** CUBA. 11670, Oct 11 at 0640, RHC English at S9+10, a frequency supposed to be only in Spanish and off by 0500. Sometimes happens, failing to change same transmitter to one of 49mb frequencies, as now all but 6165 are off, and that is also much weaker. However, 5040 is also still on and in English, contrary to sked. And 5025 Rebelde is off again. Somethings` always wrong at RadioCuba (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)
** KIRITIMATI [non]. 846 kHz, Tue Oct 11 at 0622, no signal here from R. Kiribati. Still JBA carriers on 684 & 621, likely Peninsular and Islander Spain, still pre-sunrise. For those who may be confused. Kiritimati is the correct spelling in Gilbertese of Christmas. It sounds more similar than it looks, as the ``ti` is their way of rendering ``s``. It`s a subset of the entire widely-spanned country of Kiribati, pronounced Kiribas, itself a corruption of Gilbert. As such, Kiritimati should be considered a separate ``radio country``, with 2 kilomiles of ocean between its eastern and western islands (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** KURDISTAN [non]. 11775, Oct 11 at 0641, talk and presumably Kurdish music, DengĂȘ Welat via BULGARIA; with fast SAH and weaker CCI, presumably Tuerkiyeish jammer. Or vice versa. Ivo says D.W. switches from 7285 to 11775 at 0530, but unclear total span of each (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** NIGERIA. 7255-, Oct 11 at 0625, no signal from VON direct. At 1809, no signal either into Canary SDR (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** U S A [and non]. WORLD OF RADIO 2159 monitoring: confirmed UT Tuesday October 11 at 0030 on WRMI 9395, VG S9/+20. Next: 2230 UT Tuesday WRMI 9955 to SSE [jammed by Cuba] 2330 UT Tuesday WRMI 9395 to NNW 1030 UT Wednesday WRMI *5850 to NW 2100 UT Wednesday WBCQ 7490v to WSW 0030 UT Thursday WRMI 9395 to NNW 0130 UT Thursday WRMI 5010 to S *WRMI frequencies not yet reactivated, and may be considerable delay. At those scheduled times, check all other active WRMI frequencies in case there have been a schedule switch, at least temporarily. Full schedule including AM, FM, webcasts, satellite, podcasts: http://www.worldofradio.com/radioskd.html A noncommercial service for which financial support is appreciated to Glenn Hauser, P O Box 1684, Enid OK 73702, preferably by money order or check on a US bank. Or via PayPal, not necessarily in US funds, to woradio at yahoo.com (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** U S A. 9455, Oct 11 at 0629, this WRMI is back on, S9+10 with SMTV, the Supreme Masteress herself cut off at 0630 for Andean fill tune on quena and guitar. VG modulation; and splatter seems to be fixed, for now? 9395, Oct 11 at 0629, this S9+10 WRMI, briefly R. Tirana opening German, the long-standing automation mixup at end of 0600 English half-hour, originally only on 7730 which is supposed to be back on, but low-power and hardly audible. Then at 0631 it too plays the quena tune like 9455, but without two receivers going, I can`t be sure whether synchronized or separate playouts. I think there was a WRMI ID first at 0630 from one or both. By 0634 both have gone to a male soloist, sounds like hymn, in unknown language. However, now 9395 has become way undermodulated while 9455 remains VG. Strangeness. Latest from WRMI on FB circa 1930 Oct 11: ``Here is today's update on hurricane restoration work here at WRMI. We don't have any more frequencies back on the air today, but we did finish most of the repair work on our line truck so that we can hopefully continue repairing the transmission lines in the antenna field tomorrow. Our next target is 15770 kHz to Europe (also heard in the Middle East and North Africa). If all goes well, we could have this back on the air by the end of this week or early next week. Meanwhile, our partners at Pan American Broadcasting in California, which places programming on all of our WRMI frequencies, told us they are doing "somersaults of joy" as we get more and more frequencies back on the air! (See photos below of our Pan American colleagues Robin Boggs and Elizabeth Dubach.)`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** VANUATU. 7260, Oct 11 at 0625 weakly audible still on this fundamental. Did not manage to be awake after 0700 for 11835 check (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) UNIDENTIFIED. 15232.3 USB, Oct 11 at 1453, 2-way in colloquial Spanish, lots of numbers, maybe kilos of drugs, one of them chirping at cambios; at S9, INTRUDERS are not bothered by RHC on 15230, only S7/S9 and just barely modulated. Nor am I. One of them may be closer to 15232.4, as I try to tune for `normal` voices (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) This report dispatched at 2133 UT October 11 _ 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