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[HCDX] Glenn Hauser logs February 25-26
** ANGUILLA [and non]. Caribbean Beacon, a.k.a. Defunct Gene Scott, missing
from 11775 at 1555 Feb 26, leaving 11780 clear for weak signal from Brasília in
sports. After 1600 I still don`t hear Indonesia on 11785 either (Glenn Hauser,
OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** ANTARCTICA [and non]. LRA36 really ought to try some other times, besides
maintaining the original 10 ex-15 hours per week. Sunday Feb 25 at 1436, heard
music on 15475, briefly imagining LRA36 could be following my suggestion, but
soon into Portuguese talk // 15560, so it is only RDPI, which per EiBi is sked:
15475 1200-1500 SaSu POR RdP Radio Portugal P Eu
That and ANO daily at 16-19 are the only other occupants of 15475, per EiBi,
and there is not much on 15470 or 15480 either. What an opportunity for LRA36!
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** BRAZIL. DST has just ended, Feb 25, so the south/east states resume UT -3
instead of UT -2. Radio Cultura São Paulo FM program listings have been shifted
one UT hour later in MONITORING REMINDERS CALENDAR. Altho their webcast is
intermittent. This will also affect timings of SW broadcasts, e.g. RNA 11780
coming on an hour later in the mornings (Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
Good! Now maybe Vatican et al. will have to take notice of CHU`s existence. I
would have missed the changed announcement as my ears glaze over, and after the
same previous announcements every single minute for months and months, I have
avoided listening to CHU (Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CANADA. CHU has replaced their warning notice with the good news that ``CHU
has been licensed to continue broadcasting on 7.335 MHz`` from :16 to :23 in
even-numbered minutes, and the equivalent in French in odd minutes. The pips
are still missing during the announcements. What if we need them then? This was
monitored on 14670, Feb 26 at 1737-1739, as well as on 7335 at 0731-0733 (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CUBA. CMBF R. Musical Nacional got some more SW airtime again UT Mon Feb 26
as RHC transmitters stayed on past 0700. Missed ID, but obviously this; tuned
in 9550 at 0701 for incorrect timecheck as ``exactamente las 2 de la
madrugada``, then ``La Opera`` (not ``Teatro de la Opera`` as on schedule from
0630) featuring Richard Tucker recordings. Great stuff. Still going at 0716
when I realized I`d better check for parallels. Yes, same thing on the 6300
spur, and on 6060 but they all went off at 0718, along with 6180 fulcrum which
had been playing some other music, source unknown. With DST over in Brasil, RNA
is not coming on 6180 so early and there was no clash at this time with Cuba
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** ECUADOR [non]. Looking around the WRMI website I found a good shot of Alen
Grájam; and further down the page, Jeff White, Thaïs White, and Erick Bolívar,
who composed the WRMI jingle: http://wrmi.net/about.php (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** GERMANY. There is no final DW DX Meeting as already had been planned for
this week. Could not Uwe have done it by himself this one last time? He was not
even mentioned. In the Mailbag ondemand for this week via
http://www.dw-world.de/dw/0,2142,4703,00.html Margot and her sidekick spend
less than 3 minutes starting at 49:18 into the program talking about the late
Wolfram Hess, and a bit later play ``Time To Say Goodbye`` yet again (Glenn
Hauser, Feb 25, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** GUINEA [non]. No sign of Conakry on 7125, Feb 26 at 0735, but instead RNW in
Dutch. This could be a problem if Guinea really comes back to stay; fortunately
RN is on 7125 only during this one hour:
0700-0757 Flevo 7125 123 500 Dutch C + SE Europe
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** ICELAND. RUV, 13865-USB + reduced carrier, but no LSB, Feb 25 at 1433 with
better signal than usual in presumed Icelandic news; no QRM from any other
broadcaster (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MEXICO. XEXQ is not always audible around 0630 on 6045, but it certainly was
Feb 25 with classical music, deep fades both up and down slowly, good at peaks
in Wagner; still holding its own when CVC Chile came up on 6050 at 0700.
