** CUBA. 11840, April 16 at 2141, RHC fails to broadcast in the wrong language,
English like yesterday, but back to Spanish and modulation sufficient, as it
better be, since Raúl is speaking ad nauseam.
15370, April 16 at 2238,
RHC still has a Raúl speech, rather distorted modulation here. Checking since
Wolfgang Büschel had heard RHC clashing with itself at 2230, as mis-scheduled
for French from one site, Spanish from another! Sunday it`s supposed to be in
Esperanto instead of French, not Spanish.
15230, April 17 at 1304, RHC
Spanish is S9 but just barely modulated, unlike // 15370 blasting (Glenn Hauser,
OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** GUINEA. 9650, April 16 at 2136, no signal
from Radio Guinée; nor at 2330 or later, so apparently gone again after a couple
days` activity. Ivo Ivanov suggests that it could be a relay from outside, and
was getting it the previous morning: ``Surprisingly good reception of new Radio
Guinea, Conakry, April 16: 0655 & 0705 on 9650 unknown site / relay to CeAf
French, no signal at 0800 UT``.
Thorsten Hallmann replies on the DXLD
yg: ``That's what I thought at 0645: Surprisingly good - but I don't think it
was a relay from outside Africa. After 0730 signal strength significantly
degraded, but I'm quite sure it was still on after 0800, comparing it to Mali
(9635 - with almost no modulation though) it was weaker then. So no problem - if
it was 50 kW or so from Guinea, that would all fit. What programme has been
aired? Sakaé Obara posted a recording here:
This
gives the frequency FM 88.5, that's according to online station lists the
standard RTG Conakry FM channel, given as 88.55 in older WRTHs for a service
IDing as Radio Conakry or Radio Guinée. (Why should a station lease airtime to
air this throughout the night? So again pointing at their own transmitter, I
think. A new one or an [old] one?!) 73 thorsten``
Also, Sheldon Harvey
forwards a recent story about the sorry state of radio and TV around the
country, with many transmitters off the air, and radio not covering the whole
country (like 9650 would from abroad; they should be on 4900 for best domestic
coverage):
(Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** JAPAN [non]. 9560, April 17 at 0351,
the standout signal on 31m, SSOB by a long shot, is Swahili from NHK via
MADAGASCAR. Not much else is propagating, not even from North America or Cuba.
Off by 0400, succeeded as strongest signal on band, by MWV on 9480; see
MADAGASCAR (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MADAGASCAR. 17640,
April 16 at 1803, still no signal from MWV, reactivated elsewhen but not now.
Propagation funxional at least from Ascension on 17885.
9600, April 17 at
0013, poor but sufficient signal to discern a gospel huxter in English as MWV is
scheduled.
6150, April 17 at 0348, religious story in Spanish at S7; 0356
closing ``La Voz Alegre``.
9480, April 17 at *0359:19.5, carrier on from
African Pathways Radio, modulation from *0359:59, claiming to be on ``94-80`` at
04, and ``176-40`` [sic] at 18 [no, it isn`t, not yet]. Rather incredibly, this
is the SSOB (strongest station on band), as 9560 NHK via the other Madagascar
site had been a few minutes earlier). Nothing much propagating from anywhere
else, Cuba and RMI both very weak on 9 MHz. Proceeds to refer to interruption
after first five days, and now belatedly finishing their first week of
programming. Axually, from 0403 it`s a playback of the very ``first broadcast``
with those dratted vuvuzela blasts.
As for my precise timings to a
semi-second of this and other events, I fear they may not be as accurate as I
thought. Listening to the same signal on two different receivers, there can be a
slight delay between them, which can be explained only as caused by digital
signal processing, as in the R-75 and NRD-545. How much delay could be caused by
DSP? Of course even WWV would be subject to these (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** MEXICO. 6185, April 17 at 0524, open carrier, dead
air at S9, as XEPPM has once again failed to turn off the transmitter after
sign-off circa 0500 during DST (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
**
NETHERLANDS [non]. 6040, UT Sunday April 17 at 0009 and later, KBC is not so
mighty tonight via GERMANY, as it`s very poor, scarcely stronger than the
Brazilian het! Unusable this week, but apparently the North American service
will be continuing via Nauen, as Uncle Eric has talked about making the usual
shift in May to 9935 (a legacy of Croatian Radio relay which this succeeded).
