** AUSTRIA. 5910.00, Thu Nov 26 at 0645, English preacher citing Romans VIII in
a prayer. Not Polish, but surely this is the TWR service scheduled at 0645-0700
Tue-Sat only; no sign now of a second station such as Colombia (Glenn Hauser,
OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CUBA. 5025, Nov 26 at 0643, R. Rebelde
modulation is cutting out; wiggle that patchcord! Or is this held together by
chewing gum or baling wire? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
**
CUBA. 15370, Nov 26 at 1938, open carrier/dead air with big hum, must be RHC,
which is supposed to be in French to Europe from 1930. Réveillez-vous! (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** INDONESIA. 4749.945 approx., Nov 26
at 1334, Indonesian music, poor, announcement including bits of singing in the
studio. So RRI Makassar is back; Ron Howard had found it missing a couple of
days recently. Wolfgang Büschel measured it on 4749.943, and I won`t quibble
with that. Alone now, but at 1258 there was a LAH from one or two other stations
closer to 4750.0 = Bangladesh, China.
4869.96, Nov 26 at 1332, VP signal
from algo. Could be RRI Wamena, as Makassar is in on 4749+, or would it be AIR
Nepali service via Delhi-Kingsway? Wamena had been reported lower, on 4869.914,
by Ron on Nov 14, citing Wolfy`s recent measurement.
3905.0, Nov 26 at
1342, JBA S4 signal with song, presumably RRI Merauke, recently put on 3904.981
by Wolfy and Ron, but I don`t get it measured any more precisely. At least not
much QRhAM at the moment. Much weaker than the JOZs on 3925, 3945 (Glenn Hauser,
OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** JAPAN. 3945, Nov 26 at 1340 tune-in, ``You`re
listening to --- RN2``, and rock music, while 3925 RN1 is speaking Japanese
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** OKLAHOMA. 1390, Nov 26 at 0713
UT, still 0729 UT, and recheck 0906 UT, open carrier/dead air with some hum,
from KCRC Enid, supposedly nonstop ESPN Radio; an improvement. A holiday will
not be accepted as an excuse (Glenn Hauser, Enid, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
**
U S A. WORLD OF RADIO 1801 monitoring: confirmed first SW airing, Thu Nov 26 at
1230 on WRMI 9955, fair at 1255. Next: 2100 on 7570, but missed checking. Next
nexts:
Fri 0200 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB to WSW
Fri 2130 WRMI 15770 to
NE
Fri 2130.5 WRMI 7570 to NW
Sat 0730 HLR 7265-CUSB to SW
Sat 1530
HLR 7265-CUSB to SW
Sat 2030v WA0RCR 1860-AM ND?
Sun 0415v WA0RCR
1860-AM ND?
Mon 0400v WBCQ 5110v-CUSB Area 51 to WSW
Mon 0430 WRMI 9955
to SSE
Tue 1200 WRMI 9955 to SSE
Wed 1415.5 WRMI 9955 to SSE
Wed
2200 WBCQ 7490v to WSW
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U
S A. 12105, Nov 26 at 1842, 1930 chex, S9+25 dead air yet again from WTWW-3
instead of Bibling. They must turn it on without bothering to hear if there is
any modulation. Well, I wouldn`t listen to it either, but can`t help but run
across it in bandscanning (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S
A [and non]. 12050, Nov 26 at 1842, JBA carrier, presumed Dandal Kura,
ASCENSION, as WEWN is still absent from half its Spanish frequencies, while
13830 is VG but with jamming bleeding in from 13820 Cuba (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 620, Nov 26 before and after 0630 UT,
Bloomberg News, via KEXB Plano/Dallas TX. Altho obviously from financial angle,
it`s also good for general world news coverage, partly with a British accent not
to be confused with BBCWS. Nice to be able to get this well, following the
demise of that format on 1660 Kansas City. KEXB is ``Experts in Business``,
ex-KMKI Mickey Disney. Web search leads to unchanged URL from 1160 station
formerly with the now 620 format,
and program
schedule is along right margin or via drop-down for each day. Bloomberg is/was
on sked M-F at 12-4 am & 3-4 pm CT = 06-10 & 21-22 UT (Glenn Hauser, OK,
DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** VATICAN. 21550, Nov 26 at 1510, 13m bandscan
usually unproductive finds a good S9 signal here, and in English! It`s a speech
about the UN, climate change, refers to ``your holiness``, 1513 applause. Anchor
outros as executive director of the UN Environmental Development Program.
Evidently he was merely introducing Pope Francis, who is visiting the UN office
in Nairobi, Kenya, and soon starts to speak in Spanish (``an official UN
language`` even tho rather off-topic here); voice-over translation starts in
English, but interrupted at 1517 (or maybe he finished already). Having
concluded it`s a Vatican Radio special, I quickly scan elsewhere on 21, 17 and
15 MHz bands but find nothing more. But at 1518 I turn up the gain and volume
and do find *much* weaker signals on neighboring 21560 in Portuguese? And 21570
in algo. 21550 is still going with English coverage at 1541.