If I`m not mistaken, neither Manuel Méndez in NW Spain, nor Carlos Gonçalves
down in Portugal have yet reported XEXQ in the 0630-0700 time period when I am
hearing it on 6045. Manuel was getting XERTA 4810 then. It should be possible
to Europe, tho quite weak. Sunrises will soon be too early (Glenn Hauser, DXLD)
** MEXICO. XEYU still missing from 9599.2v, Feb 26 at 1523 check; let`s hope,
not for long. Julián Santiago says it has been off since Feb 24 (Glenn Hauser,
OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** NEW ZEALAND [and non]. RNZI gone from 9765, checked Feb 26 at 0654, and
instead on 9870 with Kermit and Gonzo in comedy skit with Flight of the
Bumblebee, then into classic Flanders & Swann on Mozart. This cleared 9765 for
Turkey, heard at 0659 with IS in the clear prior to Albanian service, but is
that why RNZI moved? Has RNZI overhauled their schedule yet again? Yes, as of
today! See http://www.rnzi.com/pages/listen.php
26 Feb 2007 - 26 Mar 2007 UTC kHz band Target Azimuth Days
0559-1058 9870 31 Pacific 0° Daily
1300-1750 5950 49 Pacific 0° Daily
1751-1850 9765 31 NE Pacific, Fiji, Samoa, Cook Islands 35° Daily
1850-1950 11725 25 Pacific 0° Daily
1950-2258 17675 16 Pacific 0° Daily
2259-0558 15720 19 Pacific 0° Daily
2259-1259 13840 21 NW Pacific, Bougainville, PNG, Timor 325° Daily
Noteworthy is that this page makes NO mention of DRM, and there is nothing
about a parallel DRM frequency schedule which is supposed to resume this week.
What was this comedy show? According to the program grid at
http://www.rnzi.com/pages/listen.php this is supposed to be Checkpoint, since
it was UT Monday, while National Radio is carried on Sat & Sun, but obviously
not so. Would it be too much trouble to show the actual PROGRAMS involved
during the long hours RNZI is relaying National Radio, and the real times this
happens? Or rather as it is now identified on air, such as at 0658 ``Radio New
Zealand, National``? Is there a quick link, at least to RNZN`s own program
grid? No, but in fine print at the bottom of one RNZI page we found a link to
its homepage http://www.radionz.co.nz/ which then leads to
http://www.radionz.co.nz/national/home
So what`s on at 1930 local NZDST Mondays? ``7:06 Nights with Bryan Crump ---
Entertainment and information, including: 7:30 Canned Laughter`` (Glenn Hauser,
OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** NIGER. La Voix du Sahel the best I`ve heard it, without really trying, on
9705.0, Feb 26 at 0643 almost as soon as I tuned in, with YL ID in French,
``Vous écoutez La Voix du Sahel. . .94 MHz``. WRTH says 93.6 in Niamey so I
guess they round it off. This was amid chanting and shouting. SINPO 33333 at
first with a bothersome het from 9704, Ethiopia? But after 0650 splatter from
WYFR 9715 worsened. At 0652 another such ID this time by OM and music continued
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U K [non]. China`s demands for frequency hours are so excessive that they
have to run Kashi colliding with BBC`s erstwhile Singapore channel 9740 at
14-16, per HFCC B-06, separate targets, to be sure, but still marring BBC
reception here at 1522 Feb 26 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U K [and non]. ARRL website
http://www.arrl.org/FandES/field/regulations/allocate.html
claims that only one ``60 m`` frequency is common with the UK, 5405:
General, Advanced and Amateur Extra classes:
Channel Center Amateur Tuning Frequency
5332 kHz 5330.5 kHz
5348 kHz 5346.5 kHz
5368 kHz 5366.5 kHz
5373 kHz 5371.5 kHz
5405 kHz (common US/UK) 5403.5 kHz
Nevertheless I happened upon a QSO on 5373 USB, Feb 26 at 0724 between Paul,
G0HNW and W8SRT in Ohio (Morningstar, Ted A, W8SRT (General), Russels Point, OH
43348). Ted was in a hurry to wrap it up so Paul could try to make some more
contacts further west, even the west coast (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** U S A [and non]. Talk to America on VOA Feb 26 is another one to make a
point of listening to, once it is availablized at
http://www.voanews.com/english/NewsAnalysis/TTA-New-Past-Shows.cfm
I only caught the last quarter-hour with Alan Heil, VOA historian; they said
earlier in the hour was current VOA Director Danforth Austin; on the occasion
of VOA`s 65th anniversary Feb 24. Good reception atop CCI from China on Tinang
9760. Now TTA ends at 1458, in time for a lengthy list of frequencies to be
used for the following hour`s Border Crossings (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** U S A [and non]. As noted a few days ago, BSKSA is colliding with VOA on
15205; in fact, Feb 26 at 1552 check, BSKSA in Arabic was way over VOA during
enhanced ME conditions. As Noel Green points out, BSKSA apparently have the bad
habit of turning their transmitters on with modulation several minutes ahead of
the scheduled hour, but how many, in this case? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** U S A. WRMI 7385 ANTENNA DAMAGED
Glenn: It looks like the debut of WRN on 7385 will be delayed. [from replacing
R. República weekday evenings]
Late Friday night or early Saturday morning, we seem to have had some really
high winds at the transmitter site, and somehow the elevator assembly broke on
the North American antenna, sending the boom crashing down several feet. It was
stopped from falling all the way by the guy wires on the antenna, fortunately.
