** AUSTRALIA. 13630, Feb 24 at 0635, unusual music for RA, soon outroed as Gypsy/Turkish for a music festival in Melbourne. Best of the four 13/15 MHz frequencies, almost sufficient (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CUBA. 11750, Feb 24 at 1434, RHC is missing from one of its minor frequencies, but soon found instead on 11705! Error in punching up the frequency, or an abrupt permanent change? Time will tell. RHC has used 11705 in the distant past.
Will this be mentioned in the frequency announcement copied at 1502 on 11760 et al.? Of course not! Still says [as translated]: ``15380 and 15230 to 1600; 9540 to 1600; 13-16 on 9850; 13670 until 16 and 13780, 13670 [sic, repeated, as always]; 11760, 11840, 11690 until 16; from 13 on 11750 [sic!] until 16``.
I also compared the 11 MHz frequencies: strongest 11760 and 11840 synchronized; 11690 and 11705 a significant echo apart from the others; 11690 and 11705 very slightly apart from each other (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** JAPAN [non]. 11740, Feb 24 at 1434 while checking out Cuba changing from 11750 to 11705, noticed good reception in Burmese here, which is NHK, 250 kW, 330 degrees via SINGAPORE at 1430-1500 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** KOREA NORTH [non]. 6135, Feb 24 at 1358, Sea Breeze with piano music, ID and contact info in English, ``time for all of us to come together against North Korean dictator Kim Jung-Il and his regime``, slightly outdated; pause and 1400 reopening with second half of English hour on Fridays only via JSR Tokyo, JAPAN (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** KURDISTAN [non]. 11530, Feb 24 at 1420, V. of Mesopotamia via UKRAINE, continuous Kurdish vocal music to 1430 brief announcement, and then more music in a different style; fair signal but always enjoyable, with kudos to TDP and the PKK terrorists for providing this service with so much music; of course the words may well have some political significance unbeknownst to the rest of us (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** TUNISIA. 17735, looking for IWT on new frequency I discovered Feb 20, Feb 24 at 1508, but so far nothing but Japanese from NHK via FRANCE. Does it still start later? Yes, by 1610 there is an equal mix of them in Japanese and Arabic producing SAH between 3 and 4 Hz. Other reports indicated IWT continues past 1700 when NHK is finished with 17735, but for how long? Aoki, EiBi, and HFCC still haven`t caught up with Tunisia being on 17735 at all (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. WORLD OF RADIO 1605 monitoring: first broadcast confirmed Thursday Feb 23 at 2200 on WTWW 9479; but the next broadcast, 2230 on WBCQ 7490 was replaced by something else. Allan Weiner wrote us at 2202 that the time had been sold at the last minute, and he will let us know when he finds a new time for WOR on WBCQ (so far no word). Also confirmed after 0430 UT Friday Feb 24 on WWRB 3195. (BTW, WWRB is still gone from 5050).
More WOR airings: UT Sunday 0500 on WTWW 5755; UT Monday 0330v on Area 51 via WBCQ 5110v-CUSB. WRMI 9955 times: Saturday 0900, 1600, 1830, Sunday 0900, 1630, 1830, Monday 0600, 1230. Also on WRN via SiriusXM 120, Sat & Sun 1830, Sun 0930 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CUBA. 11750, Feb 24 at 1434, RHC is missing from one of its minor frequencies, but soon found instead on 11705! Error in punching up the frequency, or an abrupt permanent change? Time will tell. RHC has used 11705 in the distant past.
Will this be mentioned in the frequency announcement copied at 1502 on 11760 et al.? Of course not! Still says [as translated]: ``15380 and 15230 to 1600; 9540 to 1600; 13-16 on 9850; 13670 until 16 and 13780, 13670 [sic, repeated, as always]; 11760, 11840, 11690 until 16; from 13 on 11750 [sic!] until 16``.
I also compared the 11 MHz frequencies: strongest 11760 and 11840 synchronized; 11690 and 11705 a significant echo apart from the others; 11690 and 11705 very slightly apart from each other (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** JAPAN [non]. 11740, Feb 24 at 1434 while checking out Cuba changing from 11750 to 11705, noticed good reception in Burmese here, which is NHK, 250 kW, 330 degrees via SINGAPORE at 1430-1500 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** KOREA NORTH [non]. 6135, Feb 24 at 1358, Sea Breeze with piano music, ID and contact info in English, ``time for all of us to come together against North Korean dictator Kim Jung-Il and his regime``, slightly outdated; pause and 1400 reopening with second half of English hour on Fridays only via JSR Tokyo, JAPAN (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** KURDISTAN [non]. 11530, Feb 24 at 1420, V. of Mesopotamia via UKRAINE, continuous Kurdish vocal music to 1430 brief announcement, and then more music in a different style; fair signal but always enjoyable, with kudos to TDP and the PKK terrorists for providing this service with so much music; of course the words may well have some political significance unbeknownst to the rest of us (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** TUNISIA. 17735, looking for IWT on new frequency I discovered Feb 20, Feb 24 at 1508, but so far nothing but Japanese from NHK via FRANCE. Does it still start later? Yes, by 1610 there is an equal mix of them in Japanese and Arabic producing SAH between 3 and 4 Hz. Other reports indicated IWT continues past 1700 when NHK is finished with 17735, but for how long? Aoki, EiBi, and HFCC still haven`t caught up with Tunisia being on 17735 at all (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. WORLD OF RADIO 1605 monitoring: first broadcast confirmed Thursday Feb 23 at 2200 on WTWW 9479; but the next broadcast, 2230 on WBCQ 7490 was replaced by something else. Allan Weiner wrote us at 2202 that the time had been sold at the last minute, and he will let us know when he finds a new time for WOR on WBCQ (so far no word). Also confirmed after 0430 UT Friday Feb 24 on WWRB 3195. (BTW, WWRB is still gone from 5050).
More WOR airings: UT Sunday 0500 on WTWW 5755; UT Monday 0330v on Area 51 via WBCQ 5110v-CUSB. WRMI 9955 times: Saturday 0900, 1600, 1830, Sunday 0900, 1630, 1830, Monday 0600, 1230. Also on WRN via SiriusXM 120, Sat & Sun 1830, Sun 0930 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
