** CUBA. I see the `Oct-Mar` RHC transmission schedule on their website has been copied and forwarded around on various DX lists without comment, even tho I previously enumerated some of its inconsistencies and errors in DXLD. Circulating such a misleading, poorly formatted schedule like that is not helpful.
One thing I outpointed was that the English broadcast at 2030-2130 is missing from the schedule, and I just reconfirmed Sat Oct 20 that it is indeed still on the air, when checked at 2114 as Arnie Coro was wrapping up DXers Unlimited with brief propagation note. 9505 is much weaker here than 11760, but 9505 leads 11760 which has a slight delay by comparison due to different transmitter sites and/or feed routing. I also reconfirmed that the 2300 English broadcast is only on 9550, not 9505 as in the schedule. RHC does not even know the correct times and frequencies for its own broadcasts. And when there is more than one time and more than one frequency on the same line, how are we supposed to match them up, in order? See if you can figure out which times go with which frequencies at http://www.radiohc.cu/espanol/frecuencia/frecuencias-espanol.htm (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** JAPAN [non]. Since as I pointed out, the other three remaining broadcasts in English from R. Japan to NAm have interference problems, I finally checked out the fourth, 0000-0020 UT via Sackville 6145, Oct 21 and found it in the clear! World Interactive was indeed playing already at 0001, despite showing as ``09.10 JST`` on their website schedule; but presumably its final repeat in the true cycle, W&W discussing remedies for sore throat in different countries, then mailbag item about too-early Xmas celebrations. If there has been any breaking news in Asia since 1410 UT, you will not hear about it in English on R. Japan until 0500 the next day, as there is no news on the only intervening broadcasts at 2200 and 2400 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MEXICO. XEYU missing for at least a week as of Oct 21 from 9599.3v, as checked at random times day and night. I see Ron Howard had them on Oct 9 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** NIGERIA. VON, presumed the one with drums and singing on 7255, Oct 20 at 2119, French scheduled during this hour (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. Radio Martí: Oct 18 after 2005, when 13820 is supposed to be Delano, it was again audible and again breaking up, but at recheck 2055 it was finally OK. Recheck at 2215, 13820 OK and a few words ahead of 11930, so two different sites again, Delano leading since it gets landline rather than satellite feed Greenville gets, despite being much closer to Washington. R. Martí was again very strong on 7405 // 11845, Oct 19 at 1357 and at this early hour I again think both are Delano instead of scheduled Greenville --- and both again with audio dropouts. However, after 2000, 13820 had OK audio for a change. Since I had to report repeatedly about serious breakup in R. Martí audio feed for over a week, I need to report when it is OK: Oct 20 at 1340 check on 7405, 11845, 13820, all atop jamming but not so strong as to inaudibilize it, so probably all back to Greenville, and no breakup. Listening closely at 2329 to 13820, when it is Delano, there was only some very lite breakup, lacking audio during troughs in modulation, still needing a slight touchup (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A [and non]. VOA, 9760 via Philippines, Sat Oct 20 at 1325 Jazz America show from VOA Music Mix Network, as announced, with ``Jungle Blues``, terrific piece by Jelly Roll Morton performed by Wynton Maralis et al. As always during this hour, CRI English QRM underneath, since CRI blatantly ignored sesquidecades of VOA usage of this frequency, and decided it just had to use it. I`d love to have heard the negotiations over this at HFCC, if there ever were any --- when another country is jamming many of your broadcasts, with transmitters imported from your own country, do you meekly accept mere co-channel interference with different target areas that look good on paper? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. WBCQ, 7415, with Allan Weiner Worldwide playback from the night before, Sat Oct 20 at 2120 tune-in. [``Think Tank North America`` is supposed to occupy the Sat 21-22 hour per online schedule, having just returned in Sept after a 4-year hiatus.] AW was talking about a new two-hour daily show to be carried on 5110, ``Area 51``, which will be ``taken over by the inmates``, run by TimTron and Larry (Will), not Allan. Apparently it will be for pirates to do their thing on a real station, tho AW has a low opinion (Bronx cheer) for most pirates today, ``taking a transmitter and massaging their wieners[sp?]