** ALBANIA. 7425, Dec 6 at 0005, R. Tirana Albanian is still here, apparently
the poor signal with music rather than China atop. At 0248 check, English is
back on 7420 after being on 7425 48 hours earlier. If they both can`t be on
7420, it would be more advantageous for 00 Albanian to use it than 0230
English, but both would avoid 7430 adjacent V. of Russia (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** ALBANIA. 7210, Dec 6 at 0605, poor signal in Arabic; have been wondering
what this be: CRI via Cërrik, 05-07, 150 kW, 240 degrees, says HFCC, in the
clear at this moment, but blocked at 0530-0557 by Romania in Russian, and until
0600 also registered VOR Moskva. But Aoki shows VOR Spanish at 00-05 only; and
also reminds us of R. Fana, non-HFCC Ethiopia on 7210 in Amharic/Oromo (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** AUSTRIA. 6155, Dec 6 at 0559, ``Radio Austria International`` IDs still
being used, in German, English, French, Spanish, languages it no longer
broadcasts otherwise, 0600 cut too late to news in German already in progress
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** BULGARIA. R. Bulgaria is still kilowasting kilowatts by running dead-air
carrier long before start of next broadcast: 9400, Dec 6 at 0609. German is at
0630; same as they were doing in A-season on 11600 before 0530 (Glenn Hauser,
OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CHINA. Firedrake Dec 6, before 1500:
14970, fair at 1451
9200, good at 1455, with flutter; no others 19-7 MHz by 1457
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CUBA [and non]. 6120, Dec 6 at 0600, RHC IS badly squeezed between adjacent
RHC English stronger on 6125, and CRI Sackville on 6115; there is a one-hour
overlap of two RHC services only 5 kHz apart at 05-06, Cubans vs Cubans!
6050, Dec 6 at 0601, ``Ed Newman`` is upwrapping the English hour late, ``hasta
mañana``. The previous morning, RHC was running two minutes early in its
timechex. Then at 0602 on this and the other three overkill English
frequencies, 6010, 6060 and 6125, a minute of Spanish, promo for 22 de dic.,
50th anniversary of Cuba`s alfabetization campaign = literacy. (But what good
is literacy if your freedom to read is controlled??) 0603 reopening English
altho Ed just said goodbye; audio glitched so the ``Habana`` was missing, just
said ``Radio – Cuba``, and claims to be streaming at radiohc.cu
6000, Dec 6 at 1236, RHC is here in Spanish // 6140 and with CCI from the
China/Taiwan radio war, Commies vs Commies, on 6150. The point is, original Nov
13 schedule had RHC on 6010 at 12-13, and online sked still shows that, but
Prof. Arnie told José Bueno, Spain, that they had since started using 6000
without saying what it replaced! Now we know, but why? Surely not deliberately
to give XEOI a clear frequency for an hour, but that`s the effect; see MEXICO.
The usual N. Korean jamming noise remains on 6015, and 6003, rather close to
RHC, more Commies vs Commies!
9805, Dec 6 at 1311, noise jamming vs nothing, a frequency used by R. Martí in
the A-season but not the B-season. (This leapfrogging a current jammer on 9565
could explain why Steve Handler heard some jamming on WYFR 9355 at a very
different time, 2305 Dec 3.)
13670, Dec 6 at 1450, RHC is absent from this scheduled frequency, and still
gone at 1528 check. Still on all the other 19, 22, 25 and 31m frequencies,
except:
11760, Dec 6 at 1454, open carrier/dead air, and still such as 1527. Wake up at
the transmitter site! The cost of electricity wasted on this, not to mention
needless multiple // frequencies, and all that jamming, could have fed
countless nearly starving Cubans due to food rationing. But, first things first!
15380, Dec 6 at 1530 I carefully copy the confused RHC frequency announcement:
15380, 15230 until 16
9540 until 16; 13-16 on 9850
13680 until 16; 13780 and 13680 too
[sic twice; 13680 replaced by 13670 when it`s on]
11760, 11840, 11690 until 16; from 13 on 11750 until 16
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CUBA [non]. 7210-LSB, haven`t heard the counter-revolutionary rants from
Nelson Roig in Pennsylvania lately, so looked for him Dec 6 at 1247 and there
he is on his favorite frequency, no ID for a while, but his polemical style and
voice quite recognizable. Is talking about San Pedro Sula, Honduras, where he
apparently had visited, being a ``cornucopia`` of good food, unlike the
shortages in Cuba.
