** AUSTRALIA. 17840, April 1 at 0535, R. Australia at VG level here after local ``midnite``, and the OSOB; with some hum which turns out to be just from the phoner clip at the moment, goes away showing how clear the signal is. Also good on // 15240, poor on 15415, in accordance with different azimuths. May 17840 keep up like this! It`s the one at 21-09 on 70 degree azimuth aimed right at us, like 9580 at 09-21; just needs agreeable propagation (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** AUSTRALIA. 11590, April 2 at 1325, 1330, 1337, 1406, 1458 chex, no signal from RBA, where it`s supposed to be now with English after 1445 to S Asia. I tuned in at 1325 expecting to hear their hymn medley prélude. What happened to it? (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1767, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** AUSTRIA. 6155, April 1 at 0538, Ö1 is still playing some lite classical wake-up music which makes it onto the token 75-minute SW broadcast, now shifted one UT hour earlier, so a little more darkness on path and a little better reception, soon to be lost as we progress further into summer. Only poor signal not enough to enjoy, plus a LAH presumably from Fides, Bolivia, always off-frequency to hi side. Yet the Moosbrunn SW transmitters are run for many foreign clients, following in the footsteps of Uzbekistan, dissing its own broadcasts (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BANGLADESH. 15505, April 1 at 1359, BB open carrier, poor with flutter: time for less than one complete IS before mistimesignal intervenes ending at 1359:33.5 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BRAZIL. 4885, April 2 at 0540, music audible under CODAR and local storm noise, so R. Clube do Pará is active for a change (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BRAZIL. 11710 & 11745 & 11815, April 2 at 0513, crackling spurs from 11780.1v RNA/RNB, the closer ones stronger (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CHINA [and non]. 19000, April 2 at 1338, JBA signal here, matching the Thursday 13-14 HFCC and Aoki schedules for RFA Tibetan via KUWAIT, and thus surely jammed (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** EGYPT. 13850, April 2 at 0514, VG signal level, from R. Cairo to North America, but presumed Arabic is suptorted; and splatter up to 20 kHz above and below (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** HAWAII [and non]. 15000, April 1 at 1308, WWVH is very good such that the YL voice announcements are slightly overmodulated/distorted, while only a trace of WWV underneath. But there is a third station with second tix of a different pitch, and they are not a semi-second out of synch. BPM China would be most likely if they are now on time (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** INTERNATIONAL INTERNET & VACUUM. As I mentioned before, we have been relying on the Smithsonian Channel (Suddenlink cable 328 in Enid), for CBS Sunday Morning, once we discovered it was being repeated there Sunday afternoons, Monday mornings, and at least one more time during the week; since there is too much else going on at 1300-1430 UT original airtime. We would never have known about this except checking out the S.C. schedule, as it was never mentioned on CBS itself. Osgood would do a different opening (?) and closing, and the final Nature Segment would always play much longer on S.C. than CBS itself – close to 2 minutes instead of maybe a semiminute, as disposable filler to round out the time. So on March 29 we skipped the CBS airing, and were all set for it on S.C. at 1800 UT --- but NOT --- something else was on, and searching its schedule, all the CBSSM airings are gone, without notice. On CBS website it does appear most or all of the SM segments may be viewed individually, but it`s a pain to have to mess with it. At least the ``extended`` nature segment, at least this week, ran about another minute even longer than on TV. CBS is part owner of S.C., so obvious how this came about, but why quit? Most of the CBS commercials had been replaced by Smithsonian promos. The bottom line rules (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** KURDISTAN [non]. 11510, April 2 at 0511, poor signal with heavy flutter, presumed Denge Kurdistane with Kurdish music on A-15 channel ex-9400. Registered as PRIDNESTROVYE site 03-19, but at least part of it later is Bulgaria. Same type of heavy flutter on 9700, ROMANIA in French, tho K index at 03 was only 1 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** NEW ZEALAND. 11725, April 2 at 0513, no signal from RNZI, so must be another Thursday maintenance period; propagation OK, as Australia is in (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** OKLAHOMA. 90.1, April 2 at 2036 UT, KUCO Edmond with tristation ID including 95.9 Woodward now as ``KCSC`` which was the original call on 90.1, now preserved for posterity on ex-KZCU; presumably started April 1 when not checked (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** OKLAHOMA. Why do you not allow your countless viewers outside storm areas to continue watching CBS? You`ve been interrupting Letterman. Yet on 9.2 you are still showing hours-old news/weather!!!!!! Useless. And what about KSBI? You were supposedly going to put CBS on there, but it isn`t. In tornado season, at least, any evening likely to be stormy, just put CBS on one of the extra channels and be done with it --- without weather interruptions. If we need the wx, we`re smart enough to watch the main channel (Glenn Hauser, Enid, contact form to News9 = KWTV OKC, 0357 UT April 1, via DXLD) Glenn, CBS programming is now available on KSBI, Cox Channel 7 or 707 or 