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Today's Topics:
1. Glenn Hauser logs November 13-14, 2011 (Glenn Hauser)
2. Log Report for Al Muick (Albert Muick)
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Message: 1
Date: Mon, 14 Nov 2011 10:46:03 -0800 (PST)
From: Glenn Hauser <[email protected]>
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Cc: [email protected]
Subject: [HCDX] Glenn Hauser logs November 13-14, 2011
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** AUSTRALIA [non]. 9855, Nov 13 at 2306, fair signal from
radioaustralia.net.au going from news to Monday morning news-talk show; new one
for me, where I was not expecting to hear Australia, but not really: HFCC shows
it`s 500 kW, 90 degrees via UAE at 22-24 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CHINA. Firedrake Nov 14, before 1500:
12500, poor at 1452
12600, JBA with ute QRM at 1452; none in the 10s, 11s
13850, good at 1455 with WWCR ACI
13970, good at 1455; none in the 14s, 15s, 16s, 17s
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CUBA [and non] Further monitoring of RHC changes effective Nov 13:
I had not heard any signal on 11760 before or after 2000, where the first
English of the day used to be at 19-20, so not shifted to 20-21 either? Not
checked again until 2113, when 11760 was back on, in French, and // 13640 to
Europe. Normally this broadcast is on only one frequency, so should 11760 have
been in English during that hour?
For Spanish, I am mainly concerned with confirming the current repeat times for
the DX program `En Contacto`. Did not check at 2140 when it once appeared. Some
unrelated interview is on at 2234 and later on 11840, 13640, 13690, etc. But
there `EC` is, still in progress at 2355 on 13640, 13690, etc., same Crespo
essay as heard in the morning after 1435, so must have started circa 2345.
Into UT Monday Nov 14: at 0147 on 13690, when it previously aired, instead
`Cadena Deportiva Latinoamericana` sports news. So I check once more an hour
later, and at 0249, yes, `En Contacto` is just about to end, so started at 0235
on all the frequencies then in effect. Likely all the other listed tarde
programming has shifted one UT hour later too. Has this been updated to that
effect?
http://www.radiohc.cu/de-interes/programacion.html
Of course not! Until and unless it is, and don`t hold your breath based on
previous experience, add one hour to the times shown.
However, the equally slow-loading Spanish frequency page,
http://www.radiohc.cu/de-interes/frecuencias.html
has been updated Nov 14, to correspond with many of our observations on Nov 13,
and confirms the morning sign-on is now 1200 instead of 1100. This replaces the
one we forwarded a week ago.
Buenos Aires 15230/13670 19/22 24-05 y 12-16/ 12-15 UTC
Nueva York 6010/11840 49/25 12-13/12-16 UTC
San Francisco 13780 22 13-16 UTC
Chicago 9850/6140 31/49 13-16/12-13 UTC
Am?rica del Sur 15380 19 12?16 UTC
Banda Tropical 5040 60 22?24 y 02-06 UTC
Am?rica Central 11750/9540/9810 25/31/31 13-16/12-16/22-06 UTC
Europa 13640 22 22-24 UTC
Norte Centro Suram?rica 11760/6150 25/49 12-16 y 24-05/ 12-13 UTC
Caribe 6120/9710/11690 49/31/25 24-06/22-24/12-16 UTC
Am?rica del Sur 11840/9740/13690 25/31/22 22-06/24-05/22-05
MESA REDONDA (Lunes a Viernes y d?as especiales)[not always, or 2330-]
Am?rica del Norte 6000/9660 49/31 23?01 UTC
AL? PRESIDENTE (Domingo) [IMAGINARY]
Am?rica Central 13680 22 14-18 UTC
Caribe 11690 25 14-18 UTC
Am?rica del Sur 15370/17750 19/16 14-18 UTC
Am?rica del Norte 13750 22 14-18 UTC
Hoping that this is the ``final final`` version, I am reworking it into easily
readable format, time order, stripping useless meter band clutter; do not copy
this without credit to gh who spent his valuable time transforming it, thank
you:
12-13 6010 6140 6150
12-15 13670
12-16 9540 11690 11760 11840 15230 15380
13-16 9850 11750 13780
22-24 5040 9710 13640
22-05 13690
22-06 9810 11840
00-05 9740 11760 15230
00-06 6120
02-06 5040
However, 9540 was off the air when checked at 1448, perhaps fearful of being
slapped again like yesterday by WHRI but that`s only on Sundays. I am also not
hearing 11690 much, just as well with all the RTTY.
The French frequency page is inaccessible. Trying to navigate thru the RHC
website encounters lots of 404s, especially since they went php.
