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[HCDX] Glenn Hauser logs April 21-23, 2008
** CUBA. Another day RHC missing from super-strong 15370 in the morning, at least when checked at 1315 April 23 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CZECHIA. It`s a little early for most NAm listeners, but R. Prague`s 2130 English broadcast on 11600 comes in quite well. This transmission is 100 kW, 310 degrees from Litomysl site in Czechia, to CIRAF zones 7 thru 10.
April 21 at 2136 was an item about the future of the Christian Democratic Party --- apparently the one in Moravia. Which makes me wonder, what`s this awful mixture of politix and religion in western Europe? I think there are CD parties in several countries, notably Germany. Is it just a meaningless name now, or do you really have to be a Christian to belong? What if the party`s platform matches your views, yet you are one of the burgeoning number of Moslems (let alone Jews) in Europe?
Even in America, the momentum of Separation of Church and State, so far has insured there is no ``Christian Republican Party``, at least not by that name. 2143:30 into sports news, and away I went (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** ECUADOR. DRM on 15345-15350-15355, April 23 at 1331, no doubt HCJB German, but that`s supposed to run at 1100-1300 only. As already reported in DXLD 8-049:
On April 28, HCJB plans to replace its 1100-1300 DRM broadcast in German on 15345-15350-15355 with a new one daily at 2000-2200 on 15355-15360-15365, same 4 kW at 35 degrees. Now that should reach a lot more Germans, or Low-Germans? (Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** ETHIOPIA [non]. Presumed Amharic still heard on WHRA, 17690, Monday April 21 at 1907 check. Per WHR online sked for Angel 3, this is the same as in B-07:
1900-2000 3:00-4:00 PM Mo Demitse-Tewahedo Demitse Tewahedo 17690
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** GERMANY [non]. DW, 11865, tune-in at 2159 April 21 to hear a strange Dylanesque song in English about the Metropolitan Museum. Faded down just before 2200 and heard two words, ``in Deutschland``, transmission break for a few seconds, and rejoin news by YL in German. This is when DW switches from Kigali in English to Sines in German; signals were about the same (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MEXICO. XEXQ, 6045, not checked until 1310 April 23 and surprised to hear it better than usual in classical music, no strain level (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U K [non]. April 22 I managed to tune in BBCWS Spanish via Furman, 9410, as early as 1215 as apparently the quarter-hour of news was ending and they introduced a program from their archivos. Yeah, that`s the ticket, get rid of your programme productionne staff, and fill up the time with archival material (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. Wed April 23 at 1330 found a huge open carrier on 11785. Surely it`s WHRI, which puts a similar signal out Sat & Sun at 13-14 when it`s modulated with Hmong Lao Radio.
This led me to inspect the WHRI schedules more closely, since they have day-of-week variations in frequency usage which do not show up on the online schedules, e.g. HFCC and FCC, where they simply register everything as 7 days a week, giving them flexibility of doing that if they like, or using a different frequency one or two days a week if it suits their purposes better.
Even the frequency page at http://www.whr.org/Frequencies.cfm does not go into day-of-week variations. For that you have to go to the individual program schedules for each WHR transmitter, which are organized in a very user-unfriendly manner.
>From this I deduced the usage of 11785 is:
13-16 Sat & Sun A1
20-22 Mon-Fri A2
22-24 Mon-Sat A2
In fact, no programming at all is shown for A1 on 11785 or any other frequency, M-F at 13-16, which would seem to be a major loss of potentially lucrative airtime. This is all assuming that the posted program schedules are accurate, which has not always been the case.
Maybe the open carrier during dead time means they have some modulation in store for us, to override IBB Udorn at 30 degrees, which does use 11785 daily until 1400 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ###
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