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Today's Topics:
1. Glenn Hauser logs February 4-5, 2013 (Glenn Hauser)
2. Glenn Hauser logs February 5-6, 2013 (Glenn Hauser)
3. Re: Glenn Hauser logs February 5-6, 2013 (Wolfgang Bueschel)
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Message: 1
Date: Tue, 5 Feb 2013 10:39:47 -0800 (PST)
From: Glenn Hauser <[email protected]>
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Cc: [email protected]
Subject: [HCDX] Glenn Hauser logs February 4-5, 2013
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** BOLIVIA. 4717, Feb 5 at 0035, music on poor signal, from R. Yatun Ayllu
Yura, Yura, but as usual better than the other Andeans on 60m, and no SSB QRM
this time (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CHINA [non]. 5990, Feb 5 at 0031, oh oh, Cuban music here, so has RadioCuba
SNAFU`d again and put their own RHC programming on this CRI relay frequency?
But not // 6000 talk during `Mesa Redonda` nor mainstream RHC on 6120, 11680.
And it *is* // 15120, another CRI Cuban relay in Spanish, and indeed program
soon shifts to interview *about* Cuban music. In Spanish, make it `RIC`, Radio
Internacional de China. BTW, with the self-destruxion of Radio Canada
International, the ChiCom might as well make their station RCI in all languages
instead of CRI or RIC (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CUBA. 6125, Feb 5 at 0636, RHC English is missing from this one tonight, and
6060 is quite weak, while 6165, 6010 and 5040 are very good. It would be a rare
night without some such anomaly (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** GUIANA FRENCH. 9374 & 9606, Feb 5 at 0102 check, +/- 116 kHz spurblobs from
9490 R. Rep?blica relay are audible but weaker than usual, as is the
fundamental (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** INDONESIA. 9526-, Feb 5 at 1430, VOI poor signal but good modulation,
Indonesian talk with occasional jingles, unlike the ones heard in English. Ron
Howard observed yesterday that the signal improves markedly at 1400 after
English; antenna change? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MEXICO. 2910, Feb 5 at 1221 UT, XEVM Villahermosa, Tabasco, 3 x 970, with
usual morning news magazine of alternating M & W voices, very poor but at least
it`s still there unlike 2240, see unID (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** NIGERIA. 15115-15120-15125, Feb 4 at 2055, surprised to hear DRM noise still
here as VON had been closing circa 2000; still going at 2111 check but not at
next check 2207. A fluke, or deliberate extension? More English, or what?
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** OKLAHOMA [and non]. 512 kHz, Feb 5 at 0607 UT I am tuning the radio in the
bathroom, a Panasonic RF-569D which is positioned on an east-west wall, such
that it favors north-south, to the bottom of the AM dial, where I am hearing
two beacons interfering, but somewhat separable despite wide bandwidth: HMY and
above it PN. The latter is common here, from nearby Ponca City, but HMY?
Reminds me of Hominy, Oklahoma, but http://www.dxinfocentre.com/ndb.htm
shows it:
512 HMY USA OK Lexington - Muldrow N 35 01 44 W 097 13 50 --- and
which is SSE of OKC, while unrelated Hominy is NW of Tulsa, an Osage
stronghold. Strangely enough, a few minutes later on the DX-398 I found them
weaker, but frequencies read as 516 and 513; I thought I had zero-beat the
carriers? Says Hepburn`s list:
515 PN USA OK Ponca City N 36 49 30 W 097 06 02
Then looked for a few others and found RG on 351 at 0627
350 RG USA OK OKLAHOMA CITY - ROGERS N 35 17 42 W 097 35 19
[i.e. Will Rogers World Airport, SW corner of OKC]
SO on 354, but the O is poorly keyed with the middle dash slightly shorter than
the others, so it`s just across the border:
353 SO USA KS Winfield - Strother N 37 05 23 W 097 02 11
And OUN on 369 kHz at 0629:
370 OUN USA OK Norman - Oklahoma University N 35 14 15 W 097 28 52
So some of these I am reading 1 kHz higher than listed, others 1 kHz lower
(Glenn Hauser, Enid, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** PERU [and non]. 4835, Feb 5 at 0031, more tries to hear R. Ondas del Sur
Oriente, Quillabamba, ex-5120: nothing, not even a carrier, but CODAR swishes;
ditto at 0037. Earlier I asked discoverer Pedro F. Arrun?tegui in Lima, to
reconfirm whether it is still active on 4835; he replied on Feb 4: ``En estos
momentos est?n el aire 2255 UT con un 44444+ (los escucho muy bien px
religioso). Suerte, Pedro``. But I am still wondering if maybe they sign off
in the meantime? And if anyone else has heard them yet in North America? Before
sunrise it might be audible, but only under Ustralia.
