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[HCDX] Glenn Hauser logs February 22 (more)

** ANTARCTICA. LRA36, Base Esperanza, 15476, was on the air and heard again Feb
22 at tune-in 2057 during song mentioning Argentina; perhaps their closing
anthem. Ended at 2100 without further announcements, and carrier off a couple
minutes later. Was S4 to peaks at S9+5 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** CUBA [non]. R. República may be changing its never-published schedule again.
Someone reported hearing it at 0200 on 6100, while that frequency had been in
use only at 0300-0400. (Looking for that report again, however, I haven`t found
it. I suspected the time was off by one hour.)

Feb 22 at 2357 I tuned to 6135, the 22-24 UT channel, to hear the frequency
change announcement, and they said they were moving at that time to 6100
(instead of the usual 6185).

So I went to 6100 and heard instead some other station in Spanish which cut off
abruptly at 2359 in the middle of a sentence with no ID. That was surely RCI
Sackville, which forfeits the last 5 minutes of its 2305 UT Spanish to North
America broadcast, which really runs until 0005 due to the wacky offset of its
immigrant service to the USA --- the tail end perhaps picked up on the next
frequency, 9755, which I did not check.

Then before 2400 I retuned to 6185, and RR was already on that frequency still
instead of 6100, but maybe they are moving to 6100 earlier than 0300, or
earlier than 0200? I doubt it, since RCI Spanish to Central America is
scheduled on 6100 at 01-02. Presumably the 2357 UT QSY announcement was wrong,
unless I heard it wrong, but I don`t think so. 

The less on 6185, the better, for poor R. Educación, México DF. 6100 does
appear to be available in the Western Hemisphere at 00-01 and 02-03 per HFCC
listings. Both 6135 and 6185 had the usual dentroCuban jamming altho RR was
atop. No jamming at this time on 6100.

These particular R. República transmissions are the ones via VT Communications
(Merlin), no connexion with WRMI, which were originally all from Rampisham UK
altho lately the 6100 broadcast after 0300 appeared to switch to Sackville.
Would appreciate people checking which frequency they are really using at 0100+
and 0200+ (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** NEW ZEALAND. RNZI still missing from DRM frequencies, Feb 22: around 1400
nothing on 7145 (but then, when operational, they were taking an unscheduled
break then, anyway); and still nothing at 2112 Feb 22 on 15720, while AM on
17675 was easily audible tho as always too close for comfort to CVC Chile
17680. What does RNZI`s website now say? Checked at 2342 UT Feb 22, the
headline at http://www.rnzi.com/pages/whatsnew.php#193
still says ``DRM transmission resumes on 21 February 2007`` but if you go ahead
and read the text below it, that has been changed to say: ``We expect to resume
DRM transmission sometime next week (the week of 26 February 2007).``

And there is another new notice just above the DRM item:

``RNZI off-air this afternoon for maintenance
21 Feb, 2007 19:29 UTC --- Thursday 22 Feb - RNZI will be off air from 11.30 am
NZ time until 4 pm, with possible further interruptions to service later in the
afternoon as well.`` That converts to 2230 UT Wed Feb 21 until 0300 UT Thu Feb
22, already past (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. VOA, Greenville, 15185, left the powerful transmitter carrying Hausa
until 2100 on the air, still open carrier at 2104 Feb 22; well, not quite open,
because I could clearly hear at very low level VOA English news, // and
synchronized to 15580, another Greenville transmitter, probably just a few
metres away. This could have been receiver-produced cross-modulation, but the
audio did not diminish or disappear when I detuned the preselector and employed
maximum attenuation. Therefore I think it was really transmitted that way.
15185 was S9+25 when not attenuated, while 15580 was only S9+18 (Glenn Hauser,
OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. KVOH was putting large S9+20 signal in on 17775, Feb 22 at 2105, but
this time I could not detect any spurs on 17629, 17921, etc. (Glenn Hauser, OK,
DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** WESTERN SAHARA [non]. Since José Miguel Romero found Polisario back on the
air Feb 22, earlier in the evening on 6380, I checked just before expected
sign-off at 2356, but only a very weak carrier, along with some CW marker
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 


 
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