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[HCDX] Glenn Hauser logs January 10
** GABON. It`s back! The ANU harmonic on 19160 heard for the first time in
weeks, Jan 10 at 1450, quite weak with generous S-meter fluxuating S6-S9. No
buzz, talk in French. Not audible on fundamental 9580, but // 17630 which had
crosstalk from second program, unseems CRI cochannel in this instance.
Afropop music distraxion was on 17650 at the moment, 1453, roughly equal signal
to 17630, so they are no longer time-sharing one transmitter. Rechecked at
1528, 17630 had degraded to open carrier only with lite hum, traces of audio,
perhaps the previous crosstalk by itself. 17650 went off at 1530:45. By 1532,
17630 was fading up French talk to near-audibility, but the carrier had stayed
on across hourbottom (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** KURDISTAN [non]. Having heard V. of Mesopotamia earlier on 11530, Jan 10 at
1538 I checked their 1500+ channel 7590. I could hear some broadcast there, but
marred by much stronger RTTY centred around 7592-7593 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** NEW ZEALAND [and non]. RNZI, 9765, Jan 10 at 0700 with news, and a low het,
which I had not noticed before 0700 or on previous occasions. What could it be?
PWBR ``2007`` has HCJB in German to Europe, but that is obviously wrong, as we
hear that inbooming on 9740, ascending from Low to High at 0700. The only other
possibility appears to be Turkey-Çakirlar, known for its off-frequency
operation, now scheduled at 0700-0730 in Albanian (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** NORTHERN MARIANAS. Another of those weird `pipeline` openings, Jan 10 at
0635-0642, as I found R. Free Asia in Mandarin in // on four frequencies, but
deliberately slightly out of synch to even out power consumption: 15665, 15150,
13760 and 13625. These are all from Tinian, per EiBi; his readme.txt explains
that MRA without the -s means Tinian:
0300 0700 USA Radio Free Asia M FE
15150/MRA 11980/RUS-i 13760/MRA 17615/MRA-s 15665/MRA 17880/MRA-s 13625/MRA
I believe I also checked 17 MHz, but those from Saipan were not propagating.
The four lower frequencies had very good signals, and NO jamming audible, tho
surely there was a lot as usual from China, which were simply not propagating
either. Nor was there any sign of R. Australia, which usually has the 15 MHz
band to itself at this hour on 15515, 15240, 15160. The only other signal on 15
MHz, barely audible, was 15255 in English, which per EiBi could only be Channel
Africa. Another very odd thing: timesignals booming in on 15000, surely WWVH
--- NO, it was WWV and no sign of WWVH (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** PHILIPPINES. Only a weak carrier on 9525, no hum, perhaps Indonesia,
allowing 9520 to be well heard, Jan 10 at 1435 with South Asian songs; unseemed
religious, but finally IS and ID in English at 1457 as R. Veritas Asia, saying
next broadcast would be in Filipino at 1500 on 9715; a bit of Copland`s Fanfare
for the Common Man was cut off abruptly. By then, CRI musical prélude was
underway on 9525 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** SUDAN [non]. Once again this Wednesday, heard Sudan Radio Service on
unlisted 9660, Jan 10 at 1444 with slow talk in English, but somewhat distorted
typical of Moldova site, and lite echo (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. There may be some disruptions to WBCQ programming. Allan Weiner tells
me Jan 10, that the Border Patrol has a new transmitter interfering with their
900-MHz-band internet link, RF wars continue, so WBCQ is without any Internet
for a week or two, or more? until a satellite hookup can be installed. Programs
now must be delivered to station by phone or CD, etc., including WORLD OF RADIO
Wednesday at 2300 on 7415 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. Caught another fragment of DXPL on WRMI, 7385, Wed Jan 10 at 1537
when Jeff White was talking about WRMI, something about an Optimod, which would
certainly help intelligibility if one is to be installed. Notable this time was
that 7385 had QRM from SSB in Spanish slightly on the hi side, maybe a
semikilohertz (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** WESTERN SAHARA [non]. RN de la RASD still on 6458, Jan 10 at 0706 check with
solo singing, not Qur`an, which would have been nice to linger on, but poor
mixed with ute (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 15620, 2-way SSB, Jan 10 at 1502 and still going at 1527.
Seemingly Spanish but I could only understand a word here and there; some
continuous background noise from one of the communicants, presumably engine,
more likely aircraft than seacraft; mentioned ``kilos`` at 1510. Good signals
and clear of broadcast QRM (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
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