** ALBANIA. 13640, Nov 30 at 1532, Klara opening R. Tirana broadcast after
mandatory 2-minute schedule announcement, about Liberation Day Nov 29,
undermodulated as usual, but almost readable with some strain. R. Tirana is
well aware of the undermodulation problem, and many other listeners have
complained about it. It seems the studio-transmitter feed needs to be at a low
level to avoid distortion, but could it be boosted up to normal level once it
gets to the Shijak transmitter? There too it may be thought necessary to ease
off to avoid damaging the old units (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** ANTARCTICA. 15476, ditto all my previous reports since Nov 12: no sign of a
signal from LRA36, Nov 30 at 1411, 1434 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CHINA. Firedrake Nov 30:
8400, JBA at 1353; nothing audible at all [NAAA] on 10500 at this time and no
others found in next semihour (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CUBA. DentroCuban Jamming Command continues to run amok far beyond the hours
it is ``needed`` on certain frequencies. I am hearing the same weak pulse
jamming Nov 30 at 0612 on 9490, 9825, 9955 and 7365, unlike the wall of noise
jamming against Martí on 6030 and 7405 (which are just pileups of multiple
pulsers). Only 9955 has a victim on the air, WRMI, but totally inaudible.
9490 is R. República via RMI via Sackville which finishes at 0300. 9825 is
Martí which finishes at 0100. 7365 is also Martí which finishes at 0500.
Meanwhile, the electrical expense these jammers against nothing consume (let
alone the jammers against something) could better be spent on the downtrodden
Cuban people, forced to accept food rationing short of starvation, and numerous
other privations. This merely reconfirms that for the unelected and dictatorial
Cuban government, the bodies of the People are the lowest priority; keeping
their minds clean of contrary ideas is paramount. Popular Revolution, my foot!
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** ETHIOPIA [and non]. 9560.2, lo het Nov 30 at 1356 against R. Australia in
English, but it cuts off at 1357, uncovering weak Horn of Africa music, so the
R. Ethiopia transmitter has varied to here today (much closer to nominal, than
Nov 25 at 1355 when I found it on 9555.6). Not checked again until 1528 when
the het was now marring something in Chinese.
Per Aoki and HFCC, both CRI via Kashgar, EAST TURKISTAN, and RCI via Yamata,
JAPAN are in Chinese this hour on 9560! 174 and 240 degrees respectively but
theoretically no collision as to different CIRAFs 41 and 44S, i.e. S Asia and
SE China respectively; and I was hearing only one of them (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** GUAM. 5765-USB, AFN on the air today Nov 30, at 1403 with news, 1407 still
talking but can`t copy any details beneath the cable DTV box bubble jammer I am
loath to unplug and later force to rescan every time I undertake a SW DX
session (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** GUATEMALA. 4052.5-, R. Verdad unheard lately. As of Nov 30, Dr. Madrid
reports that there are further problems with the new 500 watt transmitter, so
he has put the 50-watt unit back on for now (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** INDONESIA. 9526-, now I don`t feel much sense of loss when I miss most of
the Tuesday Exotic Indonesia hookups between VOI and RRI Banjarmasin --- as
they refuse to fix the intermittent audio dropouts. I did tune in at 1354 Nov
30 long enough to confirm that the show did go on, with music Plus IADs, then
Jak announcer and Banj guy discussing the artist (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISGTENING DIGEST)
** KOREA NORTH [non]. 5910, Shiokaze, Tuesday Nov 30 at 1408 is in Japanese, YL
over sombre piano music. Sounds like she is saying ``thank you`` every so
often, but maybe it`s really a similar-sounding Japanese word, like senkyu?
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** LIBYA [and non]. 17800, a theme from Beethoven`s Ninth, so is it Deutsche
Welle? Of course not! It`s V. of Africa`s English service to Africa, one of its
perpetual musical bits, mixing about equally with German from DW via PORTUGAL
to Africa, the collision continuing since last week when VOA inexplicably moved
here from clear 17725.
Last time I wondered if MAQ had an issue with Germany, but it would seem not;
however, he does have an issue with Switzerland, close enough? (Glenn Hauser,
OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Viz.:
Best Columns - Europe
Switzerland: We’re pioneers in crafting racist ads
Now a far-right group has upped the ante with its ads in support of a bill to
automatically expel any foreigner who commits a crime, said Rachad Armanios in
Le Courrier. posted on November 4, 2010, at 4:05 PM
Switzerland has rapidly become the world leader in racist political posters,
said Rachad Armanios. We started last year, with the infamous billboard that
persuaded the country to ban minarets. It’s visually quite stunning: A forest
of minarets, each one pointy as a spear and evocative of a missile, sprouts
from the Swiss flag, while in the foreground a woman peers menacingly out of
the eye-slits in her burqa. Then came the anti-immigration poster showing three
white sheep kicking a black sheep out of the pasture.
