** CANADA. 6160, April 2 at 0601, echoing CBC News from both CKZN and CKZU,
where no effort is made to synchronize them. One is slightly weaker than the
other, no telling which (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CHINA. Firedrake April 2, before 1300:
13680, good at 1256
13920, fair at 1256
13970, fair at 1256
No thoro search of all the bands today, but just what I ran across
Before 1330:
15495, fair at 1325
15550, poor at 1325
15900, fair at 1327; none in the 16s
Before 1400:
15900, very good with flutter at 1358
After 1400:
15615, fair with het at 1406
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CUBA. The irresponsible DentroCuban Jamming Command is wildly jamming many
unoccupied frequencies, UT Monday April 2, including:
13820, at 0542, with heavy multiple pulses (daytime-only RM frequency)
11930, at 0551, heavy jamming (daytime-only RM frequency)
11775, at 0551, lite to medium jamming vs CRI Arabic via Albania (early evening
only, RM via Greenville, Sackville)
9885, at 0552, pulsing (morning & evening VOA Spanish; now VOA Botswana
escapes most of it by being on 9880 instead)
7405, at 0559, heavy jamming during RM Monday silent period
6940, at 0600, pulse jamming, stray or spur?
6030, at 0601, residual lite jamming without R. Martí
5745, at 0606, pulse jamming, another unoccupied RM channel
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CUBA. 6010, 6060 and 6125, April 2 at 0604, RHC English apparently still
running until 0700, but missing from the fourth frequency 6050. Remains to be
seen if this was intentional for new A-12 schedule, or accidental. However,
6050 had some noise on it, suspiciously DRM-like, tho none scheduled in HFCC on
this or adjacents. Maybe RHC defective?
On Monday morning, the Esperanto schedule still hasn`t been updated to show
Sunday 2030 on 11760, which we heard April 1, but the English page has been,
with this ``HEDULE``, confirming that the 20 and 00 broadcasts have shifted one
UT hour earlier like last summer (even tho this nonsensically puts 60m even
further into the dayside), but not the others:
Banda Tropical 5040 23-24
América Central 11760 19-20
América del Norte 6050/6000/6060 01-07/01-05/05-07
Norte Centro y Suramérica 6125 05-07
San Francisco 6010 05-07
The confusing three-frequencies-three times-on-one-line means that 6050 is
still supposed to be on air from 01 to 07.
How about Spanish? That too is now updated; removed meterband clutter:
Buenos Aires 15230/17580 23-04 y 11-15/11-15
Nueva York 9550/11860 11-13/11-15
San Francisco 13780 13-15
Chicago 15340/9850 13-15/11-13
América del Sur 17730 11–15 [not Suramérica above]
Banda Tropical 5040 21–23 y 01-05
América Central 11750/9540/9810 13-15/11-15/22-06
Europa 17750 21-23
Norte Centro Suramérica 11760/6150 11-15 y 00-05/11-13
Caribe 6120/9710/11690 23-05/21-23/11-15
América del Sur 11680/17705 23-04/21-04
MESA REDONDA (Lunes a Viernes y días especiales)
América del Norte 6000/15140 22:30–24
ALÓ PRESIDENTE (Domingo)
América Central 13680 14-18
Caribe 11690 14-18
América del Sur 17590/17750 14-18
América del Norte 15340 14-18
Some new frequencies there, notably 15140 for Mesa Redonda; and 17590, 15340
for Aló Presidente, which of course seldom happens, even when El Hugazo is not
back in Cuba for chemotherapy. As we know all too well, but RHC apparently does
not, when AP does appear, it never starts until after 1530, and can run as late
as 1930, not ``14-18`` but no doubt all other DX sources will blindly copy what
RHC puts up here, without even pointing out it is mostly missing!
RHC website has specific pages only for some of its other languages, and no
comprehensive transmission schedule in one place.
French is updated:
Amérique du Sud 15370 22:30 - 23:00
Amérique Centrale 11760 20:00 - 20:30
Caraïbe 5040 00:30 - 01:00
Europa 17750 19:30 - 20:00
http://www.radiohc.cu 18:30 - 19:00 20:00 - 21:00 00:30 - 01:00
That confirms what was supposed to occupy dead air on 17750 April 1.
Portuguese: this page http://www.radiohc.cu/pt/
is still ``under construxion`` and I am prompted to log in?!
Arabic, time backwards in Roman but when copied comes out forward:
17750 20:30 - 21
Creole and Quechua aren`t worthy of even a mention on the RHC website (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MAURITANIA. 7245, April 2 at 0558, IGIM is on and chanting, very good signal
this time (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** NEW ZEALAND. 6170, Monday April 2 at 1329, RNZI Mailbox is already underway
with Adrian Sainsbury only, no Oh. Right into Bryan Clark`s DX report also
before 1330 has been reached, starting with his visit to Cooper`s Beach, and
American expatriate satellite TV and TV DX guru Bob Cooper; and then a string
of current SW DX news upward by frequency, including one item I had not heard
about before:
BOLIVIA: 6134.82, R. Santa Cruz heard on extended sked UT Sun & Mon, weekends
only? Nonstop music fade-in circa 0400 to ID, closing at 0608* one day, 0504*
the next day.
