** CHINA. Firedrake June 6:
8400-12499, nothing found 1255-1300
12500, VG at 1258 but off at 1300*; back on at *1305
14600, poor at 1307 // 14700; still same at 1352
14700, VG at 1259, NOT // 12500, and 14700 goes to OC at 1300, 1305 resumes; still same at 1352
17920, poor at 1309, // 14700. Shows it pays to keep bandscanning upward for them to show up unexpectedly, and I kept going to 19000
17515, fair June 6 at 1304, CNR1 // 15285; no co-channel audible on 17515, but must be there to jam BBC Uzbek via Cyprus at 1300-1330 only. Thus China asserts pseudo-sovereignty over Uzbekistan, take that! (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CUBA. Have not been hearing the 37v/multiple plus/minus kHz spur galaxy from RHC`s 15360 transmitter in the mornings or 15370 in the afternoons for the last few days. Not sure if they are eliminated or merely that poor propagation has not been inbringing enough signals to audiblize them, and 19m currently suffers from some neighbor`s TVI much of the time. But June 6 at 1301 I am almost convinced that the spurs are absent as 15360 is fairly strong.
13880, RHC Spanish leapfrog of 13680 over 13780, June 6 at 1308 attained S9+12 on the FRG-7 meter, while the fundamentals looked like huge S9+25, tho hard to be precise at top end of its scale (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) See also VENEZUELA [non]
** NETHERLANDS ANTILLES. 6250, NHKWNRJ in Spanish with mailbag, UT Sunday June 6 at 0526; R5 = fully readable on fair signal, but cut off abruptly at 0527*. That`s because this is the leapfrog mixing product of Bonaire NHK relay on 6080 over RNW Dutch on 6165, and that fulcrum is finished at 0527 while 6080 is not. No sign of Equatorial Guinea on 6250 before or after 0527. It usually does not cut on until after 0530, often not at all. A recent report from Europe claimed EqG before 0530, but I think this spur is capable of being heard there too and urge everyone everywhere to listen to 6250 long enough to tell whether it`s Radio Japón in the 0500-0527 period. A quick comparison with 6080 should answer the question.
9715, RNW Spanish via Bonaire, Sunday June 6 at 1213 amid Cartas a RN mailbag show, still not hosted by our erstwhile ex-colleague Jaime Báguena, who I hear is on medical leave; we wish him the best. Interviewing a Brazilian, Leonidas from Evangelista, MG, attempting to speak Spanish but with a heavy Portuguese admixture, who anyhow has been an RN listener for a bidecade. I think it would be better just to speak pure Portuguese on his side and let the listeners figure it out or learn a bit of it (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** RUSSIA. 5930, R. Rossii, Pet/Kam, June 6 at 1200 time-signal, only heard one (last?) pip about 5 sex late, cutting thru the motorboating, Russian talk presumably news. On Sundays no QRM from Costa Rica; but RR provides its own QRM (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. As I was checking for Chávez, June 6 at 1608, punched up 15550 and some talking was JBA on USB, no doubt WJHR in its futile unlicensed transmission. Why bother? So the unipreacher can claim he has a worldwide audience and prompt donations? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A [non]. 9510, VOA Tinang II // much better 9760 Tinang I, PHILIPPINES, Sunday June 6 at 1220 in ``Our World`` science-technology show with Environment Report segment re cybersickness [redlined by MSW spellcheck, but then so is spellcheck; hyphenating almost solves these problems, but cyber still not accepted by itself!], then other items, 1230 into Issues in the News, panel discussion starting with Gaza blockade (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A [non]. 11605 with audible lo het, June 6 at 1357. Not Firedrake, and can`t match any of the audio to CNR1 for sure. 1400 clash ends and R. Free Asia introduces Vietnamese weak but clear. Until 1400, RFA is in Tibetan via Tinian, per Aoki and of course it must be jammed with something. RFA changes site at 1400 to Taiwan for Vietnamese (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** VATICAN [non]. 9830, R. Vaticana, June 6 at 1209, Sackville relay vs ever-present RTTY at about equal level, demonstrating how out-of-touch some SWBC frequency managers are with the real world; and surprised to hear not English as scheduled from 1200, but Spanish! Some churchman with a heavy Italian accent interviewed about Paul by a native SS; 1211 ``nos despedimos hasta mañana`` and into IS. Spanish is supposed to be at 1130-1200 only, so what became of English? A hitherto unknown Sunday variation? BTW, official name of station in Spanish is Radio Vaticano, but Italian version Vaticana overrode (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** VENEZUELA [non]. ``Aló, Presidente`` check Sunday June 6 at 1608: Nothing on 17750, 13750, 13680, 12010, and RHC itself on weakly vs RTTY on 11690 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ###
8400-12499, nothing found 1255-1300
12500, VG at 1258 but off at 1300*; back on at *1305
14600, poor at 1307 // 14700; still same at 1352
14700, VG at 1259, NOT // 12500, and 14700 goes to OC at 1300, 1305 resumes; still same at 1352
17920, poor at 1309, // 14700. Shows it pays to keep bandscanning upward for them to show up unexpectedly, and I kept going to 19000
17515, fair June 6 at 1304, CNR1 // 15285; no co-channel audible on 17515, but must be there to jam BBC Uzbek via Cyprus at 1300-1330 only. Thus China asserts pseudo-sovereignty over Uzbekistan, take that! (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CUBA. Have not been hearing the 37v/multiple plus/minus kHz spur galaxy from RHC`s 15360 transmitter in the mornings or 15370 in the afternoons for the last few days. Not sure if they are eliminated or merely that poor propagation has not been inbringing enough signals to audiblize them, and 19m currently suffers from some neighbor`s TVI much of the time. But June 6 at 1301 I am almost convinced that the spurs are absent as 15360 is fairly strong.
