World of Radio

** AUSTRALIA. 17750, June 19 at 0510, RA in English saying “it was a bit long“, long pause, then Indonesian, so it`s a LL; 0511 jingle and says “English lesson from Australia“, I think. Poor signal way offbeam here (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BRAZIL. 11780, June 19 at 0506, RNA madrugada show with only fair instead of …

CALENDAR OF SW SPECIALS & FAREWELLS Since a lot is happening in the next few weeks, I have put together a day-by-day schedule so we don`t miss important events in the history of broadcasting. Besides re-posting it to various DX groups, the latest updates will be here:http://www.w4uvh.net/calendar.html(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BRAZIL. 6180 and 11780, June 18 at …

** BRAZIL [and non]. 6180, June 17 at 0434, no RNA tonight tho it`s VG on 11780; instead just something in English, no doubt DW RWANDA (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CANADA [and non]. 6080, June 17 at 0517, CRI English via Sackville on wrong frequency again, instead of 6190 this hour; did not change from 6080 which …

** CHINA. Firedrake June 16, only one found in non-exhaustive check:15545, poor at 1233 with flutter (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** COSTA RICA. 17700-18000, June 15 at 1846, REE relay on 17850 is outputting modulation spike spurs to this 300 kHz extent, worst in the 17855-17900 range (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CYPRUS. 21600-21625, June 16 …

** AUSTRALIA. 4835, June 15 at 1158 immediately after WWCR cuts off 4840, with BFO I can detect a JBA carrier here, no doubt VL8A on its extended 60m schedule. Earlier around 1120 shortly after sunrise, I could also detect a JBA carrier on 2325, no doubt VL8T. BTW, the NT frequencies are still absent from HFCC along with RA …

** CANADA [non?]. 15455, June 14 at 0534 very surprised to find a station in Spanish here, soon obviously RCI with Canadian news stories about the Chinese guy whose body parts were mailed around the country, then RCI ID, `Canadá en las Américas`, totally wrong time for Latin America, most of which is after local midnite. Fairly good signal, could …

** MEXICO. Es analog TV DX June 10, continued, UT: 1726 on 2, I was aiming NW toward CANADA as last seen, but now there`s video in Spanish, so back to south. Political ad for PRI presidential candidate Peña Nieto. Getting dirty with laughter at names of many competing candidates, Alianza logo xed out; further adstring 1726 on 4, algo …

** CANADA. Sporadic E analog TV DX is starting to show at 1500 UT June 10; G7IZU 6-meter Es map shows lots of contacts centering over northern Indiana and vicinity. By 1510 I can tell it`s from the NE to the N in English on ch 2 and best on 4 with ads; also video on 3 and 5. Ch …

** CANADA. 6080 // 6020, June 9 at 0450 check, Sackville has CRI English relay on two correct frequencies, instead of 7305 as employed 24 hours earlier while nothing was on 6080 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) See also KOREA SOUTH [non] ** CHINA. Firedrake June 9, the only one I had time to find:15435, fair at 1203, het …

** BOLIVIA. 6134.8, June 8 at 0148 weak music audible here with heavy QRM from the TADIL-A bonker on the lo side, constant intruder into the exclusive 49m SWBC band, and lots of storm noise on the band. Is well-known off-frequency of R. Santa Cruz, and I have no doubt this is it. BFO did not help much; music ran …

** CANADA. 15235, June 6 at 1900, RCI in Arabic, very poor, while 17735 is much better in French. 17735 is the only scheduled Sackville frequency for French; I was misled by the HFCC schedule athttp://www.hfcc.org/data/schedbybrc.php?seas=A12&broadc=RCIwhich shows language “FrA“ at 1900-2000 on 15235, while RCI`s own schedule reminds us it`s really on the air only for the first half hour …

** CANADA [and non]. Since the NHK relay at 0500 on 6110 has been missing since May 31, still absent June 6, I check whether any of the RCI frequencies are missing too from Sackville, June 5: At 1957, 17735 is on in French making SAH with Tunisia in Arabic; but nothing on the only listed // 15235; however it …