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Today's Topics:
1. Glenn Hauser logs September 23, 2010 (Glenn Hauser)
2. LOGs FOR 19+20/09 (Zacharias Liangas )
3. Re: Glenn Hauser logs September 23, 2010 (Glenn Hauser)
4. Thur DX (Charles Bolland)
5. Re: 1521 and 1539? (Glenn Hauser)
6. Glenn Hauser logs September 24, 2010 (Glenn Hauser)
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Message: 1
Date: Thu, 23 Sep 2010 11:28:34 -0700 (PDT)
From: Glenn Hauser <wghau...@yahoo.com>
To: d...@yahoogroups.com
Cc: s...@mailman.qth.net
Subject: [HCDX] Glenn Hauser logs September 23, 2010
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** ALASKA. 2863-USB, Sept 23 at 1156, weak VOLMET in American English,
fortunately far enough from COSTA RICA, q.v. 2859.8; several sites alternate
each semihour, and per http://wiki.radioreference.com/index.php/VOLMET at
H+25-30, and +55-60 it`s Anchorage (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** ALBANIA. 7390, Sept 23 at 0628, R. Tirana IS, 0630:16 opening in Albanian.
Fair signal at S9+18 with fading, but usual undermodulation. Considering this
is non-direxional for Europe, doing well to make it here. Also has some QRM
from 7405 DentroCuban Jamming Command, bleedover or spur (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** ANTARCTICA. 15476, LRA36 barely audible with some music at 1350 Sept 23,
weaker than Rampisham 15480, and no better later on; but at least confirmed
active today (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** AUSTRIA. 17610, a good source of exotic HOA music, Sept 23 at 1450, and a
good signal altho weaker than adjacent BSKSA 17615. This is the Afar hour, of
all things, from AWR, 300 kW, 145 degrees via Moosbrunn, so we are close to
directly off the back, 325 degrees. It`s hard to imagine the lyrix in this
traditional music form are Christian, but surely they must be, as the SDA
invade yet another culture with a well-established religion of its own (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CHINA. Firedrake Sept 23: none heard 8-18 MHz between 1130 and 14,
especially checking the prime hangouts (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** COSTA RICA. 2859.8, tnx to a tip from Brian Alexander reminding us of the
harmonic, last heard 6+ months ago, it`s still there, and oncoming fall/winter
conditions should audiblize it better. Sept 23 at 1117 I hear some Mexican
music, stronger than North Korea 2850; 1119 a brief announcement may have
mentioned San Carlos, for this is surely R. San Carlos, off-frequency as
before, 2 x 1429.9.
WRTH 2010 says it`s TIRDVC, 3 kW on 1430 from Ciudad Quesada at 1115-0200, but
no mention of the harmonic! making this CR`s only active SW station, if you
don`t mind fudging HF a bit below 3 MHz. By 1135, it had become weaker than
2850 and bothered by intermittent local line noise bursts (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** CUBA. RHC keeps us guessing with their anomalies: Sept 23 at 0622 I find
Spanish on: 5040, 5970, 6120, 6150 (6150 and 5970 usually in English); English
was really only on 6010, 6060.
At 0623, The 5040 transmitter was fulcrumming the 5025 Rebelde transmitter,
producing a weak mix of the two audios, leapfrogging to 5055, fading out and
in, not to be taken for Vanuatu, the long-gone TIFC Costa Rica still in the
WRTH 2010 frequency list, or one of the Brazilians (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** FRANCE [non]. 13640, RFI Spanish service via GUIANA FRENCH, Sept 23 from
1220, usual VG signal, but nothing heard in Spanish, just RFI Musique,
including ``Calico`` at 1224; 1228 RFI IDs, no Spanish. Must be another
disruption, as today`s another general strike in France. Thought it might be
extended past 1230 as sometimes happens, but off at 1229:38, clearing TRT music
on 13635 which I then enjoy.
9955, RFI English is now relayed by WRMI M-F at 1400-1430 instead of R. Prague;
I imagine Jeff White worked out such a deal at HFCC Zurich in August, but why?