That should be better overall in the summer, but still subject to lower MUF
cutoffs; and we can only hope that WTWW won`t show up on 9930 (Glenn Hauser, OK,
DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** OKLAHOMA. Another and bigger earthquake in SW
Japan, Friday April 15 at 1525 UT --- and another one missed by NHK World
``News`` via OETA, which plays at 1600 UT, but was recorded 6 hours earlier. And
of course if there are any more shox Sat, Sun or Mon, those can`t be dealt with
until 1000/1600 UT Monday; as everyone knows, nothing ever happens on weekends
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A [and non]. WORLD OF
RADIO 1821 monitoring: confirmed via UTwente, no signal before or after 1430 Sat
April 16 on 7265-CUSB, during scheduled downtime of Hamburger Lokalradio;
presumably resuming next week and the lack of reception of CRI either, is a good
sign despite still scheduled this hour southward in Sinhala from
Kashgar.
WOR 1821 confirmed Sat April 16 after 2230 on WBCQ 9330, but
poor; an hour later with something else I measure it on 9329.945-CUSB. Missed
next broadcast on WA0RCR, 1860-AM, not checked until 0346 when some other ham
program was running, so will assume WOR aired on time at 0315 or earlier.
Next:
Sun 2330 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB to WSW
Mon 0030 WRMI 7730 to WNW
Mon
0300v WBCQ 5130v Area 51 to WSW
Mon 0330 WRMI 9955 to SSE
Mon 2330
WBCQ 9330v-CUSB to WSW
Tue 1100 WRMI 9955 to SSE
Tue 2130 WRMI 15770
to NE
Tue 2330 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB to WSW
Wed 1315.5 WRMI 9955 to SSE
Wed
2100 WBCQ 7490v to WSW
Wed 2330 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB to WSW
(Glenn Hauser,
OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 7730, April 17 at 0355, one WRMIBS
frequency is AWOL, unlike stronger 7570 and weaker 7780; 0520 recheck, back on
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 5050, April 17 at 0349,
no signal from WWRB; you never know whether they will be on or not (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 7520, UT Sunday April 17 at
0354, VG S9+45 signal with drama in Russian; this is a weekly broadcast by WHRI
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 9265, April 16 at 1235,
WINB for a change is not on the air yet, this being a Saturday; previously
scheduled to start at 1430 UT with `Meat in Due Season` (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 1650, April 16 at 1300 UT, song ``Bienvenidos
a Mano a Mano, todos los sábados, lo mejor del deporte mundial; son las 9 de la
mañana`` --- you might wonder which Spanish sports station is in the Eastern
timezone, until realizing that this has to be El Paso TX, latest format of KSVE,
ESPN Deportes, 8500/850 watts U1, plugged into an Eastern-chauvinist network
forcing the rest of América to deal with their inapplicable timezone.
April SR/SS times for KSVE are 1245 UT/0130 UT (May: 1215 UT/0200 UT).
On 1650, it`s far more common to hear Spanish from KSVE or KBJD Denver
(religionist), than English from our nearest, Oklahoma`s own KFSW Sallisaw
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** YEMEN [non]. 11860, April 16
at 1252, Republic of Yemen Radio music is S9 to S9+10. 24 hours later April 17,
hardly any signal (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED.
6974.40, April 17 at 0350, open carrier S7 to S9, still mysterious (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 11980.430, April 16 at
1254, mystery carrier is here again, hetting 11980.0 CRI English. Also exactly
same frequency at 2140 April 16, fading between S7 and S4 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
THE TINY TRAP
+++++++++++++
Bhutan, ``tiny
Himalayan Kingdom``, says Laura Trevelyan on BBC World News America, TV, at 2223
UT April 15, via OETA. Some royals are sightseeing there, big deal. Well, it`s
more than twice the area of Wales, 18+K vs 8+K square miles; would she ever call
Wales a ``tiny principality``? 24,133 Monacos could fit into Bhutan; more than
that, considering the verticality of Bhutan`s terrain, even more so than
horizontally, anything but tiny (Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
This
report dispatched at 1541 UT April 17
