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   2. logs (L?cio Ot?vio Bobrowiec)
   3. Glenn Hauser logs August 14, 2010 (Glenn Hauser)
   4. Re: Glenn Hauser logs August 14, 2010 (Wolfgang Bueschel)
   5. Re: 1580 Spanish mystery, again (Glenn Hauser)
   6. August 13-14 Logs ([email protected])
   7. Logs for Al Muick (Albert Muick)
   8. Glenn Hauser logs August 14-15, 2010 (Glenn Hauser)


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Message: 1
Date: Sat, 14 Aug 2010 10:58:52 -0000
From: "Charles Bolland" <[email protected]>
To: "ALF" <[email protected]>, "Arnaldo slaen"
        <[email protected]>,  "Bob Wilkner" <[email protected]>,
        "brainman214" <[email protected]>,Carlos
        GonA?alves<[email protected]>,      "Cumbre" <[email protected]>,
        "DSWCI" <[email protected]>,   "Gayle Van Horn"
        <[email protected]>,     "Glenn Hauser"
        <[email protected]>,   "Hard-core-dx" <[email protected]>,
        "Marie Lamb" <[email protected]>
Subject: [HCDX] Sat Dx
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Bolivia, 6134.84, Radio Santa Cruz, 0902-0915,  Noted
an Interval Signal followed by full canned
ID as ".. Radio Santa Cruz ..."   At 0906 local type
music presented which turned out to be 
a song about Radio Santa Cruz with flutes and singing.
After the music another canned ID.  
At 0910 a live female and male comment in Spanish.
Signal is starting to deteriorate from
a good to a poor.  (Chuck Bolland, August 14, 2010)
 
NRD545
26.37N  081.05W
 
 
 
 
 


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Message: 2
Date: Sat, 14 Aug 2010 08:23:22 -0300
From: L?cio Ot?vio Bobrowiec <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>, <[email protected]>,
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        <[email protected]>,       <[email protected]>,
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4950, R. Kashmir, Srinagar. August, 13 2217-2229 Hindu style music. Sometimes 
emerging R. N. de Angola shortly, het 32422 (lob-B).

 

5055, Brasil, R. Difusora, C?ceres. August, 14 0958-1010 male "compromisso com 
a verdade, Difusora!..", seems news program. Deep fades, 24222 (lob-B). 



73's



L?cio Ot?vio Bobrowiec

Embu SP Brasil - Sony ICF SW40 - Dipole 18m, 32m. 




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Message: 3
Date: Sat, 14 Aug 2010 10:38:30 -0700 (PDT)
From: Glenn Hauser <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: [HCDX] Glenn Hauser logs August 14, 2010
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** CHINA. Firedrake August 14:
 8400, good at 1235. Was not hearing it a semihour earlier; poor at 1334
10500, good at 1218 but with flutter; gone at 1334 but 8400 was still

15795, a somewhat confusing situation here: AIR`s Chinese service is 1145-1315 
via Bengaluru, and the ChiCom must jam it, as noted many times before. Aug 14 
at 1225, Chinese music and talk, nothing Indian about it, but not // CNR1 
jamming frequencies. 1230 2-pip timesignal, on the half-hour, so does that 
point to India? But then CNR-type emphatic talk, with echo, so using some 
program other than CNR1? By 1245, now I can tell 15795 is // 11785 CNR1 jamming 
an echo apart, but 15795 has become much weaker (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING 
DIGEST)

** NETHERLANDS ANTILLES [and non]. 9715, Sat Aug 14 at 1208 rap music in 
English, but audio dropping out every few sex; 1215 Spanish announcement and 
more music. RN via Bonaire, with weekly pop music countdown, 1218 ``n?mero 6``, 
but hardly pertinent in Spanish. Same on weaker 9895 but unseemed //, maybe 
offset. 9715 is 290 degrees, 9895 is 230. Alfonso Montealegre despides himself 
at 1226 and now I can tell 9895 is also breaking up, as Jaime B?guena gives the 
evening Spanish frequencies to 1227*. Wiggle that patchcord!