As for the only alternative broadcaster on 4835 in our evenings, Sikkim, when I
do hear a carrier before WWCR blasts on 4840 at 0059v, Partha Sarathi Goswami,
Siliguri, W.B., India says, ``Could it be AIR Gangtok? At 0056 UT it normally
stays with carrier modulated with no listenable audio, then IS played at 0100;
now local sunrise 0050+ UT`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** PERU [non]. 5980, Feb 5 at 0037, how is R. Chaski doing tonite vs the
competition? Not well at all: hearing Chinese and under it Cuban jamming noise.
CNR1 at least can overcome the jamming unlike last nite, so I hear its closing
timesignal at 0100, but then not even a JBA carrier from Urubamba as the jam
continues. I hope Chaski hasn`t decided to close earlier than 0105v* as I was
hearing the previous week. At least I got them while the getting was good
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** RUSSIA. 5930, Feb 5 at 1237, very poor music in huge sideband splash of 5935
WWCR, still R. Rossii, Petropavlovsk/Kamchatsky, as heard well in the clear for
a minute after WWCR exited at 1258, with ``Mona Lisa`` by Nat King Cole, in
English, and also on weaker // 5940 Magadan.
In Feb BDXC-UK Communication, Dave Kenny suggests that the Pet/Kam site may be
among the SW sites which have closed, as it`s no longer used by V. of Russia to
reach Western North America, or anywhere. But is 5930 R. Rossii really from the
same site?
Aoki shows coordinates for 5930: 15824E 5311N RR
And still lists only one other frequency from there, yes same coords:
11830 VOICE OF RUSSIA 2200-2300 1234567 English 250 64 Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsk
RUS 15824E 5311N.
HFCC still lists this too plus a few others, but really on the air, or just not
removed yet by HFCC or Aoki? VOR`s own schedule at
http://english.ruvr.ru/engradio/
does not show 11830 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** TAJIKISTAN. 5885, Feb 5 at 1255, VOR fair signal in English, food talk about
``Soviet mustard`` (did I hear that right?), 1301 has switched to Hindi giving
website using Roman letters, `Chariots of Fire` theme, which I daresay has
nothing to do with Russia, but then the Great Gate of Kiev does not either;
this is 100 kW, 137 degrees from Dushanbe-Yangiyul, so grayline a semihour
before sunrise here (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) See also UNID 7413
** U S A. 15620-15660, peaking around 15650, Feb 4 at 2058, modulation spike
spurs matching WWCR 15825, which previously have correlated with
propagation-boosted signal on the fundamental, but not today --- it`s not
especially strong, which means the spurs are even worse than we had thought;
fortunately encountered this just as 15825 was signing off. With the evacuation
of the 19m band by other stations, WWCR has become even more of a far-right
outlier, doesn`t really need to be at bandedge, but best to stay there lest the
spurs too migrate further inband (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 21429-AM, Feb 4 at 2113, a non-SSB ham is quite a rarity on ``15`` m,
so caught my ear, especially since his speech style is well-modulated like a
broadcaster and first thought it could be such a stray. But was addressing
another individual, David, W6PSS, whom I could not hear if simplex, about his
problems with antennas vs HOAs. Unfonetik ID sounded first like WS4D, then a
bit more clearly as WS4B. ARRL lookup shows:
MESSICK, BRADLEY J, WS4B
7114 91ST STREET EAST
PALMETTO, FL 34221
Previous call sign: W4BJM
And there is also a WS4D in Homer, GA, so I hope I heard him right (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 1560, Feb 5 at 1454 UT, sports talk is dominating Disney OKC, a
sesquihour after sunrise! KGOW Bellaire (Houston) TX really gets out on 46 kW
day power, and even on 15 kW night power to deep South America. Finally before
1500 it`s starting to fade. XERF 1570 has already disappeared (Glenn Hauser,
OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 1640, Feb 5 at 0709 UT, pleased to find that KOAG is in open
carrier/dead air, and on nite power of 1 kW from transmitter east of Hennessey
OK, sufficient to make it easy to hear other stations under the carrier even
