** ALGERIA [non]. 6125, April 25 at 0535, S7-S9 song, choral almost
hymnic, mixed with talk in French. Now scheduled here is TDA via
FRANCE, and certainly not the Qur`an service (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)

** CONGO. 6115, VP signal S5-S8 at 0534 UT April 25; almost sure it`s
Brazzaville in French, while it`s too early for the other 6115, Nikkei
Japan at 14:34 local time some 4-5 hours before sunset (Glenn Hauser,
OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** CUBA. 12000, April 25 at 1336, RHC S5-S6 // 11760, and 6000, of
which this is the second harmonic. Something`s always wrong at RHC
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** CUBA. 5900, April 26 at 0537, JBA carrier, presumably RHC leapfrog
of 6100 over 6000, reconfirming from same site; 6100 is S9+20 but JBM;
6000 is S9-S7 and also JBM. 6165 is S9-S8 and undermodulated. Only
6060 is any good, S9+20 and plenty mod. Something`s always wrong at
RHC (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** CUBA. 6000 & 6100, April 26 at 1207, RHC active on both but neither
second harmonic propagating. 6100 also has CCI from CRI Russian,
Commies vs Commies. Something`s always wrong at RHC (Glenn Hauser, OK,
DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** EQUATORIAL GUINEA. 5005, April 25 at 0538 music at S4-S6, presumed
Bata, same time as hearing 6115 presumed Brazzaville (Glenn Hauser,
OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** INDONESIA [and non]. 3325, April 26 at 1157, dead air at S3-S5 --
then I detect a trace of modulation. Ron Howard has been observing
dead air from VOI Palangkaraya for most of April, so the other could
be a trace of co-channel NBC Bougainville. There is also a JBA carrier
on 3260, Madang PNG? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** KOREA NORTH [non]. 6070, April 25 at 1303, Shiokaze sounder under
CFRX, and similar on 5920, the two current frequencies for Seabreeze
in English only on Thursdays, both very poor (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)

** MEXICO. 650, April 25 at 1155, 10 minutes after Enid sunrise,
Mexican music and Spanish, fast SAH, presumed the usual SRS dominator
XETNT, Los Mochis, Sinaloa. Faded by 1200. However, next morning, see
below:

On April 26 pre-sunrise I tune the lowband for Mexicans still
propagating:

540, April 26 at 1126, potosina ads, i.e. XEWA SLP (I was also hearing
it after 0500 NA with ``Los Cuarenta`` slogan.). Nulling this at 1126,
I have another Mexican, no doubt XETX Chihuahua which typically
dominates a bit later.

550, April 26 at 1127, Mexican music loops WSW, which would be XEPL,
CuauhtÃmoc, Chihuahua, the only N/W Mexican, dominating for now before
KFRM overtakes.

650, April 26 at 1128, NO signals at all on 650, nor any XE on 610,
sibling station to XETNT, XEGS Guasave, Sinaloa. Strange, and
wondering if these too are giving up on MW. Both are supposed to be
24h per 2018 IRCA Mexican Log.

710, April 26 at 1136, ``primera ediciÃn`` of newscast from BM Radio,
i.e. XEDP, CuauhtÃmoc, Chihuahua; not off-frequency this time. 1151
news of marijuana bust in Delicias, citing grams, then mentions
Oclajoma!

800, April 26 at 1128, ad for Laboratorios Camacho from Los Ãngeles,
i.e. one of the major advertisers on XEROK JuÃrez; with KQCV OKC
easily nulled. But a few minutes later XEROK has vanished, and is
normally inaudible at night (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** OKLAHOMA. RF 21, April 25 at 1454 UT, KUOT-LD, 4 kW ERP, OKC,
briefly decodes with slight tropo enhancement, I hurry to 21-6 to try
to identify this subchannel. Only KUOT on all PSIPs; and no bug on it,
but infomercial with this link: teamlifestyle.com which forwards to:
https://www.asarx.tv/ not very helpful. W9WI.com shows 21-6 as
``Revn`` (Revelation?)
http://www.w9wi.com/web/tv-channels/21-mx.html
but the others don`t match my last log as in DXLD 19-15 (Glenn Hauser,
OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** OKLAHOMA. Level-2 tropo enhancement blob around Enid as far as
Tulsa on Hepburn map, April 26 at 1410+ UT correlates with what I am
seeing, decodes on RF 20, 19-1 KQCW-HD, and RF 28, 44-1 Ion, plus many
more Bad signals on most lower UHF channels still funxioning. And some
on hi-VHF.

