[HCDX] Glenn Hauser logs September 26-27, 2008

[Glenn Hauser <wghauser@xxxxxxxxx>]

** AFGHANISTAN [non]. With all the other good music from several other stations [see GERMANY], it was hard to pick one to stay with but did so with R. Solh, via UK 17700 for a while, Sept 27 1435. At 1459 faded out the music in progress, dead air, then cut to some other music without an ID break (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** ASCENSION. Pleased to hear some life seeping back into the 13m band, Sept 27 at 1412 with BBCWS 21630, fair in Hausa, scheduled 1345-1415 only, somewhat stronger than English on 21470. Solar flux was still only 68 as of Sept 26. Maybe the Sept 27 figure will bump up to 69, as even 70 is in the short-term SWPC predixions (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 

** AUSTRALIA. Northern Territory stations on 120m were all in, Sept 27 at 1258 and in //, 2485 being slightly stronger than 2310, slightly stronger than 2325, tho all were reading about S9+10. YL was speaking English, 1259 folk song continuing past 1300 with no break at bottom of local clock hour (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** BIAFRA [non]. V. of Biafra International is back on 17650 ex-15280 which was in use July-August; Fridays only at 20-21. Sept 26 at 2055 check, just barely audible on 17650, but unmistakable ``God Bless Africa`` hymn on authentic instrument and equally unmistakable tones of the VOBI orator closing the transmission. This is WHRI, 250 kW at 87 degrees (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 

** CANADA. CKZU, 6160, Vancouver, with CBC Radio Overnight, final hour listed as R. Australia relay, Sat Sept 27 at 1250 unID show discussing non-believers in Australia. 6160 still audible weakly at 1519 recheck.

6070 CFRX carrier also there, fading averaging S9, peaking S9+5 at 1520 Sept 27, but modulation just barely audible. What a waste. See also UNID 6070.8 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** CANADA [non]. Bible readings from Exodus XXIX, in English, pronounced slowly one word at a time, about ``I am``, bulls, rams and wafers, Sat Sept 27 at 1505, G signal on 15390. Per Eibi this is Bible Voice via Nauen, Germany, to S Asia, in English only on Saturdays, other days in Hindi, Tamil or Bengali. Exodus XXIX is all about how to carry out blood sacrifices of innocent animals, in particular what to do with their kidneys, in verses 13 and 22. Yuk.

WRTH 2008 lists this under Canada since they have a P O Box in Toronto, while admitting it`s a joint mission with something in the UK. I say it`s pointless to attribute multinational gospel-huxters like this to any particular country, especially when no transmitters at all are in use from said country (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** CHINA. Firedrake, Sept 27 at 1525 on 9905, which is against R. Free Asia, Chinese via Palau; // 9450 against Sound of Hope via Taiwan, neither target audible (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** CUBA [and non]. DentroCuban Jamming Command, 9640, pulses mixing with weak station in Japanese, Sept 27 at 1310. That would be V. of Russia as scheduled, via Novosibirsk or Komsomol`sk/Amure depending on which online reference you believe. The Cuban jammer is needed on 9640 only at 0000-0200 when R. República is on there, but why should Cuba care if they also mess up innocent bystanders? Have heard the jammer on 9640 at various other hours, and suspect they leave it on 24 hours, altho no doubt ramped up harder during RR hours (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** GERMANY. Since I was listening to R. Solh instead, missed Muzprosvet, avant-garde music show from DW Russian service, Sat Sept 27 at 1430 on 15420, so finally found audio file on podcasting page http://www.dw-world.de/dw/0,2142,4356,00.html
This time about Bengali music, tho can`t tell if it is really today`s episode; direct link:
http://www.dw-world.de/popups/popup_multi_mediaplayer/0,,1808190_type_audio_struct_4356_format_WMedia,00.html
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** INDONESIA. 3995 and 3987 both in // Sept 27 at 1301, OM talking, presumably news de Jakarta, poor. On 60m at 1306: 4750 best with Indonesian talk, also talk on 4790, 1307 music on 4870 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** IRAN [non]. Bad collision on 17755, as if there aren`t plenty of open frequencies on this band – Sept 27 at 1414 ME pop music mixing with Spanish producing a fast-rippling SAH, which I would estimate somewhere around 25 Hz, too fast to count but too low to be an audible heterodyne. Soon found music // 17670 in the clear, i.e. Radio Farda, vs. REE Spain on 17755. PWBR `2008` shows both on 17755 but no Farda on 17670, which is Wertachtal, while 17555 is Biblis. Spain aims at Africa, so theoretically no conflict. At 1430 REE had an accurate timesignal on both 17755 and // 17595 in the clear (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 

