** AUSTRALIA. 11387-USB, May 3 at 1330, robotic YL with VOLMET for places such
as Brisbane, Melbourne, Adelaide. EiBi shows this 24h on the hours and
half-hours, frequency shared for 5 minutes each with Kolkata, Bangkok, Karachi,
Singapore, Mumbai in that order, but only Kolkata and Mumbai are 24 hours, the
others during local daytime only. Australian site ``n`` = Ningi QL
27S04'00"-153E03'20" which is just north of Brisbane (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** CHINA [and non]. 11910, May 3 at 1323, CRI English
at S5, but it`s not // 9570 via CUBA. Conveniently, right next to it on 11900,
is CRI English equally weak with a completely different program-hour, and it is
// 9570. 11910 is Beijing site, 11900 Kunming.
Has anyone ever unraveled
all the different CRI English program hours on which frequencies currently at
which times? Much of the content of course now comes from the domestic Easy FM
channel, and some of them annoyingly mix English and Chinese as if we were all
bilingual (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CUBA. 6100, May 3 at
0509, RHC at S9+10 of dead air instead of English, which does emanate from 6165,
at S9+10/20; 6000 too but undermodulated, during self-congratulatory spiel about
RHC`s 55th anniversary, tsk2. (SW started in Feb 1961 as La Onda Corta
Experimental Cubana; we remember it well on 11760, but not proclaimed as RHC
until May 1).
At this hour, 0500+, 5040 is still in Spanish, contrary to
Aoki and EiBi which both show English at 0500-0600*; maybe it is sometimes. If
5040 stay on another hour until 0700, that would normally be in English along
with all the other English frequencies. Such uncertainty about the language on
5040 has been rampant for a longtime (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** KOREA NORTH [non]. 5965, Tue May 3 at 1301, S4 very poor,
piano music and YL, i.e. Shiokaze from JAPAN on latest QSY. Tuesday language is
Japanese for both semi-hours per Ivo Ivanov.
BTW, the recently added
daily broadcast in Japanese at 1405-1435 he says is on new 7325! So much for the
CRI window allowing Wantok Radio Light to be heard. When will 1 kW WRL, PNG,
ever figure out that they should find a frequency without the Asian big`uns on
it?
Ivo says the other Shiokaze hour at 1600 is now on 6090, another
brand-new frequency for it. English is on both hours (or rather all four
semi-hours) Thursdays only.
This is from the ``FINAL EDITION`` #950 of
DX Re Mix News Bulgaria dated April 30, which will be sorely missed, altho Ivo
is continuing to send us various individual reports (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 6855.00, May 3 at 1253, weak S6 music, male
vocal song, a pirate at this unusual hour? No, must have been World Music, as
1259.5 WRMI Zanotti ID and 1300 switch to Brother HyStairical, so at least today
this is the replacement for 6915. Carrier still on 6855 at 1403. As of 1430 May
3, WRMI frequency schedule at
*still*
shows 6915, 24 hours for XMTR 5 at 285 degrees. AFAIK, 6915 had been 100% BS, no
WM, but the more World Music, the better, eating into The Overcomer
disservice.
Then here`s the scoop from Jeff White as of 1455 UT May
3:
``Glenn: 6915 has been replaced with 6855 because of US Army
interference complaint.
15560 was unintentional (2 x 7780) -- a tuning
error on the transmitter, which has been resolved.
9955 also had a
problem a few days ago, but it has also been resolved. Jeff`` (Glenn Hauser, OK,
DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 17774.998, May 3 at 1404, the SSOB by far
on 16m is KVOH, S9+20, but undermodulated and distorted. Normally it`s a JBA
carrier from *1400 as the F2 post-sunrise MUF struggles to surpass 17 MHz. So
this must now be thanx to some sporadic-E boost which will be happening more and
more from May thru July (and will occasionally reach VHF, surging to 108 MHz or
even more).
Nice confirmation of this at 1435 on the 6-meter maps
at
showing
contacts between Los Angeles/Lincoln, and Las Vegas/Lincoln area, Nebraska. One
may also switch the first one to 10 meters, and the second one has color-coded
lines on the same map for 28, 50, 70 and 144 MHz. By 1535 UT, there are a lot
more 6m contacts across the western USA and the MUF is 65 MHz per dxmaps.
Without Es, from 1400, 16m normally bears 17730 RHC as the SSOB, but now
it`s only S9, and 17790 WRMI is only S8 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
This report dispatched at 1625 UT May 3
