** CHINA. Bandscanning for Firedrake, July 24 at 1257, found it not on 8000 as
a few days ago but instead on 8020, good signal // 7280, 11665, etc. At 1300
went to open carrier, during which no trace of Sound of Hope could be heard
here, 1305:30 resumed FD, but gone at 1323 recheck (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** CHINA. CRI`s Esperanto service coming in well on 11650, July 24 at 1328,
talking about, what else, La Pekinaj Olimpikoj, real Chinese clips with
voice-overs in Mandarin-accented Esperanto, k.t.p. Per Aoki, at 13-14 UT this
is Beijing site at 215 degrees. That`s close to directly off the back from
CNAm, which would be 35 degrees. Per EiBi, the // frequency is 9440 from
another site, unchecked. I noticed that there was less flutter-fading on 11650
than there was on Firedrake 11665. BTW, penultimate stress is mandatory in
Esperanto, but it sounded like ``Olímpikoj``, something which those influenced
by natural languages must always beware of (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** CHINA. 5955, July 24 at 1237, M&W interview in English, not // RA 6020, and
didn`t think to check CRI frequencies for //, but per Aoki:
5955 CHINA R INTER 1200-1257 1234567 English 500 95 Beijing CHN
11627E 3957N CRI a08
But that also lists from a slightly different Beijing site:
5955 CNR 8 1200-1300 1234567 Mongolian 100 15 Beijing 491 CHN
11625E 3955N CNR8 a08
Which seems extremely unlikely, that both would be operational; I did have some
co-channel QRM, tho 5950 WYFR was more of a problem (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** KOREA NORTH [non]. V. of the People, clandestine from S to N Korea, 6518
with talk in Korean // 6600. The latter had rapid pulse jamming but 6518 was
clear (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MEXICO. Since XEXQ told Julián Santiago that they are still on the air, I
looked for it again July 24 at 1243 when the noise level was lower than usual.
I could detect a carrier a smidgen on the hi side of 6045, but no modulation
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. Looking for the unID African music on 5050, July 23 at 2255, WWRB was
already on the air with preacher. Supposedly scheduled from 0000, but
definitely after 2300; does it really start at 2200? That would be ``6 pm`` EDT
rather than CDT in their ambiguous schedule. The night before, WWRB was also
off the air before 0500 (Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A [and non]. It`s unusual to hear WRMI, especially when the DentroCuban
Jamming Command is grinding away on 9955, but July 24 at 1253, WRMI was about
equal level to the jamming with a speaker talking urgently about ``Cuba
Libre``. 1327 recheck, only jamming heard (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** U S A [and non]. Prompted by an erroneous log of VOA 9815 in Portuguese as
Botswana, I checked this transmission July 24 at 1823: VG signal so can`t be
Botswana but instead Greenville as currently scheduled. Sign-off lasted until
1831, and carrier stayed on until 1834:30. I had the BFO on to notify me when
it quit, and then I could also hear a just barely audible carrier on 9815.
That`s also VOA, in French via Madagascar, both to exactly the same West
African target areas. But if the VOA Greenville signal is making it there
during the first half of the hour, it must also be interfering with the VOA
Madagascar signal during the second half which of course starts promptly at
1830, if not a minute before with its own sign-on. In such a case, there should
be DCI (drop carrier immediately) and/or CS (crash-start). This is one of many
cases now where VOA sites serving the same target area unnecessarily change
abruptly, and steps are not taken to avoid
self-interference! Another example is 17530 where the first half of the
English hour is Greenville, the second half Thailand, also with a monitored
overlap.
BTW, 9815 has quite a convoluted VOA schedule at 1630-2130 per EiBi:
9815 1630-1730 USA Voice of America SWA EAf /BOT Swahili Botswana
9815 1730-1800 USA Voice of America P EAf /D-L Port. Lampertheim
9815 1800-1830 Mo-Fr USA Voice of America P WAf g Port. Greenville
9815 1830-1900 USA Voice of America F WAf /MDG French Madagascar
9815 1900-2030 USA Voice of America F CAf /BOT French Botswana
9815 2030-2100 SaSu USA Voice of America F WAf g French Greenville
9815 2030-2100 Mo-Fr USA Voice of America HA WAf /BOT Hausa Botswana
9815 2100-2130 Mo-Fr USA Voice of America F CAf /BOT French Botswana
A year ago, the 1730-1800-1830 Portuguese and the 2030-2100 Hausa were via
Morocco, but who needs that? Lampertheim and Greenville were simply plugged in
as substitutes, surely inferior ones to W Africa.
Furthermore at 1630-1700, 9815 now collides with BBC via Oman in Sinhala, which
makes one wonder how much co-channel QRM there be in those respective target
areas (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A [non]. One of the better, or I should say few signals above 15410,
July 24 at 1731 was on 15760, talk in a language with lots of o-umlauts, but
certainly not German, so is it Turkish? Yes! Eibi shows this as YFR via
Woofferton at 17-19. Still fair signal at 1816. BTW, CL, there is nothing wrong
with well-informed `list-logging` such as this for major broadcasters, where
you are never going to hear a local site ID anyway. However if later shown to
be mistaken, a correxion will certainly be forthcoming (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST) ###
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