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Today's Topics:
1. Radio Gloria International this Sunday (Tom Taylor)
2. OE10M ON 14255u (Alokesh Gupta)
3. (no subject) (Glenn Hauser)
4. Glenn Hauser logs April 23-24, 2010 (Glenn Hauser)
5. Glenn Hauser logs April 24-25, 2010 (Glenn Hauser)
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Message: 1
Date: Sat, 24 Apr 2010 08:24:55 +0100
From: "Tom Taylor" <[email protected]>
To: "Tom Taylor" <[email protected]>
Subject: [HCDX] Radio Gloria International this Sunday
Message-ID: <0582f7a442304b32a0ccaf87df2bc...@dellcb21k2j>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"
Radio Gloria International this Sunday
Radio Gloria International is on this Sunday the 25th of April 2010
At 09.00 to 1000 UTC on our normal channel of 6140 KHz.
M.V.Baltic. Information:
MV Baltic Radio relay service Schedule for Summer 2010
1st Sunday - MV Baltic Radio
3rd Sunday - European Music Radio (June)
4th Sunday - Radio Gloria International
We wish you good listening and good reception! 73s Tom
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Message: 2
Date: Sat, 24 Apr 2010 20:45:32 +0530
From: Alokesh Gupta <[email protected]>
To: Alokesh-Hotmail <[email protected]>
Subject: [HCDX] OE10M ON 14255u
Message-ID:
<[email protected]>
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ORF special event "International Marconi Day" Amateur Radio station
OE10M right now on 14255u, noted since last one hour or so since my check
in.
QSL via OE QSL Bureau or direct to OE1WHC.
Cards without SAE and (new!) IRC or USDs to cover postage will be processed
via Bureau.
To see the QSL, go to: www.qsl.at/down/oe10m.jpg
-------
Alokesh Gupta,VU3BSE
New Delhi, India.
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Message: 3
Date: Sat, 24 Apr 2010 09:29:58 -0700 (PDT)
From: Glenn Hauser <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: [HCDX] (no subject)
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1
** BRAZIL. RNA colliding with MEXICO: q.v.
** CHINA. Firedrake April 24, showing up on different frequencies, in perpetual
cat-and-mouse with never-heard Sound of Hope 1 kW annoyance transmitters from
Taiwan (or so we can only assume):
10410, fair at 1325
12990, fair at 1337
13970, JBA at 1342
14920, poor at 1345
Also, 9450 at 1425 April 24, mixture of echo jamming and noise. Per Aoki, SOH
Xi Wang Zhi Sheng is scheduled here at 14-16 via a 100 kW transmitter at
Yunlin, Taiwan, 335 degrees. Yunlin is also used for several RTI and Family
Radio transmissions, but only on 9450 for SOH
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CUBA [and non]. RHC is still on 12020 colliding with Portugal, both for
South America, April 23 at 2300. RHC // 12030, and RDPI // 9715. Cuba atop
12020, and it sounded like Portugal had modulation problems underneath on
12020, serves the DentroCubans right. Since RDPI 12020 is M-F only, one might
think the problem had been resolved if monitoring on Saturday and Sunday ---
but not as long as RHC stays on 12020 after 2300. Wake up, Arnie. Recheck 12020
April 24 at 0226, RHC alone now, but its audio is awful scratchy; and also at
0425.
Poor propagation plus T-storm noise worst below 11 MHz, but I can still log
stuff like this: April 24 at 0235, 9810, jamming against nothing, long
abandoned by Rep?blica, and VOR Spanish via Guiana French having finished at
0200.
At 0235, 9780 with jamming against something, Radio Rep?blica`s current
frequency at 02-04, readable at equal level to the noise. 9460 at 0237, R.
Mart? also equal to the jamming (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** INDONESIA. 9526-, VOI English April 24 from 1310, good modulation and quite
listenable with usual features such as This Day in History with three topix,
one of which was the Hubble Space Telescope. Unusually, managed to be atop the
CRI Russian het from *1357 on 9525.0, and could hear the VOI English sign-off
until 1401* (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** JAPAN. 15195, April 24 at 0428 jazz on guitar, off by next check after 0500;
presumed NHK on longtime channel. Yes: Aoki says Japanese service 0155-0500,
290 degrees from Ibaragi-Koga-Yamata to Asia. This is broken up into four blox
with identical parameters: 0155-0200, 0200-0300, 0300-0415 and 0415-0500; why?