** JAPAN [non]. I have been abbreviating it NHKWNRJ, since I heard them ID rather cumbersomely as ``NHK World Network, Radio Japan`` but now I hear them ID as ``Radio Japan, NHK World Network``, so make it RJNHKWN too. Make up their minds? Tuned in Canada relay, 11705, Sat Sept 27 at 1410 expecting to hear ``World Interactive``, but instead without explanation or apology they ran instead ``Listening Library``, woman reading two short stories, with reverb, piano accompaniment, the first about a woman dying and how she looked; and the second about a character named Shotaro, pigs and a Panamá hat, moral: ``Too much looking at women is not good``, attributed to ``Ten Nights of Dreams``. 1429 ended just in time to hear regular RJ outro, as always cutting to RCI IS and ID before the announcer could finish saying what frequency the next English broadcast at 2200 would be on. 

So what has become of World Interactive, the mailbag/listener participation show?? Answer: http://www.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/english/radio/program/index.html --- W. I. Is replaced by this on the last Saturday of the month, even if there are only four: ``Monthly readings bring to life decades old stories, shedding new light on masterpieces that have sparked the imagination of young and old for generations.`` No Yamata pre-echo today, but lite Saturday-only QRM de RSA at 1426 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** LIBYA. V. of Africa, 17725, Sept 27 at 1500 addressing ``Dear Listeners`` in English; poor. Aimed due south from Sabrata, so unfavorable for here (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** NEW ZEALAND. RNZI 60th anniversary special encountered UT Sat Sept 27 at 0610 on 9615, NOT a time given in advance publicity, quoted in DXLD 8-105, which said:

``The 60th ANNIVERSARY MAILBOX SPECIAL BROADCAST TIMES ARE AS FOLLOWS:
SAT 27 SEP 
Sat 0020 NZDT 2320 UT (Fri) FULL VERSION
Sat 1806 NZDT 0506 UT (Sat) FULL VERSION``

The trouble is, NZ was not yet on UT +13, so the time conversion was wrong, really 0606 UT! Anyhow, I`ll hear it ondemand sometime rather than try to compensate for their erroneous publicity, figuring out what they really meant to say. It seems that RNZI, supposedly an external service, operates on local time, whatever it is, rather than UT which never changes. David Ricquish was pronouncing RNZI as ``Renzy`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** PAPUA NEW GUINEA. 90m scan Sept 27 at 1303 found: 3205 with talk, 3235 music, 3325 something, 3335 music, 3345 something, 3365 no signal, 3385 talk (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** ROMANIA. 11945, Arabic talk at 1407 Sept 27 about Romania, Bucharest, names ending in -escu and Romanian clips for voice-over. What could it be? RRI, off the back! As scheduled in Arabic this hour from Tiganesti but presumably currently Galbeni instead, good modulation (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DGIEST)

** SAUDI ARABIA [and non]. R. Riyadh, 17660, Sept 27 at 1417 with dramatic M&W dialog in French, some distortion, SFX, recorded on stage? 1500 drums and French announcements.

13710, Sept 27 at 1515 with Qur`an and then regular Arabic talk, muffled modulation, not // 15435/15225, tho 13710 is also Riyadh, a different program.

