** ALBANIA. R. Tirana, 13720, Jan 15 at 1551 ending Focus on Albania talk, pop music; somewhat undermodulated but listenable and not distorted (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CHINA. Voices from Other Lands, the Thursday feature in the second half of CRI English broadcasts, Jan 15 at 1430 on 13675 and 15230 via Canada, interviewing a China-lover from Scotland, Brian Connolly, who spoke with great enthusiasm, a huge brogue but still pronouncing lots of Chinese names with tones which I can only assume were correct. He spoke of his travels around the country, bringing in tour groups, and apparently has now retired in Beijing.
Despite my distaste for Chicom jamming, CRI overtaking countless more frequencies than really needed, and control of the press, I must concede this is a program worth listening to, even if you will never hear anything really critical of the current government. 13675 had the usual ACI from Cuba 13680, Commies vs Commies, but 15230 clear (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** POLAND [non]. PRES, 9450 via Germany, Thu Jan 15 at 1330 with Multimedia show including news items, such as Dell moving produxion from Ireland to Poland, and later mailbag acknowledgments but no SW DX news. Host Slawek Szefs speaks in a very informal manner, and I suspect he is translating items on the fly rather than working from a prepared script; unfortunately, he does a lot of vocalized pausing, sometimes lasting several seconds, but I am sure that is a habit hard to break.
He mentioned that North Americans should enjoy 9450 reception while it lasts; we do. As usual, everything moves one UT hour earlier in the A-09 season, according to DST dates in Europe, not N America. English will be at 12-13 tentatively on 7330 via Nauen, 9525 via Wertachtal, where it is likely to collide with Indonesia again like last summer, unless VOI moves unpredictably back to 11785v; and at 18-19 on 7140 Jülich, and 7260-7265-7270 DRM Wertachtal (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** SOUTH CAROLINA [non]. Proof that Brother Scare has got at least one Russian(?) to buy into his wacky theology: Jan 16 at 0652 on WWRB 3185 was hearing announcement in Russian, with a Moscow address for the Overcomer Ministry; trouble is, when it came to numbers, those were pronounced in English (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A [non]. Good signal in Russian talk on 11870, Jan 16 at 1525. What does PWBR `2009` say? Nothing! Not a thing listed on 11870 during this hour except University Network, Costa Rica, which has been gone for at least one or two sesquiyears from 11870v. 1529 mentions Svoboda, and Mosk. vrem., 1530 ``R. Svoboda, Novosti`` so it`s Radio Liberty. WRTH 2009 has the answer: Woofferton; and EiBi, Aoki and HFCC all agree (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. Not much propagating on 30m except Florida, Cuba, UT Jan 15 at 0620: WRMI 9955 with religious talk in Spanish constantly referring to Benedicto 16, ergo Vatican Radio; 0630 into new WORLD OF RADIO 1443 as scheduled. Jamming continued but underneath. Later, on webcast, noticed that WOR was running again at 1630-1700 Thu instead of at 1530; Viva Miami had been scheduled at 1630. Awaiting word whether this be an intentional change.
WRMI has an updated program schedule as of Dec 31 at http://www.wrmi.net/program.php?id=94
but unfortunately as usual does not go into detail for ``repeats of DX and other programs`` blox such as M-F 1530-1700; and it shows Vatican only at 0930-1000 UT Saturdays.
Just in from Jeff White: WORLD OF RADIO on WRMI --- on 9955 and webcast http://68.142.10.147:8000/listen.pls
UT days and times, always subject to change without notice:
Wed 0600, 1630 [usually first airings]
Thu 0630, 1630
Fri 0200, 1230
Sat 0900
Sun 0900
Mon 0600
Tue 1200, 1630
So that should be easy to remember: 1630 on Tue, Wed and Thu.
This and other updates have been made to:
http://www.worldofradio.com/radioskd.html
http://www.worldofradio.com/dxpgms.html
http://www.worldofradio.com/calendar.html
(Glenn Hauser, UT Jan 16, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** VENEZUELA [non]. Hugo Chávez speaking on 11760, Jan 16 at 1520, but nothing on 11680, so apparently another anomaly from the flexible DentroCubans, putting RNV service at 15-16 on 11760 instead of usual 11680. Probably forgot to make the frequency change on the RHC 11760 transmitter which is supposed to close at 1500. Except that sometimes runs overtime past 1500, but nothing heard this date on other usual RHC frequencies on 19, 22 or 25m bands (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 6074, 8GAL V/CQ marker on CW is still audible on good days, intruding into the 49m SWBC band, such as Jan 15 at 1359:30 or so, overlapping the tail end of the R. Rossii 6075 transmission such that the 8GAL calls were mixing with the concluding timesignal. Once upon a time, 8GAL seemed to be exactly coördinated with R.R., starting immediately after the pips (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. Always on the move, OTH radar pulses (presumed), occupying 9055-9085, Jan 16 at 1450 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ###
** CHINA. Voices from Other Lands, the Thursday feature in the second half of CRI English broadcasts, Jan 15 at 1430 on 13675 and 15230 via Canada, interviewing a China-lover from Scotland, Brian Connolly, who spoke with great enthusiasm, a huge brogue but still pronouncing lots of Chinese names with tones which I can only assume were correct. He spoke of his travels around the country, bringing in tour groups, and apparently has now retired in Beijing.