A glut of this stuff: at same time on 9885 was VOA`s rock music fill on weekend 
Spanish service; and on 9890 VOA Indonesian service, via Tinang also playing 
rock music! (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** TAIWAN. 11550, Aug 14 at 1158, YFR theme, distorted audio, unstable carrier, 
and off. Aoki shows: ``11550 FAMILY RADIO 1100-1200 1234567 Indonesian 300 205 
Tainan TWN 12038E 2311N WYFR a10``

According to this, when YFR comes back on at 13-15 in English, 15-16 in Hindi, 
it`s from a different site: ``100 kW, 285 degrees from Hu Wei TWN 12024E 2343N 
WYFR a10``. This one is slightly off-frequency, putting an audible het on WEWN 
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 

** U S A. WYFR wrong frequency announcement: to be sure I had not miscopied 
anything, I listened again 24 hours later, Aug 14. At 1357, 11830 // 11910 with 
English talk about Rarotongan idols, other English on 11865. 

Yes, at 1359, she again says on 11830/11910: ``continuing on 11855, beginning 
transmission on 11565, 17760 and 13695.`` But none of those are on the air, and 
really continues on 11830 and 11910. 11865 meanwhile at 1400 has switched to 
Spanish, mentioning 16 and 25 metros, i.e. 17555 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX 
LISTENING DIGEST) 

** U S A. Checking another Saturday for the bounty of DX programs at 1600 UT: 
at 1558, nothing on 12160 or 17520, so one starts to get apprehensive.

But shortly after 1558, WWCR signs on 12160, 1600 plays a minute of music, and 
finally starts WORLD OF RADIO 1525 produced Aug 11 at 1601. VG signal.

At 1559, WHRI signs on 17520, 1600 into DXing with Cumbre #665 produced August 
10, Marie quoting a few stories from Media Network blog starting with Leh 
flooding; later some downunderite and Chris Lobdell for a full semihour this 
week. Signal fair, not solid (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. From 1415 UT Aug 14, I noticed Kansas was overriding OK on 90.1, and 
Wichita 92.3 was also inbooming, tropo indicators. So DTV on at 1430, aiming 
north, got not only the usual Wichitans which require some tropo boost, 
including KPTS-8, but also Omaha circa 350 miles, and even Sioux City; mostly 
Saturday-morning kidvid. I videotaped perfect reception from most of these, to 
eventually still-photograph:

RF 20, DTV 7-1 KETV-DT, Omaha`s ABC station. Also 7-2, as KETV-WN, meaning 
Weather Now, local plus Accuweather stuff, plus news crawl. This one held up 
longest, still at 1546 UT with some dropping out, and 1600; by 1630 signal 
still registering but not decoding.

RF 5, too weak to decode, but rare to get any signal indication here. From 
direxion of WOI Ames IA, rather than KHAS Hastings NE, and tropo maps show IA 
the center of the axion, with Enid toward the edge.

RF 38, DTV 15-1, KXVO, definite ID, but lost this one before I had chance to 
explore any subchannels. It`s the Omaha CW affiliate, and W9WI says Azteca 
Am?rica is on 15-2; would like to have seen that.

RF 41, DTV 4-1, KTIV-HD. Sioux City IA, no subchannels. Distance computed from 
coordinates: 436 miles. I had this a number of times many years ago by tropo on 
4.

RF 43, DTV 42-1, KPTM, Omaha, with exercises. 

42-2, the PSIP says MyNet, but the bug in LR says ``this``, and below it in 
smaller letters, OMAHA. Plus e/i bug UR meaning program qualifies as 
educational/instruxional.

42-3, labeled KPTM-D3, in Spanish with weight-loss infomercial for eslim-ice. 
Seems the same pitch repeats every few minutes and still going at 1515. 

