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Today's Topics:
1. Re: Albania frequency changes (Glenn Hauser)
2. Glenn Hauser logs November 19-20, 2009 (Glenn Hauser)
3. Nov 19-20 Logs ([email protected])
4. Radio City Relay on 9510 kHz (Tom Taylor)
5. Sat early DX ([email protected])
6. Glenn Hauser logs November 20-21, 2009 (Glenn Hauser)
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Message: 1
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 2009 09:39:31 -0800 (PST)
From: Glenn Hauser <[email protected]>
To: [email protected], [email protected],
[email protected], [email protected],
[email protected]
Subject: Re: [HCDX] Albania frequency changes
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These changes are confirmed to start today Nov 20/UT 21, altho the English
schedule announcement at the beginning may not be updated yet. Glenn
--- On Thu, 11/19/09, Glenn Hauser <[email protected]> wrote:
> Latest word is that these changes
> have been postponed for one day (gh)
>
> Radio Tirana is making some frequency changes as of today
> November 19 to resolve interference or propagation problems,
> all 100 kW Shijak, UT:
>
> 2001-2030 Italian 6000 ex-6155, Mon-Sat, non-direxional
> 2100-2130 English to Europe 7430 ex-7520, Mon-Sat, 300
> degrees
> 0000-0130 Albanian to North America 6130 ex-6110, daily,
> 300 degrees
> 0130-0145 English to North America 6130 ex-7425, Tue-Sun,
> 300 degrees
> 0245-0300 English to North America 6130 ex-7425, Tue-Sun,
> 300 degrees
> Reports will be welcome (Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING
> DIGEST)
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Message: 2
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 2009 12:16:58 -0800 (PST)
From: Glenn Hauser <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: [HCDX] Glenn Hauser logs November 19-20, 2009
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** ALBANIA. Radio Tirana is making some frequency changes as of November 20/UT
21 to resolve interference or propagation problems,
all 100 kW Shijak, UT:
2001-2030 Italian 6000 ex-6155, Mon-Sat, non-direxional
2100-2130 English to Europe 7430 ex-7520, Mon-Sat, 300 degrees
0000-0130 Albanian to North America 6130 ex-6110, daily, 300 degrees
0130-0145 English to North America 6130 ex-7425, Tue-Sun, 300 degrees
0245-0300 English to North America 6130 ex-7425, Tue-Sun, 300 degrees
Reports will be welcome, especially from North America (Glenn Hauser, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** ANGUILLA [and non]. 11775, PMS inbooming S9+20 at 0606 Nov 20, while 6090 is
supposed to be the night frequency for Caribbean Beacon. Transmitter must be
stuck again, or neglected by the frequency-changer. Not surprising it`s
well-heard this night, as Cuba also inbooming on 11760. At 0622, nothing on
6090 but seems DRM spreading from hi side, 6100? By 0633 the DRM was coming
from the lo side, 6085 and DGS had replaced PMS on 11775, as she takes turns
with The Dead.
Luckily, running 11775 during the hours it is supposed to be on 6090, 22-10 UT,
does not cause too many problems; only R Free Asia via Tinian is scheduled at
22-24. In fact there are more collisions during the time CB is supposed to be
on 11775, 10-22, which were not avoided in coordination, i.e. AIR 1215-1430,
+ChiCom jamming, and VOA 1530-1830.
Next check at 1500 found 11775 missing, so are they running the schedule in
reverse? By then could not be sure whether 6090 was on, but could detect a
carrier at 1704, and 11775 still off at 1712. Further SE, 6090 should be
audible in daytime as CFRX 6070 and RHC 6110 are all-day, weakly, even here.
As for the QRDRM, DRM-DX.DE shows Romania on 6100 until 0626, while BR
Ismaning, Germany is on 6085 before and after (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** AUSTRALIA. As RA in English was incoming well on 13630, 15160 and 15240, I
could also hear it but much weaker on 15415, Nov 20 at 0603. At first thought
it was Tok Pisin, but then registered as scheduled Indonesian with which it
bears some similarity; 329 from Shep, per Aoki (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** BIAFRA [non]. 15665, V. of Biafra International, reconfirmed still here for
the Friday 19-20 broadcast via WHRI, Nov 20 around 1910 with English news in
usual broad African accent (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CHINA [and non]. On a whim, thought I would check my favorite Firedrake
frequencies much earlier than usual, Nov 20 at 0610, and there they were! 8400
JBA, 9000 barely audible, and much better achieving fair reception on not //
10210. These are probably all 24 hours a day, tied up by tiny SOH ham
transmitters on Taiwan.