RP is still scheduled at other times on WRMI. To confirm Sept 23 at 1408, heard
English news, YL interview OM on phone about Cambodia and Vietnam, former
French sphere of influence, hardly Czech, but still not certain it was really
RFI until 1415 timecheck as quarter past the hour, ID and on to other features.
Must be pulled off WRN, which has RFI English also at 1400-1430, a transmission
which used to be on RFI`s own SW too. Maybe it`s really live, unlike
yesterday`s news from Prague. Signal today was poor, but no jamming; more of a
problem was splatter from VOA 9945 music for Indonesia, 200 degrees from
Tinang, Philippines, but only on Thu-Fri-Sat; plus Brother Scare overload from
WWCR 9980.
But, what will happen when WRMI switches from EDT to EST, the semihour for this
becoming 1500-1530, while RFI stays at 1400? Or maybe not, via WRN (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** GUATEMALA. I was unavoidably awake before 1100 UT Sept 23, so made the best
of it by monitoring, starting with 4055 for R. Verdad, nominal sign-on 1100,
but nothing heard at 1059-1104 and later chex. However, at 1124 it was on with
prayer(?) or at least preaching in Spanish; 1127 music. BFO needed, but it was
hard to tune exactly so the music sounded right, even by first zeroing in on
Nikkei 6055.
Just about no carrier from TGAV at this time, and then like Bob Wilkner, I
concluded at 1150 there was an FM element to the transmission, as during pauses
there would be sort of a carrier, unstable. Still audible but almost gone by
1159.
I never heard the choo-choo SFX as used to air around 1130, despite ``El Tren
del Evangelio`` still on the schedule for 1125-1200 Mon-Sat. Meanwhile I was
also monitoring the harmonic from COSTA RICA, and the 90m from HONDURAS, q.v.
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** HONDURAS. 3250.0, Sept 23 at 1138, hymns in Spanish, so the HRPC transmitter
is currently in whack rather than spurring on 3288v. Some lite SSB QRM on side,
perhaps MARS. 1143 YL sings ``Maravillosas Palabras de Vida``, appropriately
for R. Luz y Vida, San Lu?s, Santa B?rbara. Their QSL with a map, spells out
call as ``Honduras Radio Proclamando a Cristo``. Neither the current WRTH nor
the final PWBR give us this info (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** KUWAIT [and non]. 21540, R. Kuwait putting in a fine S9+18 signal, Sept 23
at 1356 with drama in Arabic; too bad they did not pick a clear frequency as
REE Spain QRM audible under; its // frequencies 21540 and 21610 rated S9+10 all
by themselves, so does that also account for 10 of the 18 dB registering on
21540? It doesn`t work that way.
By 1440, RK was in Qur`an, cantor with an especially beautiful voice; I suppose
it`s vesper time in Kuwait. Now the SAH from Spain is worse, estimated around
11 Hz. 21540 is still the SSOB at S9+15, greater than only S9+12 from Libya on
21695 which also has crummy muffled lofi audio by comparison, not to mention
soporific content. 1444 brief Arabic spoken, and over to a different chanter.
So on 21540 we have moros vs cristianos; I wonder how this goes over in
C?rdoba? Probably way over, that is Noblejas inaudible in skip zone, just
Kuwait. (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** OKLAHOMA. 3450-, Sept 23 at 1152, the ``OK`` HIFER beacon is well audible
slightly on the lo side, nothing but CW ID several times per minute. This is
allegedly in Oklahoma, perhaps not far from me, running a fraxion of a watt.
See http://www.highfrequencybeaconsociety.com/The_Societies_Beacons.html (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** RUSSIA [and non]. The VOR Pashto/Dari service on 15510 via ``Krasnodar`` at
12-14 can provide some fine exotic music, if not from an exotic place; signal
especially good Sept 23 at 1352, then switching to the theme from ``Love
Story`` at 1357, which I think I have heard them playing at same time before,
rather off-topic. 1358 Pashto announcement spelling out website with English
letters, VOR IS, and at 1359 overlapping with DW about to overtake the channel
for Russian via Rampisham. I also heard a few words of Chinese, could not tell
from which station, in a switching error! VOR carrier stayed on a few sex past
1400, with its constant hum, then DW in the clear (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** SUDAN [non]. Sept 23 I try to hear ``Sudan in Focus``, the new VOA service
for Southern Sudan, which per VOA press release allegedly started Sept 20, M-F
at 1630-1700 on 9675, 12015, 13825, sites as yet unknown. No signal on 9675.
