BC-DX 841 04 Jan 2008 Private Verwendung der Meldun

Another Firedrake txion against CBS Taiwan on 11635 kHz at 0900-1400 UT.
S=6. Signal at 0920 UT.
(wb, wwdxc BC-DX Jan 12)
From today SOH (TWN) has partly changed frequencies (these are of course
PRESUMED SOH transmissions, not confirmed). TOH break in the Firedrake
jamming for 5 minutes at 1000 UT. 9290, 10200, 13970, 14410, 15050, 16750
kHz. Chinese noted on 9290 and 10200 kHz.
(Olle Alm-SWE, wwdxc BC-DX Jan 13)
Chinese station of 14410 kHz seems to be SOH-News Network pro. // 16750,
18180, 21900 kHz (confirmed). SOH on 18180 kHz on 6 Jan 2008 at 0140 UT
by Shigenori Aoki-JPN.
I can receive recent off band Firedrake on
9290 (occasionally), 10400, 12160, 13400, 13970, 14410, 14600, 15050,
16750, 18180, and 21900 kHz (occasionally).
(Sei-ichi Hasegawa-JPN, NDXC Jan 12)
COLOMBIA 5910 Esterio Marfil via l. v. de tu Conciencia 1930 ID by man
followed by falk tunes from Colombia SIO: 323 (Dec 12, 2007).
6035 L. V. de Guaviare at 2128 with col. mx then ID by man: "Sintonia
total con l. v. de Guaviare". Then Cumbia-song. SIO: 333 (Jan 6).
(Zeljko Crncic-D touring in Quito-Ecuador, wwdxc BC-DX Jan 11)
COSTA RICA [apparently] 5954.15 UNIDENTIFIED, very weak station,
supposed to be tentative Portuguese or Spanish from Latin America on
5954.15 at 2308 UT. But n o t Republica from a European big center.
History: 5954 Back in the past was Radio Casino from Limon, Costa Rica at
1030-2400 UT.
(wb, dxld Jan 15)
Wolfy, regarding your history reference, 5954 was the all-time short wave
(crystal-controled) frequency for my home town Puerto Limon radio station
TIQ Radio Casino, since it was born in the mid 1940s.
[...] When Casino went on the air around 1945y, afro-tico Mr. Walthers
began his 1700 to 1830 local show "Shoping Time with Music Along the Way",
until he retired three years ago. He also used to ran the 1000 to midnight
English drive (0400-0600 UT), implemented by the station in the early
1960s, which probably was most likely heard by DXers elsewhere.
Use to hang around Radio Casino while I was a kid during the late 1950s in
the early evening hours, without suspecting by then, that as a frustrated
railway man, I would ended behind the mike too, now for the last 37 years.
(Raul Saavedra-CTR, dxld Jan 15)
Because of the similarity of off-frequencies, suspicions remain that the
current 5954.1+ is the old TIQ transmitter, even if it is no longer in
Limon. Could you make inquiries to confirm this or positively rule it out?
Perhaps the old transmitter has been turned on again for these
transmissions. Next time you are there, local monitoring might show
whether the signal is emanating from the TIQ facility.
(Glenn Hauser-OK-USA, dxld Jan 15)
UNIDENTIFIED 5954.1, the unknown transmitter previously carrying R.
Republica, was once again heard playing nonstop music, some of it with
lyrix I think in Spanish, Jan 12 at 2335. It was tough on the FRG-7 to
pull it through between Okeechobee on 5950 and Emirler on 5960, but on the
YB-400 and DX-398 I reconfirmed it was not on 5955 but the usual 5954.1,