** ANTARCTICA. After tracking Turkey`s late switch from 13760 to 15450, started monitoring LRA36 on 15476, Aug 3 at 1237: music with heavy beat, hetting weaker 15480 station; 1244 brief announcement and more music. After listening to incomparably better VOI for an hour, check 15476 at 1358 and now it is a JBA carrier with music (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** AUSTRALIA. Aug 3 morning I mistakenly checked higher bands first, not down to 120m until 1205, finding the VL8s all audible with // music, 2310 and 2325 slightly stronger than 2485. Now to try 2368.5 for R. Symban: yes, can detect a carrier, and threshold imagination-level music but I will not be so bold as to say it was Greek, yet. Could not detect the seventh harmonic of 338 kHz LW beacon LSA in Lamesa TX, on 2366, this time. At 1218, WWV prop info says solar flux Aug 2 was 79, A-index 4. K-index at 1200, 2. No storms expected next 24 hours (despite the big CME hurtling earthward) (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CANADA. 9625, 0518 August 3, continuous tone test again inexplicably from presumed CBCNQ after 0505* (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CHINA. OTH radar pulsing, presumed from here, Aug 3 at 1147 on 7500-7535, faster rate than usual; and at 1153 on 5805-5855 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CHINA. Aug 3, another morning with no Firedrake audible; is it really totally gone? Nothing heard until 1240 from 8 to 18 MHz (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CUBA. RHC anomaly check August 3: at 0525 English on 6000 an echo apart from 6010 from other site, also // 5970, 6060, but missing from 6150 where it has been a few weeks after 0500. Spanish on 6120, 5040. Probably failed to make switch from 6000 to 6150 at 0500. See also FRANCE [and non] 9790, another asleep-at-the-switch clue. By 1148, 6150 was back on the air in Spanish, clashing with Chinese, Taiwan vs Mainland jamming, Commies vs Commies (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** FRANCE [and non]. 9790, August 3 at 0516 extremely strong S9+25 open carrier, making normally sufficient RFI just barely audible underneath; it was off by 0525. Most likely Habana failed to turn off the transmitter which until 0500 was relaying CRI in Cantonese, 250 kW, 305 degrees. France runs 500 kW from Issoudun to Africa, at 155 degrees (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** INDONESIA. 4790-, surprised to find best extracontinental 60m signal, really only 1 kW? was RRI Fak2, August 3 at 1157, well-modulated Indo talk giving CODAR a run for its money as well as storm noise level from around Deep Water Horizon and/or SE Montana. Frequency a smidgin on low side; last measured by Ron Howard 40 Hz low. 1159 music, 1200 SCI, timesignal about 35 seconds late, into YL with presumed Warta Berita. By SCI at hourtop it`s synchronized // weaker 4750 Makassar, but 4605- Serui inaudible, off again? All gone by 1215 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** INDONESIA. 9526-, VOI, everything clix Aug 3: Japanese not looping before 1300, good modulation and negligible hum for the English hour, joint produxion with RRI Banjarmasin since it`s another ``Exotic Indonesia`` excursion on Tuesday. I do have to attenuate the FRG-7 in order to rid crosstalk from overloading WTWW PPPP on 9479, as I feed it to the breakfast table DX-390 via the WT-601N Wireless FM Transmitter tuned to 90.7. Opens with small talk conversation between the studios: in Banj the weather is very bad with rain; hot in Jak as usual. Traffic jams are worse in the huge capital, but Banj has them too at morning and afternoon rush hours. 1304:30, finally starts newscast, items alternating from the two stations, including: presidential plane departs late from Ambon, weather delay. Indonesia to mediate between N and S Korea. More than one announcer from Banj participates, but the guy with the distinctive voice outros himself as something-Rahman. So I look at the website again http://www.rribanjarmasin.info/index.php?option=com_content&view=frontpage&Itemid=83 under Crew on the Air, but still don`t find a name match under Pro 2 or any of the others displaying photos and zodiak signs. 1322, another guy IDs as Banj Pro-2 on 95.2, also streaming, phone number, e-mail, and claims three SW frequencies, 9525, 11785, 15150 even tho this broadcast is never on more than one and has stayed on 9526- for many months now. 1324, Today in History, including Hitler`s consolidating power in 1934 plus WWII in a nutshell; 1954 Abdul Rahman rules Malaya, becoming Malaysia as Chinese-dominated Singapore opts out. 1328 Focus, but the announcer on this has an accent too heavy. 