JRX  Logs  January 13, 2021Receiver  Tecsun S-2000Antenna  LongwireAll  times  and  dates  in  UTC - GMT

ASCENSION ISLAND** 11660. Wed, Jan 13, 2021. 1932-1942, BBC, Ascension Island-ASC, in Hausa. Woman and man announcers present news; 1936 Now, news about Coronavirus in Nigeria and a nigerian news reporter participation. Good reception.

GREAT BRITAIN** 6090. Wed, Jan 13, 2021. 2024-2034, KBS World Radio, Woofferton-G, in Arabic. Man and woman talks; 2028 A song by male singer; 2032 Woman talks. Poor reception.

MADAGASCAR** 9515. Wed, Jan 13, 2021. 2001-2011, Adventist World Radio, Talata-Volonondry-MDG, in French Man pastor preaching; 2007 Woman talks, ID; 2008 Returns man communication. Fair with moments of good reception.
** 11985. Wed, Jan 13, 2021. 2047-2057, Adventist World Radio, Talata-Volonondry-MDG, in Yoruba. Man pastor makes a preaching, presumably; 2052 A short song; 2052 Woman talks, says ID, website and POBox; 2054 A brief song by choral and returns woman communication. Fair reception.
** 13670. Wed, Jan 13, 2021. 1952-1958, MWV-Radio Feda, Mahajanga-MDG, in Arabic. Man and woman announcers talk; It seems to be questions and answers, presumed; 1956 A song by female singer and orchestra; 1958 Woman says ID and website; 1859 Ends programming. Good reception.
** 17570. Wed, Jan 13, 2021. 2012-2024, Adventist World Radio, Talata-Volonondry-MDG, in Moore. Man talks, preaching, presumably; 2018 Woman talks; Man talks, too. Fair reception.

NIGERIA** 11770. Wed, Jan 13, 2021. 2035-2045, Voice of Nigeria, Abuja-NIG, in Hausa. A nigerian tribal song; 2037 Man announcer talks; 2040 Other song; 2043 Man talks. Good signal and fair reception with moderate fading.

SAO TOME E PRINCIPE** 11900. Wed, Jan 13, 2021. 1942-1952, Voice of America, Pinheira-STP, in French. Man announcer talks news; 1945 Woman talks, says "Le Journal", and news continues. Fair reception.

SAUDI ARABIA** 9870. Wed, Jan 13, 2021. 1918-1931, Saudi Radio International, Riyadh-ARS, in Arabic. A song; 1920 Woman announcer talks and a long conversation with saudi man and woman, by phone. Good reception.

SPAIN** 11940. Wed, Jan 13, 2021. 1858-1918, Radio Exterior de Espana, Noblejas-E, in Spanish. IS; 1859 ID and REE frequencies this time; 1900 Time pips, ID and local time in de Canary Islands; 1902 Begins the program "24 Horas": All news by man and woman announcers, including news reporter participations. Very good reception.

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** CANADA. 392-MCW kHz, Jan 13 at 0419 UT, dash and ML, 500-watt ND
beacon at La Malbaie / Charlevoix, Quebec; mixing with FMZ, Nebraska,
see USA, on same frequency but very different pitch and no dash. Not
to be confused with also on 392: ML and no dash, Monroe, Louisiana;
nor Monroe, Georgia with ID as JNM, both 25 watts (Glenn Hauser, OK,
WOR)

** FRANCE. More about RFI in DRM on unlisted frequencies besides 5875
where I have heard it twice until 2400* --- from Ivo Ivanov,
Bulgaria:

``Unscheduled broadcasts of Radio France International in DRM mode:
1300-1700 on 7405; 1200-1500 on 9900; 1430-1530 on 15285; 1500-1530 on
9905; 2300-2400 on 5875 via Issoudun, all unregistered in Winter B20
HFCC Database

0000-2400 on 3965 ISS 010 kW / non-dir to WeEu French is registered
0900-1200 on 6175 ISS 100 kW / 153 deg to SEEu French is registered
0900-1200 on 6175 ISS 100 kW / 267 deg to SWEu French is registered
1200-1500 on 6175 ISS 150 kW / non-dir to WeEu French is registered

