** ANTARTCICA. 15476, Dec 8 at 1354 and later chex before 1500, no trace of LRA36 despite being amid another allegedly scheduled Thursday bihour from them (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** BRAZIL [and non]. Who knows, maybe R. Africa makes an occasional appearance, as isolated reports of it keep cropping up, the latest from Malaysia, but it sure is elusive. I finally checked Dec 7 at 1950-1955 before Ascension was on 15195, and all I could get was a JBA carrier, slightly on the lo side, 15189.9 or so, which fits for Brasil, not Equatorial Guinea, which when last active was right on frequency despite all its modulation faults. And it used to have a decent signal, not JBA. Would others please check today in the 20-23 UT period for any sign of R. Africa vs. R Inconfidência. 73, (Glenn Hauser, 2005 UT Dec 7, dxldyg via WORLD OF RADIO 1594, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Rechecked at 2234, ZY has built up to quite a good signal, but still heavy flutter, Brazilian talk, ID in passing. No sign of R. Africa. Jorge Freitas in Bahia was also hearing nothing but R. Inconfidência at 2120; at 0927 Dec 8 he was hearing neither (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CHINA. Firedrake December 8, before 1400: 11500, fair at 1358, only one found under 19 MHz before 1400 After 1400: 15495, good at 1410, unusual spot: presumably driven by latest jump of V. of Tibet via Tajikistan, but not yet in Aoki Dec 8 1300 edition, which had VOT on all these *jammed off-frequencies at various odd times between 1200 and 1430: 15387, 15397, 15437, 15443, 15537, 15547, 15564, 15568, 15573. 15500, good at 1420, Firedrake had moved here from 15495. Still can`t detect any carrier within 2-3 kHz from presumed V. of Tibet target (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CUBA. 17235, Dec 8 at 1356, strange spot to be hearing lite Cuban pulse jamming --- no, not so strange when I realize it is the third harmonic of 5745 against R. Martí. 15312 & 15348, Dec 8 at 1417, approximate spots for pulse jamming spurs of wall-of-noise on 15330 vs R. Martí (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** FRANCE. 7220, Dec 8 at 0559, RFI is already on with musique which continued past 0601, instead of English instead of Hausa; while the French service on 7390 was in news instead of musique, as the rolling strike continues affecting different services on different days. At 1409 Dec 8, both Spanish service on 17690 via GUIANA FRENCH, and French service direct on 17620 were in same RFI Musique fill (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Another update from Mike Cooper as of Dec 7: RFI workers voted unanimously Wednesday to continue their indefinite strike. They also called on director-general to meet with a workers committee on Thursday regarding the "organizational fusion" with the France 24 television channel. "It's the least one can ask of the boss," the unions say. They also are taking up a collection to financially support striking workers. They also plan to e-mail people who have contacted RFI in support. Meanwhile, "Le Canard enchaîné," the weekly newspaper, noted in today's edition that RFI is still providing "essential" services -- filling up the hours with music and "especially," commercials for a new partner of the Audiovisuel extérieur de la France, the Bank of Lebanon. The newspaper notes that bodyguards for the bank's top official used automatic weapons to spray bullets in a Beirut nightclub in February 2010, apparently targeting a competitor. "They sure know how to choose sponsors for French public broadcasting," the Canard wryly notes (Mike Cooper, GA, Dec 7, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MAURITANIA. 7245, Dec 8 at 0600, IGIM chanting has just been joined in progress, as no signal was there a couple minutes earlier when I tuned across (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A [non]. 