** ANGUILLA. 11775 fixed mix with local MW 1610 programming as heard the past
two days: May 28 at 1311, Pastor Melissa Scott all by herself; even the ChiCom
jamming was barely audible. A pity: 99% of SWLs would rather hear the Carib
huxters along with live local Caribbean Beacon continuity announcements between
1000 and 1600. PMS and DGS should take a daily break and give us a chance to
hear the real Anguilla unimpeded without leaving it to technical breakdowns
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CANADA. 6030, CFVP, May 28 at 1249 with 6:49 = 11 till 7 timecheck; weak but
clear, altho not heard a few minutes earlier. Sunrise enhancement? No, Calgary
sunrise is now 1130 UT. 1253 plug ``old time country favourites``, ``Classic
Country`` ID, and they meant it with Johnny Cash`s ``Walk the Line`` played
next.
At this time not even a carrier from CFRX 6070, perhaps totally absorbed over
summer daytime path now, or off the air? WYFR 6085 weakly audible in Spanish
with 100x the CFRX power aimed south, 1000x the CFVP power (Glenn Hauser, OK,
DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CANADA [and non]. For the last several months, RCI has been oblivious to the
collision with China`s Japanese service on 7325; at best, the two signals were
roughly equal here, but by May 28 RCI has weakened greatly, putting CRI on top,
at 1259 check with Chinese traditional music prélude, 1300 IS and opening in
Japanese, way over RCI, so buried I could not even be positive it was in
Spanish as scheduled until 1305; and running another hour in Chinese, which
must be a total loss (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CHINA. Firedrake check May 28: at 1239, 9000 kHz had not only FD, but atop
it, `anvil` pounding at the rate of six times a second. Additional jamming as
June 3-4 approaches, so one can`t even enjoy the jammusic? These were
continuous bangs, no pauses like the `bonker` heard on various other
frequencies such as 11740. Could be a ute legitimately on 9000, but none such
heard here before. Anvil still pounding at 1304, and Firedrake resuming at 1305
after hourtop pause. 1325 still anvil, but at 1353 FD in the clear. Only other
FD noted was 13970 at 1352, just barely audible, but anvilless.
11605 a big mess of QRM at 1356 May 28; CNR1 jamming and het from something
deliberately off frequency. Aoki shows RFA Tibetan via Tinian until 1400; but
at 1400 it all cleared up as RFA introduced Vietnamese, which per Aoki is via
Tanshui, Taiwan site. It seems that Vietnam is not so afraid of outside ideas
getting in; are they doing any jamming at all of less benign clandestines?
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CUBA. RHC caught my ear May 28 at 0538 on 11760 as they were reporting on
Western Sahara. It seems Cuba hosts an ambassador from that non-country and
supports the Polisario in their struggle against Morocco for
self-determination. Clips of the ambassador speaking Spanish were included.
Yet for months and months, RHC blocked the only SW frequency of LV de la RASD,
6300, by negligently putting a mixing product of 6060 leapfrogging over 6180 on
there until 0700. Could that have been a factor in Cuba switching 6180 to 6140,
thus moving the spur to 6220? Naah, too far-fetched.
The abysmal quality of the broken English RHC announcers speak these days is
notable; are they taking lessons from R. Nacional de Venezuela? The above item
was presented by one Alex Silva. The YL host of the broadcast, whose name I
didn`t catch, is just as bad, not only accent but bad grammar. RHC really needs
to advertise for new hires, such as more hijackers, or at least political
refugees, whose native language is AmerEnglish.
The next item accused Wáshington of waging biological war against Cuba, such as
viruses released in 1952(?) to ruin the Cuban agricultural harvest, supposedly
verified by US government documents now available; 1979-1982, CIA released four
plagues against Cuba, including conjunctivitis and dengue, the latter affecting
340,000 people of whom 1,058 died; so reports Juan-Carlos somebody. Can any of
this be true? Then into some nice Cuban music.
For the second time this week, a WORLD OF RADIO airing on WRMI 9955 audible
without any DentroCuban jamming, Thursday May 28 at 0547 check, poor signal but
in the clear. If the DCJC has efforted to turn off the jamming when uncalled
for at such times, thank you very much. Further monitoring will show whether
these were flukes. Cuba has had to start an austerity program, but one would
assume jamming retains its top priority for the fluid of electricidad (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) See also KOREA NORTH, RUSSIA: QRM
** JAPAN. R. Nikkei frequently plays synthesized classical music shortly before
sign-off, Isao Tomita? One such time was Thursday May 28 at 1241 on 6055; poor
signal as too much summer daylight on path now, and anyway at 1244 cut it off
for Japanese announcements and/or commercials. Also on // 9595 (Glenn Hauser,
OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** KOREA NORTH. VOK with usual bluster on 11710, which would be ludicrous if it
weren`t a serious situation --- no, it`s still ludicrous, May 28 at 1315,
stronger than // 9335; bandscanning further up at 1324, found same over/under
RHC 13760. Perhaps the current crisis leads them to add more frequencies? Altho
this one is useless, Commies clashing with Commies. No, checking the sked, the
1300 English broadcast is also on 13760 and 15245 for Europe (Glenn Hauser, OK,
DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** RUSSIA. 12000, VOR Chinese at 1310 May 28 again heavily distorted and
strong, ruining reception of RHC. Is anyone paying attention in Khabarovsk, or
Moskva? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ###
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