[HCDX] Glenn Hauser logs September 14-15, 2008

[Glenn Hauser <wghauser@xxxxxxxxx>]

** AUSTRALIA. While PNG was in on 90m, PNG and Indonesia on 75m, and Indonesia on 60m, I dared to check 2485 and could hear a bit of weak talk at 1253 Sept 15, presumably VL8K. Could only detect some very weak carriers on 2310 and 2325 kHz (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** CUBA [and non]. The DentroCuban Jamming Command also blox QSO with Ted Randall, via WRMI, checked Sunday Sept 14 at 1830, and nothing but jamming heard on 9955. Show confirmed on webcast, a repeat of the Ronnie Milsap interview, scheduled Sundays 1800-2000.

On RHC`s Despertar Con Cuba, Sept 15 around 1350 on 12000, Arnie Coro filed a report about how a portable satellite receiving truck had been used to get networks (radio and TV?) back on the air in eastern Cuba after normal linx (terrestrial microwave?) had been disrupted by Ike. Also, a transmission tower on Isla de la Juventud designed to withstand 250 km/hour winds was blown down, as those must have reached 300 km/hour at ground level, even higher aloft.

I was still monitoring RHC on 12000 at 1401 Sept 15 when live YL announcer, whose name I think is Bárbara, read the frequency info, for the first time deleting 9550 and 11805 which were dropped weeks ago, but she still didn`t get it completely right: started with 15120 and 1,360 [mil trescientos sesenta, missing the 5], not realizing that 1360 could not possibly be a SW frequency instead of 15360. 9600 was still on the list altho off at 1300. In Voces de la Revolución, old tirades by Castro et al., at 1407, the 12000 modulation was growing more and more distorted tho // 11760 remained OK. Wiggle that patchcord! (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** INDONESIA. Sept 15 was a good Indonesian morning, as I started checking at 1239. K-index at 1200 and 1500 was 4. SF = 67 Sept 14.

3995, RRI Kendari, 1244 Sept 15, Indo talk by YL, sounded much like 4750, but not //; QRM zero-beat from SSB hams who take this as a BFO rather than a DX catch on its own merits, merely a broadcaster. 1245 into music. Too much QRM on 3976 to detect any RRI.

4605, RRI Serui presumed, barely audible with a song at 1239. Traces still at 1304.

4750, RRI Makassar, YL in Indo talk, much stronger than 4605 at 1240 Sept 15; at first thought it was over some co-channel, but then decided it was background noise from the venue transmitted; it would surge during brief pauses tnx to excessive limiter setting. Mentioned berita a couple times. 1304 recheck in music; 1325 M&W dialog, 1344 still audible, stronger than 4790.

4790, RRI Fak2, Sept 15 at 1240 with OM, what else, reciting Qur`an, unlike all the other Indos heard this and other mornings. What`s with this one anyway, fancying itself more Islamic than the others? Still Qur`aning at 1304 recheck. Nothing audible on 4870, 4920 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** JAPAN. JOZ, R. Nikkei, 3925 at 1250 Sept 15 with Switched-on Bach, which they always seem to play around this time on 6055 and 9595 as well. 3925 signal is the main one from Asia on 75m even when others are not making it, but this date also had 3905 from PNG and 3995 from Indonesia, qq. vv. (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** PAPUA NEW GUINEA. After finding Indonesians on 60m, since the local noise level was lower than usual, the morning of Sept 15 at 1247 I went down to 75, 90 and 120m, see also AUSTRALIA and JAPAN, and found lots of signals on frequencies matching PNG outlets, but I could not keep up with all of them: 3205, 3235, 3325, 3335, 3345, 3365, 3385, 3905. Some details:

3205: 1247 music; 1303 choral music
3235: 1247 different music than 3205; 1302 string music
3325: 1248 music with hi-pitched singing
3335: 1248 music; 1301 open carrier, then talk resuming
3345: 1248 carrier
3365: 1249 carrier

3385: 1249 music, best signal of the lot, R. East New Britain, Rabaul; 1258 YL announcement in Pidgin; 1300 sounds of seabirds, 1301 news by OM, S9+10 with flutter; 1318 the only one left, YL talk.

3905: 1250 music, SSB ham QRM.

K-index was 4, and solar flux for the day before was the usual 67. But on Sept 15, higher bands were useless, nothing beyond the strongest signals from the Americas on 11, 13, 15 MHz (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 

** SWEDEN [non]. R. Sweden`s Monday Sept 15 show in the last half was about Belarus and how little Swedes know about that nearby country, even still calling it White Russia contrary to UN requirements. Most inhabitants speak Russian rather than Belarusian, but broadcasts from abroad can help keep the native language alive; also about the need for Sweden to provide freedom of information to Europe`s last dictatorship. Heard here on 15240 via Sackville at 1445; worth listening to on later repeats or ondemand for a month (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

UNIDENTIFIED. 5980 with a weak het, Sept 15 around 1430, apparently from two carriers, at least one of them off-frequency. What could this be? Before I pinned it down, figured it could be Burma/Myanmar on 5985/5986. PWBR 2007 showed Kota Kinabalu, Sabah on 5979v, but in DXLD 8-068 Alan Davies thought that had died in 2004y, or 2005 at the latest. The major signal to be expected on 5980 is BBCWS, via Thailand at 25 degrees toward us, but almost gone by this hour, so what was the other one? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ###


      

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