** AUSTRALIA. Another morning, another check of 120m NT VL8 stations, Sept 29
at 1248: W&M discussion show in //, 2485 best, then 2310, then 2325 (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CUBA. Almost two weeks after it first appeared on RHC`s online transmission
schedule, 13680 was finally on the air for the 2030 UT English broadcast, Sept
28 at 2103 tune-in; same interview with Lucius Walker, American Cubasymp, as on
11760, but not exactly synchronized. I focused on a key word and eventually
determined that 13680 was playing the same program 3 minutes and 9 seconds
after 11760!
Also, the audio on 13680 sounds very different, clipped as if it has gone a
long way through some circuits to another transmitter site. Could it possibly
be a new overseas relay of RHC? Or just two different sites in Cuba, evidently
from two different very unsynchronized playbacks.
At 2127, 11760 was going into French ID, while 13680 still had Arnie Coro
giving e-mail address for plans of a solar water heater(?). The same appeared
3+ minutes later on 13680, then IS and French ID, or rather it`s the Kriyol
service as the following announcement clarified. One is on the schedule for
2130, but not on either frequency! Meanwhile, RHC Spanish was on 13760, MUCH
stronger than 13680, and // 11750. The schedule does show 13680 also for French
French at 2200, but unchecked (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** EQUATORIAL GUINEA. RNGE, 6250, back on the air, as who else would be playing
hilife music on this frequency, Sept 29 at 0540, probably shortly after
sign-on. No 6300 Sahara audible yet (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** INDONESIA. The 75-m trio were all audible Sept 29 at 1254: 3976 with
Indonesian talk by YL; not // something on 3987, 3995. Ham QRM worse the
further into ``80m``, such that at 1256, 3995 was QRM-free.
On 60m, 4790 was back to Qur`aning at 1302; 4750 a YL song rather than
news/talk (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** JAPAN. At 1257 check Sunday Sept 28, R. Nikkei was missing from JOZ 3925,
but back on with synthesized classical music Sept 29 at 1251 check. Yes, per
WRTH 2008, 3925/6055/9595 sign off early at 1200* on Sundays, otherwise to
1330* except Fridays to 1430* (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** KOREA NORTH [and non]. 3912 is usually too blocked by SSB hams, but Sept 29
at 1259 I was able to make out some music accompanied by jamming, i.e. V. of
the People from South to North, and deliberate interference from North to
North, both reaching here to what the Koreans could justifiably refer to as the
``Far East`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MYANMAR. 9731, putting a weak het on CRI 9730, Sept 29 at 1324. This is
about the most I can ever expect to hear from Myanma Radio. Doesn`t CRI occupy
enough frequencies so they could dispense with just one to accommodate a
friendly neighbor? Of course not! (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** PAPUA NEW GUINEA. An American-accented OM talking caught my ear on 3385,
Sept 29 at 1246, but quickly back to YL with less comprehensible PNG accent. At
first I thought it might be a mixing product. This was the best signal of the
usual crew on 90m (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A [non]. 12110, Sept 29 at 1335 in unID language, but brief English clip
voiced-over at 1338; Aoki says it`s VOA in Somali via Lampertheim at 13-14; and
it occupies a 2-hour hole between two Tagalog broadcasts from CRI via Kunming,
a fine example of coöperation and coördination (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST) ###
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