** AUSTRALIA. Don`t you believe the RA online program guide http://www.radioaustralia.net.au/international/radio/programschedule?timezone=UTC&stream=ras-1 which still shows on Fridays: 1100 The World [TV news]; 1300 Unearthed [JJJ Network music]; 1700 Life Matters. There is still an option to ``change stream`` between default Asia, and Pacific, but the submit button flashes and vanishes, and no change can be made, it seems, as the streams were merged months ago!
Since `The World` is a 1-hour show, we assumed something else occupy the ``mystery hour`` Fridays at 12-13 UT. Tune-in 9580 at 1205 Oct 17 to find jazz music playing, no announcements until 1218 intro Charlie Parker`s Roma Lee (?), as I am now tuned to 12065. More jazz, cut off at 1300 for ABC News. Retune 1305 as I am now listening via 9965 PALAU and back to jazz, then announcer about new releases and Melbourne jazz events. Referred to as a weekly program, but what is it? 1328 outro `Jazz Up Late` with Gerry Koster on ABC Jazz & Classic FM. 1330 next program is `Overnight on Classic-2 and ABC Classic FM`, with solo piano music of a more modern classical nature. This is cut off at 1400 for another ABC News cast, rejoin at 1405 with Vivaldi`s ``The Seasons`` in progress. So at least on Fridays, RA is NOT carrying JJJ`s `Unearthed` as claimed on schedule. These music shows from other ABC sub-networx are an improvement, but obviously not designed for news breaks on the hour, which however are important for the SW audience. One has the impression that RA is programmed on a whim of some operator plugging into this or that domestic network to relay, regardless of what the schedule says. Maybe different next week? Some of these subnetworx are ``digital``, maybe digital-only. There`s a roster of them at the bottom of this page: http://www.abc.net.au/radio/ Jazz: http://abcjazz.net.au/ where we see there are 5 ``ways to listen`` not including on the air [except: now we know, RA!]. `Jazz Up Late` starts Fridays at 10:30 pm [AEDT] which means 1130 UT, and ends at 12:30 am which chex with 1330 UT. The next program on this net is `Just Jazz`, but RA is relaying Classic FM which is relaying ABC Jazz for `J.U.L.`, http://www.abc.net.au/classic/ and now `Overnight` which really runs until 6 am = 19 UT, and really originates with another sub-sub-network, Classic 2, http://www.abc.net.au/classic2 which doesn`t stray into jazz but tries to make nothing but classical hip for homework. Seems that in Australia as well as in America, Friday nights are prime-time for jazz on stations which are not full-time jazz, i.e. let-your-hair-down time after a serious week (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BANGLADESH. 15505, Oct 17 at 1356 I have tuned slightly above 21505 BSKSA on the FRG-7, then down exactly 6 MHz to hear when the Bangladesh Betar carrier oncome, which occurs at *1357:07, but it`s very poor; after 1359 can barely recognize the IS, which runs past 1400, and mistimesignal is now slow instead of fast, ending at 1400:10, opening Urdu (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MEXICO. 650, Oct 17 at 1230, mentions `Radio Viva y Altavoz.com``, 6:30 TC. Altavoz is the name of the newscast, and I`m not sure what the Viva name applies to, as the station is surely the usual regular Radio 65, XETNT, Los Mochis, Sinaloa. Next item between anchor and metguy somehow mixes ébola awareness with weather outlook. Checking that website, it seems that altavoz.com is an unrelated ``independent music company`` in Maryland. Maybe this is really altavoz.com.mx ? No, nothing configured there, nor at altavoz.mx. Googling on Altavoz XETNT leads primarily to my previous logs of it, and then: This page rather explains it: http://www.chavezradiocast.com/?page_id=433 Group slogan is ``Radio Viva de Sinaloa``, with the i of Viva doubling as a mike, and Altavoz is the statewide news network. Also history of the group and tribute to founder Chávez who died 12 years ago, QEPD. And linx to the real Altavoz site: http://www.noticieroaltavoz.com/ (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MEXICO. 900, Oct 17 at 1237, Spanish timecheck for 23:7 and temp as 10 centígrados, introducing song, looping southwest --- has to be the only 900 XE in the UT-6 zone, per Cantú: 900 XEDT Hits FM + FM 98.3 Cd. Cuauhtémoc, Chih. 5,000 1,500 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** NIGERIA. Re: I then tune up to 11770-, expecting it to come on there and it does by *2059, but very poor level, can`t tell language but presumably Arabic as in Thorsten Hallmann`s AfricaList. http://www.muenster.org/uwz/ms-alt/africalist/africalist.pdf Thorsten Hallmann replies: ``Oh, in the current version this transmission is actually given as Hausa. And I believe it's always Hausa at that hour - maybe in older editions Arabic was mentioned, which was the first guess of Wolfgang Büschel and myself when we first heard the transmission`` (Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SPAIN. Re trying to hear REE English online if no longer SW: Seems they did none dated Oct 15, but the ``first`` one of 30+ minutes is now up dated Oct 16 via: http://www.rtve.es/alacarta/audios/emision-en-ingles/english-language-broadcast-16-10-14/2810974/ When I try to play it, I first get a ``Gateway Timeout --- The proxy server did not receive a timely response from the upstream server``. But try again and it starts; Justin says ``today`` is ``October 15`` despite file date of Oct 16. It`s mainly operatic music with a bit of commentary, a quick way to fill airtime without much effort; and cuts off mid-aria at 30:11! [Tagged]: We begin our first "virtual broadcast" with appropriate music by Chopin, the 3rd movement from his Sonata for Piano No. 2. And we continue in a musical vein, because this week opera buffs and classical music lovers in the Spanish capital were treated to a wonderful performance at Madrid's National Auditorium of Haendel's opera Alcina, with acclaimed American mezzosoprano Joyce DiDonato singing the title role, accompanied by the English Concert, with Harry Bicket conducting from the harpsichord. We hear DiDonato sing the resolution aria from the opera's third act as well as bel canto arias from 19th-century Italian operas by Pacini and Rossini included on her latest album, "Stella di Napoli," released this year on Erato. For more on this superb opera singer, visit her website at: http://www.joycedidonato.com (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 21600, Oct 17 at 1356, no signal from WHRI, unlike 24 hours earlier when they were apparently testing; only sigs on 13m being 21540 Kuwait and 21505 Saudi (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 620, Oct 17 at 1227 UT, dominant signal is from E/W with long string of Ad Council PSAs and some specific to Arizona, such as ``don`t drive into a duststorm``; 1229 non-ID as ``ESPN Phœnix, 620-AM``, the sad fate of a once-greater talk station, KTAR. If they had been smart, Bonneville might have used their legacy callsign as an inducement to become an Aljazeera outlet. Or, what`s the equivalent of a Tarheel west of the Miss? And since there is a pretty deep null toward us on the night pattern, we dare assume the 5 kW is running on ND day pattern already, more than hour before official October sunrise of 1330 UT (November: 1400 UT) (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. Trans-Pacific carrier search Oct 17 at 1220-1224 UT: JBAs on 594, 702, 774, 882, 1044 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) This report despatched at 1651 UT October 17 _ 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
