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** BOLIVIA. 6155+, June 6 at 0048, no signal at all from R. Fides, unlike last
night, altho 6135-, R. Santa Cruz is at least as strong with that awful
Brazilian het, so assume Fides is gone again (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** BRAZIL. 5999.6, June 5 at 0544, RNB is on, hetting 6000.0 RHC. But not at
0125 check June 6 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** BRAZIL. 11815.04 approx., June 6 at 0057, poor signal in Brazuguese, so R.
Brasil Central, Goiânia, has reactivated, slightly on the hi side; 4985, if on,
totally blocked as usual by RTTY. 11815 also has splash from the 11825 WRMI
BigSig (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** BRAZIL. 11854.84 approx., June 6 at 0058, R. Aparecida on the lo side for a
change, very poor in Brazuguese (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CANADA. UNIDENTIFIED: Channel 2, June 5 at 1651 UT, a bit of Es reaches VHF
TV after 6m map showing activity only from the northeast, where I am pointed:
bug in lower right seems to have the word NEW in it, just a glimpse and gone.
Channel 2, June 5 at 1700 UT, another brief fade-in now with a bug in the upper
left looking like the letter Z in a square; ideas? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTTENING DIGEST)
** CUBA. 15340, June 5 at 1303 and 1343, RHC is missing for the third morning
in a row, but still on 15370, which is certainly sufficient (Glenn Hauser, OK,
DX LISTENING DIGEST) See also BRAZIL 5999.6
** CUBA [and non]. 9490, June 6 at 0100, Cuban NA is fair over wall-of-noise
jamming, just after WRMI-9 has closed 9495, but 0101 opening talk from R.
República via FRANCE is buried in the jam. Could the DentroCubans have eased up
jamming during the anthem shared with the gusanos? Naaaah. Looks like the
Directorio is not going to move back to WRMI despite much higher signal levels
into Cuba available from Okeechobee than Issoudun (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** EGYPT. 9965.0, June 6 at 0102, R. Cairo is back on frequency tonight, with
suppressed Arabic modulation, whine (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** NORTH AMERICA. 6925-USB, slightly on the lo side, pirate with good signal,
June 6 at 0103, ``All My Exes are in Texiz``, 0105 pause and next song yodeling
about a muleskinner; some transmission breaks, or are they just modulation
breaks? NO difference when it`s SSB. 0110 `Mountain Dew` song; 0116 another
yodeling cowboy song about Texas, and finally rambling announcement: ``Hope the
lyrix sound familiar --- This is W-R-R, Whisky Redneck Radio, transmitting in
the name of the temple of the screaming electron. Can you hear me now? Ha, ha,
ha! I`ll bet you a dollar that you can hear me now``, some reference to Sesame
Street; ID again as W-R-R, says ``could have better audio but we like to have
things LOUD!!!`` Whistling. ``Let`s go``, but some dead air. 0119 start a song,
then cut to another one, gospel about Angel of Death, 0124 musing on dying
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** OKLAHOMA. 91.7, KOSU, June 5 at 2016 UT during NPR ATC, suddenly goes silent
for about 3 minutes. Not the first time KOSU has had such problems since moving
out of Stillwater, and this was during a report which referred to the
government of Vietnam as ``tiny``! And I wanted to get who said that inanity
for The Tiny Trap.
While we`re at it: another major network flub via KFOR-TV 27 OKC: on NBC
Nightly News, June 5 circa 2245 UT, Brian Williams introduced a report about
the Moncton shooter by explaining that New Brunswick is the Canadian province
*north* of Maine! Yes, there is a sliver of NB around Edmundston which is
directly north of Maine, but broadly speaking it`s eastward, certainly Moncton.
I`ll bet on Canadian TV they don`t feel the need to explain that Maine is south
(or west) of NB (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** OMAN. 15355, June 6 at 0128, good signal with serious ME vocal music, so R.
