World of Radio

** CANADA. 7850 & 3330, Oct 20 at 0442, CHU is still running carriers but no pipping modulation, which is normally on USB. 14670 & 7850 still silent at 1255 October 20. Following my previous report, Richard Langley in NB says at 1207 UT Oct 20: “I contacted the National Research Council and this is their brief reply: “Hi Richard, …

** BRAZIL. 9819.68, Oct 17 at 0025, very poor in Portuguese, R. Nove de Julho, back up closer to nominal 9820. It had been even below 9819, as e.g. Carlos Gonçalves, Portugal reported 9818.9 on September 23. Another check, Oct 17 at 2340, gets 9819.665 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CANADA. 7850, Oct 19 at 0548, CHU is …

** ARGENTINA. 11710+v, UT Monday Oct 17 at 0011, still no weekend signal from RAE ATTW, nor around 15345 at 0016 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CUBA. 6165, Oct 17 at 0219, RHC, Arnie talking about hurricane damage in eastern Cuba, S9+20, but very undermodulated. // 6000 is S9+40 and less undermodulated (Glenn Hauser, OK, LISTENING DIGEST) ** …

** ALBANIA. 9855-, Oct 16 at 0133, JBA carrier presumably R. Tirana, yet Turkey bookends on 9770 and 9870 are S8 and S7 respectively (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ARGENTINA. 11710.6v, UT Sunday Oct 16 at 0108, NO signal from RAE Argentina al Mundo, nor after 0200. Can`t say I`m surprised, contrary to publicity that it would now …

** CUBA. 5025, Oct 15 at 0041, S9+25 open carrier, dead air except for lite whine from R. Rebelde (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** EAST TURKISTAN [and non]. 7425, Oct 15 at 0026, W&M conversation in English, with some Mandarin interjexions, soon confirmed as CRI, since it`s // but about one second ahead of 6020 via ALBANIA. 7425 …

** CUBA [and non]. 9565, Oct 14 at 0030, post-Martí jamming noise now mixed with beeps here too. This time there are not strings, but single beeps at frequent but irregular intervals, sometimes overlapping. Pitches change from one to the next; vs JBA carrier, presumably Brasil. At 0035 I listen with BFO off, and still hear tones of various pitches, …

** ETHIOPIA [and non]. Checking VOA Amharic frequencies for reception and DRM jamming, Oct 13 at 1813-1820: 15785, JBA carrier and JBA jamming [Woofferton] 15700, missed checking this one [Lampertheim] 15630, S4 Amharic and DRM jamming [Woofferton] 13860, JBA carrier and DRM jamming [Woofferton] 12140, JBA carrier [Udorn] 12110, nothing [Kuwait] 11720, JBA carrier [Lampertheim] Sites per Wolfgang Büschel research …

** GUATEMALA. 4055, Oct 11 at 0613, R. Truth is still on with music, train bell SFX, not yet NA. Seems OK now, after notice a couple hours earlier that transmissions were irregular due to rain disrupting their studio-transmitter link antenna. Also at 1112, sermon alternating English and Spanish every few words, huge reverb (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) …

** ALBANIA. 9854.95, Oct 11 at 0128, R. Tirana IS and humroar are barely audible at S3. Other Albanian site with CRI English relay was good and clear even before 0100 on 9570. See also TIBET [non] for 9855 occupant then (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ARGENTINA. 11710.59, UT Tue Oct 11 at 0043, RAE in Spanish, talking …

** U S A. 15220, Oct 10 at 1948, S9+10, open carrier/dead air, typical warmup behavior of VOA, but nothing scheduled here. I stay with it and hear no modulation except some occasional crackles until: 1959, “Voice of America, Washington DC“, signing-on, but modulation and/or carrier (partially?) keep cutting off and on, ruining Yankee Doodle; 2000 joining Kriyol language service, …

** ETHIOPIA. 7138-7148, Oct 10 at 0353, DRM-style jamming noise, but cannot detect Eritrea carrier amid circa 7146, and strangely not so much of it on the plus side. This is about S8, while just up the exclusive worldwide 40m hamband, louder S9+25 DRM noise jamming from 7164 to 7186, obliterating any Eritrean carrier which might have been on its …

** ARGENTINA. 15345v, re my non-hearing anything from RAE ATTW on Saturday Oct 8, nor on 11710.6v, UT Sun Oct 9, Wolfgang Büschel agrees: “15345v, No signal observed on this channel of RAE around 1015 to 1025 UT, Oct 9th, nothing heard here in Europe, nor on east coast NoAmerica remote units. wb“ (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** …