** CANADA. Correxion: what I meant to say:
332 kHz, March 2 at 0720, dash and QT, a kilowatt NDB from Thunder
Bay, Ontario. At first I copied it as QE -- is their dah a bit
curtailed? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Two more: see USA
** CUBA. 6100, Sunday March 3 at 0728, this and all other RHC
frequencies are off. 6100 should have and maybe did emit Esperanto
from 0700, finishing early, as confirmed multiple earlier Sundays,
rather than at 0800, the previously scheduled standard time for it
which is still announced in the sign-on schedule, as copied later Mar
3 from 1602 on 11760 // 15140: 08 to NAm on 6100, 16 to N/C/SAm on
11760 (only!), 2330 to SAm on 15730. The OM announcer also could not
escape his first language, Spanish when he uttered ``polÃtiko``
instead of ``politÃko`` --- Esperanto stress is absolutely regular,
always on the penultimate syllÃble, e.g. also ``radÃo`` without any
accent markings needed. Something`s always wrong at Radio Havano Kubo.
BTW, from next Sunday already, March 10, Cuba, as a Running Dog Of
Yanqui Imperialism, resumes daylight shifting time of UT -4 on the
same early date as America; cannot be coincidental. This will affect
some but not all RHC program and frequency scheduling --- maybe less
so than usual, as when Cuba went off DST last fall, after confusing
attempts to resume winter-time scheduling, RHC reverted to some
summer-timings, notably English evenings at 01-07 UT instead of 02-08.
BTW2, timeanddate.com shows other peripheral countries under undue
American influence, do the same thing March 10: Bahamas, Bermuda,
Greenland-Thule Air Base, Haiti, Saint Pierre & Miquelon, Turx &
Caicos --- and those parts of Canada and Mexico which normally observe
DST. In the case of Mexico, it`s border cities only, while most of the
rest of the country will not be catching up for another month until
April 7, which was the old USA change-date, before legislation passed
to impose irrational DST upon us for another month in spring, another
week in fall. Europe has been wrestling with whether to abolish it or
make it permanent yearound avoiding biyearly resets.
BTW3, daylight CANNOT BE SAVED, only SHIFTED by the clox, as I insist
on calling it. Its very name from the outset has been a Big Lie. You
may mull that over this week before being forced to accede to it
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MALI. 13685, March 3 at 1509, S5-S6 VP talk M&W conversation, //
about a second ahead of 15700 CRI English via CUBA. BUT, no 13685
signal at 1536. 13685 has been scheduled as CRI via Bamako, English at
14-16, but this and all other transmissions have been off the air for
months. Yesterday March 2, Ivo Ivanov reported some Bamako relays had
resumed, and then many others logged, but only one frequency /
transmitter at a time instead of two. Nothing audible here on 17630
which would have been // 13685 before 1600, but even if on, unlikely
would propagate as nothing else audible on 16m under pathetic
propagation conditions. 15125 was first heard yesterday during Arabic,
but today at 1639 I have no signal there. Now Ivo summarizes, but the
resumption may well continue sporadic:
``China Radio International CRI via Bamako is again on air, but only
via one transmitter, instead of two transmitters as follows:
https://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2019/03/china-radio-international-cri-via.html
0800-0857 on 7295 BKO 100 kW / non-dir to WeAf Hausa, very weak/JBA
1400-1557 on 13685*BKO 100 kW / 111 deg to SoAf English, fair/good
1400-1557 on 17630 BKO 100 kW / 085 deg to CeAf English, not on air
1600-1657 on 15125 BKO 100 kW / 085 deg to CEAf Arabic, very good
1600-1657 on 17880 BKO 100 kW / 020 deg to NEAf Arabic, not on air
1700-1757 on 13645 BKO 100 kW / 111 deg to CEAf Swahili, fair/good
1700-1757 on 15125 BKO 100 kW / 111 deg to CEAf Swahili, not on air
1800-1827 on 11640 BKO 100 kW / 085 deg to WCAf Hausa, good signal
1800-1827 on 13645 BKO 100 kW / 111 deg to WeAf Hausa, not on air
1830-1927 on 11640 BKO 100 kW / 085 deg to CeAf Arabic, very good
1830-1927 on 13685 BKO 100 kW / 020 deg to NEAf Arabic, not on air
1930-1957 on 11640 BKO 100 kW / 111 deg to SoAf Portuguese, fair/good
1930-1957 on 13630 BKO 100 kW / 111 deg to SoAf Portuguese, not on air
2000-2127 on 11640 BKO 100 kW / 111 deg to CEAf English, fair signal
2000-2127 on 13630 BKO 100 kW / 111 deg to CEAf English, not on air
2130-2227 on 11975 BKO 100 kW / 020 deg to WeAf French, not on air
2130-2227 on 13630 BKO 100 kW / 111 deg to CEAf French, very poor/JBA
2230-2357 on 11975 BKO 100 kW / 020 deg to NEAf Chinese, not on air
2230-2357 on 15505 BKO 100 kW / 085 deg to CeAf Chinese, very poor/JBA
2300-2357 on 7295 BKO 100 kW / non-dir to WeAf Chinese, very weak
2300-2357 on 11975 BKO 100 kW / 020 deg to NEAf Chinese, not on air
*til 1425 on 13685 EMR 500 kW / 072 deg to CeAs Uyghur VTurkey co-ch``
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
This report dispatched at 1756 UT March 3
http://www.hard-core-dx.com/article.php?story=20190303181504901