JRX Logs: 24-25 de Fevereiro de 2019.ÂÂ

Receptor (es): ICOM IC-R6 e Tecsun S-2000.

ÃFRICA DO SUL
** 3320. 24/2/2019, 0313-0330, Radio Sonder Grense, Meyerton-AFS, em AfricÃner. Programa musical excelente, comandado por apresentadora, a qual faz comentÃrio de cada mÃsica, antes da execuÃÃo da mesma: ClÃssica, instrumental renascentista, Bach e outras. RSG com boa audiÃÃo neste inÃcio de madrugada em Cabedelo (0:13AM, aqui e 5:13AM, lÃ), 45544.
** 9850. 25/2/2019, 1932-1945, Adventist World Radio, Meyerton-AFS, em IbÃ. LocuÃÃo feminina e uma breve canÃÃo; LocuÃÃo masculina; 1941 ID e endereÃo para a NigÃria; 1943 Uma canÃÃo. RecepÃÃo pobre com esvaecimentos, 35422.
** 9885. 25/2/2019, 1900-1910, BBC, Meyerton-AFS, em Oromo. LocuÃÃes masculina e feminina apresentam as notÃcias, presumivelmente; ID. RecepÃÃo pobre, 25322.
** 11790. 25/2/2019, 1947-1958, Adventist World Radio, Meyerton-AFS, em Fulano. LocuÃÃo masculina em pregaÃÃo religiosa, presumivelmente; 1954 Uma gospel e uma africana, ambas breves; ID e website. RecepÃÃo pobre, esvaecimentos, 35422.
** 15200. 25/2/2019, 1832-1855, Deutsche Welle, Meyerton-AFS, em HauÃÃ. Locutor apresenta o noticiÃrio; 1842 ID e locuÃÃes feminina e masculina e segue-se um espaÃo tipo radioteatro. RecepÃÃo pobre nesta frequÃncia.Escutas paralelas realizadas:1_9830, Pinheira-STP, 35332;2_9785, Issoudun-F, 45554.

CLANDESTINA
** 6020. 24/2/2019, 0332-0347, Radio Tamazuj, Talata-Volonondry-MDG, em SudanÃs. Locutor e locutora apresentam notÃcias, presumo; ID por algumas vezes. Boa recepÃÃo por aqui, 45544.

ETIÃPIA
** 5950. 24/2/2019, 0452-0500, Voice of Tigray Revolution, Addis-Abeba-ETH, em Tigrinya. MÃsica local, seguida de locuÃÃo masculina. RecepÃÃo muito pobre, 25322.

FRANÃA** 15130. 25/2/2019, 1911-1925, NHK World Japan, Issoudun-F, em JaponÃs. LocuÃÃo masculina durante o perÃodo de tempo desta escuta. RecepÃÃo satisfatÃria, 35433.

TANZÃNIA
** 6015. 24/2/2019, 0347-0357, Zanzibar BC, Dole-TZA, em SuaÃli. Locutor e locutora apresentam as notÃcias, presumivelmente. RecepÃÃo pobre, com interferÃncia espÃria da Radio Tamazuj, em 6020kHz, 33422.

UK
** 5960. 24/2/2019, 0504-0515, Radio Ndrason International, Ascension-G, em Kanuri. LocuÃÃes feminina e masculina; 0512 Uma canÃÃo local. Boa recepÃÃo, 45544.

USA
** 17655. 25/2/2019, 1802-1830, Voz da AmÃrica, Greenville-NC, em PortuguÃs. Uma canÃÃo na voz de cantora caboverdeana de muito sucesso; 1805 Ana Guedes apresenta algumas notÃcias breves; 1810 Uma canÃÃo com cantor angolano; 1815 Ana Guedes fala sobre a viagem de Trump à Coreia do Norte, seguida de uma canÃÃo com cantora zimbabueana e outras mais; ID. VOA com Ãtima recepÃÃo, 45554.ÂNota: MÃsica africana de excelente qualidade nestes primeiros 27 minutos; 1827 Mais notÃcias com Ana e seu colega locutor.

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** CHINA [and non]. 9825, Feb 24 at 1417, CCCCCCI, i.e. Chinese
Communist Chinese language co-channel interference, CNR1 jamming of
VOA Mandarin via Tinang, PHILIPPINES. Also checked Feb 25 at 1459 with
LAH until CNR1 off at 1500* leaving VOA ``Washington DC`` sign-off in
the clear. One of them at least 20 Hz off-frequency, likely VOA, but
VOA is gone before I can measure it (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)

** CUBA. 6000 S9+10 but JBM, 6165 a bit more mod, 6100 a bit more than
that but still under-, only 6060 VG signal and modulation, Feb 25 at
0638 check of RHC English. Something`s always wrong at RHC (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** SOUTH AFRICA. See USA: WRMI

** U S A. 9955, Mon Feb 25 at 1421 as I tune in WRMI, during AWR
`Wavescan` Jeff White is making a brief update to his report two weeks
ago from HFCC Tunis that Sentech might be closing down its Meyerton
SOUTH AFRICA, SW transmitter site at Marchend --- now it`s confirmed!
As of March 31, end of B-18 season. Says BBCWS relays will be moved to
MGLOB MADAGASCAR; Channel Africa might continue on internet only.

