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Today's Topics:
1. Wolfgang's 1000 DX bulletins (Karel Honz?k)
2. Monday Morn Dx (Charles Bolland)
3. Re: [dxld] RN EXTRA SW TXNS TO EGYPT (Wolfgang Bueschel)
4. Glenn Hauser logs January 30-31, 2011 (Glenn Hauser)
5. Monday after noon DX (Charles Bolland)
6. Re: [dxld] Ending an era: Radio Prague signs off on shortwave
(Wolfgang Bueschel)
7. Glenn Hauser logs January 31, 2011 (Glenn Hauser)
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Message: 1
Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2011 11:53:45 +0100 (CET)
From: Karel Honz?k <karel-hon...@volny.cz>
To: hard-core-dx@hard-core-dx.com
Subject: [HCDX] Wolfgang's 1000 DX bulletins
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I would like to congratulate Wolfgang B?schel of Germany on his
excellent
achievement: 1000 BC-DX bulletins. Every week when I search through
my
e-mails it is there and never I am disappointed. I know that a
compilation
of news from various sources is not easy and I admire Wolfgang's
thoroughness.
I would like Wolfgang to keep on his excellent work. Thanks a lot.
Karel Honzik, CZE
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Message: 2
Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2011 11:48:04 -0000
From: "Charles Bolland" <ka4...@peoplepc.com>
To: "ALF" <alf.e.pers...@telia.com>, "Arnaldo slaen"
<sl...@ciudad.com.ar>, "Bob Wilkner" <r...@earthlink.net>,
"brainman214" <brainman...@gmail.com>,Carlos
GonA?alves<carlos-rel...@sapo.pt>, "Cumbre" <cumbr...@n2jeu.net>,
"'DSWCI'" <l...@dxer.de>, "Gayle Van Horn"
<gaylevanh...@monitoringtimes.com>, "Glenn Hauser"
<wghau...@yahoo.com>, "Hard-core-dx" <hard-core-dx@hard-core-dx.com>,
"Marie Lamb" <mal...@cumbredx.org>
Subject: [HCDX] Monday Morn Dx
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Vietnam, 9550, Voice of Vietnam, 1130-1200, Noted a
faint signal here at 1130 which
took a couple of minutes to fade in; however, by 1135,
the signal was established
enough where a female and male could be heard in
possibly Vietnamese language
comments. Language did not sound like Russian. Later
a male comments at
length in possibly Vietnamese. Signal was fair.
(Chuck Bolland, January 31, 2011)
WR-G31DDC
26N 081w
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Message: 3
Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2011 13:34:48 +0100
From: "Wolfgang Bueschel" <buesch...@web.de>
To: "HCDX" <hard-core-dx@hard-core-dx.com>, "DXLD"
<d...@yahoogroups.com>
Subject: Re: [HCDX] [dxld] RN EXTRA SW TXNS TO EGYPT
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NETHERLANDS [non, GERMANY/MADAGASCAR/U.K.] RNW EXTRA SW TXNS TO EGYPT.
RNW increasing its broadcasts to Egypt
<http://blogs.rnw.nl/medianetwork/rnw-increasing-its-broadcasts-to-egypt>
(Alokesh Gupta-IND, dxld Jan 30)
There are also extra shortwave transmissions in Dutch for the
estimated 8000 Dutch citizens in Egypt:
0600-0700 UTC 9830 kHz WER 500kW 120degr
1600-1700 UTC 5955 kHz RMP 500 140 + 9750 kHz ISS 500 114
1730-1830 UTC 11615 kHz MDG 250 000 + 11655 kHz MDG 250 300
(via wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Jan 30)
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Alokesh Gupta" Sent: Sunday, January 30, 2011 1:45 PM
> Subject: [dxld] RN EXTRA SW TXNS TO EGYPT
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Message: 4
Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2011 09:35:15 -0800 (PST)
From: Glenn Hauser <wghau...@yahoo.com>
To: d...@yahoogroups.com
Cc: s...@mailman.qth.net
Subject: [HCDX] Glenn Hauser logs January 30-31, 2011
Message-ID: <772027.4679...@web114005.mail.gq1.yahoo.com>
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** CHINA. Firedrake Jan 30, all //:
13960, poor-fair at 2342
14950, good at 2342
15900, fair at 2343
10300, good with flutter at 2347
8400, poor at 2348
During these few minutes I searched continuously between 8 and 19 MHz; quite a
good haul, five of them, for this time of day (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** CHINA. 15550, while searching for Firedrake, one Chinese talk broadcast of
significance, at 2352 Jan 30 with usual over-assertive style in dialog,
announcements, fair with flutter; timesignal to 2400* and off. Aoki shows this
is jamming RFA via Tinian, also until 2400, while CNR1 supposedly continues
until 0800, 100 kW, 175 degrees from Beijing 572 site, but none of that audible
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CUBA. 6010, RHC, Jan 31 at 0631, `Ed Newman` in mailbag says the USA is
refusing mail from RHC; in fact there is no postal service between Cuba and USA
now. Listeners have been wondering why they haven`t received their 2011 RHC
calendar cards. E-mail inquiries are being replied with a Cuban government
notice about this. Meanwhile, RHC is (finally) designing an E-QSL. Naturally,
RHC blames the US, while this BBC story says it was Cuba`s decision to block
all mail:
``CUBA STOPS POSTAL SERVICE TO US 'UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE'
21 January 2011 Last updated at 16:30 ET
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-12257412
Large numbers of letters and parcels have been refused entry to the US
Cuba has suspended all postal deliveries to the United States until further
notice. The suspension follows the introduction of stricter security measures
by the US last year after the attempted mailing of explosives from Yemen.
