** BRAZIL. 9818.725, Dec 21 at 0643, VP with some talk modulation, R. Nove de Julho presumably still relaying R. Aparecida. Way off- frequency carrier is often audible. Now, the other ZYs on 31m are 9665- and 9565-, but no 9630+ or 9675- (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CUBA. 13740, Dec 20 at 1940, RHC Spanish is loud S9+30; surprised to hear this, as on Arnie`s B-18 skeds it does not start until 2200, then Bauta until 0500. In fact at this hour there are no Spanish broadcasts scheduled, or heard elsewhere in quick bandscans, just Kriyol on weaker 15140, S9+10 and undermodulated. Something`s always wrong at RHC (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CUBA. 15311.66, 15283.06, 14996.96, 14968.36 all approx., Dec 21 at 1420, the now usual weak and squealing, somewhat wobbly spurs out of RHC 15140 transmitter. Someething`s always wrong at RHC. 13700 is much weaker than usual and than // 13780, maybe explaining why no FM spurs are audible on the 22m band at 1418 Dec 21. 15700, Dec 21 at 1521, CRI English relay is better modulated than usual. Listening in SSB only, there is a similar squealing sound to the four 15140 spurs above. Very strange effect I have not noticed elsewhere; listening in AM, no squeal tho a slight hum. On my keyboard, the squeal is approx. D to D# above Cmiddle, i.e. circa 300 Hz. Something`s always wrong at RadioCuba (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CUBA [non]. 13820, Dec 21 at 1415, Radio Martà VG on proper frequency with hardly any jamming audible. Still at 1513 check, an hour during which yesterday RM had inexplicably jumped to 13860 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** OKLAHOMA. 1390, my nearest local, KCRC, continues putting out spurs at multiples of approx. 30 kHz above and below, despite denials by the KCRC contract engineer. I decide to measure them as accurately as possible, Dec 20 at 1926-1939 UT on the R-75: 1449.771, makes het with weak 1450 stations, Woodward & Shawnee 1419.883, KCRC audio overwhelms anything from KTJS Hobart 1389.994, KCRC fundamental is slightly low, and varies? 1360.059, KCRC audio overwhelms anything from KPHN El Dorado KS 1330.177, makes big het with KNSS Wichita which otherwise would be listenable here At this time can`t hear hets on 1300 & 1480 but have before, perhaps closer to site on caradio. Separations between these from top to bottom: 29.889, 29.888, 29.935, 29.882. One of them looks too far off, not sure if I miscalculated (Glenn Hauser, Enid, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** OKLAHOMA. Many more holiday specials from KGOU Norman thru Jan 1: http://www.kgou.org/special-programs with webcast link. Starting with Paul Winter`s 31st Annual Winter Solstice Celebration, 0400-0600 UT Sat Dec 22 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** OKLAHOMA. One addition to the KUCO holiday specials: UT SAT DEC 22: 1400-1600 Performance Oklahoma: Xmas Vespers 2018 at OCU [sacred] https://www.kucofm.com/programs/performanceoklahoma/this-week-s-program/ Oklahoma City University has a fine music department (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** TURKEY. 12035.0, Friday December 21 at 1400, S9-S6, VOT English in `Letterbox`. Host seems to be winging it from axual letters rather than a prepared script. At least two come from Bangladesh, but hard to understand details; he keeps urging people to send reception reports. At 1407 sings for a few seconds? 1408 show ends and into songfill. 11815.0, December 21 at 1414, the other VOT, Turkish music, also S9-S6 but sounds louder; and remarkable coincidence, both are (almost) on- frequency today, rather than one or the other plus ~700 Hz! (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 9395, Dec 20 at 1942-1944 at lest, dead air from WRMI at S9 -S7; another feed failure from Walterboro? (Glenn Hauser, OK DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 5085, Dec 21 at 1525, WTWW-2 is on with Xmasmx, S9+20/30, also audibilizing the parasite spurcarriers about 5072.1 and 5097.9 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. 11418-11442 approx., Dec 21 at 1431, OTH radar rapid clicking; also traces of same sound 11560-11565 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) This report dispatched at 1722 UT December 21 _ 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
