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Today's Topics:
1. Glenn Hauser logs February 23-24, 2013 (Glenn Hauser)
2. Re: Glenn Hauser logs February 23-24, 2013 (Glenn Hauser)
3. Glenn Hauser logs February 24-25, 2013 (Glenn Hauser)
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Message: 1
Date: Sun, 24 Feb 2013 10:58:29 -0800 (PST)
From: Glenn Hauser <[email protected]>
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Subject: [HCDX] Glenn Hauser logs February 23-24, 2013
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** ALGERIA [and non]. 7295, Feb 24 at 0649, Qur`an, no doubt the RTA relay via
Issoudun, FRANCE, which so far in the B-12 season had been running only at
05-06, followed by RFI Hausa at 0600-0630*.
Feb 24 is the off-season change date for RFI scheduling, moving many of its own
broadcasts one or two bands higher, and this obviously also affects relays of
Algeria --- but as of 18 Feb, NO *240213 dates are in HFCC for RTA, while there
are many for RFI itself. Nothing on 5865 now, which until today had been
running RTA at 04-07. No doubt there are many more shifts to rediscover.
The OLD RTA (or rather initialed TDA) entries in HFCC B-12 all show effective
from *281012 to 300313* --- 04-07 5865, 05-06 7295; 18-19 11955, 19-21 7290 &
11775, 21-22 9395, 21-23 7495; all via Issoudun. Note that when two frequencies
are on, they have usually been carrying two separate services, some including
news in French on the hour.
HFCC also includes IMAGINARY B-12 listings until 30 March for two sites inside
Algeria itself, ORG and BEC: 04-06 7265 & 7360; 06-07 9490 & 9815; 18-19 11690
& 11715; 19-23 11770 & 11785. If anyone ever hear Algeria on any of these
frequencies, it will be big news (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** BRAZIL. 4915, Feb 24 at 0659, music and soon ID including ``4915, onda
curta``, a website in .br, at 0700 ``Macapaense`` and ``Macap?``, so I am
confident it`s not R. Daqui but really the other 4915, Rdif. Macap?, ZYF360 in
Acre. Signal is second only to Par? on 4885, both 24 hours, tho Macap?
supposedly has a 25 to 10 kW power advantage (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** CHINA. Firedrake Feb 24 at 1420-1425: none found 12-19 MHz (Glenn Hauser,
OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CUBA. 6010, Feb 24 at 0653, RHC missing from one of its overkill five
English frequencies, audiblizing BBC on 6005; see U K [non]. Another day,
another anomaly or more from RHC. Yes, more:
11760, Sunday Feb 24 at 1416, this is the RHC dead-air open-carrier channel,
audiblizing BBC underneath, while RHC Spanish music is nominal on 11690, 11750,
11860, 13780, 15340, 17580, at least.
12220.0, Feb 24 at 1419, RHC in `Amigos de Cuba` show, very poor, but heard on
two receivers and // synchronized with 11860. This one does not compute as a
leapfrog mixing product among any of the 25mb frequencies; nor is RHC supposed
to be on 6110, which could harmonicize here and indeed nothing audible there at
1428 check.
Ah?, I`ve got it: leapfrog of 15340 over 13780 another 1560 kHz lower! Never a
dull day from RHC (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** ECUADOR. 4780v, Feb 24 at 0056, unlike 24 hours earlier, no signal at all
around this frequency from suspected R. Oriental; on Feb 10, Rich D`Angelo had
that signing off already at 2359* (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** GUIANA FRENCH [and non]. 9490, Feb 24 at 0104, R. Rep?blica is back to VG
signal after weakened last night, and furthermore, can`t find any spurblobs on
9374 or 9606, so maybe the replacement part has finally arrived and been
installed at MSY? Can`t be sure, pending further chex of this, 5960 and 11740
output at other hours.
