** ALGERIA [non]. RTA, fair on 5865 via France with Qur`an, cut off abruptly at 0657* Feb 7 as transmission had to end, unbeknownst to the studio (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** BRAZIL. RNA, 11780, VG signal Feb 7 at 0638, but split-second audio dropouts every few seconds, making it unlistenable. Still during a song at 0657 recheck on // 6185, and dropouts synchronized so an audio feed input problem, not a transmitter problem. This has been ongoing for months; is no one paying attention in the Brasília control room?
I was somewhat surprised this was incoming, as no Brasilians were audible on 31m, and no other Brasilians on 25m either, contrary to previous night, when 11765, 11815 and 11925 also audible. Super-power makes the difference. Not much else on 25m except CVC Chile also inbooming on 11805 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CANADA. CBC News, 6160, Feb 7 at 0701, double feed one word apart, especially long ones like Saskatchewan, mostly about Canadian job losses; usual fast SAH between CKZN and CKZU. Since CBC decided to put them both on the same frequency many years ago, they should also have taken steps to synchronize them. But this applies only during newscasts and Cross Country Checkup live nationwide, which is during the afternoon anyway; otherwise the two are 4 or 3 hours apart (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CUBA [and non]. 9550, Arnie Coro news with big hum, Feb 7 at 0634. Wiggle that patchcord! A theory on why there are so many SNAFUs at RHC: people there are demoralized, and don`t really give a damn. They know it is the home of the Big Lie, such as U.S. ``genocide`` against Cuba. Even if they agree with the Party Line, they are as bored to death as listeners abroad about RHC`s obsession with the ``Cinco Héroes`` Commie talking point.
Propagation was unusual, with little else audible on 31m --- not even WYFR, 9355, 9680, 9715, which are normally inbooming, nor WTJC 9370. There was some weak French on 9580, which would be Gabon (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. VOA Spanish, 15590, with Saturday morning music show Feb 7, outro at 1358 as ``Éxitos Latinoamericanos llegó a Vds. vía satélite e internet, www.voanoticias.com`` So at VOA, shortwave is not even worth mentioning as another delivery platform. Off at 1359:30* without any sign-off announcement. It`s also nonsensical to have a website URL with `news` in it when you also play music. But that`s becoming common: a local TV station which only spends a small fraxion of the 168-hour week on news, such as KWTV OKC, brands itself as ``News 9`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ###
** BRAZIL. RNA, 11780, VG signal Feb 7 at 0638, but split-second audio dropouts every few seconds, making it unlistenable. Still during a song at 0657 recheck on // 6185, and dropouts synchronized so an audio feed input problem, not a transmitter problem. This has been ongoing for months; is no one paying attention in the Brasília control room?
I was somewhat surprised this was incoming, as no Brasilians were audible on 31m, and no other Brasilians on 25m either, contrary to previous night, when 11765, 11815 and 11925 also audible. Super-power makes the difference. Not much else on 25m except CVC Chile also inbooming on 11805 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CANADA. CBC News, 6160, Feb 7 at 0701, double feed one word apart, especially long ones like Saskatchewan, mostly about Canadian job losses; usual fast SAH between CKZN and CKZU. Since CBC decided to put them both on the same frequency many years ago, they should also have taken steps to synchronize them. But this applies only during newscasts and Cross Country Checkup live nationwide, which is during the afternoon anyway; otherwise the two are 4 or 3 hours apart (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CUBA [and non]. 9550, Arnie Coro news with big hum, Feb 7 at 0634. Wiggle that patchcord! A theory on why there are so many SNAFUs at RHC: people there are demoralized, and don`t really give a damn. They know it is the home of the Big Lie, such as U.S. ``genocide`` against Cuba. Even if they agree with the Party Line, they are as bored to death as listeners abroad about RHC`s obsession with the ``Cinco Héroes`` Commie talking point.
Propagation was unusual, with little else audible on 31m --- not even WYFR, 9355, 9680, 9715, which are normally inbooming, nor WTJC 9370. There was some weak French on 9580, which would be Gabon (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. VOA Spanish, 15590, with Saturday morning music show Feb 7, outro at 1358 as ``Éxitos Latinoamericanos llegó a Vds. vía satélite e internet, www.voanoticias.com`` So at VOA, shortwave is not even worth mentioning as another delivery platform. Off at 1359:30* without any sign-off announcement. It`s also nonsensical to have a website URL with `news` in it when you also play music. But that`s becoming common: a local TV station which only spends a small fraxion of the 168-hour week on news, such as KWTV OKC, brands itself as ``News 9`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ###
