** AUSTRALIA. 12065 // 12085, Aug 15 at 1318, R. Australia is slightly stronger on 12065 than 12085, both poor-fair, the reverse of the usual situation, since 12085 is aimed toward Alaska and 12065 toward Asia/Europe; antenna swap? Or strange propagation with major geomag storm and K-index of 7! I should have compared on two different receivers whether there was a long/short path echo between them (tho at that distance there isn`t too much difference). See also CUBA: CRI Relay collides with RA 9580! (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CUBA. 9580, Aug 15 at 1252, RA has heavy CCI from CRI in Cantonese via Cuba, which is on this frequency by mistake instead of 9570; 9580 is supposed to be only the *evening* frequency for CRI relays! By 1315 recheck, during CRI English, back on 9570 where it belongs (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** INDONESIA. 9526-, Aug 15 at 1254, 1315, 1354 chex, NO signal from Voice of Indonesia, possibly due to very poor propagation. WWV report: ``Solar-terrestrial indices for 14 August follow. Solar flux 93 and estimated planetary A-index 4. The estimated planetary K-index at 1200 UTC on 15 August was 7 ****. Space weather for the past 24 hours has been strong. Geomagnetic storms reaching the G3 level occurred. Space weather for the next 24 hours is predicted to be strong. Geomagnetic storms reaching the G3 level are expected.`` At 1500, slight changes were circulated: ``The estimated planetary K-index at 1500 UTC on 15 August was 6. Space weather for the next 24 hours is predicted to be moderate. Geomagnetic storms reaching the G2 level are expected.`` As Ron Howard discovered, VOI reactivated August 12 after silence since March 1, but this is the first time I`ve tried to hear it. At first English was not on the 1300 hour, but later it was. Bad timing: Wolfgang Büschel believed it was off the air today around 1145, but Tony Ashar inside Indonesia found it very weak at 1442-1455 when it disappeared. Anyhow, judging from WB and other monitors in Europe and Japan, despite 5.5 months to take care of it, they haven`t corrected the frequency or the modulation problems plaguing them before March for years. Wolfgang measured it on 9525.979 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** KOREA NORTH. 13760, Aug 15 at 0547, VOK in Spanish about Japón, poor signal, as due to the timezone change to UT +8:30, all external programming has shifted one semi-hour later, as now changed thruout Aoki: Spanish 0530-0620. Strange propagation with nothing from Madagascar on 13765, 13840, but instead FE (China jammer against RFA also on 13790). Propagation is really degraded with K-index of 7, such that at 1311 Aug 15, I detect only a VP carrier on 11710, which should now be KCBS in Korean with English USward not starting until 1330, when I only get JBA carriers on 11710 and sporadic // 9435. By 1354, it`s a JBAC on 9435 and nothing on 11710 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MEXICO. Still some sporadic-E as we arrive at mid-August, morning of Aug 15, UT: 1548 on 2, CCI fade-in mainly old movie, tentative Televisa-2 star bug in LR, maybe B&W 1557 on 2, definitely that bug, and 1558 MUF up to channel 2 audio, Spanish 1600 on 2, titles on movie, looks like opening rather than closing, featuring girl riding a bike 1621 on 2, briefly Televisa-5 net bug in LR, fade 1650 on 2, still some weak analog CCI occasionally (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 5810, Aug 15 at 0455, I`ve tuned in to WEWN Spanish to hear what frequency they announce a change to: YL in Spanish says, twice, it will be ``7555``! (and 11870) continues). Then 5810 goes off; about a semiminute later during *0456: 7515 comes up with habitual transition music of ``Salve Regina`` chanting until just before 0500 YL again claims to be on ``7555``, into second hour of ``Paz a la luz de la luna EN VIVO``. This is the call-in show with the unxuous host who tries to soothe and comfort Catholic confessors with ``rosario de la divina misericordia``, repeating ``por su dolorosa pasión`` every few seconds. ``Moonlight``, what??? Haven`t they noticed we`re just past New Moon on Aug 14, as widely publicized for the Perseids? In fact, less than half the time during this live bihour is there any moonlight, so why call it that? I`ve also heard same guy, Pedro de Acevedo from Miami, in the afternoons on WEWN, but must be a different show. Anyhow, the WEWN announceress is clueless about the new frequency; or rather the automation playing her canned announcement is clueless; or rather, an human ultimately in charge of the automation has failed to keep it up-to-date. 7515, Aug 15 at 1247, still here with only fair signal, during morning mass with tinkledings, English voiced-over into Spanish. At 1255 QSY announcement, another chance, but she still claims to be on ``7555`` which is about to change to 11550 (and 12050); 7515 goes off at 1256.5* and 11550 comes up less than a minute later, but this time just open carrier, no Salve Regina as usually heard; ID just before 1300 and rejoin mass in progress, with organ music leading into Gounod`s ``Ave Maria`` seemingly in Latin, sung by a non-pro tenor cantor, who does a pretty good job but voice breaks a couple times. 1310 cut to announcement that they are joining programming in progress, which is a talk show discussion. BTW, José Miguel Romero2 in Spain had reported EWTN on new 7510 at 0615-0618 August 15. I don`t see how his ATS-909 readout could have been 5 kHz off, so were WEWN experimenting with 7510 instead? Altho quickly registered 7515 with HFCC, perhaps they haven`t settled yet on that, delaying recording accurate announcements (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 9955, Aug 15 at 1250, WRMI is fair in Italian, no jamming. It`s `Made In Italy` which is not in English! Saturdays at 1245 among other times, so we get no Slovakia on weekend mornings (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 1680, Aug 15 at 0559 UT ``Classic Hits --- it`s what we were born to do, L-A-1-0-5``, no legal ID until a bit later during music, ``KRJO Monroe``, as the Louisiana X-bander continues to be a mere simulcaster of an FM station whose dial position trumps any mention of ``1-6-8``. That`s really KLIP 105.3, 50 kW in the WTFDA FM Database, which does not show it // 1680! (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) This report dispatched at 1704 UT August 15 _ 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
