** CANADA. 15034-USB, March 20 at 2156, CHR, Trenton Military`s own clock is
*still* 61 minutes slow, despite the shift to DST March 12. Announces current
time as ``2055`` and then goes on to aviation weather conditions from Cold Lake
timestamped ``2100 zulu`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
**
CUBA. 15370, March 20 at 2155, RHC in Spanish music // 13740, 11840, etc., and
17730 is not heard. I am trying to locate the third airing of the weekly Sunday
Esperanto semihour. Which until the DST change had been at 2130 on 15370, a few
weeks before having moved from 2230 on 17730, bumping what would otherwise be a
daily French service. But unfound before 2200; how about after 2230? I start
monitoring again at 2226 when the ``18-minute`` (before it`s time for En
Contacto to start by 2244) Filatelia show is starting on 15370, 13740, 11760,
9710, 9535-vs MWV Chinese. No Esperanto then either. So when & where is
it??
11880, however, is S9 of open carrier/dead air at 2206, and still so
past 2230; finally in English after 2300. That would have been a convenient
place to stick in Esperanto at 2230. Different next day; read on.
While
I`m at it, circa 2230 UT March 19, with two receivers, I compare which
frequencies are making an echo against 15370: 15230 (but which goes into
Portuguese by 2233), 9710 and 9535, indicating they are from a different site.
The others mentioned above are synchronized with 15370, i.e. from same site it
is (Bejucal or Bauta or Quivicán, but which is which? Listings are not
necessarily etched in stone, nor non-contradictory. Only Arnie knows for sure
and he isn`t saying.)
6000, UT Monday March 20 at 0640, RHC with Arnie
on `DXers Unlimited` talking about how we have zero sunspots lately, plugging
his favorite T2FD antenna for SW, much like he was doing in Spanish on `En
Contacto`.
You never know how the 4 or 5 English frequencies will
compare from one night to the next. Tonight, both 6000 & 6100 are very
undermodulated, compensated by 6060 being over-modulated! And 6165 is VG, loud
and clear, much like 6100 has usually been; did they swap transmitters? 5040 is
off.
11880, Monday March 21 at 2200 tune-in, RHC is *ending* the English
broadcast. Have they really moved it to start at 2100 so this has been running
for an hour; or a miscue? Instead of or in addition to English at 23-24? 2201
opening French at a temperature of 24 degrees, but no kHz, instead of dead air
this hour yesterday; and at 2250 check in Portuguese, presumably from
2230.
It seems that RHC does not dare to announce frequencies within each
language broadcast, since they risk being outdated or totally wrong due to
mixups! Except Esperanto, where indeed they are all wrong. Not even in Spanish
have I heard one, but maybe just missed, as they used to do so, not completely
correctly, at major frequency changeover times. We never hear them in English
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** SPAIN. 9690 // 15500 //
15390, March 20 at 2155, REE is frequently announcing its new schedule effective
March 26, including now:
M-F 18-22 to
West Africa/South Atlantic on
15390
South America on 17715
North America on 17855
Indian Ocean/Middle
East/?? somewhere else on 15520
Sat & Sun 14-18 to
West
Africa/South Atlantic on 21620
Sat & Sun 18-22 to
West Africa/South
Atlantic on 15390
Sat & Sun 18-22 to
South America on
17715
North America on 17855
Indian Ocean/Middle East/?? somewhere else on
15520
Note 15520 replaces 15500, altho both have been registered for
A-17.
That`s a cumbersome way to organize it, but they always do so.
Announcement not found on a fourth frequency, 11685, reminding us that at any
given time, one or even two of the four frequencies may be AWOL. 17855 was
generally very good for us all day last summer, so let`s hope despite minimal
solar activity that will yet continue (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** U S A. WORLD OF RADIO 1869 monitoring: confirmed Sunday March
19 at 2330 on WBCQ, 9330v-CUSB. Also confirmed UT Monday March 20 from 0301 on
Area 51 webcast, and on WBCQ 5129.8-AM, poor at 0329 before finished. Also
confirmed on WRMI 9955 webcast, UT Monday March 20 at 0345, after only a JBA
carrier was audible at 0330 on 9955. Also confirmed Monday March 20 at 2330 on
WBCQ 9330v-CUSB, fair. Also confirmed UT Tuesday March 21 at 0030 on WRMI 7730,
very good. Next:
Tue 1100 WRMI 9955 to SSE, 6855 to WNW
Tue 2130 WRMI
15770 to NE, 6855 to WNW
Tue 2330 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB to WSW
Wed 1030 WRMI
5850 to NW, 6855 to WNW
Wed 1315.5 WRMI 9955 to SSE, 6855 to WNW
Wed 2100
WBCQ 7490v to WSW
Wed 2330 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB to WSW
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 9395, Sunday March 20 at 2325, this WRMI is
playing end of `Wavescan`, same episode from 2300 as on 9395 earlier today after
1300. Two more to be added to the DX/SWL/MEDIA PROGRAMS schedule (but will they
stick, week after week, without any published schedule?)
