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[HCDX] Glenn Hauser logs October 13-14
** ALBANIA. Monitored R. Tirana 0145 broadcast UT Sunday Oct 14. 7425 carrier
was already on at 0140, but 6120 not until 0142. Both started IS at 0143 but
not at exactly same time. As always, sign-on at 0145 gave full schedule of
English broadcasts to Eu & NAm, effective until 10/27, and still gives wrong
frequency for 0145, ex-6115, and wrong frequency for 0230, 7465 typo instead of
7425. Also says these two are Mon-Sat, while they are really Tue-Sun UT. This
took a full three minutes of this brief transmission. 0148 program preview, and
a few news items.
Contrary to some other reviews, I think the RT announcers do put some effort
into speaking expressively; it`s just that much of the content sounds like
government press releases. 0151 a feature about something happening at the
Waldorf-Astoria in Manhattan for the Day of Columbus, apparently involving an
Albanian; then something about songs, but there were brief music bridges, not
the songs themselves; 0155 something about the Albanian language mentioning a
bible quotation.
I listened closely, but really could not follow the details of these, as
despite good interference-free reception, some words could not be understood.
0157 ending the broadcast with theme, no formal sign-off, and carriers off at
0158, 6120 lasting about a semi-minute longer than 7425. So the body of the
0145 broadcast is only nine minutes long. Wrapped up this monitoring session at
0227 by checking R. Tirana again, when 7425 was on the air a bit before 6115
with IS (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CANADA [and non]. Radio Canada Internal, 6100, Oct 14 from before 0200 until
0204 in Chinese was in collision with R. República and jamming --- see CUBA
[non], which just changed from 6155. Then RCI switched to 6075 for Spanish from
0205, with ``Reflejo Boreal`` show opening with birdsong, then news. 6075 had
CCI from DW which used to beam to NAm on 6075, but now back toward Europe from
Rampisham and/or Sines, per August schedule revision:
GERMAN 6075 0200-0359 500 RAMPISHAM 105 EUR
GERMAN 6075 0200-0400 250 SINES 040 EUR
If you insist on shifting all your programming 5 minutes late for no good
reason, you are bound to run into such conflicts with other stations who manage
their frequencies to change at hourtop, more or less. But then Radio República
is a veiled station, not appearing in HFCC, so one can pretend it`s not there
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** COSTA RICA. Oct 13 made further chex of the spurs REE Cariari 17850 is
outputting, causing complaints from `17 m` hams. As outpointed in DXLD 7-123,
on Saturdays only this frequency runs as late as 2300, while 17595 direct from
Spain stops at 2100.
Tuned in at 2024 to find 17595 direct, not in synch with satellite-delayed
17850, but 17595 with het from the spur, matching 18106, which was in synch
with 17850. Rechecked at 2204, when the direct 17595 signal had gone, I could
compare the spurs more directly: these are very strange; each seems to consist
of at least two carriers beating against each other, producing a slightly
varying het depending on modulation, but of the same pitch on both. The 18106
signal was somewhat stronger than 17594, contrary to the day before. Meanwhile,
the modulation on 17850 itself sounded normal, which is to say, undermodulated
and somewhat muffled, but with no distortion or splatter in the immediate area.
Whenever checked, they were talking about silly ball games, this being a
Saturday evening (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CUBA. RHC mixing product on 6300 was actually better than its computed
source, 6060, since 6300 was in the clear and 6060 had heavy ACI de Spain 6055,
WYFR 6065. Furthermore, Oct 14 at 0126, only Spanish was heard on 6300, tho it
leapfrogs strong RHC English transmitter on 6180 to get to 6300 (Glenn Hauser,
OK, DX LISITENING DIGEST)
** CUBA [and non]. Heavy Cuban jamming against VOA Spanish, Oct 14 at 0119 on
its temporary frequency 6110, planned to be used for a sesquimonth only until
Octend; recheck at 0140, during the mailbag show Club de Oyentes, clear of
jamming once the Cuban show was over.
R. Tirana plans to occupy 6110 from B-07 for its NAm service in Albanian and
English 0000-0145, and later, so let`s hope the dentroCubans quickly shift
their anti-VOA jamming elsewhere, if VOA Spanish still exist. Tentative
frequencies for that at 0030-0200 are 5940, 9480, 9885, 11840.
