** CHINA. No Firedrake audible Oct 10 at 1412 check on the usual 18, 14, 13 and 10 MHz frequencies, tho India was inbooming on 10330 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** FINLAND. Surprised to hear Finnish on 9705, Oct 10 at 1345. Hmmm, where could that be from? Sure `nuff, // 15400, but an echo apart indicating widely divergent propagation routes. 15400 is aimed at us, but 9705 could be long path, aimed 130 degrees from Pori (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** FRANCE [non]. I`ve found RFI`s missing 1400 UT broadcast in English. Not on 21620, but on 6120! Oct 10 at 1407 came across news in English with British accent, sounds rather like 9740 BBCWS but not //. Then, a quick ID for RFI. Fair with no QRM; still going altho weakening at 1441 recheck. Something new? I should have noticed it on previous bandscans if it were there. At this hour it must be a Far East relay. Then checking the references we find in EiBi, HFCC and ILG that this hour on 6120 was previously scheduled as RFI in Vietnamese via Yamata, Japan, 300 kW, 235 degrees, so was this a program feed mistake, or may we depend on it from now on? Nothing heard on 7220, which was also listed for this English transmission as a relay via Chita, Russia. As always, RFI`s own website is worse than useless http://www.rfi.fr/langues/statiques/rfi_anglais.asp as not updated since 2005 at latest (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** GABON. ANO harmonic 19160, again audible weakly Oct 10 at 1411 check with music and talk in French; could not have IDed it except by // 17630 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. 9697: More 2-way in Spanish inside SWBC band, Oct 10 at 1335 two guys conversing a little more clearly than the ones on 15372; some words caught were préstamo, precios, dinero, la marina, so seems to have something to do with maritime trade, legal or not. One of them had lite background noise, didn`t sound like aircraft engine, but maybe water flowing by a boat. Nothing heard after 1344 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ---[Start Commercial]--------------------- Preorder your WRTH 2007: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0953586499/hardcoredxcom/ ---[End Commercial]----------------------- ________________________________________ Hard-Core-DX mailing list [email protected] http://arizona.hard-core-dx.com/mailman/listinfo/hard-core-dx http://www.hard-core-dx.com/ _______________________________________________ THE INFORMATION IN THIS ARTICLE IS FREE. It may be copied, distributed and/or modified under the conditions set down in the Design Science License published by Michael Stutz at http://www.gnu.org/licenses/dsl.html
