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DX/SWL/MEDIA PROGRAMS
further updating as season develops, as of Nov 9:
http://www.worldofradio.com/dxpgms.html
** CUBA. 6000, Nov 9 at 0040, RHC Spanish probably // 11950 but JBA
for `Mesa Redonda` TV audio; something`s always wrong at RHC; into MO
SDR where there is as yet nothing on 6165 or 6145; no detailed survey,
but NAm English now probably starts around 0100 on the two sixes.
Meanwhile, The Other Side: ``Will tourism return to Cuba, as the regime hopes? 'It is important
to remember that the tourism influx had already started to decline
before Covid-19.'
Roberto Álvarez Quiñones, Los Ángeles 08 Nov 2021 - 17:10 CET Raúl Castro, his assistant Miguel Díaz-Canel and the entire Cuban
ruling mafia seem to believe that once the doors to international
tourism swing open on November 15, jubilant vacationers from all over
the world will travel en masse to the island. They are wrong. They still have not grasped that July 11, 2021 marked
the beginning of the end of Castroism as we know it today. They do not
understand what is happening in the country, that its economic, social
and political crisis is already irreversible, and that they cannot
deal with it with the same bravado of half a century ago, without
paying a price, since they no longer have any political-ideological
capital...``
https://diariodecuba.com/cuba/1636387829_35403.html
(Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** CUBA. 11880, Nov 9 at 2159, I make a point of hunting for RHC`s
second English broadcast of the day, expected to have shifted an hour
earlier to 2200-2300, and last known frequency 11880, but may be about
to change. NO signal. Until 2208 I bandscan the entire 15, 13, 11, 9
and 7 MHz bands and still find it nowhere, notably not on previously
used channels 13680, 11880, 9720, 7380. Recheck at 2229 still the same
situation. One more check at 2256: RHC English is just ending, JBA
with some signal cutsoffandon. So it came on sometime in past semihour
if not just now. Outro at 2300 as `Arts Roundup` of Hour 1, plug Hour
2 but it never follows right now. Tomorrow`s Hour 2 will include
mailbag. Then what? 11880 carrier stays on with dead air past 2325;
altho yesterday as I reported, that succeeded in Frenching.
Something`s always wrong at RHC. Back to 2200, checking out Spanish frequencies: tarde sign on with the
same old set: tuned to 15370 first, which is very distorted and
splattering over a 30-kHz range; after a tail of choking Arabic at
2159. ``15370, 13740, 11760, 11850, 9535, 9710, 5040`` and they are
all heard at divergent levels of strength and modulation except 5040
unchecked. Notably, 11850 is JBM and suptorted, 13740 undermodulated,
9710 distorted, 9535 always weakest. BTW, no signals, yet? in any
languages on 15730, 15230, 11670. Something`s always wrong at RHC, X4
at least. I knew it would be pointless, but for the record, then checking RHC
website for frequency schedules:
https://www.radiohc.cu/en/de-interes/frecuencias
where they are for B-*20*, starting 17 November 2020; they never even
got around to putting up A-21 schedules. Something`s always wrong at
RHC. That was the third Tuesday, 3+ weeks after B-20 really started,
and 2+ weeks after DST ended in Cuba running dog same date as Yanqui
Imperialism. So a similar pattern this year would mean a delay until
November 16 --- if ever. Until then maybe Arnie or someone be alert
for conflicts requiring adjustments, having refused to participate in
HFCC for fear of needing to negotiate with --- ugh --- Americans. Someone recently asked me to explain why some SW stations are so lax
in keeping their own schedules accurate. I replied, who knows? but
perhaps a combination of bureaucracy, incompetence, low morale; to
which I should add: sabotage (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** CUBA. 6000 & 6165, Nov 10 at 0118, RHC English now on here,
somewhat undermodulated, better on 6165; during Chief Meterologist
weather for the Americas, the first evening hour to NAm now from 0100.
Something`s always wrong at RHC (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** KASHMIR [non]. 15170, Tue Nov 9 at 1600, checking weekly Kashmir
Citivas via IRRS via Romania: UTwente is out of order so trying
various Kiwi SDRs: Kernow in SW UK has it S9 with a bit of English at
first then abnormally deep voice in Urdu/or/Kashmiri: is it slowed
down or processed, robotic? With understrumming. Also a good chance to check how well K.C. reach nearest SDR to that
target: New Delhi: JBA carrier! Tsk2. At 1608 it`s fading out at UK.
At 1614 I back up to Kuwait where it`s still a night path but a couple
hours earlier than India: S9+5 at first with occasional English terms
uttered. But this too is fading out. I then check Cyprus but zero
signal there. At 1627-1629* music JBA at Kuwait. Kiwi map shows
terminator now leaves only Iberia and SW Ireland before sunset (Glenn
Hauser, OK, WOR) ** U S A [and non]. WORLD OF RADIO 2111 monitoring, next:
1030 UT Wednesday WRMI 5850 to NW
2200 UT Wednesday WBCQ 7490v to WSW [ex 2100]
0130 UT Thursday WRMI 9395 to NNW [ex 0030]
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Glenn Hauser, PO Box 1684, Enid OK 73702 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** U S A. (7489.9v), UT Tue Nov 9 at 0030 after semi-repeat of `UBMP`
on WBCQ webcast, `Camp Constitution Radio` theme ditty and then insert
another commercial for something else, AshleyHomeStore.com, apparently
this week`s airtime sponsor. Never heard of it, something local? No,
even 3X in OKC, and website shows at least one store and in some
states many, in 48 states including AK & HI - so only two conterminous
must be missing but I have better things to do than figure out which.
It`s for far-right furniture customers (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) ** U S A. 6160-, Nov 9 at 0037 check, zero signal of this WBCQ into
Missouri SDR. Believe it must be totally off the air as it was last
night for WORLD OF RADIO, because now on same remote the other BCQs:
4790 TOMBS S9/S7; 7490 minus 88 Hz = 7489.912 is S8-S6. 3265 also
zero. On A61 webcast at 0000 had heard the Jean Shepherd theme starting.
This week`s content:
http://zappahead.net/#2021-1108-area61
Area 61 for 8-11 November 2021
Tune in Monday through Thursday at 7PM US eastern time on WBCQ 6.160
MHz. You can listen to us on the internet at
http://splatterbox.us/area51
I see that all open with a Shepherd show matching the same date in
various longago years, 1965, 1972, 1966, 1974. 6160-, Nov 9 at 2228, back on the air, VP with TOMBS. Note to editors:
please do not ``correct`` frequencies with a hyphen after them. I mean
it`s obviously off-frequency-minus, but without bothering to be
precise (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR) This report dispatched at 0147 UT November 10
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