** ALBANIA [and non]. R. Tirana has resolved the collision with Cairo 9460, which has English to North America at 2300-2430, following recommendations by Noel Green and myself, by switching to 9410, first noted UT April 24 at 0025 check, just before the end of the sesquihour broadcast in Albanian starting at 2300. Now both stations are in the clear. Tirana quite a bit weaker than Greece on 9420, and than its own // 7425, but this situation may reverse as summer progresses (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CANADA. RCI IS and ID loop was running April 24 at 0533 on 6175, which is after the end of the V. of Vietnam relay; why? Well, it`s the middle of the night in Sackville so maybe no one turned off the transmitter, allowing the program feed with that to continue (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** COSTA RICA. It seems all the DGS transmitter sites suffer from ``crackling`` to varying degrees, which I assume has something to do with the satellite receivers being mistuned or off-target. A perennial problem which has been going on for a long time; why don`t they fix it? The crackling on 9725, April 24 at 1345, extended to plus/minus 15 kHz, bothering neighboring stations (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** FRANCE. RFI has now posted its A-07 schedules in pdf, including Africa at http://www.rfi.fr/radiofr/statiques/afrique_ete2007.pdf English, as colour-coded en gris: 0400-0430 9805 11995 0500-0530 13680 15160-1 11995-2 0600-0630 15160 17800 9765-2 11725-1 0700-0730 13675 [separate entries to different parts of Africa] 0730-0800 13675 [separate entries to different parts of Africa; or is 0730-0800 a mistake for 0700-0730 too?] 1200-1230 17800-4 21620-3 1600-1700 15605 17605 15160 1 - 25 March to 1 Sept 2 - 2 Sept to 28 Oct 3 - except 6 May to 2 Sept 4 - 6 May to 2 Sept No English broadcasts are found on the Amériques or Asie pdf schedules. No transmitter sites are specified. We know that 15160 at 1600 is RSA, 17800 has been Ascension. Some of the morning broadcasts have been M-F only, and this still may be the case, but hard to tell from the pdf schedules. Don`t you believe the English frequencies on the more easily accessible http://www.rfi.fr/langues/statiques/rfi_anglais.asp which are years out of date! (Glenn Hauser, April 23, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** INDONESIA. VOI has been active on 9525 lately until 1400, including a nice eclectic music mix. April 23 at 1350-1354+ they were again using the march ``Under the Double Eagle`` by Wagner as background to some report in Indonesian. This was noted repeatedly several months ago around this time, but 24 hours later, instead we heard a ballad by itself. Maybe UTDE is a Monday thing? After 1357 as usual mixes with CRI Russian Chinese music prélude to 1400 broadcast (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** JAPAN [and non]. Re previous report: ``NHK World, Radio Japan, April 19 at 1329 concluding Indonesian, and into Thai on 7200, with QRM not only from the Yakutsk Warbler, but also splash from a much stronger NHK transmission in Japanese on 7190! (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)`` Re NHK on 7200: Per Aoki list it comes on at 1330 so must have crash-started when Indonesian concluded; also the splatter you got from 7190 was from CRI in Japanese (Joe Hanlon, NJ, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Ha, I hear Japanese just about any morning on 7190 and had assumed it was NHK without looking it up. It`s aimed almost due east, 95 degrees, from JIN site in CHINA at 0900-1500. Per NHK current schedule at http://www.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/english/freq/all_e.pdf Indonesian on other frequencies ends at 1300, so perhaps the Indo ID on 7200 was just part of a multi-lingual ID cycle, not the end of an Indo broadcast (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MEXICO. Still no sign of XEYU 9599v at various chex, especially during the 0500 and 1300 UT hours on April 23, 24. Nor XEXQ 6045. Wonder if that is still on the air at all. Julián Santiago reported that XEYU was about to reactivate (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** PORTUGAL. Finally caught an entire edition of Caixa Postal & Dexismo on RDP International, as scheduled precisely at 1748 UT Monday April 23, via webcast. Indeed it was hardly worth all the trouble to make a point of listening to it. Acknowledged a few letters, one apparently from Christer Brunström in Sweden, something about practicing his Portuguese, and then, and then --- music fill until the show officially ended after only 8 minutes, at least half of which must have been music. Nothing about DX, at least not this week. I did see on the date`s RDPI online program schedule that it has returned to the evening repeat to the Americas, UT Mon 2330-2350 on 9715 and 13700, which gives them even more time to fill with music (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. KJES, 11715, April 23 at 1403 in English with catechism, responses; only fair signal. One suspects they are on the air only irregularly; however, at about one megameter from here they are subject to skipping over me, even more so on 15385 in the afternoons; anyone hear them there? Also checked April 24 at 1347, and could make out some typical kid singing, poor (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. WHRI is still on 7335, this time with nothing audible from CHU, April 24 at 0603 check talking about ``Living Waters`` --- full of amoebae? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. Another unexpected program on WRMI: ``Como han pasado los años``, apparently a local produxion, instead of Viva Miami, and running late until 1506 UT Monday April 23 on webcast, 7385 being inaudible, with DX Partyline finally starting at 1507 after ID (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. The terribly distorted spur, or mistuned transmitter, as previously reported on April 20, centred about 7313, was again heard April 24, this time centred about 7311, from tune-in 0524. Talking but could not be sure of language. 0527 rapid-fire talk and machine-gun FX; seemed Portuguese, maybe. 0530 into French talk, or so it seemed again at least from intonation. Looked around 6, 7 and 9 MHz for possible parallels, but none found. It was definitely not // ANU 9580 or RDPI 7240. 0544 broke for a bit of singing by a woman, 0545 back to male voice speaking. Was getting more and more distorted and weakening somewhat. After some shouts, stopped at 0555, but ``carrier`` remained on making its own noises including squeals, QRMing DW from its *0557 on 7310.0, which is via Sines, 0600 that into English news. At 0558 the spur seemed to resume talking. Soon I gave up for the night. This remains a total mystery. Can`t find any clues in HFCC, EiBi, Aoki, or ADDX schedule of French broadcasts. There are of course, quite a few at this hour on various frequencies, but none which seem to have any relation with 7312v. Perhaps someone can fiddle with audio processing, or with FM detection to make this more readable, or at least identifiable (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Solar-terrestrial indices for 23 April follow. Solar flux 69 and mid-latitude A-index 15. The mid-latitude K-index at 0600 UTC on 24 April was 1 (5 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) UNIDENTIFIED. 9735v, April 22 at 1406 there was an oscillating jammer (?) around this frequency --- the carrier was rapidly going up and down so you could not really hear it tuned right on 9735, but certainly with the BFO on, or as its pitch varied beating against BBC 9740; nothing on 9730. HFCC, EiBi and Aoki have nothing at all scheduled on 9735 at this time, so no idea what or against what (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ---[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
