[HCDX] Glenn Hauser logs October 23

[Glenn Hauser <wghauser@xxxxxxxxx>]

** CHINA [and non]. Firedrake, 10450 against Sound of Hope, was fair at 1334
check Oct 23 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

On 7520, Oct 23 at 1336, heard slowly-enunciated Chinese (standard, I think),
but with buzz-saw jamming. Per EiBi, KTWR is getting the treatment: 
7520 1100-1500 GUM KTWR Trans World Radio M FE 
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** CUBA. Spy letters on MCW, 5800, Monday Oct 23 at 0607, no echo/print-through
this time (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** CUBA. The rapid clicks which I have decided are spurious from jammers
against R. Martí were heard on both 11980 and 11880 at 1416 Oct 23, a nicely
matched pair originating at 11930. No victims on either frequency. Furthermore,
the 11845 jammers were also putting out spurs 50 kHz above and below on 11795
and 11895, altho it was difficult to separate the ones around 11880 from 11895.
At 1525 recheck, the clix were still audible on 11880 & 11980. The offset
varies from time to time, up to 60 kHz or more (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)

** FRANCE [non]. Ditto Oct 23 to previous and continuing observations of RFI in
English via Japan at 1400 on 6120 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** GABON. ANO harmonic, 19160, Oct 23 at 1344 weak in French talk; slightly
better at 1412 from S2 to peaks at S7. No sign of Chile on 19270 yet (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** INDIA. AIR opening GOS in English on 9690 at 1330 Oct 23, announcing
numerous frequencies, some to Australia, on other bands such as 16, 19 and 21
meters! They must have played the wrong tape, probably the one for the 1000 UT
broadcast, because this one is on only 3 frequencies on 9, 11 and 13 MHz. Weak
but clear. An hour later when the mailbag should have been on, at 1430, had
become inaudible with adjacent QRM. Meanwhile I checked some other AIR
frequencies just after 1330. Compared to 9690, 9820 was stronger with music,
and 10330 even stronger with talk (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
 
** INDONESIA. Suara Indonesia, active on 9525, Oct 23 at 1320 with song, segué
to another song at 1327; could not hear anything on 11860 which seems to make
it to Europe at this hour; too much Harold Camping adjacent. 9680 at 1329 was
going from Qur`an to instrumental music with the usual CCI. Back to 9525: 1350
English ID; 1358 sign-off mixing with CRI music, NA, and VOI carrier on past
1400 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** LIBYA [and non]. The Ozma service was out in full force to block Sawt
al-Amal, Oct 23 at 1346: parallel music on 17650, 17660 and 17665, but only
17650 had CCI, SAH with Arabic talk, so that must have been the spot for Sawt
al-Amal at the moment, and Ozma shortly into talk as well with ID by YL at
1347, then a long list of ``kilohertez`` and at 1349 ``megahertez``, presumably
all their network frequencies on AM and FM, but I bet she didn`t mention these
on SW. Rechecked at 1414, all three were gone, and WHRA was on 17650. Also hum
of Voice of Africa, Swahili via France was audible on 21695 at 1343, as well as
stronger hum on 17610 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** NEW ZEALAND. RNZI, analog 7145 audible but rather weak with ham CWQRM, Oct
23 at 1338 with historical reminiscences conversation. I guess this was RNZI
Talk, an off-week for alternating Mailbox. 6095 DRM also audible. By 1434, 7145
was JBA. So later I went to http://www.rnzi.com/pages/audio.php and listened to
the latest Mailbox audio, which was for Oct 2; wasn`t there a show on Oct 16?
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** SAUDI ARABIA. BSKSA weakly audible on 13m, Oct 23 at 1343 in Arabic on
21640, also two different buzzes on 21505 and 21460, the latter with Qur`an
also audible. Then at 1518, absolutely huge buzz overpowering whatever
modulation was on 15435. At 1411, R. Riyadh ID in French audible on 21600
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** SPAIN. Nice to hear REE making it well on 13m during Nuestro Sello,
classical music show, Oct 23 at 1342, strongest on 21610, then 21570, then
21540, // 17595, Costa Rica 15170 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. KAIJ, 9975, testing again with non-DGS programming, Oct 23 at 1333
with far-out commercials for such as something called lasemedinc; fair. Could
not hear after 1400 but overwhelming QRM from 9985 WWCR (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)

UNIDENTIFIED. Defunct Gene Scott on 10475, Oct 23 at 1422, weak but steady
signal, and this time I barely hear some extremely weak crosstalk. I try to //
it to local KCRC 1390 and almost succeed, but am not 100% certain. If this is
the case, it would be a mixing product between KCRC and one of the strong SW
signals carrying DGS, but I have yet to come up with an equation to explain it.
Apparently no one else is hearing 10475, so Enid-only source seems likely
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

UNIDENTIFIED. 15151.5 USB inside the SWBC band, Spanish 2-way conversation Oct
23 1519 until 1523. One of them had so much background noise (engine?) that the
vox stayed on when he paused. QRM to 15150, presumably Iran (Glenn Hauser, OK,
DX LISTENING DIGEST)


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