** BULGARIA [and non]. 11700, Dec 16 at 1412, motorboating sound which I at first feared was a new defect at R. Bulgaria, but the carrier was steady and it soon went away; may have been OTH radar, uncovering weak signal from RB music // much better 15700 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CANADA. Sackville is still off the air Dec 16, instead of resuming as hoped by 1800 Dec 15. Before and after 1400 checked several frequencies and nothing there: 7310, 9625, 9650, 15230. So not only Radio Canada Internal, which is of very little interest anymore to the non-immigrant, but several other stations have lost their big signals into North America: CRI, KBS World Radio, NHKWNRJ, Voice of Vietnam, R. Austria, R. Sweden, Vatican Radio, R. Prague. Worst-hit must be KBS and VOV which are pretty hard to hear direct in North America (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CHINA. 4460, CNR-1 Beijing #572 transmitter site, better than usual Dec 15, fair at 1407. Per Aoki this one is non-direxional while 5030 is at 37 degrees, the latter almost always mixed with but atop Sarawak. 8400 with Firedrake, and ute QRM, Dec 15 at 1410. No doubt the latest landing of Sound of Hope as it jumps around the 8-9 MHz area (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CUBA. DentroCuban Jamming Command, pulses against nothing on new frequencies, which could be just spurs, or could tip us off about new frequencies for exile broadcasts, at some completely different times: 9925, Dec 16 at 1348 11878, Dec 16 at 1416 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** INDONESIA. RRI transmitters come and go, and you never know which ones will be on the air from one day to the next, assuming propagation is cooperating. Dec 16 at 1358, unlike two days before, no sign of Fak2 on 4790, but Makassar was in well on 4750, talk in Indonesian; still fair at 1433 with music, 1440 W&M DJs on phone with someone; always CODAR QRM (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** PHILIPPINES [and non]. IBB Tinang finally gets it right Dec 16: carrier came on 6105 a few sex before 1400, no extraneous audio from Radio Netherlands, and promptly into VOA Chinese opening, overriding the Chicom QRM. And yes, still that het around 6104.8, presumably RASA Mérida, México in Maya (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ROMANIA. RRI English at 1300 missing from recent new frequency 11970, Dec 16 at 1351 – that`s after WYFR closes and RRI should be audible, but nothing there, unlike the Romanian language channel 11940 which was VG; and also English on 15105 with sports at 1353. Nothing audible on 17745 either, which was what 11940 replaced. Is the sign-off announcement any help? Of course not! Annoying thing about RRI is at sign-off they never give the frequencies of the broadcast just ending, but instead all the frequencies and platforms of the next English broadcast, in this case at 1800 on 7215, 9640. Anyhow, either one of the new transmitters failed, or they have moved again away from 11940, which would be advisable due to the WYFR collision they should have anticipated before going there, anyway. And RRI have finally deleted the totally outdated A-08 schedule so that from the homepage you can now go directly to the B-08 English schedule at http://www.rri.ro/art.shtml?lang=1&sec=20&art=15758 but it still shows 11970 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U K [non]. BBCWS in English, 11760, way over RHC Spanish at 1352 Dec 16; recheck at 1414, RHC was slightly atop BBC with SAH. This correlates nicely with BBC transmitter site change at 1400 as in Aoki: from Oman at 310 degrees, also favoring us, to Cyprus at 90 degrees. Thanks to the temporary absence of CBCNQ Sackville, BBCWS now well heard on 9625 via Cyprus, Dec 16 at 1406, ID in passing, lite QRM probably from RSA. At 1422 BBC interviewing an agony aunt in India, deep fades (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A [non]. 17740 in uncertain ME language, Dec 16 at 1447 M&M interviewing someone, fair at best and gone at 1459 with no ID or jingle heard, and nothing listed in most references, a late addition since B-08 began; however I recall the VOA Kurdish used to be here, and it is again per: http://www.voanews.com/kurdi/frequencies.cfm and the site is South Africa per http://www.sentech.co.za/index.php?module=ContentExpress&func=display&ceid=300&bid=25&btitle=Frequencies&meid=324 After 1500, 17735 came on with NHK via France, and 17745 with Sudan Radio Service via Portugal (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. 6074, 8GAL audible without BFO, Dec 16 at 1400 as R. Rossii carrier stayed on 6075 past 1401; with usual V/CQ marker (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. 6215 AM, YL with repetitive syllables in presumed Korean, Dec 16 at 1506, believed to be spy numbers station, but from North or South? Not in Aoki. Ron Howard had reported this an hour later on Nov 26. I think this has been around for a long time. Searched UDXF YG and 17 hits on the frequency for various utility services, but not this (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. 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