CORREXION!!! I somehow wrote 15149.5 instead of 15191.5: ** BRAZIL. 15191.5, Sept 5 at 0511 as I am bandscanning across 19m, expecting maybe R. Africa, instead immediately hear ``duas e onze``, i.e. Brazilian Portuguese timecheck which can only come from R. Inconfidência, Belo Horizonte. Then checked frequency and it`s right here, maybe 15191.49 but probably within margin of error (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
--- On Wed, 9/5/12, Glenn Hauser <[email protected]> wrote: > From: Glenn Hauser <[email protected]> > Subject: Glenn Hauser logs September 5, 2012 > To: [email protected] > Cc: [email protected] > Date: Wednesday, September 5, 2012, 12:13 PM > ** AUSTRALIA. 2325, Sept 5 at 1157, > first thing I do upon awakening is tune to CRI on 7325, turn > on BFO slightly offset, and then turn the MHz dial on the > FRG-7, and repeak the preselector to detect carriers on 3325 > (Indonesia/PNG), and even on 2325, which has to be VL8T, but > it`ll take a much better signal to cut any modulation thru > the noise level here (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING > DIGEST) > > ** AUSTRALIA [and non]. 15340, Sept 5 at 1256, HCJB with > hymn in S Asian language, would you believe is the SSOB > (strongest signal on band)? 1258 announcement with P O Box, > the numbers 6-9-1 presumably in that unknown language, but > own schedule grid Wednesday shows Rawang for Myanmar daily > until 1300. No English ID at hourtop, ``Namaskar`` and into > another language, Nepali mentioned as scheduled for > Wednesdays et al. No transmission break around 1300 either > as all of this is on the 307-degree antenna, whether for SE > or S Asia. > > RHC never heard on 15340 this morning, tho it might have cut > on and off briefly as often happens. HCJB 15340 remained > stronger even than RHC 15230, still nice music at 1316 with > Marathi. By 1342 during Hindi, HCJB has weakened and 15230 > has strengthened; still, only other signals on 19m are quite > attenuated and many ordinarily heard (e.g. Turkey before > 1322) are absent. At 1424 final check, HCJB still audible in > Urdu on 15340 with no RHC. > > Hi-latitude paths from Asia, Europe, Mideast are suffering, > but HCJB has a great advantage of trans-equatorial > propagation with great-circle paths to Enid no further > toward the poles than 38 degrees, but am I getting it long- > or short? It`s all over-water too until reaching the USA. > Longpath over Indian Ocean skirts Cape Town, and the NE > point of Brasil, into NAm between Jaxonville and Savannah; > shortpath over the Pacific goes between Lisianski and Midway > at the far end of the Hawaiian chain, enters CONUS circa San > Francisco. > > VOA Korean 15775 also aimed USward at 21 degrees from > Tinang, Philippines, unlike usual good signal, is JBA, which > leads me to believe HCJB is in fact long-path the opposite > way around thru our antipodes off Madagascar. VOA Somali via > Madagascar 15730 is also audible poorly at 1318, aimed due > north (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Aussie fax > QRMing WEWN from another WA site: see USA [and non] > > ** BANGLADESH. 15505, Sept 5 at 1359, tone test, briefly to > IS but too short to copy for sure; timesignal is now fast, > ending at 1359:35, very poor signal with flutter, but no > doubt Bangladesh Betar opening Urdu service in typical > behavior. Nothing audible on 15105 earlier for the 1230 > English, 1315 Nepali, and I am surprised to be getting this > much, considering very poor hi-latitude propagation > conditions; see AUSTRALIA HCJB (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX > LISTENING DIGEST) > > ** BRAZIL. 15149.5, Sept 5 at 0511 as I am bandscanning > across 19m, expecting maybe R. Africa, instead immediately > hear ``duas e onze``, i.e. Brazilian Portuguese timecheck > which can only come from R. Inconfidência, Belo Horizonte. > Then checked frequency and it`s right here, maybe .49 but > probably within margin of error (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX > LISTENING DIGEST) > > ** CHINA. Firedrake Sept 5, before 1300: > 12230, very poor at 1246 > 12320, fair at 1246 > 12670, fair at 1246; none in the 10s, 11s, 13s, 14s, 15s, > 16s > > Before 1400: > 13920, very poor at 1322 under fax, from Australia? See USA: > WEWN > 14700, poor at 1323 with flutter > 15490, very poor at 1343 with noise, het on lo side > 15605, very poor at 1342 with noise, het on lo side > > After 1400: > 15495, very poor at 1424 with flutter > (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) > > ** COSTA RICA. 5965, Sept 5 at 0521, REE is back on proper > frequency // 9630, after excursion to 5995 last night (Glenn > Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) > > ** INDONESIA. 