January 13 NO SIGNAL on 7405, 9900, 15285 kHz. But 9905 kHz is on air
again. Good signal plus decoding, but not strong audio via SDR
Novosibirsk, Russia -- 73! Ivo Ivanov`` (via Glenn Hauser, WOR)

** TAIWAN [non]. 5800, UT Wed Jan 13 at 0335, WRMI with discussion in
English about Cuba, no doubt `Freedom Synergy Radio` yet again
occupying this hour instead of scheduled programming as filed
previously under USA; FSR is pro-Taiwan, anti-ChiCom, but from the POV
of anti-Commie Cubans (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** U S A. 338-MCW kHz, Jan 13 at 0415 UT, ND beacon UMP, which is 25
watts from Indianapolis / MetroPolitan. I was tuned to 336-USB.

392-MCW kHz, Jan 13 at 0419 UT, ND beacon FMZ, which is 25 watts from
Fairmont / Beklof, Nebraska; mixed with ML and dash, see CANADA, at a
very different pitch. What is Beklof? Folkeb spelt backwards. In
numerous airnav references, none explaining the name. Fairmont is
directly linked to Enid on US 81, 20 km south of York and I-80,
total-solar-eclipse territory.

412-MCW kHz, Jan 13 at 0420 UT, ND beacon CMY, which is 30 watts from
Sparta / Fort McCoY, Wisconsin. I was tuned to 410-USB (Glenn Hauser,
OK, WOR)

** U S A. WORLD OF RADIO 2068 monitoring; next:
2100 UT Wednesday WRMI 7780 to NE [resumed]
2200 UT Wednesday WBCQ 7490v to WSW
2300 UT Wednesday WRMI 9955 [jammed?] to SSE
0130 UT Thursday WRMI 5010 to S

Full schedule including AM, FM, webcasts, satellite, podcasts:
http://www.worldofradio.com/radioskd.html

Our non-commercial broadcasts and website depend on voluntary support:
thanks this week to Robert Zerilli, Hazlet NJ, for a contribution via
PayPal to woradio at yahoo.com and commenting: ``I`m a long time SWL
and appreciate you being out there``

One may also contribute by MO or check in US$ on a US bank to Glenn
Hauser, P O Box 1684, Enid OK 73702 USA.

WORLD OF RADIO 2069 should be ready by early UT Friday January 15 for
first airing at 0130 on WRMI 5850 & 7780 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** U S A. 5830, Jan 13 at 0336, WTWW-1 with dead air, or maybe JBM as
it`s very weak S4-S6. Other TN signals degraded, WWCR 5890 & 5935, but
a few hours later resurged. Circa 1500, neither 5830 nor WTWW-2 5085
is on the air, unlike yesterday (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** U S A. 7505, Jan 13 at 0347, VP music at S6-S7, has to be
reactivated WRNO; no break at ToH, music with praise tinge continues
past 0400. WRNO is just too close, 1010 km = 628 st mi; while e.g.
WRMI at better further skip distance is still blasting in on 7570,
7730. And/or WRNO at QRP = reduced power (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

UNSOLICITED TESTIMONIALS

Dear Glenn, Happy New Year! May you be blessed for your service to the
DX Radio community. Thank you for all your work on our behalf as
broadcasters and radio enthusiasts of all types. Sincerely, Tom
Roberts, PhD, western Idaho

This report dispatched at 1855 UT January 13
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JRX  Logs  January  11-12,  2021Receiver  XHDATA  D-808Antenna  Sony  AN-71  CompactAll  times  and  dates  in  UTC - GMT

CHINA** 11740. Mon, Jan 11, 2021. 2215-2225, China National Radio 2 - China Business Radio, Lingshi-CHN, in Chinese. Man announcer talks, with music background; 2020 Woman announcer talks. Very good reception.
** 11925. Mon, Jan 11, 2021. 2311-2321, China National Radio 1 - Voice of China, Lingshi-CHN, in Chinese.  Woman and man announcers talks during this log. Very good reception.