9606 area is however generally noisy, traced to bleed from REE Costa Rica DRM
centered on 9630, far beyond its touted bandwidth (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** JAPAN [non]. 13725, Feb 24 at 1459, good signal with ``Inja`` something, so
it`s Farsi or related, mentions some kHz, fast SAH develops, 3-pip timesignal
and off; immediately replaced by R. Free Asia theme, English ID and into
Chinese. HFCC has the answers:
NHK Persian via Issoudun, FRANCE at 1430-1500, 500 kW, 90 degrees;
RFA Mandarin via TINIAN at 1500-1700, 250 kW, 295 degrees
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MEXICO. 550, Feb 24 at 0616, a Suprema Corte ``tiempo oficial`` government
PSA, dominant signal from NE/SW but with a SAH of about 4 Hz; 0617 balada
music; 0623 ``La Super Estaci?n, 550 AM``, 11:22 timecheck. Therefore it is,
per Cant?:
550 XEPL La Super Estaci?n + FM 91.3 Cd. Cuauht?moc, Chih. 5,000 150
No sign of Low German or indigenous language at the moment. IRCA and WRTH agree
on night power, if we can believe that: not bad for 150 watts, rather than 5 kW
day power (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MEXICO. 1300, Feb 24 at 1338 UT, VG signal in Spanish, timecheck for 6:37,
so it`s the usual XEP Ciudad Ju?rez, which penetrates well even a semihour past
sunrise here with its 38 day kW per Cant? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** NETHERLANDS [non]. 9450, Feb 24 at 0104, Mighty KBC via BULGARIA has fair
signal in music with flutter. Goodbye to this site and frequency, as from March
it moves to 7375 via Nauen, Germany, still 0000-0200 UT Sundays, expecting
better results. Will someone assume Croatia is back? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** OKLAHOMA. 1340, Feb 24 at 1346 UT, NBC Sports Radio update as it`s late
enough for KGHM Midwest City to reclaim the graveyard on groundwave; 1350 ad
for something in Norman at http://www.jdmc.org i.e. the J. D. McCarty Center
for children with developmental disabilities; non-ID as 1340-The-Ghame, back to
sports talk referencing fox.com --- so with the proliferation of silly sports
networks, KGHM has added NBC to its main network, Fox Sports Radio (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** PERU [and non]. 5980.0, Feb 24 at 0100, CNR1 jammer timesignal and off,
while China/Cuba 5990 is still on with splatter. It soon cuts off, but still
splatter from further afield covers all but the carrier from R. Chaski,
Urubamba. Is it from RHC 6000? No, the splat is talk while RHC is music. Best
bet then is from WWCR 5935, also extremely strong. WWCR can put a mixing
product directly on 5980, a leap from 5890 over 5935 another 45 kHz higher, but
5890 is not on yet. I can still copy the exact time R. Chaski cuts its carrier:
0106:53.5* (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U K [non]. 6005, Feb 24 at 0653, BBCWS discussing Catholic reform; good
signal with characteristic ASCENSION hum, and in the clear thanks to RHC
missing from 6010 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 5050-USB, Feb 24 at 0059, WWRB is up and running in carrierless mode
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 4840, Feb 24 at 0110, WWCR-3 on this frequency too is suffering from
a squeal, little affected by the emanations of Texe Marrs (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 9330-CUSB & 7490-AM, Feb 24 at 0112, `Thru the Bible` on both WBCQ
frequencies with contact info in Pasadena CA, etc. Using the DX-398 only on the
porch, can`t be positive they are // and synchronized, but certainly seem to be
so, switching back and forth. These two transmitters supposedly carry two
different services from Good Friends Radio Network; and from next week/month,
7490 is supposed to introduce some new secular programming on Saturday nights
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 3390-USB, UT Sun Feb 24 at 0101 as I am quickly scanning down the 90m
band for broadcast signals, here`s a Navy MARS net, someone in Michigan, over
to NNN0APN in Indiana.
