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Today's Topics:
1. Glenn Hauser logs January 24-25, 2013 (Glenn Hauser)
2. Glenn Hauser logs January 25-26, 2013 (Glenn Hauser)
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Message: 1
Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2013 09:48:02 -0800 (PST)
From: Glenn Hauser <wghau...@yahoo.com>
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Subject: [HCDX] Glenn Hauser logs January 24-25, 2013
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** CHINA. Firedrake Jan 25:
7390, fair at 1409 slightly atop the mix with two signals in Chinese, i.e. CNR1
jamming and VOA Cantonese via Philippines
11520, very poor at 1415, het on lo side. Neatly matches Aoki listing for V. of
Tibet, 11518 at 1330-1430 via Tajikistan
No other FD found 12-18 MHz until 1424
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** IRAN. 11805, Jan 25 at 1427, VIRI IS, poor signal, 1430 three rising chimes,
opening in unID language, brief choral piece presumed national anthem, another
quick announcement and into Qur`an, the standard opening procedure. Aoki shows
this is a Bengali hour, 500 kW, 100 degrees from Kamalabad. The Urdu service
was also audible earlier in the hour on 11720 // 11685 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** ISRAEL [non]. 9955, Jan 25 at 0530, WRMI inaudible under jamming, but Jeff
White says as of tonight, WRN relay at this time has resumed after some
experimentation with Vatican Radio in Arabic. Therefore, Israel Radio`s only SW
broadcast in English should be back at 0530-0545 Tue-Sat. Computer was off so
could not confirm yet on WRMI webstream (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** JAPAN. 5985, Jan 25 at 1342, Sea Breeze again in English on this Friday and
much better reception than usual, talking about the UN and human rights in
several countries, including North Korea. Still good at 1405 with news sounder,
headline from Yonhap about Google trip to NK, another from Daily NK. Usual het
from MYANMAR on the hi side (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** KOREA NORTH. 9335, Jan 25 at 1413, VOK in French, modulation rather
distorted. 11710, Jan 25 at 1417, French also here and somewhat distorted with
additional mixture of jamming noise that VOK is unable to keep out of its
adjacent broadcast transmitter. Any SW broadcaster that is obviously so
intimately involved with jamming other stations is worthy of nothing but
contempt, also RHC and CRI (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MOROCCO [and non]. 9579.1, Jan 25 at 0556, M?di Un carrier, at least is
back, making big het with 9580.0; having been missing 23.5 hours earlier. Only
modulation audible is music from the higher frequency, i.e. presumed GABON. The
het made a pitch somewhere between A5 and B-flat5, i.e. 880 and 932 Hz (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** OKLAHOMA. 530, further observations Jan 24-25: ID occurs at random oddtimes,
not just hourtop and hourbottom, such as 2004 and 1448 UT: by seemingly
synthetic voice unlike the other announcements: ``You are listening to 530 AM
operated by Vance Air Force Base, Enid, Oklahoma``. Many of the same old Ad
Council PSAs continue in rotation, but now there is a new one apparently by a
local announcer, including her flub at the end, about ``never leave candles
unattached --- unattended``. I have yet to hear anything remotely connected
with USAF or other military matters, but instead an emphasis on safety for
civilians, also applicable to allhumans, including military (Glenn Hauser,
Enid, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** OKLAHOMA. 1120, Jan 25 at 0621, KMOX has a SAH of 192/minute = 3.2 Hz as
measured some times before, but varies, presumably from KEOR carrier (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** OKLAHOMA. 1170, Jan 25 at 0619 UT, KFAQ Tulsa is accompanied by IBOC noise,
as Bruce Winkelman had first reported it turned back on Jan 24, after some
months off. However at next check 1440 in the daytime, with weaker signal, IBOC
did not seem to be present (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** PERU [non]. 5980, further chex for the new R. Chaski, Cusco: not only do we
have R. Mart? and wall-of-noise DentroCuban jamming at 07-13 UT, but at least
lite residual Cuban pulse jamming continues on 5980 at many (all?) other hours,
typical incompetent overkill and disrespect for other non-hostile broadcasters:
Jan 24 at 2308 check, Jan 25 at 0117, 0205 the jamming is still there, plenty
to block the Peruvian if really on and testing tonight as Pedro F. Arrun?tegui
reports scheduled until 0300. Here is his 17-second clip of it announcing 5980
only:
http://www.w4uvh.net/chaski5980PFA.mp3
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** RUSSIA. 7260, Jan 25 at 1406, fair signal in English from VOR about
``Tatiana Day`` = Jan 25 in Russia. Would be sufficient if not for the SSB
QRhaM on an above-normal E Asian morning. HFCC shows 500 kW, 230 degrees from
Vladivostok at 10-16 but the English portion is 13-15 only. Off the back is 50
degrees, which aims right down the angled California/Nevada border (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. WORLD OF RADIO 1653 monitoring: first SW broadcast confirmed on
WTWW-1 9479, Thursday Jan 24 starting early about 2159:20. Therefore, the exact
hourtop interruption for legal ID occurred further into the intro minute, at
second :39 just as I started to say ``Eq--`` uatorial Guinea, and finished just
as the theme did.