CUBA** 11760. Mon, Jan 11, 2021. 2201-2223, Radio Habana Cuba, Bauta-CUB, in Spanish. Woman announcer says about supplements in the program "Revista Nuestra America"; 2204 "Informatvo": News highlights and on details; ID, website and RHC e-mail; 2210 Program "Efemerides": facts of this date. Good reception.
** 11760. Tue, Jan 12, 2021. 2319-2329, Radio Habana Cuba, Bauta-CUB, in Spanish. Man announcer in conversation with a woman; 2323 They talk about latiamerica music; 2327 Woman announcer Marta Rios communication. Good reception.
** 11850. Tue, Jan 12, 2021. 2330-2340, Radio Habana Cuba, Quivican-CUB, in Spanish. Woman announcer Marta Rios talks; 2333 Man announcers presents sport news, supplement of the mainly program "Revista Nuestra America"; 2338 Man and woman talk. Good reception.

GUAM** 11610. Mon, Jan 11, 2021. 2236-2246, Adventist World Radio Guam - KSDA, Agat-GUM, in Vietnamese. Man preaching, presumably; 2241 Man talks, with music background; 2242 Woman talks, with background, too; 2244 A short song. Good reception.
** 11610. Tue, Jan 12, 2021. 2212-2222, Adventist World Radio Guam - KSDA, Agat-GUM, in Vietnamese. Woman announcer talks; 2215 A song; Man and woman announcers communication. Fair reception.
** 11990. Mon, Jan 11, 2021. 2248-2259, Adventist World Radio Guam - KSDA, Agat-GUM, in Javanese. Man preaching, presumably, with music background by piano; 2256 A song; 2257 ID; 2259 The end. Fair reception.
** 11990. Tue, Jan 12, 2021. 2200-2212, Adventist World Radio Guam - KSDA, Agat-GUM, in Indonesian. IS and man says, in english, ID; A song; 2205 ID and woman and man communication; 2209 A song by duet singers. Fair reception..

SPAIN** 11685. Mon, Jan 11, 2021. 2225-2235, Radio Exterior de Espana, Noblejas-E, in Spanish. Man announcer presents a musical program. Fair reception. At 2230 begins programming in arabic language: Man and woman announcers talk.
** 11685. Tue, Jan 12, 2021. 2309-2319, Radio Exterior de Espana, Noblejas-E, in Ladino.Woman announcer presents a musical program. Fair reception.
** 11940. Mon, Jan 11, 2021. 2301-2311, Radio Exterior de Espana, Noblejas-E, in English.Man announcer presents a musical program: Jazz and soul songs. Good reception.
** 11940. Tue, Jan 12, 2021. 2340-2350, Radio Exterior de Espana, Noblejas-E, in Spanish. A song; Woman announcer in conversation with a woman; 2347 Man and woman announcers talk. Very good reception.

USA** 12050. Tue, Jan 12, 2021. 2350-2357, EWTN - Radio Catolica Mundial, Vandiver-AL, in Spanish. Man announcer in conversation with a man singer and he plays pieces of your songs; 2354 Woman announcer talks and says ID; 2355 IS til 2357. Good reception till 2355.
Note: At 2355, begins an interference by CNR 17, with music!

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** ALGERIA [non]. 7375, Jan 12 at 1920, RRI in Romanian is very strong
via UTwente, but challenged by CCI from RTA via FRANCE, the defective
transmitter with continuous rapid clickbeeping - or beepclicking?
Collision is obvious in HFCC B-20 registrations, quite a failure of
``coördination``. Meanwhile, RTA`s other frequency, 7315 is loud &
clear. Romania is also on 5990, unchecked; EiBi lax 7375, but HFCC,
Aoki & WRTH 2021 all show both Galbenis during these two sesquihours
(Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** BRAZIL. 11905-11910-11915-DRM, Jan 12 at 2355 while exploring DRM
from FRANCE, q.v. on 5875, a quick check for RNA via Bonaire SDR:
occasionally blasts in with clanging sounds, horrible. Label for
Service 1 shows: ``XHC_AAC (A2B000) Brazil DRM Exper EEP 13.06 kbps``,
whatever all that mean; SNR around 10 dB (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** FRANCE. 5870-5875-5880-DRM, Jan 12 at 2337, like last night, unsked
DRM here again. Noise can be heard at OKC KiwiSDR but no DRM
capability; some closer ones lack enough S/N to decode: Rochester 7.3
and S5; Virginia 4.6 tho S9; Maine just noise. But Bonaire gets it,
13-14 dB, S8 and just a few dropouts from 2342 during choral/martial
music, then French artistic discussion. Now Virginia occasionally
drops in. Service #1 label, only, is same on both: ``AAC(1000) TDF EEP
Data 8.08 kbps``, whatever all that mean, but that`s where the TDF ID
is imbedded and probably I overlooked yesterday. Mostly talk till RFI
ID and off 2400* like last night.

