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[HCDX] Glenn Hauser logs March 15-16
** ALGERIA [non]. 7295, March 16 at 0617, eerie chanting, alternating talk in
Arabic and Qur`an, 0620 fading down a bit and fluttering, still past 0632.
Consulting PWBR one has no clues on this one --- certainly not AIR Aizawl,
India or TRAXX FM, Malaysia, the only two 7295 stations shown as on the air at
this hour.
Could not catch any ID, but this is Algeria`s Qur`an service 0400-0700 via
Issoudun, France, 500 kW at 162 degrees, per Aoki, which began in December of
January. Competes with Tunisia 7275/7190 for late night trance-induxion.
Stewart MacKenzie had also reported this as Unknown, March 11 at 0453 (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** AUSTRALIA. RA, 6020, interesting discussion on religion with author Val
Webb, March 16 at 1323-1355, including that Yahweh started out as Abraham`s
city god (each city or clan had one), and then got promoted to the only god;
how Christians limited their god by portraying him in art as an old man, rather
than a breath. Music breaks included Pilgrims` Chorus from Tannhäuser, and Do
You Hear the People Sing from Les Mis. This is the Sunday Nights program
originating with ABC Local Radio. The website does not yet have working links
to the latest show, but presumably will be upcoming:
http://www.abc.net.au/sundaynights/
Reception was OK tho buzzy station barely audible underneath, Vietnam? And from
1354, Russian tones preceding YFR via Samara, longpath (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** COSTA RICA. Several weeks after it first happened, REE via Cariari de Pococí
remains exactly 1 kHz off frequency, 5964, obviously the case as it produces a
big het against 5965 stations such as Cuba or Vatican. Now the infexion has
spread to another Cariari relay frequency, 9765. Tuning across 31m, March 16 at
1313, heard a two-pitched het with VOA 9760 and some weak signal on 9765. Yes,
REE on 9764! Checked their other CR frequency, 15170, but it was not on 15169,
yet. In noting the HONDURAS carrier on 3340, Sunday March 16 at 0446, I found
REE on 3350 or so; HFCC has this Tue-Sat only at 0200-0600, but other listings
show it daily, so the latter are correct; anyhow, I should have measured 3350
to see if it is offset too; next time (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CUBA. Dentro Cuban Jamming Command, running at full force on 6100, March 16
at 0440. No trace of Radio República, which supposedly closes on this frequency
at 0400, and I don`t think has ever been reported later than 0400, but hey,
burn up some more megawatts just in case. The collateral victim of this is TWR
Swaziland which opens at 0400 on 6100.
BTW, Aoki says this RR frequency is Sackville, and with WRMI brokering, at
0200-0400 Tue-Sat. But as Jeff White has maintained repeatedly, these RR
transmissions on 49m have nothing whatsoever to do with WRMI, just the ones on
9955; and surely the 6135/6155/6100 broadcasts are 7 days a week.
R. Rebelde, 5025, with béisbol play by play, 0442 UT Sunday March 16. Rather
late game, approaching local midnite, or is this normal in Cuba? Night games
are no doubt more comfortable in the tropix, but burn up more lighting power
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** HONDURAS. I have noted an open carrier several times late at night on 3340.
I can only assume this is HRMI. Stayed with it 0446-0450 UT March 16, but no
trace of any modulation here between CHU and REE. Wonder if they just turn on
the transmitter and assume it is axually modulating, wasting wattage.
Supposedly scheduled at least until 0600 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** LAOS [non]. So much for trying to second-guess what WHR will do with
scheduling Hmong Lao Radio. Sunday March 9, first day of DST, it was not on in
the 1400 UT hour as it had been all winter on 11785, since DXing With Cumbre
was noted at 1435. Did not check whether HLR was on before 1400. Yet the next
broadcast of HLR, Saturday March 15, WAS on in the 1400 UT hour on 11785, as
heard at 1450. The website http://www.h-lr.com/ with more than a megahit,
continues to claim it is Sat & Sun at 8 am Central time, i.e. 1300 UT!
However, on Sunday March 16, HLR was going at 1310 on 11785, and DXing With
Cumbre was going with Chris Lob,dell at 1440. So will they manage to get HLR on
at 1300 instead of 1400 coming Saturdays?
Hmaybe next weekend they will get it straightened out (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** RUSSIA. R. Rossii, Petropavlovsk, 6075, monitored 1357-1402 March 16. 5+1
timesignal at 1400 was 4 seconds late compared to WWV, and again no sign of
8GAL, CW on 6074 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. Air Force MARS net headed by AFA2AJ, Sunday March 16 at 1317 on
7457-USB. So it probably starts now at 1300 UT, and is daily. I had not
confirmed previously whether it`s LSB or USB. USB is certainly preferable due
to the constant RTTY around 7455; despite LSB being the default on 40m ham band
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. Tried for the postponed WNTP 990 Philadelphia DX test UT March 15,
using DX-398 in the yard. Fortunately it had stopped raining a few hours
earlier and things had dried off somewhat. First try around 0420 UT yielded
nothing, nor expected with day pattern toward SE.
Listened intently from 0450 to 0500 during the ND 12.5 kW portion. XET was not
much of a problem, close to a right angle, and no sign of CBW, which can boom
in when K-indices are low. SWPC says: The mid-latitude K-index at 0300 UTC on
15 March was 2 (18 nT). But aimed toward Philadelphia, there was still a pile
of QRM, multiple subaudible heterodynes from all the other stations, almost
like a graveyard. However, at 0451 I could hear an occasional tone, but never
copy any Morse code ID. At times the tones seemed evenly spaced like a
timesignal. Sweeps definitely heard peaking around 0454-0456. So I count this
only on the basis of assuming no other station would be transmitting such
material. Right at 0500 on came the Cuban National Anthem, from the SE,
presumably R. Guamá, Pinar del Rio, as mentioned by Arnie Coro in DXLD 8-031,
if that is the only Cuban on the frequency, but not noticed prior to that. No
IBOC from KTOK-1000 audible, which wipes out 990 here in the daytime.
No doubt those closer to Philly or with better equipment heard the WNTP test
more definitely than I did. Many tnx to René Tetro for putting it on [Later: I
see other reports about the evenly spaced tones as if timesignals] (Glenn
Hauser, Enid, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 7325, weak music audible at 1320 March 13 aside much stronger
Chinese signal on 7330. Presumably Wantok Radio Light, PNG, but it would be
nice to get something more definite (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ###
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