** CHINA. CRI in Russian on 6100, August 3 until 1257*, good signal on 500 kW aimed 55 degrees from Beijing site, thus onward toward us past DVR. Per Aoki, resumes at 1300 in Mongolian but aimed NW from Beijing (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** ITALY. I haven`t checked any of the other NAm broadcasts, but Rai was still on 17780 at *1400 August 5. Altho only fair, this is the best signal direct from Europe at this hour on 16m, no doubt because it is the only one axually aimed at us. There has been some question about part of Rai`s SW schedule being cancelled (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** KOREA NORTH [non]. RHC 6000 now has a het in the mornings here on 6003, and no doubt that is from the new frequency of Echo of Hope, clandestine from S to N Korea. Not strong enough at 1251 August 3 to really bother RHC, but detectable; on // 6348, heavy swish jamming dominated (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** LITHUANIA. The Mighty KBC, 6255, originating in Netherlands, finally checked their weekly broadcast to NAm, UT Sun Aug 5 during last 8 minutes from 0152 UT. Continuous music bed whilst acknowledging reception reports from June and July, including some familiar names such as Christer Brunström, Terry Palmersheim. Plugged http://mediumwave.info and commercial for Kaito, synthesizer music right up till 0200. SINPO 34433. Periodic pulsing ute QRM, but not too bad. I wonder what else they do besides play pop music (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MEXICO [and non]. XEXQ, 6045, now definitely heard again, as classical vocal music was audible August 3 at 1248; 1259 piano music, 1300 announcement by YL but too weak to make out. This had a hefty 4 Hz SAH from something, presumably the FE station on 6045 which might otherwise go unnoticed. Aoki shows that is now: VOICE OF RUSSIA 1100-1400 1234567 Chinese 250 kW 230 degrees Vladivostok-Rasdoln RUS 13157E, 4332N VOR a07 and followed by another hour in English, same parameters. Also, no trace of XEYU carrier on 9599.2 once Cuba had closed, at 1303 August 3 nor 4 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. I happened to hear WWCR announce on 13845 August 4 at 1303 that all four transmitters were going off the air for ``powerline and electrical maintenance``, and would return when completed. Meanwhile programming continues available on streams. Now`s our chance to hear something else on 15825, 13845, 9985, 5890, later 12160, depending on how long it lasts. WWCR is still off at 0230 UT Sunday August 5, so no WOR on 5070. I hear that the problem is an insulator in the field on one of the rhombics, but until that is repaired they can`t run any of the SW transmitters. Probably could be temporarily fixed with a rope. Apparently this is unrelated to the previous problem of a relay burning up, which is likely to cause some of the WWCR-1 frequencies to funxion at lowered power. So tonight`s your chance to DX something on or near 3215, 5070, 5935, etc. Jason at WWCR called to apologize to the DX community for the missing DX block, and explained that when they were trying to repair the first problem today, another wire came down and now it`s too dark to work on that. They have called in a professional crew to work on it and hope to have it all repaired and be back on the air sometime Sunday morning. And then I also got this from him (Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST) WWCR Engineering Bulletin Saturday Evening, August 4th, 2007. Due to an antenna insulator failure, all four shortwave transmitters are temporarily off air. A lines crew has been contacted and have confirmed that they will be on WWCR property to perform any repairs by 7:30 AM CT, Sunday. We will resume transmission immediately following the repair. Our programming will remain available via streaming audio at http://wwcr.com I would especially like to thank the DX Community for your understanding of the omission of this evening's DX Block on shortwave. We appreciate the service that the DX Community provides shortwave listening as a whole. Kind Regards as Always, --Jason Cooper, WWCR CE (via Glenn Hauser, DXLD) Don`t know when they resumed, but 13845 back on and very strong at 1736 UT check August 5; much weaker on 15825, 12160, 9985 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. Was enjoying some big band music, Stardust? August 5 at 1332 on WWRB 11920, when it abruptly switched in mid-note to a hoarse, screaming Brother Scare, // 9385 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** WESTERN SAHARA [non]. Pleased to get a semi-listenable signal from R. Nacional de la RASD, on 6300, still on the air by 0608 UT, August 3 on 6300, with chanting in Arabic, or rather Hassania, I suppose, and shortly into talk. At first it seemed to lack any RHC spur co-channel QRM, but that developed shortly at 0611, 6060 leapfrog over 6180 at 120 kHz further up the band (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ### ____________________________________________________________________________________ Looking for a deal? Find great prices on flights and hotels with Yahoo! FareChase. http://farechase.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