The Cuban postal service says large amounts of mail were refused entry and
returned in the following months. Correspondents say the cost of so many
returns may have led to the decision to stop the service.
Postal service between the US and Cuba had been suspended for 42 years after
Cuba's communist revolution, and only resumed in 2009 via third countries.
[is this true? Weren`t RHC QSLs etc., getting thru somehow by P-mail before
2009??? --- gh]
President Barack Obama's decision to renew the service was widely seen as a
move towards repairing relations between the two countries.
Its suspension is likely to be interpreted as a setback to the president's
efforts at easing tension and improving people-to-people ties between Cuba and
the US.
The US tightened its security on air cargo after bombs hidden in cartridges
were intercepted on route from Yemen to the US in cargo planes.``
Finally have discovered additional times for RHC`s Spanish DX program `En
Contacto`. UT Monday Jan 31 at 0733 I come across it on 6050, 6060, 6120, 6150,
5040 until 0746, so it must have started circa 0731.
Manolo was playing an old clip of R. Progreso, the station whose building RHC
shares at Infanta 105. Another anniversary/birthday, I suppose.
Then he announced FOUR times for his show, with all the frequencies for each: I
hope I got them all copied as given.
1, to America, Caribbean, Sunday 1435 on 11760, 13750, 13780, 13680, 11730,
12040, 15360, 15120, 15230, 6140 [wrong: not all of these are on, but instead
on El Hugazo frequencies 15370, 17750, which start circa 1400 on Sundays]
2, ``sobre las 2005``, meaning approximately, on 11730, 12040, 15230, 6140
[this is the interim `new` day-time I had been searching for but never managed
to find]
3, ``sobre las 2240``, on 11730, 12040, 9820, 15230 [not exactly: see our
previous monitoring of all frequencies in use at this time]
4, `0235 [UT Monday], on 6140, 11760, 6060, 6120, 15360, 15120; and to Europe
on 11770 [sic --- 15120 is certainly not on in the tarde, and 11770 Europe
applies to 2240, not 0235!]
HOWEVER, I was axually hearing EC at a fifth time he still doesn`t know about:
UT Monday 0730v!
Next item referred to audio archive of his and many other Spanish DX programs
at http://www.geocities.com/programasdx/encontacto.htm
He listed the others, even including Mundo Radial de Glenn Hauser!
Unfortunately, this website ceased to be maintained a year or two ago, and now
is Unfound by geocities, nor even in the Wayback Machine as GC suggests, which
means it`s probably in the 6-month limbo period.
Instead, the current site for Programas DX is:
http://programasdx.com/
Including this very latest EC audio at
http://programasdx.com/encontacto.htm
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** EGYPT. 9305, R. Cairo general service in Arabic continues active, Jan 30 at
2336, VG but moderately distorted. Say, how are things going in Tunisia now
with everybody focused on Egypt?? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** EQUATORIAL GUINEA. 6250.0, RNGE, poor Jan 31 at 0628 continuous Spanish
talk, ute beeps (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** GUAM. 12025, Jan 31 at 1520, English with S Asian accent about Noah, Exodus,
poor signal. HFCC shows it`s KSDA, 100 kW, due west from Agat at 1500-1530
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** NEW ZEALAND. RNZI 11725-AM and 11670-11675-11680 DRM were the OSOB, Jan 31
at 0643, poor. BTW, on UT Saturdays around this time they have a variety show
from National including comedy (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** OKLAHOMA. 960, KGWA Enid, altho the original station of the AM-FM combo, is
now the poor stepchild no one really cares about: Jan 31 at 0650 UT, open
carrier; came to life for newcast at 0703 check, but back to dead air at 0707.