Responses to this already: Bill Bingham says to the WOR iog:

``I wouldn't be surprised to see it return in the future, probably in
a new guise, and as DRM only. That would seem to fit with our
government's apparent fascination with all things digital. Either
that, or one hand at Sentech doesn't know what the other hand is
doing. As of October 2018 it seemed that shortwave was here for years
to come:
https://www.ee.co.za/article/is-there-still-room-for-shortwave-radio.html
Bill Bingham, Jo'burg, RSA``

Jose Jacob, India, who also forwarded the Wavescan announcement:

``The online schedule of Channel Africa shows that their schedule is
till 27 March 2019. It is an odd date as the B 18 schedule ends only
on 30 March 2019. So they may go off early???

http://www.channelafrica.co.za/sabc/home/channelafrica/frequencyfinder

They are conducting a Listeners survey also this week:
http://www.channelafrica.co.za/sabc/home/channelafrica/noticeboard/details?id=bac8d0cb-4354-46d4-9424-1d5a2da33adc&title=Channel+Africa+is+Conducting+a+listener+feedback+session&fbclid=IwAR39sntGcd0sfoWGtjdE5NRBXSf6gCGNy3udXZo8jgWc91uI4sL1g5o0KWc

-- ``Noticeboard --- Channel Africa is Conducting a listener feedback
session --- Date: Feb 22, 2019. If you have any Comments, Concerns,
questions and suggestions about Chanel Africa.

Please send voice notes or call on Whatsapp line +27 76 300 3327
or social media Platforms,
Facebook: Channel Africa
Twitter: @Channel Africa1
You can also call in live on +27 11 714 3943/3944/3946

The station management will be in studio to respond to your queries,
make sure you tune in on these following dates:

Date Language service Time [UT presumably?]
25/02.2019 (Monday) Chinyanja 14h00-15h00
26/02/2019 (Tuesday) Silozi 15h00â16h00
27/02/2019 (Wednesday) Portuguese 16h00â17h00
28/02/2019 (Thursday) Kiswahili 17h00â18h00
28/02/2019 (Thursday) French 18h00-19h00
01/03/2019 (Friday) English 12h00-12h40
Channel Africa, The African Perspective``
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 13750-13755-13760, Monday Feb 25 at 1419, WINB hybrid DRM is
on again, now scheduled 12-17 UT M-F (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)

** U S A [and non]. WORLD OF RADIO 1970 monitoring: Ivo Ivanov
confirms: ``GERMANY, Reception of World of Radio via HLR on 7265 CUSB,
Feb.24:
https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2019/02/reception-of-world-of-radio-via-hlr-on_80.html
1131-1200 7265 GOH 001 kW / 230 deg to CeEu English Sun, weak signal``

Also confirmed Sun Feb 24 at 2149, the 2130 on WRMI 7780, fair.

Also confirmed UT Mon Feb 25 at 0230 on WRMI 5950, S9+10, but 9395 a
JBA carrier as usual. (Strangely the WOR skedgrid shows this on 9395
but not 5950!)

Also confirmed UT Mon Feb 25 from 0402 on Area 51 webcast; and JBA at
0426 on WBCQ 5130.099, NF down from ~5130.48 area!

Also confirmed UT Mon Feb 25 at 0430 on WRMI, JBA carrier on 9955, but
on webcast as every week interrupting the ``Hallelujah`` song filler
from 0425. Next:

2330 UT Monday WRMI *9955 to SSE
0030 UT Tuesday WRMI 7730 to WNW
* also webcast; direct linx to these and many others at:

Complete WOR sked, all affiliates, satellite, webcast, AM&FM, podcast:
http://www.worldofradio.com/radioskd.html

(I`m so far behind, that I do not expect to have WOR 1971 ready before
later UT Tuesday) (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 17775, Monday Feb 25 at 1515, still no signal from KVOH;
OSOB is a JBA carrier on 17780 from BBC Ascension. Ditto both at 1734
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. Re my previous reports of Vietnamese from KBXD, Stephen
Luce, Houston replied Feb 22: ``Glenn, regarding Vietnamese on 1480:
KLVL in the Houston market is currently running a Spanish language
religious format, mostly music, so not them. This "brokered time"
station has had several different programmers with short-lived formats
recently. KBXD in DFW can really get out during critical hours; it
often severely bothers KLVL at my NW Harris County QTH.``

1480, Feb 25 at 1348 UT, I`m rechecking for Vietnamese from KBXD, but
never hear any; in fact, suspect KBXD Dallas is off. KQAM The Big
Talker, Wichita is dominant so anything else is fighting it when
nulled as much as possible. First I`m getting a gospel huxter in
English (San Antonio or Memphis?); at 1400 while KQAM is in local
news, something else in Spanish, same station switched or different?
Mention AC 713, so that`s Houston, and 1402 Radio Vida slogan, which
is not listed for KLVL Pasadena. Now there is a SAH of 2 Hz, rather
than 0.75 Hz I measured Feb 15 between KQAM and KBXD. But this could
still be KBXD varying slightly in frequency and varying greatly in
programmation.