13880, RHC Spanish leapfrog of 13680 over 13780, June 6 at 1308 attained S9+12 on the FRG-7 meter, while the fundamentals looked like huge S9+25, tho hard to be precise at top end of its scale (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) See also VENEZUELA [non]
** NETHERLANDS ANTILLES. 6250, NHKWNRJ in Spanish with mailbag, UT Sunday June 6 at 0526; R5 = fully readable on fair signal, but cut off abruptly at 0527*. That`s because this is the leapfrog mixing product of Bonaire NHK relay on 6080 over RNW Dutch on 6165, and that fulcrum is finished at 0527 while 6080 is not. No sign of Equatorial Guinea on 6250 before or after 0527. It usually does not cut on until after 0530, often not at all. A recent report from Europe claimed EqG before 0530, but I think this spur is capable of being heard there too and urge everyone everywhere to listen to 6250 long enough to tell whether it`s Radio Japón in the 0500-0527 period. A quick comparison with 6080 should answer the question.
9715, RNW Spanish via Bonaire, Sunday June 6 at 1213 amid Cartas a RN mailbag show, still not hosted by our erstwhile ex-colleague Jaime Báguena, who I hear is on medical leave; we wish him the best. Interviewing a Brazilian, Leonidas from Evangelista, MG, attempting to speak Spanish but with a heavy Portuguese admixture, who anyhow has been an RN listener for a bidecade. I think it would be better just to speak pure Portuguese on his side and let the listeners figure it out or learn a bit of it (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** RUSSIA. 5930, R. Rossii, Pet/Kam, June 6 at 1200 time-signal, only heard one (last?) pip about 5 sex late, cutting thru the motorboating, Russian talk presumably news. On Sundays no QRM from Costa Rica; but RR provides its own QRM (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. As I was checking for Chávez, June 6 at 1608, punched up 15550 and some talking was JBA on USB, no doubt WJHR in its futile unlicensed transmission. Why bother? So the unipreacher can claim he has a worldwide audience and prompt donations? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A [non]. 9510, VOA Tinang II // much better 9760 Tinang I, PHILIPPINES, Sunday June 6 at 1220 in ``Our World`` science-technology show with Environment Report segment re cybersickness [redlined by MSW spellcheck, but then so is spellcheck; hyphenating almost solves these problems, but cyber still not accepted by itself!], then other items, 1230 into Issues in the News, panel discussion starting with Gaza blockade (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A [non]. 11605 with audible lo het, June 6 at 1357. Not Firedrake, and can`t match any of the audio to CNR1 for sure. 1400 clash ends and R. Free Asia introduces Vietnamese weak but clear. Until 1400, RFA is in Tibetan via Tinian, per Aoki and of course it must be jammed with something. RFA changes site at 1400 to Taiwan for Vietnamese (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** VATICAN [non]. 9830, R. Vaticana, June 6 at 1209, Sackville relay vs ever-present RTTY at about equal level, demonstrating how out-of-touch some SWBC frequency managers are with the real world; and surprised to hear not English as scheduled from 1200, but Spanish! Some churchman with a heavy Italian accent interviewed about Paul by a native SS; 1211 ``nos despedimos hasta mañana`` and into IS. Spanish is supposed to be at 1130-1200 only, so what became of English? A hitherto unknown Sunday variation? BTW, official name of station in Spanish is Radio Vaticano, but Italian version Vaticana overrode (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** VENEZUELA [non]. ``Aló, Presidente`` check Sunday June 6 at 1608: Nothing on 17750, 13750, 13680, 12010, and RHC itself on weakly vs RTTY on 11690 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ###
