** CUBA. 11760 RHC, as I tuned across Saturday June 5 at 2109, DXers Unlimited was underway in English so I decided to stop and listen, especially since Arnie was axually giving some DX tips on trop bands, something he normally denigrates on other shows; as an example of the plus side of low solar flux. Apparently had just mentioned some 120 mb stations he had heard, and then 90 mb: 3290 Guyana until sunrise; close to 3329.5, Ondas del Huallaga, Perú at 5 am local [1000 UT we have to know], with CHU 3330 QRM.
He pronounced the town Huanúco, while it`s really Huánuco, so this yanqui knows more about Perunciation than he does; quickly confirmed in a couple of atlases where the accent goes, as well as the WRTH. 60 m: he`s heard on 4700 R. San Miguel, Bolivia just before daybreak and it vanishes abruptly after sunrise. Also couldn`t resist a plug for the Cubans on 5025, 5040: R. Rebelde 24 hours, and RHC 21-11 UT. Then he changed the subject to diodes and my ears glazed over but listened half-attentively until music fill started at 2123 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CYPRUS. 15268-15293, OTH radar, presumed from here, rapid clicking June 5 at 2057; generally poor propagation and fortuitously not interfering with any audible broadcasters. That does not mean OTHR has any right to invade broadcast bands (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** FRANCE [non]. 17630, still did not tune in early enough to determine exactly what is happening with the unscheduled Portuguese broadcast of RFI via GUIANA FRENCH: June 5 at 2058 music is underway, 2059 closing announcement in Brazilian, ``até a próxima``, but then instead of going right into scheduled Spanish at 2100 we had more than a minute of dead air, or rather hummy air until Spanish news was joined in progress at 2101:05. Then checked unscheduled 21690 and it was JBA but in French (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** OKLAHOMA [and non]. GCN Enid pirate on 99.9 still missing, I think, evening of June 5, but I am hearing some other signals, as area tropo enhancement is up with the humidity. Mainly ``Country 99.9 KTCS`` which fancies itself an OK station, 0127 UT June 6 talking about some shindig in Sallisaw, but its COL is nearby Fort Smith AR. FCC FM Query tigermaps are not funxioning when I need them, but longitude of its site 94-40-50 indicates it is in fact an Oklahoma station, about 192 miles distant.
Occasionally KLUR Wichita Falls TX, 177 miles, would overtake it thru nondirexional vertical caradio antenna. Just to be sure these stations were not masking the local low-power pirate, I drove by the site again and was still hearing them, nothing from GCN. The antenna I photographed is still up pointing south (Glenn Hauser, Enid, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** SYRIA. 12085, R. Damascus, June 5 at 2104 whine slightly louder than the ME music playing, announcement in English mentioning a www where no doubt reception is better, program summary, bits of music mixed in with the words. Brief piece of march music and 2107 starting news with slightly better modulation on a different voice. First item had an anti-Israel orientation (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ###
He pronounced the town Huanúco, while it`s really Huánuco, so this yanqui knows more about Perunciation than he does; quickly confirmed in a couple of atlases where the accent goes, as well as the WRTH. 60 m: he`s heard on 4700 R. San Miguel, Bolivia just before daybreak and it vanishes abruptly after sunrise. Also couldn`t resist a plug for the Cubans on 5025, 5040: R. Rebelde 24 hours, and RHC 21-11 UT. Then he changed the subject to diodes and my ears glazed over but listened half-attentively until music fill started at 2123 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CYPRUS. 15268-15293, OTH radar, presumed from here, rapid clicking June 5 at 2057; generally poor propagation and fortuitously not interfering with any audible broadcasters. That does not mean OTHR has any right to invade broadcast bands (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** FRANCE [non]. 17630, still did not tune in early enough to determine exactly what is happening with the unscheduled Portuguese broadcast of RFI via GUIANA FRENCH: June 5 at 2058 music is underway, 2059 closing announcement in Brazilian, ``até a próxima``, but then instead of going right into scheduled Spanish at 2100 we had more than a minute of dead air, or rather hummy air until Spanish news was joined in progress at 2101:05. Then checked unscheduled 21690 and it was JBA but in French (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** OKLAHOMA [and non]. GCN Enid pirate on 99.9 still missing, I think, evening of June 5, but I am hearing some other signals, as area tropo enhancement is up with the humidity. Mainly ``Country 99.9 KTCS`` which fancies itself an OK station, 0127 UT June 6 talking about some shindig in Sallisaw, but its COL is nearby Fort Smith AR. FCC FM Query tigermaps are not funxioning when I need them, but longitude of its site 94-40-50 indicates it is in fact an Oklahoma station, about 192 miles distant.
Occasionally KLUR Wichita Falls TX, 177 miles, would overtake it thru nondirexional vertical caradio antenna. Just to be sure these stations were not masking the local low-power pirate, I drove by the site again and was still hearing them, nothing from GCN. The antenna I photographed is still up pointing south (Glenn Hauser, Enid, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** SYRIA. 12085, R. Damascus, June 5 at 2104 whine slightly louder than the ME music playing, announcement in English mentioning a www where no doubt reception is better, program summary, bits of music mixed in with the words. Brief piece of march music and 2107 starting news with slightly better modulation on a different voice. First item had an anti-Israel orientation (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ###
