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Glenn Hauser logs July 24-25, 2013 (Glenn Hauser) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Wed, 24 Jul 2013 09:43:53 -0700 (PDT) From: Glenn Hauser <wghau...@yahoo.com> To: "d...@yahoogroups.com" <d...@yahoogroups.com> Subject: [HCDX] Glenn Hauser logs July 24, 2013 Message-ID: <1374684233.17914.yahoomail...@web161305.mail.bf1.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 ** BANGLADESH. 15505, July 24 at 1357, BB IS is JBA, cannot make out any timesignal, but opening Urdu theme is underway before 1400 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CHINA [and non]. Firedrake [non] CNR1 jamming July 24: 12370, very poor at 1433 12040, poor at 1433 No others 12-19 MHz, except: 17810, I was first hearing Chinese here, July 24 at 1429, and quick timesignal at 1430, so took it to be CNR1 against something, but only scheduled is AWR Chinese via GERMANY which would not expect to be jammed; and could not make it match 12040. Further chex of this one needed (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CHINA [and non]. 17630, July 24 at 1428, CRI English fair signal, one of the best on 16m where little else besides Cuba is propagating under depressed conditions. It`s a few seconds ahead of 13740 via CUBA. I still think the site is Urumqi, EAST TURKISTAN on the ubiquitous 500 kW, 308-azimuth intended for Europe, rather than the duplicate HFCC registration for Bamako, MALI, 100 kW at 85 degrees for Africa. A little bit of propagation from Africa, however, next on 17640, much weaker signal which is DW in Hausa via Rwanda, 250 kW at 310 degrees USward until 1430 (the other E.T. site, Kashgar, finishes CRI 308-degree French at 1400 on 17560, 17650) (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** GUATEMALA. 4055, July 24 at 0522, open carrier no doubt R. Verdad. They had just got some very good news: ``Dear Glenn: I am happy to inform you that I went to Guatemala [City] today, and the government granted me 20 more years for my short wave frequency of Radio Truth. I need this news to be spread out. Thank you (?dgar Madrid, Radio Verdad, Chiquimula, July 23, DX LISTENING DIGEST)`` ``?dgar, Very good! I will certainly spread the news. I was about to ask you if there had been any resolution (Glenn, via DXLD)`` ``Thank you, Glenn. I was surprised when they told me that it was for 20 years, because they were granting only for 15 years. Praise God! (?dgar Madrid, Radio Verdad, ibid.)`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** KOREA SOUTH. 15575, Wednesday July 24 at 1338, KBSWR with quarterly questions for July-August-September, responders to which will be entered in a draw for some prizes. Need to check the website for what the exact questions are. This really amounts to audience research, so the more replies the better if SW usage is to be prolonged. Propagation is poor today, few signals on 19m but at least in the summer this one holds up, and I continue to wonder if it`s really still on the registered 81 degree antenna to southern South America. 1340 on to `Sounds of Korea`, traditional music show this time on the subject of tobacco which was once considered great for everyone to smoke, even children. (I looked it up: as of 2007y, the smoking rate in Korea South was twice that of the US, ranking 13th and 51st respectively, roughly 2000 vs 1000 fags per year --- of course, that`s per capita adult, meaning those who do smoke inhale a LOT more poison gas) (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** MALI. 5995, July 24 at 0509, poor undermodulated signal with African chanting music. I guess it`s Bamako on the air earlier than usual *0600 for Ramadan (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** PERU. 5980, July 24 at 0059, waiting for R. Chaski carrier to cutoff as expected around 0059:29, following 5-6 seconds later each night, but it keeps going! Until finally 0100:46.5*! This is most unusual. Perhaps they gave the timer a further nudge, impatient to get it past top of the hour. We`ll hear whether it resume the usual precession rate hereafter (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 12105, July 24 at 1433, WTWW-3 in AraBible, back on the air again, and also an hour before in Russian (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. 11979, July 24 at 0520, again tonight the number is 8 from the single-digit CW intruder, beating against 11980 Turkey. I just spotted another log of this in the UDXF yg: ``11979.0, 8 repeated in CW. Fairly strong signal, but nearly buried by RTTY on 11980.0. had to use a 800 Hz CW filter to dig it out. I had another CW beacon repeating "5" a few days ago on 11623.0, but I can't find my notes on it, maybe later: 2057 CW (23/JULY/2013) (Jack L. Metcalfe - Stanford, KY, Software Radio Laboratory QS1R SDR Icom IC-R75 (x2) & Icom IC-R8500 Icom IC-R5, Uniden BCD996T, BCD996XT & AOR AR8200 355' Longwire & 155' Inverted L Sloper Antennas Diamond D-130J Discone & SAMCO UHF Yagi`` ``So this was at 2057 UT? I have been hearing this for several nights now at *0520-0535*. Here are all my reports on 11979: --- Glenn`` ``Yes, 2057 UT. The signal was very strong at times (didn't check the S-meter, though) and I was using my 355' longwire at the time. It's oriented NE/SW with the feed point on the SW end. I'm just glad somebody else heard it! I still haven't found the complete details on the "5" beacon on 11623.0, but I suspect it was around the same time (Jack L. Metcalfe, UDXF yg via DXLD)`` ``FYI - The RTTY mentioned on 11980 kHz is a US Navy transmission from NAU, Isabela PR. ?mco (Mike Chace Ortiz, UDXF yg via DXLD)`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ------------------------------ Message: 2 Date: Wed, 24 Jul 2013 20:55:28 -0700 (PDT) From: Glenn Hauser <wghau...