** AUSTRALIA. 9580, 12085 & 12065, Friday April 10 at 1314, R. Australia
amid `Keys to Music` appreciation show, discussing Chaikovsky, with some
examples, guest being new conductor of the Christchurch Symphony; 1332 finally
playing Francesca da Rimini complete to applause at 1359, no program outro but
RA promo, 1400 news, 1406 `Conversations with Richard Fidler`, guest this time
an astrophysicist/cosmologist, Alan Duffy, about colliding galaxies,
etc.
Lots of stimulating talk programming on the RA schedule now, so I go
thru the entire week and pick out some of them with current timings, and update
three of them on DX/SWL/MEDIA programs:
`Late Night Live` is still on
sked but only at 06-07 UT Tue thru Fri (when it really is late night in America
at least).
`Download This Show` --- Fri 0430, Sun 1105, Mon 1730, Tue
1930
`Media Report` --- Thu 0730, 2230
`Future Tense` --- Thu
1930, Fri 0930, Sun 0130, Tue 0430
`Keys to Music` --- Fri 1305-1400,
Sun 1805-1900
`Daily Planet` --- (world music) Mon thru Thu
1305-1400
Frequencies remain just: 09-21 12085, 12065, 9580; 21-09 17840,
15415, 15240 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CHINA. CNR1
jammers morning of April 10:
11500, April 10 at 1350, CNR1 jammer, very
good with flutter; no 10s
11785, April 10 at 1350, CNR1 jammer, fair with
flutter and close to matching 11500. This one is vs VOA via
Philippines
11970, April 10 at 1350, CNR1 jammer, fair with flutter, not
synch with 11500; Aoki shows 11500 vs Sound of Hope; and 11970 vs Radio Free
Asia via SOH, Taiwan
12910, April 10 at 1353, CNR1 jammer, very poor with
flutter
13920, April 10 at 1354, CNR1 jammer, very poor with
flutter
15115, April 10 at 1355, CNR1 jammer mixing equally with VOA
Thailand
15265, April 10 at 1355, CNR1 jammer with het. Aoki shows during
this hour only, 15265 bears both RTI from Tainan, perpetually off-frequency; and
RFA Tibetan via Tajikistan. None propagating in the 14s, 16s, 17s, 18s, 19s
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CUBA. 6165, April 10 at 0538,
RHC is *still* totally out of whack, nothing but noise blob on this `English`
frequency, and blocking three channels, as first noted at 0131. At least four
hours of this and nobody notices at Bauta that 100 kW transmitter #4 on antenna
#10 toward Chicago needs a bit of attention!
15370, April 10 at 1311, RHC
is back on this frequency, which had been missing since last heard April 5. A-15
RHC sked effective tomorrow still shows 15370 as 100 kW Bauta #4, on antenna #8
toward San Francisco at 13-15; while 15730 will be new for 100 kW Bauta
transmitter #1, on antenna #4 toward Rio de Janeiro at 11-15. So never mind my
guess that 15730 might be a typo --- both are on the schedule.
Also,
11950 at 15-18 UT nondirexional is labeled Esperanto Sunday only, but that would
only apply to the first half hour, so not clear if it really be on daily
otherwise in Spanish for the full period, but no other frequency, not even
previous 11760, is shown during that midday trihour.
Sorting out the
three transmitter sites, everything is Bauta, EXCEPT:
5 x 250 kW at
Titán: 11-13 9550; 11-15 15230; 21-05 11840; 22-05 15230; 23-07 6000.
2 x 50
kW at Bejucal: 11-15 9640, 21-04 9710, 2230-0030 15370;
1 x 100 kW (called
#9) at Bejucal: 11-15 9820, 21-05 9535
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** MADAGASCAR. 13840, April 10 at 0546, NHK in French is good,
and hardly any Egypt on 13850 to spur here tonight.
13765, April 10 at
0545, Vatican Radio in Portuguese is good to very good here, also via Talata.
Meanwhile, R. Dabanga on 13800 & 11650 are merely via Vatican, jammed, and
much weaker than these; see SUDAN [and non] (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** OKLAHOMA. 1520, April 10 at 1320 UT, KOKC remains on air, and
IDs as ``Your 50,000-watt news source, News-talk 1520, KOKC`` --- NOT HARDLY ---
as we all know (but not ordinary listeners?), it`s not been 50 kW for at least a
couple of years, but 12.5 and now only 10 kW. THEY LIE. Also at this hour with
SAH from remnant of CRI via KYND TX. Slightly different angles allow KOKC to be
minimized and KYND maximized by precise positioning of the DX-398 (Glenn Hauser,
Enid, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** OKLAHOMA. 94.3, April 10 at 0548 UT,
KLGB-LP, Enid is still dead air except for bleedthru from sibling station 99.9
KVBN-LP; with automated time and temp, and then at 0554 an hymnified version of
1812 Overture, of all things. Next check at 1349 UT, still dead air, etc. Ditto
at 1706 UT, now in the twenty-first hour, at least, of negligence (Glenn Hauser,
Enid, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** SUDAN [and non]. 11650, April 10 at 0544,
tone jammer and R. Dabanga, both poor.
13800, April 10 at 0545, 2-tone
jammer very poor and R. Dabanga is JBA here. At this hour both channels are via
VATICAN (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** SWAZILAND. 15360,
April 10 at 1359, TWR music box IS, poor signal, and ``Trans World Radio,
Swaziland`` ID, into Urdu. This station knows where it really is, even tho in
WRTH you have to find it under INDIA, and all other Manzini broadcasts under
SOUTH AFRICA (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 5109+,
April 10 at 0540, Overcomer // 5890 WWCR but not synched with it. Very slightly
on hi side of 5109, nowhere near nominal 5110. Only fair in storm noise crashes.
Once again this WBCQ transmitter is on late at night, but TOM sked for it
unknown. Is there any ``5110`` entry in either SW schedule at the Overcomer
website? Of course not! (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A
[and non]. 1620, April 10 at 0558 UT, I find that R. Rebelde, CUBA is unusually
dominant, but nulling it I hear some rock music past hourtop, later non-ID by YL
as ``double-play on U-93``. Therefore it`s WDND South Bend IN, which, BION,
AFAIK has never been logged here before (I don`t keep a master log, but
searching out my archived log reports this century). NRC AM Log shows WDND
relays FM 92.9 by that name, really WNDV. 1620 is normally occupied here by
news/talker WTAW TX and sportster KOZN NE, if not Cuba. Where are they? At next
hourtop 0659 UT, I do pull out a WTAW ID amid the QRM, so it`s still there
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 99.1, April 10 at 0553
UT, Christian rock in $tereo with K-LOVE on the DX-398 RDS, not noticed here
before. WTFDA FM Database shows no Okies on 99.1, so this must be Kansas: KTLI
El Dorado, 100 kW at 188 meters. El Dorado is just NE of Wichita on the Turnpike
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
This report dispatched at 1715
UT April 10