Only then
do I fire up notify the DXLD yg of this special event:
``Good signal on
21550 at 1510 UT Nov 26, Vatican Radio in English covering Pope`s visit to
Nairobi; later found much weaker signals in other languages on 21560, 21570, but
none on 17 or 15 MHz. Still going at 1541. Full report to follow (Glenn Hauser,
DX LISTENING DIGEST)``
And check what else has been reported about
this:
``Stumbled on strong signal on 21550 at 1525 Thu Nov 26 with
apparent coverage of Pope visit to Kenya in English. Woman revoicing distorted
audio of another woman speaker before a woman narrator discussing Pope's
comments (Mike Cooper, Nov 26, DXLD)``
``Pope Francis is currently
visiting Kenya, then will visit Uganda and Central African Republic. Vatican
Radio website is showing these special commentaries broadcast on
shortwave:
26 Nov Nairobi - Visit UN Office
1425 UT 21550 English;
21560 Portuguese; 21570 French
27 Nov Nairobi - Visit to the
Poor
0530 UT 11725 French; 17590 Portuguese; 21550 English
27 Nov
Entebbe Uganda - meeting Public Authorities
1445 UT 21550 English; 21560
Portuguese; 21570 French
28 Nov Kampala - Visit Shrine of
Namugongo
0600 UT 11725 French; 17590 Portuguese; 21550 English
28
Nov Kampala - Visit young people
1205 UT 21550 English; 21560 Portuguese;
21570 French
29 Nov Bangui (CAF) - Holy Mass
1550 UT 11625
French
30 Nov Bangui - Holy Mass
0820 UT 21550 English; 21560
Portuguese; 21570 French
(extracted from
26 Nov) Posted by: (Dave kenny, BDXC-UK yg via DXLD)``
Note the 11725
broadcasts will collide with New Zealand! also on there until 0758 and normally
quite good here. Christian Ghibaudo, France, BDXC-UK, was hearing 11725 already
today in French at 0650, no mention of RNZI.
These three 13m frequencies
are registered by VR in HFCC for specials, but only between 0800 and 1130, all
toward different parts of Africa via SMG, but obviously extended a lot later.
The much greater signal on 21550 here might be explained as closest to directly
off the back from 145 degrees, which would be 325; but I do suspect this one
might be Madagascar instead, i.e. aiming across Africa USward (Glenn Hauser, OK,
DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 3232.24-USB approx., Nov 26 at
0913-0925+, guy rambling about his problems trying to get a truck-driving
license, and dropping plenty of F-bombs along the way; had 107 things to
memorize for DMV test in South Carolina; how he wore a wire to spy on the
examiners on behalf of their boss. Got paid for it and eased up on his grades.
Mostly a monolog, but a weaker contact occasionally replies. Totally pirate, or
some legal 2-way? Surely not ham, MARS or anything USG. Would have preferred to
read it symmetrically 3232.32, but sounds better 80 Hz lower (Glenn Hauser, OK,
DX LISTENNG DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 4900.00, Nov 26 at 0933, as I am
unavoidably awake, might as well DX On 60m, and find a JBA signal here with
music vs CODAR, much weaker than 4885 Brasil. Without references at hand, 4900
strikes me as a frequency where nothing conventional is ever
reported.
Reawake at 1253, it`s still there and better, so this one is
not Latin American, but east Asian: soprano with pop song, could be English but
can`t understand any words, so J-pop or K-pop, keeps going past hourtop 1300
with no break or announcement. Lite CODAR now not much of a problem, and
separable from RTTY circa 4905. This signal is not fluttery, so further east
than the China/Tibet ones now audible at 1313 on 4800, 4920.
I soon
realize that they are playing the same 4.5-minute song over and over! Axually
the restarts are about 4 minutes and 28 seconds apart. By 1318 has improved to
S9+10-20 with max preamp on the R75 and I can tell that the modulation is a bit
low and distorted. Thinking it may have something to do with the Korean numbers
station on 6215, I check that at 1318 and find a JBA carrier, not enough to
match. At 1336, 4900 has improved even more to a steady S9+20. Still in at 1351
past 1400+. (Our sunrise today: 1320: will be as late as 1341 in 1
month.)
Nothing on 4900 in Aoki or HFCC; nor WRTH 2015 except for an
inactive 1 kW in Guinea, lest we forget. I figured Ron Howard could hardly have
missed this, so later I check the DXLD yg for any other logs and
find:
``UNIDENTIFIED. (Korea?), 6215, at 1259, Nov 25. Playing the same
pop Korean song over and over again; "Into the New World," sung by Girls'
Generation (aka: SNSD); mostly fair; still heard at 1355. Thanks very much to
Hiroyuki Komatsubara for the alert.
Youtube
music video "Into the New World" (Ron Howard, Asilomar State Beach, CA, E1 &
CR-1, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST)
Unidentified - Korea(?) testing on
6215 kHz. Nov 26, on 4900 // 6215, at 1134; same song loop as yesterday; 4900
was fair/good. Ron Howard, San Francisco, ibid.)``
And Wolfgang Büschel
replied, listening at the same time as I: ``Around 1340-1400 UT, UNIDENTIFIED
song singer in Korea? re 4900 // 6215 kHz, real measurement around 1340-1400 UT
on a remote unit in eastern Thailand as 4899.9965 and 6215.0035 kHz. Signal
strength in Eastern Thailand S=8 or -78dBm. Unit aligned against WWVH Hawaii
5000.0 and R Australia 4835.0 kHz. 73 Wolfgang df5sx``
Finally checking
EiBi, we do find this but not at the times heard, and a lot more than 10 minutes
each, but nary a number; holiday? ---
4900 1455-1505 irr KOR V24 Numbers
Station K Oc xx
4900 1530-1540 irr KOR V24 Numbers Station K Oc xx
(Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
This report despatched at 2204 UT
November 26