W9WI shows 42-1 as Fox, 42-2 as this, and 42-3 should be My, but apparently 
not. Rabbitears.info says 42-2 is MyNet only at 7-9 pm (CDT); rest of the time, 
this tv. And 42-3 is Estrella TV. They have 35 other affiliates including a LP 
DTV in Tulsa I`ve yet to see, KXAP-LD on 51.

RF45 is KMTV Omaha, but I was only getting KSNW Wichita. Omaha 17, 22 fullpower 
stations, did not show up, as uplooked later.

BTW, local analog KXOK-32 Enid completely off the air today, instead of just 
transmitting No Signal, or RTV (Glenn Hauser, Enid OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

UNIDENTIFIED. 1580 mystery: another Saturday morning, August 14, so I am all 
set to try to nail it down. But this week, KOKB is transmitting not only 
carrier, but (over)modulation when first checked at 1231 UT, with Stillwater 
ads, atop several weaker signals, so no clear shot at the Spanish to come after 
1300. At 1249 I time KOKB 1580 running 11 seconds behind KOKP 1120 Perry OK. 
After 1300 both stay on Fox Sports Radio.

No sign of KGAF Gainesville TX on 1580, but I am listening to their webcast, 
http://www.kgaf1580.com/listen.html  Will it switch into Spanish? No! Still 
``Your Hometown Station`` with 25 Years of Hits.

I also check the ESPN Deportes schedule and audio via 
http://espndeportes.espn.go.com/espndeportesradio/index
At 10 am (EDT obviously) on Sat is ``Mano a Mano``. It`s a one-on-one 
interview, this time with some futbolista. It certainly seems like the  show I 
was hearing previous weeks at this time; does frequently refer to ESPN Deportes 
(mandatorily always pronounced iespien, i.e. as in English to avoid unpleasant 
connotations in Spanish), which I never caught on 1580. The only affiliate on 
1580 we know of is WTTN in Wisconsin; either that or some other station with 
wrong satellite feed. It still seems a bit late, a sesquihour after sunrise 
1149 UT to be getting WTTN 600+ miles away to the NNE. Besides, it`s almost the 
same direxion as KOKB, so nulling that should not really work.

I also try to hear anything else on 1580 itself this week, by nulling KOKB on 
the DX-398, and indeed I can detect some Spanish talk at 1316 for a few 
minutes, still with plenty KOKB QRM. I try to correlate it with the ESPND 
webcast but cannot, altho it seems like the same material; of course it`s not 
synchronized and I am not sure which would come first in this case. A financial 
ad in English overtook at 1318, probably KREL CO; and a gospel huxter in 
English at 1324, mixing with the Spanish (Glenn Hauser, Enid OK, DX LISTENING 
DIGEST) ###



      



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Message: 4
Date: Sat, 14 Aug 2010 20:28:08 +0200
From: "Wolfgang Bueschel" <[email protected]>
To: "HCDX" <[email protected]>, "DXLD"
        <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [HCDX] Glenn Hauser logs August 14, 2010
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CHINA   AIR Delhi program in Mandarin Chinese, scheduled daily at 1130-1315
UT is subject of CNR1 echo jamming since at least 2007 / 2008year. All three 
channels marked by '*-jammed' on Aoki list too.

Log of Friday Aug 13:
17705  bad mixture of three co-channels. BSKSA Riyad 1st progr, CHN echo
jamming program against AIR Delhi in Mandarin, at 1215 UT Aug 13.