So the automation can handle the news, but not whatever else was supposed to be
on.
I was checking because the usual mixing product with KCRC on 3310 was not being
heard, and I suspected one of them was off the air --- but KCRC 1390 was
nominal, and lack of modulation on 960 carrier should not have affected the
spur (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** OMAN. 15140, R. Sultanate of Oman, making a rare audible appearance, but
only poor, Jan 31 at 1459 with YL narrating something in English, 1500
interrupted for switch to Arabic service, with louder modulation, ID, fanfare,
and presumed news. S9+10 peaks with deep fades (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** SAIPAN [and non]. 12090, Jan 30 at 2255 Asian song, good signal better than
fluttery adjacent 12095 BBC. 2300 YL ``This is KFBS, Saipan, from the Mariana
Islands in the Pacific`` and immediately off, as was BBC. Aoki shows 12090 at
2230-2300 in Vietnamese, 100 kW, 278 degrees from Marpi. BBC is 250 kW, 27
degrees from Ascension, taking a one-hour break until 0000 resuming via
Singapore (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** SOUTH AFRICA. 5910, fair Jan 30 at 2332, BBC News headlines, 2333 opening
`Something Understood`, and then cutting off the air. Another overrun by
SENTECH, as BBC is supposedly only at 2200-2300, 100 kW, 330 degrees (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** SPAIN. 15385, REE Emisi?n Sefarad, fair Monday Jan 31 around 1445, interview
in Ladino with an Auschwitz survivor (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 9405, is WINB still on the air overnight? If not, there will probably
be no press release to that effect. Jan 31 at 0641, I strain for a signal, and
with BFO on occasionally there is a trace. However, the same situation applies
to 9370v for WTJC, which often is audible when WINB is not, so maybe they are
both ``propped-out`` tonight. WYFR was also VP-JBA on 31m, whilst BBC was S9+12
on 9410 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 3819-LSB, Jan 31 at 0655-0723+ very informal ham net, with
tongue-in-cheek often funny comments mentioning http://www.popebusters.com ---
Paul being an *sshol*, hoping to come back as a tube of Vagisil, hee hee.
Talkovers (double transmissions) happened several times, as they don`t like to
say ``over``, and nary an ID. I was around here checking for HD2IOA on 3810
which was not heard (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 15209.3v, still hearing het upon much stronger WYFR 15210.0, Jan
31 at 1458 while FR was in Portuguese, and a dekaminute later when in English.
Still nothing in latest HFCC, Aoki or EiBi to account for anything else on
15210 before or after 1500. So could be a spur. Need monitoring of this in
Eurafroasia where WYFR is not such a blockage (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST) ###
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Message: 5
Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2011 20:04:03 -0000
From: "Charles Bolland" <ka4...@peoplepc.com>
To: "ALF" <alf.e.pers...@telia.com>, "Arnaldo slaen"
<sl...@ciudad.com.ar>, "Bob Wilkner" <r...@earthlink.net>,
"brainman214" <brainman...@gmail.com>,Carlos
GonA?alves<carlos-rel...@sapo.pt>, "Cumbre" <cumbr...@n2jeu.net>,
"'DSWCI'" <l...@dxer.de>, "Gayle Van Horn"
<gaylevanh...@monitoringtimes.com>, "Glenn Hauser"
<wghau...@yahoo.com>, "Hard-core-dx" <hard-core-dx@hard-core-dx.com>,
"Marie Lamb" <mal...@cumbredx.org>
Subject: [HCDX] Monday after noon DX
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Gabon, 9580, Africa Number One, 1950-2010, Noted a
fair signal
here with Highlife type music as an announcer comments
in French
during, before and after the music. It amazes me that
this station
has remained on the air and on this frequency for so
many years.
If they can do it from Gabon, why can't the more
prosperous
countries do it? As I listen, Radio Australia comes on
the air with
their theme "Waltzing Matelda". Still Radio One
remains audible.
On the hour, RNO gives ID followed by news. Radio
Australia never
starts broadcasting. because they were signing off.