7390, Dec 8 at 1400, VOA Washington ID in funny Chinese, no jamming audible vs VG signal. Ergo must be Cantonese: yes, scheduled 13-14, 250 kW, 279 degrees from Tinian, switching at 14-15 to 250 kW, 332 degrees from Tinang, PHILIPPINES. The ChiCom don`t consider Cantonese broadcasts worth jamming, for some strange reason, unlike Mandarin, Tibetan, Uighur, Uzbek (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. WORLD OF RADIO 1594 monitoring: first broadcast confirmed on WRMI 9955 webcast, UT Thursday Dec 8 at 0430. Besides numerous other webcasts, further WRMI times when on SW: Fri 0600, Sat 0900, 1600, 1830, Sun 0900, 1630, 1830, Mon 1230. On WTWW: Thu 2200 on 9479, UT Sun 0500 on 5755 On WBCQ: Thu 2230 on 7490; UT Mon 0330 [?Maybe] on Area 51 5110-CUSB On WWRB: UT Fri 0430 on 3195, 5050 ex-5051 On HLR: Tuesday 1030 on 5980 Also on WRN via SiriusXM 120: Sat & Sun 1830, Sun 0930 Full schedule at: http://www.worldofradio.com/radioskd.html (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 570, Dec 8 at 1321 UT, something in the null of KLIF is talking about New Mexico: ilovecruces.com for ``everything local`` [I thought, but no such or similar website found], NM lottery, ergo KSNM, which should be on PSRA of 250 watts instead of 155 at nite, not 5000 at day, which it sounded like, all non-direxional. December official sunrise is not until 1400 UT; January, 1415. This station was originally KGRT, ``K-Great``, until Oct 2, 2000; KGRT now applies to their FM ``104``. KSNM drives away listeners with a brain, since its big talkers are Glenn Beck and Lou Dobbs, plus Fox news per http://ksnm570.am even tho it is hardly in Armenia (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 1200, Dec 8 at 1342, Spanish way over WOAI, ads mentioning Chicago, Debt-Stoppers at 773- phone number, which is one of Chicago`s overlain area codes. So WRTO, 20 kW day in effect from their latest sunrise 1315 UT in Dec & Jan (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 1220, Dec 8 at 1337 UT, peppy S. Asian songs, hard to null, but finally seems roughly NNE/SSW, fading by 1341. Anyway must be the only ETHnic station listed anywhere on this frequency in NRC AM Log 2011-2012 as I have heard before: ``Hot Pepper 1220``, KZEE Weatherford TX, 1600 watt day power rather than PSRA of 8 watts which would have been in effect until official sunrise of 1330 in Dec and Jan. Weatherford is west of Fort Worth in Parker County, but you know where the dough is, as KZEE is owned by Tarrant Radio Broadcasting, with main lobe toward Fort Worth; business addresses in Hurst and North Richland Hills on the other side of FW. Thus the Anglo Weatherfordians are deprived of any local AM radio service in order to rimshoot the Asian minority in the big Cowtown. I was also hearing a weak off-frequency het on 1220, which has been identified by John Wilkins, CO, on 1219.84 as the only other Texan on 1220, KMVL Madisonville, which is on I-45 between Houston and Dallas, close to Rick Perry`s death camp at Huntsville (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 1530, Dec 8 at 1330, list of lunch menus for today at Eisenhower and other schools, a daily feature on KQNK --- i.e. Norton KS, up near the Nebraska line, which should be on PSRA of 500 watts before day power of 1000 is legal at 1400 UT in Dec and Jan. However, this daytime station has also been reported cheating at night for stupid ballgames, but I usually hear it around sunrise (Glenn Hauser, Enid OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. Trans-Pacific MW carrier search Dec 8 at 1326-1330 UT, on DX-398, 9 kHz steps with off-tuned BFO to recognize correctly-pitched very weak carriers: 612, 702, 774, 882, 1566, 1575. Today`s LSR in Enid is 1330 UT, still latening until 1344 a month from now (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. 6550.0, Dec 8 at 0605, I am surprised to hear a broadcast here between the V. of the People clandestines, not yet jammed, on 6600 and 6518. 6550 definitely in Korean and not // to them. Nothing but woman talking monolog, except once in a while, another female voice interjects a comment. Strengthening a little by 0615, signal at least as good as the VOP channels. Lots of ``imnida`` at end of sentences, dead giveaway for Korean. Nothing listed on 6550 in Aoki, HFCC (of course) or EiBi. Another entry in the N/S Korean radio war, but what?? Or a new frequency for VOK/Pyongyang domestic? Could be an harmonic of 3275, except nothing listed there either except PNG, and really too strong for a typical harmonic. Next check at 1402, nothing on 6550, while 6518 and 6600 were still audible. Searching the last decade of DXLDs, 6550 appears only as one boundary of OTH radar, and in DXLD 10-15, a 1972 WRTH report of R. Peking using that frequency for English! (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. 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