** ANGUILLA. After several days` absence, DGS was back on 11775, May 14 at 2132 check (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CUBA. As I was checking RFI on 17620 and 17630 before 2130 May 14, did not notice any RHC on 17660, scheduled in English until 2130. But at 2131 there it was, opening Kriyol as scheduled, distorted. What is RHC doing on such a high frequency to a neighboring country? It`s only about 720 miles from Habana to Port-au-Prince, and the optimum skip distance on 17+ MHz is longer than that --- except when sporadic-E may kick in unpredictably. But surely Arnie knows this basic propagational fact. 17660 is designated for the Caribbean in all its language services 2030-2300. It might be OK for the Windward Islands further away, and RHC does have much lower // 5965 for the two Creole broadcasts at 2130 and 2230, but for summer afternoons that may really be too low versus the absorption level.
At 2133 I found 11760 with RHC in real French, scheduled at same time as Creole on 17660; while 11770, 11800, 13760 and 13790 were all in Spanish (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** FRANCE [and non]. 11700, good signal in French at 0514 May 14, RFI Sport. Don`t usually hear this with Europe not propagating. Is 500 kW, 155 degrees from Issoudun, so directly off the back would be 155 + 180 = 335 degrees. Unseemed strike music fill at the moment.
17630, May 14 at 2123 with music unannounced except for ``RFI Musique`` interjexions, first a chanson in French and 2127 a Cuban ``mueve tu cuerpo`` rap in Spanish. Same music was running about two sesquiseconds behind on much weaker 17620. Normally these two, both Guiana French, would not be // as 17620 is 75 degrees in French at 17-22, missing from PWBR `2009`, while 17630 is Guiana French, 295 degrees in Spanish at 2100-2130 only. But this was strike fill-music, crossing language service boundaries, and at 2130, 17630 did cut off abruptly in mid-music while 17620 continued. KVOH was fair on 17775, but not super-strong, so its spur on 17630v was not audible before or after RFI was transmitting (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** SPAIN. 15110, REE with usual excellent signal direct from Noblejas, Thursday May 14 at 2109 with live program from studio 202 at Prado del Rey, YL host giving current timechex in UT, local and Canary time. It`s ``Otros Acentos``, firstly dedicated to the maestro of the vallenato of the Colombian coast, Rafael Escalona, who just died in Bogotá, with some of his lively music; then interview about hard of hearing problems, using FM transmitters as hearing aids, inviting phone calls to 91-512-04-58 or -02-42 or by e-mail; 2118 about the ``don`t forget your ears`` campaign. All in Castilian. According to the current schedule grid at
http://www.rtve.es/files/70-14142-FICHERO/Parrilla_marzo_2009.pdf
the accuracy of which is questionable, Otros Acentos is M-F at 21-22 in its first edition ---- but there is no ``second edition`` elsewhere on the schedule! (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGST)
** THAILAND. 9455, R. Thailand, at 1330 May 14 in Thai ID, the first day heard without that annoying het from off-frequency YFR via Taiwan, so maybe they have taken my advice and moved, but where? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ###
** CUBA. As I was checking RFI on 17620 and 17630 before 2130 May 14, did not notice any RHC on 17660, scheduled in English until 2130. But at 2131 there it was, opening Kriyol as scheduled, distorted. What is RHC doing on such a high frequency to a neighboring country? It`s only about 720 miles from Habana to Port-au-Prince, and the optimum skip distance on 17+ MHz is longer than that --- except when sporadic-E may kick in unpredictably. But surely Arnie knows this basic propagational fact. 17660 is designated for the Caribbean in all its language services 2030-2300. It might be OK for the Windward Islands further away, and RHC does have much lower // 5965 for the two Creole broadcasts at 2130 and 2230, but for summer afternoons that may really be too low versus the absorption level.
At 2133 I found 11760 with RHC in real French, scheduled at same time as Creole on 17660; while 11770, 11800, 13760 and 13790 were all in Spanish (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** FRANCE [and non]. 11700, good signal in French at 0514 May 14, RFI Sport. Don`t usually hear this with Europe not propagating. Is 500 kW, 155 degrees from Issoudun, so directly off the back would be 155 + 180 = 335 degrees. Unseemed strike music fill at the moment.
17630, May 14 at 2123 with music unannounced except for ``RFI Musique`` interjexions, first a chanson in French and 2127 a Cuban ``mueve tu cuerpo`` rap in Spanish. Same music was running about two sesquiseconds behind on much weaker 17620. Normally these two, both Guiana French, would not be // as 17620 is 75 degrees in French at 17-22, missing from PWBR `2009`, while 17630 is Guiana French, 295 degrees in Spanish at 2100-2130 only. But this was strike fill-music, crossing language service boundaries, and at 2130, 17630 did cut off abruptly in mid-music while 17620 continued. KVOH was fair on 17775, but not super-strong, so its spur on 17630v was not audible before or after RFI was transmitting (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** SPAIN. 15110, REE with usual excellent signal direct from Noblejas, Thursday May 14 at 2109 with live program from studio 202 at Prado del Rey, YL host giving current timechex in UT, local and Canary time. It`s ``Otros Acentos``, firstly dedicated to the maestro of the vallenato of the Colombian coast, Rafael Escalona, who just died in Bogotá, with some of his lively music; then interview about hard of hearing problems, using FM transmitters as hearing aids, inviting phone calls to 91-512-04-58 or -02-42 or by e-mail; 2118 about the ``don`t forget your ears`` campaign. All in Castilian. According to the current schedule grid at
http://www.rtve.es/files/70-14142-FICHERO/Parrilla_marzo_2009.pdf
the accuracy of which is questionable, Otros Acentos is M-F at 21-22 in its first edition ---- but there is no ``second edition`` elsewhere on the schedule! (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGST)
** THAILAND. 9455, R. Thailand, at 1330 May 14 in Thai ID, the first day heard without that annoying het from off-frequency YFR via Taiwan, so maybe they have taken my advice and moved, but where? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ###