3315-USB, UT Sun Feb 24 at 0103, further down the 90m band, an Air Force MARS
net with AFA- calls (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 1800-2000 kHz, Feb 24 at 0702 UT, tuning across the 160m band, it`s
crammed with SSB hams, unlike usual here and there. They are in a contest,
exchanging signal reports from one state to another. If there were any foreign
stations, they would be hard to find. Logged only one without noting the
frequency, WW8OH, which ARRL/FCC lookup shows:
CENTRAL OHIO OPERATORS KLUB EXTRA - NOVICE, WW8OH (Club), PO Box: 4,
THORNVILLE, OH 43076 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 690, Feb 24 at 0627 UT, open carrier/dead air presumed from dominant
KGGF Coffeyville KS, with two other stations underneath, one with C2C, which
would be KTSM El Paso TX rather than WOKV Jaxonville FL, the only two 690s on
affiliate list (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 1200, Feb 24 at 1353 UT, single signal with promo for something
Sunday at 2 pm ``on Faith 1200, KFNW``, then an Aleluya song. Must have been in
a WOAI fade, as it`s soon coming back with a SAH of about 6 Hz. KFNW is 50/13
kW U4 from West Fargo ND. Day power starts at 1330 UT in Feb, 1245 in March
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 1280, Feb 24 at 1336 UT, in KSOK Kansas null, YL in Spanish with
local weather somewhere, ``a trav?s de Qu? Bueno``, on to music. That slogan
clinches it as KBNO in Denver CO, 5/5 kW, in NRC AM Log as ``La Cadena Nueva
Qu? Bueno``. Note the masculine bueno, instead of the usual buena in station
slogans. But what does it refer to as masculine? Maybe it`s only to match the
callsign, someone else having KBNA (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 1280, Feb 24 at 1356 UT, encounter a station axually playing our
national anthem, but it can`t be a sign-on, from KSOK Arkansas City KS. It`s a
country version by an OM soloist --- but boo! Faded down before finished at
1358, outro as a ``country classic``, and then a CBS News Update. ``Country
Classics`` is the slogan of KSOK, and NRC AM Log showed it affiliated only with
ABC.
If I owned a radio station, especially a SW one, I would play the ``Star
Spangled Banner`` at least twice a day, whether signing on/off or not, and in a
different version from one time to the next. There must be scores of them
recorded (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 1320, Feb 24 at 1338 UT, Spanish balada music, and signal growing,
roughly east-west; and at 1342 in its null, a different Spanish music station,
roughly north-south; by 1344, the E/W station is being overtaken by the
Oklahoman, KCLI Clinton, which is the off-frequency one causing a LAH --- yes
reconfirmed at 1800 UT noon, KCLI is on the lo side.
Consulting the NRC AM Log, the only two SS around here do fit this pattern:
KRDD Roswell NM, 1000/188 watts, non-direxional day and night
(oh oh, official February sunrise is not until 1345 UT; 1315 in March)
KXYZ Houston TX, 5000/5000 watts, non-direxional days, but also ETHnic, and I
think usually heard in Chinese (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 1330, Feb 24 at 1339 UT, ``The 12 thousand watt west Texas
powerhouse, 1330 KCKM``, Monahans (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 3400, Feb 24 at 0102, JBA carrier; could it be some 1700, 850, or
680 station harmonicizing? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 4850, Feb 24 at 0058, either a het or a tone test where we
usually hear Xinjiang PBS, Urumqi, East Turkistan in Kazakh service, which
should be amid a morning broadcast, not testing. If there were two signals, the
only other broadcaster would be AIR Kohima. Aoki has no morning span for it,
but Eibi does, at 0000-0415. Too much else going on to stay with it (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 6185, Feb 23 at 2211, open carrier. Suspect it`s XEPPM already,
as in Aoki & EiBi there is nothing scheduled this hour, nor in HFCC except for
an imaginary 10-kW Malaysian. EiBi does have both China Huayi and XEPPM
starting at 2230, while as in Aoki, XEPPM officially does not start until 0000
and no listing there for Huayi in the local mornings (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
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Message: 2
Date: Sun, 24 Feb 2013 12:25:31 -0800 (PST)
From: Glenn Hauser <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [HCDX] Glenn Hauser logs February 23-24, 2013
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Frequency 7290 at 19-21 was a typo, should be 7390, corrected:
** ALGERIA [non]. . . .
The OLD RTA (or rather initialed TDA) entries in HFCC B-12 all show effective
from *281012 to 300313* --- 04-07 5865, 05-06 7295; 18-19 11955, 19-21 7390 &
11775, 21-22 9395, 21-23 7495; all via Issoudun. Note that when two frequencies
are on, they have usually been carrying two separate services, some including
news in French on the hour.