BTW, Alokesh Gupta forwards a new (? dated Nov 18) article about Sound of Hope
from the Epoch Times:
Sending Shortwaves of Hope from Manhattan to China
By Matthew Robertson, Epoch Times Staff
http://www.theepochtimes.com/n2/content/view/25385/
which claims: `` SOH later boosted its signal strength and broadcast hours, and
their signal now is mostly free from disruption.`` Make that: disrupted to the
point of inaudibility (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CROATIA [and non]. Bandscanning on the way home from an Enid Public Schools
6-band concert and fiesta dinner (i.e. taco salad), UT Nov 20 at 0115, I was
hearing tell-tale hets on the caradio 10-kHz-only tuning, indicating
Trans-Atlantix were in on 1215, 1134 and 756 kHz, so ahome I quickly switched
to the direxional DX-398, set-to-9-kHz-on-MW, and on battery power to minimize
line noise.
1134 immediately provided musical and talk audio at 0120 and // 7375 via
Germany, so Hrvatski Radio, the number-one TA, is a definite. Monitoring on a
single receiver, I could not evaluate the delay. Also // at some further chex,
0139, 0150. However it faded in between, leaving nothing but IBOC noise,
presumably from KMOX 1120, tnx a lot!
Between 0120 and 0200 I repeatedly scanned the MW band and detected many more
TA carriers, but no audio. I could make educated guesses about the most likely
sources, but will refrain. I will put them in frequency order here, not the
order heard, most more than once:
549, 621, 639, 693, 711, 819, 855, 882, 891, 909, 972, 999, 1089, 1179, 1215,
1251, 1269, 1341, 1359, 1431, 1521 (Glenn Hauser, Enid OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
See also JAPAN [and non]
** CUBA. 6140, Nov 20 at 0622 check was in RHC English instead of Spanish; the
other 49m outlets nominal (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) See also
VENEZUELA [non]
** INDIA. AIR Aligarh 9470 distortion blob Nov 19 at 1425: 9475-9500, peaking
on 9485 against something, but RA 9475 almost unscathed on the edge of today`s
range. 9485 during this hour is YFR in English via Irkutsk, due south for
Indonesia, so everybody there dying to hear Brother Droning is no doubt cursing
the Indians, i.e. no one.
Congratulations! Nov 20 at 1507 check, 9470 back to normal frequency and
modulation // AIR music on much stronger Bengaluru 9425; ditto at 1700 recheck.
But we know better than to assume the blobmitter has been fixed or replaced for
good.
11620 with Indian pop vocal music, Nov 20 at 1713, fair with flutter. Aoki says
it`s the Russian service at 1615-1715, 335 degrees from Bangaluru, and thus
also USward. Should have kept listening another biminute to confirm language in
sign-off (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** JAPAN [and non]. After detecting all the TA carriers the previous evening
--- see CROATIA [and non], I was motivated to look for Trans-Pacific MW the
morning of Nov 20. Again with the DX-398 set on 9-kHz spacing, and on battery
power inside the house with some noise but in the quietest spot I could find,
too cold outside, I stepped thru all the channels with BFO on, and could hear
the same pitch het on most of the appropriate frequencies, except as noted, but
too weak for any audio, except as noted. (The LSB/SSB is slightly offset on
this receiver, which is convenient for this purpose, altho I could zero it by
taking off the faceplate and adjusting a pot.) It helped to switch between LSB
and USB to minimize QRM from the NAm 10-kHz-spaced stations. In two or three
scans between 1230 and 1245 UT, all these carriers were looping NW/SE more or
less, using internal ferrite antenna only, just as the TA ones had been NE/SW:
558, 567, 576, 594, 603, 648, 666, 693, 702, 711, 729, 738, 747, 756, 774, 828,
846, 855, 873, 882, 891, 945, 972, 981, 1008, 1044, 1053, 1134, 1143, 1179,
1242, 1251, 1323, 1475, 1593.
The strongest ones were on 774 and 972, so I went back and listened to those
for a while to see if I could pull any audio. Now I have plugged in the AC
adapter, since the batteries are getting weak.
747, at 1252, yes! Bits of clearly enunciated English by YL, apparently
language lesson, mixed with Japanese, and music riffs, cues to speak in the
lessons.
