** CUBA. DentroCuban Jamming Command is crazy, jamming frequencies with nothing
on them. A quick bandscan June 20 at 0615 found the same raspy pulsing at the
rate of two per second on these frequencies: 9840, 11775, and by 0622 also on
7365, 6100. I did not use a second receiver to see if they were synchronized,
but probably were. As recently pointed out, 6100 is used at other times, only
two hours a day, by R. República, and was also testing Cuban music later in the
night from WHRI. 7365 is R. Martí at other hours and formerly Cuban music via
WHRI until 1500. 11775 is R. Martí, only earlier in the evening.
But 9840? No targets known there, but since it is a WHRI frequency, currently
available at 1300-2000 per HFCC, I suspect this points to yet another previous
Cuban music test we may have missed. Checked at 1752 June 20, 9840 was on with
usual WHRI gospel rock music fill (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CUBA [and non]. Tnx to a tip from Jean-Michel Aubier in France, that R.
República was on both 6135 and 5940 from *2200 June 21, I rushed to check out
new 5940 at 2355 UT. Yes, still on then and beneath heavy jamming on both; as
far as I could tell the two were // and synchronized, which has not been the
case when RR was running from both DTK and VTC facilities in Europe. Therefore,
I suspect new 5940 is also coming from Rampisham, as RR steps up its output to
dilute the effectiveness of the DentroCuban Jamming Command. At 2359 there was
``Atención``, presumably a frequency change announcement, but could not copy it
due to jamming. Both 5940 and 6135 went off at exactly 0000, and by the time I
had retuned one receiver to 6155, it was already going there as per usual
schedule.
Then I looked around for a successor to 5940, but none found on 49 or 41m;
altho jamming against nothing was then found on 5890, and it diminished in
level by 0005. Also heavier jamming on 9885, both of which point to VOA Spanish
target --- except neither starts until 0030, and with non-Cuban programming at
the outset. Heavy splatter from WWCR/DGS 5935 started at 0000, but as far as I
could tell the jamming was no longer on 5940.
The previous addition to RR was 5955 but nothing on there at this hour; it had
been observed May 22 at 0100-0200 Tue-Sat via Nauen (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** ECUADOR. HCJB is really in a rut, a captive of its unsupervised automation
system. As I previously noted a few years before, when the Spanish service on
9745 signs off, this still happens: June 21 at 0501 Ecuadorian national anthem
in progress, ending at 0503. Time to turn off the transmitter, right? Wrong.
After a few seconds pause, starts playing an Andean music piece for about 70
seconds, and THEN the transmitter cuts off while that music is still playing.
Could be a studio silence-sensor kicks in with such fill music instead of
realizing it is time to quit, and a separate timer on the transmitter is set to
turn off one minute too late (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** LAOS [non]. Hmong World Christian Radio, presumed, Saturday June 21 at 1406
on WHRI 11785, playing the same rustic singing with frogs(?) chirping in
background that we also hear on Hmong Lao Radio during the previous hour. Makes
one wonder just how closely related these two programs are (Glenn Hauser, OK,
DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** NETHERLANDS [non]. As you may know, I could not care less about stupid
ballgames, but after dining at a restaurant which had some European soccer
championship up on a screen, as it was shown in the USA even on ABC-TV, Russia
leading 1-0 at that point, I inevitably ran across some of RNW`s special
coverage during a routine SW bandscan.
