** CHINA. Firedrake May 14; all checked were //: 7970, JBA at 1227 10300, fair at 1332 11500, good at 1234, atop lo het, CCI; fair-good at 1337 over CCI 12240, good at 1331, but not in the previous hour 12600, good at 1236; good at 1331 12980, fair-good at 1236 13920, fair at 1237; very good at 1330 14700, fair-good at 1237 15540, fair at 1216 vs het from 15543, V. of Tibet 15555, poor at 1239 vs het around 1558, presumably chasing VOT 15970, fair at 1242 16100, very good at 1242; very good at 1329, no 16980 now 16980, very good at 1242 17170, very good at 1243 // 16980 et al. Haven`t heard one above 17 MHz in quite a while, and an even longer while since above 18 MHz. Checked all the way up to 21 MHz just in case now, but nothing more. 17170, still good at 1329 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** FRANCE [non]. 17690, May 14 at 1359 musical prélude is playing before the RFI Spanish service via GUIANA FRENCH; 4-pip timesignal ended 5 seconds late at 1400:05! Then opening Spanish saying there would be only three minutes of news. VG signal, anyway (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** INDIA. 13695, May 14 at 1212, strong WYFR French is way over some CCI which I thought was Chinese vocal music, but per online skeds it`s AIR`s Tamil service via Bengaluru, about to become Telugu at 1215; altho HFCC also shows WRN has reserved 12-14 via Tajikistan on 13695 for something `new` (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** INDONESIA. 9526-, May 14 sometime during the 12 UT hour I had some weak music from VOI, but didn`t hear the language; Ron Howard says it was back to Japanese today! At 1334, only a JBA carrier made it here during presumed English (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** IRAN. 15240, May 14 at 1218, fair signal, somewhat unstable carrier, rough modulation in Semitic language, an Arabic dialect? No, it must be `Ebri` as listed for VIRI, 500 kW, 259 degrees from Kamalabad at 1200-1230. While listening it never registered with me as Hebrew, maybe with Farsi accent? Say, does VIRI start even the Hebrew broadcast with Qur`an? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** LIBYA. 17725, May 14 at 1245, Beethoven`s Ninth riff just as I tune in, so has to be VoAf from the GJ, then talk in Swahili, fair-poor signal now, but rechecked after 1400 for English, had become JBA (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MOROCCO. 15345-, May 14 at 1456, RTM has already switched from 15341. This varies from day to day, and am trying to ascertain whether the current schedule is all one UT-hour earlier due to alleged DST of UT +1 from April thru July, as I have heard it past 2100, the nominal closedown, while the switch from 15341 to 15345 should be at 1400 instead of 1500, tho it has always been highly variable (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** NIGERIA. 15120, VON, May 14 at 0519, good signal but with hum, well atop the Chinese CCI: it had been a couple weeks since VON was audible at this time. Now it`s the SSOB, altho there are lots of other signals on 19m tonite (but nothing significant from Australia 15160 and 15240, often the SSOBs or OSOBs). M&W with the UT Saturday mailbag show, and frequently giving all the times for any particular programs mentioned. Once thought I heard them say ``accuse letter``, maybe influenced by Spanish terminology, i.e. acknowledgment? Said people could listen to VON from 0445 to 2300 on http://www.voiceofnigeria.org (not .com; why don`t they use Nigeria`s extension? We hardly ever see it anywhere. WRTH listings for others show .ng while Niger is .ne) At 1500 UT May 14 we tried the ``live broadcast`` on the website, an mms, but there was no connexion. The programme schedule at http://www.voiceofnigeria.org/programmeschedule.htm altho autodisplaying current date, *still* claims Kiswahili and Yoruba at 15-16 instead of English! The mailbag is simply ``Listeners Letters`` at 0505-0530 UT Saturdays, and we know that is correct since we axually heard it. Only other time shown is Monday 1305, which would be when nobody reports VON on alleged 9690 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SOUTH CAROLINA [non]. 15420-CUSB, last Saturday was missing so we wondered if the Brother Scare Sabbath Service had been canceled on WBCQ, but he`s back May 14 at 1407 check. This is `live`, when he really, really works himself into a lather, egged on by the psychophants at his cult compound near Walterboro. BTW, if you look up The Overcomer Ministry in WRTH 2011 on page 494 under USA, and still in the A-11 update, you`d never know he is 24/7 on WWCR, WWRB, and lots of time on WBCQ; just a few hours via Germany (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** TURKEY. 15450, May 14 at 1323, VOT news headlines in English, YL sign-off now claims to be on 15450 and 15520, an improvement over the B-10 schedule she was still announcing recently, both frequencies and time wrong, but still not up to speed as meanwhile the 15520 transmission had been moved to 1630 a sesquimonth ago. How can you work at a SW station and not know or care what frequencies you are really on? Easy: you`re not an SWL; it`s just another job. And internal communication is so poor that no one tells you the truth. Then only a fragment of the standardized IS before plugpulling (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 9955, WRMI updated program grid via http://www.wrmi.net/pb/wp_d12a1732/wp_d12a1732.html shows another WORLD OF RADIO time has been deleted, no longer UT Wed 0100. The remaining airings this week are: Sat 1730, Sun 0800, 1530, 1730; Mon 1130, 2130; Tue 1530; Wed 1530. On WWCR: Saturday 1600 on 12160, Sunday 0630 on 3215. On WRN via SiriusXM; Saturday & Sunday 1730, Sunday 0830. On IPAR/NEXUS-IBA/IRRS: Saturday 1800 on 7290 via Slovakia. Complete schedule at http://www.worldofradio.com/radioskd.html (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** VATICAN [non]. 13730, VR via CANADA, May 14 at 1212 concluding `news` with another PBXVI quote; only poor reception today as MUF has not built up over the path from Sackville. Now someone needs to check on Sunday whether VR remains in English at 1200, of closes after Spanish at 1130, as claimed by WRTH Update, which also shows Spanish at 1130-1200 except Sundays on 9830sac to SAm, along with daily to CAm on 13730sac. We thought that 13730 had replaced 9830, and the 9830 transmission does not show in HFCC A-11 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ### ---[Start Commercial]--------------------- Order your WRTH 2011: http://www.hard-core-dx.com/redirect2.php?id=wrth2011 ---[End Commercial]----------------------- ________________________________________ 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
