** CUBA [and non]. RHC`s English program at 23-24 UT is supposed to be only on
9550 --- to Rio de Janeiro? To the Caribbean? Who know? But I was monitoring
11800 at 2301 UT Oct 1, and guess what --- RHC opening English, not unusual for
this frequency to be running overtime past scheduled 2300* in Spanish.
So I then checked 9550 --- just open carrier! Then I checked 9600 --- and there
was RHC English // 11800. Modulation on 9550 came up around 2303. It came to
pass that 11800, bothered by QRDRM from 11790-11795-11800 HCJB with 4 kW aimed
110 degrees from Pifo, cut off sometime between 2305 and 2307, but 9600 kept
going past 2330 as if it were intended.
BTW, RHC does not announce its frequencies at the beginning of English hours,
which is a very good idea since they change from day to day, and the studionix
are in no position to know them, unlike an axual monitor in faraway Oklahoma.
Also, while listening to RHC on 9600, I could barely hear the Vatican IS
underneath at 2314, but did not notice whether they still had a 2.5 minute
English service just before it; RHC was much stronger.
DentroCuban Jamming Command was busy jamming nothing the evening of Oct 2,
early UT: at 0010 on 9515 vs R. República which closes at 0000 (but heavier
jamming on its axual frequency 9640 to the extent that RR was inaudible); also
against nothing on 5890 and 6110, which are VOA Spanish frequencies not opening
until 0030 and then not exclusively for Cuba (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** ECUADOR. HCJB`s Kulina service on 11920, Oct 1 at 2253 with carefully
enunciating preacher referring to Matthew XXIV, pronounced in Portuguese, at
2253 and again at 2256.
I figured they would have moved much further into the NT by now, since my last
log of this on May 10 found them also citing Matthew XXIV.
Either they`re really hooked on this chapter, or more likely, they have
recorded only a few programs in this exotic language and play the same ones
over and over. And just like 5 months ago, the speaker was faded out rudely at
2259:30 with no outro or closing, just in time for the automated introduxion to
the Portuguese service which follows (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** EGYPT. R. Cairo notes Oct 2: at 0012, 9360 with open carrier, or almost so:
straining to make out any traces of modulation I thought I heard ``Qahira``
mentioned; this is scheduled in Arabic to S America. Meanwhile, 9280 at same
time had good modulation with Arabic music; this is English to North America at
2300-2430, commonly mis-listed as Arabic, e.g. in Aoki, since schedules
emanating from ERTU repeatedly overlook this English broadcast and people are
also ignoring my correxions about it in DXLD! Here`s another chance to do so.
At 0014, also checked 6290 and found that good in an Arabic drama, W&M
alternating (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** EQUATORIAL GUINEA. On Oct 1 I did not get around to checking 15190 for R.
Africa until 2250, too late for modulation but not too late for a big open
carrier they had not yet turned off (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MEXICO. I finally had a chance to check XEPPM`s program with an English
title ``On the Road`` per their website SW schedule for 6185, at 0015 UT. Oct 2
at 0015 music, then segué into a romantic song in Spanish, but by 0019 the
announcer was talking and it soon became clear that this is a series presented
in Spanish about Jack Kerouac`s ``On the Road``, at its fiftieth anniversary.
Plus hiway SFX, and even at 0020 the theme music to ``Ruta 66``. Now we know.
Wikipedia:
``On the Road is a novel by American writer Jack Kerouac, written in April
1951, and published by Viking Press in 1957. It is a largely autobiographical
work that was written based on the spontaneous road trips of Kerouac and his
friends across mid-century America. It is often considered a defining work of
the postwar Beat Generation that was inspired by jazz, poetry, and drug
experiences. While many of the names and details of Kerouac's experiences are
changed in the novel, hundreds of references in On the Road have real-world
counterparts.`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** PRIDNESTROVYE. Radio PMR still on 6040 to NAm, Oct 1 at 2339 check in
German, which alternates every quarter hour with English and French. As
important as it may be, German is not a language native to Moldova or to North
America, but very much a minority language at best, not even worth DW`s trouble
to broadcast to NAm, so why does PMR aim it at us? Probably because they have
someone on staff capable of translating and reading their propaganda in German,
which is useful for the European service, so by golly, NAm gets it too (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** VENEZUELA [non]. In the Oct issue of BDXC-UK Communication, page 39, appears
this: ``RNV, English at 2300-2330 is now on 15250 (ex 13680) via Cuba. Heard by
Glenn Hauser (DXLD) on 6 September with the usual heavy-accented translations
from Spanish to English.``
I said no such thing. Here is that log item verbatim: ``** VENEZUELA [non].
RNV, 15250 via Cuba, Sat Sept 6 at 2314 in English, YL with tedious enumeration
of constitutional articles concerning corruption, apparently trying to dismiss
such charges against Chávez in the 1990s, made only worse by her didactic and
heavy accent. . . (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)``
I said nothing about 13680 one way or the other, but this transmission has been
on both frequencies for years, not one moving to another, and reconfirmed on
both Oct 1 at 2343 in Spanish. I also did not say English was at 2300-2330.
Editors are eager to pin RNV`s English to specific times, but in fact it
appears at irregular times, usually mixed in with Spanish segments (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ###
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