Also, RF 24, 25-1 megawatt KOKH OKC FOX is not decoding, pointing to
CCI from the 600-watt KTUL extra channel in Tulsa. BTW, KOKH 25-3 has
not been Weather Nation for many months, despite W9WI.com.

However, OKC`s 7.2 kW on RF 42, KBZC-LD, manages to decode just fine.
NOT in Enid, just the city of license, unfathomably (Glenn Hauser,
Enid, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U K [non]. 12065, April 25 at 1338, something in English, CRI? No,
not // Cuba 9570. Listed as BBCWS via SINGAPORE this hour only (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A [and non]. WORLD OF RADIO 1978 monitoring: confirmed UT
Thursday April 25 at 0100 on WRMI 7780, fair S7-S9 --- the last airing
of this episode on the WRMI cycle. WOR 1979 completed by 2242 UT Thu
Apr 25.

WORLD OF RADIO 1979 contents: Alaska, Argentina, Asia non, Australia
non, Bulgaria, Colombia, Cuba and non, France, Hawaii, International,
Ireland, Japan/Korea North non, Mongolia, Netherlands non, New
Zealand, Oman, South Carolina non, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Turkey, USA,
Venezuela non, Zambia, unID, IRCA Convention; sporadic E season;
propagation outlook

The shortwave broadcasts should be:

0930 UT Friday Unique Radio 5045-USB NSW
2200 UT Friday WRMI 9955 [NEW]
0130 UT Saturday WRMI 7780
0629 UT Saturday HLR 6190-CUSB Germany
1000 UT Saturday Unique Radio 5045-USB NSW [April 27, alt weeks]
1130 UT Saturday WRMI 9955
1431 UT Saturday HLR 9485-CUSB Germany
1930vUT Saturday WA0RCR 1860-AM
2100 UT Saturday WRMI 9955
0030 UT Sunday WRMI 7730
0300vUT Sunday WA0RCR 1860-AM [nominal 0315]
0830 UT Sunday WRMI 5850 5950 7730 [some canceled?]
1030 UT Sunday HLR 7265-CUSB Germany
2130 UT Sunday WRMI 7780
0130 UT Monday WRMI 9395
0230 UT Monday WRMI 7780
0300vUT Monday WBCQ 5130v Area 51
0330 UT Monday WRMI 9955
0930 UT Monday Unique Radio 5045-USB NSW
1815 UT Monday IRRS 7290 Romania
0100 UT Tuesday WRMI 7780
0800 UT Tuesday Unique Radio 5045-USB NSW [2 editions]
2100 UT Wednesday WRMI 9955
2100 UT Wednesday WBCQ 7490v
0100 UT Thursday WRMI 7780

[it appears we will now be running on a Friday-to-Thursday
cycle, so freshest new airings are on weekends]

Full schedule including AM, FM, webcasts, satellite, podcasts:
http://www.worldofradio.com/radioskd.html
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 15770, April 26 at 1329, a few seconds of beepery as the new
Friday 1300 time for Kim`s `SW Radiogram` is concluding on WRMI, music
fill, vintage WNYW-style ID, and 1330 intro Alameda Bible Fellowship
for synthetic English Bible readings, Jeremiah 34; seems they are
stuck on this book, mentioned elsewhen? 15770 has been extended an
hour earlier before 1400 overturning to SMTV (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 890, April 26 at 1133 UT, with KTLR OKC nulled,
``EscÃchenos, la nueva radio cristiana``, i.e. KVOZ; searching on that
slogan leads to two of my own logs in 2011 & 2012, so it`s hardly new!
NRC AM Log shows CoL as Del Mar Hills, with address in McAllen, so a
suburb of that? NO. Del Mar Hills is not to be found even in the
large-scale Rand McNally road atlas. Radio-locator shows it`s Laredo:
https://radio-locator.com/cgi-bin/pat?call=KVOZ&service=AM&h=D
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

