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Today's Topics:
1. Making it easier to access BBC World Service on your internet
radio (Jaisakthivel)
2. BBC iD is the new sign in system for BBC Online (Jaisakthivel)
3. Mon morn Dx ([email protected])
4. Mornning logs, Nov 2nd (Wolfgang Bueschel)
5. LOG 02/NOV/2009 (Jorge Freitas (Yahoo))
6. Glenn Hauser logs November 2, 2009 (Glenn Hauser)
7. Glenn Hauser logs November 2-3, 2009 (Glenn Hauser)
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Message: 1
Date: Mon, 2 Nov 2009 12:09:51 +0530 (IST)
From: Jaisakthivel <[email protected]>
To: ardic <[email protected]>
Subject: [HCDX] Making it easier to access BBC World Service on your
internet radio
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8
Making it easier to access BBC World Service on your internet radio
Lately we've been getting lots of emails enquiring about how to listen to BBC
World Service on internet radios. Karl Kathuria, Head of Digital Delivery,
introduces a new page on our website with all the information you need to
listen:
>From the number of emails we've received we know that internet radios are
>getting more and more popular.
During the first half of October, many internet radio owners wrote in to tell
us that they could no longer hear BBC World Service, and were asking why we'd
stopped making our internet audio available.
Internet radios are devices that connect to your home broadband connection,
usually via Wi-fi, and play radio stations over the internet. Rather than being
limited by stations based near to where you are, they can play any of thousands
of stations from all over the world.
To get to our audio, internet radios have to read from a list of stations
provided by the company that makes the device. Although we have no direct
control over the links that are provided, we do work with manufacturers and
database providers to provide up-to-date links.
What we found last month was that one particular database provider had an old
link to BBC World Service that we hadn't kept up to date. It took us a while to
find this out because of the range of different devices that we were told had
problems, but they were all getting an audio loop from the BBC saying that
there were no programmes. I got in touch directly with some of you and together
we managed to figure out what was going wrong.
What can you do if your radio is still wrong?
In most cases, there will be a menu on your radio to help you refresh the
station list. Some radios may need their firmware - the software that runs the
radio - to be updated. To do this, you should be able to find instructions
online or in the box your radio came in.
It is also usually possible to manually enter a link to the radio station
you're trying to listen to. One of the things that we've learned from last
month's problems is that it's not easy finding this information for BBC World
Service. To make this easier for everyone from now on, we've created a page
that contains all of the direct links to our audio.
We will keep these links up to date, and if we need to make any changes to the
way we stream, we will make sure these continue to work.
As well as playing live radio stations, many internet radios can access our
on-demand streams, so you can listen to the latest edition of our programmes at
any time. Finding direct links to these has also been tricky for some of our
listeners, so we're including them on our new 'how to' page as well.
Hopefully this new page will be useful to everyone with an internet radio, and
will help you to find the programmes you're trying to hear.
Karl Kathuria is Head of Digital Delivery, BBC World Service Future Media.
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Message: 2
Date: Mon, 2 Nov 2009 13:03:56 +0530 (IST)
From: Jaisakthivel <[email protected]>
To: ardic <[email protected]>
Subject: [HCDX] BBC iD is the new sign in system for BBC Online
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8
Welcome to BBC iD from Over To You by Dave Lee
BBC iD is the new sign in system for BBC Online. It's currently being rolled
out across all services that require a user to register or sign in.
On Monday November 2nd we'll be switching all of the BBC's blogs to BBC iD from
the previous BBC membership system. And in the New Year our message boards and
other communities will be heading down the same route.
Read more about BBC iD on the BBC Internet Blog.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/bbcinternet/2009/10/welcome_to_bbc_id.html
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Message: 3
Date: Mon, 2 Nov 2009 11:01:15 -0000
From: <[email protected]>
To: "wghauser" <[email protected]>, <[email protected]>,
<[email protected]>, <[email protected]>,
<[email protected]>, "Anker Petersen" <[email protected]>,
"Gayle Van Horn" <[email protected]>, "logs dswci "
<[email protected]>
Subject: [HCDX] Mon morn Dx
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Peru, 4835.46, Radio Maranon, 1045-1105, Noted music and Spanish
comments
by both a male and female. At 1057 a number of ID's as "...Radio
Maranon...".
