** AUSTRALIA. 9685, Wed August 9 at 1233, same OM is alternately speaking English with heavy accent and some other language, rising intonations at ends of words or phrases, Burmesish? Sermon or Bible translating, S9. It`s Reach Beyond, Australia. At 1242 says ``Amen``; 1243 Englishish schedule closing as Wed & Sat 5:45 pm IST, 6:45 pm BST = start time of 1215 UT. Then RBA full Oz English sign-off until tomorrow at 1115 UT, and off 1245*.

Aoki list, usually updated daily, still shows July 28 as latest, so I guess he`s on vacation: http://ndxc.16mb.com/bi/nxa17.txt
It shows 9685 is 100 kW, 315 degrees from Kununurra daily at 1115-1245 in a complex schedule of Burmese, English and five other languages, this one being: 1215-1245 1..4..7 Nagamese [sic], i.e. also on Sundays.

Via our Hitlist, we quickly reach RBA`s own A17 schedule:
http://www.reachbeyond.org.au/site/DefaultSite/filesystem/documents/publications/A17%20Schedule_Listener%20Edition.pdf
showing this sesquihour block is for Myanmar and northeast India, and the three transmissions in question are called ``From Darkness to Light`` in ``nag`` = Nagamese, yes, not Naganese. EiBi`s language list shows ``NAP Naga Pidgin / Bodo / Nagamese: India-Nagaland (30,000) [nag]``. Nagaland is already 90% Christian making it the state religion, and more Baptist than Mississippi, per Wikipedia. Capital Kohima, where AIR used to be on 4850 & 6065, gone for about a sesquiyear; nearest somewhat active AIR is 5050 Aizawl (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** CHINA. 15525, Aug 9 at 1251, S5-S3 Chinese from CNR1 like 11825, whose only reason to be here is to jam Voice of Tibet on 15527, per Aoki at 1236-1305 via Tajikistan, but no trace of that audible, not even a het. Not much else from Asia on 19m band (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** KOREA SOUTH. 12843-CW, Aug 9 at 1256, CQ marker from HLO, which is Seoul Radio. Not many of these left. Kept fading during the ID, but repetition soon allowed full copy. Not in EiBi (Glenn Hauser, oK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** NEW ZEALAND. 7425, August 9 at 1220, RNZI is S9 to S7, not as solid as usual, so maybe the 325-azimuth antenna is back in service during the 11-13 bihour only when the 35 is off instead of both? Meanwhile, Barry Hartley answers my latest question:

``So during the 325 degree antenna downtime, are all the frequencies on the 35 antenna getting the full 100 kW instead of just 50, improving reception thisaway overall?``

``Hi Glenn, Yes, the 35 degrees antenna is receiving the full 100 kW. That should provide good reception in North America`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** OMAN. 15140, August 9 at 1421, Radio Sultanate (note spelling) of Oman with Arabic music and 1427 Arabic talk. RSO has attracted a lot of attention further east by jumbling its English and Arabic times. This hour was originally English, but lately has been an hour later and sometimes prolonged for hours and hours after that. Signal has been barely audible here most of time, but now S6 fading to S2. Recheck at 1735: Arabic (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A [and non]. WORLD OF RADIO 1890 monitoring: confirmed Wednesday August 9 after 1315 on WRMI 9955, fair. Next:
Wed 2100 WBCQ 7490v to WSW
Wed 2330 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB to WSW
Thu 2330 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB to WSW
Fri 2330 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB to WSW
Sat 0630 HLR 6190-CUSB to WSW [maintenance break until Aug 19]
Sat 1431 HLR 7265-CUSB to WSW [maintenance break until Aug 19]
Sat 1930v WA0RCR 1860-AM ND
Sat 2230 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB to WSW
Sat 2300 WRMI 11580 to NE
Sun 0200 WRMI 11580 to NE
Sun 0315v WA0RCR 1860-AM ND
Sun 1030 HLR 9485-CUSB to WSW
Sun 2330 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB to WSW
Mon 0300v WBCQ 5130v Area 51 to WSW
Mon 0330 WRMI 9955 to SSE
Mon 2330 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB to WSW
Tue 0030 WRMI 7730 to WNW
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 5830, August 9 at 1218, WTWW-1 modulation is breaking up badly. 9475, August 9 at 1424, S9+40 but severe modulation breakup. So Ted was awake enough to make the QSY, but not enough to notice there was a bit of a problem with the mod. STILL that way at 1735. That`s OK: reduces the listenership for SFAW racist programming from insignificant to nil (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 1370, August 9 at 1158 UT, ad for Coyote Tractors on highway 290, 1159 ID as Fox 1370, but 1200 UT into CBS News bong. This doesn`t quite compute, so my research finds: Google is smart enough to correct Coyote to Kioti! US 290 connects San Antonio to Austin to Houston TX. The only 1370 along this route is KJCE Rollingwood = Austin market, and it`s Talk 1370, not Fox 1370. Wikipedia and NRC AM Log of last year confirms it carries CBS news; and the find-a-Kioti-dealer website goes to this: Paige Tractors, 4409 Highway 290 East, Paige, TX, 78659, Distance: 46 miles from KJCE`s Austin zipdcode of 78746. Wiki also informs that call derives from a previous branding ``K-Juice``. It`s 5/0.5 kW U4 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 91.7, August 9 at 1354, KOSU with NPR Morning Edition report about a girls` metal band in Indonesia, what a thing, but detracted by correspondent Ashley Westerman saying their native language is ``Sudanese``, rather than Sundanese (it`s a long way from Sudan), duh! Here`s the story with transcript
http://www.npr.org/2017/08/09/542238928/meet-voice-of-baceprot-the-all-girl-metal-band-making-waves-in-indonesia
which correctly spells Sundanese in first graf (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

