** BRAZIL. 11855, July 8 at 0554, ``Bridge Over Troubled Waters`` song, but
lyrix unseem English; maybe Brazuguese, but not sure of that either. It`s R.
Aparecida, but this song is not religious, rather about friendship, or by
extension love; 9630, July 8 at 0556 hearing more of same on weaker signal
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CUBA. 11880, July 8 at 0553,
no signal from RHC English, unlike 24 hours ago; back on 6060 where it`s
supposed to be, keeping company with the rest of The Cuban Five.
11845,
July 8 at 1317, lite pulse jamming is *still* here on frequency R. Martí
abandoned years ago. Turn it on and forget it forever!
11860, July 8 at
1318, open carrier/dead air from RHC, while all others checked are nominally
modulating: 11950, 13740, 15230, 15370, 15730. Left a receiver on 11860, which
finally came to life at 1333, programming JIP by the Radio Cuba sloppy-rator
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MEXICO. Channel A2 NTSC, July
7 at 2235 UT, brief fade-in of novela with TRECE legend at upper-right, i.e. bug
for Azteca-13 network. Had been monitoring 54-60 MHz most of the day waiting for
Es MUF to reach it, but nothing more than this (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** NIGERIA. 9690-, July 8 at 0557, VON is already on with good
signal, drumming and singing prior to Hausa hour. // 7255- also audible at 0603
July 8 but much weaker and undermodulated (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** NIGERIA [non]. 13775, July 8 at 0600, wake-up music, brief
interruption by uteblatt, ``I want to be a soldier`` song which it seems they
play every day, then ``This is the Nigerian Armed Forces Radio, broadcasting on
11825 in the 25 meter band and 13775 in the 21 meter band. The Nigerian Armed
Forces Radio will bring you news, views and comment on matters of the moment``;
11825 is much weaker, but seemingly //. These tests via FRANCE have been
extended at least until July 10. Note: I am not quoting Ivo who has now also
stated this, but he is quoting me without saying so (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** PAPUA NEW GUINEA [non]. 12025, July 8 at 0551, good
signal from NBC relay amid silly ballgame coverage. Seems a lot of them are
played in the local afternoons, this being almost 4 pm in PNG; evenings would be
only marginally cooler in the tropix.
9860, July 8 at 0557, poor signal
but finally able to hear the other scheduled frequency for NBC relay, also with
SBG and // 12025 --- not exactly! 9860 is about a second, or one word behind
12025. This bolsters our belief that contrary to published info, not all of this
is from ``Townsville`` --- Brandon when carrying R. Australia would also be a
satellite delay behind Shepparton. 12025 signal remains ``too good`` to be 10
kW, and the only 100 kW transmitters had been idle in Shepparton, Victoria.
6075, July 8 at 1251, NBC with poor signal in music past hourtop, 1302
NBC ID and a bit of news?, ads, 1306 back to music; still audible very poorly
with music at 1326. Until 1300 there was hardly anything else audible around 49m
except 5830 WTWW; after 1300, RNZI on 6170 with much stronger signal but it too
is losing out by 1330, a bihour after sunrise here.
Dan Ferguson points
out that ``The HFCC public data file now shows entries covering the broadcasts
of the Pacific Games by PNG`s National Radio, via Brandon, Australia. The
entries cover the dates July 1 to October 24. Perhaps this implies continuing
broadcasts after the conclusion of the Games, perhaps not.``
These are
over-registered including 5995 as alternate for 6075, and 9660 as alternate for
9860. And frequency management is still being outsourced to Bernd Friedewald =
BFM. Like too much of HFCC ``official`` info, this must include disinformation,
as real monitoring still indicates 12025 and 6075 are Shepparton, while 9860 is
Brandon. Possibly even NBC is in the dark about this; at least they claim to be
on Townsville only. But what does Friedewald know? He`s not likely to say. I`m
rather amused/bemused that other sources continue to believe the official info
rather than our own monitoring evidence (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** U S A. 550, July 8 at 0605 UT, Missouri and Illinois news by
guy with a Britishish accent. I wish I could place it exactly, not Queen`s. Then
KTRS Forecast from St Louis; outroed his name but hard to catch, maybe something
like Trevor Phillips Ford? And into Jim Bohannon. Searching on Trevor Phillips
leads to a report on Ferguson he did from KTRS for WFLA in Florida (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 15350.5-USB, July 8 at
1404, colloquial Spanish 2-way intruding, one much stronger than the other, with
weak het from a legit station on 15350.0, which per HFCC could be Germany or
Egypt; per Aoki no Egypt, just Gospel for Asia in Bondo on Wednesdays via Nauen
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
This report dispatched at 1530 UT
July 8
