** CHINA. Firedrake August 2: at 1310 audible on 9000, not 8400. At 1330, fair on 11300, none higher. August 3: not checked.
August 4: at 1255, poor on 9000, not 8400; at 1258 good but with flutter on 11300; same at 1358.
It`s not clear whether the lack of reception on 8400 and higher channels is due to poor propagation and/or seasonal reduxion in jamming as Keith Perron predicted, now that we are two months past the Tiananmen anniversary (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CUBA. RHC has usually been in Spanish on 11760, but Aug 4 at 0526 they were back in English as per schedule, // 6140, 6060 and 6010, interviewing an American about The Cuban Five, injustice; named Susan Grok (sp?) talking to Lena. Meanwhile RHC Spanish was on 6120, 6000 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CUBA [non]. As I tuned across R. Martí, Sunday August 2 at 2129 on 13820 heard them plugging TV Martí transmission times, which I unfortunately was not prepared to copy, but I think they mentioned both a VHF and UHF channel, late at night, as well as satellite channels.
And also plugged RM on 1620 kHz for east and central Cuba at 10 pm-midnight M-F = 0200-0400 UT Tue-Sat --- of course via WDHP Virgin Islands, not mentioned as such. This forces the DentroCubans to jam 1620 with a domestic network, and for a lot more than 10 hours a week. WDHP, is it really worth it?
But this was not only on 13820: plus loud distorted plus and minus 50 kHz FMy no-carrier spurs from Greenville around 13770 and 13870, // 11930 as well. How convenient that RM spurs on 13 MHz band do not collide with RHC or its spurs. At least the GB spurs are sporadic rather than permanent (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** EQUATORIAL GUINEA. 15190, August 2 at 2115 found S9+18 signal but extremely undermodulated, which was just fine for a screaming YL (?) preacher, from R. Africa (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** INDONESIA. VOI checks: 1333 August 2 in English, still slightly below 9525.0 with hum; August 4, ditto but since it`s Tuesday, this must be Banjarmasin: 1301, introducing ``Exotic Indonesia`` co-produxion with RRI there, 1304 news from Jakarta starting with crash of plane which left Jayapura, then another news item switching back to Banj studio. Often in the Banjarmasin segments there was some crosstalk on the feed. 1333 Today in History, including the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution. 1337 interviewing guest from New Zealand; 1353 talk on ancient history of Banjarmasin. 1357 ruined by CRI Russian prélude on 9525.0 before VOI could wrap up the English hour.
BTW, it`s more concise and a lot easier to follow log reports which consistently as I try to do, put the times before each program detail, rather than --- ``at xxxx``. And the date should go with the first time mentioned, rather than at the very end or even in the credit line. When there is a date in the credit line, it should mean the date of the report, not necessarily same as date of reception (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** PORTUGAL [and non]. RDPI, tuned in at 1959 August 2 just in time to hear timesignal at 2000*. Checked against WWV a minute later, it was accurate to the second. But I noted the frequency as 15540, while it must really have been 15560 as scheduled Sat/Sun until 2000.
An hour later at 2100 I happened to be tuned to REE via Costa Rica on 17850, and their time signal was one second slow, partly but not completely due to the satellite-delayed feed from Madrid, unless it take three hops (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. Aug 4 at 1353 I checked 18770 before WWCR, and as soon as I tuned in I heard the ``voice of the last days prophet of god``, i.e. WWRB second harmonic audible weakly peaking to S6 thanks to sporadic E and // 9385. Then at 1355 I tuned WWCR 15825 and sure enough, it correlated with super-strength signal carrying black gospel music show which replaced Tony Alamo. However, 13845, the UN/DGS/PMS channel, was absent again tho still running via Anguilla 11775 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ###
August 4: at 1255, poor on 9000, not 8400; at 1258 good but with flutter on 11300; same at 1358.
It`s not clear whether the lack of reception on 8400 and higher channels is due to poor propagation and/or seasonal reduxion in jamming as Keith Perron predicted, now that we are two months past the Tiananmen anniversary (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CUBA. RHC has usually been in Spanish on 11760, but Aug 4 at 0526 they were back in English as per schedule, // 6140, 6060 and 6010, interviewing an American about The Cuban Five, injustice; named Susan Grok (sp?) talking to Lena. Meanwhile RHC Spanish was on 6120, 6000 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CUBA [non]. As I tuned across R. Martí, Sunday August 2 at 2129 on 13820 heard them plugging TV Martí transmission times, which I unfortunately was not prepared to copy, but I think they mentioned both a VHF and UHF channel, late at night, as well as satellite channels.
And also plugged RM on 1620 kHz for east and central Cuba at 10 pm-midnight M-F = 0200-0400 UT Tue-Sat --- of course via WDHP Virgin Islands, not mentioned as such. This forces the DentroCubans to jam 1620 with a domestic network, and for a lot more than 10 hours a week. WDHP, is it really worth it?
But this was not only on 13820: plus loud distorted plus and minus 50 kHz FMy no-carrier spurs from Greenville around 13770 and 13870, // 11930 as well. How convenient that RM spurs on 13 MHz band do not collide with RHC or its spurs. At least the GB spurs are sporadic rather than permanent (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** EQUATORIAL GUINEA. 15190, August 2 at 2115 found S9+18 signal but extremely undermodulated, which was just fine for a screaming YL (?) preacher, from R. Africa (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** INDONESIA. VOI checks: 1333 August 2 in English, still slightly below 9525.0 with hum; August 4, ditto but since it`s Tuesday, this must be Banjarmasin: 1301, introducing ``Exotic Indonesia`` co-produxion with RRI there, 1304 news from Jakarta starting with crash of plane which left Jayapura, then another news item switching back to Banj studio. Often in the Banjarmasin segments there was some crosstalk on the feed. 1333 Today in History, including the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution. 1337 interviewing guest from New Zealand; 1353 talk on ancient history of Banjarmasin. 1357 ruined by CRI Russian prélude on 9525.0 before VOI could wrap up the English hour.
BTW, it`s more concise and a lot easier to follow log reports which consistently as I try to do, put the times before each program detail, rather than --- ``at xxxx``. And the date should go with the first time mentioned, rather than at the very end or even in the credit line. When there is a date in the credit line, it should mean the date of the report, not necessarily same as date of reception (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** PORTUGAL [and non]. RDPI, tuned in at 1959 August 2 just in time to hear timesignal at 2000*. Checked against WWV a minute later, it was accurate to the second. But I noted the frequency as 15540, while it must really have been 15560 as scheduled Sat/Sun until 2000.
An hour later at 2100 I happened to be tuned to REE via Costa Rica on 17850, and their time signal was one second slow, partly but not completely due to the satellite-delayed feed from Madrid, unless it take three hops (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. Aug 4 at 1353 I checked 18770 before WWCR, and as soon as I tuned in I heard the ``voice of the last days prophet of god``, i.e. WWRB second harmonic audible weakly peaking to S6 thanks to sporadic E and // 9385. Then at 1355 I tuned WWCR 15825 and sure enough, it correlated with super-strength signal carrying black gospel music show which replaced Tony Alamo. However, 13845, the UN/DGS/PMS channel, was absent again tho still running via Anguilla 11775 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ###
