** CHINA. Firedrake against Sound of Hope, Feb 4 at 1452 was audible on 10400 // 9200 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** GABON [and non]. Feb 4 at 1500 check, Afropop music distraxion was on 17660, ANU on 17630 mixing with CRI; also RFI Issoudun on 17620 with CCI from something, presumably RDPI Portugal which is scheduled to collide on weekends only (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** GREECE. Announcers screaming in Greek, presumably inspired by spor, Sunday Feb 4 at 1445 on 9420, which had not been audible 24 hours earlier; this time, nothing heard on 15630 or 17525 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** NETHERLANDS. As I tune around, I often run across RNW in Dutch on SW, but never seem to hear any serious, even classical music. So I look at their program schedule. There is Nederlands Concertpodium, which is dedicated to classical music! It so happens it is not on SW, but scheduled on satellite and internet twice weekdays: M-F at 19-21 UT, and repeated Tu-Sa at 01-03 UT, both one UT hour earlier during DST. Non-specific details and listen linx at http://www.wereldomroep.nl/gids/radio/overzichtprogrammas/nederlands_concertpodium Another good one should be Canta América, Sun 18-19 and Mon 01-02: http://www.wereldomroep.nl/gids/radio/overzichtprogrammas/canta_america [Later: axually listening to this on Feb 4 starting at 1803, I find it`s oldies in English, so it must be America, not América --- silly me, I thought it would be Latin American music; so, never mind. We have enough of the Everly Brothers, etc. already; or is this an aberration? Canta, after all, is a Spanish word. BTW, RNW`s live stream in Dutch labeled mp3 is really Real!] Both are also available ondemand, podcasts. While I am at it, may as well check out other RN languages, such as Portuguese, which has been totally gone from SW for many years, and I find: Concerto Semanal --- Clique para ouvir ou baixar o programa mais recente: Real Player Windows Media MP3 low MP3 high (parceira) Durante cerca de uma hora, o programa Concerto Semanal leva até o ouvinte um repertório internacional, do barroco à música contemporânea, através de gravações realizadas ao vivo no Concertgebouw de Amsterdã com as melhores orquestras da Holanda, quartetos, orquestras de câmara, além de grandes nomes de solistas e regentes. Entre os maestros estão holandeses de renome, como Bernard Haitink, Ed Spanjaard e Reinbert de Leeuw. Também são apresentadas gravações de concertos sob a regência de outros grandes dirigentes, como Vassily Sinaisky, da Rússia, e Ingo Metzmacher, da Alemanha. Em 1º de setembro de 2004, o Concertgebouw de Amsterdã apresentou ao mundo seu sexto maestro titular, desde a sua criação em 1888. Trata-se de Mariss Jansons, nascido na Letônia em 1943. O Concerto Semanal, com produção e apresentação de Eny Sacchi, é transmitido toda terça-feira, das 14 às 15 horas UT. Na quarta-feira, no mesmo horário, o programa é reprisado. Uma hora depois da transmissão por satélite, fica disponível nesta página. So we do get to hear weekly Concertgebouw concerts, on the Portuguese service, scheduled Tue 14-15 UT, repeated Wed 14-15. Axually, I can`t find any webstream info for the Portuguese service, and suspect that the times apply only to satellite feeds for relay by partner stations in Brazil, but we can still hear it on demand, at least, starting one hour later from http://www.parceria.nl/programas/Concerto/rnw_concertosemanal Unlike the 2-hour daily Dutch concert block, this page gives full details of the musical content, even in advance for the rest of the month. In Dutch, The Concertgebouw is mentioned only in connexion with those Wed/UT Thu broadcasts. In Spanish, dedicated to classical music, there is only Podium Neerlandés, Mon & Wed 1535-1634 UT, not on SW, but like all shows, on demand via http://www.informarn.nl/audio/audio_archivo_semanal Altho the archive page shows it Mondays 1525-1624, presumably outdated as there is now a weekdaily press review at 1528-1535. This show does not seem to have its own webpage with any further info. These are in the latest update to Monitoring Reminders Calendar (Glenn Hauser, OK, Feb 3, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** OKLAHOMA [and non]. On 11345, Feb 4 at 1454 as I was bandscanning, heard mix of WEWN 9955, which was super-strong as usual, and local KCRC 1390 a few miles away, i.e. 9955 plus 1390. Since I was getting this on two different receivers, FRG-7 and YB-400, I think this is an external mixing product, somewhere in Enid, perhaps at the KCRC transmitter itself. Maybe they need to install traps for 9955! (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** TURKEY. VOT IS was heard once at 1456 Feb 4 on 11735 until cut off. This frequency is supposed to close half an hour earlier after the English broadcast! In the past I have noticed it stayed on by mistake past 1430 with another language, and this time it appears to have stayed on for the entire broadcast, probably Kyrgyz supposed to be on 9655, or Bosnian on 9525. Wolfgang Büschel has also noted VOT running wrong languages on wrong frequencies at wrong times (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U K [non]. Some schedules insist that BBC WS in Spanish at 03-04 is via WHRI on 6110 and 7315. Notably BBC`s own page not updated since Dec 15, http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/spanish/tuning_in/newsid_4294000/4294086.stm But it`s only on 6110, as confirmed here before and after 0330 UT Feb 4; 6110 from Angel 2 had a good signal in BBC Spanish, while 7315 Angel 1 was JBA with LeSEA`s own English programming, Top 20 Countdown. And the WHR online schedule now agrees with this. So was BBC ever really on 7315? No WHRI frequencies are shown either for the BBCWS morning broadcast in Spanish at 1000-1230 which initially was on 7315, and then 5835 during the first hour only. The 6110 BBC transmission is at 173 degrees, appropriate for Cuba and beyond, despite the map at http://www.whr.org/index.cfm/fa/chooseSchedule showing Angel 2 is not for anything S of the USA (Glenn Hauser, OK, Feb 3, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** VENEZUELA [non]. RNV via RHC, except it was really RHC itself filling time as usual on Sunday morning, Feb 4 at 1504 with promo about the Feb-Mar international book fair in Cuba. How can you have a book fair in a country with no freedom of the press? Chutzpah!! 1505 announcer saying they are still hoping/waiting to hear from Chávez; meanwhile playing another RHC program to fill, ``Somos Jóvenes``. Best by far on 13750, with the other four weak and/or interfered: 11670, 11875, 13680, 17750. But I think 13750 is the one aimed this way (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ____________________________________________________________________________________ Get your own web address. Have a HUGE year through Yahoo! Small Business. http://smallbusiness.yahoo.com/domains/?p=BESTDEAL ---[Start Commercial]--------------------- Preorder your WRTH 2007: http://www.hard-core-dx.com/redirect2.php?id=wrth2007 ---[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
