** CHINA. 5240, I rarely hear Tibet here, but maybe I should check this far OOB more often; Dec 2 at 1404 mixing with CODAR was weak Firedrake, I think, but did not seem // also weak 9000. Note this would have been during the top-of-hour 5-minute monitoring break when Firedrake usually pauses against Sound of Hope. Some 7 hours later and a few days earlier, a Brazilian DXer reported R. Free Asia in Chinese on 5240, which seems unlikely unless they have decided to collide directly with the long-established Xizang OOB frequency, which is on the air about 22 hours a day, causing the Chicom to jam themselves? It is also conceivable that Firedrake-like music could appear occasionally as legitimate programming on Chinese stations. More monitoring needed! (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CUBA. As you may have noticed, I have tried to avoid monitoring RHC and all its SNAFUs lately, but caught one anyway Dec 2 at 1501 on 13760 when Bárbara Betancourt was introducing herself and opening Despertar con Cuba, also on 11760 but an echo apart. Both went off a few seconds apart at 1502*. Another case of the 1100 UT program being played back at 1500 and being put on the air by mistake (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** IRAN. VOIRI, 9575, Dec 2 at 1429 caught my ear with some nice music on a fairly good signal; 1430 ID and opening in Russian, Qur`an but quite brief, becoming pro-forma? Already 1433 news theme and into newscast. This is 330 degrees from Sirjan, i.e. to western Russia, and also favors North America (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** IRAN [non]. 15410, Dec 1 at 1505, enjoying R. Farda music almost completely obliterating co-channel Chile, but a SAH was detected at 1509, and Farda off at 1529*. Schedule is 1400-1530 via Woofferton UK, 105 degrees (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** KUWAIT. 15110, at 1440 Dec 2, Arabic music, 1442 mentioning Kuwait, which is scheduled here 1315-1800 at 100 degrees (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** NEW ZEALAND. Happened on RNZI in French, 17675, UT Monday Dec 1 at 2148, speech about Pres. Sarkozy, mentioning Polynésie Française. 2151 back to English with 9 to 11 timecheck. This is not on the RNZI program grid http://www.rnzi.com/pages/schedules.php but instead RNZI Feature UT Mon-Thu 2140-2200 tho there is a Pacific Press Review in French scheduled from 2115 UT Sundays (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** THAILAND. R. Thailand, 9725, poor with flutter but no QRM, during English semihour to SE Asia, Dec 2 at 1410 with talk on the king`s birthday festivities, then detailed info on how tourists may obtain VAT refund --- one requirement being departure via an international airport, not so easy at the moment! It`s incredible that there are many transmissions from the IBB Udorn relay which carry on with very good signals to NAm, while R. Thailand in axually targetting NAm fails to succeed by insisting on prime time direct on 12, 15 MHz (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. At least on Monday Dec 1, WBCQ filled the open hour on 7415 at 2200 with Jean Shepherd, streamofconciousness classic radio on the subject of boring jobs. Audio a bit lofi especially during opening theme music; signal OK until starting to fade down at 2240; show ended at 2245 with a commercial, could not decide whether classic or contemporary, and fill music. 2300 still running WORLD OF RADIO on Monday (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 13570v, WINB, 1503 Tuesday Dec 2, Musical Memories show put on by a `housewife` who revels in now being heard around the world, as she sits at her piano playing mostly religious music and singing. Not exactly a pro or of operatic quality, but she may have escaped from a choir. Included Jingle Bells with some clever new lyrix. Offered a free 60-minute CD of her Xmas music oeuvre, on request from P O Box 907, Oak Park IL 60303. Her husband`s name is George and she finally IDed herself as Martha Reed (sp?) Garvin. As for her SW outlet, could not have picked a worse one to convey music, WINB with its distortion and wobbly carrier. Also scheduled there UT Monday 0330 on 9265. Per the outdated Oct WWCR program schedule, times adjusted, she is also on Saturdays 1030 on 5070, Saturdays 1530 on 15825, Sundays 1100 on 5070, Mondays 2100 on 15825 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. 6074, 8GAL V/CQ marker was quite audible Dec 2, starting a few sex before the R. Rossii timesignal at 1400 and mixing with it briefly (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. 17740, open carrier, Dec 2 at 1445 and still going past 1500. Nothing scheduled here anywhere near this time (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
