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[HCDX] Glenn Hauser logs March 17-18

** BRAZIL. Carlos Gonçalves has reported R. Cultura, São Paulo active, but I
had not been able to pull this low-power station above the home QTH noise
level. So looked for it on low-noise Meadowlake Park DXpedition, Enid, and
could detect some vocal music on 17815, March 17 at 2324-2330+, still weak and
not enough signal to light up any strength bars on the DX-398 and whip.
Unfortunately, the reel-out antenna I brought along didn`t work as when plugged
into the jack, there was no connexion but the whip was bypassed. Next time:
bring alligators to clip onto whip (Glenn Hauser, MLPDX, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)

** CANADA. March 17 at 1332 on 6754-SSB was hearing terminal forecasts for
places such as Zagreb, Split, Ancona - something; at 1334, ID sounded like
``This is Transamerica, Inc.,`` and then to Shannon, Prestwick. However, per
numerous logs in UDXF on 6754, this must have been just Trenton Military, Ont.
I would not have expected to hear weather for Croatia on this station, but I
guess they have some flights headed there, and at this hour it would not have
been something directly from Europe (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** COLOMBIA. R. Líder, 6139.8, still running March 17 at 0609 ending news;
audio is somewhat distorted (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** CUBA. Dentro-Cuban Jamming Command was already in full swing March 18 at
0028 on 9480, against VOA`s open carrier prior to Spanish service, which is not
totally about Cuba. For this, RHC in English deserves to get jammed, since so
much of its programming is anti-American. Lucky for them, the US, even under
Bush accepts freedom of expression on SW.

At 0027, RHC on 6000 // 9600 with a gringo-accented item about Chávez. Since it
was on RHC, it must have been pro-, since no opposing viewpoints exist (Glenn
Hauser, MLPDX, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) See also CZECHIA [non], ECUADOR [and
non]

** CZECHIA [non]. R. Praga, 6000 via Sackville, March 17 at 2353 concluding
Panorama Checo which was about a Cuban, colliding with big open carrier and
heavy SAH from RHC. At least RHC seems to be holding off modulation until 0000
(Glenn Hauser, MLPDX, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) see also ECUADOR [and non]

** ECUADOR [and non]. HCJB Spanish service going into spe-cial Eng-lish program
Spotlight, Sat March 17 at 2345 on 11700.

HCJB DRM still going on 15200, March 17 around 2326; at 0027 found it much
weaker on evening frequency 9595, but still enough to mess up some unID analog
station on 9590, but not RHC on 9600 (Glenn Hauser, MLPDX, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)

** EGYPT. R. Cairo, 11950, English to NAm broadcast doing better than before,
March 17 at 2333 in Arabic choral music, almost as strong as Arabic service
12050, but some ACI from Spain 11945. 0025 recheck March 18, 11950 was almost
gone tho 9360 to LAm was in well with more Arabic music (Glenn Hauser, MLPDX,
OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** GREECE. ERA via SVO, 5865, with nice arrangement of IS, multilingual IDs
already at 2355 March 17; no dropouts. Considerably weaker than // Avlis 7475,
which was weaker than 9420 (Glenn Hauser, MLPDX, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** JAPAN [non]. NHK Warido, 17605 via Bonaire, still with Western classical
music show on Sat, March 17 at 2318 and still at 2346 (Glenn Hauser, MLPDX, OK,
DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** NORTH AMERICA. Pirate on 6925, March 18 at 0018 Young America, 0023 Let the
Good Times Roll; only music heard as I tuned around, still going past 0100 with
no illegal ID, but closing at 0110 by YL as WTPR (I think, tho nothing about
tire pressure heard), and Belfast address. Good signal on USB (Glenn Hauser,
MLPDX, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** RUSSIA. VOR, 9840, closing NAm service March 17 at 0558 with G signal, tho
fading. Said they were about to open to Australia, and to Europe, listing a
bunch of MW lengths, NOT frequencies. Apparently they believe their European
audience are still using old radios calibrated only in metres. I have never
seen or heard of a digital readout radio that displayed metres (other than SW m
bands); are there any? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** TAIWAN [and non]. On 11635 something in Chinese, and a het of less than 1
kHz, March 17 at 2343. Per PWBR `2007` this would be the RTI Taiwan Network to
SE Asia, which is jammed (Glenn Hauser, MLPDX, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** TURKEY. VOT, 5960, March 17 at 2354 closing English to NAm, poor with ACI
from Habana 5965 in music. In one week this broadcast will move to 2200-2255 on
6195 (Glenn Hauser, MLPDX, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. WBCQ, 7415, UT Sunday March 18 at 0005 had a speaker who was making
sense about religion and tolerance. Listened for a while. Looked up later, it`s
``Cut the Crap with A.J.`` (Glenn Hauser, MLPDX, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** WESTERN SAHARA [non]. R. Nacional de la RASD, 6300, poor March 17 at 2349 in
Spanish talk, 2358 hi-pitched singing past hourtop to 0002 martial music,
anthem? 0003 announcement and off (Glenn Hauser, MLPDX, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)

UNIDENTIFIED. Re last report, het on 6100: next day, March 17 at 1342 I kept
stepping up and down until I concluded that the het was on the hi side;
however, Mauno Ritola studied all the carriers around there, and found that the
most likely source, V. of Malaysia, was on 6099.72, while Korea North was not
off-frequency (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)


 
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