** CANADA. 1610, May 17 at 0500 UT, music seems Spanish, and also a second carrier making a slight beat, both looping NE/SW. CHHA Toronto, Voces Latinas, is usual dominator here. 3-year-old program grid at http:///chha1610am.ca merely shows `All-Night Music`, but as of last August log, heard in Portuguese Portuguese, and could also be Punjabi which is hardly Latin.
I would love to get XEUACH, but probably has migrated to 1130 by now. More likely than a TIS is CHRN Montreal in almost the same direxion as Toronto which easily bloxit. How far apart are they? MW Offsets as of Oct 2018 showed CHRN on 1609.9987, CHHA on 1609.9995, i.e. only 0.8 Hz difference (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CUBA. 5040, May 17 at 0530, RHC English is suptorted here at S9+40; // 6060 modulation good as usual; 6100 less loud; 6165 & 6000 JBM. Something`s always wrong at RHC.
12200, May 17 at 0543, RHC English JBA with ``Chariots of Fire`` theme to `Cultural Report`, // 6100 as this second harmonic beats the nightmiddle MUF. NO signals where 2 x other frequencies would land: 12330, 12120-RTTY, 12000. Something`s always wrong at RHC.
9535, May 17 at 0538, RHC English JBA // 6060. This one is never supposed to be in English but sometimes stays on late after Spanish to 0500. Something`s always wrong at RHC.
6100, May 17 at 1149, RHC is S9+10 but JBM, while // 6000 is S9+10 and undermodulated. Neither provides a second harmonic now; something`s always wrong at RHC (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** KOREA SOUTH. 6350, May 17 at 1153, romantic solo song, maybe even in English, S8-S9 with jamming CCI; similar on 6600 but not positively // with less QRM. 6350 is Echo of Hope, while 6600 is Voice of the People. Both operated by the National Intelligence Service, from different sites, and supposedly with separate programming as clandestines into North Korea (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MEXICO. 610, May 17 at 1121 UT, 2 minutes before LSR, Spanish DJ and lively music from SW, presumed XEGS Guasave, Sinaloa, slowly losing out to KCSP, under which I can still hear a choral NA at 1132.
650, May 17 at 1121, XETNT Los Mochis, Sinaloa, with different Spanish DJ wakeup show, 1129 ``Buenos Días, Yarderos --- Radio 65``, and NA, 1131 back to music. Loops same as sibling 610 station. This is stronger and holds up longer than XEGS. XETNT callsign seldom heard and not today. By this late at sunrise, when I would have preferred to sleep another two hours, the only two audible XEs on the lower band (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** NEW ZEALAND [and non]. 6170, May 17 at *1259:10, RNZI bellbird, S9, 1300 Timesignal and RNZP News, first day of new frequency to avoid Shiokaze clash on ex-5980; as Adrian Sainsbury had informed me a few hours before, after I notified him of the problem. No QRM now as Pyongyang is away for the A-season.
Back on 5980 & 6040, Shiokaze manages only JBA carriers this far into the dayside, but the collision was terrible further west as Ron Howard had reported from California (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 1160, May 17 at 1205 UT TexMexmx, with fast SAH, 1210 fade, 1212 back with slow SAH; 1213 ad for Rio Bravo Supermarket, and finefoods.com?; another ad harder to understand by super-hype voice actor. Loops NE/SW. The only possible SS around here (no more San Antonio) is KCTO, CoL Cleveland MO (address in Liberty, i.e. Kansas City market), and in fact Rio Bravo Supermarket chex out in Kansas City KS (also Wichita). KCTO is 5 kW aiming only north, so hard to believe I`m getting it so well, as I have a few years before (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 9200, May 17 at 0532, mystery open carrier again, S9-S6 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 15730, May 17 at 1303-1305* open carrier S7-S9, likely Greenville-B routine transmitter check prior to VOA French at 2000-2030 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
This report dispatched at 1628 UT May 17
[previous report at 0254 May 17, not 16]
