** COLOMBIA. R. Líder, 6139.8, may have missed a day, but it was back on March 19 at 0545 check with music (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CUBA [and non]. Commies vs Catholix! March 19 at 1332 I was getting a quite readable altho not very strong signal from RHC in Spanish on 11715, which is of course a leapfrog mixing product between the very strong // signals on 11805 and 11760; on 11715 there was also a fast SAH and some audio I could recognize as Ave María, so surely KJES as scheduled: another victim of dentroCuban engineering. BTW, RHC was promoting a Mesa Redonda that evening from 6:30 pm local, which is 2230 UT, on 6000, 6180. These roundtables appear on an irregular but frequent basis, almost always to bash the U.S., and on these occasions, stations such as R. Praga, 6000 via Canadá at 2330, better watch out (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGESET) ** ECUADOR [and non]. HCJB`s DRM, 15195-15200-15205, which they insist on running in heavily populated inband areas, was QRMing Arabic on 15195 March 19 at 1515, which HFCC says is V. of Turkey. See also MEXICO (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** GERMANY [non]. DW, 9755 via Rwanda toward WAf and CNAm, Monday March 19 at 0518 had a fascinating African Focus program about now Eritrea is a nation of poets, interviewing a scholar from Penn State (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** GUIANA FRENCH. 17870-17875-17880 got a respite from QRDRM over the weekend, tho allegedly daily per http://www.baseportal.com/cgi-bin/baseportal.pl?htx=/drmdx/main&sort=kHz,UTC and at 1300-2000. Nevertheless, Monday March 19 at 1408 it was still missing, but on when I retunedby at 1432. Seems they turn it on whenever they get around to it cavalierly, and feel no obligation to follow a published schedule. But, the less, the better (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ITALY. Rai is still favoring North America with the squealing transmitter, on 17780, in Italian, March 19 at 1408 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** LIBYA. V. of Africa, 17725, March 19 at 1408 with hilife music; tho modulation was low, signal was roughly equal to Gabon on 17660, 17630, as it has been suggested VOA could also be transmitted from there, what with Libya`s aid to Gabon`s transmitters. However, by 1420 with YL talking, I think in English, 17725 was quite a bit weaker (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MALAYSIA. Following Mauno Ritola`s measurements around 6100, I checked carefully again March 19 at 1318 and the het was on the lower side at approx. 6099.7 --- slightly above middle C in pitch, 256 Hz, I judged it; he says the station off-frequency here is V. of Malaysia (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MEXICO. XEXQ not heard well lately, but classical music detectable on 6045, March 19 at 1310, JBA amid stronger Asian signals. XEYU 9599v is back on the air after a couple of weeks, from mid-day March 19, says Julián Santiago Díez de Bonilla, DF. I did not hear it earlier that morning in usual 31m bandscan. Checked at 0015 UT March 20, tell-tale het against RHC 9600.0, and HCJB DRM 9590-9595-9600 is already on. No chance for XEYU, but let us hope at certain daytime or early morning hours will still be in clear (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** NETHERLANDS [non]. Happened across RN, 6165 via Bonaire, March 19 at 0544 when Robert Chessell was trying to defend referring both to Suriname and Netherlands as ``tiny`` (altho Suriname is a lot larger than Netherlands, it is tiny compared to other South American countries). No it isn`t; it is merely smaller. Someone else caught him in the Tiny Trap, but he tried to wiggle out. Apparently was the new mailbag show Echoes, which is not listed as available ondemand here http://www.radionetherlands.nl/listenonline/weeklyarchive tho supposedly all programs are. Since I tuned into the middle of this discussion, I wanted to hear exactly what was said (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SAUDI ARABIA [and non]. Monitored 17660 again March 19 with Afropop music distraxion from Gabon at 1430; by 1438 I could hear some SAH on it; strangely, Afropop ran open carrier from 1440 and I wondered if they were about to close down, but resumed music at 1446. At 1448 the Saudi SAH became quite heavy as their French broadcast was joined (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SOUTH AFRICA. Channel Africa`s morning announcer seems to be under the very mistaken impression she is broadcasting on 9620. Once again March 19 at 0518 on 9685 the ID mentioned only 9620 for ``V. of the African Renaissance``! Going by EiBi, I previously remarked that 9620 would not be on the air until 0700. Correct, but not really in English. Confirmed at Channel Africa`s own site http://www.channelafrica.org/portal/site/channelafrica/menuitem.55105713e14905292aca35505401aeb9/ 9620 at 0700 will be in Chinyanja, and no English on it until 10-12 and 14-16 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** TURKEY. VOT managed to bring up the correct frequency, March 19 at 1329, IS heard on 12035 prior to opening English. Nothing audible on // 11735, however, so maybe that transmitter was still on the previous hour`s frequency. See also ECUADOR (Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. WTJC, 9370, March 19 at 1325 with a preacher, was overmodulated, distorted and splattering; worse, putting out a distorted spur around 9270; recheck at 1519 it was centered at 9280, and 9370 even more distorted than earlier. At neither time did I find a spur to match on the hi side around 9460 or 9470. So I notified the FBN CE who promptly replied he was working on it. Not rechecked here until 2200 when the spurs were not audible (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** VATICAN [non]. March 19 at 1313 I noted the perpetual collision between Vatican Radio via RVA Philippines and Radio Australia on 6020, VR IS just before closing; tuning on up the band, VR IS again on 6140 at 1314. This was not a Paluig QSY, but instead via Chita, Russia, per HFCC. WRTH 2007 shows 6020 is Mandarin until 1330, but they must have guessed wrong since VR refuses to publish the ending times of its broadcasts; 6140 Vietnamese (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ____________________________________________________________________________________ Bored stiff? Loosen up... Download and play hundreds of games for free on Yahoo! Games. http://games.yahoo.com/games/front ---[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. 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