There is a Radio Vida in Dallas, but website has no info on a
frequency or callsign! http://radiovidadallas.com/ altho stereo praise
music in Spanish autolaunches. And it seems the Radio Vida in Houston
is on 1380. This is all very confusing. There are other 1480s in TN,
KS, CO and TX which could be involved in this mixture; but at least
the NM one is gone.

At 1407, KQAM starts ``hour 3 of Voice of Reason`` [sic] on this
``conservative talk`` station, which is also on FM, and live on KCTT-
TV, I thought he said, but the closest call to that of a real TV
station in Wichita is low-power KCTU (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)

UNIDENTIFIED. 4260, Feb 25 at 1358 UT, JBA talk, still there with R75
preamps off so think it`s a real signal, not overload, and most likely
a 3rd harmonic of something on 1420. But at hourtop I`m more concerned
with the mixture on 1480. At 1411, 4260 ruled out mix with strongest
locals on 960 & 1390, but too weak to be sure when I compare to 1640
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

This report dispatched at 1746 UT February 25
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** CUBA [and non]. 11860, Sunday Feb 24 at 1409, pulse jamming against
weak presumed Republic of Yemen clandestine via Saudi Arabia, rather
than Radio Martà which has never operated 11860 beyond Monday-Friday.
Something`s always wrong at DCJC (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)

** CUBA. 15700, Feb 24 at 1405, CRI Plus relay is suptorted today,
while 15140 & 15230 RHC are overmodulated/distorted, but no spurs
found on 15 or 13 MHz bands. Something`s always wrong at RadioCuba
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** CUBA. 9640, Feb 24 at 1448, RHC apparently pre-empted `En Contacto`
--- instead of Arnie & Marta we hear a discussion of Feb 24 as a big
day for ratifying the new Cuban constitution, and also about
``solidarity`` with Venezuela (meaning the Maduro dictatorship, not
the people of V.) Such also continues past 1450 instead of the medical
show; will they be back next Sunday? Something`s always wrong at RHC.

Recent spam from Diario de Cuba, allegedly datelined Habana, with
contrary views:
https://mailchi.mp/diariodecuba/today-six-reasons-why-the-next-constitution-be-the-shortest-lived-in-cuban-history?e=75468380c8
https://mailchi.mp/diariodecuba/today-poll-reveals-widespread-rejection-of-the-regimes-new-constitution?e=75468380c8
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** IRAN. 6090, Feb 24 at 0137, VIRI in Spanish, S9 but undermodulated,
discussing Venezuela. Genuine Latin American accents are heard on
VIRI, so don`t be fooled, as they reach out to correspondents or
sympathizers (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** NORTH AMERICA. 4015-USB, Feb 24 at 0125, music and immediate ID
break as Wolverine Radio, then blues, S9, found here after nothing on
6.9 MHz band. Many reports here
https://www.hfunderground.com/board/index.php/topic,51341.0.html
that it had just QSYed from 6950 with song titles having a day of the
week in them, as also displayed in SSTV signpost (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)

** TURKEY. 12035.7, Feb 24 at 1406, VOT music and English talk is only
S2-S5 with flutter, notably inferior to Turkish on 11815.0, tho HFCC
registrations indicate should be vice versa: 500 kW on 12035, 250 kW
on 11815, and azimuths USward only 5 degrees apart (Glenn Hauser, OK,
DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A [and non]. WORLD OF RADIO 1970 monitoring: confirmed Saturday
February 23 at 2215 the 2200 on WRMI 9955, S5-S9.

Richard Lemke, Alberta, caught a new airing! 0030 UT Sunday Feb 24 on
WRMI 7730, replacing an IBC Radio time almost two months after new
episodes stopped (but not the next ex-IBC time, UT Sun 0130 on 9395).

Also confirmed UT Sun Feb 24 starting at 0427 on WA0RCR, 1860-AM,
Wentzville MO, as usual editing out as much of the musical theme
opening as possible; S9+30 and not much QRhAM during the 160m contest.
Earlier check at 0144 had WD5K calling CQ contest right on 1860-LSB.
That`s Thomas C. Johnson in Dallas. Next:

2130 UT Sunday WRMI 7780 to NE
0230 UT Monday WRMI 5950 to WNW, 9395 to NNW
0400vUT Monday WBCQ *5130v Area 51 to WSW
0430 UT Monday WRMI *9955 to SSE
0930 UT Monday Unique 5045-LSB NSW ND
2330 UT Monday WRMI *9955 to SSE [or maybe 1971?]
* also webcast; direct linx to these and many others at:

Complete WOR sked, all affiliates, satellite, webcast, AM&FM, podcast:
http://www.worldofradio.com/radioskd.html

Searching the WRMI skedgrid on Wld of Radio and World of Radio, we
find another ***new time and still long-unconfirmed times presumably
*wrong; the complete list:

Mon 2330 9955 5950*
Tue 0030 7730
Tue 2030 7780 5950*
Tue 2130 7780* 5950*
Wed 1030 5950
Wed 2100 7780* 5950*
Wed 2200 9955
Thu 0000 7730***
Thu 0100 7780
Thu 2100 7780* 5950*
Sat 1230 9955
Sat 2200 9955
Sun 0030 7730***
Sun 0830 5850 5950 7730
Sun 2130 7780
Mon 0230 9395 [but also 5950]
Mon 0430 9955
(Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 4980, Feb 24 at 0129, Spanish as WRMI on long past normal
2400*, seems religious but not hearing enough to decide if SMTV
segment; and off the air at 0132 recheck. Meanwhile 5010 WRMI was
already off (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 9395, Feb 24 at 0129, S9 of WRMI dead air, 0130 Bob Biermann
plugs his `YWS` without any specific times or frequencies (too many?),
0131 into Oldies instead of defunct IBC Radio as still on skedgrid.