Sultanate of Oman has again failed to QSY at 0000 to 9500, where nothing is to
be heard (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** PERU. 5980+, June 6 at 0048, JBA carrier vs pulse jamming and more QubaRM
from 5990 China relay splash; sharp cutoff perceived at 0113:21* which is 4
seconds later than last night`s anomaly, but 17 seconds later than three nights
ago, which is more like it on the average (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** SOUTH CAROLINA [non]. 7730, June 5 at 0540, Brother Scare is back on this
WRMI frequency, only fair, much weaker than // 7570 beamed USward. Revised June
4 graphic schedule now shows 7730 with TOM at 22-06 on transmitter #1, 222
degrees (except RTI relay somehow involved with red Family Radio at 03-04).
7730 BS was formerly only at 22-02, IIRC (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. WORLD OF RADIO 1724 monitoring: confirmed Thursday June 5 at 1230
after gh WRMI ID, on 9955; if not for local storm noise, would be sufficient
signal tho beamed away. Also confirmed VG at 2100 Thursday June 5 on WTWW 9475;
AND on WBCQ 7490 webcast also at 2100 June 5, this time playing the new edition
while the previous edition would have played 24 hours earlier.
Also confirmed on 5050 WWRB, UT Friday June 6 at 0328:22 after a pause, but
overmodulated and distorted. Please turn it down, Dave. Sounds a little better,
I find, with BFO on. Stream not working nor is the alternate one. Next:
Saturday 0630 & 1430 on Hamburger Lokalradio 7265-CUSB
Saturday 2330 on WTWW 9930
UT Sunday 0030 on WRMI 9495 (maybe previous edition; not on 5015)
UT Sunday 0400 on WTWW 5830
UT Monday 0300 on Area 51 via WBCQ 5110v-CUSB, etc.
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 9495, UT Friday June 6, WRMI-9 remains active here with alternative
RMI programming, i.e. `Frecuencia al Día` after 0000, and `Historias de Radio`
after 0030, same episode I heard before about Radio Free Grenada (Glenn Hauser,
OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 5085 & 5830, June 5 at 0545, both WTWW-2 and WTWW-1 are off. Maybe
another problem with the leaky water cooling pump.
12105, June 6 at 0055, WTWW-3 is in Russian this hour, presumably about to go
into English for final hour (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 3215, June 5 at 0547, I notice that WWCR-1 is off, while 4840 and
5890 are on as usual; and neighbor WWRB 3185 also on and propagating. Quite
unusual for 3215 to be absent, currently scheduled 01-09 UT but with expendable
filler unpaid `Worldwide Country Radio` at 05-06 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 7490-, June 5 after 2300 UT, I still have the main WBCQ stream
running after checking WORLD OF RADIO at 2100, and I am hearing classical
music! Presumably also transmitted on 7490, instead of scheduled `World Jewish
News`. I bet it`s the default filler from WHVW 950 in Hyde Park NY. Yes: At
2359, J. P. Ferraro, Allan Weiner`s old ``Pirate Joe`` pal, wraps up the
Evening Concert, which is indeed on the 14+month old program schedule for 6-8
pm at http://www.whvw.net/5thpage/
5109.76 approx., UT Friday June 6 at 0059, WBCQ The Planet IS and ID loop, 0100
into another AWWW CUSB playback not on the schedule (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 7505.22 approx., June 6 at 0054, very poor carrier here, probably the
WRNO exciter, such as a ham radio transmitter. Meant to remeasure after 0100
with full strength, but not done until 0300 when it`s about 7505.2, within
margin of error (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 6772.5-AM, June 6 at 0122, JBA carrier, presumably the spot
tonight for the mysterious old-time-radio station (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 7500-USB, June 6 at 0052-0053, 2-way contact in non-Spanish
language; vaguely reminds me of Romanian (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED [and non]. 13870, June 5 at 0534-0536* humbuzz only, fair with
flutter, seems like a broadcast carrier perhaps overrun, but nothing scheduled
around here altho IBB and NHK use frequency elsewhen. Weaker than 13850 Cairo
music which is not too distorted (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
This report dispatched at 0403 UT June 6
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