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Today's Topics:
1. Glenn Hauser logs January 11, 2013 (Glenn Hauser)
2. DX Loggings -- 11 Jan -- Ralph Perry (RALPH PERRY)
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Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2013 09:25:18 -0800 (PST)
From: Glenn Hauser <[email protected]>
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Subject: [HCDX] Glenn Hauser logs January 11, 2013
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** BANGLADESH [and non]. 4750, Jan 11 at 1333, pileup of two or three Asians,
where they can`t figure out that shifting to different frequencies would help
them all to be heard. If it`s this bad on the opposite worldside, it must be
awful in Asia. Atop signal has M&W talking, not Chinese, and unseems Indonesian
either, so that leaves Bangla, as Bangladesh Betar HS has been reported
reactivated recently by Ron Howard, et al. Monitored across hourtop 1400 with
song, no timesignal or ID, sounds like maybe a kidshow; still in at 1420 with
song, less QRM. By now could be RRI Makassar dominating (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** CHINA. 4940, Jan 11 at 1404, Chinese is the SSOB except for WWV, no doubt V.
of Strait, Fuzhou; could easily have copied it but for language barrier. No
sign of AIR Guwahati co-channel, unlike clashes on 4820, 4920; see INDIA (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CUBA [and non]. 13780, Jan 11 at 1502, RHC is missing from one of its best
morning frequencies; don`t know how long it had been off, but then tuned to
11860 at 1503 just in time to hear frequency announcement claiming 13780 is on
until 1600! 11860 has CCI and SAH from Iran in Russian as usual. Then at
1504:30 YL mis-announces the time as ``exactamente las 10, 1 minuto``, into
``news``. Typical (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** EGYPT [and non]. 13580, Jan 11 at 1457, horrible mess between VOA Kurdish
and wavering tone, also LAH between carriers. VOA off at 1458:45* but the tone
continues until 1500:42, then 1501 R. Cairo opening scheduled Albanian, with
distortion, reverb. There was no carrier break and I am quite sure the clash
was merely due to R. Cairo warming up, not intentional jamming as Steve Handler
was theorizing in the NASWA Flashsheet. And if it were jamming, it would surely
be starting when Kurdish does at 1400. This has been going on for many months,
as I have reported it a few times before. IBB should wake up and get another
frequency to avoid this. Site is Wertachtal. Also CODAR in the mix (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** GREECE. 7475, Fri Jan 11 at 0606 check, ERT Greek music is // 9420 instead
of splitting for R. Filia in Albanian; this happens erratically, why? (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** GUAM. 5765-USB, Jan 11 at 1406, AFN is back again after missing a few days,
news from the NBC `Today` show about shooting in California, tornados and
floods in Louisiana; 1409 military PSAs cover up the original TV commercials;
more at 1414: military deployment news from the Southern Command.
Hearing TV show soundtrax only is somewhat frustrating when they are obviously
referring to visuals, such as weather maps. Whatever became of DVS? Descriptive
Video Service. In the final years of analog TV there was a bit of this on some
PBS shows, using SAP = subcarriers, which should still be possible somewhere in
the DTV bandwidths. Not something you can do on the fly, like captioning, but
audio descriptions for the blind of what is on the screen, carefully inserted
during pauses. Probably too expensive for too few benefitters.
Also checked 4319-USB for AFN Diego Garcia, but only ute QRM. I never have any
luck with the BIOT outlet, a.k.a Chagos, a.k.a. Diogo Garcia to the true
Portuguee (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** INDIA [and non]. 4820, Jan 11 at 1336, fast SAH, top station talking in
accented English, about football? 1338 commercial with kid voices, or childish
adults, unseems English. Must anyway be AIR Kolkata, over PBS Xizang.
4870, Jan 11 at 1339, weak talk and LAH, bonker on the side. Probably AIR
Nepali service from Delhi/Khampur, and would like to think the het is from
off-frequency 300-watt Indonesian, RRI Wamena.