Now a far-right group has upped the ante with its ads in support of a bill to
automatically expel any foreigner who commits a crime. One poster consists of a
photo of Libyan leader Muammar al-Qaddafi and the words "He wants to destroy
Switzerland" — a reference to the strained relations between Libya and
Switzerland since 2008, when Qaddafi’s son was arrested in Geneva for allegedly
assaulting two servants. In what it called "the best interests of the state,"
the government has banned the Qaddafi posters. But thanks to the controversy
they caused, the ads have already succeeded — everyone in Switzerland now knows
what they say. The lesson is that extremist propaganda works. "In this game,
democracy is taken hostage." (The Week, Nov 12, via DXLD)
** OKLAHOMA. 1690, the next chapter in the saga of Enid`s talking house
transmitter: Finally the afternoon of Nov 29 I go to the address on the
recording, 3509 McClaflin Drive in the SE corner of Enid. Before 2100 UT in
central Enid I am hearing it as usual, tho skywave from Chicago and Denver is
already coming in, making TH sound wishy-washy, i.e. unstable FMy carrier just
like Greg`s units formerly on 1670. Without the QRM it sounds OK.
But a sense of foreboding increases as I approach the address --- the TH signal
fades out, so nothing but the X-band stations when I am parked in front of it.
There is no sign on the curb about this being a TH, but the inhabitants are
home so I ring the doorbell. The gentleman who answers is rather surprised,
assures me the house is not for sale, but he did buy it two years ago from Ms.
Sabedra!
So this is a leftover transmitter stored somewhere else which somehow got
turned back on recently, playing the old loop. Returning to central Enid I can
again hear it around the intersexion of Maine and Van Buren, but now there is
too much skywave. As I go further west, it is lost again. The realtor`s office
is about five blox further north on VB, but a previous drive-by there did not
find any signal peak.
So this presents another find-the-transmitter challenge, which needs to be
conducted at low noon when there is least skywave QRM. Once I have found it, I
will inform Ms Sabedra- and urge her to turn it off. My apologies to DXers
everywhere else, but their chances of hearing this more than a mile away are
minuscule (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** TURKEY [and non]. 11815, TRT atop the CCI with SAH of ~6 Hz, Nov 30 at
1508-1516 with vocal music, sad-sounding song, as Sheref says is typically
Turkish, long talk segments before and after. 320 degrees from Çakirlar to
Europe, but also USward. Since it`s after 1500, the other station is Japan, not
Costa Rica (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 3185, dead air/open carrier, Nov 30 at 0621, again no one minding the
store at WWRB when feed from Brother Scare fails; this is hardly a complaint,
but an observation (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 720, KDWN Las Vegas NV: you may recall that during October I was
hearing this almost any morning from 1245 UT, as it was switching to
non-direxional 50 kW day pattern one hour earlier than authorized, apparently
due to confusion about the difference between PDT and PST.
In November the legal sunrise time was 1415 UT, so KDWN might have been
switching at 1315 instead, but I never could hear it then, nor even at 1415,
which was too far past sunrise eastward. Apparently it finally dawned on them,
and resumed switching at the correct time as of Nov 1, let alone Nov 7 with the
end of PDT.
I make one more try on Nov 30 at 1415, but still hear nothing but a weak mix of
WGN and KSAH. LVNV axual sunrise this date is 1432 UT and will reach its latest
in early January at 1452. Meanwhile, legal FCC sunrise for KDWN in December and
January is 1445 UT. So possibly by late Dec it will be able to propagate
briefly from 1445, but it really needs to resume switching one hour too early
at 1345 to reach this far east (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 1190, Nov 30 at 1421 UT from NW/SE I am hearing siren-like sounds and
other electronic music, not your average commercial radio fare, so presume it
is KVCU, Boulder CO, the student-operated ``AM Revolution`` at the University
of Colorado, which FCC AM Query affirms ``operates as a noncommercial
educational station``, with daytime power of 6.8 kW nondirexional. November
official FCC sunrise is 1345 UT, and December 1415.
By 1423 it was overtaken by a station looping N/S with a house-buying ad,
7-digit phone-number so unlikely KFXR from The Metroplex, 1424 Xmas music,
maybe KVSV Beloit KS, tho its 2.3 kW lobe goes NW (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 6074, one must tune in early to catch the 8GAL CW marker for
sure: Nov 30 it starts at 1359:20 with standard V/CQ message, and finishes by
1400, when I was not noticing the 6-second late timesignal normally heard as
the last gasp of motorboating 6075 R. Rossii, Petropavlovsk/Kamchatsky
transmitter. That stayed on a while longer versus the Chinese successor.
Tnx to Ron Howard in California who sent me a clip of 8GAL recorded at exactly
the same time I was hearing it Nov 25 at 1400. I was astounded by how strong it
was on Asilomar Beach, totally overriding audio from RTI (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST) ###
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