Only RTTY on 12015 --- so it`s not Greenville, which uses that frequency after
1700; I can hear a trace of it on 13825 using USB, but far too much DentroCuban
Jamming Command and Radio Mart? on 13820. I trust all three have no such
problems in the target area.
More about it including ondemand listening at http://www.voanews.com/sudan But
when I play the current file, it starts with Africa News Tonight headlines;
then less than a minute later, Sonny Side of Sports, about India, South Africa,
not Sudan, a long report on boxing, outroed as airing at 1631 UTC! After that,
still no Sudan in Focus program. Impossible to tell the date/day this file came
from, so is it automated and putting up the wrong one with nohuman at VOA
making sure SIF is in it, or has SIF`s d?but been delayed? I quit after
listening to the first half (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** SWEDEN [non]. 9955, Sept 23 at 0631, there is ``Radio Sweden Wednesday`` on
Thursday, introduced by George Wood, with elexion update. Quite a good signal,
mostly atop the pulse jamming. WRMI in fact was much better than WYFR on 9985,
but still weaker than WYFR 9715 and 9680.
This was amid WRMI`s extensive relays of WRN North America, which the latest
schedule shows scattered at various other times, besides the major blox: but
never telling us which stations are axually relayed at which hours. For that,
we have to bring up the WRN schedule itself.
Compare [URL may change, as linked from WRMI`s Facebook]
https://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0AivhtkIEGb3_dENObnZrMkt1YmtUWGxkbkd3TGNzOXc&hl=en#gid=0
with
http://www.wrn.org/listeners/assets/PDFs/WRN_English_North_America_Summer_2010.pdf
Hmm, this may mean that R. Sweden can`t get rid of SW altogether at the end of
October! Contrary to their intent, if they are still putting an English show on
WRN, we may get it via WRMI, altho this timing is a bit inconvenient for those
who need to sleep (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) See also FRANCE [non]
** TUNISIA. I was watching my watch, Sept 23 at 0626 as I knew RTT was about to
cut 7275 off the air unceremoniously amid the enjoyable Arab music they play.
Modulation stopped at 0627:25, carrier cut at 0627:36, uncovering no FRCN
Nigeria which had activated 7275 recently but only for a few days, so RTT does
not need to worry about their co-channel after all. Meanwhile, // 7335
continued (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. WEWN still missing from all frequencies checked, such as 7555, Sept
23 at 0625 ? just the utility hash from France on the hi side, unimpeded. WEWN
really needs to abandon 7555 when Europe is propagating. Also in the 1300 hour,
no 13835, 12050 or 11550. Glen Tapley of WEWN must have read my previous
report, since this email was awaiting me: ``Glenn, FYI. WEWN will be off air
for scheduled downtime until Friday 9/24/2010 2100 UTC. Glen Tapley``.
IIRC, they were also off for maintenance several days in August 2009; then we
hoped among other things they would fix the squeal and the spurs, but no. This
time, maybe? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. First airing of WORLD OF RADIO 1531 confirmed on WRMI webcast, also
9955, Thu Sept 23 from 1500; next airings are Thu 1900 on WBCQ 7415, Thu 2100
on WRMI 9955, UT Fri 0330 on WWRB 3185, Fri 1430 on WRMI 9955, Fri 2030 on WWCR
15825, Sat 0800 on WRMI 9955, NEW Sat 1400 on WRMI 9955, Sat 1600 on WWCR
12160. Full WOR sked, including non-SW outlets:
http://www.worldofradio.com/radioskd.html (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. I sometimes check out the hi end of the MW band late at night,
using the same E-W longwire to the FRG-7 as for SW. Something strange, Sept 23
at 0635 UT I was hearing a het of about 1 kHz on KOKC 1520, from 1521 ---
that`s too late for Saudi Arabia, which is commonly audible earlier. And a het
of almost, but not quite the same pitch, from 1539 against jumble of signals
including an open carrier on 1540.