972, at 1254, some audio, think it was Korean as expected but not positive.
1098, circa 1300 add another frequency with a carrier.
855, at 1308, stepping thru the scan with BFO on, this one was a different
pitch, obviously off-frequency, not sure which side.
774, at 1310, definitely in Japanese.
The big 500 kW NHK Radio 2 stations on 747 and 774 were expected to be the
easiest catches here in deep NAm, as they have been before. This is the
educational network which includes some foreign languages, altho WRTH 2009 does
not mention LL: English. 747 is JOIB Sapporo, Hokkaido and 774 is JOUB Akita,
on the far side of northern Honshu.
855, the off-frequency one is surely KOREA NORTH, as in
http://www.myradiobase.de/mediumwave/mwoffset.txt
``855.055 KRE KCBS Pyongyang Pangsong (Sangwon) 2100-2030 [855.0454-]
20090110``. WRTH 2009 lists this as 500 kW in the Asia/Pacific list; not in the
domestic sexion page 253-254, but in the international sexion page 446, as
apparently for S Korea and // SW 3250, 3320, 4405, 6250, 6285, 6400, 9325 and
several MW frequencies.
972 is surely the 1500 kW KBS station HLCA in Dangjin, KOREA SOUTH.
1475 (definitely not on-channel 1476) is surely the 700 kW RTM Labuan, in
Tuaran, Sabah, MALAYSIA which per WRTH is only on air at 1100-1330.
Could make educated guesses about many of the others, but I`ll stop there.
Local sunrise was 1314 UT (Glenn Hauser, Enid OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MEXICO. As I was MW-bandscanning for TA carriers, I was distracted by some
Mexicans on even frequencies which further east are dominated by Cubans.
710, Nov 20 at 0143, atop the het from 711, quite an adstring, phone numbers,
typical Mexican addresses --- street names such as Reforma, Cuauht?moc, Obreg?n
appear in every Mexican town so are of no use at all in local IDing below the
country-level. Never could get anything more definite. 0145 to live announcer
who talked for a few minutes. I thought I heard an ID go by just as I tuned in,
last letter of callsign being -M (or maybe -N), but that doesn`t fit. Direxion
roughly SW from OK, which points to one station each listed by Callarman in
Chihua2, Sonora, Sinaloa. XEDP Cuauht?moc, Chihuahua is closest, and I was also
getting that state on 1180, but 710 is supposed only 100 watts at night; not
enough to go on.
Another one on 1180, atop the het from 1179, where it`s nice to hear neither
Cuba nor Cuba [non], Nov 20 at 0131, timecheck for 6:31, temp 18 grados
cent?grados, so it`s in the MST zone. At 0156, ``Rom?ntica 11-80`` slogan, 0200
YL DJ. Callarman 2008 list shows the only 1180 with that slogan is XEDCH,
Ciudad Delicias, Chihuahua, which is in MST, and the temp is credible for that
area SE of Chihuahua city. WRTH 2009 upbacks these assumptions (Glenn Hauser,
OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MEXICO [and non]. Finally on Nov 20 I managed to tune in XEPPM 6185 a bit
earlier to check QRM from Vatican which nominally closes at 0620, much more
reliably than when Bras?lia opens on same. At 0614 I was hearing XEPPM on top,
instead of music, historical narrative about Obreg?n punxuated with gunshot
SFX. A rippling SAH from CVA since XEPPM is off-frequency. VR and the SAH just
disappeared around 0619, leaving Radio Educaci?n in clear as they had moved on
to a burrito recipe(!). Where`s the eclectic music? Did not get back to
frequency until 0632 by when jazz piano; 0636 RNA starts cutting on and off a
few times and then stays on ruining XEPPM (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** RUSSIA. As I tuned across 9840 early in the 0600 UT hour Nov 20, I was
hearing VOR in English unimpeded // weaker 9855 both from DVR sites, but at
0640, 9840 was in Russian, R. Rossii way over barely audible VOR. As complained
before, Russians vs Russians, ruining reception of VOR English to NAm by using
same frequency circa Moscow. See also RWM log (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** RUSSIA. 4996, Nov 20 at 0627 binary timecode signals, maybe at the rate of
10 per second? Seems transmitted in straight CW, 0630 into solid carrier, quite
weak but separable from WWV. Surely RWM Moscow.
