** CUBA [non]. Finally checking out a report that R. República was no longer heard after 0300 on 6100: June 16 at 0309 something in Spanish was there, rather distorted, and jammed, so I suspect that was indeed R. República, presumably via Rampisham UK now, until 0400* (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CZECH REPUBLIC [non]. Guess what: checked at 2357 UT June 8, nothing on 9685, but R. Prague IS still on 6000 under RHC Spanish. R. Prague was audible on 11665 at 0002 check, fair. 6000 should have moved to avoid the RHC collision, but has not. Both 6000 and 11665 show on the RP website sked; DX Mix News in Bulgaria had reported a change to 9685 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** INDONESIA. VOI language schedule change: Korean hour at 1300+ June 12, and wondering what had happened; formerly in Indonesian when on. Tuned in 9525 at 1301 to hear gamelan and ID in English, but then Korean ID and talk, still Korean at 1333 check. At 1400 clashing with CRI in Russian, but VOI was on top with Japanese ID, website; the rest of the hour may have been in Indonesian (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1363, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** LAOS [non]. Following the arrest of Vang Pao, I made a point of checking Hmong Lao Radio, Sat June 16 at 1301 via WHRI 11785. Opening news segment mentioned FBI, California, homosex, Fresno, Sacramento, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Warren Russelman(?), US Attorney Scott, etc., etc. So this is no doubt still the number one story for HLR. More: http://www.startribune.com/484/story/1225057.html and there have been several follow-up stories; search the site on vang, such as: http://www.startribune.com/462/story/1230389.html PDF: Complaints against Vang Pao [90 pages, double-spaced typed, tilted, photocopied] http://media.startribune.com/smedia/2007/06/04/20/jackcomplaint.source.prod_affiliate.2.pdf (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1363, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** NEW ZEALAND [and non]. There is now a collision on 13730 between RNZI and Ö1, opposite worldsides, but capable of much overlap. RNZI atop here, but can hear Austria underneath, around 0445 chex June 13 and 16. The overlap is for only one hour at 0400-0500, but could have been avoided (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** OKLAHOMA. Rumored new format of WKY 930 OKC must be imminent. They`ve started stunting with a countdown by a robotic voice, interjecting `clever` OK remarx, such as about Barry Switzer, some stupidballgame figure, who is ``still the king``. UT June 15 at 0259 tuning around during storm-induced AC power outage, found the countdown at T minus 3 days, 11 hours, 1 minute, 2 seconds. Next mark was 6 seconds less. At 0300 legal ID in English and then briefly in Spanish mentioning 105.3, which is the station it has been simulcasting for the last few months. I calculate that the countdown should end: June 18 at 1400 UT, i.e. Monday 9 am local (Glenn Hauser, Enid, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** TURKEY. VOT transmitter engineer asleep at the switch again: June 10 at 1329 I tuned past 15450 and was still hearing the VOT IS following the English broadcast which ended at 1320-1325. Then opening in a Slavic language, but mixing with BBC [see U K]. Finally VOT cut off at 1331. This must have been Bosnian scheduled on 9655, or maybe Kyrgyz scheduled on 9575, with some Russian elements. BTW, I just saw an Armenian farce, ``Big Story in a Small City``, in which some of the characters spoke Armenian, others spoke Russian, or a mixture (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** TURKEY. Some lovely exotic vocal music with other-worldly reverb, on 11980, June 16 at 0441-0500, interrupted by brief announcements in Turkish. Yes, this is VOT Turkish beamed our way 310 degrees at 04-07 per HFCC (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U K [non]. After the late closing on 15450 of TURKEY [q.v.], June 10 at 1331, heard BBC on this unusual frequency with courtesy announcement loop in English also mentioning their Arabic service, something about current programming being unavailable. But at 1334 switched into language, which was not Arabic. Per Aoki this is it, Sundays only: 15450 BBC 1330-1430 1 Bengali 200 104 Krasnodar RUS 04048E4436 BBC a07 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ____________________________________________________________________________________ No need to miss a message. Get email on-the-go with Yahoo! Mail for Mobile. Get started. http://mobile.yahoo.com/mail ---[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
