** ALASKA. 9615 & 9655, Feb 8 at 1420, NO signals, not even carriers from KNLS as scheduled this hour in English, Chinese respectively; instead see ROMANIA. Off the air, or totally unpropagating? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CUBA. 1620, Feb 8 at 0502, dominant signal is Cuban NA at midnite, i.e. R. Rebelde, soon found // and well-synchronized with 5025, 670, 1180, ID (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ETHIOPIA. 7236.425, Feb 8 at 1410, JBA carrier presumed the variable Addis Ababa-Gedja transmitter, which I last logged on the other side of 7235; by long path, or short-path grayline? Aoki shows during this hour it should be R. Ethiopia in Arabic (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ROMANIA. 9655, Feb 8 at 1420, S8 station in Romanian, safely assuming it`s RRI as scheduled. I was looking for KNLS Alaska as also scheduled in Chinese, but no trace of it here, nor on 9615 in English. 1422 plays ``Love Me, Tender`` song in English but not sure it`s Elvis; did anyone else dare sing it? 1424 back to Romanian announcement (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SOUTH CAROLINA [non]. 21675, Feb 8 circa 1443, WRMI is barely audible, but sure sounds like Brother Scare; 1719 UT recheck, now 21675 is good, much better than synchronized // 15770 and 11825. So what`s become of Radio Africa Network? RAN was also carrying BS but supposedly from 1000 until stopping at 1400. So did WRMI or RAN fail to make the switch, or is RAN gone? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** TURKEY. 12035.025, Feb 8 at 1428, V. of Turkey IS, ID in unknown language but probably Kazakh, and stays on 12035+ thru accurate timesignal at 1430 and opening in presumed Kazakh. Still on 12035+ past 1437, so the poor Kazakhs are missing their service on 9785, as yet again the Emirler operator has been asleep at the switch, failing to make the change to 9785 a few minutes before 1430. When they are really on 9785, VOT should announce that listeners should check 12035 if they don`t hear anything on 9785; yeah, right (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. WORLD OF RADIO 1811 monitoring: confirmed from 0400 UT Mon Feb 8 on Area 51 webcast, and before 0428 also on WBCQ 5109.7-CUSB, S9+10. Also confirmed from 0430 UT Mon Feb 8 on WRMI 9955, S9+20, much better signal than usual and no jamming audible, on the R-75. (By 0440 on the NRD-545, S9+25, but other WRMI 9395 is S9+30 at 0445). Next: Tue 0030 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB to WSW Tue 1200 WRMI 9955 to SSE Wed 0030 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB to WSW Wed 1415.5 WRMI 9955 to SSE Wed 2200 WBCQ 7490v to WSW Thu 0030 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB to WSW (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 7489.9-AM, UT Mon Feb 8 at 0446, anti(?)-Mormon discussion evaluating plural marriages, by caller with YL host, not TOM. Then find same at 0454 on 5890//4840 WWCRs, but WBCQ`s is running half a sesquiminute behind them. Skeds of both stations confirm at 04-05 UT Mondays is `Herald of Truth`, i.e. from the white-racist Kingdom Identity Ministries out of Arkansas. 7490 is off after 0500 at 0509 recheck (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 11580, Feb 8 at 1441, WRMI in fill-music loop, with Qur`an-sounding singing at the moment, 1442 into some Afro-pop. It seems the 13-15 bihour is a good time to enjoy the WRMI FML without interruption by programming, except on Sundays when there is some religionism other than Overcomerism (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) See also SOUTH CAROLINA [non] ** YEMEN [non]. 11860, Feb 8 at 1445 I start monitoring R. Sana`a continuously in case some Call To Prayer should appear. First, heavy music and exhortations, bit of a distressed child`s voice; 1454 the vamping music with ``mission statement``; song past 1502, finally talk at 1506 past 1508, so it seems the CTP exercise in piety is a past-thing. I wonder if the Sunni and Shia disagree too about the importance of broadcasting them. By now the gaisma.com calculated sunsets have progressed to 1504 UT in Sana`a and Aden; the change is slowing so that it will take another month to laten by 6-8 minutes (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) This report despatched at 1737 UT February 8 _ Hard-Core-DX mailing list Hard-Core-DX@hard-core-dx.com 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
