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Today's Topics:
1. Glenn Hauser logs April 3-4, 2013 (Glenn Hauser)
2. Glenn Hauser logs April 5, 2013 (Glenn Hauser)
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Message: 1
Date: Thu, 4 Apr 2013 14:38:08 -0700 (PDT)
From: Glenn Hauser <[email protected]>
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Subject: [HCDX] Glenn Hauser logs April 3-4, 2013
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** AUSTRALIA [and non]. 15340, April 4 at 1259, collision between HCJB and RHC,
but only briefly as the two transmissions overlap. HCJB soon off and continues
on 15400 at 1301 in S Asian language, now overriding Iran playing its NA, but
we can only imagine the head-on collision in IndoPak. Meanwhile, nothing on
15300, IRIB`s //, but it comes on late at 1301 in the clear, altho a few
minutes earlier I was hearing some weak hand-keyed CW circa (Glenn Hauser, OK,
DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** BELARUS. Re my unID on 11930 under nonsensical Cuban jamming, April 3 at
0524, Rob Wagner, Australia, thinx it is indeed R. Belarus, as in his blog
early April: ``11930 BELARUS. R. Belarus - Minsk. Noted at 0435 in Belarussian.
NF`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1663, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** BOLIVIA [and non]. 4717-, April 4 at 0059, very poor signal with music, but
not much audio is making it elsewhere on 60m from South America, i.e. R. Yatun
Ayllu Yura, Yura, in the clear except for occasional utes on hi side. Time
permitting when monitoring on the porch for Chaski at 0100, I also sweep the
60m band, which is understandably less productive now as it`s close to sundown
here. Not tonight or recently do I also hear the other off-frequency -7
station, on 4747, Per?`s Radio Huanta 2000; is it still active, or signing off
earlier than nominal 0100 as in WRTH 2013? There is however a big het around
4825, presumably Peruvian(s) vs Brasilian(s) I have yet to unravel (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CHINA. 6135, April 4 at 1250 in Chinese with hum, no doubt CNR1 jammer
against new frequency from Taiwan in Chinese, as noted by Ron Howard and
Martien Groot, at 10-15, thus also blowing away Shiokaze/Sea Breeze from Japan
to Korea North at 1330-1430 on its last-heard frequency. So time for another
QSY already; will they hasten? This mess also blox Yemen and Madagascar on
6135, bothers Laos on 6130 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1663, DX LISTENING
DIGEST) See also ROMANIA for more jamming
** CUBA. 5745, April 4 at 1246, still wall-of-noise jamming altho weak this
late, as the DentroCuban Jamming Command hasn`t caught on that R. Mart? is
totally gone from this frequency. Well, at least they can jam the weekly VOA
Radiograms (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CUBA [and non]. 9490, April 4 at 0105, R. Rep?blica still has VG signal via
replacement site in FRANCE, but now there is heavy OTH radar on the hi side,
9491-9514 or so, and can still barely hear that when tuned to 9490. Cyprus?
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** EGYPT. 13850, April 4 at 0526, seems Arabic with humbuzz, only fair signal
but unfortunately amounts to the SSOB, i.e. R. Cairo, 0200-0700, 250 kW, 315
degrees from Abis to E North America and W Europe (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** GERMANY [non]. 15275, April 4 at 1256 song in French, good signal until cut
off at 1257*. It`s DW via RWANDA, except they are clueless in the studio that
SW transmission must end 3 minutes before hourtop. To resume in Hausa at 1300
after switching to an even better azimuth for US (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** INDONESIA. 4750-, April 4 at 1245, poor signal with Indonesian talk, RRI
Makassar, but with some hum, which at first I thought would be from the other
carrier detectable with BFO, presumably Bangladesh rather than China or China;
but then I notice the hum surges during pauses in RRI modulation, so that means
it`s transmitted that way. You shouldn`t artificially boost modulation by
turning up the Optimod when you don`t have a quiet carrier (Glenn Hauser, OK,
DX LISTENINIG DIGEST)
** JAPAN [non]. 17540, April 3 at 2147 check, NHK in Portuguese, very good
signal via WHRI at 2130-2200, replacing French Guiana on 11960, after first
using 11880, that was usurped by Cuba in early B-12. Let`s hope RHC doesn`t
decide to use 17540 too. Yet now we have to strain to hear R. Japan in English,
which they could have put on WHRI too. Harold Sellers also reports 17540 as
excellent in British Columbia, tho it must be aimed at Brasil.
