** CHINA. 9450, March 5 at 1451, clear Russian broadcast but mentioning Chinese names and bits of Chi music, ``Kitaya``, so no doubt CRI as scheduled, 37 degrees from Shijiazhuang, per Aoki, to E Russia and thence N America; it so happens this jams Sound of Hope, Taiwan, which may have been barely audible underneath, and probably sufficiently so not to pile on additional transmitters disrupting CRI reception too (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CUBA. What`s RHC doing on 49m Wednesday night? At 0456 UT March 5, 6000 and 6140 in English with music, 6060 and 6180 in Spanish with IS and closing. 6180 back to the weak signal in Spanish, while two nights ago it bore the strong signal in English instead of 6140. At 0650: English on 6000 > 6060 > 6140, nothing on 6180. This is the `usual` situation, with 6180 back to carrying Spanish, weak here, until sign-off around 0500. Need to recheck 6140 during the 0300 hour whether RHC English is still colliding with RRI Spanish (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** INDONESIA. VOI again on 9525.0, March 5 at 1355 in English, after 1400 in Malay; good signal with sum hum.
4790, RRI Fak2, still audible with music vs CODAR at the late time of 1426 March 5, exactly one sesquihour after local sunrise. I wonder if the Fakfakians are aware of how well their local radio station outgets, really putting their place on the worldmap? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** KOREA NORTH [non]. 5985, still with Shiokaze, March 5 at 1422, but poor. Trying to decide whether it was Korean or Japanese until 1424 definite `kochirawa` YL Japanese ID, with persistent piano music underneath (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** RUSSIA. 6075, R. Rossii, still suffering from recently acquired warble on carrier, March 5 until 1400* after 5-second-late timesignal, and no sign of 8GAL 6074 CW marker during next biminute (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** TINIAN. Since VOA English on 7575 had a strange noise on it the day before, I checked again March 5 at 1357, fill music after editorial, this time with a constant whine of one pitch; unseems het de elsewhere, as no carrier audible on frequency immediately after its 1358* (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** TURKEY [and non]. VOT via Sackville, 7325, UT March 5 at 0430 quick check was back in English during Letterbox, instead of Turkish as recently in error. However, there seemed to be some co-channel QRM, which is not normally the case, so I wonder if was mixing in the modulation. I had suggested to Sackville that if they still can`t get English correctly on satellite feed, they could put on the web feed as a backup.
12035, Thursday March 5 at 1402, Live from Turkey, airing caller (or callee) Chris Lewis from England, on the VOT programming he lixe. Rather poor reception so I will go back and get the one-day audio archive before it`s too late (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 11715, very big carrier, S9+20, March 5 at 1448 but barely modulated with catechisms repeated in English by robokids, including ``do not break faith``, de KJES, New Mexico. Have not heard this for weeks in daily bandscans, so the usual question rearises --- have they been missing, or was this just availablized by some sporadic E over the Texas Panhandle, drastically decreasing the funxional skip distance? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. WBCQ is not the only SSB station on 15420. March 5 at 1432 was hearing 2-way conversation in slurry Spanish on 15419.5 or so --- at least somewhere between 15419 and 15420 judging from weak het de another 15420.0 broadcaster. As usual, hard for me to understand, but some words or phrases caught included ``kilogramos``, ``playa``, and ``este corrido para nosotros``, all of which point to narcotraficantes; over at 1437 when one said, ``estamos pendientes`` = QRX, standing by for further transmissions (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ###
** CUBA. What`s RHC doing on 49m Wednesday night? At 0456 UT March 5, 6000 and 6140 in English with music, 6060 and 6180 in Spanish with IS and closing. 6180 back to the weak signal in Spanish, while two nights ago it bore the strong signal in English instead of 6140. At 0650: English on 6000 > 6060 > 6140, nothing on 6180. This is the `usual` situation, with 6180 back to carrying Spanish, weak here, until sign-off around 0500. Need to recheck 6140 during the 0300 hour whether RHC English is still colliding with RRI Spanish (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** INDONESIA. VOI again on 9525.0, March 5 at 1355 in English, after 1400 in Malay; good signal with sum hum.
4790, RRI Fak2, still audible with music vs CODAR at the late time of 1426 March 5, exactly one sesquihour after local sunrise. I wonder if the Fakfakians are aware of how well their local radio station outgets, really putting their place on the worldmap? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** KOREA NORTH [non]. 5985, still with Shiokaze, March 5 at 1422, but poor. Trying to decide whether it was Korean or Japanese until 1424 definite `kochirawa` YL Japanese ID, with persistent piano music underneath (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** RUSSIA. 6075, R. Rossii, still suffering from recently acquired warble on carrier, March 5 until 1400* after 5-second-late timesignal, and no sign of 8GAL 6074 CW marker during next biminute (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** TINIAN. Since VOA English on 7575 had a strange noise on it the day before, I checked again March 5 at 1357, fill music after editorial, this time with a constant whine of one pitch; unseems het de elsewhere, as no carrier audible on frequency immediately after its 1358* (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** TURKEY [and non]. VOT via Sackville, 7325, UT March 5 at 0430 quick check was back in English during Letterbox, instead of Turkish as recently in error. However, there seemed to be some co-channel QRM, which is not normally the case, so I wonder if was mixing in the modulation. I had suggested to Sackville that if they still can`t get English correctly on satellite feed, they could put on the web feed as a backup.
12035, Thursday March 5 at 1402, Live from Turkey, airing caller (or callee) Chris Lewis from England, on the VOT programming he lixe. Rather poor reception so I will go back and get the one-day audio archive before it`s too late (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 11715, very big carrier, S9+20, March 5 at 1448 but barely modulated with catechisms repeated in English by robokids, including ``do not break faith``, de KJES, New Mexico. Have not heard this for weeks in daily bandscans, so the usual question rearises --- have they been missing, or was this just availablized by some sporadic E over the Texas Panhandle, drastically decreasing the funxional skip distance? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. WBCQ is not the only SSB station on 15420. March 5 at 1432 was hearing 2-way conversation in slurry Spanish on 15419.5 or so --- at least somewhere between 15419 and 15420 judging from weak het de another 15420.0 broadcaster. As usual, hard for me to understand, but some words or phrases caught included ``kilogramos``, ``playa``, and ``este corrido para nosotros``, all of which point to narcotraficantes; over at 1437 when one said, ``estamos pendientes`` = QRX, standing by for further transmissions (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ###