15795  AIR Delhi Mandarin + China mainland CNR1 echo jamming at 1130-1315 
UT, 1228 UT Aug 13, on S=9+15dB level.

\\ 11840 kHz Delhi Kingsway not heard here in Europe, due low noon 
propagation and local noise floor on 25mb.
(wb, Aug 14)


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Glenn Hauser" Sent: Saturday, August 14, 2010 7:38 PM
Subject: [HCDX] Glenn Hauser logs August 14, 2010

** CHINA. Firedrake August 14:
 8400, good at 1235. Was not hearing it a semihour earlier; poor at 1334
10500, good at 1218 but with flutter; gone at 1334 but 8400 was still

15795, a somewhat confusing situation here: AIR`s Chinese service is
1145-1315 via Bengaluru, and the ChiCom must jam it, as noted many times
before. Aug 14 at 1225, Chinese music and talk, nothing Indian about it, but
not // CNR1 jamming frequencies. 1230 2-pip timesignal, on the half-hour, so
does that point to India? But then CNR-type emphatic talk, with echo, so
using some program other than CNR1? By 1245, now I can tell 15795 is //
11785 CNR1 jamming an echo apart, but 15795 has become much weaker (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)



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Message: 5
Date: Sat, 14 Aug 2010 17:01:37 -0700 (PDT)
From: Glenn Hauser <[email protected]>
To: [email protected], [email protected], mwdx
        <[email protected]>, [email protected], [email protected], MWC yg
        <[email protected]>, ABDX <[email protected]>,
        [email protected], [email protected]
Subject: Re: [HCDX] 1580 Spanish mystery, again
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii

Small correxion. The time for Mano a Mano on ESPN Deportes on their schedule is 
9 am (EDT), not 10 am, and that is when I was hearing it = 13+ UT = 8 am CDT. 
Glenn

--- On Sat, 8/14/10, Glenn Hauser <[email protected]> wrote:

> I also check the ESPN Deportes schedule and audio via 
> http://espndeportes.espn.go.com/espndeportesradio/index
> At 10 am (EDT obviously) on Sat is ``Mano a Mano``. 

Also, the Spanish on 1580 is someone`s local or semi-local. So far this has 
been `my` baby, altho tnx for ideas from several. Next Saturday, and I hope to 
remind everyone shortly before, it would be nice if people in first-adjacent 
states to OK, far enough from Blackwell that KOKB is not a problem whether 
modulating or not, would check 1580 at 8-9+ am CDT for something in Spanish and 
see if they can ID or DF it.

That is, TX, NM, CO, KS, MO, AR. 

Possibly we need to include second-adjacent states, of which there are 9 more 
in US and 5 in Mexico. 73, Glenn Hauser


      


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Message: 6
Date: Sat, 14 Aug 2010 20:03:02 -0400 (EDT)
From: [email protected]
To: [email protected]
Subject: [HCDX] August 13-14 Logs
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
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** BRAZIL. 9587.32, Super Radio Deus ? Amor, 0510-0530+, August 
14,  Portuguese preacher. Weak but readable. // 9564.56, 11765. 
(Brian Alexander,  PA) 
 
** BRAZIL. 12175, 11355, Super Radio Deus ? Amor, 0515-0530+,
August 14,  weak, unstable, distorted spurs from 11765 with Portuguese 
preacher.   Spurs +/- 410 kHz away from 11765. Best in AM mode. 
// 9564.56, 9587.32,  11765. (Brian Alexander, PA) 
 
** DOMINICAN REPUBLIC. 6025.08, Radio Amanecer  Internacional,
0300-0332*, August 14, Christian music. Spanish talk. IDs at  0307.
Weak. Poor with adjacent channel splatter. Irregular. (Brian Alexander,  
PA) 
 
** EQUATORIAL GUINEA.  6250, Radio Nac, Malabo, *0545-0620+,
August  13, abrupt sign on with Spanish talk. Fair signal strength but 
weak  modulation at sign on. Much stronger modulation at 0600 as if
they flipped on  a switch. Irregular. Not heard next night. (Brian 
Alexander, PA) 
 
** ETHIOPIA [non]. via Samara, Russia, 15350, Radio Bilal, *1800-
1815+,  August 14, sign on with local chants and Amharic talk. Some
English with  excerpts of Obama speech supporting a Ground Zero 
Mosque. Fair to good.  (Brian Alexander, PA) 
 