6855, Sunday
March 19 at 2328, `In Christ We Live` seems to be program title, at closing? No
full schedule for this frequency, nor is it shown on any other frequency at this
or any time, but it is one of the shows listed on WRMI`s Programming page, as
from Niagara Falls NY/St David`s Ont., without any time details.
5850
& 7730, Monday March 20 around 0630, jazz music with drumming, audience. Not
`Jazz from the Left`, but now on sked for UT Monday 06-07 is something called
`Teachers Corner`. (6855 is not // but Qur`an instead). It is found on the 9955
schedule for Monday 21-22, already replacing `Noches con Mirka`, but she remains
on Wed & Fri during that hour. `Teachers Corner` is now also listed for Mon
21-22 on 15770, Mon 22-23 on 5950 (which is usually also on 11580,
6855?)
But what is it really about? Not jazz music, it seems, so maybe
what I heard was not really it? There is this long writeup about it at the
bottom of the Programming page, probably meaning it`s the latest
addition:
``"Teachers Corner" actually started for me in 1975. No
kidding! I was a thirteen year old interested in radio and communication. I
listened to a lot of shortwave broadcasts from an old radio my father bought for
me. Voice of America, Radio Moscow, Radio France International, etc, etc, etc,
filled my log book. I guess it filled a fascination with traveling and far away
places, at the time. Not to mention a mail box full of QSL cards! Well, the
fascination turned into a hobby (Amateur Radio – WB9WNW) and by the time I was
sixteen years old turned into an enlistment into the military (United States
Navy – Cryptography).
My dreams of far away places turned into reality
and by the old age of twenty five I had visited and or lived in 16 countries. A
big constant in all the travel and meeting different people from different
cultures was International Broadcasting. I enjoyed listening to the differing
opinions and presentations of the radio personalities and the landscape they
painted over the radio.
Sometime later in my life, I met a very
interesting man from the city where I am home based (Raleigh, North Carolina).
He explained that he was an International TEFL Teacher. He told me that he was
teaching English in Austria and had a very rewarding career.
I was
immediately interested and wondered if such a career would work for me.
Teaching, travel and new experiences were the key to my interest in this TEFL
stuff. It is a great fit. After being TEFL Certified in 2010 I have taught
extensively in the Czech Republic (Pardubice) and China (Zhujian Province).
Teaching young learners through adult age students brought me great satisfaction
and enjoyment.
I really wanted to tie this occupation of TEFL Teaching
and Shortwave Broadcasting together. While I was in China, I thought of a SW
Program dedicated to International Teachers and Educators for entertainment and
informational reasons. I really did not recognize any stations doing this type
of format or programming. International Teachers and Educators can be somewhat
isolated in their locations and an open medium that reaches out to them,
wherever they may be, seems helpful and appropriate.
"Teachers Corner"
can be a place for active listeners to be a part of a larger community than they
currently know exists. Worldwide listeners active in Education and Teaching can
share and exchange information from their personal experiences and knowledge as
well as appreciate the entertainment value. Hopefully the concept and production
of "Teachers Corner" will garnish [sic] enough interest to keep the program "On
The Air" and be of benefit to all listeners, wherever they may be. Timothy
Cordray / Teachers Corner
You can hear Teachers Corner on WRMI at the
following times and frequencies:
* 0600-0700 UT Monday on 7730 kHz to
Mexico, the Pacific and the Southwestern US
* 5:00-6:00 pm ET Monday on 9955
kHz to South America (this is 2100-2200 UT Monday until Nov. 2017)
*
2100-2200 UT Monday on 11580 kHz to Europe, Middle East, North Africa and the
Eastern US [cf shown on grid as 15770 instead --- gh]
* 2200-2300 UT Monday
on 5950 kHz to the Caribbean and South America``
I still ask, teaching
what? English? Cryptography? Jazz? He doesn`t spell it out, but I guess TEFL
means Teaching English as Foreign Language (only). Can you do that without
learning the local language?
11580, March 20 at 2250 check, WRMI music
sounds ``new age``, so strongly suspect Fred Moe`s `Christian New Age Radio` is
still getting bonus repeats of its second broadcast from November, every Monday
during this unscheduled semihour which also may be // 5950, even 6855, but too
weaks to tell. Oops, `Teachers Corner` is supposed to be on 5950 now, as just
above (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 7200-LSB,
March 20 at 2211, chicken cackling and rooster crowing, mixed with strumming
music, a jhammer no doubt against some net, and then they all go silent for a
bit. Perhaps such nonsense was also being referred to in this commentary Mike
Terry forwarded, WTFK?
"SHOCKED AT WHAT I HEAR ON HF"
Bryan Beam
(W4HLD) on February 16, 2017
HF?
Is he implying everything`s much nicer on VHF? Why? Also, I wonder
if CW ops
bother to swear as much?
7210-LSB also checked at 2213 March 20, but some
QSO in English rather than N1NR in Spanish with Cuban jhamming (Glenn Hauser, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 11435-USB & 11415-USB, March 20 at
1337 pileups on both by presumed Indonesian QSO pirates. On 11435, one of them
is shouting ``radio`` ---- something over and over, maybe an ``ID``, but can`t
understand the following word (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
This report dispatched at 0113 UT March 21
