** CHINA. On 5420, Oct 11 at 1240 music and talk in uncertain language, and SSB QRM; 1248 sitar-sounding music, and I think I heard a bit of Russian, but this WOOB hour is scheduled as the CNR-8 minority service in Mongolian from Beijing (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CHINA [and non]. Oct 11 at 1302, on 10450 ex-10400, fluttery carrier but no modulation audible, presumably Sound of Hope. At 1304:30 carrier strengthened when jamming transmitter came back on, and must be zero-beat. 1305 starting up Firedrake modulation. At 1328 also a weak signal on 14700, presumably Firedrake ex-14600 as Olle Alm reported yesterday. At 1403 checked 10450 again, when the weak carrier with flutter had a bit of audio, and 1405 Firedrake resumed (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CUBA. CRI relay, 13740, open carrier already on at 1354 Oct 11; well, not exactly open, as accompanied by terrific squeal out to 20 kHz either side (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CZECH REPUBLIC. Interview in English with Rt. Hon. Kim Campbell made me think this was RCI on 15350, tho not // CBC relay on 13655, Oct 11 at 1423, but program ended at 1425 with ID as R. Prague! There is no 1400 English broadcast on their schedule at http://www.radio.cz/en/frequencies#en except the WRMI relay from WRN on 7385, so trying out a new transmission, or relay site? VG reception, so could be Sackville, but no giveaway RCI IS before off at 1429* when the transmission schedule in Czech was rudely interrupted. This is the way they fill out the semi-hour starting at 1427. A small suggestion: would it not be more appropriate and useful to give the schedule in English following an English broadcast? And time it so it all fits in before cutoff. I will ask R. Prague what`s going on here: Hi Radio Prague, I was surprised to hear an English broadcast ending at 1427 UT today Oct 11 on 15350. Good signal, and NOT on your website schedule. In fact no English at 1400 shown except for WRMI 7385. Are you testing a new relay, from where? Or was this direct? Anyhow, it`s working, so I hope you keep it going, good time and frequency for us. And I wonder why you switch to Czech for the transmission schedule announcement during the last 3 minutes of the English broadcasts. And by the way, this was cut off before it finished, at 1429. Regards, Glenn Hauser, Enid, OK, USA (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** FRANCE [non]. After discovering RFI in English at 1400 on 6120 the day before, I tuned in earlier Oct 11, at 1356: a mix of at least two stations, one of which was surely Singapore`s Indonesian service. After 4-pip timesignal at 1400, RFI emerged in the clear, again with English, presumably via Japan, instead of previously scheduled Vietnamese (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** GABON. ANO harmonic, 19160, very poor Oct 11 at 1432 and could not even be sure it was // 17630 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** GUAM. On 11880, Oct 11 at 1351 a ballad with Karaoke-style echo; at first I thought it was in Thai, but announcement by YL at 1357:30 seemed to be in Vietnamese, off at 1359* sharp. EiBi, however, shows this as KSDA in Khmer, on Wednesdays and Sundays only (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** GUATEMALA. TGLT 4780 and TGMI 4800 were audible as late as 1225 Oct 11 with Guatemalan music (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** INDIA. Maurits van Driessche had AIR on 15040 at 1530, no language mentioned, as well as R. Farda. The latter seems unlikely unless a mixing product, and I have not monitored at that hour, but I also heard AIR on 15040, Oct 11 at 1313 playing some music with country and then jazzy elements; SSB QRM from 15035 Canadian forces, Trenton with usual weather broadcasts. At 1314:30 an ``All India Radio`` ID, and closing in Burmese; after a pause, from 1315 a YL in another language, Persian? Mentioned Afghanistan, so it is Dari as scheduled, but not on this frequency. Cut off abruptly at 1318:45; the Dari was just a runover. 15040 is not in the usual references at all, but AIR is definitely there at least for the Burmese broadcast. Checking Jose Jacob`s A06 schedules at http://www.qsl.net/vu2jos/es/language.htm We find: Burmese 1215-1315 11620(Kh) 11710(Ki) Myanmar and Dari: 1315-1415 7255(A) 7410(Kh) 9910(A) and no mention of 15040 However, at http://www.qsl.net/vu2jos/sw/freq.htm updated 6 Sept we do find: 15040 100 Delhi (Kingsway) 1215-1315 Burmese (Myanmar) but nothing else on that frequency. During all this time, BTW, AIR was running along with separate programming next door on 15050 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** KOREA NORTH. A bit of Korean music, 1233 Oct 11, fair signal, from KCBS on 2850 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** KOREA NORTH [non]. Shiokaze, 9485 via Taiwan, Wed Oct 11 at 1307 was in English telling an abduction story, with music; fair (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** KURDISTAN [non]. V. of Mesopotamia is starting to be heard well again, 11530 via Moldova with Kurdish talk about democracy, Oct 11 at 1437; also with music earlier in the hour (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** LIBYA [and non]. Afternoon visitor check Oct 11 at 1325 found ANO 17630 suffering co-channel QRM with SAH; 17670 had at least two signals with SAH, one of them in Arabic (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MEXICO. XEXQ, 6045, audible as late as 1402 Oct 11, with usual SAH (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** PHILIPPINES. VOA, English, 6160, Oct 11 at 1254 finishing report or commentary by André de Nesnera, with echo. Could well be both long and short paths (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** RUSSIA. Wed Oct 11 at 1256, just after tuning up from RNZI on 7145, surprised to hear the RNZI bell bird IS on 7165, via a VOR program in Russian, and then at 1257 a clip of rustic music mentioning Vientiane, Laos. Appears to be a DX program on Golos Rossii, here on SE Asia service in Russian via Vladivostok. What is the full schedule for it? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SOUTH CAROLINA [non]. Brother Scare, on WWRB 9385, Oct 11 at 1306 was over-modulated, distorted, with cross-talk and splattering. Aside from that, superb transmission (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A [non]. Deewa Radio, Oct 11 at 1345 on 11510 Sri Lanka had several mentions in passing of ``Voice of America``. Better than // 15645 Morocco, the latter with a het on the low side; 11510 was running 2 seconds behind 15645 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. Hunting Harmonics with Hauser: 2200, Oct 11 at 1229 American-accented talk, fading just above and below the high local noise level. Very likely a domestic, 2 x 1100, at this late hour, rather than the Colombian or Venezuelan heard here in years past. A note to self to go after this one earlier before sunrise. Another to check out: a carrier on 2400 at 1232, but could not pull any modulation (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. 10340, Oct 11 at 1404-1410* open carrier next to AIR which had VG signal on 10330. Just a note in case this turns into another broadcaster instead of ute (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ---[Start Commercial]--------------------- Preorder your WRTH 2007: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0953586499/hardcoredxcom/ ---[End Commercial]----------------------- ________________________________________ Hard-Core-DX mailing list [email protected] http://arizona.hard-core-dx.com/mailman/listinfo/hard-core-dx http://www.hard-core-dx.com/ _______________________________________________ THE INFORMATION IN THIS ARTICLE IS FREE. 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