R. Japan does play a lot of western music, classical too, probably home service
relay (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** KUWAIT. 15540, R. Kuwait once again in English at 18-21 UT Friday April 23,
after having carried Arabic the day before (and Wolfgang B?schel implied it was
also in Arabic on Tuesday April 20 when I did not check; is that correct?).
Good signal today, 1800 sign-on, giving frequencies 963, 96.3 (what a
coincidence?), and 11990! The former 1800 English channel --- what do they know
in the studio? They obviously don`t bother to tune in their own broadcast and
find out what frequency it is on, or not on.
1801 program summary, seemed mostly to be music. Even before 1802 began ``Islam
& Peace`` with ponderous declarations. But once that is over, RK lightens up
with mostly western pop music. Didn`t have time to listen much, but rechecked
before closing: 2058 ID again giving frequencies for this broadcast and also
``15110`` for 05-08 (local 08-11) English, which hasn`t been confirmed in many
months; in fact if it`s on SW at all, we don`t know where. 2100 into Arabic
news, still on past 2108 when cut off yesterday, but had disappeared by next
check 2113, as it had also been fading down (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** MEXICO [and non]. Just when does RNA Bras?lia sign off for the night? I
figured it would be around local midnite, currently 0300 UT. April 24, tuned in
6185 at 0241 to find RNA on top of XEPPM, with the rapid SAH as always between
them adding to the annoyance; but at 0312, RNA still on the air on 11780 with
timecheck for 00:12 and greeting ``un novo dia``. And both still on at 0320. By
next check, 0343, both were gone. Probably varies, when they get around to it,
just like sign-on.
But 6185 still had SAH CCI at 0343, now from Vatican. The latter is weaker, so
now XEPPM is on top in Spanish, but still too much QRM. 0359 can hear the VR IS
mixing, scheduled until 0500. Since CRI/Sackville runs very strong ACI from
6190 at 05-06, that means Radio Educaci?n is essentially unusable all evening
until 0600. Thence we may finally enjoy its eclectic music in the clear should
we be awake, until RNA come back on, presumably somewhen between 0730 and 0800;
except UT Sundays when it is all-night (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** RUSSIA. 9455 poor signal, April 24 at 1424 station in English discussing EU,
inserted VOR sounder so no additional ID needed, then War Chronicles from this
day in 1945y. 9455 is 14-16, 250 kW, 265 degrees via Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky
for South Asia (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** TIBET [non]. 9885, in tonal Asian language, not Chinese, April 24 at 0234,
with ute QRM (BTW, ute is short for utility, not an initialism or acronym and
there is no reason to write it in all-caps as so many are wont to do). 0257
some music and off at 0259*. Per Aoki, it`s Wertachtal, GERMANY, 250 kW at 75
degrees with Radio Free Asia in Khams dialect of Tibetan from 0230, preceded by
Amdo dialect at 0200, and mainstream Tibetan at 01-02. Surely jammed by the
ChiCom, but that not audible here (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 15825, WORLD OF RADIO 1509 confirmed on first WWCR airing, Friday
April 23 around 2050, but just barely audible here in skip zone, hope much
better elsewhere. Next chance: Saturday 1630 on 12160.
5890, Pastor Pete Peters is back on WWCR-4, following an hiatus. UT Sat April
24 at 0242 there he is, // WTWW 5755. Program schedule dated 9 April still
omits the Aryan, with 00-02 UT Tue-Sun occupied by filler Golden Age of Radio
Theatre, but at 02-03 it was a rebroadcast of The Roth Show, Tue-Sat (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 9955, WRMI reconfirmed with Sat 1330 airing of WORLD OF RADIO, April
24 at 1348 poor but readable via the SSE antenna, with lite pulse jamming. Jeff
White says, ``We have an outside engineer working on the North American antenna
situation. But his time is limited. We will eventually get this back in
operation. There has been very little demand from clients for North America
lately``. He also sends the latest program schedule grid updated as of April
23, which is now available only as an attachment on the DXLD yahoogroup (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 15000 and even 20000, WWV VG at 0228 April 24, thanks to sporadic-E
opening, which also brought in some analog video on channel 2 around 0200 from
somewhere. And more signs of TVDX at 1616 UT (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** U S A. The WEWN English transmitter continues to put out mushy spurs at
approx. plus and minus 10 kHz, and woe betide any station foolish enough to
broadcast next to such a noisy, inconsiderate neighbor. These were especially
noticeable April 24 as a sporadic-E opening enhanced WEWN`s megameter-distant
signal:
at 0230, 11520 put mushy, squealing spur on weaker 11530 WYFR in Spanish; at
0342, 9455 put spur on 9445, tho no victim audible there; if there was a match
on 9465, it was obscured by DentroCuban jamming and Radio Mart? on temporary
9460 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** VATICAN [and non]. UT April 24 I make a point of checking the transition
from Bonaire to Sackville on 9610 by R. Vaticana at 0250: From 0236, it`s VG
with Vatican discussing topic-A. At 0247 I suspect the SAC carrier is already
on, as there is a slow SAH and RV audio is a bit distorted and pumping, but no.