4920, Jan 11 at 1340, S Asian music and talk, CCI, presumably also AIR Chennai,
atop another PBS Xizang (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MEXICO. 640, Jan 11 at 0701 UT, Mexican NA very long multi-verse choral
version, finally ends at 0706, full ID with powers, street address, phones,
etc., for ``Los 40 Principales``, Hidalgo del Parral, Chihuahua, AM & FM, XEHHI
on 640, and XHHHI on 99.3; 0707 timecheck as ``son las 12`` -- not exactly!
Then rock song en ingl?s. It`s not hard to get past KWPN 640 OK, which BTW is
still running IBOC, but only sporadically in the daytime (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** MEXICO. 660, Jan 11 at 0639 UT, romantic music in Spanish, ``La mejor
estaci?n, La Lupe, 98.9`` dominating frequency at the moment, i.e. XEACB,
Ciudad Delicias, Chihuahua, 5/1 kW per IRCA Mexican log but not off the air
after 0600 as listed there.
Name is presumably in tribute to La Virgen de GuadaLupe. I used to live in
Guadalupe county, New Mexico, too young to be conscious of virgins per se, but
no doubt associated with some in grade school (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** OKLAHOMA. 1020, Jan 11 at 0620 UT and rechex later in the hour, KOKP Perry
in open carrier/dead air; makes 3.6 Hz SAH with something else, probably KDKA
Pittsburgh. Ho hum, happens frequently (Glenn Hauser, Enid, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** OKLAHOMA. 960, Jan 11 at 0600-0605 UT, KGWA Enid also with Fox-hole of dead
air again; only ABC news detected, presumably KMA Shenandoah IA (Glenn Hauser,
Enid, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** POLAND. 24946-USB, Jan 11 at 1431, SQ2RCM, Andy, calling CQ DX after working
a few W`s. Mixes different fonetik alfabets, as ``sierra queen two radio
charlie mike``. QRZ.com IDs:
SQ2RCM, Andy Repalski, Guzlin 51, PL 87-880 Brzesc Kujawski, Poland
Checked 12m since 13m broadcast band was above par, but nothing on 10m (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** SPAIN. 17715, Jan 11 at 1506, French! Instead of Spanish from REE. Yes,
they`ve done it again, relaying CRI instead of own programming, during news
about the Kurdish Workers Party, 1509 reference to cri.cn, IDs as Radio Chine
Internationale; 1513 western operatic music. Checked 21610 and 15385 for // but
REE is properly in own Spanish on those. Still CRI music separately on 17715 at
1530.
See my previous log on 17595, Dec 29 at 1428-1503 of REE also relaying CRI in
French by mistake, as in DXLD 13-01 under SPAIN. Isn`t anyone paying attention
at Madrid master control, or Noblejas site to what`s really going on the air?
Of course not!
Hmm, REE owes CRI a lot of make-up airtime for CRI`s daily 2-minute relay of
REE IS at 1358-1400 before own Nepali service on two frequencies, for years and
years (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** TAIWAN [non]. 15180, Friday Jan 11 at 1436, virtuoso violin solo, i.e. a
cadenza in a major violin concerto, as then orchestra rejoins; 1336 Russian
announcement, and more classical music from RTI via FRANCE; presumably
Taiwanese performers, and hope this is a regular program. 1455 closing
announcement and off at 1457* (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. WORLD OF RADIO 1651 monitoring: second broadcast confirmed on WWRB,
UT Friday Jan 11 starting about 0428 --- I was monitoring the webcast at first,
from 0426 when instead of Pastor Larry ``Amen & Amen`` Cain from Anderson SC,
`Unshackled` was closing from the Pacific [sic] Garden Mission in Chicago ---
this is another filler, instead of last week`s primitive organ music which I
would prefer to hear. The never-dated program grid from Global 1 (5050) at
http://www.wwrb.org/schedule/global_1/combined.pdf
shows `Faith Holiness`, Thursdays at 11-11:30 pm; not sure if that was the
official name of Cain`s show, which may have run out of money to buy this
`expensive` airtime.
Unfortunately, after a quick Dave ID, there was dead air again, interrupted by
fitful bits of me opening WOR; wiggle that patchcord! Only sometime during the
first item about Argentina does the modulation catch on and stay on --- I hope
for the rest of the semihour; rechecked 0458 too late as the early start meant
it was over already. During the interim also confirmed that this week was on
both 3195 and 5050, but unusually, 5050 considerably weaker than 3195.