UNIDENTIFIED. Trans-Pacific JBA MW carrier search, April 25 at 1146-
1152 as I happen to awaken just at LSR 1145: 864, 882, 1035, 1548,
792, but by far the strongest is 1098 from west, the all-night open
carrier from V7AB, Marshall Islands. The others are too weak for a
definite DF, but probably from WSW = S Pacific rather than NW = E Asia
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

UNIDENTIFIED. Trans-Pacific JBA MW carrier search, April 26 at 1138:
702, 837-WSW with two beating, 1098, 774 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)

This report despatched at 1845 UT April 26

Not FB, but twitter is where ADC has publicized Spectres of SW

https://twitter.com/magnet_mountain

As tipped by roger in germany.

Maybe she will have more to say about this SW broadcast.

Glenn

--------------------------------------------
On Thu, 4/25/19, Glenn Hauser <wghauser@yahoo.com> wrote:

** U S A [and non]. 5130.5, April 24 at
2310, JBA carrier yet stronger
than the JJBBA carrier on 3264.9 which
is about equal to the JBA
carrier on 7595 from UZBEKISTAN. These
WBCQ and Tashkent frequencies
are the ones indirectly publicized on
disgraced FB by Amanda Dawn
Christie for audio track of her
`Spectres of Shortwave` film about the
destruxion of RCI Sackville, now also
at 2300-0100 UT being screened
in Toronto, but none any good here.
Something wrong with this
scenario? The other `BCQs on 7490+ and
9330+ are quite stronger but
tied up with other programming (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** CUBA. 6000, April 24 at 0600, RHC English S9+10 but suptorted; 6100
S9+20 undermodulated; 6165 weak S8-S9 just barely modulated; while
only 6060 is any good, S9+20; and 5040 is off. Something`s always
wrong at RHC (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** CUBA [and non]. 9580, April 24 at 0149, CRI English relay is
S9+10/20 but just barely modulated; // 9570 via ALBANIA is weaker but
louder, not unusually (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** CUBA [non]. 5980, April 24 at 0152, TV Martà is already on after
finding it last night until 0300*, so is it a 2-hour span? The jammer
noise has already found it, underaudible. And yes, while this is
talking, the original Radio Martà frequencies are musicking and NOT
//: 6030, 7335 and 7365.

Then I go looking at the website and find this notice, affirming that
I had discovered the new TV-on-SW service on its first night, local
April 22; it`s 5 hours long, M-F 22-03 UT Tue-Sat, which means it
blots any chance of R. Chaski, Perà if it is still active until 00* or
01*? April 24 at 2308, there is TVM already but this early poor S5-S8.

https://www.radiotelevisionmarti.com/a/televisi%C3%B3n-mart%C3%AD-podr%C3%A1-escucharse-en-onda-corta/237060.html

``TelevisiÃn Martà podrà escucharse en onda corta --- abril 23, 2019
--- Noticiero Radio Martà logo - Compartir - Ver comentarios

La Oficina de Transmisiones a Cuba (OCB) estrenà el 22 de abril una
nueva alternativa para acceder desde la isla a la programaciÃn de
TelevisiÃn MartÃ.

Desde las seis de la tarde hasta las once de la noche, de lunes a
viernes, los noticieros de TelevisiÃn Martà podrÃn escucharse en la
radio por onda corta en la frecuencia de 5980 KHz.

TomÃs Regalado, director de OCB, dijo que se trata de una iniciativa
histÃrica que sirve para cumplir con la misiÃn de llegar a todas
partes de Cuba.

