** CHINA [and non]. Firedrake April 15: at 1318 fair on 11500, co-channel QRM with rippling het, i.e. VOR via TAJIKISTAN.
At 1320 FD better in the clear on 10300, unfound elsewhere on 8-11 MHz (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CUBA. As previously noted, RHC has been colliding with Portugal on 12020 after 2300, both targeting South America. Portugal is M-F only into UT Sat, but at 0015 April 13, RDPI was alone on 12020 so we guessed RHC had moved somewhere else.
However, at 0034 April 15, RHC was back on 12020 with its crackly transmitter, and RDPI music could be detected underneath // 9715. But nothing on RHC`s // 12030! No, Arnie, it`s 12020 you need to evacuate, not 12030 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** INDONESIA. A late monitoring start for me April 15, but at 1303 check, RRI Makassar was still audible on 4750 more than an hour after local sunrise.
9526-, VOI, April 15 at 1323, modulation OK except for hum, news in brief allowed good comprehension since YL altho heavily accented was speaking slowly and clearly. 1326 to Indonesian Wonders about Mataram, less readable, explaining best ways to travel there, and long pauses --- I wonder if these were supposed to be musical breaks, either missing from produxion or too low to overcome hum. 1332 Miscellany including final topic tatoos for women; 1339 Music Corner (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** RUSSIA. 12065, April 15 at 1315, poor with flutter, English discussion of WWII, mentioning Stalin, Karelia. Must be VOR: yes, scheduled as 500 kW, 205 degrees from Chita-Atamanovka site, per Aoki. Chita starts with a T- only if you take a detour and run it thru French, as ITU and HFCC insist on doing (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** SPAIN [and non]. Propagation on 19m was poor the morning of April 15 with hardly anything making it from Europe, no Turkey on 15450, just Cuba and Canada --- even the REE Costa Rica relay on 15170 was weakish, altho sometimes it`s strong enough to overload. However, at 1347, Russian was atop 15170, which is BBC at 70 degrees from Woofferton, causing a SAH of 140/minute or two and a third Hz. These overlap between 1300 and 1500 on weekdays (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** UKRAINE. RUI missing from its formerly reliable big signal on 7440, English to NAm at 00-01, checked 0005 April 15. Alexander Yegorov reports that ALL SW transmissions of RUI from Lviv and and the lower-powered Kharkiv site were turned off April 12.
Not clear whether this is temporary or permanent, but Ukrainian MW has also been drastically cut. Previously there have been interruptions in RUI service when funding ran out, but then resumed. Sergei S. suggests:
``Just send in your complaints to Kiev and to the Ukrainian Embassy in DC and RUI will be back on the air. Most likely it's just the issue of funding - not some ideological decision to give up on SW. The Ukrainian diaspora is well organized. I suspect they are going to flood the station with complaints.`` (Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. Happy Station is STILL on WRMI, Thursday April 15 at 1500 on webcast, and consequently on 9955, altho nothing but a weak carrier audible. It`s the George Wood / Everything Swedish show which would have been the first one in April not on SW. Tho canceled by Keith Perron, Jeff White keeps playing HS in time available (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A [non]. 7550, at 1348 April 15 good open carrier, 1351 continuous tone test of two slightly different pitches and wavering; 1355 back to open carrier, 1358 VOA sign-on, 1400 into pop music show with English announcements. O yeah, it`s the Thu-Fri-Sat only Indonesian hour, 200 degrees from Tinang, PHILIPPINES. Recheck at 1417 the talk was axually in Indonesian (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ###
At 1320 FD better in the clear on 10300, unfound elsewhere on 8-11 MHz (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CUBA. As previously noted, RHC has been colliding with Portugal on 12020 after 2300, both targeting South America. Portugal is M-F only into UT Sat, but at 0015 April 13, RDPI was alone on 12020 so we guessed RHC had moved somewhere else.
However, at 0034 April 15, RHC was back on 12020 with its crackly transmitter, and RDPI music could be detected underneath // 9715. But nothing on RHC`s // 12030! No, Arnie, it`s 12020 you need to evacuate, not 12030 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** INDONESIA. A late monitoring start for me April 15, but at 1303 check, RRI Makassar was still audible on 4750 more than an hour after local sunrise.
9526-, VOI, April 15 at 1323, modulation OK except for hum, news in brief allowed good comprehension since YL altho heavily accented was speaking slowly and clearly. 1326 to Indonesian Wonders about Mataram, less readable, explaining best ways to travel there, and long pauses --- I wonder if these were supposed to be musical breaks, either missing from produxion or too low to overcome hum. 1332 Miscellany including final topic tatoos for women; 1339 Music Corner (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** RUSSIA. 12065, April 15 at 1315, poor with flutter, English discussion of WWII, mentioning Stalin, Karelia. Must be VOR: yes, scheduled as 500 kW, 205 degrees from Chita-Atamanovka site, per Aoki. Chita starts with a T- only if you take a detour and run it thru French, as ITU and HFCC insist on doing (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** SPAIN [and non]. Propagation on 19m was poor the morning of April 15 with hardly anything making it from Europe, no Turkey on 15450, just Cuba and Canada --- even the REE Costa Rica relay on 15170 was weakish, altho sometimes it`s strong enough to overload. However, at 1347, Russian was atop 15170, which is BBC at 70 degrees from Woofferton, causing a SAH of 140/minute or two and a third Hz. These overlap between 1300 and 1500 on weekdays (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** UKRAINE. RUI missing from its formerly reliable big signal on 7440, English to NAm at 00-01, checked 0005 April 15. Alexander Yegorov reports that ALL SW transmissions of RUI from Lviv and and the lower-powered Kharkiv site were turned off April 12.
Not clear whether this is temporary or permanent, but Ukrainian MW has also been drastically cut. Previously there have been interruptions in RUI service when funding ran out, but then resumed. Sergei S. suggests:
``Just send in your complaints to Kiev and to the Ukrainian Embassy in DC and RUI will be back on the air. Most likely it's just the issue of funding - not some ideological decision to give up on SW. The Ukrainian diaspora is well organized. I suspect they are going to flood the station with complaints.`` (Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. Happy Station is STILL on WRMI, Thursday April 15 at 1500 on webcast, and consequently on 9955, altho nothing but a weak carrier audible. It`s the George Wood / Everything Swedish show which would have been the first one in April not on SW. Tho canceled by Keith Perron, Jeff White keeps playing HS in time available (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A [non]. 7550, at 1348 April 15 good open carrier, 1351 continuous tone test of two slightly different pitches and wavering; 1355 back to open carrier, 1358 VOA sign-on, 1400 into pop music show with English announcements. O yeah, it`s the Thu-Fri-Sat only Indonesian hour, 200 degrees from Tinang, PHILIPPINES. Recheck at 1417 the talk was axually in Indonesian (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ###
