** AFGHANISTAN [non]. R. Solh, via UK, had not been audible for a couple of weeks, but propagation is improving a bit. In fact, Saturday Sept 8 from before 1400 past 1600, 17700 was fairly audible here with almost continuous music, and also on Sept 9 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** ALASKA. Besides Schickele Mix, another real fun radio show is on the way out. I think produxion ceased several years ago, and indeed its home station WVXU no longer exists as an independent entity, but a few stations have still been running RIDERS RADIO THEATRE, a weekly semihour of humourous skits, faux-radio drama, and cowboy songs that your commercial country station would not be caught dead playing. See previous item in DXLD 6-011. 21 months later, Publicradiofan.com now has only three airings, not including the one we just heard UT Sat Sept 8 at 0230-0300 on KCHU 770 Valdez but whose stream is unfortunately only 16 kbps. WVRU still has RRT on their schedule Sat 1200 UT, followed by the companion show COW PIE RADIO, neither confirmed as scheduling and webcasting from this station have been unreliable in the past. PRF also has it Sat 1330 on KGLP, but it is not on their grid now, and webcasting is still suspended. Nor does it now show on the KSUT grid at the same time. Anyhow, we know it is still running on KCHU (na zdar!) Friday nights. And the Riders are still plenty busy touring; catch them in person if you can. Also have, of course a blog via http://www.ridersinthesky.com (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** GERMANY [non]. DW via RWANDA, Sept 7 at 2130 on 15205 with usual excellent signal which could be mistaken for a NAm instead of a WAf service, magazine show of several stories, including problems of Turkish Moslems in Germany and Moroccans in Netherlands; Jews in Berlin, the ``most cosmopolitical city``, then chopped off at 2157 sharp before show was over. This is no mistake, but built into the system. The question is, why don`t they match the program lengths to the transmitter availability? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** LAOS [non]. Reconfirmed Hmong Lao Radio running on 11785, Sunday Sept 9 until 1359 WHRI ID, but for some reason retuned at 1404, and heard more Hmong! Just in time for ID in passing as Hmong World Christian Radio, with St. Paul address, website. This is still missing from the WHR online schedule, just showing it as Tue & Thu 12-13 on 12135, which is KWHR. So the additional Hmong presumably runs another hour at least on Sunday mornings until 1500. Unless you understand Hmong, this one is also worth listening to for the exotic music (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MEXICO. XERTA, 4810 missing around 0530 check Sept 9. Thierry Fricot in the DF explains why, forwarding a bulletin from XE1RCS wherein the station says they are off for 30-60 days as they are replacing their antenna. Now, is the blob of noise on the high side of 4810 gone with it? (Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** OKLAHOMA. Spotted another Talking House sign as we drove around Enid on West Chestnut at the intersexion of Briar Ridge, but WTFK? Had to go a few blox north to get to the house and another sign with the frequency on it, 1670. But yet another sign beside it said the house was SOLD. But the 1670 transmitter was still running as if it were available. Greg Winkeljohn (sp?) was speaking, for Remax Premier Realators (as he pronounces it, and he am one!); phone (580) 231-0992 given several times during spiel. Refer to Offer #456, or see http://www.enidhomes.com Address of this one is 4322 Briar Ridge; it`s 3 BR, and has other wonderful attributes. Also used part of his spiel to promote the Talking House angle and offer it to other sellers; ask him for a free video about it. This one on 1670 has better range than some of the others monitored recently. Could still be heard back at the Chestnut intersexion, and even audible on crummy caradio as far east as Chestnut @ Oakwood. This was in mid-afternoon Sept 7, so no skywave to QRM, but surely could be heard in Bellabarba`s Italy. Is that enough info for a QSL? (Glenn Hauser, Enid OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SOUTH AFRICA. Must be Channel Africa, as scheduled in English during this hour on 17770, but Sept 7 at 1427 found open carrier only, 1428 off, 1429 back on for a few sex with English talk, off again (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