``, merely on an ego-trip and aren`t doing anything worthwhile like he was when he had four pirates running from Yonkers in the late 60s and 70s, 24 hours a day and a staff of 50. Altho allegedly running 50 kW already, the 5110 transmitter and antenna are being rebuilt, and will be ``more powerful`` this winter, meaning ``increasing the modulation envelope and other trickery``. [Maybe we will finally get a listenable signal from it in OK?] 5110 presently carries Good Friends Radio Network [Rod Hembree, gospel-huxter masquerading as scientist], 7 pm to 6 am [ET = 2300-1000 UT, soon 0000-1100 UT], so Area 51 will be M-F at 5-7 pm ET [2200-2400 UT after DST. It seems to me there was already a program by that name on WBCQ but I don`t find it on current schedules. -- gh] Allan went on to say that he would like WBCQ to transmit in DRM, and someday will, but not until it is easy and inexpensive for broadcasters to do it and people to receive it, not ``all this proprietary shit`` which is ``stupid, asinine, just like IBOC``. DRM requires linear broadband transmitters, which is the case with 5110, 9330 and 18910, but not 7415 which is high level plate modulated. So DRM would only be on the others (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A [non]. Checking 15410 for CVC, Miami via Chile, during ``Sem Limites`` Portuguese show featuring classical music at 23-24: report said it was M-F, but I also heard it Sat, Oct 20 for a few minutes, 2342-2354. While I am glad to hear some classical music on this otherwise dreadful station, they ruin it with their interruptions every few minutes for promos or PSAs, and apparently only brief pieces can be accommodated. I heard a PSA from OMS (WHO) on cancer, the Toreador song from Carmen, 2345 a bit about Mont Blanc, ``Bess, You Is My Woman Now``, instrumental; 2352 plug their English lessons daily at 7 am, then something by Léhar, etc., etc. At least there is no co-channel QRM on 15410 at this hour, unlike most of the day earlier: 12-14 DW Kigali, 14-15 DW Meyerton, 15-17 & 1730-20 IBB Morocco (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** VENEZUELA [non]. Paused for a moment on 13680 via Cuba, Oct 20 at 2325 as RNV was just announcing their transmission schedule. Yes, it is still the same one they started with in April 2004, which has undergone numerous changes and additions since. You know it`s that one when they start with the long-imaginary broadcast to ``San Francisco at 11 am on 13740``. After a nice song which we suspected was by a falsetto, or a female with remarkable range, at 2328 efemérides (this day in history) for October 20, so we know this was a `new` broadcast even with grossly outdated info on its own schedule. It seems they are clueless in Caracas about the true times and frequencies they are on the air (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. Tried again for reported R. República on 5954v, 24 hours later, Oct 19 at 2345. Tried to get a good frequency reading on the DX-398 in the yard, but barely enough signal, especially with WYFR 5950. Did not find anything above 5954 this time, but something closer to 5953. By 2355 I decided it was about 5952.55, which makes it more likely the Bolivian. No audio to help with ID this time; I have never heard a R. República ID myself tho two others report it. It`s hard to see how this tiny signal would have any effect in Cuba right next to WYFR. 5954.1, Radio República from unknown site. Altho did not hear it Oct 19, checked again Oct 20 at 2308 and found usual signal just above 5954 and suffering severe splash from WYFR 5950. M&W were speaking in Spanish, and as usual not // RR on jammed 6135. Recheck at 2355, definitely heard R. República theme and ID, no mention of frequency, and into discussion of Fidel & Raúl. Got badly squeezed from *0000 CRI via Sackville 5960, but could still detect República in between 5960 and 5950 past 0000 and again at 0017. BTW, the last LAm station that used to be on 5954 (as opposed to 5955) was TIQ, Radio Casino, Costa Rica, which went inactive several years ago. Possibly this old transmitter was resurrected in CR, if not moved elsewhere? How well does Raúl Saavedra hear it? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ### __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! 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