** CUBA. If RHC followed its own schedule to the letter and number, and didn`t constantly suffer from one technical problem or another, there would be little to report, but its operations are never nominal, giving us a rich fount of DX news. RHC observations early UT Sunday April 6:
At 0556, after catching Arnie`s propagation comments at the end of DXUL on 11760, I tuned to the upper limit of the 11-12 MHz range on the FRG-7, which is approx. 12055, and was surprised to hear the Morse code closing of that show! It was quite weak and nothing further heard. Must be a mixing product, but with what? 11760 was very strong. I then tuned down below 11500 and guess what I found? Another very strong open carrier on 11462, which would match 12058, 298 kHz above and below 11760, making 12058 a leapfrog. I suspect 11462 is a Cuban spy-numbers frequency, altho I get no hits on it at the UDXF yg; perhaps I would at ENIGMA. Anyhow, there were no numbers, but at exactly 0600 a variety of multi-pitched tones for a few seconds, some kind of data burst, then back to open carrier. 15370 at 1434 RHC opening ``La Cultura en Cuba``, but with big hum on this frequency unlike // 11760 and 13680. Wiggle that patchcord!! Morning programming nominally ends at 1500, but rechecked at 1506, these three frequencies were still on with open carrier, and hum gone from 15370. 11760 only was supposed to be carrying the weekly Esperanto service at 1500-1530 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) See also VENEZUELA [non] ** NEW ZEALAND. RNZI missing from 6095, April 6 at 1313, clearing the frequency for Firedrake, which I had heard the day before way under RNZI. Recheck at 1412, RNZI was back on 6095. A couple days and a couple hours earlier, people were reporting RNZI on the wrong frequency compared to its schedule. Maybe that happened again, but I did not have time to search for it. DXLD contributor Bernie O`Shea in Ontario has the answer: they did stay on 9655 an hour too late until 1400, probably confused by the resumption of UT+12 after a summer on UT+13 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** PHILIPPINES. Vatican Radio Peterbells and IS on 6020 at 1312-1313* QRMing R. Australia at roughly equal level, a perpetual collision neither station thinks matters in their respective target areas (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** TURKEY. Monitored the VOT 0300 UT Sunday April 6 broadcast on 7325 via Sackville, to determine exactly what would actually be broadcast after the news, when compared to the published schedule for Saturdays which reads: Outlook Hues & Colours of Anatolia DX Corner As Foreigners Have Put It/Turkish Scientific Bulletin What Tunes Say Outlook ended at 0317, but there was no H&CofA this week, so it may really be alternating with DX Corner, despite the lack of a slant, which did follow at 0318-0325. Some very familiar DX tips were read with lots of stumbling over unfamiliar names and numbers, concluding with Dan Goldfarb`s CBCNQ 9625 report recently [only?] in DXLD, with exactly the same wording mentioning trans-Atlantic conditions, but they were NOT credited! Before that we had Sri Lanka`s new language schedule, which should have been credited to Jose Jacob; and a substantial portion of FEBA`s new schedule in non-English languages. The latter is the kind of thing I would never spend time reading out on WORLD OF RADIO. Some other DX programs in English really think there is enough interest to justify broadcasting the schedules of obscure religious broadcasters in non-English languages! Announcer did say at the end that DX Corner would be back in two weeks, or was it one? He was mumbling and I missed it. Hurriedly brought up slightly delayed webcast but missed it there too. Only 9 of VOT`s programs are on the podcasting list at http://www.trt.net.tr/wwwtrt/podcasting.aspx?dil=12 and not all of those are currently on the air; not including DX Corner, of course. 0325-0331 Turkish Scientific Bulletin, which would be back in 2 weeks, --- so As Foreigners Have Put It must be on alternate weeks. 0331-0338 What Tunes Say 0338-0339 essay contest promo 0339-0341 multilingual ID filler 0341-0347 music fill, unannounced 0347 headlines, announcer going lickety-split. SLOW DOWN!! And then sign-off announcement 0350 interval signal Another odd thing about VOT, is that they play exactly the same announcement and music at the beginning and end of each program. So when you hear that if you just tuned in, you don`t know whether it is starting or ending. Sure saves on the production time, but unprofessional (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A [non]. VOA via Philippines, 9760, Sunday April 6 at 1316 with Alice Coltrane harp music on Jazz America, a treat. Must try to catch this show more (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A [non]. Looked for El Mundo del Arte con Marisol Popovitz, on CVC via Chile, 17680, which had been running Sundays at 1300-1330, but at 1324 April 6 instead heard gospel rock song. Checking the 2008 program schedule at http://www.cvclavoz.com/prog2008.htm indeed CVC`s sole concession to the arts in its 24/7 Spanish schedule has disappeared from this semi-hour but still shows at 0000-0030 UT Sundays --- day of the week not explicit as there is another column labeled Miami time showing 2000 Sunday, which would be 0000 UT Monday! It`s still on 17680 until 0100 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** VENEZUELA [non]. What has become of ``Aló, Presidente`` via Cuba? Looked for it Sunday April 6 and unfound on any of the usual frequencies. Checked at 1414, 1433, 1506 and 1553. FWIW, not much, it`s still on the RHC schedule at http://www.radiohc.cu/espanol/frecuencia/frecuencias-espanol.htm --- ALÓ PRESIDENTE (domingo) América Central 13680 14 Caribe 11670 14 América del Sur 11875 / 17750 14 América del Norte 13750 14 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) See also CUBA ____________________________________________________________________________________ You rock. That's why Blockbuster's offering you one month of Blockbuster Total Access, No Cost. http://tc.deals.yahoo.com/tc/blockbuster/text5.com ---[Start Commercial]--------------------- Order your WRTH 2008: http://www.hard-core-dx.com/redirect2.php?id=wrth2008 ---[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. 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