** BULGARIA. Somebody remembered to turn on the transmitter for the weekly broadcast of R. Varna, but not to turn on the modulation. Just strong open carrier on 7600 at several chex around 2320 UT Sunday Nov 26; supposed to run 2200-0400 into UT Monday (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CHINA. Strong signal from station in Vietnamese talk and music, Nov 26 at 2320 on 7220; must be from EAs, and better than anything on band from Eurafrica. Then found // 9415 which clinches this as CRI, one from Beijing, one from Xi`an as scheduled toward Vietnam, and continued past 2330. 7220 was a bit behind 9415 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CHINA. 9200 Firedrake again audible, fair, Nov 26 at 1429. Also audible with fair signal on 9200 at 2328 Nov 26, presumably against Sound of Hope (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CUBA [non]. Finally checking here for R. República on new 6185, UT Sun Nov 26 at 0020: playing ``Guantanamera`` as they often do, too often --- yes, it is a quintessential Cuban song, but can`t they come up with more variety, more originality? Mixed with heavy DentroCuban jamming, and traces of another station underneath, no doubt poor R. Educación, Mexico, whose squatter`s rights to the frequency are a joke to the Big Boys. There was only residual jamming clicking on 7205, which presumably 6185 replaces via Rampisham. No jamming yet on 7110, which may still take over at 0200. Also jamming on 5970, even tho R. República via Germany is silent on weekends. The RR website http://www.radiorepublica.org/ still hasn`t been updated, showing outdated A-season times and frequencies, none of the latest changes or additions. Why tip off the jammers? Why not? They already know and if anything, over-jam rather than under-jam (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CUBA. Haven`t heard the third harmonic of DentroCuban Jamming Command 6030 transmitters against R. Martí lately on 18090, but check the frequency occasionally. Finally Nov 26 at 2259 there it was, light clicking. Also heavier jamming on 5970 against nothing, Nov 26 at 2315, Sunday a day off for R. República via Germany. And on about 17920 Nov 26 at 2332 pulsing of a different type, fading in and out. Does not work out as a likely harmonic or spur of anything, and possibly was not really from jamming (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MEXICO. XEXQ, SLP, 6045: I hadn`t heard any sign of this for some weeks on virtually morningly chex, but seldom that early, more like after 1330 or 1400. Perhaps overwhelmed by Asian ACI here. Tried again Nov 26 at 1420 and could pull some classical music on 6045 between much stronger stations on both sides (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** NETHERLANDS ANTILLES. Have been meaning to recheck the NHK Warido hour in Japanese at 23 UT Saturdays on 17605 via Bonaire to reconfirm whether they still have a Western classical music show and the exact time it starts. But this week I check 24 hours too late on UT Sunday, Nov 26: 2259 open carrier is already on, and heard a few words of Japanese, 2300 off, on, off again, 2302 on, joining Japanese talk in progress, 2303 back to open carrier, off, on, 2304 off, 2305 on with Japanese talk and some music, now seeming to manage to stay on the air. 2313 was playing ``Pretty Woman``, and at 2322 some lite instrumental music. Initially strong signal dropped off to almost nothing by 2330, tho CVC Chile remained strong on 17680 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** TURKEY [and non]. VOT, 5960, Nov 26 at 2314, English to NAm but unusable against much stronger signal from RHC 5965 in French. Instead I listened to RCI with CBC TWTW on 6100, promised feature on RCC Pope Benedict`s upcoming visit to Turkey, and fears that the Christian faxions will forge an east-west alliance to try to take over Constantinople again. Really (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. I was hearing something with rock music on 6875 again Sunday Nov 26 at 1425, poor. The day before it seemed to be The Crystal Ship, North American pirate, altho an hour+ later Sunday Terry Krueger was hearing something on 6875 sounding like Tire Pressure Radio (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. 2-way SSB in Spanish on 15140, Nov 26 at 2306, but in huge splash from WYFR 15130. Think they said something about QSYing and nothing further heard. By a semihour later the WYFR signal had diminished markedly (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ____________________________________________________________________________________ Cheap talk? Check out Yahoo! Messenger's low PC-to-Phone call rates. http://voice.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://montreal.kotalampi.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