âEsto nos da una oportunidad de diseminar el mensaje de TelevisiÃn
Martà no solamente a travÃs de las ondas de satÃlite, de la Internet,
de âEl CaÃonazoâ y los DVDs que estamos enviando, sino tambiÃn a
travÃs del sonido. Las bandas sonoras de la televisiÃn se van a
escuchar en la onda cortaâ, dijo Regalado.`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)

** HAWAII. 5000, April 24 at 1250, WWVH with new hourly announcement
about some US military exercise, but JBA under WWV; I quickly switch
to 10000 where the two are about equal but can`t really copy it with
additional QRM from LSB intruder sounding Spanish. At 1252 WWVH is
still announcing its phone number, implying, why are you trying to
hear us on a SW radio?? BTW, many years ago, I offered to provide a
daily hot-DX tip during a WWV minute, but they weren`t interested!
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** OKLAHOMA. 92.9, April 24 at 1958 on caradio, ``KC`s rock
alternative`` non-ID with CCI. This is no doubt another translator in
OKC, per WTFDA FM Database, audiblizing the HD-2 of 92.5 KOMA, i.e.
K225BN, 200 watts at 267.7 meters HAAT, format Modern Rock, slogan
allegedly ``The Edge``: vs the only other Okie on 92.9, 100 kW KBEZ
Tulsa, ``The Drive``. This is an increasingly employed workaround to
get a subsidiary ``HD`` format onto a real open FM radio signal.

Per coordinates, K225BN is on exactly the same tower as 95.3 K237GE
making KOKC 1520 an FM station, also audible at same marginal level -
-- but how about in OKC itself where it`s adjacent to 95.1 100 kW
KQCV-FM gospel huxter also serving the OKC market, from Shawnee CoL?
Axually its site is beyond Shawnee, east of Seminole so it puts as
much signal into Tulsa as OKC, but is also easily heard in Enid vs
Wichita (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** TURKEY. 9830, April 23 at 2242, again no signal from VOT during
English hour to North America. Well, there`s always German in the next
hour? NO, none of that either today at 2302 and 2330 chex.

Do any other VOT broadcasts have this dismal track record, or is it
just a zzzzzzzzz middle-of-the-night thing at Emirler? Last year
someone suggested that instead of professional operators, TRT was
employing kids from the neighborhood for this task; no kidding?

9830, April 24 at 2228, VOT English is back on, but poor S6-S9. And no
German after 2300.

15450, April 24 at 1323, VOT English JBA at sign-off mentioning
correct frequency and maybe correct time too; and pulling the plug
immediately. Will this 1230 broadcast USward ever build up to
listenable level here? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. WORLD OF RADIO 1978 monitoring: confirmed Wednesday April 24
at 2100 on WRMI 9955: once again upcut from ID & IS runup, ``--- with
World of Radio 1978 ---`` I wonder who`s that talking? Good signal,
much better than simulcast by 7490v WBCQ, so weak on the PL-880 with
reelout, that I can`t determine how many seconds apart. Next:

0100 UT Thursday WRMI 7780
0930 UT Friday Unique Radio 5045-USB NSW [or 1979?]
2200 UT Friday WRMI 9955 [NEW; or 1979?]

I do plan to record next WOR 1979, late UT Thursday.

[it appears we will now be running on a Friday-to-Thursday cycle, so
freshest new airings are on weekends]

Full schedule including AM, FM, webcasts, satellite, podcasts:
http://www.worldofradio.com/radioskd.html
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A [and non]. 5130.5, April 24 at 2310, JBA carrier yet stronger
than the JJBBA carrier on 3264.9 which is about equal to the JBA
carrier on 7595 from UZBEKISTAN. These WBCQ and Tashkent frequencies
are the ones indirectly publicized on disgraced FB by Amanda Dawn
Christie for audio track of her `Spectres of Shortwave` film about the
destruxion of RCI Sackville, now also at 2300-0100 UT being screened
in Toronto, but none any good here. Something wrong with this
scenario? The other `BCQs on 7490+ and 9330+ are quite stronger but
tied up with other programming (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 5830, April 24 at 1837, JBA carrier from WTWW-1 at midday,
checked here after finding 9475 AWOL --- good news for Swaziland, but
not for the dead racist in Laporte. Ted does it again! But surely not
sabotage (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

