** ANGUILLA. 6090 was back on air Feb 22 around 0645, but now it`s TUN/DGS/PMS/CB`s 11775 that is missing at 1336, 1437 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** BRAZIL. 11780, Feb 22 at 0654, RNA still not on the air; maybe exhausted from Carnaval? But 11765 SRDA Curitiba is audible with weak wailing from David Miranda, so propagation is certainly favorable (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CHINA. Firedrake Feb 22:
11500, poor at 1338, off at 1400*. None in the 12s, 13s or 14s. But 11500 is back on at 1438, fair with flutter
12230, good at 1438
12300, very poor at 1438; none in the 13s, 14s, 15s, 16s, 17s by 1443
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MYANMAR. 7110, Feb 22 at 1329, vocal music heard better than usual, SINPO 24322, then YL talk, news on the hour at 1330? This was originally reported to be Rakhine broadcasting station, but via Alokesh Gupta, Babul Gupta now says it is Thazin Broadcasting Station with announced schedule as 1030-1430 on 7110, 2330-0130 on 6030, 0430-0630 on 9400, and on MW 639 thruout, which is also new, not in WRTH.
So how did 7110 get identified as Rakhine before? What is the axual transmitter site? My atlases don`t have Thazin, but there is a Thazi small town in Mandalay state just west of Taunggyi in Shan state
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** NEW ZEALAND. 11670-11675-11680, Feb 22 at 0653, DRM noise no doubt from RNZI once again, instead of scheduled 13725-13730-13735, as analog 11725 is in well. Adrian Sainsbury says he is looking into this anomaly (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** SPAIN [and non]. 11910, Feb 22 at 1349, incomprehensible language, Basque of course from REE relay via Beijing site, fair and clear; is about one word behind 17595 direct from Noblejas, and further ahead of Cariari 15170.
So I make a point of checking the closing: at 1356, 11910 is already in REE IS until 1357* while the other two are not running IS. A minute later at 1358, the REE IS comes up as usual on 7435 and 7220, both very poor, prior to CRI`s Nepali service via Kunming site. It`s all a matter of ChiCom program feed routing being misaligned as it has been for over two years at least. Obviously no one is paying attention at SARFT, tho if a pipsqueak SOH transmitter pop up on a new frequency they jump jamming right onto it. Also, before REE IS came on 7435, something else was weakly audible there, presumably CRI Chinese via Nanning site (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 9330v-CUSB, Feb 22 at 0636, WBCQ once again in open carrier/dead air; still/again dead at next check 1306, but modulation of GFRN/Radio 2:11 had resumed by 1358. This seems to be the rule rather than the exception, yet the program schedulehttp://schedule.wbcq.com/main.php?fn=sked&freq=9330
continues to show GFRN 24h a day except for 23-24 M-F `Money Talks` (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** BRAZIL. 11780, Feb 22 at 0654, RNA still not on the air; maybe exhausted from Carnaval? But 11765 SRDA Curitiba is audible with weak wailing from David Miranda, so propagation is certainly favorable (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CHINA. Firedrake Feb 22:
11500, poor at 1338, off at 1400*. None in the 12s, 13s or 14s. But 11500 is back on at 1438, fair with flutter
12230, good at 1438
12300, very poor at 1438; none in the 13s, 14s, 15s, 16s, 17s by 1443
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MYANMAR. 7110, Feb 22 at 1329, vocal music heard better than usual, SINPO 24322, then YL talk, news on the hour at 1330? This was originally reported to be Rakhine broadcasting station, but via Alokesh Gupta, Babul Gupta now says it is Thazin Broadcasting Station with announced schedule as 1030-1430 on 7110, 2330-0130 on 6030, 0430-0630 on 9400, and on MW 639 thruout, which is also new, not in WRTH.
So how did 7110 get identified as Rakhine before? What is the axual transmitter site? My atlases don`t have Thazin, but there is a Thazi small town in Mandalay state just west of Taunggyi in Shan state
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** NEW ZEALAND. 11670-11675-11680, Feb 22 at 0653, DRM noise no doubt from RNZI once again, instead of scheduled 13725-13730-13735, as analog 11725 is in well. Adrian Sainsbury says he is looking into this anomaly (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** SPAIN [and non]. 11910, Feb 22 at 1349, incomprehensible language, Basque of course from REE relay via Beijing site, fair and clear; is about one word behind 17595 direct from Noblejas, and further ahead of Cariari 15170.
So I make a point of checking the closing: at 1356, 11910 is already in REE IS until 1357* while the other two are not running IS. A minute later at 1358, the REE IS comes up as usual on 7435 and 7220, both very poor, prior to CRI`s Nepali service via Kunming site. It`s all a matter of ChiCom program feed routing being misaligned as it has been for over two years at least. Obviously no one is paying attention at SARFT, tho if a pipsqueak SOH transmitter pop up on a new frequency they jump jamming right onto it. Also, before REE IS came on 7435, something else was weakly audible there, presumably CRI Chinese via Nanning site (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 9330v-CUSB, Feb 22 at 0636, WBCQ once again in open carrier/dead air; still/again dead at next check 1306, but modulation of GFRN/Radio 2:11 had resumed by 1358. This seems to be the rule rather than the exception, yet the program schedulehttp://schedule.wbcq.com/main.php?fn=sked&freq=9330
continues to show GFRN 24h a day except for 23-24 M-F `Money Talks` (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