7780, Feb 24 at 0131, this WRMI is playing Mideast music, so World
Music fill? Certainly not `Worship in your Home` as still on skedgrid.

While checking the above at 1642 Feb 24, the WRMI skedgrid has Jeff
White logged in as well as three anonymous creatures: Loris, Unicorn,
and Dumbo Octopus (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 1430, Feb 24 at 0500 UT, short-notice but widely-publicized
DX test prompted by engineering work at WION, Ionia MI is supposed to
start now but nothing noted in first biminute, just huge pileup of
roughly equal signals, nothing readable; length of test unknown, but I
decide to recheck later:

At 0558 UT now I hear a 1 kHz tone; or could it be a JBA TA carrier?
Rather too late for Djibouti, Ukraine is inactive; leaving only some
very/low powers in UK, Greece and Italy. I don`t have a chance to
detect whether it`s on 1431 only as in DX, or 1431 & 1429 as in
modulation from a domestic. I keep listening intently for almost the
next hour on the DX-398 aimed NE/SW, whence the tone peaks as if from
WION. At 0600 there is a pause and then a lower-pitched tone, one half
kHz, or 440? 0605 another tone audible, and 0608 peak stronger, stops
about 0613. If there had been a Morse code ID during this span,
probably could have copied it. Todd Skaine says WION runs a Morse code
ID at hourtop even during normal programming. Otherwise: occasionally
rising slightly above the din is TexMexmx, or maybe a real Mexican
like at 0627. At 0634, ad for Schlotzky`s (?) restaurant in
Belleville, i.e. KZQZ St Louis as in following jingle --- that`s the
station I mainly expected to hear in the way of WION, altho KZQZ night
pattern is unfavorable thisaway. No more tones heard until 0650. But
what I heard earlier correlates with other DX monitors (Glenn Hauser,
OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

This report dispatched at 1739 UT February 24
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CHINA/TAIWAN  SOH TWN / CNR1 jammer matter.
re Glenn's item of 15990.204, Feb 23 at 1457 UT:
15990v kHz Nothing traced on various SDR's in Delhi, Hiroshima, Gifu Nagara,
and Tokyo SDR's.
15800even CNR1 jamming S=7-8 at 0624 UT heard in Tokyo and Gifu Nagara.
and accompanied by SOH TWN same strength on
15799.937 kHz at 0626 UT Febr 24.
15869.943 TWN  SOH threshold level Falun Gong program?,
S=3-4 threshold poor level, 0607 UT
15969.909 kHz SOH TWN poor and tiny at 0603 UT S=4-5.
B u T  on
15970.004 kHz CNR1 jamming came up and started at 06.06 UT late after 06 UT.
18 kHz wideband CNR signal, when checked again 06-08 UT at Gifu Nagara
Japan.
16100even CHN  CNR1 jamming at powerful S=9 level, 0612 UT.
and accompanied
16100.114 kHz TWN SOH program underneath.
16159.102 TWN  SOH at 0616 UT Febr 24, S=5-6 tiny.
[selected SDR options, span 12.5 kHz RBW 15.3 Hertz]
(wb  df5sx, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Febr 24)
PALAU  15675even KHBN Palau Medorn final annmts in English at
05.56 to 06.00 UT, many IDs, addresses, phone numbers postcode, POBox,
told the world has Mon-Fri 15-22 hrs program, phone 110...291...;
Indiana address POBox.
Finally after all, TX Palau switched OFF at 06.00:18 UT, like Aoki Nagoya
database tell, seemingly a Sunday ONLY program ?  S=8-9 in Japan sidelobe
[selected SDR options, span 12.5 kHz RBW 15.3 Hertz]
(wb  df5sx, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Febr 24)
re Eritrea / Somaliland / Sudan mornings
7120 nothing from Hargeysa
7140.020 ERI single outlet in 41 mb from Asmara today Febr 24, S=9+5dB
at 05.15 UT.
7180v kHz nothing from Asmara ERI.
7205even Drums and singer program, Omdurman S=9+5dB signal in Doha Qatar
at 05.20 UT.
[selected SDR options, span 12.5 kHz RBW 15.3 Hertz]
(wb  df5sx, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Febr 24)
KUWAIT  15529.707 much odd fq of Radio Kuwait Kabd, English cse, S=8
or -78dBm signal strength in Qatar SDR. 05.30 UT, folk music singer - not HQ
prayer program.
15515even fq R Kuwait Kabd in Arabic language, S=8 or -79dBm / resp. S=7
or -85dBm in remote SDR at Tokyo Japan at 05.40 UT.
[selected SDR options, span 12.5 kHz RBW 15.3 Hertz]
(wb  df5sx, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Febr 24)
CHINA   DRM mode China National Radio service.
15250drm  S=9 in Tokyo Japan at 05.49 UT from Kunming site in southwestern 
China mainland.
15580drm  Not strong from southern China Dong Fang island
at S=7 or -89dBm level at 05.54 UT.
[selected SDR options, span 12.5 kHz RBW 15.3 Hertz]
(wb  df5sx, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Febr 24)
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Glenn Hauser wghauser@yahoo.com [dxld]" <dxld@yahoogroups.com>

