** AUSTRIA. 13730 at 1355 Nov 7 in English, interview about search engines and
their drawbax, with someone who spoke with an Arnoldesque accent, so he must be
Austrian too. Still going at 1359 and I feared they would not get finished by
end of transmission, but closed Report from Austria just barely in time for
1400* DCI (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** BULGARIA. R. Bulgaria, 15700 is still putting out modulation spike spurs, at
1409 Nov 7 during Bulgarian bihour, this time evident out to plus and minus 25
kHz (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CHINA. 6155, M&W conversing in American English, turns out to be China
Business Radio as IDed in passing at 1320 Nov 7. Badly squeezed by
Chinese-language stations on each side.
9000 still with Firedrake, Nov 7 but at 1327 during a quiet passage, which no
doubt repeats every hour at this minute, N.B., I could hear a second station
underneath and making a SAH, presumably Sound of Hope (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** CUBA. Discrepancy report: RHC missing from 12000 at 1343 check Nov 7; on
11760 as usual (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** INDONESIA. VOI, 9526, still active Nov 7 at 1330 during English hour playing
some of its favorite background music, Cielito Lindo, in Miscellany program
talking about how there are 100 football fields in Jakarta, owned by the
government but funxioning as businesses. I hope I got that right? YL presenter
outroduced herself as Yuko K-something, so apparently she is ethnic Japanese.
1333 to Music Corner with a YL singer born in September 1965 in Semarang (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** KOREA NORTH [non]. 5910 with heavily-accented news in English about North
Korea, Friday Nov 7 at 1416, fair signal and completely in the clear, no
jamming, CCI or ACI. 1420 ID in clear American accent as ``This is Shiokaze,
Sea Breeze, from Tokyo, Japan`` and then ``Today`s Editorial``. Unfortunately,
everything but the canned IDs was very hard to understand due to the accents of
the speakers. No enumeration of kidnap victims by birthyear this time. 1425
another clear ID, and then lengthy sign-off routine spelling out website,
addresses, over piano music, concluding with callsign JSR, Tokyo at 1429. An
excellent new frequency for them, but they are prepared to jump elsewhere if
jammed (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** KURDISTAN [non]. 11530, Nov 7 at 1340 could hear V. of Mesopotamia unclearly
under WYFR Portuguese, nearly zero-beat. After WYFR 1345* uncovered but now in
continuous Kurdish talk I could detect flutter and short/long-path echo. This
TDP transmission is registered as SMF = Simferopol`, Ukraine, an imaginary site
where as Wolfgang Büschel points out, there are no SW transmitters, and SMF
axually means Mykolaiv, Ukraine. We thought this was axually via Kishinov,
Moldova / Pridnestrovye, or Samara, Russia, but whence is it, really? FWIW, not
much from E Asia was making it at this time on 25m, and Romania 11940 was
weaker than usual (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A [non]. VOA Chinese, nice to hear for a change without Firedrake or
CNR1 jamming, tho there was a trace of CCI, Nov 7 at 1349 on 12040 via Tinian,
harmonica riff, discussing Obama, frequent mentions of Mei-Guo, interviewing
someone in English about fife-and-drum corps, but they kept voice-overing him
in Chinese! (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 7862, approximately: the day before I was hearing typical
DentroCuban jamming around 7865, but Nov 7 at 0654 there was higher-pitched and
faster pulsing than that e.g. heard on 7365 at the same time. This was at the
rate of 4 per second (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ###
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