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[HCDX] Glenn Hauser logs October 4-5, 2008
** CANADA. CFVP, 6030, Calgary, Alberta, Oct 4 at 1254 with ``Country Gold Countdown``, mentioned a Canadian contest, fair with no jamming, but over some weaker co-channel. After 1300 blown away by Firedrake (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CUBA [and non]. Propagation from Habana was very good Oct 4 at 1245 on 31m, such that very strong RHC 9600 mixed with CRI relay on 9570 putting a leapfrog mixing product another 30 kHz below on 9540, where much weaker audio from both could be heard at once.
DentroCuban Jamming Command attacking VOA Spanish, 5890 and 6110, UT Sun Oct 5 after 0100 when VOA was talking about the embargo, but jamming continued at 0130 in non-Cuban VOA program ``Club de Oyentes`` which started with Mercedes interviewing on phone Ricardo ---, a Colombian photographer, about Armenia, Quindío (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** EQUATORIAL GUINEA [non]. Sat Oct 4 at 2159, no trace of R. Africa on 15190 as on previous days, just strong open carrier, and WYFR opening Portuguese // 15665 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** LAOS [non]. WHRI, 11785, with Hmong Lao Radio, Sat Oct 4 at 1348, with het from V. of Indonesia. Usually it`s on the low side, but this time on the hi side, about 11786. This correlates with measurements by Ron Howard; and Wolfgang Büschel, who says VOI has three different transmitters which operate on three slightly offset frequencies from the nominals.
WHR now has a third Hmong program, which I ran across UT Sunday Oct 5 at 0112 on 5875, excellent clear reception, no fading or distortion and a good time to record some more exotic music. This was singing accompanied by a hi-pitched and repetitive drone on a string instrument bowed back and forth. 0117 announcement in Hmong and more music; ended at 0129, back into English.
Per online sked, this is Hmong North Radio, under the auspices of one Liaj Sou Vang, UT Sundays at 0100-0130 and also UT Saturdays 0000-0030, both via Angel 6, WHRI. On this time and frequency it must also be intended for Hminnesota rather than Laos.
It`s not clear what organization is behind this, and none of the Hmong programs are in the program links list at http://www.whr.org/Links.cfm Even a Google search gets zero hits to ``Hmong North Radio`` so it must be so new Google has not even found it on the WHR schedule pages. Ditto his or her full name.
(The other shows are Hmong Lao Radio, Sat & Sun 1300-1400 on 11785, and Hmong World Christian Radio, Sat 1400-1430 on 11785, also Angel 6, and all of them recommended for their exotic music (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** NEW ZEALAND. RNZI`s current schedule at http://www.rnzi.com/pages/listen.php
still shows a gap in DRM service from 1158 to 1551 UT, but Oct 4 at 1257 there was DRM on 6165-6170-6175, surely RNZI; it stopped at 1258 and RNZI AM came on at 1258:50 with bell bird, 1300 accurate 6-pip timesignal and into the 2:00 news. Did not sign on as RNZI, but at 1307 gave full ID over music, and then into Pacific news show ``Tagata o te Moana`` which was about a conference in Wellington dealing with four underdeveloped countries in Melanesia. This show is 1308-1330 UT Sat and Sun, instead of Dateline Pacific on weekdays. As far as I listened, Tagata+ was really in English except for a greeting in some other language, Maori?
Then scanning 41m at 1312 I found DRM on 7140-7145-7150, surely RNZI as well; a frequency not currently scheduled for DRM at any hour altho it has been in the past. Did Rangitaiki decide on its own to resume DRM during the former break without telling the website? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** PALAU. VT Communications test loop in English heard again Oct 4 at 1249 on 9965, only fair and not as good as 24 hours earlier. VTC refers us to their website, but anyone wanting real info about their SW operations will be disappointed, no time and frequency schedule, and even in HFCC they are playing games, not registering their transmissions of Radio República (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. WWRB`s FCC schedule has been revised to show the 340 degree antenna changing from 3185 to 9385 at 1200 UT. Nevertheless, Oct 4 at 1241, both were on the air, but not //, R. G. Stair not speaking at the moment, but presumably The Overcomer Ministry anyway. 3185 was much better than 9385 at this time as higher bands had not yet opened up, e.g. WWCR 7490 and 9980 nearby geographically also poor. At 1249, Stair himself had started talking on the 3185 Sabbath broadcast.
UT Sun Oct 5 at 0132 found dead air on 3185, but not for long. Pauses lasting from 6 to 15 seconds were interrupted by unintelligible screaming, usually in two smaller segments. Occasionally the preacher lapsed into quasi-normal speech, so that at 0144 I could make out that he was referring to I Thessalonians, chapter 1, which looks like boilerplate to me, nothing special to quote, refute or ridicule.
This screaming alternating with excessive pauses is the M.O. of E. C. Fulcher, on The Truth House, as on the WWRB 3185 schedule for 8-9 pm Saturdays, i.e. CDT, not EDT. It is as if he is recharging after each outburst.
WWCR has a link http://www.truthhouse.org/ Incredibly, this is at the top of the homepage: ``Dr. Fulcher feels that his greatest accomplishment, whether it is in the music field or the ministry, is when people say that he teaches God's Word in a way that they can understand.``
His shortwave station listings at http://www.truthhouse.org/thvbn/pdf/radioschedule.pdf
include WWCR but fail to mention WWRB (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. WWCR, 13845 as always with Doctor Gene Scott service, Oct 4 at 2203, quite strong signal tho with RTTY QRM audible. Also audible clearly underneath DGS was another program which I soon paralleled to 7465, at 2205 starting Golden Age of Radio Theatre, presenting `1984y` by George Orwell! I am still not clear whether this pervasive problem at WWCR happens in the transmitters and antennas right next to each other, or in the audio control boards (or both). If the DGS modulation had stopped, I could easily have listened to the other program, altho dubbing it undermodulated (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. World Harvest Radio, more Hmong programming: see LAOS [non]. T8WH with VTC tests: see PALAU ###
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