11970, April 4 at 0527 check, NHK playing Japanese rap(?), to fill out the 0500
English broadcast via FRANCE. At least the signal level now is almost on a par
with neighbor Turkey on 11980 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1663, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** OKLAHOMA. 1650, April 4 at 0542 UT check, is KYHN Sallisaw/Fort Smith AR,
finally programming? NO, still with program preview reel over and over and over
including self-aggrandizement as a 10,000-watt station eclipsing puny
1,000-watters, even tho it must also be 1 kW after dark. Closing in on two
months of this nonsense (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** PERU. 5980, April 4 at 0058, R. Chaski carrier still detectable in the
noise; 0101 I find there is new noise on the USB, so I have to monitor instead
on the offset LSB to hear the carrier cutoff which is at 0102:28.5, four
seconds later than measured last night (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** ROMANIA [and non]. 11870-11875-11880, April 4 at 0528, DRM noise is most
obvious by the hash it puts upon 11870 WEWN, i.e. RRI again this summer in
English at 0530-0600, 300 kW [really full power?], 307 degrees from Tiganeshti
to W Europe, but same azimuth as to N America. Same thing went on last A-season
and nobody cared but me --- theoretically, altho I certainly do not really
*want* to listen to WEWN in Spanish to S America, so I will be criticized by
Andy Sennitt for complaining about ``collisions`` when the target areas differ
and I am in neither.
Well, SW is a worldwide medium, as one might know by now, and signals cannot be
restricted to one CIRAF or another. When there are plenty of free channels, as
is increasingly the case thanks to all the shutdowns, there is NO reason not to
avoid QRM completely; all it takes is more astute frequency management, with
knowledge of real spectrum occupancy. This is especially imperative in the case
of DRM broadcasters which occupy at least 3 channels at once, and often more,
depending on the strength; yet another example of why DRM should be banished to
the fixed utility bands.
15435, April 4 at 1302, hets and jamming noises. I can only conclude that the
ChiCom are now jamming Romania too, since the only thing scheduled here at
1300-1330 is RRI in Chinese! (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) See also
TAIWAN for more jamming
** SPAIN. 21540, April 4 at 1309, REE is back here underneath Kuwait, after a
foray to clear 21515! Why? I did hear them on 21515, March 31 and April 1, but
not on April 2 or 3, and now on April 4 nothing on 21515 either; at first not
sure of 21540 until Spanish faded up vs the Arabic. Kuwait signal poor; Spain
very poor on 21540 and on clear 21610 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** TAIWAN [and non]. 15265, April 4 at 1257 clear open carrier, 1259 Chinese
announcement undermodulated and timesignal, soon hit by het and CCI in Chinese
as CNR1 jammer attacks RTI, 250 kW, 225 degrees from Tanshui at 13-14, per
Aoki. Similar mess to what was piled up on 15250 before 1300, but that was
jamming VOA Chinese via Tinang. Nothing at all, of course about 15265 in HFCC,
where the ChiCom ban anything from Taiwan and also modestly omit their own
jammers, which extensive network would be the envy of most other nations for
true broadcasting (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. WORLD OF RADIO 1663 monitoring: first airing confirmed Thursday April
4 at 2100.6 on WTWW-1 9479, usual excellent signal. Next: UT Friday 0330v on
WWRB 3195 (and maybe, we hope, less noisy 5050); UT Saturday 0130v on Area 51
via WBCQ 5110v-CUSB; Saturday 0630 & 1430 on Hamburger Lokalradio 7265-CUSB;
Saturday 1500 on WRMI 9955; Saturday 1730 on WRN via SiriusXM 120; Saturday
2330 on WTWW-2 9930; UT Sunday 0400 on WTWW-1 5830; Sunday 2315v on WTWW-2
9930; Tuesday 1100 on WRMI 9955; Wednesday 0630 & 1430 on HLR 7265-USB.