DRM enthusiasts have not noticed this: at least not in the DRMNA
iogroup with open archives, nothing at all posted since Jan 2, and
before that mostly discussing equipment, not axual monitoring. It
seems they are not in the habit of bandscanning to discover new
things, rather waiting to be told where to tune by direct entry. I
expect there are more of these from TDF/RFI yet to be found.

Still nothing from France is on the Kiwi SDR DRM tuner drop-downs with
alleged skeds of various stations. Is no one paying attention?

Meanwhile, Ivo Ivanov, Bulgaria, had run across another one:

``FRANCE Unscheduled broadcast of RFI in DRM mode January 12
1500-1530 on 9905 ISS ??? kW / ??? deg to ???? French. Good
signal + decoding, but low audio via SDR Novosibirsk, Russia``

Originally he had reported this as 1500-1600, apparently assuming it
would last a semihour more. I would not call the audio I hear on 5875
``low``.

There is also still nothing about these in Aoki or EiBI, nor HFCC:
http://hfcc.org/data/schedbybrc.php?seas=B20&broadc=TDF
shows 3 DRM transmissions, but neither of these. However, at this
hour, 3965 should be in DRM, shown as experimental, 24 hours except
for 0057-0100. UTwente lax DRM but in AM I can hear some DRM noise on
both 3965 and 5875 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** SPAIN. 684 kHz, Jan 12 at 0712 some audio seems Castilian, YL
talking, no doubt RNE1, Sevilla, one our best split TA frequencies.
WRTH 2021 shows 600 kW on page 367, 200 kW on page 527; which? (Glenn
Hauser, OK, WOR)

** U S A [and non]. 15740, Jan 12 at 1926, S6-S9 of open carrier.
Obviously VOA Grimesland warming up here to take over 15730 from 1930
amid French hour, which at first is JBA via BOTSWANA. About 1929.4
jumps from 15740 to 15730 still dead air, 1930 starts modulating and
with some echo, long/short path, or still Botswana too? Can`t tell
when Botswana goes off. Meanwhile // 17700 Grimesland has been very
poor today, tho somedays very good (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** U S A [and non]. WORLD OF RADIO 2068 monitoring: NOT confirmed UT
Tue Jan 12 at 0330 on WRMI 5800, despite Jeff White`s reassurance last
week; rather after a break between two Freedom Synergy Radio episodes
with Jeff inviting reception reports for that. I was expecting this
since FSR was starting at 0300 presumably on System H which still
claims WS & WOR this hour; 5800 just having switched from System D,
RAE in Spanish with DX news until 0300. Next:

1030 UT Wednesday WRMI 5850 to NW
[to be confirmed; will appreciate anyone already awake checking this]

2100 UT Wednesday WRMI 7780 to NE [resumed]
2200 UT Wednesday WBCQ 7490v to WSW
2300 UT Wednesday WRMI 9955 [jammed?] to SSE
0130 UT Thursday WRMI 5010 to S

Full schedule including AM, FM, webcasts, satellite, podcasts:
http://www.worldofradio.com/radioskd.html

Our non-commercial broadcasts and website depend on voluntary support:
thanks this week to Robert Zerilli, Hazlet NJ, for a contribution via
PayPal to woradio at yahoo.com and commenting: ``I`m a long time SWL
and appreciate you being out there``