Then the 0430 UT Friday broadcast on WWRB confirmed at 0452 check Jan 25, very
good on both 5050 and 3195. Next: UT Saturday 0230v on Area 51 via WBCQ
5110v-CUSB; Saturday 0630 & 1030 on Hamburger Lokalradio, 1 kW in Germany on
7265-CUSB; UT Sunday 0500 on WTWW 5830; on WRMI 9955: Sat 0900, 1600, 1830, Sun
0900, 1630, Mon 0530, Tue 1200; On WRN via SiriusXM 120: Sat 1830 (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 11715, Jan 25 at 1455, KJES, off-key kidchoir with hymns in English,
then switching to Spanish for ``En la Sala de Jes?s``, a bit of ``Saints Go
Marchin` In``, all with guitar accompaniment; 1459.5 rudely interrupted by not
one but two kIDs, more music; 1504 adult starts talking about Jesus expiring.
VG signal by 1455 and growing. Transmission nominally starts at 1400 but seldom
audible then; at 1417 when I was checking VOK 11710, KJES was starting to fade
in (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 1510, Jan 25 at 1443 UT, Moneyradio1510.com, 480 AC phone and Arizona
ads, i.e. KFNN Mesa. So is it 22 kW day power or 100 watt nite power? No
quibble here, as FCC official sunrise in January is 1430 UT; February 1415.
They also have a 4-watt PSRA in both months, i.e. from 1300 UT, but why go with
that when they can already run 100 watt night-power? Limiting station is
supposedly KGA Spokane. I think the entire FCC pre-sunrise authority concept is
somewhat flawed (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 960, Jan 25 at 0602-0605 UT in KGWA Fox-hole, dominant signal is
playing low-key big-band music, maybe WABG Mississippi. If they would only ever
ID during this window (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 2660+, Jan 25 at 1347 UT, JBA carrier from the harmonic; 1358 a
bit o` music makes it thru the noise level. As mentioned yesterday, prime
suspect is KGLD in Tyler TX. Need to monitor earlier in the 13-14 UT hour.
Again it`s slightly on the hi side compared to KMBZ Business Radio 1660.
In case it`s KGLD, take note of its official SR/SS times:
Jan 1330-2345;
Feb 1300-2400 UT
Day power is 1 kW, nite power only 77 watts. Also has 500-watt PSRA every month
starting at 6 am local = 1200 UT during ST, 1100 UT during DST.
Also complex PSSA ranging from 36 to 176 watts, as late as 0330 UT in the
summer;
in January: 2345-2400 75 watts, 0000-0015 67 watts, 0015-0045 45 watts,
0045-0145 36 watts.
In February: 0000-0030 102 watts, 0030-0100 51 watts, 0100-0200 36 watts. Does
any station axually follow these rules to the minute and the watt? All this
applies of course to 1330, with powers on 2660 if this is the source,
presumably much less. However, if some of the accurate power level is leaking
out on an harmonic, the power on the fundamental must be correspondingly
reduced (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
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Message: 2
Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2013 22:12:54 -0800 (PST)
From: Glenn Hauser <wghau...@yahoo.com>
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Cc: s...@mailman.qth.net
Subject: [HCDX] Glenn Hauser logs January 25-26, 2013
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** BOLIVIA. 4700, Jan 26 at 0051, two signals making a LAH (low audible
heterodyne). One no doubt R. San Miguel, always reported off-frequency, but
what else? Only on-channel MW fundamental which could harmonicize here is 940 x
5. I am making a quick check of 60m for signals, rather than trying to pull IDs
from everything.