These do happen to be Region 1 MW channels, but such a pair is suspicious, as
if a station on 1530 were running a 9 kHz tone test, or spurs of the same
frequency. The 1521 and 1539 signals were fading, so not an artifact of some
local appliance, altho 1539 was somewhat unstable judging from the pitch
fluxuation. 1539/1540 het pitch was slightly higher than the 1521/1520 het, so
if they were coming from a 1530 transmitter, it was slightly on the lo side.
Could not make out any audio from them. Ideas? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST) ###
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Message: 2
Date: Thu, 23 Sep 2010 21:01:20 +0300
From: "Zacharias Liangas " <gree...@otenet.gr>
To: <>
Subject: [HCDX] LOGs FOR 19+20/09
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LOGs FOR 19+20/09
http://zlgr.multiply.com/journal/item/302
Sunday 19-9
9630 XJPBS 1339 a singer with traditional melodies OM YL with talks in
presumably Mongolian About S10 //9645 at S7 max
9335 RFA? 1343 with talks in Bamar S5 33434 over Damascus
15070 Cupido radio 1345 with old pop song 1348 ID by man and talks in
English with some music in background (songs from 80s) S5 35344 some
little QRM from R Cairo which is a dead carrier!
15350 TWR 1400 'THis is TWR' then with prg in Hindi
15410 DW in Russian on 1425 with a history program about Hitler, and
listing speeches from him , and anti-Semitism S10
15245 V o Korea 1647 with operas , program in French S5 35343
6240 cland to Korea with YL on 1655 with talks over a Japanese song anD
again 1658 with another Japanese song 1701*
6220 Mystery radio 1716 with pop songs S7-9
Monday 20-9
4840 WWCR 0355 with web adress mentioned many times S8
4885 Clube de para ?? 0401 with LA pops S5
4915 Macapa ? 0403 old LA songs S7
5040 RHC 0405 songs S7
5045 ? 0406LA songs? S7
9745 Bahrain 0408 S2
9975 KTWR 1330 Agana in Chinese with many IDs and signal S7 . At
1330+ with prg in Cantonese from a different transmitter with S5 signal
11570 Open Radio North Korea 1415 with talk sin Korean S5 via
Uzbekistan
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Message: 3
Date: Thu, 23 Sep 2010 16:08:45 -0700 (PDT)
From: Glenn Hauser <wghau...@yahoo.com>
To: d...@yahoogroups.com
Cc: s...@mailman.qth.net
Subject: Re: [HCDX] Glenn Hauser logs September 23, 2010
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What was I thinking? There is of course also ELCOR, 5954+, with Radio
Republica, believed to be from Costa Rica, lacking any hard confirmation, and
it`s absent from WRTH 2010, altho it was in 2009 but lacking details, not even
a number) address entry. Glenn
--- On Thu, 9/23/10, Glenn Hauser <wghau...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> ** COSTA RICA. 2859.8, tnx to a tip from Brian Alexander
> reminding us of the harmonic, last heard 6+ months ago, it`s
> still there, and oncoming fall/winter conditions should
> audiblize it better. Sept 23 at 1117 I hear some Mexican
> music, stronger than North Korea 2850; 1119 a brief
> announcement may have mentioned San Carlos, for this is
> surely R. San Carlos, off-frequency as before, 2 x 1429.9.