@yahoo.com> To: "d...@yahoogroups.com" <d...@yahoogroups.com> Cc: "s...@mailman.qth.net" <s...@mailman.qth.net> Subject: [HCDX] Glenn Hauser logs July 24-25, 2013 Message-ID: <1374724528.99029.yahoomail...@web161304.mail.bf1.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 ** ANGUILLA [non]. 11775, checking for the new Brother Scare collision with The University Network: July 24 at 1957, Anguilla is off the air and only a very weak signal is audible with some music, then carrier, and from 2000 very poor with typical TOM music like what`s on 9370 via WWRB (9980 WWCR having just rudely switched from TOM to that other program for an hour). Recheck at 2055, still only BS is audible very poorly on 11775. HFCC shows 11775 until 2000 is CRI German via Kashgar on (what else?) the 308 azimuth, and now at 2000-2200 is TOM via Nauen, GERMANY, supposedly starting July 1 in defiance of Anguilla but reported only recently as colliding, by Mark Taylor in WI on July 20 and 2133, and by Russ Cummings, UK, July 22 at 2030, for whom TOM was atop AIA. It`s not too unusual for Caribbean Beacon to be missing (or on the day frequency at night/vice versa with 6090), but I wonder if CB is off deliberately to monitor the competition, gospel huxter vs gospel huxter! CB is also missing from 6090 when checked at 0057 July 27, just the Brasilian audible in Portuguese (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** NEWFOUNDLAND [and non]. 6160, July 25 at 0056-0102+, station in English, presumed CKZN, has a LAH (low audible heterodyne) from something else; as yet, Cuba is not up on 6165 to splash. I think it`s still too early before sunset here and much more so in Vancouver for the second station to be CKZU which at last check by Wolfgang B?schel was within SAH range of 13 Hz, and it looks like the only other possibilities are low-powers in Russia and Brasil. Radio Rossii, Monchegorsk (a.k.a. Murmansk) is supposed to start at 0057 which must be circa sunrise there in the far north. Or maybe this is a clew: Aoki puts R Boa Vontade, Porto Alegre on 6161, altho what I heard was nowhere near a 1 kHz het. Aoki doesn`t split frequencies below 1 kHz; and Rio Mar, Manaus is supposedly daytime-only (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** PERU. 5980, July 25 at 0058, R. Chaski carrier I am continually monitoring to catch their newest cutoff: 0059:34.5* UT, which is 11 seconds later than two nights ago; back in step at 5.5 (or more like 5.25) seconds later per day, despite the anomalous prolongation until 0100:46.5* one night ago. Maybe the timer failed and they turned it off manually ASAP (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SERBIA [non]. 9685, July 25 at 0054, IRS is again AWOL long before the 0030 English semihour should be over (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. WORLD OF RADIO 1678 monitoring: found the playback halfway thru at 2000 UT Wednesday July 24, on 9930, WTWW-2, and no interruption at hourtop; among the variable bonus airings thanks to Ted Randall, so this time started at 1945. WORLD OF RADIO 1679 monitoring: completed in time for first airing on WRMI 9955, UT Thursday July 25 at 0330, confirmed from 0331 on webcast; then: Thursday 2100.5 on WTWW-1 9479; UT Friday 0326v on WWRB 5050; UT Saturday 0130v on Area 51 via WBCQ 5110v-CUSB; Saturday 0630 & 1430 on HLR 7265-CUSB; Saturday 1500 on WRMI 9955 (no longer at 1730); Saturday 2328v on WTWW-2 9930; UT Sunday 0400.5 on WTWW-1 5830; Sunday 2329v on WTWW-2 9930. There may also be further tests from HLR 15785-CUSB, Sunday at 0730, 1030, 1430, 1830, altho they were not on last week as expected, per Ivo Ivanov (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 9955, July 25 at 0055, WRMI is fair with no jamming during Slovak lesson from RSI in English; must have missed the 1-minute `WRMI Scoreboard` at 0059, but at 0105 recheck, jamming is on and atop scheduled Radio Vaticana relay, why? That`s UT Tue-Fri only, with Media Network Plus/PCJ Radio from 0100 UT Saturdays, also jammed? WRMI program grid is now color-coded with Vaticana in yellow, meaning? Maybe just for variety. Presumably meant to be in Spanish altho preferably spelt Vaticano in that tongue (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. 11979, July 24 at 2054, I too can hear the intruding single-number CW sending 8 over and over in groups of three, as Jack Metcalfe in KY has reported in UDXF, vs the RTTY on 11980 from NAU in Puerto Rico as IDed by Mike Chace-Ortiz. Another 15-minute broadcast, from when to when? Like the ones I am hearing from 0520 also on 11979. Nothing heard here on the other number-frequency Jack had, 11623 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) End of Hard-Core-DX Digest, Vol 127, Issue 27 *********************************************