At 2347 recheck, 7490 is now in dead air, making it easier to hear BBC Thailand underneath, while 9330 is musical; still 7490 DA Feb 10 at 0050, 0102, 0205. 5110-CUSB, Feb 10 around 0055, rock music, presumed during scheduled `Radio Timtron Worldwide` at 00-02; nothing heard about snowstorm during my brief chex. BTW, the Area 51 schedule at http://www.worldmicroscope.com/ shows times in UT, but the days/dates are local ET. And I see that `Pirates Week` has been running roughly every other week UT Mondays 03-04, including Feb 11 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 9273, Feb 9 at 2236 surprised to encounter good signal from that gospel huxtress with a heavy Japanese accent, and an annoyingly high-pitched voice. I bet it`s WINB, since nothing is on 9265 where it should be now; did someone bump the Red Lion analog tuning knob? Not on 13570 either. Frequency then refined to 9273.25, and it`s steady without a wobble, atypical of WINB; new transmitter? Retune at 2258 she is still going, plugging drinking lots of water between meals and citing Micah, then singing excruciatingly and incomprehensibly. Running late, outro with contact info including spelling her name, Miato Namihira, I think, as she did not employ fonetix like a true radio person. She must be a Seventh Day Adventist, as referred to 3ABN, Your Story Hour for kids with phone numbers, but her own address is in, of all places, Vicksburg, Mississippi. 2302 finally WINB canned ID from the ``United States of Americuh``, no frequency mentioned, dead air and then starting an OM g.h. with Americuhn accent, i.e. none, but too quick to interject an amen. At 2349 I remeasured the frequency on both the YB-400 and the DX-398 as 9272.9, so it`s drifting down, but unlikely to attain 9265.0 by sign-off without help. No, at 0205 final check, it still at 9272.9. Meanwhile, the off-frequency is widely heard from Bulgaria to Brazil and even inside Pennsylvania. WINB program schedule, not updated since Jan 13, still claims to be on 9265, and the Sat 2230 UT program is `Living the Bible` (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 5085, Feb 10 at 0056, WTWW-2 is still missing even on Saturday night, and not on 9905 either, or earlier (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. 4835 & 4835, Feb 10 at 0054, again two JBA carriers slightly apart detectable with BFO, expected to be Peru & Sikkim, but little prospect of either getting any better (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) _ 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