** GAMBIA [non]. via Germany, 15225, Baati Rewmi Radio, *1815-
1830*,  August 14, sign on with haunting local tribal music. Vernacular 
talk. Some  English with ads in English for a ?Meat & Fish Market"
and "Silver  Insurance". Poor to fair in noisy conditions. Sat only.
(Brian Alexander, PA) 
 
** MALI. 9635, RTVM, *0800-0820+, August 14, sign on with flute IS
and  opening French ID announcements followed by some local string
music and  vernacular talk. Local tribal music. Poor in noisy conditions.
(Brian  Alexander, PA) 
 
** ZIMBABWE [non]. via Madagascar, 9875, Radio Voice of the  People,
0434-0457*, August 14, tune-in to vernacular talk. IDs. Gave  Zimbabwe
address and website: radiovop.com. English talk at 0442. Some  Afro-
pop music. Poor to fair. (Brian Alexander, PA) 
 

Brian Alexander, Mechanicsburg, PA, USA  
Equipment: Icom  IC-7600, two 100 foot longwires 




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Message: 7
Date: Sun, 15 Aug 2010 05:40:22 +0430
From: "Albert Muick" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Subject: [HCDX] Logs for Al Muick
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
Content-Type: text/plain;       charset="us-ascii"

QTH:    Kabul, Afghanistan
RX:     WinRadio G303e
ANT:    100m Longwire/Randomwire
ACC:    Palstar MW-550P Mediumwave Preselector


1548.5,  14 AUG,  2234 UTC,  IRAN, IRIB (location?) with sermon on Ramadan
and mentions of Sudan, Iran and Afghanistan.  500 Hz off-frequency and
making a mess of the channel.  Strong signals, but very deep fade every five
minutes or so.

1593,  14 AUG,  2219 UTC,  KUWAIT, Radio Free Iraq, with call-in show
featuring female announcer and a male caller.  The discussion (argument?)
was getting pretty intense.  Fair signals with moderate local noise and a
slow fade.

4965,  14 AUG,  2155 UTC,  ZAMBIA, 1Africa Radio (CVC), with modern pop
religious tunes and occasional English announcements. Fair signals with some
annoying QRM from a utility station about 2kHz up.  I had to put the
receiver in Synchronous mode and narrow the IF to 3kHz in order to get a
usable signal.



" The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedience, and
by parts."
 - Edmund Burke



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Message: 8
Date: Sat, 14 Aug 2010 18:55:57 -0700 (PDT)
From: Glenn Hauser <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: [HCDX] Glenn Hauser logs August 14-15, 2010
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
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** EQUATORIAL GUINEA [and non]. 15190, Radio Africa, Aug 14 at 2157, the 
low-key mumblings of Tony Alamo, still on here, courtesy Pan American broker, 
even after WINB finally had enough of him a full year after his convixion of 
child sexual abuse, later sentenced to 175 years. Audio rather distorted and 
undermodulated but strong S9+20. 

I knew WYFR was about to collide, but still surprised at 2159 by sign-on in 
Portuguese; no doubt its carrier was already on and open when I tuned in, 
suppressing Radio Africa. The two are perfectly zero-beat, no SAH to make it 
obvious there is more than one signal. Initially mixing about equally (Glenn 
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** FRANCE [non]. 17630 via GUIANA FRENCH, RFI Spanish is scheduled 2100-2130 
only, but Aug 14 it`s still inbooming with ``RFI Musique`` at 2134, reggae in 
English, not // 21690 with other music; 2139 a Brazilian song; 2144 ID as 
above, 2152 more reggae in English; off at next check 2203. Is there another 
strike? This is how they enjoyably fill time when regular programming is 
lacking, but why extend an extra semihour? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING 
DIGEST)

** KUWAIT. 15540, R. Kuwait English service, sure likes American pop music, 
e.g.: Aug 14 at 2020, ``I`ll Be There``, but is it really Michael Jackson or a 
Kuwaiti Kopicat? Then a protest song about corporate office people. Then quite 
a change of pace, ``I`m in the Mood for Love``, somewhere between Earth Kitt 
and Doris Day. Later at 2045, ``First Time I Saw Your Face``, really Roberta 
Flack; 2048, ``I Feel Fine``, Beatles. 2050 usual closing news headlines, 2100 
exactly accurate (=WWV) timesignal and off*. Hmmm, ``exactly accurate`` is 
rather redundundant, Glenn.