He refers to R. Africa, 15190 being in the ``tiny West African nation of
Equatorial Guinea``, best at 0600-0730 with American religious teaching in the
English language (to put it politely) also traces prior to 2000, usually QRM
from Brazil 15189.93. And 5005, R. Nacional reactivated, poor at 0600, 1915.
Galei Zahal, 15785, 5 kW in Hebrew, heard *over* CRI English at 0500, with
recording.
6170 was holding up surprisingly well more than an hour after sunrise here. But
by the second item about propagation (should we be worried about sunspots,
CMEs? marginally) around 1345, too much local noise to copy well, yet it is
still the SSOB.
Well worth going back to listen online, for the clips of some of the DX and Bob
Cooper`s 103.5 FM station, just what I am doing while writing this,
http://www.rnzi.com/audio/mailbox.mp3
which is the permanent URL for whatever is the latest programme, this one
maintaining for a biweek (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** SOUTH CAROLINA [non]. 15650, April 2 at 1359 fast SAH between two
transmitters, 1400 Voice of Greece IS, and presumably R. Liberty, Germany in
Turkmen. But at 1401 I am just about sure there is a very weak third
understation, with ramshorn call, The Overcomer Ministry mentioned, intonations
of Brother Scare, not // or at least not synchro with 9385 WWRB. 1402 ID from
IFTH, Greece.
Then at 1404 I check 15190, Brother Scare via IRRS via ROMANIA, which was
certainly there before 1400, but now just a dead carrier, or JBM, or atop some
other JBA station, Eq. Guinea? 1408 some keyboard music fill has started, 1409
rejoining BS, which I time as 49 seconds behind WWRB. So 15650 is not a
frequency change from the 15190 service, but something additional.
On March 29, Wolfgang Büschel measured Greece 15 Hz high, which would account
for the ``fast SAH``, and at 1359 it ``covered a religious prayer underneath on
approx 15650.0 totally, midst on the station announcement in Greek started at
CRASH character at 1401:07 UT``. One would think the ``religious prayer`` was
not from R. Liberty, especially if it was in English?
Ivo Ivanov, DX Re Mix News, Bulgaria, reported March 28: ``ARMENIA/USA, Test
transmissions of Brother Stair TOM in English: Daily 1202-1402 15650#ERV 300 kW
/ 125 deg SEAs from March 20 and continued --- # from 1350 strong co-channel by
ERA-5 Greek and from 1400 by RL in Turkmen`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** SPAIN. 15385, Monday April 2 at 1431, very poor signal with ME music, could
have taken for Arabic, but must be Sephardic, in REE`s weekly service at
1425-1455, now no longer suffering ACI from RHC which has moved to 15340;
announcement and on to more westernized music.
Now the two repeats need to be confirmed as on A-12 schedule:
UT Tue 0115-0145 on 11795 to SAm, really here and not colliding with Brasil on
alternate 11780? HFCC on 11795 only, but was on 11780 anyway
UT Tue 0415-0445 on 9650, really here rather than alternate 9690? As usual
HFCC-registered on both (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 12133.5-USB, UT Monday April 2 at 0544 I am checking AFN Florida one
more time in case Jim Hightower commentary appear when it ought to, one UT hour
earlier than during standard time, but which slot has been occupied by other
stuff for weeks --- and I am rewarded! Jim is back, at 0544-0546, topic JOBS.
Hope this stix. Should be UT Mon-Fri at this time, and also on unchecked //
7811-USB and 5446.5-USB. The schedule at
http://myafn.dodmedia.osd.mil/AFNRadio.aspx
still lacks the block ``22:00 US Pacific Time`` for Sat & Sun, but does not
show him either for Mon-Thu. Unknown if he is on the AFN schedule at any time
whatsoever, since it`s not searchable (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A [and non]. 12105, WTWW-3 had been opening nominally at 8 am CT, which
means 1300 instead of 1400 UT now, but April 2 absent before and after 1300.
Instead, very weak signal in Chinese, with a break at 1259, i.e. due NW from
KSDA GUAM, also scheduled 11-15, except until July 1 the final hour 14-15 is
due NE via Trincomalee, SRI LANKA instead, per HFCC.
Wondering when WTWW will ever come on, I leave a receiver on 12105, and finally
it pops on with usual bigsig at *1359:23 with Arabible in progress; no ID, no
sign-on. IDs are automated in at odd times during the hours.
Meanwhile, 9479 WTWW-1 with SFAW remains quite reliably on air, but at 1319
today I notice the modulation is lower than usual, still with the usual ripple.
WTWW-2 which tested mostly with Brother Scare in Feb and early March, on 9990
day, 5085 night, remains silent (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 9390, April 2 at 1312, WEWN English frequency has lost it: no
intelligible modulation, just the sounds of extended flatulence, or should I
say, motorboating? Finally at 1316 abrupt ID and ``joining program in
progress``, but modulation cuts off and on, and the same noise continues in the
background. 1318 carrier too cuts off and on, modulation on and off, still
motorboating. All this abutts Brother Scare only 5 kHz away on 9385 WWRB. WEWN
should be put out of its misericordia (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
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