** ANTARCTICA. 15476, July 26 at 1336, NO SIGNAL from LRA36, not surprisingly, during the bihour it was last known active on Thursdays. Spring is nigh; will that encourage a reactivation? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CHINA. Firedrake July 26, before 1200: 11500, fair-good at 1157 16100, good at 1159; none in the 12s, 13s, 14s, 15s 16980, poor at 1159; none in the 17s After 1200: 15435, fair at 1215, het on hi side After 1300: 15495, fair at 1318, het on hi side, still at 1330 15560, good at 1331, het on lo side (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CUBA. 6010, July 26 at 0501, RHC has started up the 05-07 English frequency, except it`s still in Spanish, with a musical show `Por los campos de Cuba`, which would certainly be preferred over the propaganda in English; Spanish is supposed to stop at 0500 on all frequencies. Meanwhile, 6050, very weak 6060, and 6125 are all in English. By 0503 recheck, 6010 is too. Around 1200 UT, Pres. Raúl is speaking on all frequencies including 11760, 1219 wrapping up as having been a live ``cadena nacional`` hookup with local/provincial network in Guantánamo, for ``Día de la Rebeldía Nacional`` festivities. Which reminds me, I am overdue to exclaim once again my rebellious parody lema, ``Cuba --- último territorio esclavo en América; Patria o Suerte, ¡Pensaremos!`` --- last uttered for May Day, more than a year after the previous time in April 2011, and before that for July 26 of 2010. I continue to await photographic evidence that someone has scrawled it as a graffito anywhere dentroCuba (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** GUAM. 15215, July 26 at 1322, nice S Asian film(?) music reminiscent of the long lamented R. Sohl, but it`s really KSDA in Bengali, occasionally overridden by brief Bronx-cheer ute blapps following three quick tones very near this frequency, intruder! 1327 AWR sign-off with contact info in Bangladesh to 1329* (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** JAPAN. 9595, July 26 at 1337, R. Nikkei is in American English, with a story about the Osprey VTOL aircraft which the USMC wants to station upon Okinawa vs protests from the populace over its safety. Soon switches into Japanese, and back and forth to English, as this is being used as a language lesson, translating/explaining each word and phrase. The text appears to be a current news/feature story not intended as a language lesson (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MEXICO. 710, Thursday July 26 at 1125 UT I check XEDP again for Low German as heard last Friday at this time: it`s the same preacher and same program, but presented only in Spanish with a slight accent, pontificating about repenting and accepting JC, closing with address in Colonia Álvaro Obregón, or La Biblia Dice, Apartado 213, Cuauhtémoc, Chihuahua, phone 584-0126; 1126 XEDP ``La Ranchera de Cuauhtémoc`` jingle. By 1137 it was losing out to KCMO rather than KGNC. Sunrise here was 1134. Maybe he`s in Low German on Fridays only (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MEXICO. Sporadic-E analog TVDX July 25, UT: 1602 on 3, ads in Spanish; CCI on 2 1623 on 2, net-7 bug UR, news show? 1627 on 4, hoy bug in LL, i.e. net-2 morning show 1629 on 3, from WSW with typical zero-CCI, Hola in LR, then YLs exclaim ``Hola, Mexicali``, so XHBC. CCI is from XHTJB, Tijuana 1639 on 5, talk show, net-13 bug UR, from WSW, i.e. XHAQ Mexicali 1639 on 6, video shows; 1641 it`s animation from net-5 = XETV Tijuana 1732 on 3, rotate antenna back toward S whence signals now dominate, net-5 with Bugs Bunny; something else on 5 1748 on 2, during gobierno federal PSA, with `swishy` video CCI from malfunxioning transmitter? Lucky catch of small white letters supered local ID, upper-left as XH###-TV / AGUASCALIENTES. W9WI.com shows it`s XHAGU-TV, 45.84 kW on the XEQ-9 network, i.e. Galavisión 1753 on 2, YLs discussing Michael Jackson, bug in upper right looks like a large but lower-case a with something else overlain. Have seen this before but not identified. Maybe a show bug rather than an ID bug? BTW, checking out Danny Oglethorpe`s KNOWN MULTIPLE TRANSMITTER STATIONS (5/17/2011) http://tvdxtips.com/multitransmitter.html this shows a recent log of mine, XEZ-3 with C. Culiacan text ID seen, is a separate transmitter from another XEZ-3 in nearby Zamorano, Querétaro. Altho both IDs may be seen at times, I still have my doubts that there are two separate transmitters, as the mountaintop one should also serve Qro, with the same net-5 which would otherwise interfere with each other (unless terrain blockage??). Bits of Es analog video continued to be seen off and on occasionally the rest of the afternoon when I was busy producing WORLD OF RADIO, into the evening, mostly ch 2 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** PAPUA NEW GUINEA. 3260, July 26 at 1121, YL then joined by OM in all-talk sounding English but could be Tok Pisin; presumably R. Madang post-elexion. Also PNG-frequency carriers on 3205, 3315, 3325, 3345, 3365 (but not 3385). 3260, the only one bearing modulation, still audible past 1130, 1148. Earlier at 1042-1050, Chuck Bolland in Florida measured this on 3259.988. Enid sunrise today was 1134, and in two weeks will be 1145 as the season gains momentum toward the Equinox (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SUDAN [non]. 15540-15560, July 26 at 0450, extremely loud distorted strong S9+20 FMy signal in Arabish, with humbuzz, centered 15550 but extending at least 10 kHz both sides. It`s slightly more readable by slope-tuning plus or minus 5 or so. My first guess was Iran, but that`s not on 15550 until 0630 in Albanian. Then at 0514 I hear Radio Dabanga mentioned, and that`s what`s scheduled now per HFCC as PNW [Press Now, Netherlands]: 0400-0557, 500 kW, 225 degrees via Dhabayya, UAE. Normally 15550 is barely audible, and this time the Madagascar relay of same on 15400 is abnormally weak and undermodulated. I would almost have thought it was the MDC transmitter malfunxioning; if so it happens to block their other relay! Saudi Qur`an was audible on 15170, but nowhere near as strong as the 15550 blob (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. WORLD OF RADIO 1627 monitoring: first airing confirmed on WRMI webcast, UT Thursday July 26 at 0330; inaudible on 9955 tho not too much jamming. Further times on 9955: Sat 0800, 1500, 1730, Sun 0800, 1530, 1730, Mon 0500, 1130. Plus many more webcasts-only. On WTWW: Thu 2100 on 9479, UT Sun 0400 on 5755 On WWRB: UT Fri 0330v on 5050 On WBCQ Area 51: UT Sat 0130v on 5110v-CUSB On HLR (low power in Germany): Sat 0630 on 7265, Tue 0930 on 5980 Also on WRN via SiriusXM 120: Sat & Sun 1730, Sun 0830 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 9330-CUSB, July 26 at 0457, WBCQ with open carrier/dead air instead of Radio 2:11/Good Friends Radio Network; still so at 0507 and next check 1149. Was it silent all night? 1312 still OC, but 1313 audio comes up for a bit, off again at 1316, so it may be quite intermittent (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ---[Start Commercial]--------------------- Order your WRTH 2011: http://www.hard-core-dx.com/redirect2.php?id=wrth2011 ---[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