4717, Jan 26 at 0044, music on poor signal here, no doubt R. Yura, also at 0051
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** BRAZIL. 4815, Jan 26 at 0119, preacher in Portuguese vs CODAR, and must use
USB to avoid the ute noise, i.e. R. Difusora, Londrina.
4845, Jan 26 at 0048, some music, flute and voice, probably R. Cultura, Manaus,
as there are no Asians here, tho some flutter.
4877.2, Jan 26 at 0115, music, less fading than the Asians, and frequency
measurement of 5 x 40 Hz DX-398 clix above 4877 strongly suggests R. Roraima.
In DXLD archive I find only one report of it on this exact frequency, from
Carlos Gon?alves in Portugal, 3 August 2011 at 2235+. Harold Sellers, BC, had
it on 4877.1, 24 Nov 2012 at 0200. ZYG810 does vary a lot, reported during past
year on many split spots from 4875 past 4878. Now it had some SSB QRM on the lo
side (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CHINA. Firedrake Jan 26 before 0100:
12670, good at 0055
12980, good at 0055
13530, good at 0057, very heavy flutter
13920, good at 0054, very heavy flutter
13970, fair at 0054, very heavy flutter
14800, fair at 0057, with flutter
14980, fair at 0058, with heavy flutter
Instead of the usual quick tuning on the FRG-7 I was using the DX-398 so
hastened to step 5 kHz at a time as far as I could before hourtrop, but no more
found up to 17300 by 0100 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CHINA. 4800, Jan 26 at 0043, fair signal in Chinese as I start a 60m session
on the chilly porch with DX-398 to avoid household noise sources. Geermu again,
no doubt. See also EAST TURKISTAN (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CUBA. Comments on jamming: see GUIANA FRENCH, PERU
** EAST TURKISTAN. 5060, Jan 26 at 0045, fair signal in Chinese nicely spaced
between two much stronger US stations; of course, it`s PBS Xinjiang, Urumqi
(which so many including Aoki insist on misspelling Urumqui --- the ``Q has to
be followed by U`` rule is inapplicable in Chinese orthography, as the Q does
not even represent a K sound.) Still in at 0113 but declined to very poor
signal.
4980, Jan 26 at 0046, Turkic-sounding talk, axually Uighur service, another 100
kW at Wulumuchi (alternate spelling of Urumqi) from PBS Xinjiang (Glenn Hauser,
OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** GUIANA FRENCH. 9606, Jan 26 at 0125, roaring spur centered around here, not
very strong but previously matched with Montsin?ry during the R. Rep?blica
00-02 transmission on 9490, 116 kHz above it. And yes, there is a match,
somewhat stronger, 116 kHz below it around 9374. On very strong 9490, RR itself
is undermodulated during a lo-fi phone interview; in fact, the two spurblobs
axually sound louder than the fundamental! Which is suppressing any jamming,
surely is being transmitted; it would propagate, as 9955 has the wall of noise,
as it did at 2216 Jan 25 during WRMI`s silent period. Anyhow, the spurs show
that TDF still hasn`t fixed that problem, which also emanate 116 kHz away from
the NHK relay on 5960 after 0200, i.e. 6076 and 5844, which I have not
reconfirmed lately (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** NORTH AMERICA. QSL: nice full color card depicting a sailing ship riding the
waves and a pirate, from Channel Z Radio, received in p-mail January 25 from
maildrop, P O Box 109, Blue Ridge Summit PA 17214. Had sent e-mail report
containing my log of this, Jan 13 at 2140-2148 on 15067.6 AM. Specifies 18
watts from an LU8EHA transmitter. Had replied earlier by e-mail from
channelzra...@gmail.com Also with card, personal letter about his homebrew
transmitters. This QSL has been added to my gallery via:
http://www.worldofradio.com/QSL.html
Thanks, Channel Z Radio! (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** PERU. Prompted by Bob Wilkner tip that R. Logos was powerful at 2340 Jan 26
on 4810, I try it an hour+ later, but not much here. Some OA frequencies are
making it, altho well-known 60m ones I do not stick with trying to dig out IDs,
January 26:
4747, Jan 26 at 0050, weak broadcast, presumably R. Huanta 2000. Aoki shows
sign-off at 0100 already
4775, Jan 26 at 0049 music, no doubt usual R. Tarma. At 0120 I am also hearing
some English QRM, must be a local mix
4790, Jan 26 at 0120, weak signal, presumed R. Visi?n, also with LAH (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** PERU. 5980, Jan 26 at 0100 during the half-hour window when supposedly no
other stations in the world are on this frequency, another try for the new R.
