** BRAZIL. With a little help from the solar flux level, which reached 71 the
day before, a few Brazilians were audible in the nightmiddle on 25m, Oct 16 at
0555, such as 11895 with closing credits to a drama and IDs as ``Super-Rede Boa
Vontade``. Aoki has this fair signal as only 1 kW from Porto Alegre, but it`s
just a gospel-huxter from the country where domestic SW is now dominated by
them. However, WRTH 2008 lists it as 10 kW from ZYE856. A real commercial SW
relay of R. Bandeirantes, São Paulo, 10 kW, ZYE958, was better on 11925 at
0550, with ID and promos at 0601. 11780 RNA not yet on (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** INDONESIA. For second morning in a row, VOI English at 1300 on 9526, and
very good reception Oct 16. Tuned in around 1325 after Turkey, with usual
string of features, news headlines, Indonesian Wonders, Miscellany, music from
a Sumateran instrument (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MEXICO. XEXQ, 6045, detectable with fast SAH from FE station, Oct 16 at
1349, but seems no better than before, altho Julián Santiago reports they have
just improved their antenna setup (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** SPAIN [non]. See previous report under COSTA RICA. REE relay, this time
monitored on 9630 at 0600 sign-off Oct 16: announcer said it would resume at
1100 for Central America on ``5970 y 15170 kHz en la banda de 19 metros`` so
the frequencies were right but the implication was that both frequencies are in
the 19m band! Another SW announcer who really knows nothing about SW, reads
copy without fixing such obvious mistaxe. BTW, that applies to M-F only; on Sat
& Sun 5970 is not in use and 15170 opens at 1200 per EiBi. And why didn`t he
mention 5930 which comes on at 1000 M-F? Because that`s for South America. As
if no one in CAm, or CNAm for that matter, could hear it or vice versa (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** TURKEY. Live from Turkey coming in quite well on VOT 15450, Thu Oct 16 at
1300+ tune-in, long phone/internet report from correspondent at the Frankfurt
Book Fair, where Turkey is the honored guest country, and also the Turkish
Nobel Prize winner in literature is present; seems his stuff is more popular
abroad (in translation, presumably) than in Turkey where his style makes for
tough reading (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A [and non]. Observations during the final presidential debate, UT Oct
16: at 0110, WBCQ 5110-CUSB was playing music instead, and at 0112 nothing
heard, so guess they did not carry it this time and Area 51 was just running
over a bit.
At 0110 weak unID signal on 15795, maybe VOA again with this from unknown site.
6055, REE Spain had it again with immediate translation into Spanish. 6040 VOA
Greenville as usual did not cut on until 0130 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST) ###
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