9996, Nov 20 at 0658 found same binary signals as a semihour earlier, and
stronger here, also less QRM from weaker WWV/H 10000. Format also matches with
solid carrier from 0700 to 0708, and did not detect any minute markers, but
surely there was something. Nothing audible 0708-0709, but 0709-0710 sent RWM
ID multiple times on CW ? just ``RWM``, no V, CQ or DE. 0710 finally started
conventional timesignals with second-pips, but some of them were double just
before bottoms of minutes, continuing past 0713 when I quit.
This reception correlates well with R. Rossii Moscow-area site on 9840 at same
time. WRTH shows both RWM frequencies as 5 kW, 24 hours; also 24h on 8 kW 14996
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 15580, VOA News Now in English, Nov 20 at 1710, VG S9+20, too strong
to be anything but Greenville, which we thought in B-09 was being employed on
this frequency only for Music Mix at 21-22. Now it`s also 94 degrees at 17-18,
ergo 274 degrees offbackward too (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. Six days after evangelist Bernie Lazar ``Tony Alamo`` Hoffman was
sentenced to 175 years in prison for multiple child sexual abuse, WINB breezes
along like nothing has happened, still broadcasting him Nov 19 at 1620 check on
13570, no doubt one of three weekdaily hours devoted to him. Not distorted this
time, but carrier as usual is slightly unstable, obvious with BFO on (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. WRMI inbooming on 9955 in the nightmiddle, S9+20, no jamming audible,
Nov 20 at 0608, W&W in Wirelight talk, no doubt on the reactivated NW antenna
this UT Friday (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A [and non]. WYFR, 9355 in Italian, Nov 20 at 0609, with no
underlanguage audible even at long pauses, after three nights of such
transmitted crosstalk, and one night not checked.
YFR is getting to be as bad as CRI, showing up everywhere and dashing hopes for
something more interesting, but keeps VTC et al. in business: 9530, Nov 20 at
1701 choral music sounded Russian style, but then www.familyradio URL, and
``Mighty Fortress is our Bog`` theme music. However, this hour is scheduled as
Arabic via Rampisham. Having rapidly lost interest, did not stay with it any
further to determine which language would axually be used.
The same can be said of 17505, some African language, VG S9+15 signal Nov 20 at
1708, along with some hum. But this is Aoki-listed merely as English YFR via
Ascension, 250 kW, 102 degrees. They often start a new transmission with
English until they are ready to inaugurate a new exotic language, but which?
Target area is Zambia/Zimbabwe/Botswana. This transmission is not listed in any
language in the seemingly comprehensive YFR schedule via DXLD 9-079, nor in
EiBi (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 17775, KVOH, Nov 20 at 1706 at S9+22, enough to bring with it signs
of the spur circa 17920 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** VENEZUELA [non]. RNV CI, 11680 via CUBA, missing as I tuned in at 1517 Nov
19. Hmm, I had heard it earlier in the hour. And again when it popped back on
at 1518. Start calculating the refunds, RHC. Nahh, RNV not likely to notice, as
they don`t even know this broadcast exists: just listen to their totally
outdated schedule announcements in every transmission.
Next day Nov 20 I was listening to 11680 at 1500 when RHC Spanish frequency
announcement started, abruptly cut to RNV in broken English YL (Glenn Hauser,
OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 11435, huge carrier at S9+30 or so, mostly open, but every 5
minutes would transmit some kind of digital data noise, Nov 20 at 0604, 0609,
0614, 0619, 0624. This was even stronger than RHC on 11760, only S9+25, and
presumably from CUBA too. 11435 was enough to desensitize several dekakHz
around it by its mere presence. It went off at 0628:30.
Nothing was on 11532 while 11435 was on, but at next pass thru 11 MHz at 0652,
11532 big open carrier was hetting WYFR 11530, but 11532 went off at 0653*.
Theory is they are same transmitter, or at least both from the DentroCuban spy
centre. Similar huge signals with numbers in voice or cut numbers in code, and
data bursts are heard around this time in the 5.8-5.9 MHz range (Glenn Hauser,
OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
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Message: 3
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 2009 17:17:29 EST
From: [email protected]
To: [email protected]
Subject: [HCDX] Nov 19-20 Logs
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
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** BURKINA FASO. 5030, Radio Burkina, 2320-2359*, Nov 19, rustic
tribal music. Vernacular talk. Vocal rendition of National Anthem at
2358 and off. Weak but readable at 2320. Improved to a fair signal
strength by sign off. Stronger than usual. (Brian Alexander, PA)
** CHAD. 6165, RNT, 2220-2230*, Nov 19, Afro-pop music. French
talk. Sign off with National Anthem. Poor to fair with co-channel QRM.