Signal was fair but faded in to good periodically. (Chuck Bolland,
November 2,
200()
Watkins Johnson HF1000
26.27N 081.05W
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Message: 4
Date: Mon, 2 Nov 2009 14:05:49 +0100
From: "Wolfgang Bueschel" <[email protected]>
To: "DXLD" <[email protected]>, "HCDX"
<[email protected]>, "egroups_harmonics"
<[email protected]>
Subject: [HCDX] Mornning logs, Nov 2nd
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17632.39 Radio Oman Thumrait, on odd channel noted here with medium
interference whistle in past two weeks ... tx wandered
this morning from x.38 ... x.40 kHz ... til 0820 UT.
17650.06 UNID spurious signal?
At 0640 UT noted another program underneath Kashi China
co-channel 17650.00, like African language.
?? Sabratha Libya; Saudi Arabia Bambara new morning
service? Sao Tome on txt test?
Noted an intermodulation of RNW Dutch again this time 15500 kHz at
8-9 UT, but no formula so far, 5955 + 9545 doesn't fit with RNW.
Last Sunday noted on 15850 kHz mixture, i.e. 9895 + 5955 kHz from
Hoerby, Sweden site, - thanks to RN Technical dept information.
Nov 2nd, wb
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Message: 5
Date: Mon, 2 Nov 2009 17:47:19 -0000
From: "Jorge Freitas \(Yahoo\)" <[email protected]>
To: "Hard Core DX" <[email protected]>
Subject: [HCDX] LOG 02/NOV/2009
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
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Sorry my english google.
15080 01/11 1358 EGYPT, R Cairo, in Arabic, from Abis, with 250 kW, OM with
talk exalted, at 14OO UTC arabic mx, completely distorted audio, problem is
old, 35432 (Jorge Freitas-B)
15285 01/11 1417 GERMANY, Deutsche Telekom, some language on the east coast
of Europe(?),azimuth second, from Wertachtal, OM and YL alternatively
speaking between short songs, at 1443 UTC seems that announced the ID and
after music, recorded, 25332 (Jorge Freitas-B)
15650 01/11 1456 GREECE, Voice of Greece, in Greek, from Avlis, with 250 kW,
a telephone interview, at 1458 UTC enters the frequency at Miraya FM, the
sign of Miraya FM overrides the Voice of Greece, SINPO before entering
Miraya FM 24332 (Jorge Freitas-B)
15650 01/11 1508 SLOVAK REPUBLIC, MIRAYA FM, in Arabic/English, alternate
language, from Rimavska Sobota, with 150 kW, nx by YL and OM with playback
of recorded interviews, at 1511 UTC several vignettes Miraya FM, 33433
(Jorge Freitas-B)
15670 01/11 1528 MOLDAVA, Radio Mada Internationale, in French, from
Kishinev-Grigoriopol, with 300 kW, sgnal ID and at 1530 UTC ID by OM, after
what seems an interview in the studio, improving signal, probably the ousted
president of Madagascar Marc Ravalomanana, see information
http://blogs.rnw.nl/medianetwork/radio-mada-internationale-back-on-shortwave
. At 1547 UTC a telephone interview, music in the background, several
references to Madagascar and France, end of the tx 1600 UTC, recorded, 35433
(Jorge Freitas-B)
73
Jorge Freitas
SWL1023B
Skype jorge.freitas.fsa
Escutas (listening): http://www.ipernity.com/doc/75006
Blog DX: http://www.ipernity.com/home/75006
Blog Pessoal
http://www.ipernity.com/doc/107414/
Feira de Santana Bahia - Brasil
12?? 15' 1.57" S 38?? 58' 40.30" W
Degen 1103
Antena Dipolo de 16 metros Balun 4:1
Dire??o Leste/Oeste
"De Certa forma, as pessoas s?o como esponjas; elas t?m a tend?ncia de
absorver o que est? ? sua volta. ? muito f?cil adotar, mesmo sem querer, as
atitudes, os padr?es e os tra?os de personalidade daqueles com quem temos
muito contato"
"Mesmo que n?o me escutem ainda assim eu falarei, pois sei que as paredes
t?m ouvidos" (JJFS)
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Message: 6
Date: Mon, 2 Nov 2009 10:44:51 -0800 (PST)
From: Glenn Hauser <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Cc: [email protected], [email protected]
Subject: [HCDX] Glenn Hauser logs November 2, 2009
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
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** CANADA. 7310 at 1326 Nov 2 with Spanish report about dogs, 1329 listing
numerous phone numbers, presumably toll-free, from countries all over the
Americas to contact Radio Canada Immigration, including a 1-877 one from the
USA. Show titled ``Canad? y las Am?ricas``. Ex-7325, which all during A-09
collided heavily with CRI in Japanese, but nobody cared (because nobody was
listening?). The Spanish hour has just shifted from 1205-1304 to 1305-1404 UT
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CHINA. 5780-5820, OTH radar pulsing presumed from here, at 1323 Nov 2 (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CHINA. Firedrake Nov 2: at 1352, nothing on 10210 or 9000, but good on 8400
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CHINA. 9730, Nov 2 at 1353, CRI English hour upwrapping by playing the old
CRI IS, and multilingual IDs, so I quickly retuned to much stronger Sackville
relay on 15230, but it was over (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CHINA [and non]. CNR1 with operatic singing Nov 2 at 1433 on 7525 and 7535,
the latter jamming something co-channel in Chinese, and CNR1 also // on 7385,
7365 and 7295. 7535 is BBC Chinese via Thailand, while 7525 is VOA Chinese via
Thailand, both of which must not be allowed to enter China unscathed. More of
the same on 9785 and 9825 at 1438, both of which are successfully blocking VOA
Chinese via Tinang. Why does IBB take this lying down? Even kindly informing
the ChiCom of all the latest schedule changes thru HFCC (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** CUBA. DentroCuban Jamming Command doesn`t want you to hear WORLD OF RADIO.
