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[HCDX] Glenn Hauser logs April 26-27

** CHINA [non]. CRI English via Albania, 6020, April 26 at 0122 check with strong het varying slightly, no doubt from PERU on low side; plus subaudible het much closer to 6020 which is probably REE Costa Rica at 110 degrees, which is also scheduled daily 0000-0400. These discourage listening to CRI, tsk2 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** COSTA RICA. REE is still off-frequency on 5964, as the transmitter was back on April 26 at 0517 check; was missing 24 hours earlier.

Also still off-frequency 11814, as reconfirmed Sunday April 27 at 1401 just as they were opening ``the longest sports show``, 7-hour Tablero Deportivo; signal only fair (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** CROATIA [non]. VOC via GERMANY is now scheduled on two frequencies at once, and confirmed here April 27 at 0111 during Catholic chanting, much stronger on 7285 but // on 9925, then Croatian announcement. Per World Almanac, Croatia is 77% Catholic (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** CUBA. After missing a few days, RHC 15370 back on April 26 at 1306 and 1456 chex. Not as strong as before, but maybe just propagation. Also on, April 27.

RHC 6300 mixing product, April 27 at 0123 quite weak but // 6060 in Spanish, not // 6180 in English, over which 6060 leaps to land on 6300. At this time 5965 also in Spanish, 6000 also in English.

RHC considers ``Aló Presidente`` from Venezuela an RHC program, rather than a relay service, if there is any point in such a distinxion, as Sunday April 27 at 1359, big signal on 13680 was opening ``A,P`` announcing usual frequencies 13680, 13750, 11670, 11875, 17750, in that strange order, and immediately into Cuban, not Venezuelan, national anthem. Nothing audible yet on 13750, as frequencies habitually come up late when they get around to it, but it was still missing several minutes later. At 1402 also heard on much weaker 11670 mixing SAH with WYFR, // 13680 and also weak 11875, now inexplicably giving a string of other regular RHC frequencies, the morning ones, I think, even tho this was not // regular RHC stream on 11760. Transmitter switching and program feed lines get all confused (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** INDIA. AIR Delhi, 6165, again audible trans-polar, not too grayline, April 26 at 1237 check with S Asian music, and co-channel QRM (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** JORDAN. R. Jordan, presumed the Arabic music on 9830 at 1825 April 26, mixing with the perpetual RTTY. If spurring on 10000 and 9660, inaudible here. Turkey was also in with IS on 9785 at 1825 preceding English to Europe (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** MEXICO. After listening to XEX 730 for a while, just as I tuned up to 780 on the Panasonic RF-569D, which is against a wall so it nulls east/west, heard an ID for ``Radio Nostalgia … en el centro de Coahuila``. This is XEMF, Monclova, 5000/500 watts, during a momentary fadeup as WBBM faded down, April 27 at 0518 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** OKLAHOMA. Routine daytime bandscan April 26 at 1940 UT found KOKB 1580 Blackwell absent, tho twin, or rather triplet station KOKP 1020 Perry was going as usual. KOKB still missing at 2200 and 0111 April 27 rechex. --- Altho KOKB 1580 Blackwell was absent Saturday afternoon and evening, it was back on Sunday morning April 27 at 1404 and 1505 UT chex (Glenn Hauser, Enid, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** SWEDEN [and non]. R. Sweden via Canada, 15240, Swedish talk at 1313 April 27. This is a station which must have made a conscious decision to do away with music on its SW broadcasts, as it`s always yak-yak-yak when I tune across, except for musical bits as production or theme music, or fill at the end of the semihour, just like in English. No programs about music, actually playing music for its own sake, least of all classical or folk. Another is the Dutch service of Radio Nederland. Big strong SW signals like this are perfectly capable of conveying music of acceptable quality, yet the audience is deprived of it because of the absurd notion that SW is not a suitable medium for music (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** SYRIA [and non]. Damascus, 9330, presumably the source of the big het to off-frequency WBCQ 9329+, April 26 at 1826. Scheduled in German to Europe at 340 degrees, so onward toward us. It seems WBCQ is always in the way, including later during Syria`s English broadcasts (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** THAILAND. If R. Thailand is still on 12120 to ENAm, totally buried by RTTY which is all I could hear around 0115 April 27 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. WYFR, 21670, 44 degrees to Europe, only signal audible on 13m, April 26 at 1821 in Spanish, but with het from another carrier about 0.5 kHz below. Not sure where it came from (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. WHRI, 11785, with Hmong Lao Radio, Sunday April 27 at 1304, bothered by continuous squeal of varying pitch, another transmitter in bad condition; still doing it at 1402 recheck in English (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A [non]. CVC La Voz, Miami via Chile, 17680 in Spanish, Sunday April 27 at 1318 was playing a coloratura soprano, then some talk about La Flauta Mágica de Mozart, 1325 promo for El Mundo del Arte, which is this program. As I recently noted, the show is missing from their program schedule at http://www.cvclavoz.com/prog2008.htm where it appears only at 0000 UT Sunday, while at 1300 Sunday it`s supposedly ``Todo Bebe``, which must mean either ``all about babies``, or ``everyone drinx`` -- or both? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ###


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