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Today's Topics:
1. Glenn Hauser logs November 8-9, 2017 (Glenn Hauser)
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Date: Thu, 9 Nov 2017 18:04:18 +0000 (UTC)
From: Glenn Hauser <[email protected]>
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Subject: [HCDX] Glenn Hauser logs November 8-9, 2017
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** ARGENTINA [non]. 11580, Nov 9 circa 1430, RAE relay hour in Spanish is still
here via WRMI, no timeshift, preceded by French at 1300 M-F. But perusing the
WRMI skedgrids, I see that two RAE relays have changed time: English Tue-Sat at
0200 instead of 0100, on 9395; and Portuguese M-F at 1200 instead of 1100 on
9955 (also on 9455?). The others remain at the same UT (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** CUBA. 6060, Nov 9 at 0705, RHC English is still on here, but no other
frequencies as they struggle to get their act together for the new schedule
until 0800 effective Nov 12. 6000 is off, but 6100 is on and now it`s in
Spanish! 5040, 6145 and 6165 are all off.
BTW, what will become of Esperanto which has been at 0700 UT Sundays on one 49m
frequency or another? Arnie`s sked shows delayed until 0800-0830, on 6100. Also
Sunday 1600-1630 ex-1500 on 11760; Sunday 2330 on 15730, Esperanto replaces
French. AND, now a fourth Esperanto on the sked: 0000-0030 on 5040, presumably
meaning UT Monday, and would pre-empt the first half of English. But all of
these will need to be confirmed! (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CUBA. 17730, Nov 9 at 1511, RHC has just come on with open carrier, then
some modulation. 17580 which had been on, is now off. Hardly any other station
on 16m at this hour, no KVOH, maybe traces of BSKSA. WWV reports K-index at
1500 was 3, with G1 minor storms past and future (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** CUBA [and non]. 7375, Nov 8 at 2158, DentroCuban Jamming Command has found
this new R. Mart? frequency, while it`s only an open carrier warmup for this
one-hour segment (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** GUATEMALA. 4055, Nov 9 at 0708, S9 open carrier, as TGAV must have left it
on an hour after sign-off (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MEXICO [and non]. 6185, Nov 8 at 2151, S4-S6 song, is it Spanish? Yes, I
make out the repeated word ``trabajando``. So it`s XEPPM, on air much earlier
than allegedly, and no CCI, altho CRI Arabic via Albania is scheduled 2000-2200
toward SSW; only other competitor in the 18-24 UT period is CRI Mongolian via
Xi`an at 2300-2400.
How about the 00-06 period? No more Vatican, just 0400-0430 AWR Turkish via
Austria; discounting the totally fantastic RRI Manokwari, 0100-0500, 1 kW in
English that Indonesia keeps registering! HFCC really needs to clean out such
nonsense (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** NORTH AMERICA. 7470, as of Nov 9, no sign of Station YHWH, which had been
regular evenings, during bandscans; last report I had was Oct 14 at 0200 by
Rick Barton, AZ. Last log of mine was Oct 11 at 0220. And nothing that recent
in HF Underground (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** OKLAHOMA. 1331.2v, Nov 9 at 1428 UT, after hearing big het on KCKM Monahans
TX a bit earlier, I set out to measure the spurs out of nearby local KCRC 1390.
Other signals I could measure to three decimal places if they were stable, but
these keep wavering, and even two decimal places would be pointless. This one
goes from 1331.1 to 1331.3 or so and back in a short period, with clear CBS
Sports Radio modulation // 1390, QRMing KNSS 1330.0.
Sometimes the fundamental is slightly off, causing slightly different het
pitches on either side, but not today. Match to this is about 1448.8v. These
are second-order spurs, considerably weaker than first-orders at half the
displacement, circa 1360.6v and 1419.3v; all hetting whatever legit stations
are on the even frequencies. Any time of night, or at least during SRS and SSS,
DXers afar should seek these out (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** TURKEY [and non]. 5980, Nov 8 at 2154, song poor at S6-S8, presumably TRT in
Turkish, now scheduled 17-22 at 310 degrees from Emirler toward Europe and US.