Please direct complaints to Arnie Coro. Another time on WRMI 9955 ruined by
heavy two-tone pulse jamming, altho not a wall of noise, UT Monday Nov 2 at
0620 during the new shifted time of 0600, which I had first confirmed by
webcast as airing then. R. Prague relay, however, now shifted to 1500 was loud
and clear of jamming Nov 2 at 1513.
A week after the official start of B-09, and the dust is starting to settle,
after refusing to co?rdinate in advance with any other station at HFCC, as an
outlaw broadcaster, RHC makes its own changes. UT Nov 2 found on several new
frequencies: 6110, 6150, 11730, 13770. Our preliminary monitoring shows:
At 0633 on new 6150 in Spanish // 6140 and the as usual distorted 6120.
Separate music in English service heard on 6060 only. At first I was not
hearing RHC English on 6010; nor Spanish on 6000, just WYFR English. At 0643,
RHC English became audible on 6010, much weaker than before, mixing with
Mexico/Colombia.
6150 had a somewhat stronger signal than // 6140, but lower modulation. Nothing
to or from the western hemisphere was scheduled on 6150 between 0400 and 0800,
but if RHC is on before 0400 it will collide with Tirana in English, and after
0800 with KNLS Alaska in English.
As for programming, the Spanish service was concluding El Mundo de la Filatelia
at 0635, starting En Contacto, the DX program at 0636, which is another new
additional time for it. Among other things they played a clip of the old Radio
Ta?no with English ID, ``tourist radio``; that occupied MW 1180 for a while a
number of years ago to block Radio Mart?. I wonder why they did not keep it
going? Apparently it is long gone, not found on any MW frequency in the WRTH
2009, or survives it on FM?
There could be more changes in the 11-13 period which I am yet to be awake to
monitor. Are any of these showing yet on the RHC website schedule in Spanish?
Of course not!
Resumed monitoring at 1320 and found RHC on another new one, 6110, ending
``Figuras en la Historia`` segment about cinema during Despertar con Cuba. This
is now the only RHC signal audible on 49m, no longer 5965 and 6000. At 1400 a
weak het on 6110. Schedules indicate it is more or less clear at this time, but
will be unwelcome in M?xico [q.v.] as QRM to nearby M?rida 6105v.
At 1332 I find another new RHC frequency, 11730. This only adds to the mess on
25m provided by the 11760 transmitter with its two dozen spurs ranging from
11190 to 12330, approximately.
11760 is also putting out closer noise-only spurs circa 11745 and 11775, the
latter bothering Anguilla. At 1352, Poland via Austria 11675 is also getting
some hash, likely from the widespread crap as Habana is infesting the 25m band
with CubaRM.
I keep bandscanning, now up to 22m, and what new frequency will I find from RHC
there? 13770 ex-13760. 13680, 13780 and 13880 are still on as usual. As are on
19m the 15360 and 15120 pair, the latter much stronger here. At 1341 I confirm
that 13770 and 13780 are an echo apart from different sites, just as 13760 and
13780 had been.