Chaski, Cuzco. To my surprise I am not hearing any jamming this time, but the
local noise level on the porch is yet hitting 6 bars on the DX-398.
Nevertheless I have some very weak talk past 0103. I have left the computer on
inside, so go turn it off hoping to lower the noise, but makes no difference,
both good news and bad, as there are still 6 bars of noise when I resume at
0112, but now the station is gone. More tries will ensue. Has anyone definitely
heard R. Chaski in N America yet? At 0127 check, the Cuban jamming was
definitely on and propagating on 5890, 6030 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** TAJIKISTAN. 4765, Jan 26 at 0050, weak broadcast audible, seemed Russish.
Tajik Radio 1 does have some Russian segments, tho Aoki shows Tajik at this
time; Russian-influenced (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 9905, Jan 25 at 2216, WTWW-2 is off; and AAMOF, think it has been
missing all week during the hours previously dedicated to Brother Scare. 12105,
WTWW-3 is also off, when usually in French; it had been on earlier today circa
1400 in Russian. BS could still be heard on 9980 WWCR, more than sufficient
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 21630, Jan 25 at 1902, WHRI with heavy echo, as one would expect from
long path delay vs short path, 24 vs 1 kilomile, altho it seem unlikely at
midday here when half the path must be thru the darkside. Maybe there is some
other explanation? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. WORLD OF RADIO 1653 monitoring: confirmed on webcast of Area 51 via
WBCQ 5110v-CUSB starting at 0245 UT Saturday Jan 26 (a sesquihour earlier, I
had noted 5110- coming in well during `Allan Weiner Worldwide` which again ran
late until 0239).
Next, on HLR Germany, 7265-CUSB, Sat 0630 & 1630; on WRMI 9955, Sat 0900, 1600,
1830, Sun 0900, 1630, Mon 0530, Tue 1200; on WTWW 5830, UT Sun 0500. Also WRN
via SiriusXM 120, Sat 1830 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** ZIMBABWE [non]. 15775, Fri Jan 25 at 1900, VOA is signing off with Yankee
Doodle Dandy routine to 1901, carrier a bit longer, fair signal. What had I
just missed? VOA Studio 7, last part in Shona, also in Ndebele and English.
HFCC shows M-F 1800-1900, 100 kW, 124 degree antenna with a +24 slew from SAO
TOME, extending the daily 1700-1800 broadcast which is on a different 126
degree antenna at a -12 slew (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 960, Jan 26 during the 0600-0605 UT Fox-hole of local KGWA with
unmodulation: at first echoey ABC news like KMA/KNEB; then 0603-0605, poetic
recitation in Spanish with musical background. Don`t think it was `Soy
Soldado`, super-patriotic spiel which some Mexican stations add to
war-mongering national anthem at midnight (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 2660, Jan 26 at 0053, JBA carrier, so circa sunrise should still
be better chance for presumed 1330 harmonic, maybe KGLD Tyler TX when it would
be on much higher fundamental power of 1 kW from 1330 to 2345 UT, or even PSRA
of 500 watts 1200-1330 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 4895, Jan 26 at 0048, music mixing with CODAR. Choices are
Mongolia, India and Brasil. Not on 4896 where AIR Kurseong has recently jumped.
At 0115 I find a LAH, i.e. two stations on almost but not quite 4895, along
with CODAR swishes (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
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