52.1 over the air. Thank you, (Jen Billings, Executive Producer, KWTV News9, 0426 UT, e-mail reply to gh, via DXLD) Yes, but not until 11:00, after missing the first half of Letterman. You have all these extra channels (and could create more, like 9.3 or 52.2) so please just put CBS on one of them when there is any weather which will disrupt 9.1) (Glenn, reply, ibid.) I understand... I asked for the programming to be flipped over earlier. I apologize my engineers were slow to react. I promise we'll work to be better. Thanks for watching... (Jen Billings, 0502 UT April 1, ibid.) See also INTERNATIONAL INTERNET & VACUUM: Smithsonian/CBS ** OKLAHOMA [and non]. We habitually watch NHK TV News at the only time available, via OETA OKLA 13.2 subchannel, M-F 1600-1630 UT. Previous time references indicated it was one or two hours delayed, but April 2 at 1600 the anchor opens saying it`s 7 pm Thursday in Tokyo! That was 1000 UT, entirely too long to delay a world news program. Is no later one available, as 5 am CDT would not have much of an audience here? By now it`s 1 am in Tokyo (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ROMANIA. 13740, Wednesday April 1 at 1344 as I tune across this AM frequency, startled to hear a ``CQ`` in Morse code amid music and announcement in Russian, poor. Aoki shows this is RRI from Tiganeshti during this semihour only, so was this a DX program? Or like in English merely a mailbag. BTW, in Russian, there is no C or Q as we know them (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SPAIN. 17855, April 2 at 2033, REE is still missing from what had been its strongest frequency, on 290-degree N American beam, but audible on 17715 poor, 15490 fair, 15450 poor. Maybe it`ll be back if they get a fourth transmitter operational again. Supposedly some of the several units are back in Spain after a visit to America for repairs --- still find it hard to believe they shipped the entire transmitters back and forth rather than components such as exciters (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1767, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SUDAN [and non] 11650, April 1 at 0538, R. Dabanga, poor via VATICAN with tone jammer; // 13800 via MADAGASCAR is JBA, can`t tell if there is a tone jammer too. 11650, April 2 at 0512, R. Dabanga poor with tone jammer atop it; 13800, April 2 at 0515, R. Dabanga fair signal but with double-tone jamming, the hi whiner and the low audible heterodyne (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1767, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** TIBET [and non]. 4820, April 1 at 1246, poor signal with het on hi side, 1248 could be in Chinese. 4920, April 1 at 1248, poor broadcast signal. Both these could be Lhasa, the latter in Tibetan; or both could be AIR INDIA, Kolkata and Chennai respectively, all scheduled on air at this time, as the two giant neighbors cannot or will not agree to use non-conflicting 60mb frequencies. The 4820+ het could be India, which typically wanders off-frequency (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** TIBET [non]. 15525, April 1 at 1406, presumed V. of Tibet via MADAGASCAR, poor-fair, and as expected, jumps to 15530 at 1407:04 to avoid Chicom jamming; but none heard here before or after on either frequency. So no change in this from B-14 to A-15. No OOB CNR1 jammers found propagating before 1400 in a 12-18 MHz scan (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. WORLD OF RADIO 1766 monitoring: confirmed Wednesday April 1 at 1315 on WRMI 9955, sufficient, no jamming, but usual RTTY on hi side to avoid. Also confirmed Wednesday April 1 at 2100 on webcast of WBCQ; a few minutes later can detect a JBA carrier on 7490v. Also confirmed UT Thursday April 2 at 0350 on WRMI 9955, good signal, as 1767 is not yet ready. Also presumed one more repeat on 9955, April 2 at 1230 as 1767 is still not ready. WORLD OF RADIO 1767 monitoring: finished and uploaded by 2118 UT April 2, so first SW airing will be Friday 2130: Fri 2130 WRMI 15770 & 7570 Sat 0630 HLR 7265-CUSB Hamburger Lokalradio [time shift for DST] Sat 1000 WRMI 5850 Sat 1530 HLR 7265-CUSB Hamburger Lokalradio [time shift for DST] Sat 1930v WA0RCR 1860-AM Sat 2130 Global 24 9525 via BULGARIA [last week; but unconfirmed for this week; time/frequency may change] Sun 0315v WA0RCR 1860-AM Sun 2300 WRMI 11580 Mon 0300v WBCQ 5110v Area 51 [SW not on air last week but webcast] Tue 1100 WRMI 9955 Wed 0630 HLR 7265-CUSB Hamburger Lokalradio Wed 1315 WRMI 9955 Wed 1430 HLR 7265-CUSB Hamburger Lokalradio Wed 2100 WBCQ 7490v Thu 0330 WRMI 9955 [or 1768 if ready in time] (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. 11425-SSB, April 1 at 1350, intermittent music, singing and 2-way contacts, very poor here, again at 1358, and meanwhile several similar signals below this frequency. Presumably Indonesian QSO pirates, as also heard here last Oct 22 & 23 as in DXLD 14-44, originally reported by Dan Sheedy in DXLD 14-43 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. 13562-CW, approx., April 2 at 0517, vs heavy CODAR I detect a CW beacon at the verge of inaudibility. Slow ID but copying each character is difficult as I listen over and over for almost ten minutes. Stops or fades out by 0526. Closest I can make out is V1RGM/B, but at least one of those is likely to be wrong, as I find no similar call in the HIFER references, nor is it a valid ham call. Amazing number of unrelated hits on the web, however, for V1RGM. Ideas? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) This report dispatched at 2326 UT April 2 _ 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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