CVC Darwin rechecked shortly after 2300 UT Jan 30: 15170 audible weakly, succeeding 9585, used only for the first hour of CVC Chinese; 15250 for CVC Indonesian (and 15255) totally blocked by Venezuela via Cuba, of course. 12010 R. Australia no longer // talk on 12040, 15560, but music presumably in Burmese service.
UT Jan 31, surely the final day now, started checking at 1415: 13635 good with gospel rock or whatever they call such a format with indecipherable lyrix, just as well. At 1415 mentioned ``cvcradio.in``. 1418 YL DJ with Oz accent mentions this will be the final time on shortwave, so switch to mobile streaming (yeah, right). Then greeted countless Kumars by the full name of each, of the Cosmos Club in India. As usual fast-paced format suitable for those with deficient attention spans; you never know when they are going to drop in an ID as the music plays. BTW, Andrew Flynn of CVC HQ in England told me a few days ago that the SW transmissions via Uzbekistan for India would continue. 1428 she gives full website without the http which I always insert to assist hotlinking: http://www.cvcradio.in for song requests, or text 99-45-97-77-77. Will they play anything that is unChristian, or godforbid, off-format? At 1430 it`s local midnight in Cox Peninsula and Feb 1 starts, but that`s only incidental as it is already midnight in Queensland, and four hours away in India, so the broadcast goes on. By 1440 the signal is weakening considerably; by 1504 recheck still audible; 1542 just a carrier detectable, tho on Sunday there is no Tirana ACI from 13640. Meanwhile I was switching back and forth to CVC`s Chinese service on 13685, but paying less attention to it. At 1416 music presumably with a gospel element in Chinese; 1417 Chinese YL announcement. Fortunately, Habana has been missing from 13680 lately, but still some ACI from Farda, and just as much from very strong WYFR 13695, ever-increasing problems as 13685 weakened by 1504. I assume that English on 13635 will play on until final final QRT at the usual time of 1830, and Chinese 13685 until 1800. Also looked for the Kaze clands for North Korea, 9880 at 1430, 9690 at 1500, but nothing heard UT Jan 31, so already gone. I assume these will have switched to some other site(s). Monitoring Palau extensively, Hiroshi via Hasegawa reported as of Jan 29, only a different (?) one: 1530-1600 9965 JCIC Korean "Ilbone Baram". (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) > ** AUSTRALIA [and non]. Is Darwin still on the air January 31? Yes! But it > should be the last day ever. > > UT January 30 at 2159 I look for the three frequencies > scheduled to start at 2200, 9585 CVC Chinese, 9630 RA > Indonesian, and 12010 RA English --- nothing. But Maltilda > is Waltzing on 15560, loud and clear from Shepparton; path > from Darwin is rather different, but there should be some > traces if on the air. > > Then at 2200 I find RA on 12040 in English, which is the > new Palau relay, news running about 3.5 seconds behind > 15560. Must be quite a circuitous feed route; since VTC is > involved, to London and back? > > Finally at 2201 I am also hearing RA English on 12010, and > that is Darwin, with a much shorter delay, less than one > second or about one word behind 15560. It`s weaker than > 12040. Must have come on a bit late, or at least without any > prélude. > > By 2206 I check the 31m channels again, and now I am > getting them fairly: 9585 with music which I assume is CVC > Chinese service, and 9630 in Indonesian talk, soon music, > which fits for Radio Australia. > > The fourth transmitter starts at 2300 with CVC Indonesian > on 15250 (some sources say 15255), so here I repeat the full > schedule showing that also at 2300 the 9585 service switches > to 15170, and the 12010 service switches to Burmese. > > 9585, 2200-2300 340 CVC Chinese > 15170, 2300-0200 340 CVC Chinese > 17690, 0400-0600 340 CVC Chinese > 17635, 0600-1200 340 CVC Chinese > 13685, 1200-1800 340 CVC Chinese > > 15535, 0930-1230 303 CVC English > 13635, 1230-1830 303 CVC English > > 15250, 2300-0200 290 CVC Indonesian > 17820, 0400-1000 290 CVC Indonesian > 9890, 1000-1300 290 CVC Indonesian > 11925, 1300-1700 290 CVC Indonesian > ----------------------------------- > 11825, 1300-1430 340 RA Chinese > > 12010, 2200-2400 317 RA English [except Burmese 2300-2330] > 17665, 0000-0200 317 RA English [except Burmese 0100-0130] > 11980, 1600-1700 317 RA English > > 9630, 2200-2330 290 RA Indonesian > 15180, 0000-0030 290 RA Indonesian > 0400-0430 290 RA Indonesian > 0500-0530 290 RA Indonesian > ----------------------------------- > 9880, 1430-1530 3 JCI Japanese - Furusato no Kaze, alt 11995 > 9690, 1500-1530 3 JCI Korean > - Nippon no Kaze, alt 11650 > ----------------------------------- > 17755, 0700-0800 317 TDP English DRM 17750-17760 > (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ---[Start Commercial]--------------------- Order your WRTH 2009: http://www.hard-core-dx.com/redirect2.php?id=wrth2009 ---[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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