UNIDENTIFIED. 9780.23-USB, August 9 at 0611, 2-way INTRUDERS very poor in tonal language, Chinese? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

This report dispatched at 1749 UT August 9

** CHINA. 15570, Aug 8 at 2315, very poor in Chinese, i.e. CNR1 jammer, typical pushy programming, probably propaganda, against VOA Mandarin via Tinian, this hour only per Aoki. Nothing else extra-continental audible on 19mb (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** CUBA. A festival of `frogs on the 25m band tnx to RHC`s piling up high-power transmitters here, Aug 8 at 2307-2320 as I unravel these leapfrog mixing products:

11810, noted first with Spanish // 6000, the `Mesa Redonda` TV simulcast which this hour only is separate from the other RHC Spanish frequencies. 11810 is S5-S2 and quite readable, mixing with English underneath, i.e. 11950, the other M.R. channel, leaping over 11880 another 70 kHz lower. 11950 is S9+40, 11880 is S9+45 and somewhat distorted. Subject of M.R. is climate change, loss of species. 11810 is quite stronger than the 11840 parasites on 11830 & 11850.

12000, has a very poor weak mix of two programs. It might have been 2 x 6000 but not in this case, rather 11760 Spanish leaping over 11880 English another 120 kHz beyond. I should have checked for the reverse on 11640.

12019.95, at 2318 mainly English audio S3-S1 from 11880, leaping over 11950 to 70 kHz beyond, or almost. 11950 is axually a bit on the low side about 11949.97. There`s always something wrong at RHC (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** INDIA. 7750, August 8 at 2158, JBA carrier, tnx to tip from Wolfgang BÃschel that today AIR Bengaluru punched the wrong frequency, instead of 7550 for the GOS, first caught by Patrick Robich, Austria (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** NEW ZEALAND. 6224-USB, August 8 at 0603, marine weather in English, very poor, mostly numbers copiable, knots, barometer. It`s ZLM, Taupo Maritime Radio, in between scheduled broadcasts per EiBi, at 0533-0553 & 0803-0823. Last logged this in December of 2015 with similar observations when I also added: ``Taupo is in the middle of North Island, at the NE corner of lake of same name, as far from a coast as you can get, but at a good skip distance, and not far from RNZI`s Rangitaiki site, I think`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** NORTH AMERICA. 6940-USB, August 8 at 2300, pirate with rap at S8, and annoying screaming over background music past 2303. These logs, with the wrong date on thread header as Aug 9 instead of really Aug 8
https://www.hfunderground.com/board/index.php/topic,36596.0.html
say it was Clever Name Radio intermittently between 2152 and 0017 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A [and non]. WORLD OF RADIO 1889 monitoring: last repeat of this edition reported by Rick Barton, AZ: ``7730 UNITED STATES WRMI at 0030. Confirming GH`s W o R on the channel with armchair reception. August 8 most with R.S. SW-2000629 or Grundig Satellit 750 and indoor antennas``

