** AFGHANISTAN [non]. R. Solh continues to play that catchy theme tune without fail every day at 1451-1457 UT on 15265. In A-07 this transmission from Rampisham makes the usual switch to 17700 and expands to 1200-1800, so we`ll see if the same music keeps running on that frequency (Glenn Hauser, March 14, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** ANTARCTICA. Checking for LRA36, March 14 at 1910, I was only able to detect a carrier on 15476 (not 15475), occasionally reaching S4 above the local S3 noise level, but this marks another day it was evidently on the air (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CUBA. Closing Despertar con Cuba, March 14 at 1400 on 9550, Manolo de la Rosa mentioned that it starts at 1100 UT = 7 am hora de verano de Cuba, thus confirming that they indeed are already on DST like the USA. RHC sensibly keeps its SW programming on UT without shifting, which means Manolo & Co. have to get up an hour later in the morning during DST (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CUBA. Spy letters in groups of 5 substituting for numbers, March 14 at 1407 on 11764 CW, i.e. A1, not A2 or A3. Rather weak. Now maybe we know why RHC has been missing from 11760 in the mornings. I usually file these under UNIDENTIFIED but whom are we kidding? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** GERMANY [non]. DW loud and clear here on 15275 in English news at 1902 March 14, despite being 142 degrees from Sines per HFCC, and only a semihour broadcast now, roughly off the back (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MOROCCO [and non]. Re Spain`s A-07 schedule showing 15345 to the Lebanon, until 2200 UT, which is 92 degrees from Noblejas, replacing the current transmission until 2300 on 12045: El problema es que Argentina no participa en HFCC, así es que aunque en la frecuencia de 15345 durante muchas sesquidécadas, no lo saben los gerentes de frecuencias en HFCC, que no se molestan a encender sus radios ni consultar fuentes no-oficiales del diexismo, ni Pasaporte, por ejemplo. The problem is that Argentina does not participate in HFCC, so that altho it has been on 15345 for many sesquidecades, the HFCC frequency managers, who do not bother to turn on their radios, nor consult unofficial DX sources, nor Passport, for example, do not know this. Aún peor, ni Marruecos participa en HFCC (excepto la multitud de emisiones por parte de IBB, Estados Unidos). En realidad, Marruecos ya está en choque con Argentina durante la tarde europea, y acabo de anotar en 15345 sus emisiones en árabe a las 1903 del 14 de marzo, con hererodino argentino, siempre fuera de frecuencia, pero no bastante para evitar este choque por tres partidos en vez de dos en la temporada A-07. Even worse, Morocco does not participate in HFCC either (except for the multitude of broadcasts on behalf of IBB, USA). In reality, Morocco is already colliding with Argentina during the European evening, and I have just noted 15345 in Arabic at 1903 on March 14, along with the Argentine heterodyne, which is always off-frequency, but not far enough to avoid this three-way, instead of two-way collision in the A-07 season. ¡Qué maravilla tenemos en el mundo de manejar frecuencias sin enterarse de la realidad! What a marvel we have in the world of frequency management without knowing what is really happening! It`s really incredible that HFCC is so incestuous and/or mired in bureaucracy that they do not put out any effort to develop at least a supplementary schedule of occupied frequencies, from entities not officially participating! It would clearly be in their own self-interest to do so (Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SOUTH AFRICA. Channel Africa, March 13 at 0517 on 7240 with ID giving frequency as 9620! --- which does not take over until 0700 per WRTH, then news of Zimbabwe, mistreatment of the opposition by Mugabe (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. Power Hower, March 14 at 1328 on KAIJ 9480 was lamenting that their affiliate R. Free Austin is down in that city and also in Dallas; hope they can get back on the air. Then into 9/11 conspiracy nonsense. So Power Hower condones illegal pirate broadcasting. RFA was also the source of RBN (and GCN?) programming on the OKC 107.1 pirate (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. VOA in French, March 14 at 1912 on 17580 with a big long-path echo. Big, because this is Greenville per EiBi (not in original HFCC B-06), so long path is some 38 megameters, since short path is only two, one of my best terrestrial DX catches, strictly speaking. It`s aimed east toward Africa but also with the usual back-radiation, which however at the moment was not strong enough to override the signal coming the long way around (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ____________________________________________________________________________________ Need Mail bonding? Go to the Yahoo! Mail Q&A for great tips from Yahoo! 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