[HCDX] Glenn Hauser logs April 24

[Glenn Hauser <wghauser@xxxxxxxxx>]

** CUBA. RHC 6060 in English again suffering from big hum, April 24 at 0541 introducing music segment. Wiggle that patchcord! 6180 had the usual collision with VOA English, leaving only 6000 usable for RHC on this band; also audible but only fair on 9550, inaudible on 11760 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** INDIA. Just as I tuned in 6165, April 24 at 1230, heard AIR IS and ID, weak over some co-channel. Looked up later, this is Delhi, 250 kW, opening Sindhi service to Pakistan at 334 degrees. Grayline map shows this more than an hour before sunset in Delhi, and half a sesquihour after sunrise here (1146). 334 would be favorable azimuth for us if it weren`t across the dayside, so I assume back radiation across the nightside was the route (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

Solar-terrestrial indices for 23 April follow. Solar flux 71 and mid-latitude A-index 27. The mid-latitude K-index at 1200 UTC on 24 April was 3 (32 nT). Space weather for the past 24 hours has been minor.
Geomagnetic storms reaching the G1 level occurred. Space weather for the next 24 hours is expected to be minor. Geomagnetic storms reaching the G1 level are expected (SWPC via DXLD)

** INDONESIA. Pleased to still hear the Big 3 RRI on 60 meters, this late in the season, if I monitor early enough, April 24 at 1223, 4605, 4790 and 4870 were // as far as I could tell using only one receiver, in talk, woman in studio, man on phone, and 1226 into music. 4605 and 4790 were about the same strength, 4870 a bit weaker. Recheck at 1238, 4605 was in music, 4790 in talk, and 4870 gone. Today`s sunrise in Enid was 1146 UT (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** MEXICO. April 24 I checked 6045 as early as 1209 and found XEXQ already on with classical music, so maybe they do open around 1200. Signal is so marginal that it may or may not be making it here whether or not it is really on. Today`s sunrise in Enid was 1146 UT (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** MEXICO [and non]. Big het on 4800, April 24 at 1224, roughly 200 Hz, a bit below my memory of middle C = 256 Hz. Presumably R. Buenas Nuevas, Guatemala, and XERTA both on, as others have reported XERTA reactivated and much stronger than before, some 3 hours earlier. Same het still audible at 1239 recheck (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** SPAIN [and non]. REE via Costa Rica, April 24 at 0540 had some nice folk music involving bagpipes and whistles, on 9630 via CR and better 6055 direct. REE website inaccessible to look up what show that is, Thursday at 07:40 local time HOE.

Checking out the token Co-Official Languages segment, April 24 at 1240 on CR 5930 and 5970, found both with co-channel QRM, so up to better 15170. Music still playing until Galician -- gallego -- finally started at 1245. Big story was Spaniards kidnapped by pirates off Somalia, Djibouti. 

1250 switched to Basque, signaled by the word `Euskadi`, the rest incomprehensible for a sesquiminute until they went back to Castilian! for a story about Basque affairs, terrorism. Basque gets only 5 minutes a day on the schedule, and then they turn it back to Castilian! 

But it was even worse for Catalan, which is supposed to wrap up the block. Instead at 1255, promos in Castilian for REE, 1256 into some Police-style music fill with lots of drumming, lyrix in Castilian, until 1300 news. No Catalan at all today (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U K [non]. BBC Mundo Radio, to give its proper name, via Furman 9410, Thu April 24 at 1212 wrapping up news segment with story about the Brazilian priest missing on party-balloon excursion. Reporter Hernando Álvarez pronounced the town involved, Paranaguá, instead as Paraguaná, which is the Venezuelan peninsula, far away next to Aruba. (I later reconfirmed this mistake on their podcast archive of the 1203 news.) To reconfirm spelling of the Brazilian town, I googled this story; also has a good shot of the multi-balloon vehicle: http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/posted/archive/2008/04/23/brazil-priest-flying-party-balloons-lost-at-sea.aspx

Back to BBC monitoring report: At 1215 introduced another archival program, this time Estudio Abierto, a call-in show, apparently edited down so it moved along rapidly, featuring advice from a sexóloga, Alesandra(?), from San Francisco, who sounded like she was originally from Puerto Rico, Latin male callers even giving their names asking about masturbation, refractory time, quite a frank pro-sex discussion not befitting the good Christians at World Harvest Radio.

Recheck at 1234, ``BBC Top Diez de la Semana`` [sic], yes another pop music countdown. Eventually maybe I will figure out which days we can depend on classical music fill (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. Checking for WORLD OF RADIO on WRMI, Thu April 24 at 0536, no signal at all on 9955, tho WYFR was audible on 9930 in Arabic, 9985 in Spanish (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

Glenn: Must have been propagation. We were on, and haven't had any downtime for quite some time. I get 9555 really well at my house 24 hours a day, about 15 miles south of the transmitter. Makes it easy to know if we're on the air! (Jeff White, WRMI, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

Solar-terrestrial indices for 23 April follow. Solar flux 71 and mid-latitude A-index 27. The mid-latitude K-index at 0600 UTC on 24 April was 4 (64 nT). Space weather for the past 24 hours has been minor. Geomagnetic storms reaching the G1 level occurred. No space weather storms are expected for the next 24 hours (SWPC via DXLD) ###


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