BC-DX 841 04 Jan 2008 Private Verwendung der Meldun

CHINA 7375 CNR-2/China Business Radio, at 1215-1230 UT on Feb 17, local
pop music. Chinese talk. Quick English ID at 1223. Fair signal. Weaker on
// 6065, 6155, 7130, 7245, 7315, 9810, 9820 kHz.
(Brian Alexander-PA-USA, DXplorer Feb 17)
CHINA/TAIWAN SOH and Firedrake. Heavy jamming continues being every day.
Received on 12260, 13970, 18180, 21900, 7300, 10250 14390 kHz with the
monitor of Feb. 22 at 0530 UT. Today, SOH received good reception on 14390
kHz at monitoring break.
Audio file: 14390kHz at 0359-0506 UT.
SOH at 01'01"-05'51" and 01:00'10"-01:04'25"
(Shigenori Aoki-JPN, ndxc HQ via wwdxc BC-DX Feb 22;
via Sei-ichi Hasegawa-JPN)
COSTA RICA 5954 ELCOR transmitter test, checked Sat Feb 16 at 2315 UT
with nondescript music amid heavy QRM; recheck at 2335 UT, no carrier
detectable.
(Glenn Hauser-OK-USA, dxld Feb 17)
5954.11 unidentified "ELCOR transmitter" station; 2304-2330 18 Feb.
Finally logged here! Tune-in to nonstop soft Spanish female vocals (Sarah
McLaughlin-like, only in Spanish), all seemingly non-Christian. Seriously
squished from 5955, but decent copy on the JRC NRD-535 with passband and
notch deployed, whereas it was barely audible in the slop on the ICOM R75.
Still there at 2330 UT, but virtually impossible to copy by then.
(Terry L Krueger-FL-USA, DXplorer Feb 20)
CUBA Cuba's Fidel Castro retired on Tuesday after almost half a century
as leader of his country.
Here are some facts about him:
LONGEST-SERVING LEADER
Fidel Castro was the world's third longest-serving head of state, after
the Queen of Britain and the King of Thailand. He was its longest-serving
government leader when illness forced him to hand over power to his
brother in July 2006.
LONGEST SPEECH
Castro's holds the Guinness Book of Records title for the longest speech
ever delivered at the United Nations: 4 hours and 29 minutes, on Sept. 29,
1960. His longest speech on record in Cuba was 7 hours and 10 minutes in
1986 at the III Communist Party Congress in Havana.
ASSASSINATION PLOTS
Castro claims he survived 634 attempts on his life, mainly masterminded by
the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency. They involved poison pills, a toxic
cigar, exploding mollusks, a chemically tainted diving suit and powder to
make his beard fall out so as to undermine his popularity.
OUTLASTED NINE U.S. PRESIDENTS
Despite CIA plots, a U.S.-backed exile invasion at the Bay of Pigs and
four and a half decades of economic sanctions, Castro outlasted nine U.S.
presidents, from Eisenhower to Clinton, and faced increased hostility
under George W. Bush, who tightened enforcement of financial sanctions and
a travel ban.
LAST CIGAR PUFF
Castro, once a cigar-chomping guerrilla fighter, gave up cigars in 1985.
Years later he summed up the harm of smoking tobacco by saying: "The best
thing you can do with this box of cigars is to give them to your enemy."