Radio República, 6155, presumably via Rampisham UK, very good at 0120 Oct 14,
and hardly any jamming audible. 0159 their QSY announcement was actually
coördinated with the frequency change to 6100, which then happened in less than
a semiminute, but RR still doesn`t know that this is the 49 meter band, not the
41! Then 6100 collided with RCI for 4 minutes; see CANADA. RR played music
during that period as if they were vamping until the collision would end. And
residual jamming could be heard on 6155 once RR had left (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** GERMANY [non]. DW Russian service well heard here far off the back from
Rampisham, on 6115, Oct 14 at 0115, ID as Nemetskaya Volna. So it`s a good
thing that Tirana at 0145 shifted long ago to 6120 tho their announcements
still say 6115 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** GREECE. VOG, Hellenes Around the World, interviews in English, fair on 7475
at 0224 UT Sunday Oct 14; also was on the air during the 1300 UT hour UT Sat
Oct 13 on 15630, unusable due to spurs from RUSSIA, q.v. (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENNG DIGEST)
** HUNGARY [and non]. Budapest, 6140, 306 degrees in Hungarian to NAm, Oct 14
at 0217 mixing at about equal level with Habana in Spanish, SAH of about
130/minute or slightly over 2 Hz. Perhaps Budapest imagine there is no QRM for
this 0130-0230 broadcast, since Habana refuses to participate in HFCC (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** ISRAEL. Since Kol Israel was quite strong on 15760, Oct 13 at 1353, I
checked the much weaker Galei Zahal just above it. It was just a bit above
15785, on 15785.1 or so (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** JAPAN. Don`t you believe that NHK Warido, R. Japan no longer broadcasts in
Japanese to NAm, as their official publicity states. Oct 14 at 0209, I found a
strong signal via Sackville on 5960 in Japanese with news, 0214 sports news,
0215 ID. The only difference is that the three-hour Japanese broadcast at
0200-0500 has changed from 240 to 227 degrees, a 13-degree shift, so instead of
CIRAF zones 6-8, it`s now officially to zones 8, 10 and 11, i.e. previously to
the 48 USA; now to Mexico & CAm, but unavoidably crossing ENAm on the way
(Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** LITHUANIA. 6255, KBC Radio, UT Sun Oct 14 at 0123, as soon as I tuned in, ID
saying they were on 1386; maybe so, but that`s beside the point for us. Accent
purely American, not Dutch or Lithuanian. Then hard rock of some sort. They
think we are hurting for this kind of music? This is the weekly NAm service
hour. Had some ute QRM on low side, but good signal (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** RUSSIA [and non]. VOR is still way out of whack, putting out big dirty spurs
over portions of the 15 MHz band, interfering with many other stations and even
itself! Sat Oct 13 at 1340, found Greece`s English hour on 15630, Hellenes
Around the World, unlistenable due to the QRM. VOR in Hindi on 15605 also had
the QRM, which peaked roughly 15615-15630, but the spikes were also audible
above that and below including 15550, which is the nominal frequency of the
offending transmitter, ironically, with the same programming as 15605. On 15550
itself, no carrier audible, just the spur`s extremely distorted modulation.
Also QRMed VOA in Russian on 15565, and even the much stronger RDPI on 15560.
At 1359 the VOR transmitters went into IS, but not synchronized with 15605.
That frequency had switched program feeds and at 1400 played NA as opening to
English service, while the spurs continued, now having switched to Urdu which
to the Oklahoman is indistinguishable from Hindi. At 1401 NA could also be
heard weakly on 15660, the // during this hour for English, but these were not
exactly synchronized, 15660 running a few words ahead of 15605 once they
started talking.
Meanwhile I looked for the further spurs Wolfgang Büschel reported the day
before in the 16.2+ MHz area. There was a continuous buzzing motorboating sound
at 16220-16250 or so, peaking at 16235, but nothing resembling program
modulation, so I could not correlate this with any of the VOR 15 MHz channels.
Nor was there a matching sound in the 15.0-15.1 MHz range.
Quit listening for a while, but quick recheck at 1446 found the 15 MHz spurs
gone with 15605 in the clear; there was a weak non-distorted signal on 15550,
language unknown. Apparently in the meantime the malfunxioning transmitter was
taken off the air, or possibly knocked back into whack. Per Aoki, it is
scheduled from 3718E, 5545N for a07:
15550 VOICE OF RUSSIA 1200-1300 1234567 Urdu 500 140 Moskva RUS VOR
15550 VOICE OF RUSSIA 1300-1400 1234567 Hindi 500 140 Moskva RUS VOR
15550 VOICE OF RUSSIA 1400-1500 1234567 Urdu 500 140 Moskva RUS VOR
This situation, with daily variations has been going on for most of a week, and
the Russian transmission authorities have been notified of it. Why in the world
don`t they close down the bad transmitter until and unless they can repair it?
Keeping it on the air certainly does VOR no good as no one would deliberately
listen to it, the programming is duplicated on other frequencies, and while on
the air it interferes with numerous other stations, even other VOR
transmissions! Not to mention wasting 500+ kW of electricity (Glenn Hauser, OK,
DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** RUSSIA. Weak signal on 7300, Oct 14 at 0133, heavy frequency-flutter as
confirmed with BFO --- a lot like what you hear when there are extreme auroral
conditions causing Doppler effect in ionosphere, but in this case I think the
transmitter was defective. Aoki lists as Serpukhov, VOR, in Spanish; I thought
it was Spanish before looking it up, but couldn`t be sure:
7300 VOICE OF RUSSIA 0100-0200 1234567 Spanish 250 270 Serpukhov RUS 05015E
5317N, VOR a07 --- Have others noted this problem?
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** UKRAINE. RUI totally inaudible on 7440, Oct 14 during the 01 and 02 UT
hours, making me wonder if they were off the air, or moved somewhere without
notice. Greece 7475 and Albania 7425 were making it through, but from lower
latitudes. Looked for signs of it on 5820, the NAm frequency they once planned
to use, but no sign of it there either, in the splash from WEWN 5810, which
extended from 5780 to 5840. We previously warned RUI away from any WEWN area
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. KVOH, missing Oct 12, was back Oct 13 on 17775 at 2026 check, quite
strong but no spurs audible, unlike REE 17850; see COSTA RICA (Glenn Hauser,
OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. WBCQ, 7415, UT Sun Oct 14 at 0225 with correct EDT timecheck of 10:25
and giving detailed propagation info from Spaceweather.com, including an aurora
watch as a CME had just happened; trouble is, that was July 16. Perhaps the
Lost Discs Radio Show should avoid including such perishable info if it is
going to engage in reruns a trimonth later (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST) ###
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