** AFGHANISTAN [non]. One more day, again Oct 12 at 1346, R. Solh, 17700 via Rampisham UK, playing skipping/sticking music CD (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** ALBANIA. R. Tirana, 13750, Oct 12 at 1302 check was again in Albanian instead of English. Switched to English sometime between 1314 and 1315 for tail end of press review about nuclear power, electricity shortage (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LSITENING DIGEST) ** AUSTRALIA. Oct 12 at 1215 found a signal in English on 4910 where normally there is none: must be VL8T, Tennant Creek NT, once again having failed to shift to 120m at scheduled 0830. Aussie dialog, 1218 music, 1230 news; still audible at recheck 1319, and weaker at 1325 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BULGARIA. No awful spurs from Russia Oct 12 on the 15 MHz band, but instead I found R. Bulgaria 15700 transmitter at 1327 producing over-modulation spike spurs out to 15680-15720 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CHINA. Firedrake Oct 12 at 2010, 2014 on 13625, 11740, 11700, none very strong, but atop whatever it`s jamming, which according to EiBi is in all three cases R. Free Asia in Chinese via Tinian (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ITALY [non?]. Just as if you hear Persian on SW you know it`s not Iran, if you hear Italian, you know it`s not Italy. Oct 12 at 1222 a M&W discussion in Italian on 15595. This is Vatican Radio, scheduled daily at 1200-1230, 250 kW, 107 degrees from Santa Maria di Galeria. Or in the interest of country diversity should we now consider the extra-territorial SMG as Italy proper, since there are also SW emissions from inside Vatican City proper. The ADDX by-language schedule at http://www.addx.de/Hfpdat/plaene.php dated 2 Sept needs to be revised since it still shows Rai and NHK in Italian. Others still using this language: CRI, WYFR, IRIB, AWR, RRI, VOT, VOR, Tirana, Serbia, Cairo, SANTEC, TWR, RAE (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** RUSSIA. 13745 was still a mystery here, Oct 12 at 1255 tune-in, man speaking slowly, deliberately with great expression, apparently reading poetry or a classic story. Went right thru hourtop with no break. Finally at 1311 music, 1317 started another program with theme, woman announcer; 1319 brief Russian actuality with voice-over translation in still uncertain language. I don`t hear anything to indicate this is Christian, nor recognizable jingles from major broadcasters. Since this was Friday, I was alert for TWR as still on the schedules from Rwanda in Afar at 1300-1315 only, and previously heard, but no sign of it now. Then checking Aoki as of Oct 11, the answer: 13745 VOICE OF RUSSIA 1200-1400 1234567 Pashto/Dari 250 105 Krasnodar This was probably an S07 change, as it is still missing from other listings; ADDX dated 2 Sept shows this transmission in Dari, not Pashto, on 12015 and 15510 only (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** RUSSIA [and non]. Checking the 15.6-MHz area again Oct 12 for VOR spurs of the last few days: none heard, but 15550, believed to be the problem transmitter the day before, was still missing from Hindi service, just 15605 at 1325. VOR in Russian at 1325 on 15540, weaker than // 15660 tho both are listed as Moskva site, 250 kW. 15540 is 190 degrees and 15660 is 100 degrees, the latter, closer to off-the-back for us. However, my spearch was not in vain: see BULGARIA. Wolfgang Büschel is hearing Russian spurs further afield from the 15660 transmitter, where I did not check today, wandering in the 15.0+ and 16.2+ MHz areas (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. Radio Martí, 13820, very strong and jamming barely audible under, as usually the case here midway to Cuba on the beam from Delano, Oct 12 at 2008. Only one problem: audio cutting out continuously, making it unlistenable. Still the same at 2012 and 2021 rechex. Isn`t anybody paying attention at Delano? Why should they care? They are short, losing their jobs (if not FIGMO, having to move to another IBB facility) after DL closes down in two weeks (assuming that HR 3598 goes nowhere?). If no one on duty can be persuaded to actually monitor the incoming or outgoing audio, why isn`t there an automatic monitoring system to ring an alarm when this happen? Why isn`t there a backup program feed available on a moment`s notice, such as plain old dial-up phone line, which could be switched to manually if not automatically? Checked 11930 Martí via Greenville, and no breakups, so the problem is somewhere between Miami/Washington and Delano. Rechecked at 2126, 13820 was still breaking up every few seconds, quite an improvement, but not good enough for my government`s work coming out of my pocket. 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