** AUSTRIA. 7325, March 1 at 0008 in German, obviously from Ö1 Moosbrunn as scheduled, but with distorted interference. Seemed like a spur from some other frequency but could not find anything matching on this band; and then it appeared the distortion peaks coincided with the program modulation underneath, as well as not being on a slightly separate frequency; also they would come and go. Suspect a problem at Moosbrunn (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CUBA. 11680, new frequency for RHC in Spanish, loud and clear, and best of the lot when checked for parallels, March 1 at 0015. It was synchronized with // 13760. It was not synchronized, echoing against much weaker 11760, 9600, 6060, 5965. // 6140 was slightly out of synch with the other two groups. This could indicate three different transmitter sites and/or three separate audio feed routings for the same program and/or, least likely, deliberately offset modulation on adjacent transmitters to even out power consumption, as is done at Bonaire and various IBB sites such as Tinian. The audio on these was not // 6000 and 9820, which carry separate ``Mesa Redonda`` program at this time. At 0020 the main program was identified as ``Revista Informativa de la Noche de Radio Habana Cuba``. Also checked Rebelde 5025 just in case, and totally separate programming from all of this. 11680 is not on any of the online frequency schedules for RHC at this hour, nor on their own frequency schedule at http://www.rhc.cu/espanol/frecuencia/frecuencias-espanol.htm which we have already pointed out is inaccurate in other cases. However, 11680 is in use for the Venezuela relay at 15-16, and we also heard it on one Sunday during the 14-15 UT hour instead of 11875 which collides with WEWN. 11875 is on the RHC schedule above for 00-05, but not heard now, so it appears 11680 is its replacement in the evenings, but who knows if this is a fluke or a permanent change? Did not hear any frequency announcements, but those are not reliably updated, anyway, announcers being the last to know of any frequency changes. It`s typical for RHC, once it starts using one frequency at a certain time, to expand it to other times, of course leaving it for monitors to discover what is happening as no notifications are made to HFCC by this outlaw nation, which still asserts it follows international broadcasting rules, unlike the US which dares to broadcast to Cuba without its permission (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. 7260, good signal with 30-second loop announcement lasting 23 seconds + 7 seconds pause, paraphrased: ``BBC World Service, currently no service on this channel, but you can hear English and Arabic 24 hours on one of this satellite`s nearby channels. Details of all our services at bbcworldservice.com`` with BBC theme music bed. Heard from tune-in 0005 UT March 1, still at 0015, and at 0050 rechecks. No Merlin/BBC/VTC usage during this hour on any of the online schedules. Is no one paying attention at Bush House/VTC master control? Obviously not, and we SWLs are further insulted by being addressed as satellite listeners. Site? Planning a new service from where to where? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ____________________________________________________________________________________ Looking for last minute shopping deals? Find them fast with Yahoo! Search. http://tools.search.yahoo.com/newsearch/category.php?category=shopping ---[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. 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
