BC-DX 841 04 Jan 2008 Private Verwendung der Meldun

and we returned to our car. Keep an ear out for CKZU 6160 kHz and report
it to Mark Coady's column if you hear it. Remember that CKZN St. John's
shares the frequency and is also a CBC outlet.
(Harold Sellers-CAN, Aug ODXA Listening In via dxld Aug 11)
CENTRAL AFRICAN REP. 7220 R. Centrafricaine, Bimbo, 1039-1235, 06 Aug,
Vernacular, phone-ins, Afr. pops, talks; 35433.
(Carlos Goncalves-POR, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Aug 11)
CUBA RHC has shown up on two new frequencies in the 19 m band. As usual,
only time will tell whether these are deliberate changes, tests, or some
kind of mistake. Will Arnie explain it all on this week's DXers Unlimited?
Or course not! So my observations Aug 11:
On a bandscan around 1350 I noticed RHC missing from 9550, tho CRI relay
was on with usual crummy modulation on 9570, and after 1400 same on 13740.
At 1409, next to the usual strong RHC Spanish on 15370, found a much
weaker signal on 15360, and producing a het with something else, which per
online skeds could only be TWR Swaziland in Urdu, but only until 1415.
Could not determine which one was off-frequency. At first might think
15360 was a spur from 15370, and Voces de la Revolucion audio was
synchronized, but nothing on 15380 to match.
Checking the rest of 19m, found another new RHC frequency with same
programming, 15120. This channel has been used for a long time by Habana
but only for CRI relay in Spanish at 00-01. 15120 was a much stronger
signal than 15360.
I then checked for all the scheduled RHC frequencies: 13760 weak and
echoing with the others; 13680 VG; 12000; 11805 missing; 11760; 6000
inaudible and probably off as usual after 1400; 5025 Rebelde was JBA not
//. So the transmitters missing from 9550 and 11805 account for the new
frequencies 15120 and 15360.
Need to catch frequency announcement at 1402 to hear what channels they
now claim to be using, but I bet they don't know about the new ones in the
studio. Monitored sign-off at 1455 and as usual they only mentioned the
frequencies to be used when they come back at 8 pm hora de verano de Cuba,
0000 UT: 13760, 11760, 11680, 9550, 9600, 5965, 6000, 6060, 6140, 6180.
Like R. Moscow, RHC sees no point in listing the frequencies in order.
(Glenn Hauser-OK-USA, dxld Aug 11)
Then I find the script of Arnie Coro's DXers Unlimited for Aug 12, and he
does explain these changes as due to propagation, rather than to concede
6180 to VOA!
"And now this announcement now from our engineering department amigos.
Following an analysis of the current HF propagation conditions and the use
of the short wave bands, we have decided to move our 6180 kiloHertz
transmitter that is used to broadcast daily towards Central North America,
to 6140 kiloHertz. Again, listeners in Central North America can now pick
up RHC on 6140 kiloHertz from 01 to 07 Hours UTC in English, and on that
same frequency we are broadcasting in Spanish from 00 to 01 Hours UTC.
6180 kiloHertz will now be used in Spanish to Central America.
And our morning Spanish language programs are now on two new frequencies,
15120 kiloHertz beaming to 160 degrees from Havana and 15360 beaming to
130 degrees azimuth from Havana. The two new frequencies for the morning
program are beaming to South America, so if you pick them up in North
America, that's the back of the main beam.
Our evening programs in Spanish to South America are also on 13760