** BRAZIL. 11745 & 11815, April 14 at 0514, crackling spurs from 11780.1v RNA/RNB are audible but poorly while the extra 11710 one is not, general signal levels being lower than usual (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CUBA. 15730, April 14 at 1325, RHC is back on its new frequency today with a speech, as heard April 12 but not April 13. By 1408 it`s still on with music, but so are 11860 and 13740, which are supposed to close at 1400, as the sloppyrators at RadioCuba have not got around to turning them off. I also notice some CCI under 13740, which per HFCC would after 1400 be IBB in Chinese via TINIAN on Tue & Thu only; before 1400, Noel Green in England was getting QRM from RRI in Russian on 13740 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** EGYPT. 13850, April 14 at 0515, R. Cairo signal is VG, but Arabic is suptorted and unreadable as usual; nor do I hear spurs plus/minus 10 this time (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** FRANCE. 15485: UTwente via gh hears nothing on 15485 at 1600 or 1630 April 13, one of the HFCC-registered hours for English from RFI. Mike Cooper adds: ``Nothing heard on 15485 at 1600 UT or 15690 at 1700; no carrier detected``. So as suspected in our last report, it appears that 06-07 UT on 13725 is the only real English hour on SW from RFI, since I really heard it April 13. Yet undeconfirmed is the 18-19 on 5985, but presumably like the 15690 and 15485 listings, 1) NOT really on the air and 2) when they were, not RFI at all but Taiwan relays (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MEXICO. 1030, April 14 at 1245 UT as I tune in, ``Radio Fórmula, Ciudad Juárez`` ID, quickly losing out to gospel huxtering in English, KCTA TX or KCWJ MO. It`s XEYC, 1/1 kW per IRCA, or 5/0.5 kW per Cantú and WRTH (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. Checking Yellowstone Public Radio webcast, Monday April 13 at 1700+ UT for listed `Mad About Music`, as we suspected that series has expired, and now really heard, starting late as usual at 1705, is `Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival`. But it`s not the new 2015 series of 2014 concerts. Schubert`s Quintet for Strings plays after a long interview about it, but no Schubert happens to appear anywhere on this year`s or last years`s listings for SFCMS from syndicator WFMT. Never mind: it`s great music and presented here in 81 kpbs stereo. Finally at program outro mentioned as the last performance in the 40th season of the Festival: Since 2015 is the 43rd season, this must have been from 2012! whose broadcast rights would seemingly have expired by now. We`ll see if YPR gets into the current series during this hour from next week? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 720, April 14 at 1240 UT, half a sesquihour after sunrise here, I start scanning MW from the bottom to find what`s still skywaving: here in Spanish is `Trabajos`, quick call-ins offering day-jobs such as ``decking, stucco, yardero`` with phone numbers mostly in 210 area code. Bits of music interspersed. Obviously KSAH Universal City (San Antonio) TX (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. 1320, April 14 at 1249 UT, ``107.9`` in English mentioned in QRM, soon losing to something in Spanish, and usual LAH caused I think by my closest, KCLI, Clinton OK. Eyeballing thru the NRC AM Log 1320 listings, I don`t find any translator or other // on 107.9 mentioned. So let`s search thru all the WTFDA FM Database 107.9 listings, whether there are any matches with a 1320 station? Yes! KELQ Flandreau SD with KELO 107.9 Sioux Falls. W300BL Manchester TN with ``Thunder 1320`` [WMSR]. Certainly KELQ would be the one audible here on SRS. I remember from TVDXing of KELO or some SD station, that Flandreau is pronounced Flan-drew. However, when hunting thru the NRC Log I noticed a 107.1, possibly misheard as 107.9? That would be KVMC 1320 Colorado City TX, // KAUM 107.1 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. 1610, April 14 at 0530 UT, open carrier with hum loops NE/SW, a new TIS transmitter around here? Not strong but too much and too steady to be CHHA Toronto. Not there when rechecked after sunrise circa 1300 UT. Possibly a local device, but haven`t heard it on 1610 before (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) This report dispatched at 1555 UT April 14 _ Hard-Core-DX mailing list [email protected] http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/hard-core-dx http://www.hard-core-dx.com/ _______________________________________________ THE INFORMATION IN THIS ARTICLE IS FREE. It may be copied, distributed and/or modified under the conditions set down in the Design Science License published by Michael Stutz at http://www.gnu.org/licenses/dsl.html