Sackville really cuts on at *0249:45 while Bonaire is playing IS, and for a few
sex there is a lo het, enough to distort the pitch of the IS: I wonder which
one is off-frequency, or both? Then English in the clear with just as good a
signal here as French had been.
Veronica presented program about England in honour of St. George`s Day,
blithely ignoring topic A, or so it started, tho I did not listen to it all.
0317 concluded with ``Latin Lover``, ha ha, apparently a regular segment, with
Carmelite Fr. Reginald Porter, really about the Latin language and words
derived from it, or not, such as on today`s theme, Londinium, fretum = channel
or narrows.
0319 to ID and IS, cut off at 0319:30 revealing something weaker on 9610, but
back on by 0320 to start Spanish with VG signal. During those few sex, SAC
switches from 240 to 253 degrees, and from antenna type 158 to 218; why?
Also, at 0239 I had checked // 7305 Vatican in French and found it about one
word ahead of 9610. Uplooked later, I see that this frequency also makes a site
switch at 0250, from Santa Maria di Galeria, Vatican direct, to Sackville, so
that`s my next project to monitor.
Also, shortly after 0300, noticed separate VR English to Africa on 9660 which
is via MADAGASCAR (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) See also MEXICO [and
non] ###
------------------------------
Message: 4
Date: Sat, 24 Apr 2010 09:54:10 -0700 (PDT)
From: Glenn Hauser <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: [HCDX] Glenn Hauser logs April 23-24, 2010
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1
** BRAZIL. RNA colliding with MEXICO: q.v.
** CHINA. Firedrake April 24, showing up on different frequencies, in perpetual
cat-and-mouse with never-heard Sound of Hope 1 kW annoyance transmitters from
Taiwan (or so we can only assume):
10410, fair at 1325
12990, fair at 1337
13970, JBA at 1342
14920, poor at 1345
Also, 9450 at 1425 April 24, mixture of echo jamming and noise. Per Aoki, SOH
Xi Wang Zhi Sheng is scheduled here at 14-16 via a 100 kW transmitter at
Yunlin, Taiwan, 335 degrees. Yunlin is also used for several RTI and Family
Radio transmissions, but only on 9450 for SOH
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CUBA [and non]. RHC is still on 12020 colliding with Portugal, both for
South America, April 23 at 2300. RHC // 12030, and RDPI // 9715. Cuba atop
12020, and it sounded like Portugal had modulation problems underneath on
12020, serves the DentroCubans right. Since RDPI 12020 is M-F only, one might
think the problem had been resolved if monitoring on Saturday and Sunday ---
but not as long as RHC stays on 12020 after 2300. Wake up, Arnie. Recheck 12020
April 24 at 0226, RHC alone now, but its audio is awful scratchy; and also at
0425.
Poor propagation plus T-storm noise worst below 11 MHz, but I can still log
stuff like this: April 24 at 0235, 9810, jamming against nothing, long
abandoned by Rep?blica, and VOR Spanish via Guiana French having finished at
0200.
At 0235, 9780 with jamming against something, Radio Rep?blica`s current
frequency at 02-04, readable at equal level to the noise. 9460 at 0237, R.
Mart? also equal to the jamming (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** INDONESIA. 9526-, VOI English April 24 from 1310, good modulation and quite
listenable with usual features such as This Day in History with three topix,
one of which was the Hubble Space Telescope. Unusually, managed to be atop the
CRI Russian het from *1357 on 9525.0, and could hear the VOI English sign-off
until 1401* (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** JAPAN. 15195, April 24 at 0428 jazz on guitar, off by next check after 0500;
presumed NHK on longtime channel. Yes: Aoki says Japanese service 0155-0500,
290 degrees from Ibaragi-Koga-Yamata to Asia. This is broken up into four blox
with identical parameters: 0155-0200, 0200-0300, 0300-0415 and 0415-0500; why?
