** ALBANIA. R. Tirana, 6110 in Albanian checked Nov 27 at 0029, and fair signal, no jamming audible.
Radio Tirana webcasting started Nov 26, apparently carrying all the languages as on SW and MW. http://radiotirana.funkhaus.info:8000/listen.pls I was out during the afternoon, but checked the webcast at 0120 UT Nov 27, and it was still going in Albanian music, 0130 opening the English broadcast. Audio levels still vary greatly, but now one can easily turn it up without fighting the SW noise and QRM levels. I believe the stream kept running silently after 0145, as there is no programming until the next English broadcast at 0245. Rechecked at 0430 and the final English repeat was starting, much better than on // 6100 which still suffers from DentroCuban jamming (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BULGARIA. R. Bulgaria, 7400 in English Nov 27 at 0030 was OK again without that awful warble that lasted about a week. // 5900 had a big warble, but that`s believed to be from the still malfunxioning Russian transmitter. Even if it were healthy, there would still be a collision. 15700 with open carrier, Nov 27 at 1510, no warbling; presumably R. Bulgaria did not turn off the transmitter after end of transmission at 1500, and before another one from 1600 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** GERMANY [non]. That horrible DRM buzz Wolfgang warned us about inmidst the 31m band, is making it over here, especially strong Nov 27 at 1405 on 9540-9545-9550. Per Aoki it`s DW via Woofferton UK, 100 kW, 114 degrees, at 10-16, but the final hour via Skelton instead, a joint venture with BBC (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** INDIA. AIR Vividh Bharati Service, 9870, is usually well audible here in the mornings, mostly music, but Nov 27 at 1435 I was hearing a speech in what I think was English, but could barely understand a word due to heavy accent, polar flutter and some distortion. Outro at 1440 as having been the Prime Minister speaking from the Delhi studio; no doubt about the Mumbai terrorist attacks (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MALDIVE ISLANDS [non]. R. Australia`s Rear Vision show was about the Maldives, and the recent end of the two-sesquidecade Gayoom dictatorship. Heard well at 1335-1355 Nov 27 on 6020. Unless it was in the first few minutes I missed, not a word about Minivan Radio`s rôle. Otherwise excellent show; ends with plans to ``buy a new homeland`` for the 300K Maldivians as their islands are drowned tnx to global warming; maybe in Australia. Already there is no fresh water on most islands, except what rain can be caught. Transcript and audio here: http://www.abc.net.au/rn/rearvision/stories/2008/2422122.htm (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** RUSSIA. Checking again for 8GAL, 6074, but nothing heard at 1400-1402 Nov 27; R. Rossii, 6075, closing timesignal was only 5 seconds slow as I checked it against WWV. Only?? What`s the point of a timesignal with no precision at all? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A [and non]. Whoopee! We get a leap second this year, at 2359:60 UT Dec 31, as announced on 5000 WWVH at 1403 Nov 27, WWV at 1404. So much for our New Year`s Eve plans (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. VOA Spanish, 5940, Nov 27 at 0025 check was loud and clear, no jamming audible; // 5890 also strong, but lite jamming audible underneath. VOA programming now includes shows for the Caribbean, not Cuba in particular (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. Nothing remarkable on the X-band, on the caradio the afternoon of Nov 26, but at 2025 UT, KXEL-1540 Waterloo IA was coming in well, with local PSAs, weather, Newstalk 1540 ID and back to Sean Hannity (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
