** CHINA [non]. CRI, Portuguese to Brasil via Chile, or Commies via Christians, Jan 21 at 2153 on 17645, nice Chinese music, YL announcer with heavy accent; 2156 transmission schedule, but this frequency not mentioned. In a fade, I thought they said 17625, but looking up http://portuguese.cri.cn/101/2006/05/11/[EMAIL PROTECTED] it claims they are on 17615! 17645 was noticeably weaker at 45 degree azimuth than 17680 in CVC Spanish from the same Calera de Tango site at 0 degrees. The latter is constantly heard, sometimes very strong, just about any time during its long daily span 1100-0100 --- well, at least during daylight hours here (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CUBA. Checking Jan 20 for the début of RHC`s Euro service: at 2020 UT check, 11750 quite weak in Portuguese, so guess it is really aimed off some 90 degrees from OK. Also same in Spanish at 2110. By then much stronger secret English broadcast was still running on 11760 // as usual much weaker 9505. However, 11760 is bothered by 315 degree beam from WHRI 11765, which gave 11750 the edge on Jan 21 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Earlier, monitored the 49m channels around 0700 Jan 20. At 0700, 6000 briefly announced ``El programa Zarzuela y Opereta``, presumably from the R. Musical Nacional network feed, time check for 2 am, but modulation then cut off, to open carrier. At 0701, 6000 resumed same music it had been playing before that announcement, and finally at 0702 RHC IS and opening the Esperanto service, as scheduled UT Sundays only. They really need to work on smoothly switching network feeds. At 0702, 6180 was still on with carrier, while 6060 was off (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ECUADOR. Found another airing of Conozca el Ecuador, which was not on HCJB`s Spanish schedule the last I checked Monday Jan 21 at 2230-2300 on 12000. This show plays more folk music than talk. Started with two pieces, one vocal, one instrumental, then a feature on the craftswomen of Imbabura province. Music cut off abruptly at 2259 for several seconds, apparently antenna change, as stronger signal when it came back. Then timesignal and 2300 news. Per HFCC, this is what happens in those few seconds off: Until 2300 there is one 100 kW transmitter at 150 degrees. After 2300 there are two transmitters, one 50 kW at 157 degrees, and the 100 kW reverses angle to 330 degrees, now favoring us, spelt U-S (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** INTERNATIONAL VACUUM [and non]. The second night of HAARP Moonbounce tests was much less successful, probably due to diminished Earthly ionospheric conditions. 6792.5, Jan 20 at *0629 started hearing carriers on and off, but generally weaker than Jan 19, and could not hear echoes for sure. More QRM from spoilers on nearby frequency such as at 0636, CQ DE WB --- but didn`t copy the rest of the call. 0650 also noted occasional CW and SSB QRM before quitting (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** PORTUGAL. The Caixa Postal & Dexismo show on RDPI was not heard Monday Jan 21 at previously scheduled time of 1848, as I brought up the webcast a few minutes early. Then checking that date`s program schedule at http://tv.rtp.pt/EPG/radio/epg-dia.php?datai=&dia=21-01-2008&sem=e&canal=5&gen=&time= indeed it shows only at 0845 and 1418, and not at 0030 UT Tuesday either, and also has the podcast icon, where we may also listen to it and the previous week`s show, without really making it a podcast: mms://195.245.128.30/rtpfiles/audio/wavrss/ati/41528_20699-0801211540.wma >From previous experience, there is a lot of variation from one week to the next in RDPI`s program scheduling, so who knows what will happen next Monday. At least they post advance program schedules for each specific date, which is more than can be said for many ISWBC stations. A link to the show pop-up reminds that the presenter is Isabel Flora. This week`s program was nothing but an interview with someone reminiscing on the phone about Emissora Nacional; no mailbag, no DX. The new season`s first show, dated Jan 14, was about the postal system, starting with a song; no mailbag, no DX. It does appear the name of the show is rather misleading (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** VENEZUELA [non]. RNV via Cuba, 11680, Mon Jan 21 at 1509 tune-in during heavily accented English segment, about relations with Italy, FARC; 1513 back to Spanish with Chávez declaring that FARC and ELN should be considered legitimate armed forces, not terrorists; playing the hostage release for all it`s worth. Over co-channel which Aoki shows could be either BBC Arabic via Rampisham, or KCBS North Korea --- but does not list RNV which has been there for months as originally reported in DXLD! EiBi has all of the above, but shows RNV as English during the first semihour, while that continues to be only sporadic and unpredictable (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ### ____________________________________________________________________________________ Be a better friend, newshound, and know-it-all with Yahoo! Mobile. Try it now. http://mobile.yahoo.com/;_ylt=Ahu06i62sR8HDtDypao8Wcj9tAcJ ---[Start Commercial]--------------------- Order your WRTH 2008: http://www.hard-core-dx.com/redirect2.php?id=wrth2008 ---[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. 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