(Brian Alexander, PA)
** GUINEA. 7125, Radio Guinee 2145-2210+, Nov 20, local African
music. French talk. Fair. (Brian Alexander, PA)
** INDONESIA. 9525.89, Voice of Indonesia, 1025-1030, Nov 20,
tune-in to English news program. ID. In the clear but low modulation
making signal unusable. (Brian Alexander, PA)
** PERU. 4835.46, Radio Maranon, Jaen, 1036-1051, Nov 20,
Peruvian music. Spanish announcements. ID. Weak but readable.
CODAR QRM. (Brian Alexander, PA)
Brian Alexander, Mechanicsburg, PA, USA
Equipment: Icom IC-7600, two 100 foot longwires
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Message: 4
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 2009 21:28:49 -0000
From: "Tom Taylor" <[email protected]>
To: "Tom Taylor" <[email protected]>
Subject: [HCDX] Radio City Relay on 9510 kHz
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Radio City Relay on 9510 kHz
Dear Listeners,
This Saturday the 21st of November Radio City will return to the
Airwaves via Nexus (ex. IRRS) with 150 kW on 9510 kHz.
The time slot is 09.00 - 10.00 utc
Our contact address is still [email protected]
Best regards Radio City - the Station of the Cars
Good listening 73s Tom
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Message: 5
Date: Sat, 21 Nov 2009 01:35:21 -0000
From: <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>, "ALF" <[email protected]>,
<[email protected]>, "Robert Wilkner" <[email protected]>, "Marie
Lamb" <[email protected]>, <[email protected]>,
<[email protected]>, "Gayle Van Horn"
<[email protected]>, <[email protected]>, "DSWCI"
<[email protected]>, <[email protected]>, "arnaldo slaen"
<[email protected]>
Subject: [HCDX] Sat early DX
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India, 5010, All India Radio, 0030-0130, Originally at 0030 tune in noted a
very weak carrier with weaker audio. However, by 0105, the signal had
improved with details
consisting of Hindi comments by male and female with some singing and music
in
the background. The signal keeps getting better albeit just slightly.
(Chuck Bolland,
November 21, 2009)
Bolivia, 5952.47, Emisoras Pio XII, 0122-0135, Generally noted music with
a male
breaking in with Spanish comments every once in awhile - very excitable.
Signal was
fair but lots of splatter. (Chuck Bolland, November 21, 2009)
Watkins Johnson HF1000
26.27N 081.05W
http://www.orchidcitysoftware.com/IMAGE59.HTML
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Message: 6
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 2009 19:04:27 -0800 (PST)
From: Glenn Hauser <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Cc: [email protected], [email protected]
Subject: [HCDX] Glenn Hauser logs November 20-21, 2009
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
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** ALBANIA [and non]. R. Tirana on new frequencies: 7430, Nov 20 the 2100-2130
English broadcast fairly good on portable and in the clear with music at 2122
check. Stronger than whatever is on 7425. Should be fine with an external
antenna, escaping R. Farda usurpation clash on 7520. Weaker on // 9895.
UT Nov 21 at *0000 the Albanian sesquihour to NAm now on new 6130, escaping the
Habanic usurpation of 6110. R. Tirana theme music in the clear.
Adjacents 6125 and 6135 no problem (the latter with het between presumed VOR
via Tajikistan in Portuguese to Brasil, and off-frequency R. Santa Cruz, MUCH
closer to the destination, in Bolivia. And no TADIL-A bonking between 6130 and
6135, thankfully, now.
Propagation from Europe poor overall tonight, and R. Tirana // 7425 alternative
needed; at 0040 check a bit better than 6130.
English at 0130-0145 is also on 6130 ex-7425, poor but still in the clear with
not yet updated frequency schedule announcement. Repeat at 0245-0300 also on
new 6130, fair reception at 0248 check in news (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** ANGUILLA. 6090, DGS on the air Nov 21 at 0009, so no clear channel for
Ethiopia/Nigeria/Brasil likely tonight nor occupancy of 11775 instead like the
night before past 0700 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CHINA. Firedrake Nov 21 at 0024: poor on 13970, fair but fluttery on 10210;
unfound in the 14 MHz band (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** COLOMBIA. 5910, Marfil Est?reo missing, during my 06-07 UT monitoring
session Nov 20, but on the air with typical peppy music Nov 21 at 0005 check.