One may also contribute by MO or check in US$ on a US bank to Glenn
Hauser, P O Box 1684, Enid OK 73702 USA (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** U S A. 5085, Jan 12 at 1523, WTWW-2, S9+30 with rock in daytime on
night frequency, still at 1611 and 1922 chex. Ditto 5830, WTWW-1,
S9+20/10, with SFAW. I think both were also on earlier past 0700, but
not logged as not that unusual. So all night and all day. Automation
operation out of control? What does FCC allow? I see it has belatedly
put up B-20 skeds as of Nov 23:
https://transition.fcc.gov/ib/sand/neg/hf_web/B20FCC01.TXT
5085 00-24 but 5830 only 00-14 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

UNIDENTIFIED. 11566.64-USB, approx., Jan 12 at 1610, weak 2-way in
Spanish (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

This report dispatched at 0209 UT January 13
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** CANADA. 266-MCW kHz, Jan 11 at 0651 UT, dash and XD, 32-watt ND
beacon at Edmonton, Alberta. City distance to Enid is 1403 miles, so
43.8 miles per watt (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** FRANCE. 5870-5875-5880, Jan 11 at 2348, surprised to hear DRM noise
here S9, stronger than Romania on 6035-6040-6045, but nothing
scheduled anywhere on 5875. I hasten to a DRM-capable SDR, one in
Rochester NY, and there it is, loud & clear, 100% copy with SNR circa
19 dB, discussion in English about Hungarian composer Kodály Zoltán
[BTW, accents in Hungarian do not denote stress] with voice-overs in
French. By 0000 Jan 12 sounded like they mentioned ``astronomie
afrique`` or haha, more likely gastronomie -, ID in French as R-F-I,
and off*. The visual DRM display did *not* include any ID. RFI is not
scheduled on 5875 this season at any time in any mode. Site not
positive either, but no reason to believe it`s not ISSoudun. No
mention of this in drmna.info or the iogroup. Wonder if it will be
back tomorrow (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** INDIA [and non]. 7380, Jan 12 at 0158, S9+10/20 of S Asian music
and YL sign-off giving e-mail in S Asian language, 0200 dead air until
0202.4*. It`s AIR at 0100-0200 via Bengaluru in Sindhi, for Pakistan.
Via Bonaire SDR I was checking 7375 whether Radio Onda Corta Venezuela
had come back, but only big adjacent splash from this. By 0230, Iran
is opening Arabic on 7380, weaker (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** U S A [and non]. WORLD OF RADIO 2068 monitoring: confirmed Monday
January 11 from about 1901 UT on IRRS 7290 via Bulgaria. No precise
timings since I am recording off UTwente for later listening. Sign-on
just before 1900 again falsely claims this is in reduced-carrier SSB,
a few FSN headlines, then WOR. Splash from 7295 & 7280 are worse than
usual and IRRS is weaker than usual, making it a chore to listen.
Recheck circa 1925 finds 7290 has faded even more to JBA, so I switch
to SDR in Ireland, where at greater skip distance it`s S9+20 which
would be sufficient but still awful inevitable splash from both sides.
At least I can tell my finale by 1930 is not chopped off; in fact a
brief pause before some music and then IRRS ID. Next:

0330 UT Tuesday WRMI 5800 to SSE
[resumed? last few weeks was pre-empted by Freedom Synergy Radio]
1030 UT Wednesday WRMI 5850 to NW [to be confirmed]
2100 UT Wednesday WRMI 7780 to NE [resumed]
2200 UT Wednesday WBCQ 7490v to WSW
2300 UT Wednesday WRMI 9955 [jammed?] to SSE
0130 UT Thursday WRMI 5010 to S

Full schedule including AM, FM, webcasts, satellite, podcasts:
http://www.worldofradio.com/radioskd.html

Our non-commercial broadcasts and website depend on voluntary support:
thanks this week to Robert Zerilli, Hazlet NJ, for a contribution via
PayPal to woradio at yahoo.com and commenting: ``I`m a long time SWL
and appreciate you being out there``

One may also contribute by MO or check in US$ on a US bank to Glenn
Hauser, P O Box 1684, Enid OK 73702 USA (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

This report dispatched at 0245 UT January 12
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