Full schedule including many webcasts:
http://www.worldofradio.com/radioskd.html
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 860, April 4 at 1222 UT, traffic report mentioning ``the 1604`` which
immediately leads to the grand loop around San Antonio, also a
``farm-to-market`` route, which again nails it to Texas, where such are the
fourth-level road network below interstate, US, and state highways, so no need
to hear the ``KONO 101.1`` ID which followed along with ``gun-accurate
traffic`` (is that what she said???), and San Antonio ads, totally dominating
KKOW Pittsburg-without-the-h KS, briefly at sunrise skip (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 870, April 4 at 0558 UT, with WWL nulled, again hearing Vietnamese
song past hourtop, 0602 Vietnamese announcement. No KFJZ calls detected, but
did say ``Tieng noi voi`` or somesuch. This daytimer is still cheating
overnight, so if you hear Vietnamese in the nightmiddle vs WWL, it`s not Saigon
but Fort Worth TX (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1663, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 880, April 4 at 1223 UT with KRVN NE nulled, KLRG Sheridan AR is
quite good with `America`s Morning News` interview about Atlanta school
cheaters, guest referencing his http://www.fairtest.org site. Signal equal to
KRVN until KLRG sudden fadeout 1227.
Following my previous log, Fritze Prentice confirms: ``There has been a format
change of programming on KLRG 880/K233BF 94.5 in metro Little Rock. KLRG (880)
Sheridan AR and FM translator K233BF (Greenbrier/NLR AR) have dumped much of
the fringe brokered programming for Black Gospel music, and the right wing
"America's Morning News" (AMN previously heard on KKSP 93.3 before that
station's flip to sports). Seems being the 3rd talk radio station in the market
has had an effect and KLRG was known for its bizarre programming the past few
years.
One thing is certain, Alex Jones is no longer part of the KLRG lineup.
http://www.facebook.com/pages/KLRG-880-Am945-FM/168740603215761
-- Fritze H. Prentice, Jr KC5KBV, Star City AR EM43aw
twitter.com/fritzehp facebook.com/SoutheastArkansasDXAndMediaReport
April 3``
I wonder if there is still any connexion or overlap with WTAN Network
programming from Clearwater FL, this big tail having been wagged by that little
1340 graveyard dog (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 940, April 4 at 1229 UT, KIXZ is ``The new 9-40``, and now streaming
so can be heard everywhere! http://voiceofamarillo.com But now at sunrise skip,
it`s VG direct and dominant on 940 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 1320, April 4 at 1237, TSN news looping SW/NE, plus fast SAH no doubt
from off-frequency KCLI Clinton OK, but skipping over it; plus SS QRM probably
XECPN Piedras Negras, Coahuila beyond it. This has to be the other Texan 1320,
KVMC Colorado City, 1 kW daytimer which NRC AM Log confirms is on the Texas
State Network; it`s on I-20 between two other aqueous towns Sweetwater and Big
Spring. This Colorado refers to the *other* River which goes on to Austin,
what`s left of it after all those LCRA dams (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** U S A. 1430, April 4 at 1240 UT, ``All-new KZQZ, 50,000 watts``, then
``House of the Rising Sun``. So its CP up from mere 5 kW must be on now, the
50K applying to daytime, still 5 kW at night, and U4. St Louis MO COL, but
address across in Belleville IL (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 1550, April 4 at 0547 UT, expecting the usual dominating TIS
Branson-promotion station KLFJ in Springfield MO, 28 watts at night, but
instead Cape Girardeau ads, and ID as ``Cape 15-50 and 100.3 FM``. So that`s
one station beyond, KAPE, 48 watts at night! Yeah, sure; day power: 5000 (and
there is a third 1550 Missourian in the other corner, St Joseph) (Glenn Hauser,
OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. Trans-Pacific carrier search around sunrise here at 1209-1213 UT
April 4: detected on 594, 702, 774, 828, 1008, 1098, 1116. Can`t be positive
all these are real, as 594 seemed to peak N/S, and 1098 was unlikely Marshall
Islands in past years. But how will signals at 9-kHz intervals be audible on my
DX-398 otherwise? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
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Message: 2
Date: Thu, 4 Apr 2013 20:13:25 -0700 (PDT)
From: Glenn Hauser <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: [HCDX] Glenn Hauser logs April 5, 2013
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** ALBANIA. 9850, April 5 at 0129, R. Tirana again with VG strength and no QRM,
but with IS which is extremely distorted (does anyone have a better quality
recording of it from the old days before RT`s own tape wore out?). 0130 Klara
signs on with completely correct English schedule including UT days of week,
but instead of program summary a minute or so of music, then joining the news
apparently in progress, first about numerous government ministers being
dismissed and replaced with new ones: quite a shakeup in the Albanian
government. Second story: USA recognizes Kosovo/a as an independent nation;
just now? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** BRAZIL. 11855-, April 5 at 0118, weak Portuguese sounds like a preacher,
i.e. the 1 kW Catholic, R. Aparecida, seldom heard here, slightly on the lo
side. 11765 SRDA stronger but too overshadowed by 11760 RHC while 11780 RNB/RNA
is inbooming as usual (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CUBA. 6100, April 5 at 0058, RHC Spanish has finally moved here from 6120,
as per their A-13 schedule supposedly effective April 1 when a few other
changes were really made. No doubt assisted by my several reminders in reports
surreptitiously viewed by frequency mis-manager Arnie Coro. So now WYFR and RTI
have no ACI on 6115.
15200-15260, April 5 at 0105 checking the defective RHC transmitter on 15230:
now center channel has some crackling, and the buzz field as follows on the hi
side, probably matching on the lo side: this time there is no clear segment
right next to the fundamental, but buzz out to a peak around 10 kHz,
diminishing to just about gone by 20 kHz away; but as I listen, it must fade up
a bit, as now I am hearing the buzz up to 25 kHz, to the margin at 30 kHz
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** DIEGO GARCIA. 12759-USB, April 5 at 0052, JBA broadcast talk and music, i.e.
AFN. Still hoping for another opening boosting it to readable level (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** EGYPT. 13855, April 5 at 0111, huge hummy and fading open carrier, the SSOB,
with some clix, occasional traces of talk or music modulation trying to break
thru but to no avail. Of course, it`s another totally useless R. Cairo
transmission, now per HFCC: 2330-0200 Arabic and Spanish, 250 kW, 286 degrees
from Abis to Mexico, Central America and Caribbean.
13620, April 5 at 0113, another open carrier, with some fades and no modulation
at all, quite weaker than 13855, but also of course, R. Cairo: 0045-0200
Spanish, 250 kW, 241 degrees from Abis to S America.
A few minutes later, however, there is some musical modulation on 9720,
presumably also Spanish service which should have been //, i.e. 0045-0200, plus
English 0200-0330, 250 kW, 330 degrees from Abu Zaabal to C & W North America
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** ECUADOR. 6050, April 5 before 0100, I am standing by with BFO for the dead
giveaway HCJB timesignal. Otherwise there is nothing readable on frequency, but
something very weak --- yes, there it is, four plus one, the final pip
prolonged. HCJB recently told its German listeners that because of some
transmitter problem they were on reduced power.