English: the homepage is reachable after a long wait, but not the frequency
page even tho it is certainly ``of interest``!
Further obs on Nov 13: 15370 still had Esperanto Sunday at 2230, the 13 Nov
edition, but with CCI under; at 2300 into Creole. HFCC shows KSDA at 22-24
northwestward from Guam in Chinese (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** INDIA [and non]. The upper half of the 15.0-15.1 MHz off-route aero band is
a loss: 15045-15050-15055, AIR Sinhala is back in DRM Nov 14 before 1500,
unlike yesterday in AM --- doesn`t this confuse listeners, being yanked around
for the sake of DRM nonsense? 15060-15085 has OTH radar, vs R. Cairo on 15080;
15080-15100 has that heavy intermittent clicking/pulsing, centered about
15090-15095, between a strong station and a weaker one seemingly answering at
1543; what is that?? Been there for a long time.
9470, Nov 14 at 1546, AIR in English introducing a dialog, poor and // 9425
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) See also VATICAN
** IRAN. Have about given up trying to hear IRIB`s so-called ``Voice of
Justice`` English to NAm, allegedly scheduled on colliding 7365 and 7200 at
0330-0430 --- forgot to check this UT Monday whether Cuban jamming stopped at
0400 when R. Mart? went silent, unlike last week. But without even trying, I
run across another English broadcast:
15525, Nov 14 at 1537, VIRI news sounder, and into English I was not expecting,
with continuing musical beat underneath as the news would be too boring all by
itself; fair signal, peaking S9+10, tho 105 degrees from 500 kW Kamalabad.
Uplooked later, the only // for the 1530-1630 is 13785, 105 degrees from 500 kW
Sirjan, unlikely to have been any better (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** IRAN [non]. 9520, Nov 14 at 0657, heavy collision producing fast SAH between
a stronger station with ME music, and an understation in talk, seemingly
Chinese. At 0700, timesignal and into Persian talk mentioning Iran and Farda on
the overstation, while the understation had another timesignal about 10 sex
later.
HFCC B-11 shows only IBB Persian at 0530-0830, 100 kW, 105 degrees from Biblis,
GERMANY. I didn`t realize that R. Farda aired timesignals at UT hourtops, no
doubt to remind Iran how far out of step it is with the rest of the world.
Aoki has the likely other answer, tho it`s still A-11 info: 0600-0950 (except
Tuesday siesta), PBS Nei Menggu, 50 kW, 36 degrees from Hohhot, [Inner
Mongolia], so it`s also USward, more so than Farda (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** KAZAKHSTAN. 7550, Nov 14 at 1549, very poor signal in S Asian language? Aoki
shows it`s Family Radio in Pashto, 14-16, 500 kW, 170 degrees from
Almaty/Nikolayevka; as the Kazakhs are all too happy to propagate the infidels
for pay. BTW, mainstream Christians who survived The Rapture also consider the
anti-church Harold Camping an infidel, or is that infooldel (Glenn Hauser, OK,
DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** NETHERLANDS [non]. 9895, Nov 14 at 0704, RNW in M&W Dutch conversation has
lost its hum --- but that`s only because of the site change at 0700 from
Grigoriopol, Pridnestrovye to Nauen, GERMANY, where M&B knows how to modulate
properly. HFCC shows morning usage of 9895 by RNW is 0600-0657 KCH, 0700-0900
NAU, plus weekends 0900-1100 SMG = Vatican (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** NIGERIA. 15120, Nov 14 at 0654, VON is the OSOB at S9+12 with news about
Botswana and South Africa; humwhine on unstable carrier but still R5. There
were hardly any signals on 11 and 13 MHz, and nothing on 15 either tuning
downward until I got to this. Quite amazing, the propagational pipeline from
Ikorodu to Enid which exists some nights, but you never know which; 24 hours
earlier there was nothing (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** SAUDI ARABIA. 15435, Nov 14 at 1539, Arabic with heavy crackling breakup
extending at least 15435-15455, from BSKSA. Program modulation itself sounds
OK, this imposed atop it, by this still-defective transmitter. We are thankful
that it has not yet resumed producing huge buzz over a much wider range (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 10000, WWV, Nov 13 at 2115-2116 was announcing that something would
be discontinued as of November 30. It was rushed, poorly enunciated and hard to
copy; need to recheck at any other :15.