Without any
interference, Africa Number One is "Fivers'. (Chuck
Bolland,
January 31, 2011)
WR-G31DDC
26N 081W
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Message: 6
Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2011 22:09:55 +0100
From: "Wolfgang Bueschel" <buesch...@web.de>
To: "HCDX" <hard-core-dx@hard-core-dx.com>, "DXLD"
<d...@yahoogroups.com>
Subject: Re: [HCDX] [dxld] Ending an era: Radio Prague signs off on
shortwave
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Alokesh Gupta" Sent: Monday, January 31, 2011 8:29 PM
Subject: [dxld] Ending an era: Radio Prague signs off on shortwave
Ending an era: Radio Prague signs off on shortwave
http://www.radio.cz/en/section/special/ending-an-era-radio-prague-signs-off-on-shortwave
Regards, Alokesh Gupta, VU3BSE New Delhi
CZECH REP Radio Prague ends 75 years of shortwave radio service.
ENG With the following special presentation, Radio Prague ends 75 years of
shortwave radio service. As many of you know by now, austerity measures
across Czech governmental ministries have forced budget cuts in many
sectors, and public broadcasting is one of them. For most of the last
century our signal has gone out to six continents, carrying news and
information about Czechoslovakia and the Czech Republic to listeners all
over the world.
Radio Prague will continue to fulfil its mission through internet and
satellite broadcasting - we hope for another 75 years - on whatever media
the future allows us. But today we mark the end of a traditional means of
modern communication that we have been a part of almost since its inception.
<http://www.radio.cz/en/section/special/ending-an-era-radio-prague-signs-off-on-shortwave>
<http://www.radio.cz/en/section/mailbox/mailbox-2011-01-30>
<http://www.radio.cz/en/section/letter/letter-from-prague-final-edition>
<http://www.radio.cz/en/section/mailbox/mailbox-2011-01-23>
<http://www.radio.cz/en/section/mailbox/mailbox-2011-01-16>
<http://www.radio.cz/en/section/mailbox/mailbox-2011-01-09>
<http://www.radio.cz/en/section/mailbox/mailbox-2010-12-19>
<http://www.radio.cz/en/section/mailbox/mailbox-2010-12-12>
<http://www.radio.cz/en/static/history-of-radio-prague>
CZE
<http://www.radio.cz/cz/rubrika/udalosti/reditel-radia-praha-kratkovlnne-vysilani-konci-prechazime-plne-na-internet>
<http://www.radio.cz/cz/rubrika/udalosti/vysilani-radia-praha-jsme-lovili-i-na-dovolene>
<http://www.radio.cz/cz/rubrika/zarchivu/radio-praha-neposlouchal-jen-jeden-recky-rolnik>
<http://www.radio.cz/cz/rubrika/ocem/frantisek-cerny-vzpomina-na-slavna-sedesata-v-radiu-praha>
<http://www.radio.cz/cz/rubrika/udalosti/usporu-na-vysilaci-vetsina-posluchacu-nepozna>
<http://www.radio.cz/cz/rubrika/udalosti/snizeni-rozpoctu-radia-praha-posluchaci-prilis-nezaznamenaji>
<http://www.radio.cz/cz/rubrika/udalosti/nove-internetove-stranky-radia-praha>
GER
<http://www.radio.cz/de/rubrik/tagesecho/abschied-nach-fast-75-jahren-sendet-radio-prag-nicht-mehr-auf-kurzwelle>
<http://www.radio.cz/de/static/geschichte-von-radio-prag>
<http://www.radio.cz/de/static/geschichte-von-radio-prag/der-tschechische-rundfunk-in-daten>
RUS
<http://www.radio.cz/ru/static/radio-praga-zakancivajet-vescanije-na-korotkich-volnach/>
<http://www.radio.cz/ru/static/o-radio-praga/vozmozhnosti-priema>
<http://www.radio.cz/ru/static/istoriya-radio-praga>
<http://www.radio.cz/ru/static/istoriya-radio-praga/istoriya-cheshskogo-radio>
FRA
<http://www.radio.cz/fr/rubrique/faits/31-janvier-2011-radio-prague-devient-une-radio-sur-internet>
<http://www.radio.cz/fr/rubrique/courrier/radio-prague-se-retire-sur-internet>
<http://www.radio.cz/fr/rubrique/courrier/courrier-des-auditeurs-2011-01-22>
<http://www.radio.cz/fr/rubrique/courrier/raymonde-francois-radio-prague-ma-appris-la-republique-tcheque>
<http://www.radio.cz/fr/rubrique/courrier/radio-prague-ne-diffusera-plus-en-ondes-courtes-a-partir-du-1022011>
<http://www.radio.cz/fr/static/sur-radio-prague/comment-ecouter-radio-prague>
<http://www.radio.cz/fr/static/histoire-de-radio-prague>
<http://www.radio.cz/fr/static/histoire-de-radio-prague/histoire-de-la-radio-tcheque>
SPA
<http://www.radio.cz/es/static/radio-praga-cancela-sus-emisiones-en-onda-corta/>
Concluyen las emisiones de Radio Praga en Onda Corta tras 75 a?os de
servicio Radio Praga, el servicio internacional de la Radiodifusi?n Checa,
emite este lunes por ?ltima vez en Onda Corta. Desde la medianoche del 1 de
febrero, Radio Praga seguir? saliendo puntualmente a trav?s de Internet y
sat?lite. Adem?s, m?ltiples radios extranjeras asociadas seguir?n incluyendo
nuestros materiales en su programaci?n, como es el caso para la emisi?n en
espa?ol de emisoras como Radio M?xico Internacional o Radio Miami
Internacional, ambas en Onda Corta. El cese de las emisiones en Onda Corta
se debe a recortes de presupuesto en el Ministerio de Relaciones Exteriores.