Despite my distaste for Chicom jamming, CRI overtaking countless more frequencies than really needed, and control of the press, I must concede this is a program worth listening to, even if you will never hear anything really critical of the current government. 13675 had the usual ACI from Cuba 13680, Commies vs Commies, but 15230 clear (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** POLAND [non]. PRES, 9450 via Germany, Thu Jan 15 at 1330 with Multimedia show including news items, such as Dell moving produxion from Ireland to Poland, and later mailbag acknowledgments but no SW DX news. Host Slawek Szefs speaks in a very informal manner, and I suspect he is translating items on the fly rather than working from a prepared script; unfortunately, he does a lot of vocalized pausing, sometimes lasting several seconds, but I am sure that is a habit hard to break.
He mentioned that North Americans should enjoy 9450 reception while it lasts; we do. As usual, everything moves one UT hour earlier in the A-09 season, according to DST dates in Europe, not N America. English will be at 12-13 tentatively on 7330 via Nauen, 9525 via Wertachtal, where it is likely to collide with Indonesia again like last summer, unless VOI moves unpredictably back to 11785v; and at 18-19 on 7140 Jülich, and 7260-7265-7270 DRM Wertachtal (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** SOUTH CAROLINA [non]. Proof that Brother Scare has got at least one Russian(?) to buy into his wacky theology: Jan 16 at 0652 on WWRB 3185 was hearing announcement in Russian, with a Moscow address for the Overcomer Ministry; trouble is, when it came to numbers, those were pronounced in English (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A [non]. Good signal in Russian talk on 11870, Jan 16 at 1525. What does PWBR `2009` say? Nothing! Not a thing listed on 11870 during this hour except University Network, Costa Rica, which has been gone for at least one or two sesquiyears from 11870v. 1529 mentions Svoboda, and Mosk. vrem., 1530 ``R. Svoboda, Novosti`` so it`s Radio Liberty. WRTH 2009 has the answer: Woofferton; and EiBi, Aoki and HFCC all agree (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. Not much propagating on 30m except Florida, Cuba, UT Jan 15 at 0620: WRMI 9955 with religious talk in Spanish constantly referring to Benedicto 16, ergo Vatican Radio; 0630 into new WORLD OF RADIO 1443 as scheduled. Jamming continued but underneath. Later, on webcast, noticed that WOR was running again at 1630-1700 Thu instead of at 1530; Viva Miami had been scheduled at 1630. Awaiting word whether this be an intentional change.
WRMI has an updated program schedule as of Dec 31 at http://www.wrmi.net/program.php?id=94
but unfortunately as usual does not go into detail for ``repeats of DX and other programs`` blox such as M-F 1530-1700; and it shows Vatican only at 0930-1000 UT Saturdays.
Just in from Jeff White: WORLD OF RADIO on WRMI --- on 9955 and webcast http://68.142.10.147:8000/listen.pls
UT days and times, always subject to change without notice:
Wed 0600, 1630 [usually first airings]
Thu 0630, 1630
Fri 0200, 1230
Sat 0900
Sun 0900
Mon 0600
Tue 1200, 1630
So that should be easy to remember: 1630 on Tue, Wed and Thu.
This and other updates have been made to:
http://www.worldofradio.com/radioskd.html
http://www.worldofradio.com/dxpgms.html
http://www.worldofradio.com/calendar.html
(Glenn Hauser, UT Jan 16, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** VENEZUELA [non]. Hugo Chávez speaking on 11760, Jan 16 at 1520, but nothing on 11680, so apparently another anomaly from the flexible DentroCubans, putting RNV service at 15-16 on 11760 instead of usual 11680. Probably forgot to make the frequency change on the RHC 11760 transmitter which is supposed to close at 1500. Except that sometimes runs overtime past 1500, but nothing heard this date on other usual RHC frequencies on 19, 22 or 25m bands (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 6074, 8GAL V/CQ marker on CW is still audible on good days, intruding into the 49m SWBC band, such as Jan 15 at 1359:30 or so, overlapping the tail end of the R. Rossii 6075 transmission such that the 8GAL calls were mixing with the concluding timesignal. Once upon a time, 8GAL seemed to be exactly coördinated with R.R., starting immediately after the pips (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. Always on the move, OTH radar pulses (presumed), occupying 9055-9085, Jan 16 at 1450 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ###