UNIDENTIFIED. 5990, April 24 at 0559-0602*, S9+10 open carrier.
Nothing scheduled now but reminiscent of China-via-Cuba on 5990 at 23
-01. If one were foolish enough to believe HFCC, it could be RRI
Menado, Indonesia in English! Or CNR in Tibetan (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)

This report dispatched at 0016 UT April 25

** BRAZIL. 11780, April 23 at 1427, RNA with YL hosting call-in, 11:27
timecheck, S9+10. Unusual to be so audible at this daypart rather than
afternoon/evening. I check for other ZYs on 25m: 11815 has a het, one
of which is likely RBC, vs Yamata and/or Urumqi; 11855.7, JBA carrier
is certainly R. Aparecida.

AFAIK, the only other Brazilian still active on this band is 11895,
Super Rede Boa Vontade (RBV), Porto Alegre, often reported in European
evenings, but I *never* hear it when I`m tuning earlier or later
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** BULGARIA. 5900, April 23 at 0249, TOMBS at S9/+10, and not on 6055
new frequency as Ivo Ivanov had reported April 22 for 2000-0300, altho
I have a JBA carrier on 6055 from unknown source, nothing listed and
far too early for Japan at noon.

Ivo reaffirms that Brother HyStairical was on new 6055 earlier by
2100, and Stephen Wood in New England had him yesterday April 21 at
2130 on 6055. So unknown yet what time they really switch to 5900
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** COLOMBIA. 2940.132, April 23 at 0556 UT, music detectable on ~S9
signal better than usual, but storm noise level peaks S9+20. Of
course, it`s HJNT, Radio Huellas, Cali, long-running second harmonic
of 1470.066 as already identified elsewhere, but I would still like to
hear an ID, myself (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** CUBA. 6000, April 23 at 0601, this RHC English is off again, like
5040, while 6060 continues VG; 6100 & 6165 are sufficient but
undermodulated. Something`s always wrong at RHC (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)

** CUBA [non]. 5980, April 23 at 0250, surprised to find strong S9+20
signal in Spanish here, discussing baseball, a staple of Radio MartÃ
--- but it`s *not* // 6030, 7335, 7365! Could it be RHC or WRMI on a
new frequency? No //s there either. 0253 topic changes to Cannes Film
Festival; something from Europe? Surely not Spain, or even France.

0256 plugs noticiero lunes a viernes from Radio TelevisiÃn MartÃ, and
more IDs for RTVM, including a secure web address for access anywhere
in world (i.e. Cuba) if you erase your history when finished. Sure
wish I could have copied that; what is it? 0259 once again mentions
`Noticiero TV Marti` and cuts off at 0300.

So we have a secret? new transmission from Greenville not of RM but of
TVM soundtrack, starting when, and regular, or experiment? NO jamming,
altho Cuba does ramp up 5980 noise well before nominal *0700 of RM.

Such an adjacency to 5985 would be unacceptable if WRMI were on there
from 0200 as registered available, rather than really not until *0330
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** MALI. 5995, April 23 at 0601, no signal from ORTM, which some days
has been running well before 0600. So continues unreliably. Also
reports indicate that the two CRI relay transmitters are off again
after their revival a few weeks ago. Is anyone hearing those? (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** NEW ZEALAND. 9700, April 23 at 0604, RNZI L&C in news, and no CCI
audible from Romania in German this semihour only. Of course for us,
propagation from S Pacific is much superior than from Europe (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** SPAIN. 9690, April 22 at 2201, 2218, REE is still in Castilian
instead of English even tho it`s Monday. I guess they haven`t got over
Easter yet (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** TURKEY. 9830, April 22 at 2207, NO signal from VOT English to North
America, yet another failure. This time I check the three frequencies
scheduled in previous hours in case its transmitter be stuck overtime
elsewhere ---- 9620, 9635, 11615 --- but nothing on those either.

9830, recheck April 22 at 2343, NOW it`s on with Turkish songs,
S9+10/20, and as expected 2351 GERMAN very brief headline(s), sign off
giving two phone numbers, nothing about frequencies! and 2352 into IS
music; 2356 stops and restarts, shortly ID in another language,
Portuguese? music and cut off 2358* --- just as if this were a
completely normal transmission.

