** ARGENTINA. 15345v, May 25 at 0110, R. Nacional, poor signal and somewhat distorted modulation, opening a dramatic biography of David ---, an autor dramático born in 1935 in Buenos Aires, with `cello music, credits. This is on air after 0000 only on UT Sun & Mon, rather than RAE on 11711v (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** BULGARIA. 21310-USB, May 25 at 2040, LZ1MS calling QRZ North America and making numerous quick contacts mostly with Californians. No other European signals noted on 15m, but RRI broadcast was OK on 15170. If R. Bulgaria had been alive on 13m with high power, it should have been inbooming. QRZ.com lookup shows: RUMEN GECHEV P.O. BOX # 1 SOFIA 1756 Bulgaria And an impressive CV (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CHINA [and non]. 15275, May 25 at 1315, CNR1 jammer in clear // 15265 with usual het from Taiwan off-frequency. 15265 is to block Radio Free Asia, Tibetan via Tajikistan daily at 13-14 since April 12, per Aoki (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CUBA. 17730, May 25 at 2030, RHC announcer in Spanish introduces next service in Arabic as ``en FM e Internet``, only, no mention of shortwave! So even RHC is downplaying the medium (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** EGYPT. 13850, May 25 at 0533, R. Cairo is back with another fruitless broadcast, dead air or maybe JBM in Arabic, poor signal with flutter (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** KUWAIT. 13650, May 25 at 2004, poor signal in Arabic is still here; must be RK on late past nominal 2000* and nothing on next frequency 17550 to N America; I keep a BFO on 13650 and finally cuts off at 2019*. By the time I`ve retuned to 17550, it`s now on with ME music, poor signal (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGESET) ** MEXICO. Unusual update to the AM and FM http://www.ift.org.mx/sites/default/files/contenidogeneral/industria/infraestructurafm28-04-15_1.pdf station tables in which the only changes seem to have been concession information on a couple AM-FM conversions no longer without AMs. (XEMU Piedras Negras, for instance, seems to be gone and all that's left is XHEMU.) Note the odd format, the old date with a _1 near it. TV has not been changed (Raymie Humbert, May 18, WTFDA Forum via DXLD) XEMU is 580, 5/2.5 kW, La Rancherita and can be a big QRM problem for WIBW at SRS/SSS, and any time at night, as it`s almost opposite direction thru Enid and unnullable. So now I`m looking for it, really gone for good? May 25 at 0540 some Mexican music is way under WIBW, but there are 7 or 8 other XEs on 580, all with lower listed night power. Further chex needed. If XEMU is off as a result of Mexican government policy to migrate AMs to FMs, that should open up the frequency in SW to Central TX in case any US station would like it (yet far enough from adjacents in Dallas and Austin, co-channel in Lubbock). Mexico could hardly insist on FCC honoring such a deleted listing, tho ex-Canadians who have voluntarily quit AM for FM still must be protected, as it`s conceivable a new station could erupt on an open frequency there such as 580 or 700 in Alberta (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SPAIN. 17855, May 25 at 2031, REE interview during `Españoles en la Mar` with scratchy modulation, also that way earlier in hour; good signal here, and scratch also the same on much weaker // 15490, so it`s an input rather than output problem (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SUDAN [and non]. 13800, May 25 at 0533, R. Dabanga with stingers, via VATICAN, fair signal and double tone jamming from two carriers at slightly different frequencies on the hi side. 11645, May 25 at 0534, R. Dabanga via VATICAN, poor signal // 13800, and the Sudanese tone jammer is *still* stuck up on Dabanga`s ex-11650 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. WORLD OF RADIO 1774 monitoring: confirmed Sunday May 24 at 2100 on WRMI 15770; and at 2300 on WRMI 11580; and 0330 UT Monday May 25 on WRMI 9955, with beep jamming. And 0300 UT Monday May 25 on Area 51 via WBCQ 5109.8-CUSB. Next: 1100 UT Tuesday WRMI 9955 0630 UT Wednesday HLR 7265-CUSB 1315 UT Wednesday WRMI 9955 1430 UT Wednesday HLR 7265-CUSB 2100 UT Wednesday WBCQ 7490v For all our broadcasts on all media see http://www.worldofradio.com/radioskd.html Access to podcasts, latest and previous shows: http://www.worldofradio.com/audiomid.html (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 7455, May 25 at 0107, WRMI is back to TruNews // 9395 & 5850, rather than fill music or RTI instead of on 7730 as heard 20-22 hours earlier. Re: ``R. Prague instead of Brother Stair via WRMI Okeechobee May 18 0300-0400 on 11580 YFR 100 kW / 044 deg to WeEu English tx#09, video: http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2015/05/radio-prague-instead-of-brother-stair.html -- 73! (Ivo Ivanov, QTH: Sofia, Bulgaria, May 18, dxldyg via DXLD)`` Clip is at 0300, and only other clip is at 0737 when BS is back on. Prague`s English is only half an hour, so really RP English for a full hour at 0300? On 9955, RP English is at 0300-0330 only on UT Sun & Mon, and May 18 was Monday. So I check this one week later, UT Monday May 25 at 0300, when 11580 is back to BS; 9955 presumably Prague but hard to copy with pulse and beep jamming. Was it another anomaly last week, feed mixup? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 720, UT Monday May 25 at 0543 UT, surprised to hear `The Great Gildersleeve` oldtime radio on WGN. Such used to be at local midnite on 780 WBBM, but now it`s sticking to ``News 105.9``, with a `Stardate` at 0543 UT. WGN schedule shows this is only a UT Monday 04-07 thing: ``11 p.m. – 2 a.m.: WGN Radio Theatre with Carl Amari`` It seems this week`s is only the seventh program in the series, each consisting of three different OTR shows, a full hour each?? Not noticed before on Sunday nights; and maybe WBBM is still doing OTR on weeknights? Finding a program schedule on its website is not so easy (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) This report dispatched at 0023 UT May 26 _ 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
