** AUSTRALIA. RA in discussion of giving birth at home, 9580, rudely
interrupted amid at 1358* Jan 18 as that frequency had to close with no
retune/courtesy announcement at all, continued on // 9590 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** CUBA. RHC, 0609 UT Jan 18: Spanish, ending Figuras en la Historia on 6120,
6150; music during English service on 6140, // 6060, 6010 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** INDIA. Seems the AIR Aligarh transmitter on 9470 is upacting again after a
couple months of calm: Jan 18 at 1359 music // stronger National Channel via
Bengaluru 9425, but 9470 accompanied by buzz, more on the lower than the upper
side tho maybe suppressed by RA signal on 9475.
9425 at 1435 ending newscast, introducing English feature program on this
Monday with music, ``Old Black Magic``, segué to Celine Dion`s ``My Heart Must
Go On``, the connexion between them not being clear; 1442 talk with biography
of someone born on 1.23.1897 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** INDONESIA. 9526, no signal at 1357 Jan 18, so VOI presumably off if it were
ever on this date, despite having resumed Malay hour at 1400 and on until 1502*
the day before per Ron Howard (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** PHILIPPINES [non]. 11715, RVA via VATICAN, Jan 18 from *1500 in the clear,
still no sign of KJES, YL devotional talk in presumed Tagalog, and I thought I
heard her referring repeatedly to ``allah``, tho you`d think they`d use the
Spanish term ``dios`` instead. Perhaps Philippines is more tolerant of such
cross-religionism than Malaysia. The monotheist Abrahamists have more in common
than they like to admit (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** SPAIN. After catching REE Sephardic service foulups on Dec 21 and 28 when
the modulation feed was far out of coördination with the transmission time of
1425-1455 Mondays on 15385, I missed checking on Jan 4 and 11, so made sure to
tune in Jan 18 from 1420. By now they are no longer SNAFUd, with IS starting at
1423, sign-on at 1425 but STILL giving wrong frequency 15325!
1448 with ``España Hoy`` segment about opening of Wagner`s ``El holandés
volante`` in Madrid, ignoring the composer`s anti-Semitism. 1453:30 standard
sign-off again giving frequencies for this and the two other judeo-español
transmissions UT Tuesdays; yes ``15325`` by an announcer who never monitors her
own broadcasts and no one in-house bothers to inclue her. Contact info to the
six-digit P O box, or to sefarad @ rtve.es then fanfare and off at 1455* sharp
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** SPAIN [non]. Had not reconfirmed REE`s M-F 1340-1355 ``co-official
languages`` segment for some weeks, so barely got to it in time on Monday Jan
18, on 15170 via Costa Rica under Romania, at 1354 upwrapping the Basque
segment with genuine Basque-language closing announcement after giving weather
in Castilian like the rest of that 5-minute token service which is not really
in Basque at all (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U K [non]. 5875, BBCWS in English via Thailand, poor but no QRM at 1355 Jan
18 with report from Haiti. Next check at 1445, English again mixing with
another language, but atop it, presumably BBCWS Arabic as before, with phoner.
EiBi update Jan 17 and Aoki Jan 18 still have no listing for the Arabic (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A [non]. 9440, Jan 18 at 1405 talk in unID language, probably S Asian,
and now accompanied by buzz similar to AIR on 9470. This buzz is the same
thruout the bandwidth of the signal, however, and not loud enough to blot out
the intentional modulation. Around 1415 had giveaway YFR jingles.
We first heard this new transmission Dec 18 when it was YFR in English, and per
Aoki was: ``9440 FAMILY RADIO 1400-1500 1234567 English 250 195
Novosibirsk-Oyash RUS 08341E 5529N WYFR b09 Dec. 24-`` And our last log of it
on Jan 8 was still in Campinglish.
As often with YFR, they start a new transmission with English fill until they
are ready to attack a new minority group and then switch to that language; but
which? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
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