[HCDX] Glenn Hauser logs September 23-25, 2008

[Glenn Hauser <wghauser@xxxxxxxxx>]

** AUSTRIA. 13730 with horn and piano classical music before and after 1330 Sept 24, fair; Ö1 has this frequency entirely to itself 0500-1600 or 1700 per listings --- except when Sound of Hope draws Firedrake there as Aoki notes (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** CUBA. 15330, noise bursts at the rate of 2 per second, Sept 23 at 1315. Old habits die hard for the DentroCuban Jamming Command --- R. Martí hasn`t used this frequency all summer, but will again in the B-season between 1400 and 2000. 11930 had the same type of pulse rate but not exactly synchronized, with bubbles added, and bothering some Asian station at 1322, well before RM sign-on.

RHC, 13760, with open carrier at 1319 Sept 23, and much weaker than 13680 which was modulated.

DCJC pulses at the rate of 132/minute, Sept 25 at 1311 on 9490, jamming against nothing, since R. República uses the frequency only at 10-11 via RMI via Sackville.

RHC, 11800 is back on the air, heard Sept 25 at 2056 in Arabic // 11750 but an echo between them so from different sites, and 11800 weaker. At 2101, both now in Spanish opening Revista Iberoamericana with Siboney IS, and now 11800 with SAH, no doubt from R. Bulgaria also in Spanish to Spain, so the collision continues (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** ECUADOR. HCJB, 11960, usual big signal Sept 24 at 1333, but no modulation, unless that was the low roar audible during fades. Automation must have seized up. 1336 brought up gospel rock in English, perhaps from automatic silence-sensor; 1337 back to ``himnos de la vida cristiana`` in Spanish sponsored by some product I missed. Is HCJB Spanish overtly commercial now? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** EGYPT. Re Sept 13 log, I meant to say half-MINUTE-late timesignal, not half-second. Change to: 

R. Cairo, English to NAm, 9280, Sept 13 at 2310 Arabic music at fair 
level, but half-minute-late timesignal after 2315 led to drop in 
modulation with news theme, and YL beginning newscast. Couldn`t make 
it out; gave up (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)``

** EQUATORIAL GUINEA. It`s back – R. Africa, 15190, Sept 25 at 2028 with open carrier, squeezed next to bigger open carrier from Greenville 15185 about to open Hausa, which started sign-on at 2029. Still no mod from E.G. --- probably an habitual long deadair pause between programs on this incompetently-run station. YFR via Ascension 15195 was quite weak by comparison. Recheck at 2044, 15190 back in biz with a screaming preacher. Had been missing the last several days (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** INDIA [and non]. Monitoring 11620, Sept 25 at 2049, a bad mix of Spanish/English, I guess a language lesson from REE, which moved here a few months ago to avoid collision with Vatican on 11625 --- and South Asian music, which was very fluttery. As I pointed out at the time, the QSY by REE solves nothing, as now it collides with AIR, and the situation can only be much worse in Eurafrica. Per Aoki, AIR GOS Bangalore from 2045 is 500 kW in English at 325 degrees. After 2057, Spain was off and only heard India on 11620 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** INDONESIA. RRI Makassar, 4750, was the dominant one Sept 24 at 1258, with 4790 Fak2 hardly audible. 4750 had a string of promos in Indonesian, 1300 M&W talking with lots of Salaam-Aleikums, 1303 into Qur`an. There was a rippling SAH from a weaker station, China or Bangladesh (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** IRAN. Beautiful rendition of Qur`an, with reverb, Sept 25 at 1345 on 15150, VIRI Arabic via Sirjan, and good reception. Lasted at least until 1400; at 1420 check, nice pop string music, 1422 YL talking reverently in Arabic (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** MEXICO. Whenever a bit of classical music can be pulled out of the weak and undermodulated carrier on 6045 it is still notable as must be XEXQ, Sept 24 at 1312, very poor (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A [non]. Pleased to find VOA News Now in English, M&W alternating headlines, on a frequency where I don`t normally hear it, 9510 fair and in the clear. A good thing too, since 9760 Philippines was mixing at about equal level with CRI English. 9510 is Udorn, Thailand, at 12-14, 250 kW at 130 degrees, so intended for everything from SE Asia to New Zealand (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. Tony Alámo confirmed on WWCR 15825, in the 13 UT hour weekdays. Sept 25 at 1330 another low-key sermon about Job; 1354 retune, choir singing How Great Thou Art, 1358 outro with Alamo`s Texarkana P O Box (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

UNIDENTIFIED. 6035, normally nothing audible here, but Sept 24 at 1307 weak M&W talking in unID language, overshadowed by Firedrake from 6030. Bhutan is a very hard catch here, and at this hour Yunnan and Singapore are also scheduled on frequency. One could dream that the big neighbors would give BBS a chance to have just one SW frequency clear to itself. It will be some more weeks before reception could hold up past 1400 when it goes into English (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

UNIDENTIFIED. 15476 (not 15475), Sept 25 at 2057 with bits of audio, but mostly just carrier. I usually figure this has to be LRA36, RNASG, but it was still on at 2108 vs usual closing around 2100. Did anyone notice today whether it stayed on late, at least the carrier? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ###


      

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