<http://www.radio.cz/es/static/acerca-de-radio-praga/opciones-de-escucha>
<http://www.radio.cz/es/static/historia-de-radio-praga>
<http://www.radio.cz/es/static/historia-de-radio-praga/historia-de-la-radiodifusion-checa>
BROADCASTING WITHIN THE CZECH REPUBLIC
Radio Prague broadcasts in English, German and Russian in Prague and its
surroundings from Monday to Friday from 19:05 to 19:25 CET on 92.6 FM.
You can also listen to Radio Prague in French on Wednesdays from 16.10 to
16.30 CET and on Saturdays from 11.10 to 11.30 CET in Prague on 99.3 FM.
Selected programmes of Radio Prague are also relayed by Radio Miami
International from Miami, Florida USA on 9955 kHz. The complete programme
schedule of RMI can be found at:
<http://www.wrmi.net/schedule.php>
(R Prague-CZE website, Jan 31)
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Message: 7
Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2011 17:07:18 -0800 (PST)
From: Glenn Hauser <wghau...@yahoo.com>
To: d...@yahoogroups.com
Cc: s...@mailman.qth.net
Subject: [HCDX] Glenn Hauser logs January 31, 2011
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** CHINA. Firedrake Jan 31: after finding 5 frequencies 24 hours earlier, I
look again at 2327-2330:
8400, good, but very heavy flutter
10300, slightly stronger, also very heavy flutter
No sign of it anywhere else up to 18 MHz, including the three frequencies heard
yesterday, 13960, 14950, 15900. But the CNR1 jammer on 15550 was again audible
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CHINA [non]. 13650, CRI in Portuguese via CUBA, Jan 31 at 2314, VG signal
but very undermodulated, distorted; also with BFO one can tell the carrier is
slightly unstable. Disco-beat song about ``Internationale``, then announcement
in Brazilian, at 2316 into `Panorama Econ?mico``.
During brief fades of 13650 at 2318, I can hear an echo, apparently 38
megameters by longpath, obscured without the fades by direct off-the-back path
of the 135 degree beam toward Brasil. Just before this, during CRI talk
segment, I could hear some very weak music underneath 13650, not even enough to
make a SAH, no doubt R. Japan in Thai, 300 kW, 235 degrees from Yamata, also
arriving here direct off its back.
Much stronger and clearer signal from Cuba`s relay of Venezuela on 13680. If
the ChiCom only knew what crappy equipment their Cuban clients are using for
CRI relays: others on 5990, 13740, 15120 are also inferior to the excellent
modulation RHC manages to achieve on some, but hardly all, of its own
frequencies (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CZECHIA [and non]. Stations cutting their own throat by closing down SW
rarely give us the specifix we need to monitor the very last broadcast, like
what time by UT? If the QRT date is January 31, does that mean turned off at
2300 UT = midnight local? How about the repeats well into the next UT day which
ordinarily air to the Americas?
I know I can hear Radio Prague`s SW finale program on their preferred medium of
the web, anyway, so I am not monitoring before 2300 UT Jan 31, but at 2310
there is no signal on 5930, when French used to air, nor at 2330 for English,
so it`s already gone.
