** AUSTRALIA [and non]. VL8 check March 20: at 1256, 2310 was best with M&M conversation in English audible, // weaker 2325 but no signal at all detectable on 2485 --- either off or more likely stuck on the daytime frequency 5025 as occasionally happens. So I check 5025 at 1308, as always dominated by R. Rebelde, but it is fading regularly at the rate of 40 times per minute, abnormal, and likely indicator of another weaker signal slightly off-frequency causing such a subaudible heterodyne, i.e. 0.67 Hz away. This was still the case at 1339, as Cuba weakens gradually, but so does Australia as we are well over an hour past sunrise here which was at 1235 UT. Never could pull any VL8 audio, however, under Cuba 5025. Has anyone else noticed the two are 0.67 Hz apart when they normally overlap until 0830 or after 2130? Perhaps someone further west will have had better copy of VL8K on 5025 this date past 1400 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** GERMANY [non]. 15610, DW in German, quite good tho with polar flutter, March 20 at 1349; kept going into English as they were interviewing someone to voice-over. What does PWBR `2009` say? Via SRI LANKA. In this case it is still correct! HFCC confirms Trinco as 1200-1358, 250 kW at 355 degrees, i.e. aimed right at North America beyond the central Asian targets (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** GREECE. As suspected, when we found V. of Greece back to `normal` the day before with all three Avlis transmitters funxional again at 2200, the temporary curtailment of the 15650 transmission until 1352* is over. March 20 it continued at 1354, still with music at 1400, and at 1433. By 1502 I had local noise sources going, but there were still two carriers on frequency making a fast SAH, i.e., resuming collision with Miraya FM via IRRS via Slovakia to Darfur (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** TURKEY [non]. Another day of no English on 7325 via Canada, at 0430 check March 20, instead Turkish talk (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. Another check of VOA Spanish the morning of March 20: at 1258, 9885 // 13715 // 15590 closing Buenos Días, América show and plugging next broadcast at noon local, 16 UT, sports, which of course is irrelevant to SW listeners. Shortly after 1259 the two lower frequencies went off, while 15590 converted to English, opening VOA Music Mix with newscast. Without embargo, when rechecked at 1350, 15590 was now in Spanish, plugging http://voanoticias.com and announcer giving his own e-mail address at VOA. Also mentioned ``De Capital a Capital`` perhaps the name of the program just ending, and some more rock music in Spanish.
If you go to the website above for more info on the Capital program, first you see linx to audio of it as a musical program on Saturdays and Sundays. But on the webcast schedule it is shown with two different editions on Fridays, at 1430 and 1730 UT! And furthermore, the axual audio linx on the previous page claiming Sat and Sun have 1439aFri and 1730aFri in them. So that was probably the first edition on Friday, which has really daylight-shifted to 1330 UT, even tho a 4-hour conversion to ET is shown on the same list! The title bar of this page http://www.voanews.com/spanish/webcasts.cfm also misspells ``transmiciones``. How can listeners take VOA Spanish seriously with all these mistakes? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 4840-4880, weak OTH radar pulses, presumed at 1252 March 20. Also at 1254 on 3860-3870 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 4900 and 4920, and perhaps some frequencies in between with uncopyable brief SSB transmissions, March 20 at 1341. I could never get them tuned in to demodulate, and suspect they employ speech inversion, i.e. reversing the proper audio frequencies as in normal SSB, a lite form of security, but certainly effective for listeners who do not have the equipment to re-reverse them. I could not even be sure of the language. I hope the narco-traffickers and poachers are not getting this sophisticated (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ###
** GERMANY [non]. 15610, DW in German, quite good tho with polar flutter, March 20 at 1349; kept going into English as they were interviewing someone to voice-over. What does PWBR `2009` say? Via SRI LANKA. In this case it is still correct! HFCC confirms Trinco as 1200-1358, 250 kW at 355 degrees, i.e. aimed right at North America beyond the central Asian targets (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** GREECE. As suspected, when we found V. of Greece back to `normal` the day before with all three Avlis transmitters funxional again at 2200, the temporary curtailment of the 15650 transmission until 1352* is over. March 20 it continued at 1354, still with music at 1400, and at 1433. By 1502 I had local noise sources going, but there were still two carriers on frequency making a fast SAH, i.e., resuming collision with Miraya FM via IRRS via Slovakia to Darfur (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** TURKEY [non]. Another day of no English on 7325 via Canada, at 0430 check March 20, instead Turkish talk (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. Another check of VOA Spanish the morning of March 20: at 1258, 9885 // 13715 // 15590 closing Buenos Días, América show and plugging next broadcast at noon local, 16 UT, sports, which of course is irrelevant to SW listeners. Shortly after 1259 the two lower frequencies went off, while 15590 converted to English, opening VOA Music Mix with newscast. Without embargo, when rechecked at 1350, 15590 was now in Spanish, plugging http://voanoticias.com and announcer giving his own e-mail address at VOA. Also mentioned ``De Capital a Capital`` perhaps the name of the program just ending, and some more rock music in Spanish.
If you go to the website above for more info on the Capital program, first you see linx to audio of it as a musical program on Saturdays and Sundays. But on the webcast schedule it is shown with two different editions on Fridays, at 1430 and 1730 UT! And furthermore, the axual audio linx on the previous page claiming Sat and Sun have 1439aFri and 1730aFri in them. So that was probably the first edition on Friday, which has really daylight-shifted to 1330 UT, even tho a 4-hour conversion to ET is shown on the same list! The title bar of this page http://www.voanews.com/spanish/webcasts.cfm also misspells ``transmiciones``. How can listeners take VOA Spanish seriously with all these mistakes? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 4840-4880, weak OTH radar pulses, presumed at 1252 March 20. Also at 1254 on 3860-3870 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 4900 and 4920, and perhaps some frequencies in between with uncopyable brief SSB transmissions, March 20 at 1341. I could never get them tuned in to demodulate, and suspect they employ speech inversion, i.e. reversing the proper audio frequencies as in normal SSB, a lite form of security, but certainly effective for listeners who do not have the equipment to re-reverse them. I could not even be sure of the language. I hope the narco-traffickers and poachers are not getting this sophisticated (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ###