Which reminds me, I also want to complain that the propagation
half-sesqui-minute at :18:00-:18:45 no longer repeats any of the data even tho
there is time to spare. The repeats immediately after the first number would
often compensate for momentary fades or selective distortion (Glenn Hauser, OK,
DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 7490, Sunday Nov 13 at 2250 checking how `Marion`s Attic` on WBCQ is
doing against BBC Thailand: certainly on top, but with low rumbling audible het
as WBCQ must be drifting off-frequency again. The `narrow` filter on the FRG-7
helps a lot in this situation, cutting off the lower audio frequencies; does
anyone have the spex on what frequencies this filter passes (as well as the
other two settings)? Meanwhile, 7505 remains open and free of QRM, let alone
WRNO (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. WORLD OF RADIO 1590 monitoring: confirmed just after 0400 UT Monday
Nov 14 on Area 51 webcast, presumably also WBCQ 5110v-CUSB. Remaining WRMI 9955
and webcast times: Monday 1230, 1630, 2230, Tuesday & Wednesday 1630; on
Hamburger Lokalradio, Germany, 5980: Tuesday 1030 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A [non]. 13580, Nov 14 at 1454, something is getting jammed with noise
and two or three alternating tones. Only scheduled this hour in HFCC and Aoki
is VOA Kurdish, 250 kW, 105 degrees from Wertachtal, GERMANY; to be followed by
R. Cairo Albanian at 15-16, but this noise is more than just a defective ERTU
transmitter; would VOA Kurdish really be jammed by anyone? Turkey? Iran? Syria:
ha ha, they can barely maintain their own SWBC.
17715, Nov 14 at 1500, VOA news in English is fair, but with very heavy
flutter, 1505 into `Border Crossings` from VOA Music Mix. Uplooked later, I was
surprised to find HFCC shows site as BOTSWANA, 100 kW, 10 degrees, whence
flutter is unusual, expecting a trans-polar route. But propagation has really
been disturbed today unlike yesterday. You`d never know this from WWV at 1500:
``Solar-terrestrial indices for 13 November follow.
Solar flux 155 and mid-latitude A-index 1.
The mid-latitude K-index at 1500 UTC on 14 November was 1 (9 nT).
No space weather storms were observed for the past 24 hours.
No space weather storms are predicted for the next 24 hours.``
On Oct 28, Mike Cooper heard Larry London announce all the new SW frequencies
for `Border Crossings`: 15580, 17715, 17895 to Africa; 7575, 9930, 12150 to
Asia; 11840, 13570 to Middle East, Europe, Northern Africa (Glenn Hauser, OK,
DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** VATICAN [and non]. 15175-15180-15185, Nov 14 at 1542, DRM noise tho nothing
is scheduled in HFCC except AM from VATICAN due east in English. Did they push
the DRM button by mistake?
Also with unID AM carrier on 15175, no audio pullable, which could have
disrupted any DRM reception. Nothing is scheduled there in HFCC until KBS
direct from Korea South at 1600. O, 15175 would be AIR in Gujarati via GOA at
1515-1600, B-11 info which made it into Aoki but still not into HFCC.
Aha, unlike HFCC, this version of DRM schedules
http://www.drm.org/broadcast_schedule
does show Vatican as DRM on 15180, not AM:
1530-1600 daily 15180 90 India 125 Vatican Radio Santa Maria English
So, hee hee, we have big DRM advocate AIR getting QRMed by DRM *to* India 5 kHz
away (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
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Message: 2
Date: Mon, 14 Nov 2011 16:36:37 -0500
From: Albert Muick <[email protected]>
To: [email protected], DXLD <[email protected]>
Subject: [HCDX] Log Report for Al Muick
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
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QTH: Whitehall, Pennsylvania, USA
RX: WinRadio G303e
ANT: 100m longwire
518 ICELAND, TFK Grindavik Radio, heard at 0354 UTC on 14 November 2011,
in SITOR-B with NAVTEX transmissions in English. Fair signals but very
clear as no one else was operating on freq at the time. This is my
first trans-Atlantic NAVTEX reception! I will be interested to see what
the antenna type and power are if they QSL.
4645 USB ESTONIA, Tallinn VOLMET, heard early afternoon here at 1924 UTC
on 13 November 2011, with English aviation weather and ILS approach
information. Just barely peaking above the noise and the horrible
interference from French NATO Station FUG on 4644.8 kHz. The QRM was so
extreme, that the station barely was audible even on peaks. FUG runs
NATO STANAG 4285 modulation which sounds a lot like the old multichannel
FSK transmitters, i.e. a roaring plane engine, however this is pure PSK
and about 3.3 kHz wide. I checked on several European remote receivers
and the QRM is just as bad there, which makes me wonder exactly how
effective this station is in providing its service to its intended targets.
Propagation is definitely getting better, as it seems to me that 4645
would definitely be towards the LOF/LUF for that time of day. The
Estonian station is supposed to be a 24/7 operations, so hopefully
others will be able to hear it at their QTH's as well.
73
Al Muick
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