I make sure to monitor the frequency announcement at 1400: with some
hesitation, Tony has a modified script to read, in the usual jumbled order:
15120, 15360, 13760(?), 13680, 13780, 11760, 11730, 11800, 6110. I am not
positive he was still saying 13760 instead of 13770, as 60 and 70 are very hard
to tell apart in Spanish. But they did get in the other new ones, 11730 and
6110.
Preparing for the next frequency announcement at 1500, which should be
different for the midday broadcast, at 1455 I found several of the earlier
channels already off the air: 11760, 13680, 13780, 15120, while these were
still running: 6110, 11730, 11800, 13770, 15360.
At 1500 on 13770, these were announced: 13770(? or 13760), 11730, 11780, 11800,
6110. BUT 11760 is now back on, and nothing on 11780 now or later. I suspect
11780 was a typo for the usual 11690! Where there was open carrier vs RTTY at
1501, and which by 1515 was in RHC programming // 11730, 11760, 11800 and
weakening 6110. Meanwhile, RNV relay was still on 11680, opening in English at
1501.
At 1501, since 11760 was back on, so were its spurs, and I measured the closest
blob pairs centered about 11708.4 and 11811.6 = plus and minus 51.6 kHz, with
the usual panoply covering a MHz or more.
The shift from 13760 to 13770 means the leapfrog mixing product with CRI relay
on 13740 at 14-16 also shifts, from 13720 to 13710, and now at 1517 I hear it
mixing with Qur`an from Saudi Arabia! BSKSA is at least on top but hardly
deserves such QubaRM.
Weak noise jamming around 11490, Nov 2 at 1347, perhaps a spur from the main
25m channel being jammed, 11930. To be a leapfrog, there would have to be a
fulcrum on 11710, close to the RHC spur on 11708v.
As I finish compiling this report which took the rest of the morning and then
some, at 1825 I check RHC frequencies again, now on the DX-398 portable in the
yard. 6110 is just barely audible, no more 6000 or 5965; also 11690 but with
RTTY and heavy co-channel from DW in Hausa via Rwanda at 295 degrees USward.
11760 relatively weak and even more so its spurs but 11708v still detectable;
11800 fading in and out; and 13770. They have been running five intentional
frequencies at midday, so there they are now (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** CYPRUS. 18790-18815, OTH radar pulses presumed from here, tho could be
elsewhere in Europe, Nov 2 at 1340 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** INDIA [and non]. The AIR Aligarh blob shifted a bit higher on Nov 2 than Nov
1: at 1327 it covered 9475-9485, worst on 9480. At 1510 its edge was bothering
VOA on 9485, 49 degrees via Sri Lanka, trying to announce something about a
contest, apparently during Border Crossings show. At 1356 I was hearing the
same kind and pitch of noise circa 9540, a further spur? Or DRM from BBC
Woofferton as scheduled 10-15 on 9540-9545-9550 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** INDONESIA. VOI missing for the second day from 9525v/9526v, no carrier even
at 1328 check Nov 2. Could it be on alternate 11785v? At 1402 all I could hear
was Chinese, fluttery with tones, evidently cues in language lesson from CRI
via East Turkistan (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** KOREA NORTH [non]. Shiokaze, 5985 via Japan, still well-heard here with no
jamming or Myanmar audible, Monday Nov 2 at 1403 in Japanese; 1414 YL singing
sad solo, presumably a lament for the lost (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** MADAGASCAR [non]. Did anyone try and/or have any luck hearing Radio Mada
this weekend, 1530-1600 Sat/Sun on 15670 via Pridnestrovye? I have yet to see
any firm reports of its full broadcasts successfully aired since it started a
few weeks ago. All I have been able to hear is a trace of a signal on 15670
(Glenn Hauser, OK, Nov 2, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MEXICO [and non]. It looks like XEPPM has only one half-hour at most clear
of co-channel QRM from Vatican or Bras?lia on 6185. Nov 2 at 0651 I found RNA
already on the air at 4:51 am BDT, // 11780 and blocking Radio Educaci?n on
6185. That had been in the clear around 0630, after Vatican closed at 0620.
Brasil is also on before XEPPM signs on at 0000, and one or the other remains
on 6185 all evening. Brasil may fade out sometime before XEPPM sign-off 1200,
but I am not listening then to find out if there is anything else in the way.
