[HCDX] Glenn Hauser logs November 5-6

[Glenn Hauser <wghauser@xxxxxxxxx>]

** CUBA. RHC spur on 15500, weak and intermittent, Nov 6 at 1455, no doubt from
the very large signal on 15370 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** JORDAN. Checking R. Jordan again Nov 6 on 11690 for French replacing
English: 1424 tune-in, French announcement but mostly music, atop HCJB with SAH
of 4+ Hz. 1431 talk feature; 1436 ID tentatively as ``Radio Francophone
Jordanie`` but not sure of last word. High-energy music with disco beat, YL DJ,
who also did the news headlines at 1500, back to music before 1502; 1532
recheck, still in French. A timesignal at 1500 must have been the sign-off of
HCJB. Throughout, the usual RTTY QRM on the low side, avoided as much as
possible.

Then Noel Green reported that the French and English departments were
temporarily having to share a studio, accounting for the changes (Glenn Hauser,
OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** MALI [and non]. CRI English on 17630, Nov 6 at 1451 was mixing with Africa
Numéro Un, Gabon, with CRI mostly atop for a change (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)

** MEXICO. XEYU, 9599.5v, was certainly on the air Nov 5 at 2312, causing a big
het to Vatican Radio, 9600.0, closing English. Axually, Vatican is supposed to
be on 9600 from SMG only at 2315-2400 in Vietnamese. They must have turned it
on early (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) More under VATICAN [and non]

** SPAIN. REE, 17595, 1455 Nov 6 with usual interruption to programming for
unnecessarily lengthy frequency change announcement. Unlike the day before,
there was no signal on 17595 from 1458 to 1502, so not only the NAm transmitter
went off, but so did the C&SAm transmitter (or it was already off) until return
at 1502. Meanwhile, // programming on 15585 continued, but too weak to be of
use here (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** SWEDEN. R. Sweden theme music on 11820, Nov 6 at 1428 and off a minute later
without announcement. I assumed this was coincidental, some other station
playing that music, but checking schedule I see R. Sweden is now scheduled here
only at 1400-1430 via Hörby, 95 degrees to ME/SAs (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A [and non]. VOA Creole confirmed at one-hour-later-shifted-time of
2200-2230 UT, as heard at 2223 on 11895 // 13725. I believe Haiti is the only
country that gets this treatment among VOA`s language services. Of course most
of the European languages, where DST is a major factor, have been cancelled.

VOA World News Now coming in well on 9490, before and after 2300 UT Nov 5 ---
that`s Tinang, Philippines at 200 degrees. String of frequencies announced also
included 5910. That`s 2200-2400, 50 kW at 283 degrees from Tinang-2, whose
coordinates are one minute further east than the main Tinang-1 site. Altho from
Nov 7, Greenville is also scheduled on 5910 at exactly the same time.

Début of VOA`s new 15-minute weekday report in Spanish, ``Crónica del Día``
monitored Monday November 5 at 2302 tune-in on 5890, giving time as ``6 pm en
Wáshington, 11 de la mañana, Tiempo Universal`` --- I`ve explained to them that
they should use the 24 hour system with UT, and avoid such confusion. But where
is the // 9885? Nothing there until it popped on at 2306. Wake up in
Greenville! Axually they were probably scrambling to get a transmitter retuned
and antennas switched, not enough time allowed for the process. Like the
morning sports show, which was plugged at 2307 without any specific tuning
info, this one has a continuous urgent repetitive musical bed, which I find
distracting and insulting, as if words are not enough to convey news. Basically
headlines, squeezing as much as possible into the time, including stox. Outro
at 2313 identified announcers as Mercedes Antezana and Hernán Suárez. These are
primarily VOASat programs with SW added as an afterthought (Glenn Hauser, OK,
DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** VATICAN [and non]. XEYU, 9599.5v, Nov 5 at 2312, causing a big het to
Vatican Radio, 9600.0, closing English. Axually, Vatican is supposed to be on
9600 from SMG only at 2315-2400 in Vietnamese. They must have turned it on
early.

BTW, per VR engineering sked via Wolfgang Büschel, if you hear it on 9600
during the previous hour in Chinese, 2200-2245, it`s currently 120 kW, 218
degrees from Khabarovsk, but from Dec 2 to Feb 2 it will be instead 250 kW, 263
degrees from Petropalovsk, then back to Khabarovsk from Feb 3 to March 29
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

UNIDENTIFIED. Very rapid and loud pulsing interfering with all the SWBC
stations in the 9400-9500 range, Nov 6 at 1505; on for a several seconds, off
for fewer seconds, repeat (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ###

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