** ANTARCTICA. 15476, LRA36 audible June 8 at 1350 as I tuned across, the tell-tale 4 kHz het with equally weak signal on 15480, i.e. Poland in Belarussian via Woofferton UK; concentrating on 15476, a bit of modulation was making it at 1352, YL singing. At *1356 a 6-kHz het started from the other side, as BBC Hindi via Cyprus was about to start up on 15470. On 15476, music continued past 1400 to 1405, all three signals equally marginal. By 1445, 15476 had become JBA compared to the others. Fortunately the local TVI blob was absent (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** ASIA [and non]. 17880, RFA Chinese via SAIPAN is now a regular in the nightmiddle, such as June 8 at 0559; I was hoping to hear Palladio, the diamond-music theme as used to appear around this time, but instead there was a bit of other classical music. At 0600 talk mentioned ``Lao Bai Shi`` several times, which means?
After 0600 I was also again hearing most of the CRI European service languages on 16m via Kashgar, East Turkistan, as I previously reported in detail (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CHINA. 11900, June 8 at 1415 fair with SE Asian song with reverb on YL voice; 1419 announcement language sounds more S Asian; mixture of talk and music now also S Asian still at 1440. I suspected a gospel huxter bent on coöpting a local culture, but was I way off. Uplooked later, the only thing on 11900 during this hour is the Sinhalese service of CRI, 500 kW, 258 degrees from Jinhua-Youbu 831 site per Aoki, which BTW still shows the dead-and-buried WWBS Macon on 11900 elsewhen (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CHINA. Firedrake June 8:
8400, F-G at 1313
9380, P at 1318
16800, G at 1328, 1406, gone at 1446
No others found 8-20 MHz by 1331
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CUBA. 13680, RHC with hoary old Fidel speech in ``Voces de la Revolución``, June 8 at 1412, while 13780 was just open carrier with equally big signal. No doubt kept on the air as fulcrum in order to maintain the leapfrog on 13880, // 13680 but fading in and out, and with co-channel clix probably spurring from the jammers on 13820 against Radio Martí (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CYPRUS. 13755, OTH radar pulsing, presumed from here, June 8 at 1414. Not on 13760, and 25-kHz bandwidth probably masked on lo side by CRI/Habana 13740. I should have checked between 1430 and 1500 to see whether it was QRMing R. Tirana on 13755; but, beware (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** DOMINICAN REPUBLIC. 6025, unlike last night, R. Amanecer Internacional apparently not on, as undetected June 8 at 0558; altho too much ACI from CRI via RCI on 6020 until 0600 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** LIBERIA. 4025, could not even detect a carrier from Star Radio, June 8 at 0558, tho T-storm noise was no worse than usual (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** INDONESIA. 9526-, VOI, June 8 at 1318 with weekly Tuesday ``Exotic Indonesia`` hookup with RRI Banjarmasin. YL there mentioned one frequency, ``9.25 kHz`` which I doubt. At first I thought she was trying to say 9.525 MHz, but per http://www.rribanjarmasin.info/ there are two different FM programs on 92.5 and 95.2 MHz, the latter being the one usually mentioned during this show. 1317 ``Today In History``.
Of note was the good punchy modulation today! Which shows VOI can do it if it wants to, and we expect that every day from now on, ha. Really helped against the staticrashes.
1339 recheck, Mahendra was just wrapping up his segment, sorry I missed it, ``that`s all from Banjarmasin, bye2`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MEXICO. You`d never know it from DX Sherlock but the Es I`m getting starting 1855 UT Monday June 8 is southward from Mexico up to ch 3.
1905 on 2, plug ``4TV, Televisión de la Ciudad`` from Televisa. According to W9WI.com the only 2 relaying XHTV (part of the time, XHGC-5 too), is XEFE in Nuevo Laredo.
1908 on 2, TVT bug in UR, seVale program name bug in LR, with the V exaggerated like a check mark, gameshow with adult people in jumpsuits leapfrogging, etc. Seems one team is red and the other blue.
TVT = Televisión Tapatía, XEWO-TV Guadlajara, which I have been getting for nearly 50 years since starting to TV DX in Enid in 1961y. Maybe I even got it in OKC before that.
1915 on 2, mixing with toons no doubt from net-5.
1921 on 3, promo MegaCine 5; then among all the bugs I made out in the LL the ``CN`` Cartoon Network one as in the US.
1923 on 2, net-5 bug in UR, toon featuring a Woody Woodpecker clone.