1333 chat about revaluations of the rupiah. 1336 rest of hour to be coming from Banjarmasin studio, starting with a talk about a few of the 40 traditional games for children, a pre-produced ``culture show`` by the mystery man at RRI Pro-2. 1355 some Indo rock music, still audible atop CRI Russian 9525.0 het from *1357:30 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MYANMAR. Weak het against WYFR 5985 open carrier August 3 at 1151 during pause between broadcasts. At 1154 YFR was off for antenna change from 355 to 315 degrees, and off-frequency carrier was JBA on about 5985.8. No doubt it`s Myanmar, perpetually off-frequency, about the closest I can come to hearing it in deep North America. Nothing audible on 5770 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** PAPUA NEW GUINEA. 3335, Wewak, Aug 3 at 1203, music audible but VP by this hour after hearing Indonesia on 60m; only station on 90m besides BS from WWRB 3185 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** RUSSIA. 5970, August 3 at 1154, open carrier and intermittent Russian tune-up tones, leading up to YFR, 250 kW, 213 degrees via Komsomolsk/Amure in Korean at 12-13, per Aoki. No sign of REE/Costa Rica on 5970 as registered. REE`s other frequency 5930 occupied by the Pet/Kam motorblob of R. Rossii. O, A-10 sked per WRTH update shows CR not on until 1200 on either (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** RWANDA. GERMANY [non]. DW is regularly heard in German on 9480, which is 30 degrees via Kigali, such as Aug 3 at 0519, but this time also audible on 9465 // but an echo apart. Despite that, this too is listed as Kigali, but at 180 degrees. I was also getting an echo on a single frequency, 9700 in DW English, and at 0536 in Portuguese, long plus short path? Both of those are 190 degrees from Kigali (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SPAIN [and non]. 11795, REE Emisión Sefarad, UT Tue August 3: *0113:45 with REE IS, VG signal better than Spanish to S America on 11680. 0115 opening show which was almost all very enjoyable music until 0143 wrapup. After 0145* fanfare and another snippet of music, checked 11680 where REE in Castilian had a feature on the Arctic Ocean; tuned on to 11630 where Portugal had its own nice music (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** TURKEY. 13760, surprised to hear VOT piano-variations IS, Aug 3 at 1227, interspersed with IDs only in English! Nothing on 15450 where it is supposed to be. Once again, Emirler operator failed to make the frequency switch before another language began! 13760 carries German from 1130. 1230 timesignal and opening English broadcast, program previews, news headlines and news until abrupt cut at 1234:47*. Then I tune to 15450 and wait for it to show up there, and that cuts on abruptly at *1236:37 first with weak carrier, then step up to full strength, then add modulation all within a few sex, news in progress. So it took 110 seconds to make the switch which should have occurred sometime between 1220 and 1225. Ultimately signal is better on 15 than 13, tho same 310 azimuth. 1246, promo mentioning trtenglish.com voiced by Sheref Ishler: is he still there or will his recordings live on far beyond his term? 1246 feature by YL about Ottoman-era metric recipe including coriander. 1254, Sheref again with a travelog about the beautiful beaches of western Turkey; 1259, multi-lingual ID filler. I was expecting some clash on 13760 from V of Korea but I see that does not start until 1300 with English (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A [non]. VOA French has a really hyper DJ taking calls from listeners, August 2 at 2015 on 15730. He`s fun to listen to but taxes the comprehension of the non-native French Fpeaker. At 2019 introduced song ``Just the Way You Are``, yes, performed in English. This page http://www1.voanews.com/french/programs/radio/91055704.html displays rather sparse info: ``Musique 2000 --- Emission musicale interactive de Matthew Lavoie`` and there is an audio link to a recent show. http://www.voanews.com/mp3/voa/africa/fren/fren2000a.mp3 15730, daily at 2000-2030 only is 76 degrees from São Tomé, but it was strong enough this time I figured it was Greenville, which extends the transmission on weekends only until 2100. He outroed the show just in time for 2030*. I hear that R. Martí on 15590 yesterday was a mistake, as Greenville is understaffed and overworked, trying to keep all the transmitters operational a while longer (Glenn Hauser, OK, Aug 3, 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. It may be copied, distributed and/or modified under the conditions set down in the Design Science License published by Michael Stutz at http://www.gnu.org/licenses/dsl.html