>
> WRTH 2010 says it`s TIRDVC, 3 kW on 1430 from Ciudad
> Quesada at 1115-0200, but no mention of the harmonic! making
> this CR`s only active SW station, if you don`t mind fudging
> HF a bit below 3 MHz. By 1135, it had become weaker than
> 2850 and bothered by intermittent local line noise bursts
> (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
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Message: 4
Date: Fri, 24 Sep 2010 00:39:49 -0000
From: "Charles Bolland" <ka4...@peoplepc.com>
To: "ALF" <alf.e.pers...@telia.com>, "Arnaldo slaen"
<sl...@ciudad.com.ar>, "Bob Wilkner" <r...@earthlink.net>,
"brainman214" <brainman...@gmail.com>,Carlos
GonA?alves<carlos-rel...@sapo.pt>, "Cumbre" <cumbr...@n2jeu.net>,
"DSWCI" <l...@directbox.com>, "Gayle Van Horn"
<gaylevanh...@monitoringtimes.com>, "Glenn Hauser"
<wghau...@yahoo.com>, "Hard-core-dx" <hard-core-dx@hard-core-dx.com>,
"Marie Lamb" <mal...@cumbredx.org>
Subject: [HCDX] Thur DX
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Peru, 6019.41, Radio Victoria, 2330-2345, This evening
noted Radio Victoria on 6019.41 KHz without
any nearby QRM at least for a few minutes. Heard a
male in steady Spanish language comments
for awhile. The first gent is joined by another male
and female. Signal was fair to poor. (Chuck
Bolland, September 23, 2010)
Bolivia, 6134.83, Radio Santa Cruz, 2342-2359, Noted
music initially with the usual het needing
notcing out on 6135 KHz. Believe a male and female
talk in Spanish over the music. Condition
seem to be slightly better this evening as RSC is at a
fair level here. (Chuck Bolland,
September 23, 2010)
Bolivia, 3310.12, Radio Mosoj Chaski, 2354-2359,
Noted steady popular music. At 2356 a
female(believe?) talks briefly in Spanish. Signal is
very poor but readable at about 80
percent. Back to music after a few comments. (Chuck
Bolland, September 23, 2010)
South Africa, 3320.16, Radio Sonder Grense, 0001-0015,
Noted a male in Africaans language
news until. After that it sounds like a female talks
for a number of minutes. Signal was
fair. (Chuck Bolland, September 23, 2010)
India, 4920.15, AIR, Chennai, 0013-0025, At 0013,
noted Interval signal until 0015. At that time
a female comments (probably ID) and singing by a group
which is probably NA. Incidently,
the interval was a wind instrument continous tune with
about five notes to it. At 0016
a female comments in Hindi which is followed with
"charmer" type music. Signal was
fair throughout. (Chuck Bolland, September 24, 2010)
WR G31DDC
26.37N 081.05W
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Message: 5
Date: Thu, 23 Sep 2010 20:09:19 -0700 (PDT)
From: Glenn Hauser <wghau...@yahoo.com>
To: a...@nrcdxas.org, mwdx <m...@yahoogroups.com>,
amfmt...@mailman.qth.net, a...@wtfda.info, i...@hard-core-dx.com,
MWC
yg <mwcir...@yahoogroups.com>, hard-core-dx@hard-core-dx.com,
a...@yahoogroups.com, d...@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [HCDX] 1521 and 1539?
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--- On Thu, 9/23/10, Glenn Hauser <wghau...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> UNIDENTIFIED. I sometimes check out
> the hi end of the MW band late at night, using the same E-W
> longwire to the FRG-7 as for SW. Something strange, Sept 23
> at 0635 UT I was hearing a het of about 1 kHz on KOKC 1520,
> from 1521 --- that`s too late for Saudi Arabia, which is
> commonly audible earlier. And a het of almost, but not quite
> the same pitch, from 1539 against jumble of signals
> including an open carrier on 1540.
>
> These do happen to be Region 1 MW channels, but such a pair
> is suspicious, as if a station on 1530 were running a 9 kHz
> tone test, or spurs of the same frequency. The 1521 and 1539
> signals were fading, so not an artifact of some local
> appliance, altho 1539 was somewhat unstable judging from the
> pitch fluxuation. 1539/1540 het pitch was slightly higher
> than the 1521/1520 het, so if they were coming from a 1530
> transmitter, it was slightly on the lo side. Could not make
> out any audio from them. Ideas? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
> LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 1521, het on KOKC 1520, Sept 24 at 0212, surely Saudi Arabia,
which if nothing else penetrates the North Atlantic darkness. Reminds me that
the night before I was also getting such a het at the very late hour of 0635
UT, which led me to dispense with SA as a source and look for another
explanation, such as a spur or tone test from a domestic 1530 station,
especially since there was another one like it on 1539. Now at 0212, there is
no 1539, so putting that aside, I am rethinking this.
Early reception from East Asia or Pacific might be possible in winter, but now
it just seems too early, and there are no powerful 1521 or 1539 transmitters in
those areas.
