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[HCDX] Glenn Hauser logs March 4-7
** AUSTRIA. Classical music is so rare on SW, that I had to pause when I came
across some on 9870, fair March 6 at 2343 ? what could that be? O yes, Ö1 is
scheduled here to SAm during this semihour only, in its complex mixture of
English, German and Spanish. I must say, they have good taste, letting the
music play, rather than chopping and hyping it up, like over on 15410 at the
same time (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CUBA. As previously reported, RHC found on new unlisted 11680 during the
0000 UT hour March 1. Did not get around to checking it again until UT March 5
at 0010 --- yes, still there in Spanish and nothing on 11875 (Glenn Hauser, OK,
WORLD OF RADIO 1398, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CUBA. The DentroCuban Jamming Command, for good measure, or in its customary
sloppiness, was jamming nothing but poor Bolivia on 6135, March 7 at 0003, tho
it was liter than the heavy jamming on R. República 6155, shortly after its
switch from 6135.
Say, what`s the problem with Radio República, anyway? Isn`t República de Cuba
the current name of the country? More marxist than thou, yet never officially
renamed a People`s Democratic Republic, or some variant thereof. Patria o
suerte, ¡pensaremos! BTW, check out George Will`s latest column about Castro
and Cuba
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/03/05/AR2008030502889.html?nav=rss_opinion/columns
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** EGYPT. R. Cairo, English to NAm, 9465, March 6 at 2315 with 4+1 timesignal
7.5 seconds late compared to WWV (so why bother instead of a simple time
announcement?), `News from the North American Service of Radio Cairo``, news
theme, and news read by YL, starting with shootings in Jerusalem. By
concentrating with headphones I was able to follow most of it, but the audio
level faded up and down. Engaging the hi-pass audio filter on the FRG-7 helped
to minimize the bass. She wrapped it up at 2324, I think giving her name, but
could not understand it. Then into at least 15 minutes of uninterrupted music,
mostly Arabic songs by a woman. Recheck at 0000 UT Fri March 7, Arabic lesson,
but signal was down a bit and now bothered by much stronger Portugal on 9460
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** PORTUGAL. I recently pointed out that a Stewart MacKenzie log of Spain in
Spanish on 11620 must really have been Portugal in Portuguese, as scheduled.
However, March 6 just as I tuned across 11620 at 2249, it was in Spanish!
Listening a bit longer, this turned out to be an interview with some silly
ballgame figure from Spain. The interviewer spoke in Portuguese and the
interviewee answered in Castilian, neither taking the trouble to speak the
other`s language, and no translations were included, nor apparently were they
thought to be needed. So you may indeed hear Spanish from RDPI under these
circumstances. Also // on much weaker 11960 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** RUSSIA. Tho there was little doubt, on March 6 I made sure that the station
taking over 6020 after Australia closes is Family Radio, as scheduled via
Samara. At 1357, Russian marker tones periodically under RA, which played
Waltzing Matilda 1358-1359*. Then sure enough, starting a few seconds after
1400, Family Radio trumpet theme.
This is Telugu, a 140 degree beam across south India from the site at 50-15
East, 53-17 North, per Aoki. Checking Kuybyshev (its Soviet name) as on my old
NGS globe, I find that the great circle to Enid heads about 153 degrees from
Samara, not too far off; goes to 76 degrees south near McMurdo, and is all over
water from S Asia to the SW coast of Mexico. How about the greyline?
Set for 1400 UT March 6 at http://www.fourmilab.ch/cgi-bin/Earth we see that
there is a lot more light on the short path across northern Greenland this time
of year, tangent to 76 degrees north, than there is the much longer long path.
This plus the fact that I am not hearing anything else from any part of Europe
on 49m at the time, leads me to conclude that this reception is indeed
long-path (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** TURKEY. VOT still doesn`t have its act together on how to handle the Live
from Turkey anomalies twice a week. I listened to the Tuesday March 4 edition
on webcast at 1950-2020 UT [broadcast on 6050] (no callers, lots of music, gab
about Turkey/US/Kurdistan relations, etc.), and checked the 2300 UT webcast too
[broadcast on 5960]: The opening program summary admitted it was a replay of
the 1930 UT broadcast, and said Live from Turkey would ensue. But at 2323 ---
no Live from Turkey! Switched around this time to alternate programming,
presumably duplicating the 1330 UT transmission [broadcast on 12035, 11735]
with Economic Weekly show instead (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. Just how early does WWRB start its big band prélude on 5050? Per FCC
and HFCC B-07, 5050 is available to WWRB only from 0000 to 0500. There have
been reports of it from before 2330, but on March 6 I found it already going at
2259 tune-in, lots of familiar tunes including American Patrol (jazzed up) at
2308. Very good signal. Checked other WWRB frequencies and found 6890 // 9385
with hymn, presumably the Brother Scare service, breaking for Dave Frantz lofi
ID at hourtop, which I never heard, nor any other announcement, on 5050 (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ###
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