[HCDX] Glenn Hauser logs August 7-8, 2008

[Glenn Hauser <wghauser@xxxxxxxxx>]

** AUSTRALIA [and non]. R. Australia was the only major SW broadcaster audible here with live coverage in English of the Olympic opening ceremonies Aug 8, best on 6020 and 9580, but the latter cut off abruptly at 1358, as nothing will get in the way of scheduled frequency changes. It was rather banal, however, with basic geographical facts about each country, and rather lacking in visual elements. They did at least pre-empt regular programming, so we wonder if RA will have more live stuff from Beijing. BBC had a bit of the ceremonies after 1305 during Olympic Sportsworld, via 11750. VOA, CRI and RNZI were all in normal programming, which for CRI means a lot about the Olympix, but not live coverage. 

Do we get to see it live in the USA? Of course not! NBC-TV holds it until 2330 UT prime-time. Since it`s a produced playback, maybe their commercial interruptions will not blot out certain nations marching in as the recording could simply be paused (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** CHAD. Good to hear RNT, 4905, as late as 0529 with latening sunrises, call and response music Aug 8, 0530 into French announcements about chef d`état, président de la république, who I suspect was the next speaker. No coup there today, I assume (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** CHINA. It`s 08-08-08 --- do the Chinese really believe that numerological nonsense about lucky numbers?? And still plenty unlucky for victims of Chicom jamming, Olympix or not, with Firedrake found at 1305 on 9300; at 1333 also on 7310, 7445, 9605, 9680, 9780, 9845, and at 1338 on 17565 --- and this was not an exhaustive search by any means (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** CUBA. RHC, 6000, Aug 8 at 0522 in English had extremely low modulation with hum. Had to turn the volume all the way up to hear it. At least WYFR is no longer colliding on 6000 this season (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** INDONESIA. Aug 7 at 1300, 11784.9 VOI was beneath 1) VOA, and 2) Firedrake, but at 1331 check VOI was somewhat intelligible. About the same on Aug 8 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** MAURITANIA. No sign of 4845, Aug 8 at 0530, as I was getting Chad well on 4905. Still off after coup, I guess, altho some skeds show 4845 not supposed to be on the air until 0630, a bit late for me (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** MEXICO. XEXQ, 6045, presumed, with vocal classical music, Aug 8 at 1327, deep fades ranging from S5 to S9+5 on the generous FRG-7 meter. Wish I had tried a sesquihour earlier. Julián Santiago Díez de Bonilla heard from the station this week that they have improved their antenna location (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** ROMANIA. Altho RRI was well heard Aug 6 at 1230 with the new transmitter on 15220, it`s still subject to poor propagation, which was the case Aug 7 at 1255 check, just barely audible.

I also monitored the Spanish broadcast I missed the night before:
Aug 7 at 2342 check: 9655 was slightly stronger than // 9745, nothing on the others --- originally 9655 was Galbeni at 280 degrees, 9745 Tiganeshti at 247 degrees, so if the azimuths hold true, that would explain the difference now (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ###


      

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