** AUSTRALIA [and non]. 9580, 12085, 12065, Aug 14 at 1236 check, RADIO
AUSTRALIA IS STILL MISSING. 7245, RNZI is audible, poorly. Aug 7 was the last
date I or anyone heard Radio Australia, and before that not all frequencies were
active, so it`s now been gone for a week (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** EGYPT. 12085.058, Aug 14 at 0430, S9+10 R. Cairo is extremely
distorted and overmodulated Arabic, also wobbling slightly (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** GREECE. 9420, Aug 14 at at 0540, Greek Orthodox
chanting on this Sunday morning, but only S5 (Glenn Hauser, OOK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** GUAM. 9975, Aug 14 at 1243, good signal with music but gone at
1246. Aoki shows it`s KTWR, since this is Sunday, the weekly Japanese broadcast
at 1215-1245, and supposed to resume at 1332 in Chinese, per the convoluted
schedule (Glenn Hauser, OK DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MADAGASCAR. 9480, Aug
14 at 0402, African Pathways Radio is playing an American anti-war protest song
of the past, ``Turn, Turn, Turn``; 0406 reaffirming that you get a wide variety
of topix during this magazine hour, on to discouraging the dowry tradition. Good
signal, one of the best on 31m (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
**
NEW ZEALAND [and non]. 11725, Aug 14 at 0520, RNZI is VG with discussion of
Spinoza --- now there`s a philosopher with an excellent outlook on religion.
0537 outro as having been `Heart & Soul` from BBCWS. Finally found the
original episode from last week at:
``Benedict
Spinoza - A Philosopher for Our Time --- Heart and Soul
We live in
fearful times. All over the world renewed wars of religion are being fought.
Politicians exploit our fears of one another in order to win power. 350 years
ago, the philosopher Benedict Spinoza put his very, big brain to work on the
problem of religion in politics. His theories led to the Enlightenment and its
ideas of democracy and the separation of Church and State in the role of
government. To do this he had to argue that God was not the God of the Bible.
Spinoza’s reward: excommunication. But no threat could stop him imagining a new
kind of liberty.
Michael Goldfarb tells the story of Spinoza with the
help of philosophers and musicians in a programme that will make listeners think
and reflect on the big questions of life, the universe and our place in it``
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** SUDAN [and non]. 11645, Aug 14
at 0439, R. Dabanga via VATICAN is still here, despite Aoki still showing it on
11650, where it started the season until shifting to escape the jammers. The
jammers must believe Aoki, or not even turn on a radio to check, since a whole
bunch of carriers are clustered harmlessly mostly above 11650. Difficult to sort
them out to exact frequencies as they beat against each other, but approx.:
11648.8, 11650, 11651.25, 11652.7, 11654 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** TURKEY. 11980.040, Aug 14 at 0412, great Turkish music, mostly
vocal on TRT with S9+20 signal but fluttery, only adding to the mystique. By
0435 it`s mostly Turkish talk; more music at 0515 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. WORLD OF RADIO 1838 monitoring: confirmed on
WA0RCR, 1860-AM, UT Sunday August 14 at 0312, already at Australia item so
started circa 0310. Good S9+20 reception tonight, not too much storm noise, and
I measure it on 1860.09. 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 [to be pre-empted]
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. 3215, UT Sunday August 14 at 0348, something axually
worth listening to on WWCR: classical guitar music, and then some classical
piano. Unseems sacred at all, but at 0355 a YL sings an ``Anglican hymn`` for
about a minute and then preaches until, without any program identification, 0359
cut to WWCR ID, and 0400 `Classic Radio Theater` from the USA network, opening
with Dragnet theme, but then introducing the Aug 5, 1948 episode of `Suspense`.
Before 0400, this is contrary to WWCR-1`s own schedule, which on Saturday nights
is supposed to be two hours of `Golden Age of Radio` from USA network at 03-05.
Note also the contradixion in that program title (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
This report dispatched at 1542 UT August 14