15225, Sept 27 at 1513 Qur`an, but SAH of about 4 Hz mixing with YL talk in S Asian language, soon IDed in passing at 1514 as ``Adventist World Radio``. Per EiBi, this is Punjabi via Wertachtal. Adventists vs Allah! (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** SPAIN. See IRAN [non], conflict with Farda on 17755

** SUDAN [non]. Sept 27 at 1507 came upon 15650 with some very distorted talk I eventually recognized as English with a heavy African accent; long pauses, mentioned National Democratic Institute, with SFX between items, more pauses. 1509 into some other language, apparently ID, mentioning FM, SW and kHz, ``Miraya FM``, and then mostly in non-English until 1511 tune-out. This is the relay via IRRS ``Milan``, i.e. Slovakia, 150 kW at 160 degrees. Also had a lite warbling het which I at first thought might be a jammer, and then thought might be out of some local household device such as TV set turned off but not unplugged (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** TURKEY. Big open carrier on 11680 gave me pause, Sept 27 at 1317 covering up some Mideastern music. Probably Cuba which uses it later in day for Venezuela, RHC. Fortunately, that went off a semi-minute later uncovering the music, soprano accompanied by mugam-like instrument; 1335 into talk, sounds like Turkish. Is PWBR `2008` any help? Of course not --- nothing at all shown on 11680 during this hour, except Korea North, which this certainly was not, nor was that audible today anywhere around 11677v. More nice ME music, including at 1355 children`s choir with piano accompaniment in medley including prettified version of La Cucaracha, almost making it into a round. 1400 accurate 3-pip timesignal and Turkish news by YL mentioning Adana. As A-08 online skeds easily confirm, this is TRT Emirler, 500 kW at 310 degrees, 1300-1530 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U K [non]. Surprised to encounter excited coverage in English of silly ballgame frequently mentioning Chelsea, Sat Sept 27 at 1525 on 7380, confirmed as BBCWS by // 9740 but echoing slightly out of synch via Singapore. Also surprised to find 7380 listed as Meyerton, South Africa site at 5 degrees; despite unfavourable azimuth, most likely long path at this hour. This transmission goes into Swahili at 1530, except on Saturdays, in English until 1700 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A [and non]. First presidential debate, 0100 UT Saturday Sept 27: Maybe we can expect some secret extra SW frequencies, as appeared for VOA coverage of the Democratic and Republican Cons a month ago, including from African sites, 6080, 9885, 12080, 15580? 

Scanned bands from 16 to 90 meters between 0136 and 0146 UT. Computers and TVs were necessarily on obscuring weaker signals. Did find live debate broadcast weakly // TV but never exactly synchronized on 15595, presumably VOA, site unlisted and normally not scheduled. Very good on 9820 and 6040 which are Greenville normally only at 0130-0200 with Spe-cial Eng-lish.

While I was at it, I checked private US SW station frequencies which are on the air in English at this time, and found them all in normal programming, mostly gospel huxters: 11520, 9505, 7465, 7415, 6985, 6890, 5935, 5920, 5875, 5850, 5745, 5070, 5050, 3185. Whatever became of the concept of public service broadcasting, pre-empting regular programming if necessary on such rare special occasions? 

Next check at 0220: both 6040 and 9820 were off. VOA must have only run them during their normal spans, i.e. cutting off the debate right in the middle at 0200! 15595, whencever it was, faded out before 0200. Still no private US SW frequencies with it at 0220 either (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A [non]. VOA Special English, business dialog lessons with terms about finding a job, such as networking, resume; interrupted by tone cues and music riffs, Sept 27 at 1523 on 9695, which is Tinang, Philippines at 349 degrees (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

UNIDENTIFIED. 4945, fluttery carrier, but no modulation audible at 1305 Sept 27. I figured it was AIR Guwahati, but that is supposed to be on 4940, so one of us may have had the wrong frequency (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

UNIDENTIFIED. 6070.8, approximately, was the unstable carrier barely modulated which has been interfering with CFRX 6070, also barely modulated, Sept 27 at 1254-1256:37*, previous days on 6067-6068, and most likely Korea North. Surely someone in EAs or WNAm could verify this (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

UNIDENTIFIED. 6150, 2-way SSB in Spanish at 1518 Sept 27 as I was checking the band for any remaining broadcast signals, for which this band is supposedly allocated exclusively, but tell that to Mexico (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

UNIDENTIFIED. As I was bandscanning for possible transmissions of the presidential debate by US SW stations, at 0142 Sept 27 came upon strong open carrier on 6768.0, somemale saying ``Hello?`` but nothing further. Pirate? No, more likely Cuban spy numbers station, as per a number of UDXF logs, designated as V2a, but unusual programming for that (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ###


      

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