** CANADA. 6175 at tune-in 0528 May 8, VTC fill-music loop, non-`cello, until 0529* RCI IS and ID once and off, following Vietnam relay which I think always runs short (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CUBA [and non]. Yet another mixing product from RHC transmitters, this time on 11520 fading in and out, at 1348 May 7. This computes as 12000 leapfrogging over 11760 another 240 kHz lower; however, did not find a match on 12240. The fundamentals were extremely strong, S9+22. 11520 RHC spur was colliding with WEWN spur of a different kind, distorted blob as recently reported, 10 kHz below their 11530 transmitter.
May 8 at 1305 on 12000, RHC promoted the day`s Mesa Redonda broadcast on 9640, 6000, which would start at the odd time of 2215, a replay of something from TeleSur about the usefulness of the OAS. RHC also had a report on Cuba`s growing good relations with Qatar. Hmm, isn`t there a US base there? O yeah, Cuba has one too.
Dentro-Cuban Jamming Command pulsing against nothing on 9545, May 8 at 1318, roughly a semi-day out of synch with when R. República is really using it. Forgot about getting Solomons today (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** INDONESIA [and non]. Altho could not detect VOI on reactivated 11785 May 6, recheck May 7 at 1345 found its kind of music mixing with the USA/China radio war; 1356 VOI`s recognizable YL host in English, and after war truce at 1400, new slogan ``VOI helps to make the world green`` punxuated by birdtweets. After the hour in Malay, another check at 1501 found ID in English, still on at 1504, weakening signal, but apparently off by 1514 recheck; typically on ex-9525 they would re-open English at 1500 for a few minutes, then chop it off, and appear after 1600 in other languages on 11785.
Next day May 8, VOI axually atop the mess on 11785, but still plenty of QRM, at 1302 in English, and at 1354 Indonesian music further atop. So far VOI has ignored my advice to go back to 9525.
Anyhow, for what`s really going on in Indonesia, better to listen to R. Australia, e.g. May 8 at 1320 in Asia-Pacific, a report on how freedom of speech is threatened by three laws being applied against the Internet, such as an anti-Megawati Facebook site being closed down repeatedly and uppopping again.
Another RA item was on how some Melanesian countries are looking at how Fiji is controlling the media, and thinking, we could do that too. In these countries where wantok prevails, there is no tradition of criticising the leadership (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 5898, presumed the Cuban spy numbers transmitter, as usual very strong signal, but at 0549 May 7 with open carrier interrupted by some kind of digital mode with multiple tones on and off (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 7165-7170-7175, sure sounds like DRM, May 8 at 1219, but cut off and back on a few times next biminute; surely no broadcaster would be DRMing here now, so maybe some ham experimenting with it? Is that allowed? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ###
** CUBA [and non]. Yet another mixing product from RHC transmitters, this time on 11520 fading in and out, at 1348 May 7. This computes as 12000 leapfrogging over 11760 another 240 kHz lower; however, did not find a match on 12240. The fundamentals were extremely strong, S9+22. 11520 RHC spur was colliding with WEWN spur of a different kind, distorted blob as recently reported, 10 kHz below their 11530 transmitter.
May 8 at 1305 on 12000, RHC promoted the day`s Mesa Redonda broadcast on 9640, 6000, which would start at the odd time of 2215, a replay of something from TeleSur about the usefulness of the OAS. RHC also had a report on Cuba`s growing good relations with Qatar. Hmm, isn`t there a US base there? O yeah, Cuba has one too.
Dentro-Cuban Jamming Command pulsing against nothing on 9545, May 8 at 1318, roughly a semi-day out of synch with when R. República is really using it. Forgot about getting Solomons today (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** INDONESIA [and non]. Altho could not detect VOI on reactivated 11785 May 6, recheck May 7 at 1345 found its kind of music mixing with the USA/China radio war; 1356 VOI`s recognizable YL host in English, and after war truce at 1400, new slogan ``VOI helps to make the world green`` punxuated by birdtweets. After the hour in Malay, another check at 1501 found ID in English, still on at 1504, weakening signal, but apparently off by 1514 recheck; typically on ex-9525 they would re-open English at 1500 for a few minutes, then chop it off, and appear after 1600 in other languages on 11785.
Next day May 8, VOI axually atop the mess on 11785, but still plenty of QRM, at 1302 in English, and at 1354 Indonesian music further atop. So far VOI has ignored my advice to go back to 9525.
Anyhow, for what`s really going on in Indonesia, better to listen to R. Australia, e.g. May 8 at 1320 in Asia-Pacific, a report on how freedom of speech is threatened by three laws being applied against the Internet, such as an anti-Megawati Facebook site being closed down repeatedly and uppopping again.
Another RA item was on how some Melanesian countries are looking at how Fiji is controlling the media, and thinking, we could do that too. In these countries where wantok prevails, there is no tradition of criticising the leadership (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 5898, presumed the Cuban spy numbers transmitter, as usual very strong signal, but at 0549 May 7 with open carrier interrupted by some kind of digital mode with multiple tones on and off (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 7165-7170-7175, sure sounds like DRM, May 8 at 1219, but cut off and back on a few times next biminute; surely no broadcaster would be DRMing here now, so maybe some ham experimenting with it? Is that allowed? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ###