R. Japan does play a lot of western music, classical too, probably home service
relay (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** KUWAIT. 15540, R. Kuwait once again in English at 18-21 UT Friday April 23,
after having carried Arabic the day before (and Wolfgang B?schel implied it was
also in Arabic on Tuesday April 20 when I did not check; is that correct?).
Good signal today, 1800 sign-on, giving frequencies 963, 96.3 (what a
coincidence?), and 11990! The former 1800 English channel --- what do they know
in the studio? They obviously don`t bother to tune in their own broadcast and
find out what frequency it is on, or not on.
1801 program summary, seemed mostly to be music. Even before 1802 began ``Islam
& Peace`` with ponderous declarations. But once that is over, RK lightens up
with mostly western pop music. Didn`t have time to listen much, but rechecked
before closing: 2058 ID again giving frequencies for this broadcast and also
``15110`` for 05-08 (local 08-11) English, which hasn`t been confirmed in many
months; in fact if it`s on SW at all, we don`t know where. 2100 into Arabic
news, still on past 2108 when cut off yesterday, but had disappeared by next
check 2113, as it had also been fading down (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** MEXICO [and non]. Just when does RNA Bras?lia sign off for the night? I
figured it would be around local midnite, currently 0300 UT. April 24, tuned in
6185 at 0241 to find RNA on top of XEPPM, with the rapid SAH as always between
them adding to the annoyance; but at 0312, RNA still on the air on 11780 with
timecheck for 00:12 and greeting ``un novo dia``. And both still on at 0320. By
next check, 0343, both were gone. Probably varies, when they get around to it,
just like sign-on.
But 6185 still had SAH CCI at 0343, now from Vatican. The latter is weaker, so
now XEPPM is on top in Spanish, but still too much QRM. 0359 can hear the VR IS
mixing, scheduled until 0500. Since CRI/Sackville runs very strong ACI from
6190 at 05-06, that means Radio Educaci?n is essentially unusable all evening
until 0600. Thence we may finally enjoy its eclectic music in the clear should
we be awake, until RNA come back on, presumably somewhen between 0730 and 0800;
except UT Sundays when it is all-night (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** RUSSIA. 9455 poor signal, April 24 at 1424 station in English discussing EU,
inserted VOR sounder so no additional ID needed, then War Chronicles from this
day in 1945y. 9455 is 14-16, 250 kW, 265 degrees via Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky
for South Asia (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** TIBET [non]. 9885, in tonal Asian language, not Chinese, April 24 at 0234,
with ute QRM (BTW, ute is short for utility, not an initialism or acronym and
there is no reason to write it in all-caps as so many are wont to do). 0257
some music and off at 0259*. Per Aoki, it`s Wertachtal, GERMANY, 250 kW at 75
degrees with Radio Free Asia in Khams dialect of Tibetan from 0230, preceded by
Amdo dialect at 0200, and mainstream Tibetan at 01-02. Surely jammed by the
ChiCom, but that not audible here (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 15825, WORLD OF RADIO 1509 confirmed on first WWCR airing, Friday
April 23 around 2050, but just barely audible here in skip zone, hope much
better elsewhere. Next chance: Saturday 1630 on 12160, which inbooms tnx to
sporadic E, but with some reverb added not on my original audio file.
5890, Pastor Pete Peters is back on WWCR-4, following an hiatus. UT Sat April
24 at 0242 there he is, // WTWW 5755. Program schedule dated 9 April still
omits the Aryan, with 00-02 UT Tue-Sun occupied by filler Golden Age of Radio
Theatre, but at 02-03 it was a rebroadcast of The Roth Show, Tue-Sat (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 9955, WRMI reconfirmed with Sat 1330 airing of WORLD OF RADIO, April
24 at 1348 poor but readable via the SSE antenna, with lite pulse jamming. Jeff
White says, ``We have an outside engineer working on the North American antenna
situation. But his time is limited. We will eventually get this back in
operation. There has been very little demand from clients for North America
lately``. He also sends the latest program schedule grid updated as of April
23, which is now available only as an attachment on the DXLD yahoogroup (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 15000 and even 20000, WWV VG at 0228 April 24, thanks to sporadic-E
opening, which also brought in some analog video on channel 2 around 0200 from
somewhere. And more signs of TVDX at 1616 UT (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** U S A. The WEWN English transmitter continues to put out mushy spurs at
approx. plus and minus 10 kHz, and woe betide any station foolish enough to
broadcast next to such a noisy, inconsiderate neighbor. These were especially
noticeable April 24 as a sporadic-E opening enhanced WEWN`s megameter-distant
signal:
at 0230, 11520 put mushy, squealing spur on weaker 11530 WYFR in Spanish; at
0342, 9455 put spur on 9445, tho no victim audible there; if there was a match
on 9465, it was obscured by DentroCuban jamming and Radio Mart? on temporary
9460 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** VATICAN [and non]. UT April 24 I make a point of checking the transition
from Bonaire to Sackville on 9610 by R. Vaticana at 0250: From 0236, it`s VG
with Vatican discussing topic-A. At 0247 I suspect the SAC carrier is already
on, as there is a slow SAH and RV audio is a bit distorted and pumping, but no.
