** AUSTRALIA. 11945, July 31 at 1356, RA with a 2-minute break in Olympic
coverage for ABC News, because live H2Opolo is imminent at hourtop involving
the Oz team. Tough luck if you expect news on the hour to be sacrosanct on RA
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CHINA. Firedrake, July 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.
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)
** EQUATORIAL GUINEA. 15190, July 30 at 1938, R. Africa on again with YL gospel
huxter, poor (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** IRAN. 13750, July 31 at 0503, music, just missed quick Qur`an, shux; Russian
announcement, 0504 VIRI ID, news theme; fair with flutter. Aoki shows 500 kW,
358 degrees from Kamalabad. Checked // 15480 as heard recently but not
propagating there, 500 kW, 322 degrees from Sirjan (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** KUWAIT. 15540, July 30 at 2050, R. Kuwait has expanded the 3-minute `News in
Brief` to 4 minutes! Wow, must be because of Olympic coverage; concluding
weather was most concerned with winds but finally admitted a hi of 50 degrees
(122 F), while it was only 108 (42+ C) on my OK monitoring porch in the shade
(Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MAURITANIA. 7245, July 31 at 0457, undermodulated Arabic/rap? Somewhat
weaker than 7275 Tunisia; IGIM on early or all-night? Might be more of this for
Ramadan, but you never know with this station (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** MEXICO. 1140, July 31 at 0511, hyper gospel huxter in Spanish, a real
Jesus-freak, inviting phone calls with prayer requests, and putting them on the
air, with overmod/distortion. Frequently gives numbers ``en cabina``
83-75-50-51 y 83-75-50-55, one or the other of which is busy; 0514 mentions
iglesia in Colonia del Prado.
It`s now certain to be XEMR Monterrey, Radio Esperanza, and a *local* program,
not relaying frequency- and namesake Cartagena, Colombia station. There are
several Colonias del Prado in Mexico, top hit Monterrey, also Monclova,
Reynosa, and in Costa Rica, and phone numbers lead directly to XEMR including
https://es-es.facebook.com/RadioEsperanza1140
http://es-es.facebook.com/pages/Centro-Cristiano-Cristo-es-la-Roca/116385445105010
Meanwhile XEMR faded down a bit boosting a 72/minute SAH = 1.2 Hz with another
Spanish station looping further west, altho that does not seem to fit for the 5
other XEs on 1140 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MEXICO. Another day with some sporadic-E analog TV DX, UT July 31:
0034 on 2, CCI in Spanish shows up from SSW peak
0034 on 3, Spanish, seems Olympic
0049 on 5, Olay commercial appears for a few sex
0104 on 3, net-5 with Olympic hilites, men`s synchro diving; CCI
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** NEWFOUNDLAND [and non]. 6160.88, July 31 at 0458 check, still an A-note het
from off-frequency CKZN vs CKZU 6160-. Some in Canada recently reported CKZN on
``6160``, presumably not concerned with such details (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** OKLAHOMA. 930, July 31 at 0521 UT, the indominable one [undominantable?],
WKY OKC has conceded to the CCI, merely transmitting dead air (Glenn Hauser,
OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** SPAIN [non]. 11880, July 31 at 1251, via COSTA RICA, REE is another station
blowing away regular programming for Olympic coverage, at the moment rock music
in English pause instead of Basque, VG here and also JBA on // 11910 via CHINA;
at 1314, instead of `Españoles en la Mar`, ID in passing for ``Radio Thinco
Olímpico`` domestic network relay and more English rock music. Let the mariners
sink; first things first! (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** TAIWAN [non]. 7570, July 31 at 0456 check, RTI via WYFR is still in wrong
0400 language, English instead of Spanish; had not checked for a few nights,
but likely has continued so thruout (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 12133.5-USB, July 31 at 0118, and 0501 quick check during news, AFN,
Saddlebunch Keys FL is active, altho someone in Florida just reported it has
been missing from this frequency; maybe skips over (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A [non]. 15090, July 31 at 1352, very poor, weak talk and singing,
chanting, no perceptible break at hourtop. No doubt it`s IBB`s R. Azadi = R.
Free Afghanistan via KUWAIT, supposed to switch from Pashto to Dari at 1400,
after which I