That leaves a 22-23 window before Romania for possible Per? on 5980. At 13+
degrees S, Urubamba sunset varies little and is close enough, currently 2252 UT
per
https://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/@8349992
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 15580, Wed Nov 8 at 2148, gospel-country song, violating Separation
of Church and State, segu? to another, VG S9+25. VOA must be back to Greenville
during this hour: yes, 250 kW at 94 degrees. One of VOA`s dispensable pop-music
shows, but hope on Friday it will still carry `Music Time in Africa`. In fact,
HFCC shows this is currently the *only* English hour from VOA Greenville!
Everything else is Mart?, VOA Portuguese, French, or Vatican relays in Spanish,
violating Separation of Church and State. There`s more VOA news from Okeechobee
than from Greenville (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. WORLD OF RADIO 1903 monitoring: confirmed Wednesday November 8 at
2200, on WBCQ, 7490, VG S9+30 at new shifted time with an hour less of daytime
absorption. Not confirmed UT Thursday November 9 at 0030 on WBCQ 9330v-CUSB,
beyond a JBA carrier. Is it QRP? Nearby US stations 9265 WINB and 9370 WWRB are
good. But WBCQ may find itself on the wrong side of the auroral zone. Aurora
has been visible at Mount Washington NH. Next:
Thu 2230 WRMI 5850 to NW
Fri 0030 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB to WSW
Sat 0030 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB to WSW
Sat 0729 HLR 6190-CUSB to WSW
Sat 1531 HLR 7265-CUSB to WSW
Sat 2030v WA0RCR 1860-AM ND
Sat 2230 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB to WSW
Sat 2300 WRMI 11580 to NE
Sun 0200 WRMI 11580 to NE
Sun 0410v WA0RCR 1860-AM ND
Sun 1130 HLR 9485-CUSB to WSW
Mon 0030 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB to WSW
Mon 0400v WBCQ 5130v Area 51 to WSW
Mon 0430 WRMI 9955 to SSE
Tue 0030 WBCQ 9330v-CUSB to WSW
Tue 0030 WRMI 7730 to WNW
Tue 2030 WRMI 11580 to NE, 9455 to WNW, 7780 to NE
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A [non]. 9485, Wed Nov 8 at 2143, unknown language talk and bits of
singing, S5, OOFSOB [One Of Few Stations On Band], during degraded propagation.
HFCC shows this M-F 2130 semihour is VOA in Bambara via BOTSWANA. So what are
the other B-17 frequencies for this? 5885 S?o Tom?, 12075 Botswana, 15120
Ascension. This language keeps jumping back and forth to Greenville, but not
this season.
As I searched entire HFCC file on Bam language, found only one other station
emitting it: Saudi Arabia, 1600-1800 on 15470, 17650, 17710.
Bambara is centered in Mali, but closely related to mutually intelligible
Mandingo, which is diffused only by RFI. Per Wikipedia, special alfabets for
both of them were developed, but mostly use Latin letters now (Glenn Hauser,
OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 9475, Nov 8 at 2141, no signal from WTWW --- and all other possible
frequencies for all three transmitters are also silent: 5830, 5085, 9930, 12105
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 12050, Nov 8 at 2146, WEWN Spanish is on, and how: VG S9+40, while
15610 English is VP as usual. Spanish had been AWOL from any frequency.
5970, Nov 9 at 0704, new WEWN Spanish is on again, good, ex-5810; while 11520
English is JBA carrier (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 17775, Nov 9 at 1510, still no signal from KVOH, if it has really
come on by *1500. At least Cuba is propagating on 16m (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 1130, Nov 9 at 1404 UT, full ID for KLEY on AM 1130 and also
translator call on 100.3, into Kansas news; from Wellington KS, remains on air
and reaching here by groundwave, easily with presumed KWKH nulled during
political rather than sports-talk (Glenn Hauser, Enid OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 1520, Nov 9 at 1412 UT, KYND Cypress TX is *still* stunting with loop
about buying time, and audible this late under KOKC making usual slow SAH. Even
the ChiCom no longer think it would be worth the cost (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
This report dispatched at 1805 UT November 9
End of Hard-Core-DX Digest, Vol 179, Issue 10
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