Sackville really cuts on at *0249:45 while Bonaire is playing IS, and for a few
sex there is a lo het, enough to distort the pitch of the IS: I wonder which
one is off-frequency, or both? Then English in the clear with just as good a
signal here as French had been.
Veronica presented program about England in honour of St. George`s Day,
blithely ignoring topic A, or so it started, tho I did not listen to it all.
0317 concluded with ``Latin Lover``, ha ha, apparently a regular segment, with
Carmelite Fr. Reginald Porter, really about the Latin language and words
derived from it, or not, such as on today`s theme, Londinium, fretum = channel
or narrows.
0319 to ID and IS, cut off at 0319:30 revealing something weaker on 9610, but
back on by 0320 to start Spanish with VG signal. During those few sex, SAC
switches from 240 to 253 degrees, and from antenna type 158 to 218; why?
Also, at 0239 I had checked // 7305 Vatican in French and found it about one
word ahead of 9610. Uplooked later, I see that this frequency also makes a site
switch at 0250, from Santa Maria di Galeria, Vatican direct, to Sackville, so
that`s my next project to monitor.
Also, shortly after 0300, noticed separate VR English to Africa on 9660 which
is via MADAGASCAR (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) See also MEXICO [and
non] ###
Apologies again for omitting subject line in original post! Identical except I
have now added a comment under USA WWCR/WOR.
------------------------------
Message: 5
Date: Sat, 24 Apr 2010 22:18:42 -0700 (PDT)
From: Glenn Hauser <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: [HCDX] Glenn Hauser logs April 24-25, 2010
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1
** CHILE. CVC, Calera de Tango, is STILL putting out big mushy spurs from the
HCJB relay transmitter on 11920, April 24 at 2310 difficult to pinpoint, but
with BFO they are centered around 11897.6 and 11942.4, i.e. plus and minus 22.4
kHz. Sometimes they are closer to 20 kHz displacement, or even 18. Portuguese
talk and music from fundamental are also audible on the spurs. This started as
soon as the relay deal did last October, or was it September (Glenn Hauser, OK,
DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CHINA. Firedrake April 24: full bandscan found only a JBA signal on 13970,
April 24 at 2318 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CUBA [and non]. 9660, in Krey?l, April 24 at 2305, axually matching RHC`s
posted schedule for 2300-2330 to Caribbean, also supposed to be on 17705 at
same time to S America, not checked. At 2330, 9660 had converted to Portuguese,
and that is not on the schedule; in fact, 9660 is unaccounted for between 2330
and Spanish from 0000. It has adjacent interference from Romania 9655.
At 2315, RHC Spanish on 12030, but missing from 12020 (and so is Portugal, this
being a Saturday). But at 0012 April 25, 12030 is off and 12020 is on, with
same bad crackly audio as yesterday. At 0015 I hear the same defects on poor //
15380.
At 0018 April 25, 5970 RHC in Spanish has co-channel QRM under it, in Dutch;
what could that be? RHC // 6000 with no QRM. The victim on 5970 at 0025 closed
with the overplayed Orange anthem. Yes, RNW is already scheduled in HFCC for
0000-0027 due south from Bonaire. There would be no such collision if non-HFCC
Cuba adhered to its own schedule showing no 5970 until *0100 in English (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** HUNGARY. 6150, at 0056 April 25, open carrier and intermittent tones, 0100
opening in Hungarian, therefore what`s left of R. Budapest, to North America
but no English; believed to be still transmitted from Hungary but not for much
longer (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** KUWAIT. 15540, R. Kuwait in English again on Saturday April 24 at 1831 check
during newscast, good signal. The main newscast on this 18-21 transmission is
at 1830, with a summary near the end (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** ROMANIA. There have been some recent changes to RRI`s schedule, including
English at 00-01. On April 25 at 0007 I was hearing ``The Week`` on 9580 and
weaker 7385, not 7335 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** RUSSIA. 9890, V. of Russia in English at 2308 April 24 with ID, starting
``Music & Musicians`` with Chaikofsky theme, then bells. ACI from DentroCuban
jamming and VOA on 9885, almost evitable by sidetuning upward. But there is
also a SAH directly on 9885, and the only thing else at 23-24 is BBCWS in
English USward from Thailand at 25 degrees. VOR site is Armavir a.k.a.