0635 has to be long after sunrise anywhere in Saudi Arabia, but just where is
Duba, the site of 1521? Would you believe it doesn`t rate a dot on the WRTH map
of the Middle East? O yeah, that`s for SW sites only, but there is a lot of
blank space in SA. One of my atlas collexion quickly locates it in the NW
corner, just across from the tip of Sinai, and it`s right on the coast, which
makes it the best possible site to reach Europe and beyond.
So when is sunrise there? Little Duba is also unrecognized as of any
significance by Gaisma.com but there is a listing for a city not too far away,
Tabuk:
http://www.gaisma.com/en/location/tabuk-sa.html
which shows 0623 local = 0323 UT.
Considering that this is the most powerful MW station in the world, 2
megawatts, could it still be penetrating by skywave three hours after sunrise
through sheer brute force? It is after all, routinely reported at least two
hours before sunset along east coast North America, right?
The great circle path from Duba to Enid crosses Brussels, Manchester, Belfast,
so in those locations of the UK or vicinity, just how late at this time of year
can you still hear BSKSA on 1521? If it gets that far still at 0635 UT, then it
could also reach here. Blocked by anything? WRTH frequency list has only: two
stations under 1 kW in UK, one each 5 kW in Spain, 27 kW in Russia, 100 kW in
Iran (Glenn Hauser, Enid OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
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Message: 6
Date: Thu, 23 Sep 2010 22:16:41 -0700 (PDT)
From: Glenn Hauser <wghau...@yahoo.com>
To: d...@yahoogroups.com
Cc: s...@mailman.qth.net
Subject: [HCDX] Glenn Hauser logs September 24, 2010
Message-ID: <508359.92644...@web51102.mail.re2.yahoo.com>
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** CANADA. 6070, CFRX still open carrier only, Sept 24 at 0113 check. When will
they notice at HQ and get around to going out to the transmitter site to fix
it? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** COSTA RICA. After checking on R. Verdad, 4055+, see GUATEMALA, I looked for
R. San Carlos on 2859.8, Sept 24 at 0200, but no trace of it. Up to its old
trix, varying sign-off time considerably around 0200. The nominal sign-on at
1115 could be informative (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** GUATEMALA. UT Sept 24 I checked for R. Verdad earlier than before, at 0200
UT. Music audible around 4055, and still at 0235, but lacking a reference
carrier, it`s very difficult to get it to `sound right` with the BFO on, and
once zeroed on Spain 6055, TGAV audio still is not clear, so it`s slightly off,
I think to the hi side, and mushy sounding with some FM component rather than
pure SSB.
Dr Madrid confirms they are still running only 50 watts with the backup
transmitter, but ``we`ll try to increase it a little bit tomorrow``, and
assures us they will be back on 4052.5 when the big transmitter is reactivated,
probably around the end of October (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. As I was checking 90m, noise level not too bad, Sept 24 at 0207,
found very weak signal on about 3199.5 and another like it on 3230.5; strained
to make traces of audio // 3215 WWCR but could not, too weak. Nevertheless,
these are surely the oft-reported spurs of the WWCR-1 transmitter, which does
the same when on 7465. Maybe also when on 15825, but fundamental from that is
rarely strong enough here to audiblize spurs so far down.
These have been reported periodically by Brian Alexander, PA, since Dec 8,
2007, and have varied slightly from 3199.38 to 3199.48, 3230.52 to 3230.62.
Furthermore, tnx to a tip from Sean Travers, who had been noting it previous
two nights, WWCR quit 3215 and was opening with steel drum IS at 0358 Sept 24
on 3255 instead. I was not listening closely to what they said, if they axually
mentioned why they were on 3255, but instead of programming, it became open
carrier, still such until a country hymn singer started at 0454. The program
listed for 04-05 UT Tue-Sat in the Sept schedule is Truth House with Dr. E.C.
Fulcher. 0458 announced frequency change back to 3215, and off 3255.
I suppose this means when WORLD OF RADIO comes around UT Sunday at 0630, it
will still be on 3215, but if not, check 3255 or vicinity.