when not fully nulled: mainly mix of Spanish and English. The Spanish is no
doubt KBJA Sandy UT, ads including one at 0716 with an appropriate 801
area-code; and the English likely WTNI Biloxi MS, tho there are three others in
the US flung further (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 2660+, Feb 5 at 0643 UT, very poor signal with music, 0647 talk, 0650
music seems gospel. The only 2 MHz harmonic audible at the moment, presumed
KGLD Tyler TX as previously IDed; however, I continue to keep an ear on this
frequency as at one time I was hearing a second carrier. Also at 1257, very
poor with YL talk in English, music continued past hourtop 1300, but 1300:25
tentative KGLD legal ID JBA. 1300 is supposedly when in Feb they can bump up to
full day power of 1 kW on 1330, but noticed no change on 2660 (Glenn Hauser,
OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 2240 kHz, Feb 5 at 1213 UT, I again alarm myself with the DX-398
to awaken in time for the harmonic about to sign on, but on the FRG-7 it never
shows by 1220, tho there is maybe a JBA carrier 1225-1230. Meanwhile, tnx to
Paul S. in CT who suggested some more possible fundamental sources on 1120 with
Spanish programming: WUST in Washington DC, but its sunrise is 1230; and WPRX
in Bristol CT, but sunrise at 1145. Bingo, one more is Spanish and rising at
1215: WBBF in Buffalo NY, 1 kW daytimer. But we`ll need some confirmation from
closer listeners (or a better morning here) to decide that`s really it (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 7413.0, Feb 5 at 1303, rechecking yesterday`s unID which seemed
jammed until 1330* --- today no jamming or blobbing, but I notice it`s on
exactly 7413, and I`m afraid I may not have measured it yesterday when assumed
to be on 7415. In current HFCC and Aoki, there is no transmission on 7410 or
7415 to account for this; CRI is in a one-hour break on 7410. M&W talking with
occasional music bits. This is in Chinese as at 1307 caught a partial ID,
``guangbo diantai``, missing the important part! Bothered by splatter from
Mart?/Greenville on 7405; and next signal up is a JBA carrier on 7420. Since
it`s on exact 7413, likely intentional rather than a drift. V. of Tibet from
Tajikistan is known for such split frequencies, i.e. currently in Aoki, 7538,
7548. Note I was getting VOR from Dushanbe at same hour on 5885 (Glenn Hauser,
OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
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Message: 2
Date: Tue, 5 Feb 2013 18:52:45 -0800 (PST)
From: Glenn Hauser <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: [HCDX] Glenn Hauser logs February 5-6, 2013
Message-ID:
<[email protected]>
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** AUSTRALIA. 21740, Feb 6 at 0047, RA still has VG signal with discussion of
sea turtle nesting, as this frequency is about to close; and still better than
// 19000. Some further east find 21740 is fading out a lot earlier, as one
would expect (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CANADA. 2749.5-USB, Feb 6 at 0042 UT, since am not getting anything but JBA
AM carriers on the MW harmonic band, I settle on this poorly readable marine
weather broadcast, in English mentioning Cape Cod, Cabot Strait; back to it at
0103, now in French Canadian with an English accent, about glace (ice),
mentions of Cap-Br?ton, etc. 0106 gives a 709 AC phone number for John
Llewellyn, who must find himself in Newfoundland & Labrador. Closing ID in
French and then English for ``Sydney Coast Guard Radio, out`` and off before
0108. So per
http://www.dxinfocentre.com/mb.htm
this was the 0040 UT transmission of VCO in Sydney NS, which had to make way
for the 0110 broadcast of VCS-2 in Halifax. Bill can add ``EE/FF`` to VCO too.
He shows 2749, but I measure 2749.5 reference frequency on the DX-398 (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CHINA. 15385, Feb 6 at 0051, VG signal in Chinese, i.e. CNR1 jammer of VOA
Mandarin via Tinang, during this hour only, ditto on 17645. This encourages me
to look for Firedrake on the higher bands, and I soon find a lot, besides
equally inbooming 17495, CRI Cantonese non-jammer from Beijing site.