Krasnodar in Russia itself, per the main three online A-10 schedules. Don`t you
believe Stewart MacKenzie`s report, already published somewhere, claiming
Tajikistan is involved on 9890 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** SPAIN. 15160, REE in Spanish at 2319 April 24, ``Diario de Am?rica``
program, // 9620 and synchronized, so not Costa Rica. 15160 is 242 degrees from
Noblejas to South America (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** TURKEY. Contrary to what Seref Isler said a month ago, the 2200 UT English
broadcast from VOT is not carrying the next UT day`s program content, despite
being after local midnight. UT Saturday April 24, DX Corner still on today at
2217-2230* instead of UT Friday. I tuned in 9830 just in time, but reception
poor so I brought up the webcast ASAP. And later confirmed to repeat UT Sunday
at 0317 on webcast, i.e. on the same old schedule as before.
Seref wings it by reading and replying to some e-mails he has printed out,
instead of the usual scripted shows. This was nothing but a mailbag with some
reception reports, and hard to differentiate from the Wednesday program
Letterbox. At least he`s not plagiarizing material from DX Listening Digest any
more, but calling it a DX program is a bit of a stretch, with nothing
resembling DX or media news.
At one point he refused to promise a QSL since someone had not provided any
proof of reception. At another point, he said they *always* QSLed, wondering
why someone sent a follow-up after 99 days. He also said if you want to get an
answer on this program, better send by e-mail rather than p-mail, which
apparently is just too much trouble to handle, but someone in the office does
collect the stamps, so don`t ask for any of those either (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 12160, WWCR-2 confirmed with WORLD OF RADIO`s Saturday 1630 broadcast
April 24, this time inbooming since a sporadic-E opening was in progress
reaching above 88 MHz in some locations. But reverb has been added, not on my
original audio file. Have also noticed this on some other WWCR programming.
I did not get the 0230 UT Sunday broadcast checked early enough on 4840, but
when I tuned in at 0258, Voice of Salvation was ending, sounded like more than
a promo, no mention on DX Block and into next program. Online schedule not
updated since April 9; we`ll have to see if this is a permanent change (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 9690, April 24 at 2329 good signal from WHRI ending program ``Living
Like Jesus Miracle Hour``, with contact info in Philippines too fast and too
accented to copy even if I had wanted to, then WHR promo, and 2330 ``British
Israel World Federation``, from Toronto, from one fringe to another (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 7505.7, open carrier at 0058 April 25, occasional bit of hi-pitched
audio cutting on and off, then OC until finally 0104 WRNO ID mentioning
transmitter site of New Orleans, Louisiana, not really a sign-on, another ID
and into music (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** VATICAN. When I heard Vietnamese on 12035 in the sideband of Cuba 12030,
April 24 at 2316, I thought of Vietnam. Seems to me VOV used to be around this
frequency. But now it`s that other V-land, broadcasting direct from Santa Maria
di Galeria, 500 kW at 75 degrees, 2310-2400. That means it could include that
2.5-minute English pr?lude which we used to hear on 9600 before Vietnamese at
2314, thanks to sloppy switching (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** ZAMBIA. 1Africa, CVC, is still on the wrong frequency, 9540 instead of 5940
as scheduled at 19-22. Or is it? Registered on 5940, but is it pure luck that
there is no collision with anything on 9540, while there would be a collision
with Iran via Lithuania on 5940? Maybe CVC intended to use 9540 all along, and
``5940`` was a mistaken entry in HFCC. I`ve advised CVC HQ in UK about this
anomaly.
Rechecked 9540, April 24 at 2149, gospel rock, 2153-2159 extremely overwrought
dramatization with screaming, something about the international airport in
Tanzania. Gospel rap at 2200 until abruptly cut off air at 2203* without so
much as a good-night, frequency announcement, or please-retune-to.
I say ``gospel`` but that is only an assumption since any religious content is
unclear, due to rapid pace and accents, hard to tell what they are saying or
singing. Gotta hand it to these stealth evangelists: they really know how to
suck in today`s modern young Africans (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
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