** ALBANIA [non]. 9395, April 1 at 0201, R. Tirana via WRMI is VG tonight, but still in Italiano instead of Inglese. Maybe somebody didn`t look beyond the first letter when programming this? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CUBA. 15439 approx., April 1 at 1323, RHC FM spurblobs are back! No fooling. These had been suppressed for a fortnight since last heard March 15 on daily chex. I *knew* that would not be a permanent fix. Out of 15370-AM transmitter; at approx. plus/minus 69 kHz intervals. 15439 and its match 15301 are clearly audible in FM mode, no noise. The next pair out, 15233 (vs RHC-AM 15230) and 15509, are almost as good. Also detectable, progressively weaker, circa: 15165, 15096, 15025, 14957; 15578, 15647, 15714, 15782. All of them are accompanied by the F# tone above middle C --- at the outer ranges, that`s the only tipoff that the spur is there. Fortunately 15439 is far enough away not to bother 15450 Turkey in English. And 15509 is far enough away not to bother 15520 REE in Spanish from 1400. Pure luck, of course. By 1337, `En Contacto` is starting late. Will Arnie ever say a word about RHC`s galaxy of spurs and constant operational / technical foulups? Of course not! Even tho he would surely blame them on the Yanqui embargo/blockade. He has enumerated only 93 ways to enjoy radio, but tnx to RadioCuba, where something is always wrong, I have a ninety-fourth (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CUBA [and non]. 9580, April 1 at 0118, `Ritmo de China`, CRI in Spanish instead of English! April fool? CRI English relay is still nearby on 9570 via ALBANIA, or rather ``China Plus``. The dirty 9580 transmitter also emits extremely distorted spurblobs approx. plus / minus 17 kHz around 9563 & 9597. Partially readable if I switch to FM mode. Also traces of second-order blob at +34 = 9614, while if any at minus 34, 9536, blocked by another RHC fundamental on 9535. Something`s always wrong at RadioCuba (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CUBA [and non]. 9490, April 1 at 0113, wall-of-noise jamming, with Spanish(?) talk JBA under, but a definite carrier. Nothing on 7350, despite registrations for RMI via Issoudun, FRANCE on the lower starting at 0200 toward Cuba. Evidently both time and frequency for Radio República are wrong, still on 9490 as in B-17 and A-17, and due to Yanqui-Cuban DST, starting at least an hour earlier at 0100 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** NORTH AMERICA. UNIDENTIFIED pirate, 6905-AM, April 1 at 0050, very repetitive music loop, or is it SFX? Signal grows to S9+20/25. 0053 brief talkover in language? unseems English; no ToH ID or any further announcements until off abruptly at 0102*. (Meanwhile my streetlite has ignited at *0057 with an RF noise burst, prompted by cloudy sunset.) Numerous others logs of 6905, all unID: https://www.hfunderground.com/board/index.php/topic,41449.0.html and it came back on later: https://www.hfunderground.com/board/index.php/topic,41457.0.html I`m amazed at the musical knowledge of the HFU loggers; about all I would have recognized was Pinball Wizard, earlier (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** PALAU. 9965, April 1 at 1400, no signal from T8WH/KHBN/LeSea, tho supposedly scheduled until 1430 as heard last weekend March 24-25, with signal so strong it could have been WHRI, and also a mixture of both? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** PHILIPPINES. 9380, April 1 at 1403, Jesus-sermon in English S4-S6 with alternate/consecutive translation into something. That would be Chinese from FEBC, 100 kW, 345 degrees from Bocaue, scheduled 1000-1600. I first thought of AIR Aligarh, which is registered for Hindi at 0815-1200 & 1305-0040, 250 kW at 188 degrees. Are these two really time-sharing to avoid collisions? EiBi A-18 also shows them overlapping: ``9380 0830-1200 IND AIR Vividh Bharati HI SAs a 9380 1000-1600 PHL FEBC Manila M FE b 9380 1320-0043 IND AIR National Channel HI SAs a`` And essentially same info in NDXC/Aoki. VU2JOS site not reachable now. FEBC 9380 is ex-9430 in B-17, where there was no such conflict. Why did they move, and especially onto a well-established AIR frequency? However, I must say that I heard no sign of AIR QRM. One is aimed across India, the other into China from a much different angle (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** RWANDA [non]. 15420, March 31 at 1759, open carrier stops my memory scan on the BSR-1 caradio, 1800 African music, 1804 starts talking in presumed Kinyarwanda, mentions shortwave, but no ID heard. This is R. Itahuka, weekly hour via MADAGASCAR, which some reports still claim is in Kirundi, related language of the neighboring ex-Belgian colony. Not that I can tell the difference, but the default assumption should be Kinyarwanda, u.o.s. Recheck finds it cutting off at 1900:08* (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SLOVAKIA [non]. 