** ANGUILLA. Defunct Gene Scott missing again from 11775, no signal audible March 12 at 1501 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CANADA. Audio of all six episodes of Spin Cycles is available, in case you missed any of them during the final hour of The Sunday Edition on CBC Radio One in Jan, Feb: http://www.cbc.ca/news/background/spincycles/index.html (Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC [non]. Not really expecting to hear Radio ICDI, 6030, at its published sign-on 0500 Monday March 12, and I did not; instead, vocal rock music across hourtop fading in and out, presumably CFVP Calgary, which at 100 watts is always a notable catch itself, even if much closer, but enough to block a signal from CAR if there was any. Much stronger Arabic on 6025 and something on 6035, Russian? did not help, either, tho the dentro- and fuera-cubanos did coöperate by suspending their radio war for the occasion. As for ICDI`s M-F 16-20 UT broadcast, it looks like that will be blocked in Europe by BBC Oman, if not VOR Kaliningrad as well, but no problem in the target area?? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** COLOMBIA. R. Líder active again, tnx for Manuel Méndez tip, on 6139.8 or so, March 12 at 0510 with music on a frequency otherwise vacant, but for how long? Previous active periods lasted less than a week, then silent for months (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CUBA. Reception from RHC has really declined on certain bands for some strange reason, maybe solar flux bottoming out at 70. March 12 at 1430 I had just about decided RHC was off the air on several frequencies, but by 1444 in Formalmente Informal music, it was audible on 15370, which is normally a behemoth here overloading the receiver, but now so weak as to be mixing with some other signal. Still could not hear it on 15190, and 11760 was totally blocked by something in Chinese from Asia, but RHC audible on 12000, 11805, and poorly on 9550 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Solar-terrestrial indices for 11 March follow. Solar flux 71 and mid-latitude A-index 6. The mid-latitude K-index at 1500 UTC on 12 March was 3 (36 nT). No space weather storms were observed for the past 24 hours. No space weather storms are expected for the next 24 hours (SEC via DXLD) ** CUBA [non]. R. Martí, 7405, March 12 until 1400 without a trace of jamming, and OC on until 1403* Maybe the dentrocubanos are confused by DST shift, or the strange propagation conditions noted under Cuba (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ECUADOR. HCJB DRM to NAm now being heard on 9590-9595-9600, such as Sunday March 11 at 0614, could not hear any Nikkei on 9595; also March 12 at 0525 QRMing something on 9600 in an African language. HCJB DRM also still going on 15195-15200-15205, Monday March 12 at 1445 check, long after Kulpsville returned to normal (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** GABON. Others have noted that ANU and the Afropop Music Distraxion are not always on air at same time, but they were March 12 at 1500 on 17630 with accurate timesignal, ANU ID; and music continuing on 17660 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** GREECE. As Wolfgang Büschel also noted on 11645, VOG via SVO on 15630 seems finally to have eliminated the transmitter dropoffs. March 12 at 1414-1422 I left the BFO on the very weak signal and never heard an interruption; by 1442 it was better in Greek talk (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** LAOS [non]. Hmong Lao Radio confirmed shifted one UT hour earlier, for DST in Hminnesota, 1356 UT Sunday March 11, still on WHRI 11785 as it was about to close. So Sat & Sun 1300-1400 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** RUSSIA [and non]. The Yakutsk Warbler chirping away on 7200, badly QRMing R. Japan news in English, March 12 at 1405; also ham SSB and CW QRM; same situation at 1449 recheck (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SWEDEN [non]. Radio Sweden supposedly shifts the times of its morning broadcasts in English to keep in step with DST in North America, but March 12 it was still on the air at 1430 via Canada on 15240 with a feature on a movie about a Cambodian brothel. Are they waiting until March 25, or just haven`t got around to it, the message not thru several layers of bureaucracy down to the Sackville transmitter? (Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. We remain on 7385 daily at 1300-1600 UT (which will become 1400-1600 on March 25) and 2100-0300 UT weekdays (2100-0100 with WRN). Re 7385, the antenna manufacturer still hasn't returned from Germany, so we're still using the dipole. However, I think they've made some improvements to the matching system, so perhaps reception is better now (Jeff White, WRMI, March 11, DX LISTENING DIGEST) It`s inconvenient for WRMI to keep its schedule up to date on it website http://www.wrmi.net/schedule.php but Jeff White sent me the March 11-24 version in an EDT xls grid, which is available in the files of the DXLD yahoogroup. Here are some selected shows in UT: The morning broadcast on 7385 at 13-16 UT has been modified, so that R. Prague appears daily at 14-1430 [however, inaudible March 12; off the air? Still on temporary antenna]. The DX+ shows lineup: WS = AWR Wavescan, WOR = WORLD OF RADIO, VM = Viva Miami, DXPL/AVDX = HCJB DX Partyline/Aventura Diexista, FAD = Frecuencia al Día, LRDT = La Rosa de Tokio, MR = Mundo Radial, MDX = Monitor DX MON: 1300 WS, 1330 WOR, 1430 VM, 1500 DXPL/AVDX TUE: 1300 VM, 1330 DXPL/AVDX, 1430 FAD, 1500 LRDT WED: 1300 MR, 1315 MDX, 1330 VM, 1500 VM again, 1530 DXPL/AVDX THU: 1300 DXPL/AVDX, 1330 FAD, 1430 WOR, 1530 VM FRI: 1300 MDX, 1430 DXPL/AVDX, 1500 VM SAT: 1330 WOR, 1530 WS SUN: 1500 WOR, 1530 WS DX+ programs on 9955: WORLD OF RADIO: Sat 2130, Sun 0800 Viva Miami: Mon 0400 DXPL/AV: Sat 1030, Sun 0400 La Rosa de Tokio: Sun 0700 Wavescan: Sun 0830 Mundo Radial: Sat 2230, Sun 1030 Monitor DX: Sun 2245 Programas DX y variados [unspecified]: M-F 1000-1300, Tu-Sa 0300-0400 WORLD RADIO NETWORK: M-F 2100-0100 Tue-Sat on 7385 [2100 RTE Ireland, 2130 Romania, 2200 Netherlands, 2300 Russia, 2330 Israel, 0000 UN Radio, 0015 Vatican, 0030 Slovakia, altho WRN online sked had not been shifted as of March 12 to show correct UT] Radio Prague, daily, but one day late: 0900 English 9955, 0930 Spanish 9955, 1400 English 7385, 0430 Spanish 9955. Radio República on 9955: daily 0500-0700, 1600-2100; UT Sun/Mon 0200-0400 There are additional exile and religious broadcasts not covered here (as extracted by Glenn Hauser for DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. 5898.0, spy letters on A3 sent with 1 kHz modulated tones, Monday March 12 at 0515; surely Cuba (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ____________________________________________________________________________________ We won't tell. Get more on shows you hate to love (and love to hate): Yahoo! 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