** AUSTRALIA. 9580, Wed Oct 7 at 1320, RA long-form interview show with a psychiatrist originally from Ireland; 1356 outro as having been with Richard Fidler. From the advent of DST this Sunday in SE Australia, RA has again shifted many of the ABC programs it carries one UT hour earlier, as if that were anything but an inconvenience for listeners abroad (already updated the ones in DX/SWL/Media Programs).
So I inspect the RA program schedule, after once again resetting the timezone it detects on my computer from ``London`` to ``UTC``! Now at 13-14 UT weekdays is `Conversations with Richard Fidler` (with a long I), instead of `Daily Planet` music show, which has been squeezed out of the sked entirely, at least on Wednesdays. It`s preceded by another excellent interview show, `Late Night Live` with Phillip Adams, at 12-13 UT; on Fridays, a different L&L appears at 12-13, UT `Live and Local`, interviews and performances by musicians around the country. `The World` TV news simulcast, has moved up to 11-12 UT M-F. `Saturday Night Country` and `Sunday Night` religious discussions continue on weekends. I`m dealing here only with prime morning listening time in North America, 11-14 UT. See full schedule via http://www.radioaustralia.net.au/international/radio/programschedule but first be sure to set timezone to UT or whatever you may prefer. I take this rare opportunity to reëxplain why I always write ``UT`` rather than ``UTC`` and am constantly chopping off the C`s others cite in their logs I publish, to reduce the clutter. (Indeed when it`s obviously UT from first reference there is no need to repeat the timezone after every time cited! Nor ``kHz`` after every frequency.) C stands for coördinated, properly a lower-case subscript, which is a minuscule difference between other versions of UT such as sub-1 and sub-2, of scientific interest only. For general imprecise time references such as radio logging, ``UT`` alone is quite sufficient (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CUBA. 9550, Oct 6 at 1305, RHC is still on late, totally blocking any Vietnamese from CRI (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** KURDISTAN [non]. 11600, Oct 7 at 1400, Denge Kurdistan YL talking with long pauses, and her intonation sounds a lot like French, but no words recognized. I`ve been trying to catch the handover from PRIDNESTROVYE to BULGARIA relay site; 1402 signal weakens somewhat, but no break or overlap, so not sure if this is it, which has been known to happen several minutes later, when I am usually occupied with breakfast (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MEXICO. 1300, Oct 7 at 0551, dominant signal is a Mexican from WSW, ``Penny Lane`` song, version with Spanish lyrix except for the title; 0553 automated TC for 11, 53 minutos; another classic rock song in Spanish; 0559 gobierno federal PSA string including Canal del Congreso, Cambio Climático; promo a Saturday 8-10 am show on Radio México Noticias; 0600 fade down for XEP ID, choral NA, fade up for more music. Modulation is a bit rough. Obviously not 200 watt night power of the Ciudad Juárez station, but as much as 38 kW day power (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 9462-USB, Oct 6 at 1308, INTRUDER, WGY911 with brief voice contact, then intermittent bursts of various digital modes including ``running-water``, but no more voice heard past 1317. This UDXF post https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/UDXF/conversations/messages/63544 has a large number of FEMA logs on 9462, from 10 March 2015 around 13 UT, including WGY911 as FEMA Region 1, Maynard, MA (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 9955, Wed Oct 7 at 1304, WRMI with `FG Radio`, news headlines ending with Trump`s plan to send all Syrian refugees back; 1305 ID in English and French referencing website; song ``Loneliest Boy in the World``; 1308 English plug for website http://famagusta-gazette.com; 1309 ``Wednesday`s Child`` song by Matt Monroe; 1312 more ``latest`` news headlines, which could really be a few days old; ID in German expressing ``minus`` for the hyphen in website; 1313 ``Round and Round`` song and no sign-off until 1315 when the GH WRMI ID plays, before WORLD OF RADIO 1793 starts at 1315:32. No jamming audible. Next WOR: Wed 2100 on WBCQ 7490v to the WSW (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. Jeff, I was going to discover for myself what the other new program on 11580 is, tonight (UT Tuesday) 0100-0200, `Steve Weeks`, but signal was a JBA carrier (as often now by that hour; need to go lower for winter if not already), so I must ask you who or what that program is, if still on instead of RFI? It`s not on your 1732 page http://www.wrmi.net/pb/wp_d12a1732/wp_d12a1732.html where I am often disappointed trying to find programs by title. 73, (Glenn to Jeff White, WRMI, via DXLD) So not the namesake I`d found: Glenn: This is a new religious program that comes to us from a third party in Texas (Jeff White, Oct 6, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 1440, Oct 7 at 0602 UT, Spanish from E/W, and not religious, so not KTNO The Metroplex; soon IDing as KTUV 1440, La Mexicana. That`s 5000/240 watts in Little Rock AR, listed by NRC AM Log as ``La Pantera 1440``. I`m not yet sure there has really been a change, as Pantera still listed in radio-locator et al. Wikipedia stub updated as recently as Oct 2 now says it`s ``Potencia Latina`` with website http://www.potencialatina.net/ which turns out to be ``403-FORBIDDEN nginx`` oh, oh (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 1590, Oct 6 at 1244 UT, ``KVGB Birthday Line``, quick greetings for everybody born on this date, from phone calls to 792-2479 or e-mails. Bubbly host says this segment appears every weekday morning, can start calling an hour earlier. Also applies to anniversaries. Nice local touch from Great Bend KS station. With a population of 16K, there are potentially 44 birthdays in the city alone every day of the year (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. 621, Oct 6 at 0621 UT, from NE/SW, a fair het upon 620 US station, must be TA carrier this late: lots of hi-power Europeans, but often-heard in the east, 100 kW RNE Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Canary Islands, is still pre-sunrise, which is at 0700 UT today. 300-kW RTBF Internationale, Wavre, Belgium saw sun at 0549 already, but not too late for propagation to remain from control point northwestward. This leads me to survey more 9-kHz JBA carriers at 0623-0625, all weaker than 621: 684, 693, 747, 774, 783, 882, 1008, 1125 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. 738, Oct 7 at 0541 UT, the only JBA TA carrier I find is here, very likely the 600 kW RNE Barcelona, Spain. Checking a bit earlier than last night when I was getting several others (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. 4790-, Oct 6 at 1248, again the JBA carrier is present, maybe traces of modulation. No timesignal audible at 1300 today unlike yesterday. 4750 Makassar and its LAH are also in but weaker than before. Is it Tajikistan with BBC Uzbek relay; CNR1 jammer; and/or RRI Fak2 reactivated? Mum`s the word from those in a better position to tell. 4790-, Oct 7 at 1215, I check earlier for a JBA carrier here, but none. By 1245 it is detectable, much like previous days, maybe a timesignal at 1300 but not sure (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) This report dispatched at 1634 UT October 7 _ 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. 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