Now I`m guessing the sloppyrator at Emirler thinx they are supposed to
run 9830 at 23-24 UT with whatever program come over the feed from
Ankara, instead of 22-23 UT; confused about summer timing? (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A [and non]. Re WORLD OF RADIO at 0300 UT Monday April 22 on
WBCQ, John Carver replies: ``Glenn. Yes. 5130 was dead air for WOR and
Hobart Radio. Nothing after John Lightning ended his show. John``

WORLD OF RADIO 1978 monitoring: confirmed UT Tuesday April 23 at 0100
on WRMI 7780, fair. Next:
2100 UT Wednesday WRMI 9955
2100 UT Wednesday WBCQ 7490v
0100 UT Thursday WRMI 7780
0930 UT Friday Unique Radio 5045-USB NSW [or 1979?]
2200 UT Friday WRMI 9955 [NEW; or 1979?]

[it appears we will now be running on a Friday-to-Thursday cycle, so
freshest new airings are on weekends]

Full schedule including AM, FM, webcasts, satellite, podcasts:
http://www.worldofradio.com/radioskd.html
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 9475-, April 23 at 0248, WTWW-1 still on day frequency as
well it might be, still blasting in at S9+40, while night frequency
5830 is vacant. But by 0558, 5830 is still off and 9475 has faded to
JBA carrier, still at 0623 final check. At 1404, 9475 is the one,
probably having run all night. SAWA WTWW (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 5890, April 23 at 0553, dead air at S9-S6: it`s Tuesday,
time for the weekly anomalies from WWCR; this time 5890 is quite
weaker than 5935 with DGS modulation at S9+10/20. What about the other
two transmitters? 4840 is also modulating with something, S9+20; while
3215, supposedly silent at this hour, is S9+20 of open carrier. Is
WWCR doing this deliberately for some reason, wasting hundreds of kW,
or some glitch in automation programming, turning on two extra
transmitters when they are not supposed to be running? (Glenn Hauser,
OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

This report despatched at 1650 UT April 23

** ALGERIA [non]. 9655, April 21 at 2152, French, not Arabic and
certainly not Qur`an from RTA relay via FRANCE, contrary to this:

``SWLDXBulgaria News April 6-7 (publications â19126-â19150)
Reception of Telediffusion d'Algerie on April 6:
https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2019/04/reception-of-telediffusion-dalgerie-ib.html
2100-2159 9655 ISS 500 kW / 160 deg to CEAf Arabic Holy Quran px``

About equal to another French signal on 9650, GUINEA
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** CUBA. 15370, April 21 at 2158, RHC Spanish, S9+40 but distorted,
more so than // 11760 with degraded program audio. Something`s always
wrong at RHC (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** CUBA. 5900, April 22 at 0541, LA music poor S9, undermodulated.
Something new from Bulgaria? No! It`s a new leapfrog from RHC, // 6100
over 6000, which are S9+40 and S9+30 respectively, another 100 kHz
lower. This means that 6100 and 6000 now have to be from the same
transmitter site among the three employed by RHC. Contrary to Ivo:

0500-0600 on 5040 BAU 100 kW / 083&263 to Cuba English
0500-0600 on 6000 QVC 250 kW / 010 deg to ENAm English
0500-0600 on 6060 BAU 100 kW / 010 deg to ENAm English
0500-0600 on 6100 BAU 100 kW / 310 deg to WNAm English
0500-0600 on 6165 BAU 100 kW / 340 deg to WNAm English

Recently it had been clear that 6000 was the odd one out, often
closing earlier than the others, but now 6000 must be Bauta, or 6100
must have switched to QuivicÃn.

Another way to compare sites is whether there be an echo between
different frequencies, but I have been reluctant to draw such
conclusions as a slight delay could also occur between receivers due
to DSP. Something`s always wrong at RHC (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)

** EAST TURKISTAN. 15410, April 22 at 1419, Chinese at S5-S8 with
flutter, OOFSOB, stronger than similar signal on 15590, CRI English.
Aoki/NDXC shows 15410 this hour only is CRI Chinese via Kashi-Saiba
site. Per HFCC both are on 500 kW 308-degree beams, but 15590 is
Urumqi instead.

