[HCDX] Glenn Hauser logs February 9-10

[Glenn Hauser <wghauser@xxxxxxxxx>]

** CHINA. Another of those strange midnight pipeline openings you would not
expect unless you tune around the `dead` bands: Feb 9 at 0639 I found CRI
English on 17710, fair but with deep fades. No other signals of consequence on
the 16m band, and on the 19m band the only SOCs were R. Australia on 15515,
15240, 15160. Looking it up later in HFCC, 17710 is listed as Beijing site, 500
kW at 193 degrees to SE Asia at 04-08 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** CUBA. Not only has RHC abandoned 15230 at 11-15, but also in the afternoon.
Feb 9 at 2153, found RHC on 15190 with feature on a Cuban composer, // 9550 but
the two a reverb/echo apart as so often happens with RHC frequencies. 15230 was
open, so the move was not really necessary until 2200 when R. Australia came on
15230 where the two had also been clashing for a very long time, so the RHC
move also solves that. Until 2200, 15190 did have some ACI from YFR Ascension.
Has this update been made on RHC`s own transmission schedule at
http://www.radiohc.cu/espanol/frecuencia/frecuencias-espanol.htm --? Of course
not! Still shows 15230 at 11-15, but neither 15230 nor 15190 at any other time.
Aoki had 15230 at 21-23, and EiBi at some other times, but not 21-23. BTW, 9550
was again missing Feb 9 at 1454 when the VOA Philippines Korean service on 9555
was not so extrusive as the day before. Feb 10 at 1450 RHC 9550 was back and
VOA 9555 was weaker (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** GABON. Afropop music distraxion was on 17640, Feb 9 at 1457, for a change
not QRMing anything else. And on Feb 10 at 1506 on 17655 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)

** GREECE. VOG`s mysterious test frequency, 15630, Feb 10 at 1456 concluding
Hellenes Around the World, was OK except for occasional brief audio dropouts,
no longer carrier dropouts too; // 9420 and 17525. At 1600, 15630 going from
music to ID and directly into spor yelling, no dropouts heard. Noel Green and
Wolfgang Büschel have noted these test frequencies, also 11645 and 5865,
starting out in SSB as each transmission opens, but then tweaked into AM, more
or less. I`d say this gives away that the transmitter was originally a utility
unit. They and John Babbis guess it may be Thessaloniki (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)

** GUIANA FRENCH. You never know with these DRM tests, but Feb 9 at 1457,
17870-17875-17880 was back on with its big buzz. Feb 10, Saturday it was gone
again at 1557 check (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) See also SOUTH
CAROLINA [non]

** JAPAN [non]. NHK Warido, R. Japan, 11970 via Gabon, Feb 10 at 0628 in German
with strange accent making me wonder at first if it was Low; some hum and
distortion on Moyabi, which isn`t what it used to be; 0629 going into French
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** SOUTH CAROLINA [non]. Brother Scare`s Sabbath Service, Sat Feb 10 at 1550
via Guiana French 17810 was running 4 seconds ahead of // WWRB 9385, and much
better audio from GUF (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. KAIJ, 9480, Feb 9 at 1451 in The Power Hower, but guess who could be
heard in the background? Yours truly with World of Radio 1346, and at 1453
starting over with WOR theme. Recheck 1533 could still hear myself underneath
so notified KAIJ studio. Apparently their production line was bleeding into
their program feed line, or the automation decided to play WOR when it wasn`t
supposed to. WOR did appear at 2001 on 9480 in the clear. Rather weak here, but
past the skip zone doing OK in Michigan, Ontario, and VG in San Francisco, says
George Poppin, closer to the 320 degree azimuth of this outlet, while not
making it to Germany, says Wolfgang Büschel, as was to be expected. Wayne
Bastow in NSW could not hear anything at 1130 on 5755, so was KAIJ off the air?
Thanks to KAIJ for adding WOR and improving our coverage especially to the W
and NW (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)


 
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