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** BRAZIL. 5999.6, May 31 at 0118, RNB/RNA is gone again since there is no het
upon 6000.0 RHC.
11780, May 31 at 0135, RNB/RNA other frequency is out of whack tonight,
splattering out to plus/minus 20 kHz, quite different from the spurblobs
centered plus and minus 30 kHz earlier this week. The mess gets stronger and
worse the closer to the fundamental. Only the bigsig from Cuba on 11760 can
combat it (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** BRAZIL [and non]. 6135.26 approx., May 31 at 0122, R. Aparecida has varied
up to here in order to put a very audible heterodyne upon R. Santa Cruz,
BOLIVIA, which has a stronger signal, at 6134.82 approx., which means the het
would = 440 Hz but not measured independently. Most of the non-het audio heard
is musical, and not // Aparecida talk on 9630v and 11855v. The het and
Aparecida disappear about 0158* as my streetlite is *igniting: looks like that
will surpass 0200 UT before receding. There is still too much storm noise to
get anything out of RSC even tho dehetted, and by next check at 0209 it too is
off (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** BRAZIL. 9663.74 approx., May 31 at 0216, music from the variable ZY, Voz
Missionária, poor (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CANADA. 2749-USB, May 31 at 0141, very poor signal vs noise level with
English broadcast, no doubt VAR-3 again as scheduled from ``Fundy``, Nova
Scotia, wherever that really is. I keep tuning in at the time this one is on
rather than one of the three other Canadian CG marine weather stations sharing
the frequency. Nothing Canadian on the 54-94 MHz band today (Glenn Hauser, OK,
DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CUBA [and non]. 11760, May 31 at 0206, I notice that RHC Spanish tho VG
signal capable of muscling aside the Brazilian splatter from 11780, the
modulating now is just barely, softer even than // 11840 which is usually
undermodulated. RHC`s own schedule does not show 11760 at all in the evenings
now, but Aoki does as 21-05 UT. At 0207 Cuba goes off 11760, uncovering another
station in Spanish: see IRAN (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) See also
BRAZIL
** IRAN [and non]. 11760, May 31 at 0207, RHC has cut off way early,
audiblizing another station in Spanish, good but fluttery signal, music theme
and opening ``Entrevistas sobre la actualidad política``. One Sra. Rivera, I
think from Spain, with opinions about the Siria conflict, refugees. Recheck at
0224, this one is off too.
It`s IRIB, 500 kW, 274 degrees from Kamalabad at 0020-0220, for CIRAF Zones
11-15, which of course is a total collision with RHC on its #1 frequency, which
however, is not on its own current schedule at all in the evenings:
http://www.radiohc.cu/interesantes/estaticas/frecuencias
Perhaps RHC is undecided whether to confront Iran or not, which often here is
severely QRMing RHC (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** NORTH AMERICA. 6925-USB, May 31 at 0128, fair signal, hard rock from the
only pirate on the band; 0130 ID as ``X L R 8 --- Accelerate!``. But it stays
on the same frequency in kilocycles per second. If it were drifting upward it
would be accelerating in units of kilocycles per second per second (or
kHz/sec). Off at 0151 check (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** PERU. 5980, May 31 at 0112, R. Chaski carrier barely audible thru totally
uncalled-for pulse jamming by Cuba, until cutoff at 0112:46* which is 5.5
seconds later than yesterday (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** ROMANIA. 11945, May 31 at 0205, RRI in Spanish, an echo apart from much
stronger // 11955, so must be from the two different sites and azimuths: HFCC
shows 11945 is 245 degrees from Galbeni, and 11955 is 307 from Tiganeshti. Also
on 9645 at 0218 with RRI ID and lite het from R. Bandeirantes; 9645 is not
synchro with 11945, so must also be Tiganeshti: yes, and also 307 degrees. RRI
music is great, whatever the language service (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** TURKEY. 9770, May 31 at 0117, this is supposed to be the Spanish service of
La Voz de Turquía // 9870 --- but stilted Spanish is only on 9870, while 9770
is stronger with mostly music. 0118 brief announcement sounds Turkish or
Tukishish, such as a Central Asian Turkic language, so Emirler must have put
the wrong program feed into 9770! The only other broadcast scheduled this hour
is Turkish at 0000-0200, eastward on 7260, unchecked since not looked up until
later. Retune toward hourend at 0152 finds 9770 still in good music, not //
9870 still in Spanish. 0154, 9870 is playing the TRT IS and off by 0155, by
when 9770 is also off (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 5085, May 31 at 0125, Brother Scare with canned generic contact
announcement via WTWW-2, already on nite frequency, while WTWW-1 is still on
day frequency 9475 with SFAW, and WTWW-3, 12105 as usual now during this hour
presents Pastor Pete Peters separately in English. By 0201, 9475 is off but
12105 open carrier is still on past 0203 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 5050, May 31 at 0126, WWRB is in open carrier/dead air. Finally at
0130 Dave comes on with an apparently live announcement, saying that ``one of
the transmitters is down, so will have to use this one on 3185; please retune
your shortwave radio to 3185; thank you``. However 5050 stayed on with Pastor
Paul J. something from Texas but now in Philadelphia instructing us about
Yahweh, and at 0140 how the name really is pronounceable since Y is a vowel. I
keep checking for 3185, but 5050 stays on for the entire semihour, until at
0159 Dave makes another announcement, part of which I miss, something about
expecting a call any time now; apparently a live program feed via phoneline.
0200 organ music starts but that may be fill. At 0203 I find that 5050 is
finally off, but 3185 does not come on until *0212 joining Brother Scare in
progress (how else?). Meanwhile 9370 was not on either, so apparently WWRB is
making do with only one operational transmitter
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 7490.12 approx., May 31 at 0220, WBCQ with BS has varied to here
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 7505.20 approx., May 31 at 0221, WRNO stays fairly stable on this
offset, a little higher up than much weaker WBCQ is above 7490; humbuzz and
Pastor Ray Bentley of Maranatha Radio (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 1530, May 31 at 0145 UT, with a Heat/Pacers game nulled, presumably
WCKY still on day pattern since it`s only sunset here, far from Sacramento,
gospel music from NW/SE making fast SAH, and presumably from KLBW New Boston
TX, the cheater I have been hearing later in the night. 0150 UT ad for
solidgospel.com (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 4755-USB, May 31 at 0213, 2-way in Spanish as I tune across; an
hour earlier, the usual US Navy MARS net was here (in English) (Glenn Hauser,
OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
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