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[HCDX] Glenn Hauser logs September 19-20, 2008
** AFGHANISTAN [non]. R. Solh, 17700 via Rampisham UK, Sept 20 at 1641 with familiar music I used to hear during earlier hours, drums and fifes and singer. Was expecting a break at 1700, but other music continued; fair (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** BRAZIL. 11735, station in Portuguese, Sept 20 at 1415, music and mentioned Mundial; presumably R. Transmundial, seldom heard here, instead of Germany or Korea North also scheduled on 11735 this hour. Amazônia 11780 was also audible. At 1452 11735 was discussing futebol; just how religious is this station? Oh yeah, soccer is a religion in Brasil (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CANADA [and non]. CFRX, 6070, presence was felt making a rapid SAH and with some audio mixing with CVC Chile, Sept 20 around 0605; at 1243, 6070 had an audible het, so is Korea North further off-frequency? Also some CFRX audio, but unusable (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CUBA. Another check the afternoon of Sept 19 to see how screwed up they are today: axually more or less normal, as the RHC English broadcast was back in business on 11760 at 2031 and again at 2110 check. Earlier at 2002, 11760 was opening French late. 11750: at 2002, Portuguese with hum and whine; 2031 Arabic with same; 2110 in Spanish and weaker than // 13760 now on air. Still no sign of listed 13680 in English; 17705 had a JBA carrier at 2031, presumably RNV (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** INDONESIA. VOI best heard in weeks, Sept 19 at 1337 on 11784.9 --- and that isn`t saying much. I could make out some gamelan music, then YL announcing in English, but otherwise unusable. This was possiblized only by the unexpected absence of Firedrake and VOA on 11785.0, apparently weird propagation. Or attenuation, since there was still something on 11785.0 to make a weak het. VOA Korean 11740 was also absent (but not the bonker!) as was NHK 11705. But forget about VOI on weekends with WHRI on 11785 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** JAPAN [non]. NHKWNRJ, 11705 via Canada was rather weak Sept 20 at 1414 during mailbag show, and had co-channel QRM from rapid talk in unID language, certainly not the usual pre-echo from NHK Yamata direct, also in English. Since this was Saturday, EiBi has the answer:
11705 1330-1530 Sa G BBC SWA EAf /AFS
11705 1530-1630 Sa G BBC SWA EAf /SEY
That is, BBC`s Saturday-only Swahili broadcast via South Africa. Just as the theorititians never dreamed that NHK could interfere with itself in CNAm, I am sure they never expected this BBC service to bother NHK either (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** LIBYA. 17725, Sept 20 at 1639 with chanson, i.e. song in French, lo-fi and fading in and out. Per EiBi this must be V. of Africa, with French at 16-17. It is seldom audible here when in English at 14-16 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MAURITANIA. I often check 4845 after 0600 for R. Mauritanie. Usually it isn`t there, but it was Sept 19 with soporific chanting, just what I need, unlike the morning crowd over there. Maybe because it was Friday.
OTOH, with Ramadan, people may stay up all night feasting, and then go to bed at sunrise, since you can`t eat all day, anyway. Might as well sleep through as much of it as possible. But then you still have to be awake for mandatory prayer times.
BTW, Ramadan/Ramzan is going to get tougher and tougher for the faithful in the North Temperate Zone, where most Moslems live, not including
Indonesia, as the holy month precesses closer and closer to the summer
solstice, i.e. longest days of the year. In 2015y it will start around
June 18: http://www.when-is.com/ramadan-2015.asp
but 2016 will be worst as far as encompassing the most longest days.
Did the inventors of Ramadan and the lunar calendar think of that?
Hmmm, this could explain why there are so few Moslems in the Arctic.
Do those who go there now, e.g. for scientific research, get special
dispensation to break fast according to Mecca latitude if not
timezone? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MEXICO. XERTA, 4800, Sept 20 at 0614 immediately as I tuned in played English ID by YL, including website; fair with CODAR QRM only. Around sunrise, such as 1235, this just makes a het with Guatemala on slightly different frequencies.
XEOI, 6010, Sept 20 at 1240 check really with Mexican music instead of talk block; perhaps because it`s Saturday (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** SUDAN [non]. 17690, Sat Sept 20 at 1501, YL in English with heavy accent talking about Darfur peace agreement, backed by music sounding like steel drum. This is Sudan Radio Service, via Sines, Portugal. Per EiBi, it`s M-F 1500-1700 in Arabic, except 1530-1600 English; Sat/Sun 1500-1530 English, 1530-1600 Arabic. Fair signal (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. RHC isn`t the only station broadcasting two programs at once on the same transmitter. Sat Sept 20 at 1246 on WWCR-3 7490, found that Rock The Universe was competing at equal or even lesser audio level with another program, America`s Greatest Heroes, from USA net, which had just paused for a sports update; overdone drama about ratifying the Constitution, little states like Jersey vs big ones like Virginia.
How could this happen? WWCR-1 on 15825 was inaudible as usual this early, but scheduled on that was The Baptist Hour, and AGH not likely to be on 2 or 4 with DGS and PPP. I seem to recall AGH used to be on WWCR, but it`s not found at any time on their current online schedules, not updated since August 8. Perhaps on the WWCR-3 control board, someone left a pot open hooked to the USA network feed which they do need at other times, in addition to the pot playing RTU; and nobody noticed (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 17515.0, robot YL, 5-digit Spanish numbers, Sat Sept 20 at 1638, weaker than adjacent preacher on 17520, WHRA at 90 degrees. At this hour, there is no other need for RHC transmitters (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ###
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