Sent: Saturday, February 23, 2019 9:34 PM
Subject: [dxld] Glenn Hauser logs February 22-23, 2019
UNIDENTIFIED. 15990.204, Feb 23 at 1457, JBA carrier, maybe trace of
modulation. Such a WOOB frequency instantly brings to mind Sound of
Hope, but chance of 100 watts propagating thus is nil. Nor is 15990
one of the scores of SOH frequencies in Aoki/NDXC nor Wolfgang
Bueschel`s monitoring. Maybe some spur if not a local device; no spurs
from Cuba on 15 or 13 MHz today.
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
This report dispatched at 2034 UT February 23
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** BULGARIA. 11600, Sat Feb 23 at 1315, rock music at only S2-S3, i.e.
`The Giant Jukebox` on The Mighty Farty KBC, weekly 13-14 broadcast
for Europe, but which Mark Coady, Ontario, keeps recommending for
better reception than for North America, UT Sunday 0100 on 5960 via
Germany --- not the case here (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** CANADA [and non]. 351 kHz, Feb 23 at 0703 UT, one NDB log before
shuteye is YKQ, which is 500 watts from Fort Rupert - Waskaganish,
QuÃbec; and it`s overcoming 350 kHz RG, 400 watts at Will Rogers World
Airport, OKC, a.k.a. Gally; 2502 km = 1555 miles, so it`s about 22
times as far away as RG (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** CANADA. 2749-USB, Feb 23 at 0437 S8 synthyl in French with marine
weather, including minimums & maximums, past 0441+.

2598-USB, Feb 23 at 0441 I check the other frequency and hear same
thing weaker, running just a split second ahead of 2749, as I am able
to hear them on two different receivers. I can never be quite sure
whether that be due to transmission delays or DSP-caused reception
delays. 0443 one of them stops but shortly they are back almost //.

DXLD 19-07 quoted this info:

``Les Escoumins, Quebec maritime weather station VCF --- Located in
the eastern part of the province of Quebec, VCF is on the north shore
of the St. Lawrence River. It broadcasts its weather bulletins in both
English and French as follows:
2598 and 2749 kHz 0437-0500 VCF Les Escoumins QC``

Among other times, this being the final one until 0847. But that info
omits important data, true transmitter sites of each frequency as in:
http://www.ccg-gcc.gc.ca/Marine-Communications/RAMN-2018/Part2#21

``04:37
Natashquan 2598J3E
La VerniÃre 2749J3E
Radiotelephony --- Technical marine synopsis and forecasts for marine
areas 215 to 221 and 301 to 302. Wave height forecasts for marine
areas 215, 217, 219, 220, 221, 301 and 302. Notices to Fish Harvesters
(when available)`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** CAYMAN ISLANDS [and non]. 1813.90-LSB, Feb 23 at 0449, ZF9CW
working K9ZO in Illinois. Per his QRZ.com page, Stan H. Stockton is a
big 160m contester, on Cayman Brac, but address in Siloam Springs,
Arkansas, almost an Okie.

I`ve found 160m crammed with hams, during a big contest, LSB all over
the place, and many QRMing each other less than 1 kHz apart. Only
below 1805 do I hear some CW, and one ragchewer stands out on 1880;
something digital intermittently 1840-1845. There are frantic phone
contest contacts exchanging 5&9s. Mostly US and Canadian of course, so
I pick out the one foreign I log; some further east are working
Europe. This QRhaM bodes ill for WA0RCR this weekend, such as during
WORLD OF RADIO starting UT Sunday anytime between 0400 and 0505 recent
weeks, on 1860-AM (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** CUBA. 9910-9980, Feb 23 at 0011, wall-of-noise jamming against 9955
WRMI not quite into R. Libertad yet, asymmetrically splattering out
over this range. Something`s always wrong at the DentroCuban Jamming
Command (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** CUBA. 6100, Feb 23 at 0516, this RHC is on but S9+50 in Spanish
instead of English, supposed to start at 0500; also // Spanish on 6060
& 5040, leaving English only on 6165 and 6000. Consequently, the 6270
leapfrog mixing product of 6060 over 6165 is bilingual, attaining
hefty S5. But 0656 recheck, all four 49m are back in English, with
6000 weakest at only S9. Something`s always wrong at RHC (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** CUBA. 15700, Feb 23 at 1453, CRI Plus relay this day is
overmodulated and distorted, rather than JBM or suptorted. They can
never get it just right! Something`s always wrong at RadioCuba (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** MEXICO [and non]. 6185, Feb 23 at 0412, trying to hear XEPPM, but
its music is underneath talk in unknown language, making SAH of
200/minute = 3.33 Hz. 0400-0430 is the only evening time when CCI is
now scheduled: AWR Turkish via AUSTRIA (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)

