** ALBANIA. R. Tirana, new 1530 broadcast on 13640; Oct 30, poor signal and not listenable, but no interference. How is it doing further east? And the 2100 is on 9915, not 9515 as I typoed in previous report (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CUBA [and non]. DentroCuban Jamming Command has found 5745; R. Martà now jammed at 1235 check Oct 30, along with 5980 which is now scheduled 0700-1300 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** FRANCE [non]. Checking whether RFI has really canceled two of its Spanish broadcasts, Oct 30 at 1557, a weak station, presumably Gabon, went off 17630, but no sign of RFI at 1600 as previously scheduled via Guiana French; nor on 17860 as one report had it. At 1800, also nothing on 17630. Spanish should still be going at 2100 on 17630; 0100 on 5995, 9800. RFI in English, possibly incomplete, need to be confirmed: 0400-0430 7315 9805 [M-F] 0500-0530 9805 11995 [M-F] 0600-0630 7315 11995 13680 [M-F] 0700-0730 11725 1200-1230 21620 1600-1700 11615 15160-RSA (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** NETHERLANDS [non]. Half of the four daily English hours to NAm from RNW via Bonaire make a DST one-hour shift, half do not. Why? 0000 and 0100, now on 6165, stay the same regardless of DST, but 0400 on 6165 shifts to 0500, and 1100 on 11675 shifts to 1200. And this happened already Oct. 28. As a result, for this Week of Confusion only, Central-timers such as myself can more conveniently hear RNW at 7 am and midnight local time = CDT, then back to 6 am and 11 pm CST. Especially in the morning, 7 am means a much larger potential awakened audience than at 6 am. If the shifts must be made, why aren`t they on NAm dates? Doing them on European dates only adds to the confusion of listeners. I suspect the shifts are not really for our benefit, but to accommodate studio/transmitter scheduling of higher-priority broadcasts, such as Dutch. English broadcasts to other worldparts do not make any timeshift. Anyhow, this gave me a chance to listen to the new Curious Orange until 0557 UT Tuesday, and The State We`re In, until 1257 UT Tuesday Oct 30 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SWEDEN [non]. Surprised to hear Swedish from R. Sweden on 11690, Oct 30 at 1304, and very strong, must be Sackville, but not on schedules. RTTY on low side avoidable by tuning slightly upward. No trace of HCJB underneath, which in B-07 is still on 11690 to SAm in the mornings; 1332 recheck, Sweden off, HCJB audible // much stronger 11960. The Sweden via Sackville transmission at 1300-1330 is supposed to be on 11670! (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** TURKEY. Opposite of the day before, on Oct 30 the 1330 VOT English broadcast was barely audible on 12035, and inaudible on 11735, when checked at 1335. 11735 also has QRM de VOA on 11740 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. Oct 30 at 1444 came upon big S9+25 open carrier on 15480, then played VOA-sounding synthesized jazzy music until cut off abruptly at 1506, and carrier off around 1508:40. No announcements. I am quite confident this was Greenville testing (assuming Delano will not even test any more). The music came in cuts of roughly one minute with pauses, as if playing a CD of VOA production music. Some of it may well have been themes for unfamiliar shows, past or present. It`s one of those frequencies IBB uses only for testing purposes, not scheduled for any public broadcasts. It would have been a good opportunity to record all this production music intact with no voice-overs. Perhaps they will do it again another day, or another Tuesday? Not sure when it started (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** VENEZUELA [non]. RNV CI via CUBA, Oct 30 at 1257 on 11705, ending `De Primera Mano`` talk about something going on in Barcelona (Spain, I think, not Venezuela), then still giving 3.5-year-old, out-of-date transmission schedule, but with nice piano background, iffy Apartado 3979 address, not finished until 1303, plus open carrier for a while. These transmissions often run a few minutes late (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ### __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.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