1925 on 2, TVT promo, included full-screen TVT italic-caps logo with the Ts connected to the V, on orange background for a split-second. Hope I have it on tape.
1928 on 2, video from seVale gameshow, audio from toon.
1929 on 4, brief fade-in with commercial grafik, looks like Lujan.
1934 on 2, more TVT promos during government PSAs.
1952 on 2, fade-in with very loud audio, news from Televisa. Suspect some Mexicans are still running 2:1 video:audio power ratio, while US analogs long ago reduced to 5:1 or even 10:1.
2000 UT opening just about gone, it seemed, but:
2010 on 2, political talk show, candidate being interviewed, says at bottom, ``elecciones 2010, el 4 de julio``.
Note: I am just reporting what I am able to log, in case the info is helpful to others; and not pulling my hair over how difficult it is to get definite local IDs from Mexico. Nor do I care about racking up stations-logged totals (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** OKLAHOMA. 99.9, the GCN pirate in Enid is back after missing a few days, afternoon of June 7 in various chex around 2030-2130 UT with same talkshow YL as when I first heard it. She had visited Australia and admitted to ignorance of timezones by waking up her family back in the USA with phonecalls in our nightmiddle.
Usual spotty signal driving around Enid, including being totally wiped out by stoplite noise downtown. It also has problems with the real AR and TX stations near the borders I was hearing in its absence, so my previous remark about choosing a good frequency, clear in OK is inoperative. Altho it might be hard to find anything better in our overloaded and cluttered FM band (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** PORTUGAL. Following up on last Friday`s report: RDPI heard on new 11940, checked at 2315 UT Monday June 7, // 9715 and 11630, ex-12020. Nothing on the other possible alternates 11880, 13660 or 15295.
The schedule for Brasil at
http://tv.rtp.pt/canais-radio/rdpi/ondas_amaf.htm
still shows 12020 for M-F 2300-0200 Tue-Sat.
11940 would not have worked while CVC Chile was putting out a spur around there from 11920 at the same hours (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. I haven`t bothered to belabor it lately, but WEWN has done NOTHING to fix the nasty spurs accompanying its English-language transmitter, approx. plus and minus 10 kHz, impacting whatever stations are foolish enough to approach it that closely. As outpointed before, it happens that the most obvious victims are WYFR and WWCR. E.g., June 8 at 1345, Joyce Riley on WWCR 13845 is getting mushed by the spur from WEWN 13835.
One of the Spanish transmitters has a different problem, continuous squeal of slightly varying audio frequency, e.g. June 8 at 1345 on 11550, but that is self-flagellation, not such a problem for the neighbors (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ###
** ASIA [and non]. 17880, RFA Chinese via SAIPAN is now a regular in the nightmiddle, such as June 8 at 0559; I was hoping to hear Palladio, the diamond-music theme as used to appear around this time, but instead there was a bit of other classical music. At 0600 talk mentioned ``Lao Bai Shi`` several times, which means?
After 0600 I was also again hearing most of the CRI European service languages on 16m via Kashgar, East Turkistan, as I previously reported in detail (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CHINA. 11900, June 8 at 1415 fair with SE Asian song with reverb on YL voice; 1419 announcement language sounds more S Asian; mixture of talk and music now also S Asian still at 1440. I suspected a gospel huxter bent on coöpting a local culture, but was I way off. Uplooked later, the only thing on 11900 during this hour is the Sinhalese service of CRI, 500 kW, 258 degrees from Jinhua-Youbu 831 site per Aoki, which BTW still shows the dead-and-buried WWBS Macon on 11900 elsewhen (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CHINA. Firedrake June 8:
8400, F-G at 1313
9380, P at 1318
16800, G at 1328, 1406, gone at 1446
No others found 8-20 MHz by 1331
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CUBA. 13680, RHC with hoary old Fidel speech in ``Voces de la Revolución``, June 8 at 1412, while 13780 was just open carrier with equally big signal. No doubt kept on the air as fulcrum in order to maintain the leapfrog on 13880, // 13680 but fading in and out, and with co-channel clix probably spurring from the jammers on 13820 against Radio Martí (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CYPRUS. 13755, OTH radar pulsing, presumed from here, June 8 at 1414. Not on 13760, and 25-kHz bandwidth probably masked on lo side by CRI/Habana 13740. I should have checked between 1430 and 1500 to see whether it was QRMing R. Tirana on 13755; but, beware (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** DOMINICAN REPUBLIC. 6025, unlike last night, R. Amanecer Internacional apparently not on, as undetected June 8 at 0558; altho too much ACI from CRI via RCI on 6020 until 0600 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** LIBERIA. 4025, could not even detect a carrier from Star Radio, June 8 at 0558, tho T-storm noise was no worse than usual (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** INDONESIA. 9526-, VOI, June 8 at 1318 with weekly Tuesday ``Exotic Indonesia`` hookup with RRI Banjarmasin. YL there mentioned one frequency, ``9.25 kHz`` which I doubt. At first I thought she was trying to say 9.525 MHz, but per http://www.rribanjarmasin.info/ there are two different FM programs on 92.5 and 95.2 MHz, the latter being the one usually mentioned during this show. 1317 ``Today In History``.