XEQM, M?rida, makes its presence known by hetting 6105 at 1430 Nov 2 as Chinese
inserted a VOA jingle. That`s Tinang 332 degrees during this hour, and of
course despite CNR1 jamming. Now XEQM is abutted on 6110 by CUBA, q.v. (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) See also UNIDENTIFIED 9600.4
** MOROCCO [and non]. 15341, RTVM keeps to its off-frequency, Arabic music at
1441 Nov 2 causing het with something weaker on 15340, i.e. HCJB Australia
which is now on there 1145-1530, 307 degrees from Kununurra in many S Asian
languages, some of them quite obscure, but gotta evangelize `em! And capped by
English during the final semisesquihour. By 1507 Morocco had switched to 15345
(why not 15346?) with more music but not enough signal to copy HCJB even tho
de-hetted.
Why does RTVM do that? It certainly is to no one`s advantage to run one kHz
off. Perhaps the transmitter tuning program originally had a typo in it and no
one noticed or cared, like happened at REE Cariari, Costa Rica for months and
months too (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** PORTUGAL. DRM on 13805-13810-13815, Nov 2 at 1345. These frequencies are
scheduled for extensive DRM in B-09, 08-14 the DW/BBC service in English via
Sines, and available 16-24 for R. Bulgaria, but not on their current schedule;
with Brother Scare analog from Nauen in between (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** ROMANIA. 15235 in Arabic, Nov 2 at 1508, VG signal kept talking about
Romania, so I suspect it is RRI, as who else would be so obsessed with that
country? Yes, scheduled 15-16, 247 degrees from Tiganeshti to W Africa. If only
RRI would put on some English in our mornings; aimed anywhere we would probably
get it (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** SPAIN [and non]. REE Emisi?n Sefarad, 15385, Monday Nov 2 at 1440 with
ladino song, and more nice music to sign-off announcement at 1453. The YL STILL
thinx she is on 15325, just as wrong as during the entire A-09 season, in sked
announcement for 1425, also giving 11780 to SAm Tuesdays at 0115, and 9690 to
NAm Tuesdays at 0415. Besides getting the frequencies right, she really ought
to make clear to her non-DX audience, that by ``Tuesday`` she really means
Monday nights in the target areas. Contact sefarad @ rtve.es
Meanwhile, something else is really now on 15325, Nov 2 at 1442, seems S Asian
language, but heavy splatter from Mart? 15330. Yes, it is YFR in Oriya via
Wertachtal (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. Tuning in 9885 at 1330 Monday Nov 2, heard ``Welcome to the Voice of
America in Spanish``, then Buenos D?as Am?rica, news magazine unlike music fill
heard on Sunday; 8:30 am timecheck, and // 13715, 15590. This has moved one UT
hour later due to W?shington going off DST, even tho that is irrelevant in
Latin America.
Altho it was pretending to sign on, VOA Spanish on weekdays axually starts on
same triad at 1230, including the Andean service. BTW, there have been vague
reports that the administration is having VOA beef up its Andean broadcasts to
counter hostile left-leaning governments` increasing media control. Will that
mean more on SW??
No more VOA on 17585 Greenville/Botswana 14-15 now that B-09 is in effect, but
did find weakish VOA English Nov 2 at 1445 on 17650 mentioning stox in Asia, //
17715. These are S?o Tom? and Botswana respectively (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. Fortunately Cuba`s 1500 frequency announcement came a few sex later
than WWCR`s switch from DGS to Brother Scare announcement on 13845, so I was
able to tell Nov 2 that they were still playing the out of date recording with
the wrong times for him, Mon-Sat 7 am-1 pm = 12-18 UT when on CDT, and Sundays
7 am-noon = 12-17 UT, ditto (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. WRMI vs DentroCuban jamming: see CUBA [and non]
** U S A. 9265, no signal from WINB at 1435 Nov 2, tho it was on the air before
1400 with convicted child-sex-molesting evangelist Tony Al?mo. On Sunday Nov 1,
however, I had noticed WINB was still on 9265 past 1400 and it is now
FCC-registered as available until 1500. It depends (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. After Bonaire was finished with 6165, Nov 2 at 0640 I was hearing
a het of approx. 0.3 kHz between two weak signals, most likely between Croatia
and Chad, one or both of which must be off-frequency, and the dominant one
sounded Slavic (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. I hate to mention this again, as I have had absolutely no results
previously, but I am still hearing that very weak carrier on approx. 9600.4
hetting 9600 stations, such as Nov 2 at 1513. During this semihour, the only
thing scheduled on 9600 is CRI in Persian via Kashgar, East Turkistan, and I
continue to hope that 9600.4 is XEYU, but will settle for any other definite ID
anyone can extract (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED [and non]. Only signals making it on 13m, Nov 2 at 1448 were Libya
21695 with heavy-handed leader-of-the-revolution stuff in English, which no
intelligent listener could take seriously; and beside it a strong but fading
open carrier on 21690 which went off at 1449* Suspect that was TDF GUIANA
FRENCH testing, as it`s the only site registered on the frequency at any time,
17-22 with RFI to Africa; however David Hodgson, TN heard it Oct 27 only until
2000* with music program, DJ mixing in some English (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST) ###
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Message: 7
Date: Mon, 2 Nov 2009 21:32:57 -0800 (PST)
From: Glenn Hauser <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Cc: [email protected], [email protected]
Subject: [HCDX] Glenn Hauser logs November 2-3, 2009
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
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** CUBA. RHC is running new 6110 all day and into the night, replacing 5965.
