** AUSTRALIA [non]. Jan 12 at 2320 I found quite a het on 11550. Two stations of roughly equal strength about 400 Hz apart and hard to separate; even the SW-07 synch funxion couldn`t help. On other receivers and antennas I was able to separate them sufficiently to determine that on 11550.0 was Spanish, no doubt WEWN as scheduled, but mostly skipping over and rather weak; and on 11550.4 something in Indonesian.
Time to break out my brand new copy of PWBR 2008. The only other station on ``11550`` at that time, besides WEWN, is shown as R. Australia in ``other`` language via Taiwan. Doesn`t help to look in the non-blue-edged pages in country order, since this is too far off-topic for PWBR. A major world language spoken by over a hundred megapeople, Indonesian, does not merit any individual listings, just lumped in with ``other``. HFCC? The public file, from which all RA Shepparton transmissions have been censored, shows no such R. Australia on 11550, but it does show Indonesian at 2200-2330 on 9630 via CVC Darwin, which lets its registrations including RA relays stand. EiBi? Not listed there either. Once you know it`s RA, this transmission can be found on page 408 of the 2008 WRTH, as 2200-2330 on 11550 via Taiwan. Aoki? There it is, in the 11 January update with more details: 11550 R. AUSTRALIA 2200-2330 1234567 Indonesian 100 205 Tainan TWN 12038E2311 ABC b07 But Aoki misses WEWN on 11550! Which per WEWN website and DXLD 8-004, is on 11550 all the way from 1500 to 2400. Anyhow, any doubts about the off-frequency one were resolved when I heard 11550.4 ID as R. Australia at 2328:30, shortly before going off (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CUBA. RHC, 9550 in English, Sat Jan 12 at 2330 found CO2KK in non-copyrighted propagation forecast, i.e. the end of the show, which wrapped at 2331:30 after the traditional code outro. So if it`s 17 minutes or so long, it would have started around 2314 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** LITHUANIA. R. Vilnius, 7325, English to North America, Jan 12 at 2340 had a report on the Lithuanian language dictation test, apparently a major national literacy event. I notice that the announcers almost omit the I in pronouncing Vilnius, and also almost omit the U in Lithuania. At 2344 began first mailbag of 2008y, mentioning that most of the reception reports lately had come from Japan, and were quite similar to each other, concerning the NAm service on 7325 which was making it there despite the usual Chinese co-channel (which I was also getting). One correspondent listened to the Lithuanian semihour at 2300 but not the English at 2330. The entire mailbag had some hauntingly familiar music bed running, which was nice, but not necessary for SW intelligibility. They also mentioned that RV can be listened to on the internet, something I had yet to try, via http://www.lrt.lt But going there one sees little but Lithuanian. Following the instruxions in English comes to a dead end, unless you pretend you are getting a podcast of ``current affairs in English`` from http://www.lrt.lt/prenumerata/podcast.php?chid=234933&secid=2&flt=7345 However, even at 0351 UT Sunday, the latest show available there was from Friday January 11. That mp3 file displays as 35:14 long, but signed off English at :28 minutes in, then filled with nice folk music, 30:00 into Lithuanian, and then pop music. At 2354 gave the English schedule as: NAm 2330 on 7325, 0030 on 9875, and ``next day`` to Europe at 0930 on 9710. We`ve had conflicting info about whether the weekly KBC Radio broadcast via the same Sitkunai site to NAm, UT Sundays 0100-0159, is now on 6255, or like the 2130-2230 broadcasts to Europe, on 6265. UT Jan 13 at 0150 I could detect a weak carrier on 6255, not 6265, but would prefer to have more certain confirmation from eastward. I wonder why RV on 7325 was making it so much better (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** TURKEY. METEOR ITEM UNCLEAR; SLOW DOWN --- Dear VOT: I often listen to your 1330 UT broadcast on 12035, which comes in fairly well here in Oklahoma, carrying on from its European target. Today January 11 I caught ``Did You Know That`` at 1417. It`s certainly a nice addition to your schedule, brief and interesting facts. Unfortunately, I was not recording, and your programming is not available on demand (is it?), so I only heard it once and have no way of rechecking it. Here is what I thought I heard: The second largest meteor crater in the world (after one in Alaska) is 3 km from the Iranian border and fell in 1982. A website address was given to be able to see it, but it was impossible to copy. Did you say Alaska really? The largest if not the best-known meteor crater is in Arizona, a completely different state. I have been there several times. Could such a large meteor have impacted in 1982 without everyone knowing about it? It should have been an earth-shaking event! I cite this uncertainty to point out that you are not communicating adequately. Speaking good English is not enough. You must SLOW DOWN. All your announcers speak too rapidly. Whenever a Turkish word or term or name is mentioned, you must not assume everyone outside Turkey (or rather, any non-Turkish speaker, and that is most of your audience) will recognize it immediately. It would not hurt even to spell out some names, as well as pronouncing them very slowly and distinctly, even repeat them. Shortwave requires this, and even when I listen to your live webcast instead, I often do not fully understand what is being said. Even your mailing address with Yenishehir, I am sure, would not be understood by a new listener who has not already seen it in printed references such as the World Radio TV Handbook. I`ll bet you have seen incredible misspellings of that on your incoming mail (whatever still reaches you in spite of that.) (I insert the h since I don`t have an s-cedilla). While I enjoy Turkish music very much, you could play a little bit less of it and take a little more time with the speech portions to make them more clearly understood. Since Did You Know That? is so brief, you could also easily post the entire text of these features on your website, so anyone may read exactly what was said, follow website links, etc. I would appreciate a reply clarifying the location of the meteor crater in Turkey and the other one mentioned; date, and web address to see it. You may also feel free to respond to this on your Letterbox, altho I would appreciate knowing in advance when this would be aired. Thanks, Glenn Hauser, Enid, Oklahoma, USA (Jan 11 to VOT, via DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. Nice QSL certificate received 11 Jan 2008 from W5G, for special event 80m ham operation at Guthrie OK on 17 Nov 2007 for the Oklahoma Centennial. Latest addition to my QSL gallery, #28, at http://www.worldofradio.com/QSL.html Guthrie was the original state capital. The certificate tells some of that story (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. 5954.1, the unknown transmitter previously carrying R. República, was once again heard playing nonstop music, some of it with lyrix I think in Spanish, Jan 12 at 2335. It was tough on the FRG-7 to pull it through between Okeechobee on 5950 and Emirler on 5960, but on the YB-400 and DX-398 I reconfirmed it was not on 5955 but the usual 5954.1, and thus no doubt the same transmitter as always. After modulation was cut for a second or two, the carrier went off at 2359:30. Altho the off-frequency, as well as the weak signal here, suggests a minor, possibly Latin American operation, the precision of the closedown time suggests this is really being run by a major broadcast site, which will then retune the transmitter to a proper frequency for another service, probably in the open. While it was on, I tuned around the 6 and 7 MHz bands for possible parallels, not expecting to find any, and I did not. The source of this remains an intriguing mystery (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. 7087-USB, Jan 13 at 0017 as I tuned by, had music in LSB! Switching on BFO, found apparently a ham singing a solo in Spanish until 0019. No ID heard nor anything further for the next few minutes, but watch this frequency! Do all countries prohibit musical hamming, or mainly the USA? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ### ____________________________________________________________________________________ Never miss a thing. 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