** CANADA. RCI`s technical schedule for summer supposed to be at http://www.rcinet.ca/rci/PDF/A07-RCI-tech-EN.pdf is still 404, missing, as of April 8. However, I have received one in the P-mail, along with the non-technical program and language schedule which is at http://www.rcinet.ca/rci/PDF/A07_SW.pdf
Without comparing them line by line, here is a major discrepancy: Technical says 1705-1905 on Sackville 9515 is in English, while the other one says this is in French. Monitoring chex at 1742 and 1812 April 8 show that French is correct, quite poor reception at mid-day. I also received the nicely printed red program schedule folder for A-07. What does it say? NOTHING. The 16 hours of broadcasts to the USA from 1105 to 0305 on 7325, 9515, 6100 and 6075 (one after another) are nowhere to be seen. Could this be a hint of an internal division at RCI? Are these USA broadcasts not really considered an RCI service, but sort of a hybrid ``CBC Southern Service`` and thus off-topic for an RCI folder? Or had they been cancelled provisionally at the time it went to print earlier? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** JAPAN [non]. R. Japan, UT Saturday April 7 from before 2330 until 2355, via Bonaire 15265 heard here with sacred music, in honor of Easter? Sure would be nice if someone could provide us an English translation of the NHK Japanese program schedule, especially concerning music (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SPAIN. REE service to Lebanon, Sunday April 8 was opening transmission at 1359 on 15345 (not 15350 as I thought previously), but not announced as such, only 17755 for Africa. No co-channel QRM audible at this hour, but there probably was later. Opens this early only on Sundays. At 1742 recheck, silly ballgame in Spanish (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** TURKEY. VOT IS on 15285, April 8 at 1356, mixing with Chinese; this is prior to VOT`s Arabic service at 1400 on the correct frequency (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. WHRI, 11785, with Hmong Lao Radio talk, was splattering as far as 11765, April 8 around 1340, especially bothersome to Defunct Gene Scott via Anguilla 11775 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. Unusual to hear a pair: spy numbers in voice and cut numbers = letters in code. April 7 at 0515, on 5898 A3, spy letters were much stronger than 5883 A3 with YL 5-digit Spanish numbers, but cadence frequently skipping ahead or somehow messed up (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Solar-terrestrial indices for 06 April follow. Solar flux 71 and mid-latitude A-index 4. The mid-latitude K-index at 0600 UTC on 07 April was 1 (8 nT). No space weather storms were observed for the past 24 hours. No space weather storms are expected for the next 24 hours (SEC via DXLD) ### ____________________________________________________________________________________ Don't pick lemons. See all the new 2007 cars at Yahoo! Autos. http://autos.yahoo.com/new_cars.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