WORLD OF RADIO 1890 contents: Australia, Biafra non, Bougainville, Bulgaria, Canal Zone, China, Cuba, Eritrea, Fiji, Germany, Guam, India, Indonesia, Isle of Man, Korea South, Kuwait, New Zealand, North America, Oman, Papua New Guinea, PerÃ, Spain, USA, Yemen non

WORLD OF RADIO 1890 monitoring: first airing less than an hour after completed, confirmed Tuesday August 8 at 2130 on WRMI, fair on 9455, very poor on 15770. Also confirmed Tue Aug 8, the 2330 on WBCQ, now drifted up to 9331.526v-CUSB, fair at 2353, just as I am mentioning the shift. Next:
Wed 1030 WRMI 5850 to NW, 9455 to WNW
Wed 1315 WRMI 9955 to SSE
Wed 2100 WBCQ 7490v to WSW
Wed 2330 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB to WSW
Thu 2330 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB to WSW
Fri 2330 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB to WSW
Sat 0630 HLR 6190-CUSB to WSW [maintenance break until Aug 19]
Sat 1431 HLR 7265-CUSB to WSW [maintenance break until Aug 19]
Sat 1930v WA0RCR 1860-AM ND
Sat 2230 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB to WSW
Sat 2300 WRMI 11580 to NE
Sun 0200 WRMI 11580 to NE
Sun 0315v WA0RCR 1860-AM ND
Sun 1030 HLR 9485-CUSB to WSW
Sun 2330 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB to WSW
Mon 0300v WBCQ 5130v Area 51 to WSW
Mon 0330 WRMI 9955 to SSE
Mon 2330 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB to WSW
Tue 0030 WRMI 7730 to WNW
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 9395 // 9455, Aug 8 at 2258, both with WRMI Oldies, except at this moment wrapping up a VOA newscast relay insert.

7570 & 7730, Aug 8 at 2304, no signals from WRMIBS, but weakest 7780 is on. As I listen, 7730 at least cuts on about *2304:40, still no 7570. 7570 & 7730 are scheduled to start at 2300, 7780 from 2200. Currently none of them are switching immediately from a higher frequency (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

UNIDENTIFIED. 6180, August 8 at 0636, very weak signal from algo, which at 0607 would have been VOA French via SÃo TomÃ, but supposed to end at 0630 weekdays. Anker Petersen, Denmark, has twice reported RN AmazÃnia recently on 6180 around 0130 with no interference from CRI in English via Kashgar, which is all I`ve heard that early. So is RNA on, perhaps with low power and/or sporadically? No, 6180 does not work out to be a possible Cuban leapfrog on 49m (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

UNIDENTIFIED. 7520-USB, August 8 at 2305, 2-way in Spanish before becomes occupied by WWCR at 0000 or India at 0015, and after RFA Tibetan via Kuwait uses it twice a week until 2300 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

This report despatched at 0413 UT August 9

** ARMENIA. 9975, August 6 at 2150 check, not even a JBA carrier detectable from the surprise 60th anniversary broadcast of Radio Luxembourg which was widely heard in Europe. EiBi shows scheduled only this date between 18 and 22. I am aware of no advance publicity for this in the DX press, tsk2. Huge splash here from bigsig 9980 WWCR (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** CHINA. 13920, August 6 at 2346, very poor S1-S2 signal seems Chinese, i.e. CNR1 jammer against Sound of Hope, which Aoki shows on 13920 any/all the time from 2213 to 1420 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** PERU. 5980, August 6 at 2330, JJJBBBA carrier, from R. Chaski. Best audible if tuned to 5979.65-USB. I stay on it amid the summer storm noise level until autocutoff at 2341:08.5* give or take. So they`ve let it slip more than 11 minutes past the nominal closing. Last timing here was July 20 until 2339:15*, which is 113.5 seconds over a 17-day period, or averaging 6.68 seconds per! Right on ``schedule`` within a few hundredths of a second. As usual I don`t compute this until afterwards, so am not aware of exactly when the carrier is going to drop. I love this precision in such an unintentional display from an otherwise boring gospel huxter station (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** SOMALILAND. 7120, August 1335, JBA carrier, presumably R. Hargeisa by longpath during English segment (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. WORLD OF RADIO 1889 monitoring: confirmed Sunday August 6 at 2330 on WBCQ 9331.49v-CUSB, good S8. Also confirmed UT Monday August 7 starting at 0302 on Area 51 webcast, and JBA amid QRN on WBCQ 5129.84-AM at 0328; also confirmed at 0330 UT Monday August 7 on WRMI, 9955, S9+10 to 20. Also confirmed Monday August 7 at 2330 on WBCQ 9331.500v-CUSB, fair. Also confirmed UT Tuesday August 8 at 0030 on WRMI, 7730, S9+30.