Two of my otherwise good outlets for WOR on SW keep messing up the opening. I
am tempted to start inserting meaningless dispensable blather for the first
biminute, rather than getting right down to business, but every minute counts,
and I have only 29 of them, never enough to cover all the news I would like to.
Next: UT Saturday 0230v on Area 51 via WBCQ 5110v-CUSB [Anker Petersen measured
on 5109.74 Dec 29]; Saturday 0630 & 1030 on Hamburger Lokalradio 7265-USB (or
is it CUSB too?); Saturday 0900, 1600 & 1830 on WRMI 9955; Saturday 1830 on WRN
via SiriusXM 120; UT Sunday 0500 on WTWW-1 5830; Sunday 0900, 1630, Monday
0530, Tuesday 1200 on WRMI 9955 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** VATICAN. 7250, Friday Jan 11 at 0610, very poor signal here, presumed
Vatican Radio on early again in Swedish or maybe Finnish; 0619 confirmed as VR
with IS, before another off-schedule transmission in Albanian. Yesterday SMG
did not turn on this frequency until 0628 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 999, Jan 11 at 0655, 1 kHz het upon KKIM & KTOK, presumably
trans-Atlantic, but scanning the band for other carriers was unproductive at
this late hour. Nothing over 50 kW on 999 from W Europe, COPE Madrid (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 6128-SSB, approx., Jan 11 at 0710 very weak two-way in Spanish,
INTRUDER, audiblized once Cuba is off 6125 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 9440-9460, Jan 11 at 1345, the banshee blob is varying/jumping
around this range, with its constant rumble, and making hets of constantly
changing pitches as it crosses other stations. Could be an ionosonde gone wild
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
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Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2013 17:27:09 -0600
From: RALPH PERRY <[email protected]>
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Subject: [HCDX] DX Loggings -- 11 Jan -- Ralph Perry
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ECUADOR ? 3380.08, Centro Radiof?nico de Imbabura, Ibarra, music
punching thru nicely on 1/9 from 1016 tune-in to 1115 f/out. Good
selection of Ecuadorian folklorica (pasillos, pasacalles,
sanjuanitos). Until 1100, all anmts were the brief, recorded eco anmt
that is driving everyone crazy ? too boomy to comprehend amid the 90
mb noise. But at 1100, different morning pgm started, with live ancr.
He wrapped up previous show about ??la musica presentada?en esta
manana . . . radiofonico . . .? and gave HC t/cks (?6 de la manana y 7
minutos . . . ?). Long discourse from TOH to f/out around 1115.
Bunch of us were monitoring this ?together? remotely, emails flying
all over North America at 4 a.m. Big fun! Also hrd 1/10, 11 at 1015
checks, but signal much lower both days. (Perry, Illinois)
BOLIVIA ? 6105.50, Radio Panamericana doing well nearly every morning
now. 1040 on 1/10, OM notes, ?Desde La Paz . . . Grupo Aymara? and
then followed very funky, rustic CP folk tune, featuring sicu-sicus,
many shrill quenas and charangos. Also the usual ?La hora en
Panamericana ? ? t/cks. At 1049, live YL with ID and then the
national anthem of Bolivia by orchestra. Am hearing this many
mornings now, appears they sign on the air and play filler until about
1050, when they ?formally? take the air. After NA, recorded sign-on
ID anmt and then into instrumental vals criollo mx. (Perry, Illinois)
PERU ? 6173.88m Radio Tawantinsuyo, Cusco, sign-on heard 1/9 at
*0959, fair signal but Asian 6175 QRM so needed usual ECSS and notch.
1003 s/on anmts by OM and into morning newscast. (Perry, Illinois)
BOLIVIA ? 5952.44, Radio Pio XII, Llallagua, fair signal and low
modulation at 0223 t/in on 1/9, just caught end of broadcast day as
they ran familiar shutdown music, ?Col Bogey March? at 0228, f/by OM
and YL with closing anmts. At 0230, three strummed chords and then
silence. Carrier not cut by 0233, when I left them. (Perry,
Illinois)
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Ralph Perry, Wheaton, Illinois
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