** BOLIVIA. 6134.9, August 1 at 0222, surprised to hear Spanish here, as it`s 
after the usual sign-off of R. Santa Cruz; fair signal in the clear and no 
bonker or other QRM,. String of ads, for a doctor, PSAs for department of Santa 
Cruz mentioned; 0224 back to a Mexican music show hosted by YL --- López, with 
Los Tigres del Norte. Well, that compensates for the deadair on XEPPM!

Whatever became of the CP## callsigns for Bolivian broadcasters? WRTH dropped 
them years ago, but Bill Hepburn researches official documents to find them 
even if never mentioned: http://www.dxinfocentre.com/Call_Signs.htm
He does not include any SW from Bolivia, but RSC`s MW is 960, and the listed 
call for that is CP32; the SW one was probably different (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX 
LISTENING DIGEST)

** CHINA. Corrected date on previous Firedrake report: July 30 [not 31] before 
2000:
13780, poor at 1941
 9455, poor at 1941, matches 13780 but on one receiver can`t be positive they 
are synchro //. 13780 has RFA Chinese at 17-20 via Tajikistan; 9455 is same at 
17-21 via Saipan plus -22 via Tinian. These dratted ChiCom jammers are useful 
propagation indicators, the best/only things propagating from Asia on these 
bands at these hours.

July 31:
Before 1300, late start, just heard:
15560, fair at 1259
16920, poor to 1300*

Before 1400, full scan 11-18 MHz 1349-1355 found only:
15490, fair with flutter, at 1349, het on lo side
15605, good with flutter, at 1359, het on lo side
Both of course vs. jumparound V. of Tibet via Tajikistan
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** KUWAIT. 15540, July 31 at 2050, sufficient signal from R. Kuwait in English, 
`News in Brief` is reshrunk to only two sesquiminutes, and not a word about the 
weather. I was eager to hear whether they had topped out at 122 or 126 degrees 
as per some forecasts. Our hi was 108 today, about what it was at this time; 
KFORecast 112 on August 1. RK followed with ``Sunshine`` by John Denver, of 
which OK and Kuwait have plenty; sign-off English and switch to Arabic at 2100 
until 2101* (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** MEXICO. 6185, August 1 at 0220, good signal but no modulation detectable 
from XEPPM, and with ACI from stronger 6180 Brasil. So Radio Educación is still 
having deadair problems. Is no one paying attention at studio or transmitter? 
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** SPAIN. 17595, July 31 at 2130 amid REE`s Portuguese service, YL announcer 
with the distinctive Brazilian voice introduces program in Castilian, `Sobre la 
Mesa` starting after the auto timesignal. Was there more Portuguese later? 
Supposedly lasts an hour until 2200.

As for Olympix replacing `Españoles en la Mar` as heard after 1300 on 11880 via 
Costa Rica, et al., the GRA blog reports the REE Olympic schedule is: M-F 
1305-1400 (but EELM will continue to be heard on what had been its repeat at 
0305). Another O segment is 1830-2000 daily on some frequencies, but not 17715 
or 17755 (I think, except included on weekends). Sats & Suns Aug 4/5 and 11/12, 
also at 1230-1300. Some of these are already sports blox (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX 
LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 7506.4, August 1 at 0217, WRNO with VG signal but JBM (just barely 
modulated) preacher, as best I could tell, not distorted. I see some reports 
putting this on nominal 7505, but it`s always been on 7506.4 since the 
reactivation (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** VATICAN [non]. And I do mean, non. UT August 1 checking 9610 to see what 
happen with the Vatican Radio relays via Sackville, Canada. VG signal in French 
from 0230 via BONAIRE, concluding with IS and off at 0250*. This time just 
noise, as no handover any more to Sackville in English. So last night was the 
end for VR English to North America, as registered in HFCC for July 31, but not 
announced on the broadcasts. No doubt the other Sackville relay to C&S America 
at 1100-1215 on 13730 will also be gone (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

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