Expect new WOR 1890 to start August 8:
Tue 2130 WRMI 9455 to WNW, 15770 to NE
Tue 2330 WBCQ 9331v-CUSB to WSW
Wed 1030 WRMI 5850 to NW, 9455 to WNW
Wed 1315 WRMI 9955 to SSE
Wed 2100 WBCQ 7490v to WSW
Wed 2330 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB to WSW
Thu 2330 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB to WSW
Fri 2330 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB to WSW
Sat 0630 HLR 6190-CUSB to WSW [maintenance break until Aug 19]
Sat 1431 HLR 7265-CUSB to WSW [maintenance break until Aug 19]
Sat 1930v WA0RCR 1860-AM ND
Sat 2230 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB to WSW
Sat 2300 WRMI 11580 to NE
Sun 0200 WRMI 11580 to NE
Sun 0315v WA0RCR 1860-AM ND
Sun 1030 HLR 9485-CUSB to WSW
Sun 2330 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB to WSW
Mon 0300v WBCQ 5130v Area 51 to WSW
Mon 0330 WRMI 9955 to SSE
Mon 2330 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB to WSW
Tue 0030 WRMI 7730 to WNW
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

UNIDENTIFIED. 1710, Aug 7 at 0539 UT, JBA carrier even with R75 preamps off; perhaps pirate as reported sometimes, or TIS. I usually start/end MW bandscans here with nothing heard. There are also Australian and Argentine broadcasters (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

This report dispatched at 0459 UT August 8

** ALASKA. 7355, August 6 at 1203, KNLS English with preview of hour`s segments; after song, first one at 1207 is Eye on Health & Medicine. Starts S9, fades to S6, soon degrading. Nothing audible on // 11870 (nor 11885)(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENIG DIGEST)

** BOUGAINVILLE [and non]. 3325, August 6 at 1155, music and BFO double-het implying two carriers; 1158 brief announcement, more music to cut off air mid-tune at 1200*, uncovering the weaker carrier. So first was NBC Bougainville, and second RRI Palangkaraya.

Ron Howard reports the same kind of thing on August 4 at 1201 as I also logged. However, on August 5 he says NBC was absent, leaving only RRI from 1139 to 1234 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** CUBA. 5040, UT Sunday August 6 at 0555, RHC with some great deft classical/jazz piano playing, but Ed Newman does *not* back-announce what or by whom! Instead wraps up biweekly jazz show, piano transition to restart the English hour early at 0557, first off, this-day-in-history, topped by the death of Engels 122 years ago August 5. Whew, this might have gone unnoticed in the Free World (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** INDIA. 9575, August 6 at 1214 the haunting AIR IS, about S6, 1215 opening barely audible. It`s Tibetan until 1330, 500 kW, 102 degrees from Bengaluru per Aoki, and *jammed, but no sign of that yet from the ChiCom. 102, south of due east is not the direxion of Tibet from Bengaluru! No better antenna available, or error? HFCC shows 38 degrees --- that`s more like it! (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** NEW ZEALAND. 7425, August 6 at 1214, RNZI is S9+20 with pop music, so still not aiming toward PNG. Barry Hartley explains what`s really going on, which is not made clear on the RNZI website.

