** BULGARIA. Tuning around Wed Dec 20 at 0717, I was attracted by lots of frequencies being mentioned in French on 9500. This turns out to be R. Bulgaria`s DX program, same 306 degree azimuth as used for English to NAm at 00 and 03 on 9700. ID at 0719 seemed to be R. Bulgarie Internationale (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CUBA [non]. WRMI, 9955, atop lite jamming, and much better signal of its own than usual, Dec 19 at 0630 in Spanish, with lofi monolog in funny voice over phone line, but there was no laugh track and it fell flat (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CUBA [non]. Not heard every day, but heavy DentroCuban jamming again on 11750 against nothing at 1546 Dec 19. Just once, a few weeks ago, we heard R. Martí on this unscheduled frequency during this hour (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MEXICO [and non]. Re DXLD 6-187, XEYU testing again from Dec 19: Dec 20 at 1857 check I was able to detect the carrier on 9599.4 as before, and bits of audio, but too far down in the noise level (Glenn Hauser, Enid OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Solar-terrestrial indices for 19 December follow. Solar flux 73 and mid-latitude A-index 12. The mid-latitude K-index at 1800 UTC on 20 December was 2 (28 nT). No space weather storms were observed for the past 24 hours. Space weather for the next 24 hours is expected to be minor. Geomagnetic storms reaching the G1 level are expected (SEC via DXLD) Checked again Dec 21 at 1450, before firing up the TVs and computers, and found 9599.4 with monolog in Spanish, interrupted at 1451 by some guitar music; 1454 resumed with R. Universidad Nacional ID in passing, back to monolog. Very steady signal, hardly any fading, but constant het until 9600.0 carrier went off at 1501. XEYU at 10 over S9 gets a SINPO of 33343, but modulation only fair, not very crisp, and hard to understand. Maybe a mention of ``Instituto Antropológico`` gives a clue on the subject. Then I went looking for R. UNAM webpage. The one I had bookmarked for program schedule no longer works: http://www.unam.mx/radiounam/htm/programa.htm But starting at the UNAM homepage (which BTW has a UK flag for the English-language version --- how`s that for a snub from our dear neighbours?), I eventually found this: http://difusion.cultural.unam.mx/index.php?option=com_weblinks&catid=31&Itemid=62 Which has linx to webstreams; the one on the bottom doesn`t look like audio, but clicking on it, audio launched auto, ruining my recording in progress of Paul Winter Solstice concert from KMUW (but it was already inferior as not coming thru in stereo as indicated --- stereo adds so much to the listening experience with the ambiance from the Cathedral of St. John the [allegedly] Divine). (BTW, I have been spelling it ambience, to match ambient, but MS Word spellchecker claims it should be ambiance. Would you believe my 50+ year-old Merriam-Webster does not have it in either spelling? Must be a neologism, considered just plain French at démi-siècle. Google translator is very accommodating, accepting either spelling E to F and F to E! The last word: Google search on ambience gets 15 megahits, while ambiance gets 41 mega, so there! But I digress.) I will have to search further for an XEUN program schedule when it be safe to do so (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Solar-terrestrial indices for 20 December follow. Solar flux 72 and mid-latitude A-index 21. The mid-latitude K-index at 1500 UTC on 21 December was 3 (28 nT). No space weather storms were observed for the past 24 hours. Space weather for the next 24 hours is expected to be minor. Geomagnetic storms reaching the G1 level are expected (SEC via DXLD) ** NIGERIA. Compensating for the lack of VON on 7255 is FRCN Abuja, which is, after all, rated at 100 kW, on 7275; Dec 19 at 0634 with domestic news in English after an ad which I thought mentioned price in dollars; fair signal (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U K [non]. A thunderclap woke me up at 1003 UT Dec 20, so after disconnecting the outside antennas, quickly tuned around and found BBCWS in Spanish inbooming on 5835, but not 7315, so presumably another frequency change for the new WHRI relay, but still not reflected as of 1735 UT Dec 21 at http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/spanish/tuning_in/newsid_4294000/4294086.stm which also continues to imply that the 0300 frequencies are also in use at 1000-1230! Also, searching the WHR program guide for BBC does not get any of these new (temporary?) morning Spanish transmissions, only the previous one at 03-04 on 6110, plus the English relays at 21-23 and 11-13 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. Re new Spanish format on KVNS 1700 Brownsville: I monitored 1700 myself Dec 19 from 0635 UT, and it was mostly KKLF (``KLIF 570``) with C2C, and a hefty SAH of approx. 7 Hz with KVNS, which occasionally topped it, with Tex-Mex music, such as at 0649 when a clear non-ID came through as ``La Grande``. I guess that`s more impressive then ``El Bravo``. Unfortunately, I dozed off before hourtop. The next night, Dec 20, I listened until a few minutes past 0700 but there was no ID break in the music, which was dominating KKLF. 73, (Glenn Hauser, Enid OK, IRCA & MWC via DXLD) __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! 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