[Swprograms] RCI`s drastic schedule changes

[Glenn Hauser <wghauser@xxxxxxxxx>]

A day late, Nov 28, RCI posted its revamped schedules effective Nov 27. There
is now a continuous multilingual service on one frequency to USA (really
duplicating RCI+ on Sirius), and starting at 4 minutes and 45 seconds past each
hour (here rounded off to 5), 16 hours per day. 

Most notable is that ENGLISH HAS BEEN DRASTICALLY REDUCED. Furthermore, there
is no longer anything on the schedule relayed from CBC. The afternoon
broadcasts, including DNTO and Cross Country Checkup on weekends, are GONE! As
are the Saturday and Sunday morning broadcasts which included Vinyl Café,
Quirks & Quarks, and part of Sunday Edition. No As It Happens, No World At Six,
no nothing.

This is all that is left of RCI English on SW to USA:
0005-0205 Tu-Sa 9755 268 degrees (The Links)
0005-0105 Su/Mo 9755 268 degrees (Blink Sun, Maple Leaf Mailbag Mon)
1705-1905 Daily 9610 277 degrees (M-F The Links; Sat Blink; Sun MLM ---        
                        implying that the last two occupy 
                                  both hours each day?!)
However, the technical and program schedules disagree over what is on at
1505-1605: one says Spanish, the other English, and on Monday I did indeed hear
English, not monitored Tuesday. Probably confusion from the original French on
what E stands for, English or Espagnol.

New 7310, which Bernie O`Shea discovered testing a few weeks ago, is now on the
schedule, Sackville`s official entrée into the 40m band. 

Here is the full lineup of RCI+ relays, and whatever the language, they are
aimed at the USA!

1205-1305 7310 277 NE USA Arabic
1305-1405                 Spanish
1405-1505 9610 277 NE USA Chinese
1505-1605                 Spanish (English!)
1605-1705                 Russian (Ukrainian Sat/Sun 1635-1705)
1705-1905                 English
1905-2005                 French
2005-2105                 Arabic
2105-2205 6100 268 NE USA French
2205-2305                 Chinese
2305-2400 [sic]           Spanish
0005-0205 9755 268 C USA  English except:
0105-0135                 Portuguese Sun & Mon
0135-0205                 Ukrainian Sun & Mon
0205-0305                 Chinese
0305-0405                 Spanish

RCI`s English and other language broadcasts to other worldparts seem about the
same, including English hours to Africa at 18, Europe at 21, including some
Sackville frequencies we can hear.

Around 1355 Nov 28 I ran across Spanish on 7310, but did not realize it was
RCI. Also, Nov 27 observations of DRM in the mornings on 9800 are now explained
as that is now running // 9610 between 1505 and 2004 according to the schedule.

All this info was extracted from the new schedules in pdf:
http://www.rcinet.ca/rci/PDF/RCI-TECH-B06-en.pdf
http://www.rcinet.ca/rci/PDF/B06_SW.pdf
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)


 
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