I had said, ``7425, July 27 at 1247, RNZI obviously still on the Pacific rather than PNG antenna as nominally switched to only at 11-13 UT; consequently a good signal here when we normally must strain to hear it or give up. RNZI still claims, ``Bougainville/Papua New Guinea and Timor Transmission 1100-1300 UTC. From 1100-1300 UTC our programme is directed to the North Western Pacific and Asia``, at
http://www.radionz.co.nz/international/listen

Barry replied August 1: ``Hi Glenn, Further to your comments in the NASWA Flashsheet, RNZI has an antenna switching problem at the transmitter site, which means the 325 degree antennas cannot be used at present. Repairs should happen soon. The 35 degree antennas are being used full time with 100 kW, which actually is the power always used by RNZI. It is usually split between two antennas, 50 kW each beamed 35 and 325 degrees. The transmitter NEVER runs at 50 kW! Regards, Barry Hartley``

On August 3 I replied: ``Barry, That explains it, but I am a bit confused by what you say. RNZI own skeds never show two headings at once, rather always Pacific except at 11-13, PNG, which is currently out of service. Do you mean when it`s working, the 325 antenna is still getting half the power even when PNG is not singled out as target? And only the other half on the 35? It did not seem that way to us, with a signal drop at 1100 on 7425.

HFCC registrations do show 50 kW each on both antennas almost all the time (except unspecified DRM 35 kW) along with many alternate frequencies not currently employed. I figured this was to cover possible contingency changes, rather than actual usage all the time.
http://hfcc.org/data/schedbyfmo.php?seas=A17&fmor=RNZ
RNZI is also handling the frequency management for Vanuatu and Solomon Islands``

And Barry responds August 6: ``Hi Glenn, Yes, both antennas, 35 degrees and 325 degrees are used most of the time. The 100 kW is split between them. The only exceptions are the DRM service, 1645-2050 UT, when 35 kW DRM is used (the 100 kW becomes 35 kW in DRM mode) and the PNG/Bougainville service, 1059-1258 UT, when 100 kW is beamed at 325 degrees. Contrary to what Ivo in Bulgaria says, RNZI ALWAYS runs at 100 kW!

By the way, RNZI is now officially called RNZ Pacific, since May, although the term RNZI is used as well. RNZ looks after Vanuatu and the Solomons` frequency assignments as favour to them. RNZ also looks after their transmitters occasionally when severe problems arise. It is part of New Zealand's Pacific aid program. I hope this explains things! Regards, Barry`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** OKLAHOMA. OK tropo morning of August 6 propels some low-power OKCs to Enid. Decoding at 1452 UT are: 36 KUOK-CD; 42 KBZC-LD;

At 1505 UT, 21 KTOU-LD with its six subchannels:
21-1, HSN
21-2, SBN Live per bug UR
21-3, HSN-2
21-4, JTV HD
21-5, totally black screen and no audio!
21-6, ? another infomercial

Also in are full-powers on RF 26, KTEN ``10`` Ada; on RF 20, KQCW-HD ``19-1``, but exhibiting a KOTV 6 LR bug from Tulsa.

KOCB RF 33 OKC is not decoding, implying some DX QRM to it. Most likely probably KUVN Garland TX among lots of other Texans and a few Okies, Kansies.

Also BAD DTV signals not decoding on RF 19, 12 and 11 until 1500.

And once again the last living NTSC transmitter around here, A48, KOCY-LP with Estrella TV, weak but steady and NOT cutting off the air! snowy color signal. Ahhh, snow, about to become a past-thing on the TV screen. All gone by 1552 UT (Glenn Hauser, Enid, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. WORLD OF RADIO 1889 monitoring: confirmed UT Sunday August 6 at 0340 on WA0RCR, 1860-AM, Wentzville MO --- but too much storm noise to figure out when it would have started, nominal 0315. Next:
Sun 2330 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB to WSW [lately 9331+]
Mon 0300v WBCQ 5130v Area 51 to WSW
Mon 0330 WRMI 9955 to SSE
Mon 2330 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB to WSW
Tue 0030 WRMI 7730 to WNW
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 9455 // 9395 // 7780, August 6 at 1323, three WRMIs with AWR Wavescan at secret time of Sunday 1300. The WRMI schedules show only 25 airings of WS per week, but we include a few more like this we have run across, on DX/SWL/MEDIA PROGRAMS (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

This report despatched at 1737 UT August 6

Correct frequency was 12060, not 12050; sigh. Fixed:

** ALGERIA [non]. 12060, August 5 at 2040, weak signal sounds like French altho RTA via FRANCE is supposed to be in Arabic during this hourpart per Aoki; also with het on low side, 12059.63, suspected as spur out of much stronger 12050 WEWN Spanish (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)