** ECUADOR [non]. HCJB missing from 9740 for German to Europe at 0630-0730, as checked August 4 at 0635. Still on the schedules, as is German DRM at 2000-2200 on 15355-15360-15365 whose noise I was still hearing August 3.
Here`s the page which has not been updated, still showing 0900 MESZ on 9740, and DRM at 1400 MESZ on 15350, which was replaced already in April by 2200 MESZ on 15360! http://deutsch.hcjb.org/content/view/3/5/ Equally outdated is the Plattdeutsch page http://plattdeutsch.hcjb.org/content/view/86/6/ Does HCJB really believe they have a bigger audience in Germany for DRM than for analog? Tough luck for the German DX program. Peter Kruse reminds us it`s this: http://www.rmrc.de/content/C060_RMRCDXSendung/RMRC_Sendung.html which is also outdated showing winter times and ex-frequencies but Iris Rauscher from HCJB is to visit Frankfurt August 8, perhaps with bad news. Is HCJB`s Hi & Lo German to Mexico still on the air, 0230-0330 on 9780? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** GABON. AN1, 17630, Aug 4 at 1353 good with music in French, 1359 ``vous écoutez Africa Numéro Un Radio,` 4-pip timesignal and into long talk segment, presumably news. Time to start looking for // 19160 again, 2 x 9580, but nothing heard there at this time (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** INDONESIA. Astounded to find VOI the dominant signal on 11785, instead of just a het, Aug 4 during the English broadcast, ex-9526. But it was still a bad clash with VOI on 11784.9 or so, next being VOA Chinese, and Firedrake underneath. If this had been a Sat or Sun, Hmong via WHRI would have surpassed them all. At 1310 VOI ending news with address, 1315 with website http://www.voi.co.id and This Day in History, brief bits about a shogun flag on Aug 4, 1854, and about the 1960 birth of future Spain PM Zapatero. 1318 P O Box address, e-mail english @ voi.co.id and then a talk about the Indonesian International Defense Institute. The QRM was just too much to keep listening, but if this had been on a clear 25m frequency, reception would have been very good. Nearby open ones are 11770, 11790, or with Habana adjacent, 11765 and 11795. But VOI will never move within a band, just jump unpredictably back to 9526 or 15150 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SPAIN. Expect lots of your favorite programs to be blown away for Olympic coverage; REE has already done that with Clásicos Populares, which had been Mon/Tue/Wed 1305-1400, but Aug 4 at 1323 on 17595, 15170, instead heard nothing but talk well past 1330 about the `pix, including that 25K Spaniards would be going to Beijing, and that massive screens in Madrid would show the opening ceremonies to ethnic Chinese in Madrid, no soundtrack in Castilian (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** TURKEY. 13635, Turkish music just at tune in 1255 August 3. There was some co-channel interference, which continued after TRT went off off at 1257. This is TRT Emirler, scheduled 0700-1300 with 500 kW at 310 degrees toward us since July 17, and CVC Darwin in English to S Asia until 1800. Why Turkey would have moved onto CVC frequency is not clear. Also checked 13685 for the VOT English broadcast aimed eastward, but nothing heard there, tho 15450 toward us has been audible lately (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A [non]. 15790, fair Aug 4 at 1320 with `Voice of America, Washington`` ID inserted into another language after Bollywood music, then talk about Obama. This is Radio Aap ki Dunya, the Urdu service, now 332 degrees from Sri Lanka and favorable for us, instead of 70 degrees from Kuwait as it was until June 1 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** INTERNATIONAL VACUUM [non]. I have been noticing lately a big gap on the 49m band, with hardly any signals of consequence between Anguilla 6090 and Bonaire 6165, e.g. at 0530 August 4. Who says 49m is crowded? Those with low noise level might dig out some DX; otherwise, major broadcasters are missing an opportunity (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ### ---[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