WRTH 2013 shows nominally it was only 8 kW, and it`s just another domestic
station, #08 in Pichincha Province, furthermore with a blank in the callsign
column, but HCJB in the station name column. Does that mean that HCJB is no
longer its real callsign? Since it`s operated by Vozandes Media, not exactly
the same corporately as the old World Radio Missionary Fellowship in Colorado
Springs, now known as HCJB Global (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** JAPAN. 9595, April 5 at 0129 poor signal with Japanese music, must be R.
Nikkei, unusual time to be getting it here (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** PAKISTAN. 17710, April 5 at 0109 as I am bandscanning 16m, there are a few
signals, including a het on the hi side of strong RHC 17705; it`s very weak vs
the heavy splash, with Qur`an or perhaps some other chanting. HFCC shows: R.
Pakistan in Urdu at 0045-0215, 250 kW, 118 degrees from Islamabad. Nice
springtime propagation; see also SRI LANKA (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** PERU. 5980, April 5 at 0050, I start my eveningly ritual of Chaski-chasing
on the porch with the DX-398 on battery power, few meters of external wire.
It`s much more comfortable now with the rain over and clear skies, enough
dusklight to see what I am writing in the log for half a sesquihour, not
needing the porch light.
However, again I am losing contact with Urubamba: no carrier audible at first
and the noise level is unreasonably hi in this part of the band. I think
residual off-schedule Cuban jamming against non-Mart? is part of it, as there
is some weak pulsing among it. At 0057 now I can barely make out a carrier with
BFO. On to check other stuff, including the HCJB timesignal at hourtop, Cuba
finally on 6100. But when I get back to 5980 at 0101, no more carrier vs the
noise, and still nothing changes at 0102:33.5 when it is projected to cut off.
Maybe R. Chaski has just reset their turn-off timer again to be closer to 0100,
or off the air for some other reason, or just not propagating; however, the
Bolivians on 5952+ and 6135- are at their usual sufficient levels. Until next
night - (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** SRI LANKA. 12115, April 5 at 0114, weak conversation in Burmese. HFCC shows
IBB at 0030-0130, 250 kW, 57 degrees from Iranawila. However, this is not on
the new VOA A13 schedule, which does have Burmese before and after this on
other frequencies, ergo by elimination this hour must be R. Free Asia, a
needlessly wasteful duplication of effort as I am sure Kim Andrew Elliott would
agree (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** SRI LANKA [and non]. 11905, April 5 at 0118, nice S Asian vocal music, fair
with flutter; must be SLBC, Hindi service, which HFCC shows as the 300 kW Ekala
transmitter at 350 degrees. Despite not being a low-power unit, it`s very nice
to hear some programming originating in Sri Lanka, rather than all the relays
of something else.
11620, April 5 at 0122 also has S Asian vocal music; it`s the All India Radio
Urdu service with a stronger, clearer signal altho listed as 250 kW, 334
degrees from Delhi; but I`m still going back to 11905 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** VIETNAM [and non]. 12005, April 5 at 0116, VOV English news by YL announcer
with heavy accent, Woofferton UK relay to eastern N America, sufficient, but
with ACI from the wall-of-noise jamming the incompetent DentroCuban Jamming
Command still spews against 12000, formerly occupied by the defunct Spanish
service of VOA, not even R. Mart?. Serves Vietnam right for being a jam-country
itself against various western broadcasts.
Which brings us to World Harvest Radio, happy to relay VOV via WHRI. Yet T8WH
PALAU, a.k.a. Angels 3 & 4, a.k.a. HBN in HFCC, includes several broadcasts
specified as in the Vietnamese language, which are surely religious or
clandestine, on 9930, 9965, 15500, 17800, and the other WHR station is subject
to being jammed by the same country it`s relaying to the Americas. So what?
Clients pay the bills; the morality of this business is obviously not a
problem. One broadcast to check for Vietnamese jamming is BRB`s Que Me Radio,
scheduled Fridays only 1200-1230 on 9930 via Palau (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 5055-USB, April 5 at 0056, very poor Spanish two-way, YL saying
``adelante`` a few times, which means ``over to you`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
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