** AUSTRIA. 13730 with horn and piano classical music before and after 1330
Sept 24, fair; Ö1 has this frequency entirely to itself 0500-1600 or 1700 per
listings --- except when Sound of Hope draws Firedrake there as Aoki notes
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CUBA. 15330, noise bursts at the rate of 2 per second, Sept 23 at 1315. Old
habits die hard for the DentroCuban Jamming Command --- R. Martí hasn`t used
this frequency all summer, but will again in the B-season between 1400 and
2000. 11930 had the same type of pulse rate but not exactly synchronized, with
bubbles added, and bothering some Asian station at 1322, well before RM sign-on.
RHC, 13760, with open carrier at 1319 Sept 23, and much weaker than 13680 which
was modulated.
DCJC pulses at the rate of 132/minute, Sept 25 at 1311 on 9490, jamming against
nothing, since R. República uses the frequency only at 10-11 via RMI via
Sackville.
RHC, 11800 is back on the air, heard Sept 25 at 2056 in Arabic // 11750 but an
echo between them so from different sites, and 11800 weaker. At 2101, both now
in Spanish opening Revista Iberoamericana with Siboney IS, and now 11800 with
SAH, no doubt from R. Bulgaria also in Spanish to Spain, so the collision
continues (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** ECUADOR. HCJB, 11960, usual big signal Sept 24 at 1333, but no modulation,
unless that was the low roar audible during fades. Automation must have seized
up. 1336 brought up gospel rock in English, perhaps from automatic
silence-sensor; 1337 back to ``himnos de la vida cristiana`` in Spanish
sponsored by some product I missed. Is HCJB Spanish overtly commercial now?
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** EGYPT. Re Sept 13 log, I meant to say half-MINUTE-late timesignal, not
half-second. Change to:
R. Cairo, English to NAm, 9280, Sept 13 at 2310 Arabic music at fair
level, but half-minute-late timesignal after 2315 led to drop in
modulation with news theme, and YL beginning newscast. Couldn`t make
it out; gave up (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)``
** EQUATORIAL GUINEA. It`s back – R. Africa, 15190, Sept 25 at 2028 with open
carrier, squeezed next to bigger open carrier from Greenville 15185 about to
open Hausa, which started sign-on at 2029. Still no mod from E.G. --- probably
an habitual long deadair pause between programs on this incompetently-run
station. YFR via Ascension 15195 was quite weak by comparison. Recheck at 2044,
15190 back in biz with a screaming preacher. Had been missing the last several
days (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** INDIA [and non]. Monitoring 11620, Sept 25 at 2049, a bad mix of
Spanish/English, I guess a language lesson from REE, which moved here a few
months ago to avoid collision with Vatican on 11625 --- and South Asian music,
which was very fluttery. As I pointed out at the time, the QSY by REE solves
nothing, as now it collides with AIR, and the situation can only be much worse
in Eurafrica. Per Aoki, AIR GOS Bangalore from 2045 is 500 kW in English at 325
degrees. After 2057, Spain was off and only heard India on 11620 (Glenn Hauser,
OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** INDONESIA. RRI Makassar, 4750, was the dominant one Sept 24 at 1258, with
4790 Fak2 hardly audible. 4750 had a string of promos in Indonesian, 1300 M&W
talking with lots of Salaam-Aleikums, 1303 into Qur`an. There was a rippling
SAH from a weaker station, China or Bangladesh (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** IRAN. Beautiful rendition of Qur`an, with reverb, Sept 25 at 1345 on 15150,
VIRI Arabic via Sirjan, and good reception. Lasted at least until 1400; at 1420
check, nice pop string music, 1422 YL talking reverently in Arabic (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MEXICO. Whenever a bit of classical music can be pulled out of the weak and
undermodulated carrier on 6045 it is still notable as must be XEXQ, Sept 24 at
1312, very poor (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A [non]. Pleased to find VOA News Now in English, M&W alternating
headlines, on a frequency where I don`t normally hear it, 9510 fair and in the
clear. A good thing too, since 9760 Philippines was mixing at about equal level
with CRI English. 9510 is Udorn, Thailand, at 12-14, 250 kW at 130 degrees, so
intended for everything from SE Asia to New Zealand (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. Tony Alámo confirmed on WWCR 15825, in the 13 UT hour weekdays. Sept
25 at 1330 another low-key sermon about Job; 1354 retune, choir singing How
Great Thou Art, 1358 outro with Alamo`s Texarkana P O Box (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 6035, normally nothing audible here, but Sept 24 at 1307 weak M&W
talking in unID language, overshadowed by Firedrake from 6030. Bhutan is a very
hard catch here, and at this hour Yunnan and Singapore are also scheduled on
frequency. One could dream that the big neighbors would give BBS a chance to
have just one SW frequency clear to itself. It will be some more weeks before
reception could hold up past 1400 when it goes into English (Glenn Hauser, OK,
DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 15476 (not 15475), Sept 25 at 2057 with bits of audio, but mostly
just carrier. I usually figure this has to be LRA36, RNASG, but it was still on
at 2108 vs usual closing around 2100. Did anyone notice today whether it stayed
on late, at least the carrier? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ###
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