** BRAZIL [and non]. 11745, April 25 at 0223, some weak station with phone
interview in unknown language is taking a direct hit from the RNA/RNB crackling
spur. HFCC and Aoki show the only 11745 at any time is 02-03 RFA Tibetan via
KUWAIT, and I think this is it rather than CNR1 jamming but which surely also
attacks it from the other side. The matching spur on 11815 is in the clear,
lucky it (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) See also CUBA: 6001
**
CHINA [non]. 9580, April 25 at 0134, I notice that CRI English relay via CUBA
has a barely audible weak LAH, unlike clear // 9570 ALBANIA. Still so at 0227
when CRI is in Chinese.
So what could the understation be? Checking
Aoki, we see a 9579 listing for PBS Radio ng Bayan, 500 watts in the
Philippines, but this one is much closer to 9580.0, a pitch barely enough to be
audible, and we`ve not seen any reports of PBS for years. What else?
KBS
World Radio direct from South Korea on 81 degree antenna toward Hawaii and S
America, Japanese until 0200, then English, likely that and probably a bigger
collision further south. Also after 0200 is listed PBS Xizang, Lhasa, Tibet
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CUBA [and non]. 6000, April 25
at 0236, RHC English dumps off the air for a second or two, maybe six times in
the next minute, as I am noticing a het close to 1 kHz on the hi side. It`s too
weak for any modulation, but clear during the RHC outages.
When on, this
and the other RHC English frequency, 6165, are both unreasonably weakened,
undermodulated, and not enough to overcome the general storm noise level from
adjacent states. The CRI relays from Cuba on 9 MHz do much better. Why does
Arnie put all RHC`s English eggs in the one basket of 6 MHz? But he certainly
can`t take propagational/frequency advice from me!
As for the carrier on
6001, could be: 4 kW EBC Brasília? R. Guaíba has also been reported lately on
nominal 6000. 4XZ, Israeli Navy, Haifa has also shown up around here, but this
is a continuous wave, not CW (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
**
EGYPT. 13580, April 25 at 0218, fair signal with very suptorted music, alla
Qahira, but R. Cairo not scheduled here now: I`ll bet it`s a mis-punch for
13850, which is missing! Supposed to start at 0200 in Arabic to N America, and
talk which follows could be Arabic. Abis does use 13580, however, for the
Albanian service at 1500, on same 315 azimuth, and it`s horribly distorted
too.
Checking HFCC later, I see that this will collide with BBC Hindi via
Uzbekistan at 0230-0300 on 13580; ooh.
9315, April 25 at 0228, R. Cairo
frequency is producing regular bursts of slightly wavering hi-pitched noise in
regular pattern of 10 seconds on, 2 seconds off, way above JBM talk presumed
English more audible during the pauses. A new kind of defect for miserable
Misr.
9965.4, April 25 at 0230, R. Cairo, VG signal in Arabic, some
distortion and whine; see also UNIDENTIFIED 9825 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** GREECE. 9420, April 25 at 0230 check, no signal from ERTOpen.
This is now the rule rather than exception (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** PERU. 5980, April 25 at 0108, JBA carrier from R. Chaski,
until cutoff at 0109:25*. This is 31.5 seconds later than last check a pentanite
ago, averaging 6.3 seconds later per. We should now be drawing close to another
autotimer reset back closer to 0100*, only to start precessing again (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 13557, April 25 at 0215, HIFER
beacon MTI is JBA. Haven`t heard him in a while: Stone Mountain, GA, 5 wpm per
the LWCA list on 13557.54. Any others audible now? Yes, on the hi side of the
ISM blob:
13564, April 25 at 0217, HIFER beacon GNK with much stronger
signal than MTI; easy copy without strain, from Madison WI (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. WORLD OF RADIO 1770 monitoring: whatever the
program schedules may show appended to the WRMI graphic frequency schedule, the
Friday April 24 broadcast at 2130.5 was on both 7570 and 15770, just as it had
been for months, not on 7570 only, and we are glad this is so, since 7570 is
sinking into the noise level, much worse than 15770. Next:
Sat 1930v WA0RCR
1860-AM
Sun 0315v WA0RCR 1860-AM
Sun 2100 WRMI 15770
Sun 2300
WRMI 11580
Mon 0300v WBCQ 5110v Area 51
Tue 1100 WRMI 9955
Wed 1315 WRMI 9955
Wed 2100 WBCQ 7490v
Thu 0330 WRMI
9955 [or 1771 if ready in time]
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** U S A. 7505.4, April 25 at 0233 as I tune in, ``We`re 75-05,
WRNO Worldwide`` and music. No we aren`t! Considerable distortion too (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 9825, April 25 at 0226,
distorted whine with fading, so not a local device; like spurs we have heard
before from Turkey or Egypt around here, but there are no strong signals nearby
to produce it now. 9965.4 Cairo might do it, but can`t match the sound, nor is
there another one +140 kHz on 10105, just CW hams, whew. Only thing scheduled on
9825 at any time is during this hour only, CRI English via Kashgar, a site not
known for any such problems (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
This
report dispatched at 0430 UT April 25
