[HCDX] Glenn Hauser logs May 12-13, 2013
** ANTARCTICA. 15476.0, Monday May 13 at 1825 on the Twente SDR, I can detect a carrier here on offset LSB setting (but in CW tuning it zeroes circa 15475.5 --- must be deliberately offset in the receiver). Anyhow, presumed LRA36 back on the air after weekend break. Dave Hughes in Missouri also reported it a few minutes earlier, presumably by same method. I`ve yet to see any direct logs of it this date, even from S America; still not clear whether schedule is M-F 18-21 or 18-22 UT, or if it varies (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BANGLADESH. 15505, May 14 from *1355:31 with IS; very poor signal but can barely make out timesignal ending at 1359:39.5 for Urdu service of Bangladesh Betar (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CHINA. Firedrake, May 14 before 1300: 13795, very poor at 1247 with CCI from presumed Kuwait All other ex-FD frequencies continue to provide CNR1 audio jamming: 13920, good at 1247 15940, good at 1247 16100, good at 1252 with flutter 16360, poor-fair at 1252 16910, fair at 1252 17170, fair at 1252 17250, very poor at 1252 17370, good at 1252, with ute beeps on hi side (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CHINA [non?]. 21470, Tue May 14 at 0510, very poor signal here in Chinese, slightly on the low side compared to 1470. DX Re Mix News just published a revised schedule of VOA Tibetan showing 17605 from Tinang, PHILIPPINES, has been replaced by a different 21 MHz frequency each day of the week during this hour, including 21470 on Tuesdays, i.e. starting on Sundays: 21545/21460/21470/21480/21490/21510/21530. Latest HFCC as of May 8 shows both TINIAN and Tinang at 05-06 Tuesdays only. 21460, then at 0512 Tuesday May 14 found an equally weak signal here, also seems Chinese, not sure, but not // 21470. HFCC has that as IBB Mandarin via Tinian, plus IBB Tibetan via Tinang, but on Mondays only. However, one or both signals I was getting could have been ChiCom jamming (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** FRANCE [non]. 17660, May 14 at 1258, spirited discussion in French about telephones; slightly late 3-pip timesignal at 1300 and off with no ID heard. HFCC shows RFI via SOUTH AFRICA, 12-13 at 342 degrees (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** KUWAIT. 21540, May 14 at 1305, 1346, 1422, R. Kuwait is missing from what had usually been the SSOB; while Spain 21515, 21610, Saudi +buzz 21505 are audible. Well, we got Tunisia back, so now we lose Kuwait (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** PERU [and non]. 5980, May 14 at 0058, R. Chaski carrier is weakly detectable in the hash and noise level. This time it goes off at 0059:51.5* which is before Cuba cuts CRI carrier on 5990; in fact that was starting to open a delayed English hour. But it shouldn`t be long before Chaski cutoffs, 5 seconds later each day, become after 5990 is no longer a problem (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** TUNISIA. 7275, May 14 at 0526, IWT is back! With Arab music, 0530 Arabic talk somewhat undermodulated. Only fair signal now unlike winters, with lots of absorption in the way. Have been checking this every night since last heard April 23, i.e. missing for 20 days, as were all other frequencies. Are those back too? 17735 7335 mornings, 17735, 7225, 7345 evenings (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. 18965, May 14 at 0516, fair open carrier with slow fades; and there it is again at 1255-1301+. The fading indicates it is not local, and could be utility, but this is officially an almost never-used SWBC band. BTW, latest HFCC May 8 shows absolutely nothing on the 18 MHz band, not even R. Australia 19000 as there are no ABC entries at all (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) _ Hard-Core-DX mailing list Hard-Core-DX@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/hard-core-dx http://www.hard-core-dx.com/ ___ THE INFORMATION IN THIS ARTICLE IS FREE. It may be copied, distributed and/or modified under the conditions set down in the Design Science License published by Michael Stutz at http://www.gnu.org/licenses/dsl.html
Re: [HCDX] Glenn Hauser logs May 12-13, 2013
TUNISIA Nothing heard at 1830 UT on either 17735 or 7225 kHz from Sfax Tunisia. UNID LOCATION 15835 One can improve his Russian knowledge in numbers, male voice heard here around 1820 to 1826 UT May 14. S=9+20dB im western Germany. (wb, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews May 14) - Original Message - From: Glenn Hauser Sent: Tuesday, May 14, 2013 5:38 PM Subject: [HCDX] Glenn Hauser logs May 12-13, 2013 TUNISIA. 7275, May 14 at 0526, IWT is back! With Arab music, 0530 Arabic talk somewhat undermodulated. Only fair signal now unlike winters, with lots of absorption in the way. Have been checking this every night since last heard April 23, i.e. missing for 20 days, as were all other frequencies. Are those back too? 17735 7335 mornings, 17735, 7225, 7345 evenings (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) _ Hard-Core-DX mailing list Hard-Core-DX@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/hard-core-dx http://www.hard-core-dx.com/ ___ THE INFORMATION IN THIS ARTICLE IS FREE. It may be copied, distributed and/or modified under the conditions set down in the Design Science License published by Michael Stutz at http://www.gnu.org/licenses/dsl.html