** NEW ZEALAND [and non]. 7330, Feb 23 at 1257, RNZI confirmed here,
only S9 with flutterfading to S4, QSY to 6115 announcement, one
bellbird chirp and off 1259*. I retune to 6115 which soon comes up,
not much better than 7330 and I could easily believe it`s still on the
NNW antenna only, not back to split with NNE antenna favoring us.
There is also CCI from a fast SAH, probably the Saturday-only Vatican
Radio in Chinese via Philippines not turned off yet by 1300*;
violating Separation of Church & State (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)

** OKLAHOMA. 27185-AM, Feb 22 at 2110-2147+ continuous extremely
repetitive loop of local CB music pirate including phrases such as
``pineapple man``. Lumberjack attempts to interrupt at 2116 producing
a LAH briefly. Should anyone hear this stuff on skip, they will know
they`ve got Enid (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** OKLAHOMA. 90.1-WBFM, Feb 23 at 1459 UT, open carrier/dead air from
KUCO, our classical station. So much for the repeat of its signature
show, `Performance Oklahoma`, part of which I missed on first airing
UT Thu from 0200. I leave a radio on, and modulation finally resumes,
mid-music at 1549, until 1559 ID with no back-announcement, apology or
explanation of what happened, and into `The Record Shelf`, including
Groucho Marx singing Gilbert & Sullivan, ``Tit-willow``. Maybe
something to do with KUCO`s imminent installation of a new
transmitter; but if some transmitter be radiating, adding modulation
to it shouldn`t be too difficult. Later in day the 90.1 signal seems
weaker than usual (Glenn Hauser, Enid, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** SOMALILAND [non]. 7120, Feb 23 at 0409, no signal from R. Hargeisa.
It`s been missing for weeks, gone for good? Only other hamband
intruder remains 7140, VOBME Eritrea, presumed the JBA AM carrier, but
not the other one on 7180.

ARRL reported Dec 13, 2018, that per IARU, Hargeisa had resumed after
a break of several weeks, but we saw no definite reports of it since I
had a long-path carrier Nov 29 at 1347; and Bryan Clark, NZ, reported
it reactivated but with distorted audio Nov 17 at 1812 and 0328 (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** SPAIN. 9690, Feb 22 at 2155 as planned, I`m retuned exactly 24
hours later to REE after I thought I heard them announce frequency as
9620 --- but not any fq anmt today before 2200! Instead plugs special
show Monday at 0130 (ÂTU o HNE?), ``Festival del Cine desde Los
Ãngeles``. Obviously about the Academy Awards but no mention of same
by name in either language. And multilingual generic REE IDs, fill
with ``SueÃo`` song about dreaming; 2200 no timesignal (even tho they
often emit them at half-hours), and next show ``Marca EspaÃa`` about
worldwide trade.

2300 recheck for Friday English segment: starts with flamenco music,
Justin Coe says in honor of Paco de LucÃa anniversary, 2306 starts his
performance of ``Concierto de Aranjuez`` by JoaquÃn Rodrigo, 3-
movement masterwork likely to occupy rest of the semihour. ÂViva la
mÃsica clÃsica en onda corta! (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** TURKEY. 6125, UT Sat Feb 23 at 0415, VOT is S9+10, modulating
Turkish music; kept on it for `Letterbox`, but talk feature at 0418 is
something historical; o yeah, L`box has moved 24 hours later to UT
Sundays (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** TURKEY [and non]. 12035, Feb 23 at 1338, something in Thai S9-S6
way atop VOT in English, so no hearing Letterbox now --- spells out
``T-H-A-I at AWR.org``. So it`s KSDA GUAM as scheduled 1330-1400 due
west. Making no het since VOT is on-frequency today. First time I`ve
noticed this, as I must have been tuning to Turkey after 1400. 12085
has a very similar broadcast, i.e. KSDA in Lao, same time, same
parameters, 1342 with rustic music, same signal but no CCI (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A [non]. 7460, Feb 23 at 0406, S7-S8 African? music, which must
be the Kirundi/Kinyarwanda service of VOA as scheduled 0330-0430 via
BOTSWANA (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A [and non]. WORLD OF RADIO 1970 monitoring: Ivo Ivanov,
Bulgaria confirms: GERMANY, Reception of World of Radio via HLR on
6190 kHz CUSB on Feb.23
https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2019/02/reception-of-world-of-radio-via-hlr-on_23.html
0731-0800 6190 GOH 001 kW / 230 deg CeEu Sat, weak/fair signal``

Confirmed Sat Feb 23 at 1246 amid the 1230 on WRMI 9955, good S9.

As usual no signal here for Sat 1531 on 9485-CUSB via HLR Germany; nor
at UTwente SDR; but audible poorly at 1537 on SDR in Italy.