Nothing about such a test or frequency change on the home page. It seems odd
they would leave 3215 with no known problems (or has some
military/government/utility user complained?), for a frequency already used by
BBC via South Africa at 0300-0600. WWCR is certainly capable of overriding that
in North America, but could cause problems for BBC in W Africa, and why risk
collision when you don`t have to?
So did it bring the plus/minus 15.5v kHz spurs with it? Seems so: at 0450 I was
getting some weak otherwise unexplained carriers around 3239.5 and 3270.5. WWCR
on 3255 could also be a problem for HRPC and its listeners on 3250; did not
seem to be on after 0400 tonight but sometimes it is, and was hearing it
earlier around 0210 when WWCR was still on 3199.5, 3215 and 3230.5 (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. George McClintock of WTWW advises me Sept 23: switch from 9479 to
5755 has been moved forward an hour to 23 UT. The morning switch from 5755 to
9479 will also be moved an hour, later, sometime in October, 13 instead of 12
UT, to compensate for longer nights, shorter days. Registrations are flexible
enough to accommodate such variations as needed.
How is transmitter #2 coming? A crew is coming shortly to do some work on it.
Looks like it will not be on the air until next year. Transmitter #3? About 80%
likely to be obtained this year, but it too will take some time after #2 to
become operational. #1 has been working well, has run 30 days with very little
downtime (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. WORLD OF RADIO 1531 missing from WWRB, UT Friday Sept 24 at
0330-0400. Too late, I discovered they had a corrupted file so could not air
it; instead, big band music fill. I make a sad face. Now with the good file,
perhaps they will be able to fit it in some open slot instead during the
following week, and if so and notified in advance, I`ll let everyone know
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A [non]. 9830, VG signal Sept 24 at 0154 in fraxured French --- must be
Kriyol, then into instrumental music with religious overtones, 0158 ``Gott Sei
die Ehre``, theme, so it`s Family Radio, but WYFR? Modulation unsounds like
Okeechobee, and no Creole on their own schedule. 0158 says ``The Sound of the
New Life, Family Radio en langue cr?ole`` and off at 0158.6.
This is a new service, started 27 August, really 250 kW, 306 degrees from
Guiana French, at 01-02, tho hardly necessary with WYFR itself so close to
Ha?ti (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 1521, het on KOKC 1520, Sept 24 at 0212, surely Saudi Arabia,
which if nothing else penetrates the North Atlantic darkness. Reminds me that
the night before I was also getting such a het at the very late hour of 0635
UT, which led me to dispense with SA as a source and look for another
explanation, such as a spur or tone test from a domestic 1530 station,
especially since there was another one like it on 1539. Now at 0212, there is
no 1539, so putting that aside, I am rethinking this.
Early reception from East Asia or Pacific might be possible in winter, but now
it just seems too early, and there are no powerful 1521 or 1539 transmitters in
those areas.
0635 has to be long after sunrise anywhere in Saudi Arabia, but just where is
Duba, the site of 1521? Would you believe it doesn`t rate a dot on the WRTH map
of the Middle East? O yeah, that`s for SW sites only, but there is a lot of
blank space in SA. One of my atlas collexion quickly locates it in the NW
corner, just across from the tip of Sinai, and it`s right on the coast, which
makes it the best possible site to reach Europe and beyond.
So when is sunrise there? Little Duba is also unrecognized as of any
significance by Gaisma.com but there is a listing for a city not too far away,
Tabuk: http://www.gaisma.com/en/location/tabuk-sa.html
which shows 0623 local = 0323 UT.
Considering that this is the most powerful MW station in the world, 2
megawatts, could it still be penetrating by skywave three hours after sunrise
through sheer brute force? It is after all, routinely reported at least two
hours before sunset along east coast North America, right?
The great circle path from Duba to Enid crosses Brussels, Manchester, Belfast,
so in those locations of the UK or vicinity, just how late at this time of year
can you still hear BSKSA on 1521? If it gets that far still at 0635 UT, then it
could also reach here. Blocked by anything? WRTH frequency list has only: two
stations under 1 kW in UK, one each 5 kW in Spain, 27 kW in Russia, 100 kW in
Iran (Glenn Hauser, Enid OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ###
End of Hard-Core-DX Digest, Vol 93, Issue 24
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