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[HCDX] Glenn Hauser logs February 3-4
** CANADA. CBCNQ, 9625, was weak but audible, 25443, Sat Feb 3 at 1443 during
The House, with a segment on pets of the MPs, cats vs dogs. I kid you not.
Much, much weaker than the Sackville transmitters on 9610 and 9650 (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CANADA [and non]. RCI, 11870 via Germany, Feb 3 at 1509 during The Blink,
report on a small Québec town, almost 100% French Catholic, which had passed a
resolution taken to be anti-Moslem, e.g., we drink alcohol, allow boys and
girls to swim together, etc. Quite a controversy, it seems, and grist for the
RCI obsession with immigrant affairs. Same show was running a few minutes later
on Sackville 9610 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CHINA. Firedrake against Sound of Hope, 9200, good signal around 1405 Feb 3.
Nothing heard on the 10 or 14 MHz frequencies (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** CUBA [non]. Feb 4 at 0327 I heard a Beatles tune in English on 6100, above
heavy Cuban jamming, making me wonder if Planet Rock was back, but a few
minutes later programming in Spanish, so I assume this was really R. República.
We have discussed previously the DX Mix News Bulgaria item of Jan 16 which had
a VT Communications update as of Jan 15:
``Radio República
2200-2400 on 6135 RMP 500 kW / 285 deg to Cuba Spanish
0000-0400 on 6185 RMP 500 kW / 285 deg to Cuba Spanish
0200-0500 on 9630 SAC 250 kW / 176 deg to Cuba Spanish Tue-Sat
0300-0400 on 6100 SAC 250 kW / 176 deg to Cuba Spanish Tue-Sat``
But this was UT Sunday. The signal was quite good to be coming from Europe
under these conditions, so this is what I think is happening:
6100 is the VT Merlin relay and they are using Sackville for the final hour,
which makes sense propagationally, instead of Rampisham on 6185, which was not
heard, nor was there any jamming on 6185. But this is the 7-day-a-week service,
in which Radio Miami International is not involved, while the 9630 transmission
via Sackville is the non-// 5-day-a-week service brokered by RMI, which was
presumably also routed thru VTC in order to get access to Sackville (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** GABON [and non]. Afropop music distraxion, Feb 3 at 1433 was on 17620, while
ANU was on 17630. Also noticed 17610 with a very different fluttery weak
signal, presumably Libya via France (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** GREECE. Hellenes Around the World, as promoed in DXLD 7-014 for Sat Feb 3,
was indeed repeated at 0300 UT Sunday, loud and clear on webcast, but inaudible
on 9420, 7475, nor 5865, which is reportedly testing, if they were really on
the air. For the original broadcast Sat Feb 3 at 1400, 17525 was audible,
fading in and out, but improving as the hour went on; not audible on 9420 which
is usually better here, and may have been testing that transmitter on 15630, as
I found out later, too late to check that myself (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** GUIANA FRENCH. No sign of the new DRM tests on 17870-17875-17880, when
checked Feb 3 at 1437 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** ICELAND. RUV SW has survived into another month. Feb 3 at 1455 could hear
some talk in presumed Icelandic, on 13865 reduced carrier SSB, and dared to
hope I would get to hear their new sounder at hourtop, but it vanished a minute
later. 1455 is a lot later than this transmission usually runs (Glenn Hauser,
OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** ISRAEL. Kol Israel, 13630, must be the station in Hebrew, as scheduled, fair
at 1450 Jan 3 on 330 degree beam toward us. BTW, Kol is just a word meaning
voice, and not an abbreviation to be put in caps (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** U K [non]. Some schedules insist that BBC WS in Spanish at 03-04 is via WHRI
on 6110 and 7315. Notably BBC`s own page not updated since Dec 15,
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/spanish/tuning_in/newsid_4294000/4294086.stm
But it`s only on 6110, as confirmed here before and after 0330 UT Feb 4; 6110
from Angel 2 had a good signal in BBC Spanish, while 7315 Angel 1 was JBA with
LeSEA`s own English programming, Top 20 Countdown. And the WHR online schedule
now agrees with this. So was BBC ever really on 7315?
No WHRI frequencies are shown either for the BBCWS morning broadcast in Spanish
at 1000-1230 which initially was on 7315, and then 5835 during the first hour
only. The 6110 BBC transmission is at 173 degrees, appropriate for Cuba and
beyond despite the map at http://www.whr.org/index.cfm/fa/chooseSchedule
showing Angel 2 is not for anything S of the USA (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. Website of KAIJ Dallas, http://kaij.us has added a bit more
information revealing that its HQ is in Murfreesboro TN, near Nashville, its GM
George McClintock, PD his son John, and it seems all the other staff are former
WWCR people too, who have not had to move to Dallas, or Frisco/McKinney, the
transmitter location. Program schedule shows that WORLD OF RADIO has been
added: Fri 1130 on 5755, Fri 2000 on 9480 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. Sat Feb 3 at 1435 I found two women conversing in Portuguese,
definitely Brazilian accent, on 17810, but it cut off a minute later. Must have
been a mistake or a test as nothing such normally audible here. Checking HFCC
B-06, I see that RDPI was scheduled 14-16 on 17810, but M-F only, and in fact
this frequency does not appear on RDPI`s own schedule for any day of the week,
so it must have been a backup or alternate. But Brazilian on RDPI is a rarity,
so what else could it be? Theories: Guiana French testing, which has used this
frequency in past for Brother Scare on Saturdays; or CVC Chile, which is
normally on 15410, but I did not have time to check that for absence or
parallel. I can`t think of any other international broadcaster which would have
been in Brazilian at this odd hour (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
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