Alan Gale, England, also reports: ``Hi Glenn, HLR faded in here around
1455 UT so no problem hearing Media Network Plus and most of World of
Radio today, though I did notice that while the audio sounded fine in
the CUSB mode, when switched to AM there was noticeable distortion on
it and it sounded a little raspy and overdriven. The signal faded out
suddenly at 1552 but didn't come back again unfortunately. A short
mp3 file is attached showing the distortion on the AM signal. Alan``

Next:
2030vUT Saturday WA0RCR 1860-AM MO non-direxional
2200 UT Saturday WRMI *9955 to SSE
0400vUT Sunday WA0RCR 1860-AM [nominal 0415], ND
0830 UT Sunday WRMI 5850 to NW, 5950 to WNW, 7730 to WNW
1130 UT Sunday HLR 7265-CUSB Germany to WSW
2130 UT Sunday WRMI 7780 to NE
0230 UT Monday WRMI 5950 to WNW, 9395 to NNW
0400vUT Monday WBCQ *5130v Area 51 to WSW
0430 UT Monday WRMI *9955 to SSE
0930 UT Monday Unique 5045-LSB NSW ND
2330 UT Monday WRMI *9955 to SSE
* also webcast; direct linx to these and many others at:

Complete WOR sked, all affiliates, satellite, webcast, AM&FM, podcast:
http://www.worldofradio.com/radioskd.html
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 7490.2, UT Sat Feb 23 at 0100, WBCQ starting `Allan Weiner
Worldwide`; also I think on 3264.9 where I make out a trace of opening
``William Tell Overture`` theme; nothing at all audible on 9330. 7490+
is already fading out before AW finishes interjexions, so over to John
Carver for his summary:

``Show started a few seconds early on 7490 which is coming in this
evening. Prior to startup, signal was just shy of S9 but dropped to S5
when the theme song started. Timtron and Angela in the studio with
Allan. Allan says they're broadcasting on 7490, 9330 and 3265.

First phone call at 0105 from Mr. Transistor Norm. Allan says the snow
is so deep, they had to hire professional snow removal. Has a crew
coming tomorrow to shovel the roofs off as they are expecting a foot
of snow by Monday. Says they have four feet of snow in the fields as
Tom Barna walks into the studio. Some jokes about Tom stopping by to
use the bathroom in the studio as it's the warmest room on the
compound. Norm says he's receiving all three frequencies well in FLA
with a portable receiver using the whip antenna.

Some long, deep fades but so far no political talk. Then I hear Allan
state that HAARP is no more and that after the superstation starts
broadcasting, he predicts that the conspiracy theories will start up
again and the new antenna will be accused of causing all sorts of
things. Even speculated that North Korea would complain to Trump about
being bombarded by something harmful from WBCQ. Says that 9330 will be
the primary frequency but they also plan on testing another but a deep
fade made it impossible to hear the number. [did anyone get it?? gh]

When the signal comes back up, Tim is talking to Norm about the
antennas he uses for working the hambands from his home QTH. Then the
signal fades down and disappears at 0134. Can find no signal on 9330
and move to 3265. Signal is jumping between S3 and S5 with some light
fades. Allan is talking radio with Norm but they're talking about MW.
By 0141 the noise has come up making it difficult to copy the program.
I miss the days when the program was also heard on 5130. Now Tim and
Norm are talking again but difficult to copy.

Another phone call at 0150 but I can't tell what they're talking
about. Hard to believe that WBCQ has become such a difficult DX catch.
Lost the signal at 0157. Tuned to 5130 and the Militia program was
coming in like gangbusters. John, Mid-North Indiana`` (Glenn Hauser,
OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 7730, UT Sat Feb 23 at 0404, this VG WRMI is playing World
Music fill, including several of our favorites for the rest of the
hour such as at 0443, ``Sandunga`` on marimba and orchestra. 0459
Zanotti ID cut off incomplete at 0500*. Too bad that much of WRMI
automation is out of alignment now. Programming for this frequency-
hour is unaccounted for on the WRMI skedgrids, except for VORW on
Fridays; what of the other five days? More World Music? (Glenn Hauser,
OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 9395, Sat Feb 23 at 0501, S9+20 of dead air from WRMI,
eventually JIP that airline commercial. Maybe it was switchover time
from/to Oldies (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 7570, Feb 23 at 1255, Supreme Master TV via WRMI now playing
``FÃr Elise``, yay, classical music on SW, but on piano I can notice
the recording wowing. 1300 switch to other music including birdchirps.
Ending ``part 2`` of something in English; and multilingual
announcements; 1308 lengthy listing of worldwide platforms including
WRMI frequencies 15770, 4980 and 7570 only, enumerating the exact
number of countries each reaches on each continent! I had no idea SW
was such a precise medium!

