** CANADA. CHU was inaudible on 7335, March 15 at 1310, altho RCI was in on 7325. Apparently another all-too-frequent outage. Then checked 14670 and the pips were just barely audible, the latter coming in well by 1349. Back to business, timesignals only, no announcements about licensing, etc. March 16 around 0530, 7335 was on again with a VG signal (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CUBA. RHC missing from 15370, March 14 at 1315 while it was well heard on 15190; at 1337 recheck, 15370 was on, VG (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** GERMANY [non]. DW Hausa, 17800 via Rwanda, March 14 at 1346 was spelling out address in Bonn, ``Germany``. Isn`t there a Hausa word for Germany, perhaps totally incognate like in Hungarian, Portuguese, Finnish? Former British colonial influence in Nigeria must have led to this oddity. Or is it just that English country terminology is encouraged in international mail? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** GUIANA FRENCH [and non]. Most of the all-day-long TDF DRM transmission on 17870-17875-17880 seem to be getting by without interfering, but March 15 at 1327 I found R. Japan`s Swahili service via Ascension on 17870 was bothered by QRDRM, as it was IDing before closing (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** INDONESIA [and non]. The primary threesome of 60mb RRI stations were coming in well March 15 at 1322, no doubt better earlier than almost an hour after sunrise now, each with a different variety of ``island`` music: 4605 Serui, stronger than another local mixing product // KCRC 1390 on 4600; 4750 stronger than 4605; and 4790 somewhere in between marred by CODAR. No trace of MICRONESIA 4755 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MOROCCO. RTM, 15335, March 14 at 1338, YL speaking very expressively in Arabic; QRM de clix leaking over from DentroCuban jammer on 15330 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SPAIN. REE, 17595, Fri March 15 at 1330 in Castilian, introducing ``informativos en Catalán, Gallego y Vasco``, and immediately into Catalan news; no mention of ``lenguas co-oficiales`` --- I wonder whether this term is no longer politically correct? At 1335 into Galician with its sea-shanty musical intro. So I conclude the triad are finished by 1345, then back into the fourth co-official language. In A-07 these shift about an hour earlier, but it`s not clear if they will be exactly at 1230-1245 M-F. Really, these three languages deserve a lot more on REE than 5 minutes a day each, which can only be considered token. I enjoy listening to Catalan and Galician, to see how much I can understand from my knowledge of Spanish and Portuguese; and Basque for the occasional Spanish words (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. A Navy MARS net on 4825 from the Central Zone not far from here, March 15 at 1315, several NNN0 stations on SSB complaining that the band wasn`t open for them this early now that DST is in effect; apparently starts at 8 am CDT, 1300 UT, which used to be 8 am CST, 1400 UT. Discussed maybe moving it to 9 am CDT next week, i.e. back to 1400 UT (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. Something is off-frequency 100-200 Hz from 6100, as a wavering het was audible March 16 at 1305. I did not try to determine whether on hi or lo side. Someone else reported this at a somewhat later hour, tentatively as Central African Republic`s temporarily inactive and alternate frequency in Bangui to 7221v, as in PWBR ``2007``, but surely not at 1305. Much more likely something from Asia, and there are at least three stations capable of being off-frequency: Kanggye, North Korea, 200 kW; Kyzyl, Tannu Tuva, only 5 kW, and R. Sedayee Kashmir, 100 kW from Delhi. WRTH does not show any power for N Korea, and 1 kW for Kyzyl. Unfortunately, the S. Aoki list does not show split frequencies and rounds everything off to the nearest kHz, but let`s see what he has on the air at or near this time, all daily: 6100 CRI 1300-1357 Mongolian 500 318 Beijing CHN 6100 KCBS Pyongyang 1330-1800 Korean 125 ND Kanggye KRE 6100 R. Bangui 0430-0700 French/Sango 20 ND Bangui CAF 6100 R. Bangui 1630-2130 French/Sango 20 ND Bangui CAF 6100 R. Rossii 2200-1800 Russian 0.5 ND Kyzyl RUS 6100 VOICE OF MALAYSIA 1300-1430 Thai 50 343 Kajang MLA Just being in this list does not mean everything is really on the air; still on the list are some long inactive Latin Americans, such as TIUCR on 6105. We assume it`s more up-to-date concerning Asia. Kashmir is not mentioned. Bangui is way between transmissions if really on the air at all and propagating in the early afternoon. Even KCBS supposedly isn`t on the air at 1330, tho who knows, an off-frequency carrier could be on and responsible. Here Kyzyl shows at only 0.5 kW, and even if 5.0 it seems unlikely it would be enough to produce even a het at this distance. CRI and VOM are obviously the major stations on 6100 at 1305; possibly VOM is off-frequency, like RTM is on 6050v? In any event one or both of them are likely to be the 6100.0 participant in the heterodyning. Someone further west may be able to nail it down. EiBi shows similar scheduling, but never any powers, azimuths or decimals of frequencies (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ____________________________________________________________________________________ Expecting? Get great news right away with email Auto-Check. Try the Yahoo! Mail Beta. http://advision.webevents.yahoo.com/mailbeta/newmail_tools.html ---[Start Commercial]--------------------- Preorder your WRTH 2007: http://www.hard-core-dx.com/redirect2.php?id=wrth2007 ---[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