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Message: 3
Date: Sun, 24 Feb 2013 21:12:37 -0800 (PST)
From: Glenn Hauser <[email protected]>
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Subject: [HCDX] Glenn Hauser logs February 24-25, 2013
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** BOLIVIA. 4716.68 approx., Feb 25 at 0110, best signal in the 4700s tonight
is here, presumed R. Yatun Ayllu Yura, in Yura, allegedly 1 kW. Some music is
audible, while the rest are mostly carriers. Previously rounded to 4717v, this
time I measure it as closely as possible using the 40-Hz per click method on
the DX-398 on the porch with battery power, after calibrating it to WWV on
5000.000. Winter storm with thunder approaching from the TX panhandle is
producing some lightning crashes on these lower frequencies (Glenn Hauser, OK,
DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** BRAZIL. Re my previous report, Jorge Freitas points out that Rdif. Macap? is
in Amap? state, not Acre, which I got by referring to the `Carmen Miranda
Report` in DXLD 13-08 instead of the WRTH 2013. Corrected:
4915, Feb 24 at 0659, music and soon ID including ``4915, onda curta``, a
website in .br, at 0700 ``Macapaense`` and ``Macap?``, so I am confident it`s
not R. Daqui but really the other 4915, Rdif. Macap?, ZYF360 in Amap?. Signal
is second only to Par? on 4885, both 24 hours, tho Macap? supposedly has a 25
to 10 kW power advantage (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** GUIANA FRENCH. 9490, Feb 25 at 0102, the RMI R. Rep?blica transmission is
back to full strength, way over jamming and with good modulation; so if the
plus/minus 116 kHz and other spurs are still radiating, they should be audible
tonight. However, 9606 is blocked by bigsig from WHRI on its single night
broadcast UT Mondays only, and I can`t detect it in the sideband. 9374 on the
lower side is in the clear with no blob detectable. There is also some quite
different weak OTH radar noise pulsing circa 9360-9385.
However2, the fundamental has another problem, perhaps exacerbated by good
propagation: splashing out to plus/minus 23 kHz or so, i.e. gradually declining
out to 9467-9513. I would not want to be another station within that range.
Same transmitter previously put out same 116 kHz separation spurs from very
strong 5960 after 0200 for the NHK Japanese relay, so checking around that at
0228 UT Feb 25: 6076 and 5844 are clear, nor can I find the +36 kHz spur around
5996, nor the -71 spur around 5889. But there is a lot of other noise on the
band, especially around the other former spurspot 5924 as well as 5996.
Overall, as far as I can tell, the GUF spurs have been suppressed, perhaps as
of Feb 23 or so (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** PERU [and non]. 5980.0, Feb 25 at 0059, DentroCuban Jamming Command is
messing up the frequency with noise pulses, unlike many nights lately; can`t
even hear the CNR1 jammer closing timesignal at 0100*, but the R. Chaski
carrier remains audible with BFO under the noise, and this time as expected, it
cuts off at 0106:58.5* which is 5 seconds later than last night (Glenn Hauser,
OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 4593.5-USB, Air Force MARS net encountered Feb 25 at 0055; NCS seems
AFA1TN (or TM?), about to close it with the group call NES2 given fonetikaly
unlike his own call.
Googling on AFA1TN leads to a Silent Key:
Robert Joyce
AFA1TN
W8JBS
July 6, 2005
at http://www.marsregionone.org/SK.html
while AFA1TM leads to no significant top hits, so maybe AFA1TN call has now
been reassigned (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 9605, Feb 25 at 0102, WHRI is on strong with some pseudo-network news
on the blizzard about to strike us, as I am checking for the Guiana French
[q.v.] spurblob around 9606. WHRI 9605 usage is registered, and so far heard,
only on UT Mondays, tho probably tested one other night with KBS World Radio in
Spanish to S America (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 5085, Feb 25 at 0108, WTWW-2 is on-again with country music,
presumably Ted Randall once again doing his evening show on Sunday night = UT
Monday, instead of original Saturday night = UT Sunday (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 5050-USB, Feb 25 at 0109 check, WWRB is on again in pure USB, but
g.h. of the moment is the one with lots of background noise keeping the SB
modulated even his during pauses. At this point it will be more newsworthy if
it goes back to AM, or goes off (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 4849, Feb 25 at 0057, again tonight I am hearing a het or tone
test estimated close to 1 kHz with the DX-398 on the porch, where without
continuous tuning it`s harder to tell than on the FRG-7 whether this is a DSB
tone or a het on one side or the other, but I think it`s only the low side vs
carrier on 4850. After 0059 obscured by squeal and splash from 4840 WWCR, but
barely audible at 0101. Again PBS Urumqi and AIR Kohima are the two
broadcasters listed on 4850, but a utility could also be involved. Would
appreciate listeners in Asia checking around this time, and also in Latin
America in case it`s something from there (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
[all logs in this report, except the Brazilian correxion, were on the DX-398
with random wire around eaves of porch; mild temp ~lo 50s]
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