Around 2020, RK`s other frequency, to C&W NAm, 17550 in Arabic, was giving VOA 
Bonaire co-channel a fit, but in the clear after 2030 was not really 
sufficient. It axually improved somewhat by 2150, mostly talk (Glenn Hauser, 
OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. Tho 16m was open well from all other parts of NAm and beyond, Aug 14 
at 2015, not even a carrier detectable on 17775, let alone spurs 17630v, 
17920v, so surely KVOH was not on the air. WYFR, audible, is about the same 
distance in other direxion. KVOH irregularity is legion, but sometimes might be 
restored, yet totally overskipping here (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. VOA French, 15730, Sat Aug 14 at 2034 with ``English USA`` lessons, 
such as ``May I see the radio room?``, set aboard an aircraft carrier, which no 
doubt your average African can identify with --- or is it to subtly reinforce 
appreciation of US military power? 

2040 part 2 of Lesson 68, more of same, hostessed by Mich?le Joseph who doesn`t 
translate everything into French. More about it here: 
http://www1.voanews.com/french/learning-english/
Says it airs Sat 2000-2050 and Sun 1838-1900. This transmission is the Sat/Sun 
only extension via Greenville to 2100 of the daily 2000-2030 French via S?o 
Tom? on same 15730. 50-minutes-straight on Saturdays seems a bit much for LL, 
with that annoying site switch in the middle; should that read 2030-2050? 
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) See also KUWAIT

** U S A. 15610, WEWN, Aug 14 at 2108, OM RCC apologist who has trouble 
pronouncing ``pedophilia``, maintaining that ten times as many Protestant 
ministers are pedophiles as are Catholic priests, but Catholix get all the bad 
publicity, especially from NY Times, as payback for all the church`s other 
unpopular stances. In following hour, YL congressional staffer who saw the 
light and converted herself from pro-``choice`` to pro-``life``, and 
established such a caucus (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 

** U S A. 13845, WWCR, Sat Aug 14 at 2124 DGS sermonizing, VG signal, so weak 
crosstalk under was audible, but could not match it with 9980, 9350 or 7465, so 
it probably would have matched with inaudible WNQM 1300. Is that back up to 
full 50 kW day power by now after the May flood? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX 
LISTENING DIGEST)

** WESTERN SAHARA [non]. 6297+, SASASAM, UT Sunday Aug 15 at 0017, still on the 
air, definite broadcast audible in storm noise level, can`t tell if it`s 
Spanish; next tune at 0054, off.

I was checking out a report from KH Schmitter in Germany, who sent a clip of 
them *starting Spanish 24 hours earlier, recorded at 0002 UT Aug 14. On that, 
Radio Nacional de la RASD announced frequencies as 1550 and 6300, and time as 
``12 de la medianoche en los estudios, y 11 de la noche en ?rea ocupada``. 
Since Algeria is on UT+1 and Morocco is on UT, that announcement seems to be 
one hour off, and Spanish used to be at 23-24* UT, when it would have been 
right to say at 23. But KH reconfirms the correct UT when he heard it was 0002; 
still going in Spanish at 0015, but off at his next check 0045. 

His clip also includes a program summary, including an informativo at 
``12:30``, followed by two more items, the first of which was something 
``hist?rico``. There was another report of it running an hour later than 
before, and we have heard them signing on an hour earlier than before, at 0600. 
So there is confusion all around; apparently they have just expanded their 
schedule up to an hour both in morning and night, plus are giving timechex an 
hour off, not changed since the shift. Could others please pay attention to 
their time announcements. It doesn`t help that there is a timezone boundary 
between exile and homeland (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ###


      



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