** CUBA. 13740, August 3 at 1359, RHC Spanish with squeal is S9+10 and keeps going past 1400 with nothing from China Plus relay in English. Other transmitter for CRI comes on at *1401 mixing almost imperceptibly with the first one. Keep hearing RHC Spanish until 1402:20 abrupt and smooth cut to undermodulated CRI English with no overlap and no pause, obviously coördinated this time, even tho way too late. Something`s always wrong at RadioCuba (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CUBA. 15140, August 3 around 1710, RHC Spanish is again on here, // 11760. Addition of 15140 at midday must be deliberate but am not sure when it start, maybe earlier than 1700. I first heard this July 21, but still not entered in Aoki dated August 4 --- but other RHC info there is incomplete. Nor in EiBi, but that`s not updated since July 8 --- Eike must be on holiday (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** KOREA NORTH [non]. 9705, August 3 at 1346, poor S5-S8 in Japanese. NDXC/Aoki shows it`s Furusato no Kaze at 1300-1357 daily via Tamsui District, TAIWAN. This contra-abduxion service seems to be proliferating with all these transmissions in Aoki: 1330-1400, 9705 Taiwan, 9455 Taiwan, 9950 Taiwan 1430-1500, 9960 Palau, 9450 Taiwan, 9560 Taiwan 1600-1630, 7335 Taiwan, 9470 Taiwan, 9960 Palau 1700-1730, 6155 Taiwan Altho all this comes from victimized Japan, none of the broadcasts do; except one more which qualifies, subordinate to the Shiokaze service: 1405-1435, 7325 Ibaragi, Japan And the sibling broadcast in Korean, yet which has Nippon in its name: Nippon no Kaze Ilbon-e Baram: 1300-1330, 9465 Taiwan, 9900 Taiwan, 9940 Taiwan 1500-1530, 9685 Taiwan, 9975 Palau, 7335 Taiwan 1530-1600, 9685 Taiwan, 9965 Palau, 7335 Taiwan 1630-1700, 7335 Taiwan In all cases I`ve rounded off the end times from a minute or three earlier (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** OKLAHOMA. 88.3, August 3 at 1710 UT check, K202BY Enid translator of Family Radio is still on air but dead (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SUDAN SOUTH [non]. 11620, August 3 at 0449, Eye Radio via MADAGASCAR, S7-S9 in African-accented English, which along with continuous rumbling in background makes it hard to copy --- perhaps wind blowing in mike at an OB; ceases briefly at 0455 when someone in studio replies. Mentions Juba. Also suspect they may be mixing in Juba Arabic or African languages. 0459 music and bird calls, undermodulated sign-off announcement, 0500 brief open carrier and off. Also earlier mentioned ``5-6 pm`` which is the time of their other broadcast 15-16 UT on 15410, which I could not detect August 2 via UTwente or own, nor own receivers August 3. That one is via Issoudun. These were reactivated August 1, as reported here: ``Short wave broadcasting for South Sudan was restarted for the first time in 8 months from August 1 as already reported. This station had previously performed short wave broadcasting as Sudan Radio Service. Eye Radio is continuing to broadcast under the support of the USAID International Development Agency USAID as a project of the Educational Development Center (EDC) which is a US-based NGO. The South Sudanese government continues to block mobile phones and WiFi specific sites, and there are places that FM can not cover, and it seems that he [sic] has resumed short-wave broadcasting. Starting around 15 minutes [to?] about 25 minutes English news etc. are out. There are many local languages other than Arabic. 0400-0500 11620 MDC 250 kW Sudanese Arabic Mon-Fri 1500-1600 15410 ISS 250 kW Sudanese Arabic Mon-Fri Source (Google translated): http://hiroshi.mediacat-blog.jp/e129989.html --- (Alokesh Gupta, New Delhi, August 2, cumbredx yg via DXLD)`` Some new unnamed target broadcast for South Sudan was expected from July 1 per HFCC registrations via UAE and Woofferton, different frequencies but similar times, yet never showed up in the following week, nor anytime in July per Richard Langley. That may or may not have been a plan for Eye Radio (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U K. If you can make BBC iPlayer work, here`s a convenient way to listen to BBC Proms concerts. So far there are 188 episodes, with the latest ones from the current 2018 season atop: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b007v097/episodes/player (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 13564-CW, August 3 at 1338, GNK ID over and over is JBA, just above imagination-level. I check the 13550-13570 HIFER beacon band almost every day, especially during this hour, and none heard since last log of GNK, Madison, Wisconsin, a bimonth ago on June 4 at 1357 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 7490, August 4 from 0003, heard the first few minutes of AWWW on WBCQ webcast before I went out and about, also heard a few minutes circa 0030 on caradio on 9330 and 7490. Over to John Carver`s fuller report: ``Trying 7490 this evening and so far so good. Show started on time this evening. Opened with a slightly calmer Allan and a quieter Angela. Broadcasting on 5130, 7490 and 9330 this evening. Opening talk about progress on the super station and the new antenna. Said it took a week to assemble the crane that will erect the new antenna. Allan said he'd been tweeting pictures of this during the week. Antenna will be three hundred and some feet tall when it's finished. Discussion morphed into a gentle talk about FM, the death of AM and Allan's prediction of a long life for SW. Then into the noise floor, how it's increased and how it affects AM, FM, SW and TV. Said he forgot to talk about this last week and was taken to task by several listeners after the show ended last week. Says a lot of the noise is created by power lines, the digital gizmos we place in our homes, automobiles and stations using digital equipment more and more. Says that the FCC and the government refuses to do anything about it and won't enforce the noise laws already on the books. First phone call at 0030 continues the noise and interference talk. Allan told the caller that a big, directional antenna placed in a quiet area of one's yard would help as it would increase the signal to noise ratio. Next phone call at 0041 was from Ross at the Cape. Continuing the talk of digital noise and interference Ross said his biggest problems were cable boxes and LED lights. Allan also suggested using loop antennas made for the shortwave bands. Said it was fairly easy to null noise with them. He stressed shielding and proper grounding. Quick reading of a few emails at 0101. After a quick prayer program was off the air at 0107. John, Mid-North Indiana`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) This report despatched at 0300 UT August 4 _ 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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