On the DX398 I have to keep pressing the 5-kHz UP button as rapidly as possible
in order not to miss any music as I tune, yet cover as much spectrum as
possible before I need to get back to 4835 and 5980 by 0058. Firedrake found:
15800, good at 0052
16600, good with flutter at 0053
17170, very poor at 0053
18180, good with flutter at 0054
18250, fair with flutter at 0054
Not enough time to tune all the way up to 20 MHz, so I check some ranges,
18.8-19.0 and 19.9-20.0 without hearing any, tho some have heard it even just
below 20000. In a couple minutes left, down below 15 MHz:
14980, poor with flutter at 0056
14800, good with flutter at 0056
14700, fair with flutter at 0056
13920, fair with flutter at 0057
none down to 12900 by 0058 when I have to QSY
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** EAST TURKISTAN. 4980, Feb 6 at 0036, PBS Xinjiang Uighur service, talk in
Turkic, and as I meant to mention before, this frequency suffers from some hum
and distortion, unlike 5060 in clear Chinese (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** NIGERIA. 15115-15120-15125, Feb 5 at 2052 check, VON DRM is off, unlike
yesterday when it ran past 2111; don`t know whether it stopped today at nominal
time 2000. Are those with DRM capability checking this out? (Glenn Hauser, OK,
DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** PERU [and non]. 5980, Feb 6 at 0037, what will happen with R. Chaski,
Urubamba, Cuzco, tonight? All I hear at first is Dentro-Cuban Jamming Command
pulsing atop CNR1 jammer, Commies vs Commies! At 0059 still the same and I
don`t hear the 0100 timesignal, but no more ChiCom.
Now with BFO I can still detect a JBA carrier under the noise, unlike last
night, and perceive it cutting off at 0105:25*, the now well-established
pattern for R. Chaski, a few sex later each night, even tho I can no longer
copy any modulation from it tnx to the bad neighbors in Cuba. What fun! (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** SAUDI ARABIA. 1521, Feb 6 at 0033 UT as I start my evening porch-monitoring
session, a 1-kHz het is JBA against 1520 KOKC OKC, no doubt the 2-megawatter in
Duba, prime pilot for TA openings at 40 times the power of li`l US stations;
but I am going after higher frequencies tonight (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 4835, Feb 6 at 0034, JBA carrier vs CODAR, so maybe it`s R. Ondas
del Sur Oriente, Per?, which I have been chasing; at 0058 CODAR and now I can
hear two carriers on slightly different frequencies, which fits for Sikkim on
4835.0 and Per? on 4805.03; then by 0059 blasted from 4840 WWCR steel-drum
sign-on. However, at 0101 I notice that WWCR is in dead air, which certainly
reduces the splash, so on LSB tuning I can barely tell that the two 4835s are
still there (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
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Message: 3
Date: Wed, 6 Feb 2013 09:14:43 +0100
From: "Wolfgang Bueschel" <[email protected]>
To: "HCDX" <[email protected]>, "DXLD"
<[email protected]>, "Glenn Hauser" <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [HCDX] Glenn Hauser logs February 5-6, 2013
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Seldom checked - out of band 4500 kHz - was heard on powerful level these
days.
CHINA 4500 CNR XJBS PBS Xinijang Urumqi in Mongolian lang, powerhouse
S=9+30dB signal transmission into Germany at 0045 UT on Febr 5.
(wb, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Febr 5)
----- Original Message -----
From: "Glenn Hauser" Sent: Wednesday, February 06, 2013 3:52 AM
Subject: [HCDX] Glenn Hauser logs February 5-6, 2013
CHINA. EAST TURKISTAN. 4980, Feb 6 at 0036, PBS Xinjiang Uighur service,
talk in Turkic, and as I meant to mention before, this frequency suffers
from some hum and distortion, unlike 5060 in clear Chinese.
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 4835, Feb 6 at 0034, JBA carrier vs CODAR, so maybe it`s R.
Ondas del Sur Oriente, Per?, which I have been chasing; at 0058 CODAR and
now I can hear two carriers on slightly different frequencies, which fits
for Sikkim on 4835.0 and Per? on 4805.03; then by 0059 blasted from 4840
WWCR steel-drum sign-on. However, at 0101 I notice that WWCR is in dead air,
which certainly reduces the splash, so on LSB tuning I can barely tell that
the two 4835s are still there.
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
Could be AIR Gangtok in Hindi[?] 0100-0415 UT, which is widely heard here
in Europe. (wb)
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