[HCDX] Glenn Hauser logs May 12-13, 2013
** AUSTRALIA [and non]. 11665, May 13 at 1500, RA English is still usurping MALAYSIA`s only 25m channel, poor signals but roughly equivalent, and RA // stronger 12065 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** AUSTRALIA [and non]. 15340, May 13 at 1427, HCJB causes heavy CCI to RHC, but after 1500 RHC is off, and at 1504, HCJB in the clear with Protestant propaganda in English (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CHINA. Firedrake May 13, before 1300: 13795, good at 1248 As ever now, all the others occupied by CNR1: 13830, fair at 1250 14750, very good at 1250 15570, fair at 1251, het on lo side from V. of TIbet 15870, poor at 1251 15900, poor at 1250 16100, good at 1255 16360, good at 1255 16920, good at 1256 17170, very good at 1257; none in the 18s After 1300: 13795, still on with true Firedrake at 1308, now over some CCI (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CHINA [and non]. 15430, May 13 at 1504, very heavy CCI, sounds like at least three signals, two of which would be jamming against R. Free Asia, Chinese this hour only via SAIPAN (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CUBA [and non]. 17580, May 13 at 1427, RHC AWOL from this frequency, still on 17730 et al. on lower bands. 15340 has heavy CCI from HCJB AUSTRALIA, q.v. (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** GERMANY [non]. 9800, May 13 at 0508, DW English via RWANDA, due south from Kigali, has considerable CCI from algo, but can`t make out the language. HFCC shows nothing else scheduled here, but there is of course the recent almost-24-hour National Emergency Broadcast via the Shijuazhuang 723 site in CHINA, the bullies, as in Aoki, which clashes with many existing 9800 users. Either that or maybe Romania didn`t turn off 9800 by 0500, unlikely (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** IRAN. 21650, May 13 at 1259, VIRI IS with poor signal until 1300:21*, i.e. tail of the Chinese hour, 65 degrees from 500 kW Kamalabad; meaning that whatever next frequency from this unit would be late coming up. IRIB not often audible here on 13m; at this time, Kuwait and Saudi were better than Spain (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MEXICO. 960, May 13 at 0501:25, KGWA Fox-hole of dead air except for hum when nulled, audiblized a mixture of stuff including ABC news, but clearly heard at this moment are the four descending ``XEW`` chimes which we know come on 960 from XEK in Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas. KGWA Enid continues to fill the hole unpredictably but most nights is clear for a pentaminute (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** NEW ZEALAND. 9700, May 13 at 1231, after missing yesterday, RNZI is back here obviously on non-solid Timor antenna, with ``29 until 11`` time check during `Checkpoint`, which is two hours late as local time is really 29 until 1 am (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** PERU. 5980, May 13 at 0053, R. Chaski carrier is weakly audible in all the noise, hash splash from 5990 Cuba, and I monitor continually with BFO. It does go off circa 0100.0, but cannot hear a clear cut as it may have been in a fade at that instant. So the timer has been reset. Martien Groot has also been monitoring this: ``Hallo Glenn, Re: Chaski found missing May 12 at 0103. Ute usually blocking 5980 was off May 11 at 2239 tune-in, instead noted what was definitely R Chaski completely in the clear with Spanish announcements, preaching hymns/praise songs to eventual 0059:45 early s/off May 12. Which explains why you could not trace them. As you suggest they must have reset their timer. 73, Martien Groot, Schoorl, Netherlands`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. WORLD OF RADIO 1668 monitoring: confirmed Sunday May 12 starting at 2328:46 on WTWW-2 9930. This is exactly the same time it started on Saturday May 11, so I conclude it is now controlled by computer/automation (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. 17720, May 13 at 1506, steady open carrier for a few seconds before cutoff: maybe Greenville checking out a transmitter, altho nothing scheduled from it or anything the next few hours on 17720. VOA often tunes up on otherwise unused frequencies (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) _ Hard-Core-DX mailing list Hard-Core-DX@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/hard-core-dx http://www.hard-core-dx.com/ ___ THE INFORMATION IN THIS ARTICLE IS FREE. It may be copied, distributed and/or modified under the conditions set down in the Design Science License published by Michael Stutz at http://www.gnu.org/licenses/dsl.html
