** CUBA. 11760 RHC, as I tuned across Saturday June 5 at 2109, DXers Unlimited
was underway in English so I decided to stop and listen, especially since Arnie
was axually giving some DX tips on trop bands, something he normally denigrates
on other shows; as an example of the plus side of low solar flux. Apparently
had just mentioned some 120 mb stations he had heard, and then 90 mb: 3290
Guyana until sunrise; close to 3329.5, Ondas del Huallaga, Perú at 5 am local
[1000 UT we have to know], with CHU 3330 QRM.
He pronounced the town Huanúco, while it`s really Huánuco, so this yanqui knows
more about Perunciation than he does; quickly confirmed in a couple of atlases
where the accent goes, as well as the WRTH. 60 m: he`s heard on 4700 R. San
Miguel, Bolivia just before daybreak and it vanishes abruptly after sunrise.
Also couldn`t resist a plug for the Cubans on 5025, 5040: R. Rebelde 24 hours,
and RHC 21-11 UT. Then he changed the subject to diodes and my ears glazed over
but listened half-attentively until music fill started at 2123 (Glenn Hauser,
OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CYPRUS. 15268-15293, OTH radar, presumed from here, rapid clicking June 5 at
2057; generally poor propagation and fortuitously not interfering with any
audible broadcasters. That does not mean OTHR has any right to invade broadcast
bands (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** FRANCE [non]. 17630, still did not tune in early enough to determine exactly
what is happening with the unscheduled Portuguese broadcast of RFI via GUIANA
FRENCH: June 5 at 2058 music is underway, 2059 closing announcement in
Brazilian, ``até a próxima``, but then instead of going right into scheduled
Spanish at 2100 we had more than a minute of dead air, or rather hummy air
until Spanish news was joined in progress at 2101:05. Then checked unscheduled
21690 and it was JBA but in French (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** OKLAHOMA [and non]. GCN Enid pirate on 99.9 still missing, I think, evening
of June 5, but I am hearing some other signals, as area tropo enhancement is up
with the humidity. Mainly ``Country 99.9 KTCS`` which fancies itself an OK
station, 0127 UT June 6 talking about some shindig in Sallisaw, but its COL is
nearby Fort Smith AR. FCC FM Query tigermaps are not funxioning when I need
them, but longitude of its site 94-40-50 indicates it is in fact an Oklahoma
station, about 192 miles distant.
Occasionally KLUR Wichita Falls TX, 177 miles, would overtake it thru
nondirexional vertical caradio antenna. Just to be sure these stations were not
masking the local low-power pirate, I drove by the site again and was still
hearing them, nothing from GCN. The antenna I photographed is still up pointing
south (Glenn Hauser, Enid, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** SYRIA. 12085, R. Damascus, June 5 at 2104 whine slightly louder than the ME
music playing, announcement in English mentioning a www where no doubt
reception is better, program summary, bits of music mixed in with the words.
Brief piece of march music and 2107 starting news with slightly better
modulation on a different voice. First item had an anti-Israel orientation
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ###
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