Said he will be 70 in January, left Cuba in 1961 (or 1971?) and never went
back. Has taken good care of himself, never smoked, only an occasional glass of
wine with a good meal, takes aspirin and vitamins daily, has never been sick,
and will continue sexually active into his 80s. 1257 finally inserts an N1NR
ID, with KP4YAY.
Several other weaker stations heard in his net, including one who has his voice
processed to sound like a hi-pitched cartoon character. Gives no IDs, so we
wonder if he`s really a Dentro-Cuban? Nelson has to ask him repeatedly to say
again, speak clearly. 1259 begins some musical ACI from a 7205 and/or 7215
broadcast (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** FRANCE [and non]. Further chex of RFI vs strike situation, Dec 6:
7220, Dec 6 at 0605, English news in progress; avoid the middle of the
semi-hour when they are always talking about stupid ballgames. MUF is quite
low, only weak signals on 9 MHz except Gabon 9580, so can`t // RFI to 9765.
7390, Dec 6 at 0607, French service playing musique instead; rather
undermodulated too, and with crackles maybe from QRM rather than self.
21690, Dec 6 at 1320, French service is talking instead of musiquing, but I
expect there will be more rolling strike outages. Latest update Dec 5 from Mike
Cooper, GA:
``RFI staff have voted overwhelmingly in opposition to the pending fusion of
RFI and the France 24 television channel. In voting on Monday, 558 were against
the merger and 26 were for it. Unions say there are 781 employees at RFI.
Meanwhile, workers voted unanimously to continue their strike for another day.
Another staff meeting is scheduled to take place Tuesday at 2pm on the 7th
floor of the Maison de Radio France. "No reform and no business project can
take place without the support of personnel," the unions warn`` (Glenn Hauser,
OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** GREECE. 15630, Dec 6 at 1528, VOG is already on air in Greek talk, with
squishy QRM from WEWN 15610 spur on 15628. Supposedly starts at 1600; just an
anomaly, or are they reëxpanding their schedule toward 24 hours? Still a big
blank spot on 9420 around 0600 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MEXICO. 6010, Dec 6 at 1240, weak Spanish YL in Radio Mil`s morning news
block, fortunately cleared by RHC moving to 6000 during this hour; see CUBA
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** RUSSIA. 6074, Dec 6 at 1259 I am standing by for R. Rossii, 6075, Pet/Kam to
close and the Russian Army tactical CW marker to start: as the final RR
timesignal is running at 1300, a few CW tones are heard, a very tentative V.
Pause, and then obviously hand-keyed, the standard marker is sent: ``VVV CQ CQ
CQ DE 2MTL 2MTL K`` from 1300.6 to 1301.5. Quite clear copy today. What has
become of the other call, 8GAL? Is it really at another location? (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** TAIWAN. 7555, Dec 6 at 1500, 3+1 timesignal, announcement in Thai with
Taiwan website; S9+20 but undermodulated; soon fading down. Per Aoki it`s RTI
at 15-16, 100 kW, 255 degrees from Paochung (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** TAIWAN [non]. This recent item was a bit too brief: ``6875, ditto several
weeks of previous almost-daily chex`` It referred to a log of RTI via WYFR at
0639 UT Dec 3. Also, Dec 6 I managed to check before 0600: at 0558, 6875 was in
Chinese instead of English (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** TUNISIA. This item had a typo in the frequency, 7375; should be:
7275, Dec 4 until 0630* IWT closes abruptly, apparently ex -0627* so reset the
timer? IWT = short for the Arabic ID as in WRTH 2011: ``Idh`atu-l-Wataniya
at-Tunisiya``. Since it`s all in Arabic, why keep referring to it by French
name? // 7335 continues, free of co-channel Vatican after 0620 (Glenn Hauser,
OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A [non]. 7520, Dec 6 at 1501, VOA news in normal English, 1505
introducing Eng-lish Teach-ing and Spe-cial Eng-lish hour; quite good reception
despite being listed in Aoki as 275 degrees from Tinang, PHILIPPINES. I would
have guessed it`s on the 21-degree antenna USward. But HFCC adds another 250 kW
from there at 200 degrees, so maybe the total 500 kW accounts for it, and the
200 azimuth is opposite of 20 degrees USward (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** VATICAN [non]. 9790, Dec 6 at 1311 some classical music catches my ear, but
when I come back at 1313 it`s off the air. Must have been VR, 250 kW, 350
degrees via Palauig-Zambales, RVA Philippines, Chinese at 1228-1315 [sic] per
Aoki (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
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