9526-, Sept 5 at 1347, VOI is gone again, no > trace of a signal during English hour (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX > LISTENING DIGEST) > > ** MEXICO. 730, the mystery is solved about where ``Ke > Buena`` is coming from. As suggested by Neil Kazaross, > IL/WI, it is in fact a new name for XEHB in Hidalgo del > Parral, Chihuahua, ex-Radio Viva Villa. Rather sorry to find > that colorful name in homage to Pancho Villa has been > retired (or moved elsewhere?). > > Sept 5 at 1200 UT, expected VG signal on SRS, but no NA is > played, just hyper Mexican music. 1201, full ID including > ``XEHB-FM, 107.1, 25 kW, Hidalgo del Parral, cadena > internacional, Radiorama``. This very recent change is not > showing up yet in the listings, notably Cantú, rechecked at > 1400 UT. Neil says he`s asked Fred about it. > > Ke Buena is listed there on 700 instead: > 700 XEGD Ke buena + FM 90.3 Hidalgo del Parral, Chih. > 5,000 1,000 > so we wonder if the formats on 700 and 730 have been > swapped? But it`s not that simple as the FM frequency > doesn`t match the announced 107.1 heard on 730. And 107.1 is > not listed for anything in that city. > > I also check 700 at 1200 UT, and a much weaker signal has a > low-key discussion in Spanish, 1203 mentions Coahuila, but > that`s all I could get, source unknown. It`s not clear if > XEGD and XEHB are jointly owned, lacking weblinx for either > in Cantú by-state listings. Martin Foltz, who is compiling > the next IRCA Mexican Log, is checking whether the other Ke > Buena on 730, in Ensenada BCN, retains that slogan. > > In fact, the only Hidalgo del Parral station in the > Radiorama affiliate list is yet another one: > Hidalgo Del Parral RADIO MIL XEHPC 1000AM > (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) > > ** MEXICO. 750, Sept 5 at 1205 UT, after NA, Chihuahua > anthem, no ID but into CV of some official from the steel > industry, Horacio Campaña Acosta, must be this guy > originally from Sinaloa, matching CV items: > http://sinaloensesejemplares.com/horacio-campana-acosta/ > Then, president Calderón gobierno federal PSA also > mentioning Secretaría de Educación Pública. Relying on > Cantú. station must be > 750 XEOH La Jefa + FM 96.1 Cd. Camargo, Chih. 1,000 750 > > Altho I see he has now expanded his cross-border listings to > include 5 US K-call stations in El Paso del Norte, under > Ciudad Juárez, including the one on 750, KAMA, with > Univisión América. I assume KAMA has not ``gone Mexican`` > to the extent of playing their NA and state anthem; but you > never know. Surely there`s no law against a US-licensed > station doing so, altho there probably is a law prohibiting > Mexicans from playing the Star Spangled Banner or Deep in > the Heart of Tejas (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) > > ** OKLAHOMA. 1170, Sept 5 at 1220 UT, as I should keep > bandscanning for SRS Mexicans, I get stuck on KFAQ as they > are interviewing Tulsa Mayor Dewey Bartlett about firing > some official, a Dr Addison-Turner. Read all about this, > instead Lana Turner-Addison: > http://www.tulsaworld.com/news/article.aspx?subjectid=334&articleid=20120905_16_A13_CUTLIN215701 > And an earlier story: > http://www.tulsaworld.com/news/article.aspx?subjectid=11&articleid=20120728_16_A15_CUTLIN829256 > (Glenn Hauser, Enid, DX LISTENING DIGEST) > > ** U S A [and non]. 