15110, April 22 at 1419, also Chinese at S7-S9, but not // 15410 since
this is CNR1 jamming or VOA Chinese this hour only via Philippines.

9180, April 22 at 1432, Chinese at S3-S6 seems // 15110 and not 15410,
i.e. CNR1 jammer here vs Sound of Hope, Taiwan. This is the only WOOB
jammer found in a 9.0-15.0 MHz bandscan (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)

** IRAN. 13735, April 22 at 1417, S6-S8 of dead air --- HFCC shows it
has to be VIRI in Russian at 1320-1420, 500 kW, 336 degrees also
USward from Sirjan. Was the whole hour dead, or finished a bit early?
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** NEW ZEALAND [and non]. 9700, April 22 at 0534, VG S9+10/20, SSOB in
English, BBCWS programme relay about waste management. RNZI QSY from
9630 as I recommended due to Brasil 9630.50v het --- but which tonight
is a JBA carrier all by itself. Schedule now shows this as first day
of new frequency, 0459-0658, and no other changes:
https://www.radionz.co.nz/international/listen

For a fleeting moment at tune-in, I wondered if this were Romania,
which has been here in past. It`s still sked on 9700-AM for 0600-0630
German, which could well be a collision problem, unchecked here yet.
(RRI 0530 English is on 6015, 7325-DRM, 15410, 17760) (Glenn Hauser,
OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** TAIWAN. 9560, April 22 at 1429, S3-S5 open carrier, soon starting
upbeat theme music and Japanese announcement. Aoki shows Furusato no
Kaze for North Korean abductees, from Tamsui district (Glenn Hauser,
OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 13565-CW, April 22 at 1412, K6FRC beacon from Patterson,
California is JBA vs CODAR. I check the 13550-13570 HIFER band just
about every day, and this is the first time K6FRC or any other beacon
has been detected since Feb 20 and before that Dec 19. Notice how
close these are to two-month intervals, so I wonder if K6FRC be only
sporadically active. How about all the others listed --- on and not
propagating, or off? That other Californian, with 100 kW, KVOH would
surely be audible if on 13 MHz band now instead of stuck 4+ MHz higher
on 17775; but target is beyond OK (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)

** U S A. WORLD OF RADIO 1978 monitoring: confirmed Sunday April 21 at
2130 on WRMI 7780, very poor S7-S8.

Also confirmed UT Monday April 22 at 0130 on WRMI 9395, VG S9+10/20;
preceded at 0129 by very outdated ID as ``Son-power Radio on 5850,
7475, 9395``!

Also confirmed UT Monday April 22 at 0230 on WRMI 7780, fair

Also confirmed UT Monday April 22 from 0302 on Area 51 webcast --- but
checking WBCQ 5130.42v at 0320, vs storm noise from Kansas, S9+10 of
dead air! Was entire WOR thus? Recheck webcast and still running OK
there.

Also confirmed UT Monday April 22 after 0330 on WRMI 9955, poor S6-S7.

Next:
1815 UT Monday IRRS 7290 Romania
0100 UT Tuesday WRMI 7780
0800 UT Tuesday Unique Radio 5045-USB NSW [2 editions, April 30+]
2100 UT Wednesday WRMI 9955
2100 UT Wednesday WBCQ 7490v
0100 UT Thursday WRMI 7780
0930 UT Friday Unique Radio 5045-USB NSW [or 1979?]
2200 UT Friday WRMI 9955 [NEW; or 1979?]

[it appears we will now be running on a Friday-to-Thursday cycle, so
freshest new airings are on weekends]

Full schedule including AM, FM, webcasts, satellite, podcasts:
http://www.worldofradio.com/radioskd.html
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 5085, April 22 at 0132, WTWW-2 with S9+40 of dead air;
awaken, Ted (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

This report dispatched at 1700 UT April 22