** BHUTAN [and non]. 6035.03, Jan 19 at 1408, LAH against a 6035.0 station, so presumably BBS is on this late vs. Voice of Shangri-La, (it`s always seemed to me Bhutan would be more Shangri-La-ish than Kunming, CHINA; a Big Lie?) (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** BURMA [non]. 9335, Jan 19 at 1426, open carrier at S6-8; 1429 Yankee Doodle Dandy is barely audible, until 1430, then ``Welcome to the Voice of America – in Burmese``. In a strange competition/duplication of effort, both VOA and Radio Free Asia broadcast in Burmese. The 1430-1630 segment here, due west via Tinang, PHILIPPINES, is VOA, while other frequencies before and after this bi-hour carry RFA. So, when does Myanmar get to be considered ``free`` and no longer in need of RFA?? Or for that matter, of VOA, as friendly country after country has had its VOA language service abolished over the years. No need to speak to allies! (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CHINA. 4940.0, Jan 19 at 1400 I happen to be tuned to Voice of Strait, Fuzhou, as the 5+1 timesignal is firing, so I check its accuracy one minute later vs WWV 5000: it was one second late! Surely the ChiCom can do better than that. Let`s hope BPM is not one second off (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** OKLAHOMA [and non]. 89.1, Jan 18 circa 2030 UT on caradio, I notice that local Oasis translator K206CA is off again, for no discernible reason – no more ice storms, tornados, major earthquaxes or power outages. Still off at 1926 UT check Jan 19. This audiblizes the clashing fringe public radio stations, KMUW Wichita KS and KYCU Clinton OK. As I drive around, it`s a tossup which one will capture, but it`s nice to have access to PR alternatives, which of course if I had a rotatable home direxional antenna would be selectable. Parked on the north side of a Jumbo grocery building on the north side of Enid, I figure it`s KMUW with Hear & Now, but 2059 UT Jan 18, multi-station ID starts with homebase KCCU Lawton and ends with KYCU Clinton-Western Oklahoma; no KMUW at this spot. Also: 88.3, K202BY, Family Radio translator, is still off 92.1, KAMG-LP, is STILL out of whack with heavy distortion and bleeding into 92.2-92.3. No one in charge of this satellator? 94.3, KLGB-LP has been back on since shortly after I last noted it off (Glenn Hauser, Enid, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** PAPUA NEW GUINEA. 7324.945 approx.,, Jan 19 at 1416, JBA carrier, and it`s wavering slightly, no doubt Wantok Radio Light again in the temporary absence of CRI from 7325.00. A much longer window for those better-positioned to hear it: today from 0813 until 0957 when CRI came on, says Ron Howard, California (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 7570, Monday Jan 18 at 2128, familiar classic rock music on WRMI, soon followed by Dr Harald Gabler announcing this is the Rhein-Main Radio Club special ``in remembrance of`` the EDXC Conference last August in St Petersburg. This was supposed to be a one-time special on Dec 7, but WRMI has neglected to re-instate the pre-empted programa, `La Rosa de Tokio`, so this is the fifth extra RMRC playback. In its original week, RMRC special had several other airings, so I wonder if those have persisted too? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** YEMEN [non]. 11860, Jan 19 from 1430, usual nice mostly triumphal musical mix from Radio Sana`a on good strong signal, way off the target area, whatever the still unknown true transmitter site. 1453.5 into some yelling with the music, and surely the Maghrib sunset call to prayer is imminent --- but it never happens past 1500! IIRC, in my several weeks of monitoring almost daily, this is only the second time they have failed to emit a CTP. Vamping theme starts at 1456. Per official sunset calculations and yesterday`s observations, CTP should have gone out circa 1454-1455 UT. I might also make an issue of the CTPs violating Separation of Mosque and State, except this station isn`t currently representing the de-facto State. I notice some other logs of 11860 don`t classify it as [non] or even clandestine, and the situation is a bit murky, but this service only exists because the previous leader of Yemen, President Abdu Rabu Mansour Hadi, was ousted and there`s a civil war raging, with Hadi backed by Saudi Arabia, presumably also facilitating if not hosting these broadcasts (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) This report dispatched at 1938 UT January 19 _ 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