9455, Sunday April 1 at 1404, R. Eslovaquia Internacional still in daily secret Spanish broadcast via WRMI. I had asked, why would they want a third morning broadcast? Answer probably: for the PDT zone, where it`s 7 am, while the others are really too early out there, if they are even propagating. I say secret because this doesn`t show on the WRMI skeds; I haven`t yet caught a schedule announcement, if any, so I seek the RSI Spanish page. It`s hard to find if you go to default English first, but finally: http://esrsi.rtvs.sk/como-escucharnos is quite outdated, with info as of 2015 and no mention of this broadcast, wrong times for some others. What do they know in Bratislava`s inverted pyramid? (Guillermo Glenn Hauser, Oclajoma, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SPAIN. 15520, Sunday April 1 at 1356, REE earworm IS, VG S9+10, by chance escaping the reactivated RHC spurfield above and below it; this frequency was missing yesterday. This early, 15520 is better than 17855 for North America; and no signal on 15390, the defective transmitter which on the weekend extensions is supposedly on 21620 before 1800, totally inaudible here. Neither HFCC nor Aoki/NDXC present accurate A-18 scheduling for NOBlejas. EiBi skeds for A-18 are now available as of March 28: http://eibispace.de/dx/freq-a18.txt or by time: http://eibispace.de/dx/bc-a18.txt which is succinctly correct, but one or even two sometimes absent: ``1400 1800 SaSu E Radio Exterior España S ME 15520n NAm 17855n SAm 17715n WAf 21620n 1800 2200 E Radio Exterior España S ME 15520n NAm 17855n SAm 17715n WAf 15390n`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SRI LANKA. 11905, April 1 at *0114:48 carrier on from SLBC, but no prélude or mis-timesignal audible before some talk from 0115:11; maybe there but just too weak (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A [and non]. WORLD OF RADIO 1923 monitoring: confirmed Saturday March 31 at 2130 on WBCQ, 9330.479v-CUSB, fair (as measured a few minutes earlier during BS, but later back to 9330.3v or so). Also confirmed Sat Mar 31 at 2300 on WRMI 7780, fair. Also confirmed UT Sun April 1 at 0200 on WRMI 7780, good. Also confirmed on WA0RCR, 1860-AM, MO, UT Sunday April 1 at 0354 about 22 minutes in so started late circa 0332, as I was still hearing ham news at 0330. Ivo Ivanov, Bulgaria, reports: ``GERMANY, Reception of World of Radio via HLR on 9485 CUSB, April 1 http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.bg/2018/04/reception-of-world-of-radio-via-hlr-on.html 1031-1100 9485 GOH 001 kW / 230 deg to CeEu English Sun, weak signal`` Next: Sun 2330 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB to WSW Mon 0300v WBCQ 5130v Area 51 to WSW Mon 0330 WRMI 9955 to SSE Mon 2330 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB to WSW Tue 0030 WRMI 7730 to WNW Tue 2030 WRMI 7780 to NE, 9455 to WNW [or #1924?] Tue 2130 WRMI 7780 to NE, 9455 to WNW [or #1924?] WOR schedule on all outlets, podcast access: http://www.worldofradio.com/radioskd.html (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 3215, April 1 at 0046, WWRB with usual Saturday night pair of gospel-huxters, and splattering out plus/minus 20 kHz. Evidently off by 0059, as no 3185 or 3195 at 0107 check, once WWCR has overtaken 3215, which is splattering only plus/minus 10 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 5085, UT Sunday April 1 at 0101, WTWW-2, ID and starting `Theater Organ in the Ozarx`, organ music until 0133. Meanwhile: 9475, April 1 at 0110, WTWW-1 big rough signal but undermodulated interview with someham on phone, not by Ted; rather than SFAW (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 1140, April 1 at 0132, Newsradio 1140 WRVA ID, and ``now on 96.1 FM``. How now? I enter 96.1 and Richmond in the WTFDA FM Database search fields, to find only one, 50 kW WQLK in Richmond, Indiana. But then searching VA instead of Richmond, I find the itty-bitty they are really hyping, a 145-watt translator, W241AP, in Midlothian, a southwest-side suburb (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** UZBEKISTAN [and non]. 9955, April 1 at 1400, JBA music, as I tune in just after WRMI cuts off for its 7-hour daily break. HFCC shows AWR, 100 kW, 131 degrees via Tashkent at 1330-1400 in Hmn, Ind, Asm depending on day of week; so presumably that prolonged, as nothing else scheduled. Only one other 9955 in HFCC is T8WH Palau (``HBN``) at 1000-1100. The WRMI frequency skedgrid shows 9955 from *1000 on Sundays only, otherwise *1100; while the 9955 program schedule starts everyday at 1000 UT! with R. Praga M-F = L-V (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) This report dispatched at 1630 UT April 1 _ 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
