[HCDX] Glenn Hauser logs December 31-January 1

[Glenn Hauser <wghauser@xxxxxxxxx>]

** BULGARIA. R. Varna is supposed to change from 7600 to 7200 effective January
1, but which would it be this week for the Sunday only/UT Monday 4-sesquihour
broadcast at 2200-0400? UT Jan 1 at 0244 I could not hear it on either, whilst
7200 had the Yakutsk Warbler. It was mixed with a trace of something else, I
know not what. Bulgaria was propagating on the band, with R. Bulgaria audible
in French on 7400 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** CUBA. RHC in Spanish on 6140 // 6060 with music a reverb apart, indicating
different sites and/or feed routing, at 0241 Jan 1; // 5965 was synchronized
with 6060 rather than 6140 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** CUBA [non]. Another new unscheduled frequency for R. Martí is 9825, where
heard with heavy jamming Jan 1 at 0247. This evidently replaces 9725, where it
was for a few weeks at 0000-0300, but now not heard there. Lighter ``maracas``
jamming was still on 9725 molesting Defunct Gene Scott via Costa Rica. This
could be a permanent move once Cahuita complained, or it could be another
here-and-there tactic against the jamming, like R. Martí does at 0700 on 5890
or 5980, forcing the DCJC to dilute its efforts. I found that RM on 9825 was
about one second ahead of // 7365, so that makes 9825 Delano and 7365
Greenville, as previously explained. I am surprised no one has reported 9825
before, and wonder how long it has been in use. On 6030 nothing but jamming was
audible, but surely RM is still there too --- except both sides should be
taking their weekly rest period on all frequencies 0400-1000 UT Monday (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** ECUADOR. Aventura Diexista, HCJB`s Spanish DX program I came across in
progress UT Monday Jan 1 at 0249 on VG 9745. Alen Grájam was interviewing some
preacher with an odd accent, Japanese overlaid on Spanish, named Katsuo(?).
Discussed enthusiasm of a few Japanese DXers for HCJB who listen to it and send
reports in Spanish. Seems Katsuo is responsible for the resumption of
Japanese-language programming, scheduled Friday and Saturday at 2230 on 15525.
This of course is Kununurra, which I did not hear mentioned, but may have been
before I intuned. According to the HCJB B-06 schedule at
http://www.bclnews.it/b06schedules/hcjb.htm this 2230-2300 broadcast is on
Saturday and Sunday. Therefore we may conclude that the days of week put out in
HCJB`s published schedule are not proper UT days, but local days in target! I
checked HCJB`s regional Spanish frequency, 6050, and found the same program,
but 7 seconds ahead of 9745, so apparently separate playouts, and perhaps 9745
and 6050 are not always //? Back to 9745 as Juan Carlos wrapped it up revealing
Alen Grájam was in San Luís, Missouri at the moment. And as usual, automation
cut off the last word of the program so all he got to say was ``Aventura. . .``
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** FINLAND. For one last time, monitored YLE Radio Finland on 15400, Dec 31 at
1443 with religious service in Finnish, almost sounded Catholic, but surely
not; after 1452 signal started to fade into the noise, mostly organ music. Next
thing I knew, at 1459 I was hearing Bow Bells, not having noticed Pori turning
off, a smooth transition to BBC Ascension. No luck with Finland at 1600 on
12000 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** HUNGARY. DON`T YOU BELIEVE the DX tips on R. Budapest. I was doing a
bandscan for something more interesting, UT Mon Jan 1 at 0219 when I came upon
5980, atop Qur`an, no doubt Morocco per EiBi, two guys giving schedule of R.
Miami International. One had an American accent, the other one not. I could
hardly believe my ears as the info bore little relation to reality, including:

[DO NOT QUOTE THE INFO BELOW as if correct; I am only citing it because it is
INCORRECT]

1630-1657 11825 to Europe 
2300-2357 6185 to SAm/Caribbean
0000-0027 11665 to SAm
0430-0457 9955 to SAm
1800-1827 7355 to EEu/Russia

--- It looks as if some old R. Prague items were mixed in there, evidently
confused by 9955 at 0430 which really was a Prague relay via WRMI, but Prague
was never mentioned! 

Then there was a very partial BBCWS English schedule to C&SEu, which, reeling
from the impact of the misinfo just transmitted, I did not copy and have not
checked out.

Kol Israel, 15 minutes of English news at 1830 on 11590 --- Not any more in the
B-06 season, but on 9345 7545 6985!

