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Today's Topics:
1. Glenn Hauser logs May 25-27, 2012 (Glenn Hauser)
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Date: Sun, 27 May 2012 08:11:05 -0700 (PDT)
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Subject: [HCDX] Glenn Hauser logs May 25-27, 2012
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** CHINA [non]. 9690, May 27 at 0420, VG carrier but just barely modulated in
Chinese, and // 9790 with epic choral music, sounds like cinematic, normal
modulation level but distorted. 0424, Chinese announcement on 9790, dead air on
9690. CRI relay on 9690 is scheduled 02-04 via Noblejas, SPAIN, and 9790 at
03-05 via CUBA, the 04-05 hour axually Cantonese, not Mandarin. For some
reason, Spain must not have turned 9690 off on time (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** CUBA. 11760, May 26 at 2005, RHC French is very undermodulated. Have to turn
the volume way up.
9500, May 27 at 1245, RHC `Cuba Campesina` music show on distorted, unstable
spur, weak but stronger than // fundamental 9540, which is always much weaker
than // 9550 and 9850. So which transmitter is it coming from? At 1256, 9550
cuts off the air, and 9850 is gone too, with 9540 and 9500 remaining. Had
looked for a match on 9600, which would indicate origination from 9550, but
none there. A match to 9540, 40 kHz on the upper side on 9580, would have been
buried by R. Australia (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) See also CYPRUS:
RHC hit by OTH radar; see also CHINA [non] 9790 Cantonese
** CYPRUS. 17818-17843, May 26 at 1910, OTH radar pulses presumed from here
with usual 25-kHz spread, happening to be in a clear area below REE/Costa Rica
17850 splash. (As a rule there is much less activity by broadcasters above
17800 than lower in the band.)
17688-17713, May 26 at 2030, same kind of OTH radar pulses now here, missing
Spain on 17715, but not RHC 17705 after *2100; tsk2 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** GREECE. 15630, May 26 after 2100, I was dozing to our mostly-music station,
Voice of Greece, seemed nothing unusual, but realized at 2140 that they were
broadcasting in English, interrupted by voice-overs in Greek. It`s the
Eurovision Song Contest, presumably live from Baku, with each country
announcing how it would divide up points for its top three choices. English is
apparently the lingua franca, not Azeri. Rather meaningless from our viewpoint,
went on and on, votes from Bulgaria, Cyprus, Croatia, Slovakia, Estonia,
Lapland(?), Iceland, Sweden and still going past 2200 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** NORTH AMERICA. 15070, May 26 at 2010, pirate Undercover Radio is back on a
favorite frequency, giving gmail address, music, 2015 ID and address again.
2016 story about having dropped acid only three times in his life, e.g. looking
at a monitor, could see every pixel, then every molecule, then the color of
every atom. 2025 ID and address again, 2026 off. Was in RC-USB, needed BFO,
fair to good peaks. Had to avoid local spur from computer circa 15068.5 (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** SOUTH CAROLINA [non]. 9385, via WWRB, May 27 at 1258, Brother Scare himself
is briefly heard; voice sounds hoarser than usual, may be ailing. And then was
that he trying to sing with others? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** SPAIN [and non]. 15110, May 25 [correct] circa 2130, REE play-by-play stupid
ballgame is again replete with at least ten spurs from Noblejas, at multiples
of approx. 14.5 kHz, or a shade more than that but closer to 14.5 than 14.6:
15037.5, 15052, 15066.5, 15081, 15095.5;
15124.5, 15139, 15153.5, 15168, 15182.5
The four closest to huge 15110 signal were the worst by far, loud distorted //
modulation, and barely audible out by the fifth order, but still a nuisance to
Trenton on 15034-USB. 15139 making a het with 15140, presumed OMAN. If one
heard 15124.5 first, one might assume it was the REE CR relay on 15125, but not
now, and anyway not unsynchronized. Meanwhile, the CR relay on 17850 was OK,
not putting out spurs; do they take turns?
Ernesto Paulero, Argentina on the condig list was listening at exactly the same
time to 15110 and says it was ``la final de la Copa del Rey``, but doesn`t
mention any spurs.
Then on May 26, 15110 checked again at 1901, shortly after sign-on. VG
strength, but modulation badly distorted at peaks. Fortunately not putting out
multiple spurs this time, but heavy splash out to 15100-15120. 1911 playing a
song in English, and a few seconds later on // 17850 CR, no spurs either (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 15385.0-, May 26 at 1904, KJES is distorted even worse than REE 15110
[see SPAIN]! With hum. A bit of Jewish music illustrating narration by YL about
Jerusalem. Is programming being diversified? Compared to WWV and other 15 MHz
band signals, this one was only very slightly on the low side, much closer to
nominal than usual (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 5085, May 27 at 0058, WTWW-2 is already on with music. Another test
was announced a few hours earlier and I spread the word to various DX groups in
advance. Ted Randall was again playing classic rock music and asking for
reports to his e-mail address. Good signal here at first, and with sun down,
soon improving to very good until 0300* (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. WORLD OF RADIO 1618 monitoring: confirmed on WTWW 5755, UT Sunday May
27 after 0400, very good signal. Remaining SW repeats are on WRMI 9955: Sunday
1530, 1730, Monday 0500, 1130. Also on HLR 5980 Germany, Tuesday 0930. On WRN
via SiriusXM 120: Sunday 1730 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 9825, UT Sunday May 27 at 0423, lo-quality clip of some pirate from
SW, but then at 0425 Chris Lobdell announces he is *starting* Pirating with
Cumbre segment, a bit late for that in the semihour. Playback at WHRI must have
been out of whack, or threw this in to fill time, as 0428 cut to WHR`s own
music fill and shill for unsold airtime to follow (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 15745-15753 or so, May 27 at 1216, DRM-like roar, but probably a
ute as no DRM is scheduled here. Likewise 13830-13835 at 1217. Hard to pin down
the center of these blobs but not at least 10 kHz wide like DRM. 13830 could be
jammer against RFA Tibetan via Tajikistan; no target known on the other one
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. TV was off most of the afternoon of May 26, but started watching
snow on channel 2 around 2300 UT. Some video CCI starts to show at 2305 with
antenna south, but nothing comes of it. 6m Es map shows all the axion now is
between NE America and Dominican Republic eastward and southward thru the
Windwards, as far as Trinidad, up to 88 MHz (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
End of Hard-Core-DX Digest, Vol 113, Issue 28
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