BC-DX TopNews WWDXC #945 BC-DX 945

kHz, and how! Supposedly scheduled only at 00-02, but May 24 at 2351 tune
in, it's already on covering at least 9625-9635, goodbye CBC NQ. Next
check 0128, the DRM so strong it's audible all the way from 9620 to 9655!
DRM Consortium claims the bandwidth is strictly 'only' 10 kHz, dropping
off sharply above and below that range. It probably would have been
detected below 9620 if it were not for some strong AM signals there unlike
the 9650 area. DRM is doubtless spreading to 9620, where it interferes
with: REE direct from Spain!! Way to go.
The new DRM transmitter is still not funxioning properly when in the AM
mode (presumably this is the one, unless they still have the old one
operational for a total of four now). May 25 at 1315 UT, very strong 15170
kHz has continuous crackle, which also produces the spiky spurs, this time
audible depending on modulation peaks, roughly plus and minus 70 kHz,
15100-15240 kHz.
(Glenn Hauser-OK-USA, dxld May 25)
CUBA RHC in Spanish at 2220 UT May 24, 15370 S=9+20dB and two spurious
on 15335-15341 / 15404-15408 kHz. 15380 S=7-8. 12030 S=7, speech to the
crowd and accomp echo, words heard 1 second later underneath as repeat.
17705 2230-2300 UT in Guarani, S=4 towards Paraguay.
9640 S=9+10dB signal of Spanish program "Mesa Redonda" from La Habana, nx
on CLM, BOL, PRU, MEX etc. at 2344 UT May 24. // 6000 kHz at S=9+20dB
level.
(wb, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews May 24)
15370 - the RHC transmitter with the spurs in Spanish at 2100-2300 to
Europe, is also on the previous hour, 2000 in Portuguese, 2030 in Arabic,
so May 21 at 2042 UT I find its main whiny spur on 15409.5 kHz and a
weaker one JBA around 15330.
At 2045 in Arabic mentioned Maximo Gomez, one of the original
revolutionary figures who would later have a clandestine channel of La Voz
del CID named for him. BTW, it should have been La Voz *de* CID as there
was nothing masculine about it (Cuba Independiente y Democratica). But
they were probably trying to evoke El Cid. A recent report from Cuba says
CID is active in the DentroCuban opposition, but we wonder if it's now
only a sham.
12060, DCJC pulsing at the rate of 4 times per second, fading in and out,
the second harmonic of one of the jammers on 6030 against R. Marti but
which?
5040, RHC missing at 0140 May 22, tho Rebelde 5025 was good as usual. On
the DX-398 with reel-out antenna and AC power, I could hear RHC English
weakly on 5070, so it took the huge signal on 5970 to produce such an
image on this receiver; nothing else 900 kHz below other 49m frequencies
was audible.
6000 also in English at 0149, but much weaker signal and much weaker
modulation than 5970.
9580, supposed to be CRI Chinese via Habana, big open carrier with hash,
no intelligible modulation, May 22 at 0205, and putting like hashy spurs
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