Of note was the good punchy modulation today! Which shows VOI can do it if it wants to, and we expect that every day from now on, ha. Really helped against the staticrashes.
1339 recheck, Mahendra was just wrapping up his segment, sorry I missed it, ``that`s all from Banjarmasin, bye2`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MEXICO. You`d never know it from DX Sherlock but the Es I`m getting starting 1855 UT Monday June 8 is southward from Mexico up to ch 3.
1905 on 2, plug ``4TV, Televisión de la Ciudad`` from Televisa. According to W9WI.com the only 2 relaying XHTV (part of the time, XHGC-5 too), is XEFE in Nuevo Laredo.
1908 on 2, TVT bug in UR, seVale program name bug in LR, with the V exaggerated like a check mark, gameshow with adult people in jumpsuits leapfrogging, etc. Seems one team is red and the other blue.
TVT = Televisión Tapatía, XEWO-TV Guadlajara, which I have been getting for nearly 50 years since starting to TV DX in Enid in 1961y. Maybe I even got it in OKC before that.
1915 on 2, mixing with toons no doubt from net-5.
1921 on 3, promo MegaCine 5; then among all the bugs I made out in the LL the ``CN`` Cartoon Network one as in the US.
1923 on 2, net-5 bug in UR, toon featuring a Woody Woodpecker clone.
1925 on 2, TVT promo, included full-screen TVT italic-caps logo with the Ts connected to the V, on orange background for a split-second. Hope I have it on tape.
1928 on 2, video from seVale gameshow, audio from toon.
1929 on 4, brief fade-in with commercial grafik, looks like Lujan.
1934 on 2, more TVT promos during government PSAs.
1952 on 2, fade-in with very loud audio, news from Televisa. Suspect some Mexicans are still running 2:1 video:audio power ratio, while US analogs long ago reduced to 5:1 or even 10:1.
2000 UT opening just about gone, it seemed, but:
2010 on 2, political talk show, candidate being interviewed, says at bottom, ``elecciones 2010, el 4 de julio``.
Note: I am just reporting what I am able to log, in case the info is helpful to others; and not pulling my hair over how difficult it is to get definite local IDs from Mexico. Nor do I care about racking up stations-logged totals (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** OKLAHOMA. 99.9, the GCN pirate in Enid is back after missing a few days, afternoon of June 7 in various chex around 2030-2130 UT with same talkshow YL as when I first heard it. She had visited Australia and admitted to ignorance of timezones by waking up her family back in the USA with phonecalls in our nightmiddle.
Usual spotty signal driving around Enid, including being totally wiped out by stoplite noise downtown. It also has problems with the real AR and TX stations near the borders I was hearing in its absence, so my previous remark about choosing a good frequency, clear in OK is inoperative. Altho it might be hard to find anything better in our overloaded and cluttered FM band (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** PORTUGAL. Following up on last Friday`s report: RDPI heard on new 11940, checked at 2315 UT Monday June 7, // 9715 and 11630, ex-12020. Nothing on the other possible alternates 11880, 13660 or 15295.
The schedule for Brasil at
http://tv.rtp.pt/canais-radio/rdpi/ondas_amaf.htm
still shows 12020 for M-F 2300-0200 Tue-Sat.
11940 would not have worked while CVC Chile was putting out a spur around there from 11920 at the same hours (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. I haven`t bothered to belabor it lately, but WEWN has done NOTHING to fix the nasty spurs accompanying its English-language transmitter, approx. plus and minus 10 kHz, impacting whatever stations are foolish enough to approach it that closely. As outpointed before, it happens that the most obvious victims are WYFR and WWCR. E.g., June 8 at 1345, Joyce Riley on WWCR 13845 is getting mushed by the spur from WEWN 13835.
One of the Spanish transmitters has a different problem, continuous squeal of slightly varying audio frequency, e.g. June 8 at 1345 on 11550, but that is self-flagellation, not such a problem for the neighbors (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ###