R. Tirana schedule was next: 0630-0900 on 7105 in AB, 1800-1815 6235 in Serbian
M-F; 1845-1900 7465 and 9925 in English Mon-Sat, 1901-1930 9930 French Mon-Sat;
1901-1930 6225 [missed lang] Mon-Sat; 1931-2030 7475 mixture of German and
English Mon-Sat [not mixture, but one after the other]; 2030-2200 6205 AB;
2300-0030 7455 AB daily; 0145-0200 6115 7455 English Tuesday AND Saturday;
0230-0300 6155 & 7455, English Tuesday AND Saturday; 1801-1830 German 1458 MW
daily. ---- This is more or less the early A-06 schedule including some
mistakes such as 6155, before timeshifts which went into effect two months ago,
not to mention frequency shifts. Also before I got them to move off 7455 in
July? due to RTTY. The 0145 and 0230 (now 0245 and 0330) are of course Tuesday
THROUGH Saturday, not AND.

BBCWS via French Guiana in English and Spanish: 0300-0400 6110 Spanish; 12-14
11865 English, 21-22 15390 English, 22-23 5975 English --- More outdated A-06
info; 6110 meanwhile moved to WHRI, 11865 and 15390 are gone, and 5975 happens
to have continued.

DW in German via Sackville: 00-04(?) 6100, 10-12 15595, 12-14 11900, 15-16
15445 --- All gone with B-06.

Were they playing back an old show as emergency fill during the holidays? NO!
The hosts bade us Happy New Year 2007 at the closing 0227.

I am so sad, that R. Budapest which has kept a DX program going for
sesquidecades, is putting out such nonsense. It is WORSE than USELESS. 

There is absolutely no excuse for this, as current schedule info is available
in DXLD and many other online sources. TG they never cite any sources, which
might get blamed for all this erroneous outdated info. How in the world can R.
Budapest trust these people to compile a DX program? I seldom listen to the
show, but on previous occasions years ago have found the same lack of attention
to accuracy (Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** ICELAND. As I have said before, getting a readable signal from RUV has been
difficult, but on its last day of SW, it was incoming on 13865, reduced
carrier/SSB at 1438, talk in presumed Icelandic, and the audio seemed to cut
out briefly at times. The whole thing just stopped abruptly at 1439, their
usual rude practice, up with which we shall no longer have to put (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** JAPAN [non]. NHK Warido`s NYE special Dec 31: same as last few years, no
note was taken of the actual arrival of 2007 at midnight local time. 11705 via
Canada monitored from 1459:30, and announcer just kept talking thru 1500:00, no
timesignal, no gongs, no crowd cheers, but there was an NHK ID in passing, and
into another song (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** MEXICO. XERTA is often there but constant noise on hi side and lack of
interesting programming leads me to ignore it most of the time. But Dec 31 at
the odd time of 0627 I noticed the Mexican NA on 4810. 0628 Full ID with
addresses, including one at C.P. 06002, then played the NA again! And another
ID sequence, seems a loop, stuck on repeat? But then at 0633 went into bible
quotation. Besides the QRM on hi side (has anyone ever confirmed whether this
is actually their own defective transmitter?), also was lo het on frequency and
CODAR swishing (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** PHILIPPINES. I caught DZRB Manila webcast Dec 31 at 1600 UT 
Jahrwechsel, lots of drumming (or fireworx?) and countdown; announcer 
couldn`t decide whether to use English or Spanish numbers. This is the 
only Phil. station linked at http://www.publicradiofan.com which 
people might also check for other needed countries. 73, (Glenn Hauser, 
dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** THAILAND [non]. I at first thought I had something hot, a new Cuban or
clandestine frequency, as the Cuban national anthem was playing at 0229 UT
January 1 on 5890. But this was quickly identified in English as the Cuban NA,
apparently concluding an item about some trade or diplomatic connexion between
Cuba and Thailand, or maybe just in honor of the anniversary of the Cuban
revolution. Hey, whose side is Thailand on, anyway? ID as R. Thailand,
concluding the News Hour of January 1, 0230 into gongs, and announced
conclusion of broadcast to US West Coast at 10-10:30 am Thai Time = 0300-0330
GMT!! That time was changed about 9 months ago to 0200, and they still haven`t
updated the announcement! Yet someone in Bangkok must know, since it is really
coming over an hour earlier. More bells until opening in Thai at 0231:30. This
is via Delano, while the 0030 English on same is via Greenville (Glenn Hauser,
OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. Someone recently noted that Brother Scare was missing from 6890, but
not any more: UT Jan 1 at 0237 found him on WWRB 6890 // 5745, while 3185 was
running open carrier; shortly later found 3185 // 5050 with big band music
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** ZAMBIA. Tnx to tip from Ron Howard, I checked the late NYE broadcast of
ZNBC, UT Jan 1 at 0217 on 5915 --- yes, several people talking animatedly, with
some allo`s, perhaps indicating phone calls, but difficult copy and unseemed
entirely in English. This listening session led me on to several other
interesting items at a time I don`t normally monitor much, even on NY Eve
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

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