Are they voluntarily non-24 hours now? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** COSTA RICA. 2859.8, R. San Carlos harmonic, 2 x 1430v, Nov 21 at 0003 fair
at peaks in Spanish; same for music 0026, and at 0031 rapid DJ with ID in
passing. Nothing there at 0248 check; reported to close awfully early around
0200, 8 pm local (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CROATIA [and non]. 23 hours after all those TA carriers I found, including
definite audio from Zagreb on 1134, just some carriers, no audio, Nov 21 at
0048-0052 in 9-kHz bandscan: 945, 1134, 1179, 1521 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** CUBA. RHC language usage check UT Nov 21 at 0009: 6000 in Spanish as
expected. At 0058, 6140 was already on // 6120, 6110, 6060, 6000.
O, 6140 in new official schedule is supposed to start at 0000 now, but so is
11760, which was not on during this hour (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** ECUADOR [non]. HCJB via Chile, 11920, Nov 21 at 0023 in Brazilian with
typical predication, ``crucify him, crucify him!`` Get over it. Seems produced
with reverb/echo on the audio, surely not long / shortpath.
Retune 0044 to see if they sign off as per some schedules: yes, and mentioned
they were radiating via CVC in Chile, ``despedimos; boa noite,`` 0045 to open
carrier a few sex and off. Did not say when they would resume, and I`ve yet to
find if or when the Kulina first-nation-language quarterhour now outgoes.
Closing timecheck was 21:45 as HCJB is still not up to speed with Brazilian DST
making it 22:45 in most of the country including Bras?lia. Months ago, last
summer, we also heard HCJB giving one-hour-off `local` timechex for Brasil. So
out of touch with their audience. Or, they deliberately refuse to acknowledge
stupid DST? In that case, Right on! (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 4910, WWCR difference mix at 0012 Nov 21, 9980 minus 5070 with music
and talk respectively. Poor signal QRMing CODAR. By now, 9980 itself fading
down, no longer the daytime supersignal, making 4910 more likely to be a
genuinely transmitted mixing product rather than receiver overload, and many
others have reported WWCR 4910. No sign of 4755 lately. Seems to be regular on
3240 now, tho maybe still experimental as some have heard them asking for
reports on that.
BTW, WWRB now wants to use 3240 after WWCR shifts to 3215 at 0200, since some
receivers don`t tune down to 3185 or 3145. Wouldn`t it be less confusing if
each one used the same frequency thruout rather than swapping back and forth?
But WWRB as usual is trying to take advantage of a channel pioneered by WWCR if
it proves to be suitable for NIB usage, on its coattails opening that up to all
other US SW stations (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A [and non]. 7407-7408 or so, distorted FMy blob in Cuban Spanish
discussion, Nov 21 at 0018. No sharp carrier to downpin. Not // VOA Spanish
5890, 9885; Rep?blica 9810, nor RHC Spanish all over 49m, so presumed Radio
Mart?, 7405 transmitter very out of order. Is no one paying attention at
Greenville? Heavy jamming on 6030, so without a second receiver handy, hard to
be certain of // and nothing much on 9825.
However, uplooked later, 7405 is taking a Mart?-break at 0000-0300, with 7365
scheduled during these two sesquihours instead; not remembering that, I did not
check it, but surely jammed too as it was when finally tuned at 0140.
What I was hearing on 7407-7408 must have been a spur from 7365 instead, or
7365 way mistuned. Even so, it was the `best` signal audible from Radio Mart?,
unjammed! Next check 0131: 7405 normal with VOA Special English as scheduled
and no more 7407-7408 to QRM that.
Propagation was outdropping during the 00-01 hour, but checking VOA Spanish on
5890, 9885 a few times therein, both were poor but 9885 somewhat better and
DentroCuban jamming if any not definitely audible (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 9820 with at least two stations at 0035 Nov 21 including
hum/buzz. The three possibilities per Aoki are Voice of Beibu Bay Radio,
Nanning; CNR2 Xianyang 594; and of course Brasil`s R. Nove de Julho. Odd one
out is probably 594 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ###
End of Hard-Core-DX Digest, Vol 83, Issue 21
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