** AUSTRALIA. 17840, Aug 22 at 0130, no signal from RA, normally its best frequency; off? Or curtailed MUF; JBA carrier on 15240; RNZI very poor on 15720. K index at 00 was only 1, but WWV said at 0118 that there had been storm reaching R1 level (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** EGYPT. 9315.0, Aug 22 at 0119, R. Cairo, S9+5 but music is suptorted in presumed Spanish service 9965.2, Aug 22 at 0125, R. Cairo, Arabic, undermodulated with whine 11935.0, Aug 22 at 0128, R. Cairo presumed the S3 dead Spanish air 12070.0, Aug 22 at 0127, R. Cairo presumed the S7 dead Spanish air (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MEXICO. Still some sporadic E up to 72 MHz on August 21, UT: 1805 on 2, CCI appears 1942 on 2, next check finds stronger video CCI and Spanish audio 1942 on 4, algo, Spanish ads, 1944 PSA from INE; ad in pesos for Bodega Real(?), which is a chain of hotels in Spain, not MĂ©xico 1945 on 2, deportes, Radio Kaliente mentioned; HOT-HITS full screen title, then guy in shades talking about fĂștbol (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** NORTH AMERICA. 6950.0-USB, Aug 22 at 0107, rock music, intermittent long pauses, no announcements, again before 0109, brief humbuzz as if plugging a patch in or out, 0108 more, 0124 announcement missed, 0127 it`s XLR8. Then I`m getting another USB pirate on 6945, so is 6950 off? No, back/again at 0141, 0144. All three pirate are still going at final check 0158. Many more logs, almost all from further east: http://www.hfunderground.com/board/index.php/topic,23063.0.html (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** NORTH AMERICA. 6945.0-USB, Aug 22 at 0141, pirate music at S9, 0144 Radio Free What-Ever ID; 0145 talking about Ashley Madison. (XLR8 is still going on 6950.0-USB, but no problem separating them. All three pirate are still going at final check 0158. Many more logs, almost all from further east: http://www.hfunderground.com/board/index.php/topic,23064.0.html (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** NORTH AMERICA. 6925.2, Aug 22 at 0110, JBA carrier on AM, presumed usual Liquid Radio as IDed by others on off-frequency, still going at 0146 now stronger at S7 with music; while USB pirates on 6945, 6950 are also on, much better. All three pirate are still going at final check 0158. Many more logs of this: http://www.hfunderground.com/board/index.php/topic,23061.0.html (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** OMAN [and non]. 9500, Aug 22 at 0120, RSO on correct frequency tonite with lite music! And Arabic comments, S9+20 but sounds poor with undermodulation; also bothered by noise, apparently bleed from 9490 jamming; and crackle at least above 9508 and around 9545-9560, suspected out of the Cuba 9535 transmitter again (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** PERU. 5980, Aug 22 at 0102, BA carrier with bit of modulation from R. Chaski, until autocutoff at 0105:59* which is 31.5 seconds later than last catch five nights ago, 0105:27.5* on Aug 17, i.e. averaging 6.3 seconds later per (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SPAIN. 17855, Aug 21 at 2205, REE IS has been playing after sign-off but now stops (no Arabic or English again), and OC stays on until 2209* (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. WORLD OF RADIO 1787 monitoring: confirmed Friday Aug 21 at 2130 on WRMI 15770, and at 2130.5 on WRMI 7570. Missed checking at 2330 on 5850. Next: 0630 UT Saturday HLR 7265-CUSB 1430 UT Saturday HLR 7265-CUSB 1930vUT Saturday WA0RCR 1860-AM 0315vUT Sunday WA0RCR 1860-AM 2300 UT Sunday WRMI 11580 0300vUT Monday WBCQ 5110v Area 51 0330 UT Monday WRMI 9955 1100 UT Tuesday WRMI 9955 0630 UT Wednesday HLR 7265-CUSB 1315 UT Wednesday WRMI 9955 1430 UT Wednesday HLR 7265-CUSB 2100 UT Wednesday WBCQ 7490v (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 5110.0-AM, UT Sat Aug 22 at 0134, WBCQ must be back on the other transmitter, not off frequency, and not CUSB, as `Allan Weiner Worldwide` is running much later than usual, a sesquihour-plus. Very poor here but good on almost synchronized // 7490, as AW is reading from the e-mailbag. 9330 is off. At 0139 his closing prayer to Jesus, but he always comes back with more station comments: in a ``financial crunch`` as ``several clients have been lost``. Plenty of time available on 9330, also 5110, and some on 7490. 0141 says Art Bell 04-07 UT weeknites now on 7490 only ``can`t keep doing it unsponsored; need to cover at least the electric bill``. (Art Bell website says local sponsorship holes are at :28 and :58 past the hours.) 0143 he`s finished and cut to Brother Scare on both 7490 and 5110, but soon turned off 5110 at 0146 check (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 9975.1, Aug 22 at 0152, KVOH remains spurless and back to normal except it`s noticeably slightly off-frequency (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 1690, Aug 22 at 0153 UT, R. Disney YL DJ gabbing, so I check 620 and find that 1690 is 9 seconds behind 620. Disney still hasn`t unloaded two O&O stations we can hear, 1690 KDDZ Arvada CO (address in Lakewood), and 620 KMKI Plano TX (address in Dallas); the latter has been reported sold to the KSKY-cluster but must not have finalized yet (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) This report dispatched at 0328 UT August 22 _ 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