Also refers to website for language schedule:
http://suprememastertv.com/schedule
``/`` always uttered as ``forward-slash``, even tho the forward part
is totally unnecessary [and I use ``slant``, much less threatening],
as if one were to type a backward-slash in such a position, it would
still work! As I just proved going to site
http://suprememastertv.comschedule which autodefaults to English:
http://suprememastertv.com/en1/index.php
with linx to specific dates --- but nothing resembling a language sked
grid, just info about a few specific programs with no times shown!
Enough time wasted on this (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 5085, Friday February 22 at 1751, it`s another on-all-day
from WTWW-3 rock music, only S4-S5 to here, not completely absorbed.
But it was not on-all-night as of 1245 Feb 23 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 17775, Sat Feb 23 at 2014, still no signal from KVOH, now
sounding its second week of silence. Saturday-only English span should
be 16-21 UT. Tnx to Ray, we know what happened, but nothing on website
to explain it to all would-be listeners; everything looks fine:
http://www.voiceofhope.com/station_americas.html
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 620, Feb 23 at 0506 UT, unusually something in Spanish:
certainly not kaput XEBU Chihuahua2, so XENK in EdoMex or something
more exotic? Not a single US or Canadian 620 is listed in the NRC AM
Log as SS, altho a few are ETHnic. Immediately hear an ID as ``Radio
Oasis``, repeating phone number 469-397-0620, and plugging some event
domingo a las 11 de la maÃana, ``vÃngase`` to an address on Harry
Hines Blvd. (!) That means this is Dallas, where HH is a major artery
I have traversed, and ergo this is KEXB, until now known only as
``Experts in Business`` in English (ex-KWFT, 620 hijacked from Wichita
Falls). Also has a het from 621, no doubt CANARY ISLANDS. KEXB websked
confirms the program 7 days a week at 11 pm-5 am CT is indeed Radio
Oasis, but no further info about it; unsure if it`s religious. = 05-11
UT now, 04-10 UT once DST be imposed. That means KEXB is now exactly
25% Spanish (unless there be even more I haven`t noticed), so worthy
of an SS designation among its formats; U4 5/4.5 kW (Glenn Hauser, OK,
DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 1460, 1480, 1600, Feb 23 at 1330 UT, confirming these three
Metroplex stations are all in different Vietnamese, i.e. KCLE
(weakest), KBXD, KRVA. How big an audience is there there? Google
search turns up 85,000 in Dallas-Fort Worth, fourth place metro after
LA, San Josà and Houston. Not clear how many be first-generation with
primary language Vietnamese. At 1332, 1600 is playing a choral anthem:
I bet it`s RVN, defunct (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** VENEZUELA [non]. More about the Venezuela Aid concert Fri Feb 22.
``Why not turn 9955 at least back on for this too? (Glenn Hauser, OK,
DX LISTENING DIGEST)``

As if in reply, Jeff follows up at 1703: ``We are also broadcasting
the Venezuela Aid alive concert on 5950 kHz until 2000 UT``

5950 is of course as always here in daytime a JBA carrier as at 1750
check. Meanwhile, higher daytime frequencies on azimuths across North
America remain silent. However, at 1730, the WRMI stream is playing,
silently:
http://wrmi.listen.creek.fm/stream

Jeff White replied at 1809: ``There have been some breaks in the audio
we are getting from Colombia, but itâs OK right now.``

More about this:
https://www.latimes.com/world/la-fg-venezuela-aid-live-unfurled-2019-htmlstory.html

Richard Langley replied at 1754: ``Live with video here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J55O252e72k
-- Richard Langley``

I replied at 1855: ``Yes, but monitoring YT, instead all I see is a
still photo of huge crowd, and precious little music since 1830,
rather impassioned speeches, all in Spanish.

Found this also on the Telemundo TV network, with full-motion video
and audio. Backdrop and corner bug map of Venezuela includes Guyana,
claim apparently also approved by the anti-Maduros.
1931 pause for commercials, to return? Glenn``

Yes. The ``Guyana es nuestro`` low-res outline map also shows 6 tiny
islands off the coast. Oh oh, are they claiming the ABCs too? No,
consulting an atlas there are six fully YV islands between ABCs and
Trinidad, including a favorite ham DX-pedition target, Aves, where I
guess there are also birds, at the western end, and the largest,
Margarita at the eastern.

As for Guyana, the Venez claim is thinner than the whole country now,
evidently the western half bounded by the Essequibo River, and not
including Georgetown (but what about Jonestown?). This appendage is
reminiscent of another flaccid hanger the USA has on its southeast.

Richard Langley, UNB, replies the next day Feb 23 at 1501: ``I had
continuous live excellent video and audio for several hours on one
computer connected to the university's network while doing work on
another. Glenn, you could have been having computer/network issues.
Pretty well the only English heard was when Richard Branson talked and
a few words from some of the performers like Miami-resident Danny
Ocean. Not all rock music. Some nice Latin American folk music, too.
At one time, over 43,000 people were watching the YouTube feed. It is
replaying this morning as I enter this. -- Richard Langley`` (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

UNIDENTIFIED. 2940.14, Feb 23 at 0430, off-frequency with some JBA
talk, language uncertain, S4-S6 vs storm crashes as spring is nigh.
Cannot detect any signal on likely fundamental 1470.07 producing
second harmonic. As I mentioned in October, one known harmonic on 2940
is HJNT Cali, Colombia, and this is probably it. MWOffsets shows three
possibilities:
1470.063 USA WBCR (Alcoa, TN) 2017-03-30
1470.075 CLM Radio Huellas (Cali) 1100-0500 2015-12-15
1470.08 EQA HCED1 Ecos de Cayambe (Cayambe) 2005-07-04
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

UNIDENTIFIED. 7335, Feb 23 at 0408, S6-S8 of dead air. Nothing at all
scheduled now among broadcasters; the next being R. Nigeria, Kaduna
via France from 0500 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

UNIDENTIFIED. 15990.204, Feb 23 at 1457, JBA carrier, maybe trace of
modulation. Such a WOOB frequency instantly brings to mind Sound of
Hope, but chance of 100 watts propagating thus is nil. Nor is 15990
one of the scores of SOH frequencies in Aoki/NDXC nor Wolfgang
Bueschel`s monitoring. Maybe some spur if not a local device; no spurs
from Cuba on 15 or 13 MHz today (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)

This report dispatched at 2034 UT February 23
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