15615, Sept 5 at 1319, strong fax signal > is obliterating WEWN, which is only a trace of a carrier; > fax maybe closer to 15616. Sounds a lot like the Aussie fax > on 13920 vs Firedrake. By 1343 the fax is off and WEWN is > poorly audible in the clear. > > A June 2011 post by Hugh Stegman to the UDXF yg shows both > of these: > Australian BOM Charleville: 2628 5100 11030 13920 20469 > [Qsld.] > Australian BOM Wiluna: 5755 7535 10555 > 15615 18060 [W Australia] > BOM = Bureau of Meteorology. This correlates with the good > signal from another WA site, Kununurra; see AUSTRALIA [and > non] (Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGESET) > > ** U S A. 1010, Sept 5 at 1215 UT, station break between > gospel huxters, ``We are 10-10 AM, KXEN, good news for Saint > Louis``. Sufficient signal I find hard to believe is the > alleged temporary 350 watt transmitter at WGNU in Illinois. > Makes 6 bars on the DX-398 signal meter; what about 50 kW > KMOX at same time? Also 6 bars! But must have been in a > fade, since the latter soon increases to 8 bars. But then a > portion of its power is wasted on the IBOC sidebands. I > wonder how the groundwave strength of KXEN seems in the St > Louis area now. Could be the temporary antenna setup favors > skywave (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) > > ** U S A. 14320-USB, Sept 5 at 1328, K4GFW is NCS of some > net, taking check-ins and assigning sequential numbers to > each station. 5 & 9 from him but I can`t hear any of the > others, all over the US, except neighbor W4OMH, but K4GFW is > Gerry, in Plantation FL. Says it`s daily except Sundays at 9 > am Eastern. Seldom mentions name of net, but sounds like > ``Narnia`` or ``Nadia``?? 1336 finally finishes about 20 > check-ins and goes back to #1 to axually start the > roundtable, but some of the first few are no longer there, > out for coffee? I finally give up after 15 minutes at 1343, > and try to find it later. > > Per QRZ.com lookup, K4GFW is: GERALD C GRUENBAUM, SUNRISE, > FL 33322, but he must have moved to another nearby Fort > Lauderdale suburb in the meantime. Nothing works in ARRL > list under such net names starting with N, or anything on > 14320. On the time I finally get a hit on: KNOTHEAD! And > that matches up with K4GFW who is also trustee of the > Motorola ARC, W4MOT. Then I find that Knothead was listed in > the final Nets to You of April 2007, with slightly different > data: ``1430 1330 14310 KNOTHEAD Monday-Friday [Informal]`` > What is the purpose of this net? ``social`` (Glenn Hauser, > OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) > > ** U S A. 1330, Sept 5 at 1236 UT, West Texas oil drilling > news with locations, per-barrel prices, ``from the KCKM news > desk, the West Texas powerhouse``, back to music. Easily > overcomes KNSS Wichita at SRS. So this Monahans station > still exists in English, despite once-related KCKN 1020 > Roswell NM 50 kW flipping to 24/7 Radiovisión Cristiana a > few days ago // 1330 in New York, Dominican Republic, > elsewhere (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) > > ** U S A. 1440, Sept 5 at 1225 UT, once again dead air on > large carrier; a minute later at 1226 finally wakes up to > play outro of previous preaching program with normal > modulation level, ID as 1440 AM y 102.5 FM, i.e. Radio Luz, > 50 kW KTNO University Park (Dallas) TX (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX > LISTENING DIGEST) > > UNIDENTIFIED. 17750, Sept 5 at 1425-1427* large steady open > carrier, stronger than RHC on 17730, which is the only > usable signal on 16m. Possibly RHC testing as 17750 is their > afternoon frequency, but more likely Greenville B in a > tuneup for 17530 which starts Portuguese at 1700, but not > using 17530 now to avoid interfering with São Tomé 17530 > with VOA English (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) > ---[Start Commercial]--------------------- Order your WRTH 2011: http://www.hard-core-dx.com/redirect2.php?id=wrth2011 ---[End Commercial]----------------------- ________________________________________ Hard-Core-DX mailing list [email protected] http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/hard-core-dx http://www.hard-core-dx.com/ _______________________________________________ THE INFORMATION IN THIS ARTICLE IS FREE. It may be copied, distributed and/or modified under the conditions set down in the Design Science License published by Michael Stutz at http://www.gnu.org/licenses/dsl.html
