[HCDX]: DX Listening Digest 00-10 Jan 21
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[HCDX]: DX Listening Digest 00-10 Jan 21
DX LISTENING DIGEST 00-10, January 21, 2000
EDITED BY GLENN HAUSER
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WORLD OF RADIO ON WWCR: Two new times, perhaps temporary, have been
found: Fri 1030 on 7435, UT Sat 0400 on 3215. The 1030 was confirmed
already Jan 21, the signal not solid here, but how is it in Asia,
Pacific? Must have started a few minutes late, ending at 1100:20 but
QSY to 12160 waited till WOR was over.
CONTINENT OF MEDIA 00-01 as of Jan 20 is available at
http://www.DXing.com as well as via RFPI
** ANGUILLA. The insufferable arrogance of Dr Gene Scott has reached
new levels, with his total takeover of the 25 meter band. His owned
and operated 100 kW transmitter here on 11775, somewhat
undermodulated on the fundamental, has been putting distorted
modulation-spike-spurs audible all the way from 11700 to 12065, when
checked around 1210 Jan 21. While worst up to 11865 or so, they were
strong enough to bother such major signals as WYFR on 11725, 11830,
VOA on 11890, and even the lesser signal from himself via Costa Rica
on 11870+. At first DGS was being consecutively translated into
Portuguese; an hour later his screaming and yelling did not help the
modulation level. This eclipses Cuba`s piddling problems at the same
time with 11760 bothering only plus/minus 10 kHz, and even Romania`s
spurs throughout the 16 meter band. This needs to be fixed, and
quick! DGS now seems to mean: Dirtiest Goddamn Spurs (Glenn Hauser,
OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** AUSTRALIA. 21720, Radio Australia 2331-0001 Test transmission?
"Waltzing Matilda" interval-signal non-stop except for brief breaks
at 2345 and 2352. Not parallel to 21740; unknown site. SINPO 25444.
Gave up at 0001 UTC, still going (Bill Flynn, OR, Jan 14, Cumbre DX
via DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** AUSTRALIA. (Cumbre 278 followup) Radio Australia. After the
logging of a Radio Australia test on 21720 by Bill Flynn I sent an
email to Nigel Holmes, Transmission Manager for RA. He tells me that
detail can't be released yet but other frequencies to check on are
9580 and 9850 during Australian daylight hours. He also states that
these tests are not affecting transmissions from Shepparton, Brandon
or Taiwan. I guess that leaves us to assume a separate site, so I
suppose Darwin is the obvious choice. (Richard Jary, Australia, Jan
21, Cumbre DX via DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** AUSTRALIA [et al.] The BBC Monitoring Service has a section which
identifies potential news items for the upcoming week or so.
It's at http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/caversham/index.htm
Most of the entries are political in nature, e.g. Politician/
Delegation X is to visit country Y. There are many items listed; some
are more interesting than others. January 26, says the listing, is
Australia Day. That might be an interesting time to tune in 9580 kHz
over breakfast (or the previous evening- on 21740) here in NAm
(John Grimley, ODXA, Toronto, swprograms via DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** BOLIVIA. Radio Juan XXIII, San Ignacio de Velasco is now on 6055
[ex-4965 as planned], heard Jan 20 at 2300, but somewhat difficult
with heterodynes. I don`t know how well this will work in the target
area (Rogildo Fontenelle Aragao, Cochabamba, member of DX Clube
Paulista, in Feb to be renamed DX Clube do Brasil, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** CANADA. C'EST LA VIE: This week on C'est La Vie, the world of
translation. Meet a simultaneous interpreter, and find out what goes
through her head when she's translating a conference. Also, an award-
winning literary translator. How does she manage to convey the soul
of a play when she translates it? That's all on C'est La Vie, with
Bernard St-Laurent, tonight at 7:30 (8:00 NT) on CBC Radio One. (CBC
Hotsheet) That`s UT Sat Jan 22 at 0029 on RCI 5960, 9755 (Hauser, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** CANADA. ROOTS & WINGS: This week on Roots and Wings, host Philly
Markowitz has a funkadelic show, featuring the smoke- and honey-
voiced Oliver Mtukudzi from Zimbabwe, plus music about horses from
Vietnam and the Dominican Republic, including a merengue version of
"Ghost Riders in the Sky" ! That's on Roots and Wings, Sunday evening
at 5:05 (5:35 NT) on CBC Radio Two. (CBC Hotsheet) That`s UT Mon Jan
24 0005 on RCI 5960, 9755 (Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CANADA. Hi, I didn't realize until yesterday that the Town of
Sackville, New Brunswick, had its own website. If you want to realize
that there's more to the place than just the RCI transmitter site,
you can check out http://www.sackville.com
The only (small) entry concerning RCI has a couple of mistakes in it,
at the moment. I've e-mailed them about that, though. 73- (Bill
Westenhaver, Jan 20, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CLIPPERTON. The Clipperton 2000 team plans to depart San Diego Feb
23 and be operational from March 1 with four HF stations, one for 6
meters, and one for satellite. Frequencies to watch are:
50115, 28475, 24945, 21295, 18145, 14195, 7065 e 3795 kHz in SSB;
50115, 28025, 24895, 21025, 18145, 14025, 10106, 7005, 3505 and 1827
kHz in CW; 21080 and 14080 kHz in RTTY.
The team is made up of: G0LMX, HB9AHL, JK7TKE, K3VN, K4UEE, KK6EK,
N6MZ, N7CQQ, N9NS, N9TK, ON4WW, VE5RA and 9V1YC. Operations will
conclude March 8 and the group will leave the next day. QSL via John
Kennon N7CQQ, PO Box 31553, Laughlin, Nevada 89028, USA. More info at
http://www.qsl.net/clipperton2000 (John Kennon N7CQQ via 425 DX News
via Radio Incontro Jan 21 via DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** ECUADOR. HCJB is the latest victim of R. Marti. 11960 in Spanish
at 1219 Jan 21 suffered from R. Marti audio mix and Cuban bubble
jamming, both second harmonics of 5980 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. FCC Approves Low-Power FM Radio. Wash Post Jan 21.
http://washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/WPlate/2000-01/21/137l-012100-idx.html
(via Chet Copeland, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
Hi Glenn! Here's a piece on the FCC's move to allow low-power FM
xmtrs. Pirate radio goes legit By Fiona Morgan Jan. 19, 2000
http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2000/01/20/radio/index.html
(Bill Westenhaver, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
See FCC`s LPFM website at http://www.fcc.gov/mmb/prd/lpfm (via Eric
Cooper, NRC, via DX LISTENING DIGEST) If you can; it is rather busy
and slow to load today! (Hauser) ###
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