Alokesh Gupta points us to 17-minute audio access and full transcript:
http://www.radio.cz/en/section/special/ending-an-era-radio-prague-signs-off-on-shortwave
Guess what? WRMI is never mentioned as continuing to broadcast R. Prague on SW;
that would ruin the moment, detract from the not-really-finale! R. Prague has
used other relays before, like Sackville and Ascension, which always got full
respect, so why is WRMI any different? Even before now, it was almost as if
they did not really want listeners to know about it!
Anyhow, Jeff White has assured us that RP has agreed for WRMI to continue with
R. Prague (from WRN), on 9955 in English daily at 0700-0730, M-F at 1000-1030,
and Sat/Sun at 1930-2000. Also in Spanish at various other times, and
apparently the French weekdays at 1430-1500 too (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** NORTH AMERICA. 6930-USB, Jan 31 at 2226, novelty songs past 2230; 2235 YL ID
over pumping music, something about ``still be a signal, Weak Radio``. 2243
same ID over music; until fully warmed up, the FRG-7 BFO drifts gradually, and
when the unexpected IDs come on, I miss the first part trying to adjust BFO for
proper pitch, not so obvious on the strange music. How about a bit of reduced
carrier to help us zero? 2249 ID now spelled out, W-E-A-K; 2255 another same
over music, and at 2259. A bit after 2300, hard rock segu?s to rap. Still there
at 2310 when I use this to hit 1000 kHz below for R. Prague, which has already
QRT its own SW forever; see CZECHIA (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** OKLAHOMA. 1000, KTOK, OKC, Jan 31 at 2139-2149 UT, I have never enjoyed the
Sean Hannity Show so much! Because KTOK was broadcasting dead air for at least
ten minutes while I dozed. This was not in the middle of the night but the
middle of the day. Rejoined abruptly at 2149 without so much as ``Due to
technical difficulties, our regular programming has been interrupted, but we
now rejoin it in progress``. No station makes such courtesy announcements any
more, for it would admit that someone is finally paying attention to their own
output! Way to go, Clear Channel (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** OKLAHOMA. 1610, Enid NWS relay via WQCL720, Great Salt Plains State Park,
once again audible on caradio in western Enid, but mixed with the roaring noise
I had been hearing by itself, Jan 31 around 2030 UT. Plus a slow pulsing,
apparently SAH between two different transmitters (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** OKLAHOMA. Update on Enid`s unlicensed FM stations, checked Jan 31 at 2150 UT:
97.7, Part 15 ``WECS`` at Emmanuel Christian School, usual loop by kids with
range of a few blox, for the week of Jan 31-Feb 4. This one runs a couple
minutes, much longer than usual, which is a pity, since these particular kids
are extremely inarticulate and have no business behind even a play microphone.
Furthermore, audio recording has a problem with its own noise interference
rising and falling, at times overriding the voices.
99.9, GCN pirate, dead air only, and has been so all afternoon (Glenn Hauser,
Enid, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** TURKEY. 5960, VOT English to NAm still here, Monday Jan 31 at 2303, poor in
English news, ACI from DentroCuban Jamming Command on 5955. Listed frequency
7335 has no WHRI or VOT today, but something very weak, presumably CNR2 (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U K [and non]. We always try to catch BBC World News, the 2100 GMT edition
on weekdays, delayed one sesquihour on OETA OKLA DTV subchannel to 2230. Main
anchor Mike Embley always introduces it as ``also for PBS viewers in America``
(which America??), but they keep fiddling with the format. In the first place,
there are far too many teasers, repetitive headlines and condescending ``stay
with us, if you can`` remarx, instead of one semihour of hard world news. Is
that too much to ask? Some expert must have concluded most viewers won`t keep
tuned otherwise. His bio:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/pressoffice/biographies/biogs/bbc_world/mikeembley.shtml
Don`t blame the anchor for all that`s wrong with it, but today Jan 31 it`s a
new low, as the second half has no news, just a string of promos for other BBC
World programmes we have no chance of seeing via OKLA, weather grafix, website
promos, etc., etc.
Were they having a problem in the studio, or is this a permanent change? This
show always has gaffes, miscues, dead air, upcuts, etc., hardly what you would
expect from a professional worldwide operation. And with so much breaking news
these days, delaying it a sesquihour hardly does justice to the news, but
that`s OKLA`s fault --- or maybe not if that`s the only edition they have an
opportunity to air, and there is certainly more of an audience for news at 4:30
pm local than 3 o`clock (Glenn Hauser, Enid, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ###
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