** CUBA. 11760, April 23 at 1300, RHC frequency announcement only says that 9850 is closing. It might have been more helpful to say which frequencies continue --- eight of them, notably adding 15370, and 6000 also closes at 1300. In the 14-15 hour, schedule shows only six frequencies remain (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** GAMBIA [non]. 15465, Friday April 22 at 1901, using the G8 portable at hand, I can tell there is a signal here, but that`s it. By 1936 I`m on the NRD-545 with N-S internal shortwire, and now there is a JBA S4 signal vs the S3 background noise level. At 1937 I switch to the ALA-330S Wellbrook, and that helps a little, S5-S6, and can make out some African?-accented English. At 1950 I try the R75 with external 100-foot east-west longwire, but it`s only a JBA carrier that way. This was the expected reappearance of Radio Free Gambia, which was first reported last Friday April 15 at this hour by Stephen Cooper; but may have started April 1 on Fridays only according to an HFCC registration showing this frequency-hour available 7 days a week for Radio Miami International, via TDF, Issoudun, FRANCE. RMI was the broker for a previous Gambian clandestine 5-6 years ago, which may be related (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** GREECE. 9935, April 23 at 0206, ERT music is good with no whine at S9, // stronger 9420 at S9+10; not on 11645 at this time. Dare we hope the whine has really been fixed? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** INDIA. 4896.0, April 23 at 1207, S7-S9 signal with music? and nothing on 4895.0, so presumably AIR Kurseong off-frequency, a trick they have pulled before. Many other 60mb carriers on proper AIR frequencies, also East Turkistan, China, Tibet, Indonesia (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** INDIA. 9940, April 23 at 1232, good S9+10 to +20 signal with Bollywood music, during AIR`s Myanmarianese hour from 1215. This 500 kW, 60 degrees from Bengaluru carries on well to here, closer to transpolar. There are rumblings in India of closing down the AIR external SW services, as too expensive to maintain. BTW, Aung San Suu Kyi doesn`t care whether in English we call her country Burma or Myanmar tho she is partial to Burma (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** INDONESIA. 9525.897, April 23 at 1240, VOI must have switched transmitters, back to the off-frequency one after several months close to 9525.0; some music audible at S4-S7, perhaps OK modulation level during scheduled Japanese hour. No QRM now from 9520, 9525 or 9530 stations. Quick recheck at 1322 during English, now it`s just barely modulated. At least China is not scheduled on 9525.0 at 14 this season, but it is at 19-21 in Russian, totally blocking VOI English and French into Europe. Maybe the het will at least bother CRI a bit (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MALAYSIA. 11665.006, April 23 at 1252, RTM with non-Qur`anic chanting, mostly one voice, then others join in; 1257 Malay(?) announcement, instrumental music. Separate programming on 9835 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** PHILIPPINES. 9430, April 23 at 1244-1247+, gospel huxter in English about pharisees, S7 to S5 and no CCI. Has to be FEBC Bocaue during multi-hour ``Mandarin`` broadcast, so I keep expecting some consecutive translation, but it never happens. So is English now a subset of Chinese? Never // their other/real Chinese frequency 9400 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SOUTH CAROLINA [non]. 5765.0, April 23 at 0527, Brother HyStairical is talking about adding a new transmission to get into Japan and Korea, but I missed most of it, MW or SW? Send money to do it for six months! 5765 had some noise at first like jamming but apparently out of the Walterboro feed. Some ute hash resides around 5760. Someone had reported this on 5762.8, but I`ve never caught this WRMI so far off-frequency (Glenn Hausere, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** TAJIKISTAN. 11550, April 23 at 1249, open carrier/dead air at S3-S5; WEWN tuning up for *1300? No, all three transmitters accounted for on 7515 & 12050 Spanish, 11520 English. HFCC shows 13-16 also registered for a new `RED` clandestine broadcast in Korean from Dushanbe at 1300-1600. Ivo Ivanov identifies it as National Unity Radio (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A [and non]. WORLD OF RADIO 1822 monitoring: confirmed Friday April 22 at 2130 on WRMI 15770, good, and 2130.5 on WRMI 13695, very good. Also confirmed Fri April 22 starting about 2330:20 on WBCQ 9329.88-CUSB, fair. Previously the 2330 airings had been starting earlier in the 2329 minute. Also confirmed Sat April 23 at 0630 on HLR 6190-CUSB, by Nino Marabello, Italy; SINPO 25432 and apparently started about 3 minutes early, so HLR has resumed after a break; however, no signal at all when I check 7265-USB via UTwente, Sat Apr 23 at 1430-1500. Still on the schedule then as in http://www.hamburger-lokalradio.net/?page_id=2229 Next: Sat 1930v WA0RCR 1860-AM ND Sat 2230 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB to WSW Sun 0310v WA0RCR 1860-AM ND Sun 0830 Unique Radio 3210 NSW low-power Sun 2330 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB to WSW Mon 0030 WRMI 7730 to WNW Mon 0300v WBCQ 5130v Area 51 to WSW Mon 0330 WRMI 9955 to SSE Mon 2330 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB to WSW Tue 1100 WRMI 9955 to SSE Tue 2130 WRMI 15770 to NE Tue 2330 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB to WSW Wed 1315.5 WRMI 9955 to SSE Wed 2100 WBCQ 7490v to WSW Wed 2330 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB to WSW (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 7489.85-AM, UT Sat April 23 at 0007, WBCQ`s TimTron is substituting for Allan Weiner, Worldwide, with an amusing account punxuated by belches and naughtyisms, of his work on a transmitter, I guess the 3250 one which is still not operational. Also on 5129.91-AM, but very poor level (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 9955, April 23 at 1223, music from WRMI is S9, but barely modulated; not clear if from Radio Prague as scheduled, or filler. 1230 ID and 1231 into a g.h. from Gaffney SC (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 17775, Friday April 22 at 1942, KVOH is only S5, just barely modulated in Spanish; at 1959 it`s up to S9 but still JBM, enough to tell that the preacher keeps going past 2000 without a break. The nominal schedule is 1400-1900 UT Mon-Fri only, but lately it`s been running later, yet with an unusable level of modulation and signal! 9975, the evening frequency in English, is still off the air completely when checked at 0208 UT April 23. Possible scenario: everyone who normally looks after KVOH transmitters and operations are off in Zambia getting VOH Africa set up, neglecting the original KVOH. They also have a new FM station in California to distract from SW operations. However, I think their plans were to run everything remotely from a new master control in California (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 5050, April 22 at 2255, no signal from Radio RSA IS via WWRB; nor later at 0017 check UT Sat April 23. So another Friday evening comes and goes, and still no `Pirates` Cove`, or anything. 3185, April 23 circa 1205 UT, no signal from WWRBS, but day frequency 9370 is already going well before 1300 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 5830, April 23 at 1216, WTWW-1 is absent, and not on day frequency 9475 either, tsk2 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. 6946.57, April 23 at 0017, JBA carrier, perhaps the same one which had been unmodulating well on 6947.40 for several nights (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. 11640, April 22 at 1936, the pervasive mystery open carrier is no longer to be heard (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) This report despatched at 1643 UT April 23 _ 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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