June 21 at 2119, WWCR/DGS 13845 was suffering from huge continuous crackling
noise which also marred sidebands more than usual as far as 13835 and 13855,
the latter bothering RNW in Dutch; this was not synchronized with strong 17765
and weak 17485. At 2122 I noticed a much stronger //, Sackville 11640, on for
this occasion only, no trace of anything under it, during sad solo singing ---
imagine that, MUSIC on RNW`s Dutch service!! ID, `Dit is de Wereldomroep`, but
did not say which one; 2124 a vaguely familiar song in English! So mutch for
Dutch music. This too was of a lamentational nature, so I concluded that
Netherlands must have lost. This matters only insofar as Lowcountrypeople
believe it does; in reality, it is better for a nation to lose such a contest,
so it may then concentrate on something that really matters to national
achievement, e.g. scientific research, the arts, freedom (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** NEW ZEALAND. RNZI`s newer DRM transmitter is also capable of AM, and that
was evident June 21 at 0421 when I found BOTH RNZI frequencies, 15720 and 13730
running AM! Some show about downloading songs, good reception on both. But what
will the poor Pacific Island relayers do when the DRM frequency comes in on AM
instead? Do their receivers automatically switch to AM? Then I look for an
explanation on the RNZI website but only find this referring to six days
earlier, not exactly applicable now:
``21 Jun, 2008 09:15 UTC --- There will be no DRM transmission on Sunday 15
June due repairs being carried out to the AM transmitter`` (Glenn Hauser, OK,
DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** RUSSIA [and non]. VOR, English on 13635 via Pet-Kam to WNAm, inbooming June
21 at 0423 during talk about a St. Pete music festival, but there were
occasional split-second audio dropouts. During the following semihour, 13635
was better than 9450 via Germany (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** SOUTH CAROLINA [non]. Ran across Brother Scare on a frequency new to me,
fair-poor 11520, June 21 at 2126; is it // WWRB 9385? No, but he is talking on
same subject, prophecy of inevitable armed conflict between US and Iran before
Bush is out (do we need this crap to muddy the waters, or contribute in the
minutest way to it possibly happening?).
So may be same program but unsynchronized from different sites. I forced myself
to keep listening, and eventually determined that 11520 was running 2 minutes
and 48 seconds behind 9385! That`s a lot of delay, even if multiple satellites,
internet and digital processing are all involved.
It so happened that B.S. went on to talk about his current SW schedule, so this
broadcast was of some usefulness after all. Here is how he gave it, never
mentioning timezone! But probably EDT of UT -4; my comments in brackets:
3185, 1-9 am [WWRB]
5110, all-night [WBCQ]
5745, 8 pm - 1 am [WWRB]
6110, 10 am - noon [DTK]
6175, 3-5 pm [DTK]
6890, 6 pm - midnight [WWRB]
7415, 9-11 pm [WBCQ – surely not every night now, just filling in?]
9265, Sat 10 am - 2 pm [? Inactive WMLK scheduled from 1600 UT; WINB
only until 1200]
9330, all-day [WBCQ]
9385, all-day [WWRB]
11520, 5-6 pm daily [no listings at all for this on any of the online
skeds; but suspect DTK; = 21-22 UT when I heard it]
13570, 2-3 pm daily [WINB]
13810, 10-11 am daily [DTK]
17435, 11 am - noon daily [sic, means 17485, DTK]
A few minutes later he gave the SW sked again in a different form, mixing
local time and UTC, sic:
12-9 am, 3185 [WWRB]
3-11 pm, 7415 [WBCQ; he still thinx he has 8 hours straight on WBCQ
rather than here and there!]
9 pm-8 am, 5110 [WBCQ]
7 pm-midnight, 5745 [WWRB]
14 UTC, 6110 [DTK; no end times given]
19-21 UTC, 6175 [DTK]
6 pm-midnight, 6890 [WWRB]
8 am-9 pm, 9330 [WBCQ]
9 pm-7 pm, 9385 [sic, means 9 am-7 pm; WWRB]
14 UTC, 13810 [DTK]
15 UTC, 17485 [DTK, got the frequency right this time]
Yes, I know, DTK is now supposed to be called M&B. Note latest addition 11520
is missing from second version, and so is 9265. I`ll leave it to others to pick
out the conflicts between the two versions other than those and 7415. Said his
total SW airtime is now 144 hours per day. And he is on 133 stations around the
world, 31 of which run him all-night. I heard him on WOAI 1200 recently plus
IBOCs; has Clear Channel no shame? Also plugged his availability on cellphones,
for a long-distance call anytime to 712-432-7250. Thank a god for that! (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U K. A good time to hear From Our Own Correspondent on that antiquated
medium, SW, from BBCWS, is UT Saturdays 0432 on 9410, 62 degrees from
Rampisham, as I did June 21 instead of webcast (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** U S A [and non]. WWCR/DGS service, 13845, suffering from revival of heavy
continuous crackling on audio, June 21 at 2119, pushing sidebands further than
usual to 13835 and 13855, latter bothering R. Netherlands soccer special. I
could also hear the crackling on Anguilla 11775, but much less of it. They may
have better audio filtering, but taking the same defective satellite feed from
HQ in LA. I assume uplink dish is not aimed accurately, altho downlink dish
misalignments could add to the problem. This has been a recurring problem for
years with The University Network; they obviously don`t care or don`t know how
to fix it. None of the Costa Rican frequencies were audible to look for
crackling there too (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ###
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