Nov 2 it was still on the air at 2330 and at next check 0005 Nov 3, atop
DentroCuban jamming! Which had been occupying 6110 needlessly at 0000-0100 as
we have been observing. Now it`s Cuban Commies vs Cuban Commies! Tho the
appearance of RHC should encourage the DCJC to finally get off this frequency.
RHC usage of 6110 appears to be in retaliation for our complaints about the
jamming, on behalf of R. Tirana, which expected this to be clear in B-09 for
their Albanian sesquihour to NAm at 0000. Now R. Tirana is still in the mix,
causing a fast SAH with RHC at fadeups. By 0058 I was not hearing any jamming
but RHC on top of Tirana.
So RHC is in Spanish on 49m, 6060 strongest, then 6110, then distorted 6120.
What about 6140? Carrier there did not come on until 0101, and at next check
0106 was fitfully modulating Spanish, audio fading in, then cutting out and in
--- but at 0107 suddenly switched to English feed // 6000, but not much better.
So not only after 0500, but after 0100 is RHC terribly indecisive about which
language to put on 6140. Still in English at 0250, 0350 and 0452 chex. By 0250,
RHC Spanish on 6110 had weakened somewhat and could still hear some bubble
jamming. 6120 had a SAH of a few Hz from Iran and some of its modulation under.
At 0515, 6110 had switched to 6150 for RHC in Spanish, avoiding NHK via Canada
which has been on 6110 for sesquiyears at 0500-0530. RHC remained // in Spanish
on 6120, and possibly 6000, too weak to tell, while English was now on 6060 and
6140, not any more on 6010.
Backing up before 2400 on Nov 2, the DCJC was busy on 5890, jamming nothing at
2320 check, but still jamming after VOA Spanish began at 0000 Nov 3. At the
start of the hour, the jamming was on top here, but at 0058 VOA was atop as it
ended a USG editorial, 0100 Yankee Doodle sign-off. Meanwhile, nothing audible
on the only scheduled //, 9885 --- off the air or simply not propagating from
Greenville? No jamming heard there either.
A quick check of 19m, Nov 2 at 2321 confirmed that the RNV relay from Cuba on
15250 was still accompanied by those detestable spurblobs every 51 kHz or so,
at least down to 14842 and also upward (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** EGYPT. R. Cairo, 6270 at 0101 Nov 3, dead air into news theme, low
modulation. Then checked 7580 and found same news theme, but not //. 6270 is in
Spanish at this hour, instead of planned 7540, and 7580 in Arabic (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** OKLAHOMA. KEOR, 1120, Sperry OK, missing again, the next time I look for
them since last report, Nov 2 around 1930 UT (Glenn Hauser, Enid, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** ROMANIA. 5910, Nov 3 at 0106 poor signal in Romanian, so what could it be
but RRI? Yes, now scheduled from Tiganeshti to ENAm at 01-03, 307 degrees;
appropriately right next door to Bulgaria on 5900 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** SERBIA [non]. The transmitter operator at Bijeljina failed to follow orders
and change from 9675 to 6190 for the N American service at 0100-0200 from the
start of B-09, Dragan Lekic found out as he notified management of the
discrepancy we have been reporting, which they said would be rectified starting
UT Nov 3. And so it was: at 0058 carrier on 6190, and the IRS IS, 0100 opening
in Serbian, good signal on 6190, nothing on 9675. English no doubt followed at
0130 (Glenn Hasuer, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. The timeshifted WORLD OF RADIO airing now at 2300 UT Mondays on WBCQ
7415 has escaped adjacent-channel interference, good and clear Nov 2 at 2320
check (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ###
End of Hard-Core-DX Digest, Vol 83, Issue 3
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