But the boom has some broken parts and was bent out of whack, sitting
diagonally instead of horizontally.
Raúl tried to do a quick fix and get it back up and running, but the
transmitter doesn't like the match and keeps turning itself off when we switch
to that antenna. So tomorrow he's going to bring it back down again, get some
parts locally and see if he can get it working again. However, our consulting
engineer is out of the country until Wednesday, and the antenna manufacturer
seems to be out of the country as well. So Raúl is estimating that we will
probably be off the air on 7385 kHz for two or three days -- hopefully no
longer than that.
If by some miracle they happen to get it working again before then, I'll let
you know. It's a bad deal, but could have been a lot worse, I guess. I'll keep
you updated (Jeff White, WRMI, Feb 25, DX LISTENING DIGEST) I wonder whether
7385 programming will still be webcast (gh)
Glenn: Yes, we'll keep the webcast going all the time (Jeff White, ibid.) See
also ECUADOR [non]
** U S A. Catholix vs Protestants vs bauds! On Feb 25 I checked 7455 at 0624,
well before WYFR came up at 0700, and found that WEWN, despite its 500 (350?)
kW, was losing out to co-channel RTTY (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. The 7455 collision of Christians vs Christians: Feb 26 at 0728 check,
huge signal from WYFR in English, and only during pauses and by straining could
I detect something underneath, presumably WEWN, which still has 7455 on their
schedule at http://www.ewtn.org/radio/freq.htm
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. Both WWCR and KAIJ carry Pastor Pete Peters, at 0652 Feb 25, on 5765
and 5755 respectively, but KAIJ was about 5 seconds behind WWCR as he was
giving the WWCR address. Too much of a thing? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** VENEZUELA [non]. As expected, the Cuban transmitters formerly carrying Aló
Presidente, or rather, standing by most of the time for HCF to show up, were
missing Feb 25 at 1427 check now that the Sunday morning broadcasts have been
abolished by Venezuela. Please check known Cuban frequencies in the 0000
sesquihour UT Tue-Sat in case RHC has decided to broadcast A,P on its new live
schedule (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** WESTERN SAHARA [non]. No sign of Polisario on 6280, where reported by one
listener a couple days ago, when checked at 0720 UT Feb 26, nor anywhere else
in the 6200-6500 range (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 11875 with open carrier and intermittent 1 kHz tone tests, at
various times from 1556 past 1700 Feb 26; carrier also went off at times. At
1600, SAH and mixing with a chanting station. The latter would be FEBC via
Rwanda per HFCC; the tester with a fairly strong signal could be Cuba, which
used to run this frequency for the Venezuelan service on Sundays only; or maybe
IBB which does this kind of thing without explanation (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
DIGITAL BROADCASTING --- Feb 26 at 0733 I noticed two DRM signals centered 20
kHz apart on 7295-7300-7305 and 7315-7320-7325, of roughly equal strength.
These appear in the current schedule as daily:
0700-0757 7300 230 SW Europe 40 RNW HOL English Flevo Netherlands
0700-1500 7320 80 Europe 35 BBCWS G English Rampisham Great Britain
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ###
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