[HCDX] Glenn Hauser logs October 11-12, 2008

[Glenn Hauser <wghauser@xxxxxxxxx>]

** ARGENTINA. It seems that R. Nacional is also back on the air, 15345v at 2114 Oct 11, hetting Morocco with sports, both weak (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** BELIZE. V31BG, 14220-USB, Oct 11 at 2244 calling QRZ in a novel way, for stations with a 4 in their call, then a 5, then a 6. I guess that helps alleviate the pileups while not giving preference to any prefixes before the number. Google search soon shows this is Bill, VE7ISV, visiting Belize from 3 to 13 October. 5 & 9 here (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** CANADA. CBCNQ, 9625, Oct 11 until 2230 with CBC Radio 1, The World This Weekend, in the clear and listenable; then CBCNQ ID, and 2231:30 starting Laugh Out Loud, season`s new comedy show (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** CUBA. RHC, 13680, Oct 11 at 2126 after musical interlude wrapping up English hour, // 11760 but an echo ahead of it. 13680 must have stayed on, as at 2236 recheck it was RHC in Kriyol --- one way to tell this from real French is the suffix -la frequently added to words. Now 13680 is an echo apart from 5965. But Kriyol is not scheduled on 13680, just runover? Still there at 2249 check, but soon overridden by much bigger open carrier. 

This is RNV also via Cuba in preparation for their 2300 broadcast, now aimed usward. Kriyol continued to be barely audible underneath and if the relative strengths evened just a bit, I could detect a SAH of 132/minute between them. So add one more anomaly to the SNAFUs at RHC --- two of its own transmitters, presumably at two different sites, interfering with each other. The left hand does not know what the other left hand is doing (there aren`t any right hands in Castro & Castro`s Cuba). DentroCubans vs DentroCubans!

While I was at it, checked 17705 at 2239, where RHC Portuguese was very strong but also very overmodulated and distorted as also noted a few days before. It was so bad that at first I thought it was Guarani, until my mind locked into this corrupted Portuguese. 

Wait a minute, Guarani *is* the language scheduled during this semihour on 17705 per own online sked at 
http://www.radiohc.cu/espanol/frecuencia/frecuencias-espanol.htm

So I must have heard Guarani when I tuned in, but then they switched to Portuguese, which is supposed to precede until 2230 and follow Guarani from 2300. Maybe the whole sesquihour is really a mixture, or they just don`t have enough to say in Guarani to fill an entire semihour. Chalk up another anomaly at RHC, where you can always expect the unexpected. Also strange: Guarani is primarily spoken in Paraguay, not Brasil, so you would think the mixture should be with Spanish. But for geographical reasons, the Guarani service is coördinated with other minor languages (compared to Spanish, as RHC sees it).

DCJC bubble-jamming vs nothing on 9885, Oct 11 at 2142. VOA Spanish is on this frequency much later; same sound on 9640 against R. República which doesn`t start till 0000, but now bothering CVC Chile on 9635.

9515 also being heavily jammed, Oct 11 at 2220, and that really is in use by Radio República at 22-24. Like many other Cuban jammers, this puts out spurs to at least 10 kHz on each side. Rather than the `bubbling` on the main channel, which is really a mixture of many jammers with the carrier of the victim, the spurs are distinct pulses, at the rate of 132 per minute, or 2.2 Hz, and of course any station which feels 10 kHz separation from the DCJC is enough has another think coming.

At 2255 check, nothing at all audible on 9820, where Brasil`s R. Nove de Julho had been, but also reported lately to have disappeared again. It would have had no QRM from Portugal, or from RHC, since this was a Saturday, until 2300 when jamming against nothing on 9825 started even tho R. Martí does not come up on that frequency until 0000 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** EQUATORIAL GUINEA. R. Africa, 15190, Oct 11 at 2115 with big open carrier. No modulation detectable even when volume turned up to max. Left a receiver on frequency and suddenly at 2125 started Word of Life program. In case it was a quarter-hour, rechecked at 2140, but still going with woman preacher, verging on screaming. 2157 recheck back to open carrier --- no, it isn`t. Soft spoken preacher barely audible, probably the usual Tony Alámo at this hour. This can be misleading, as now the OC is WYFR, and the two seem to be zero beat, so you don`t realize two stations are mixing. WYFR sign-on in Portuguese 2159 at full modulation level, so that`s the end of Bata monitoring for today (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** INDIA. AIR GOS, 9445, 2159 UT Oct 11, ID by M and into news by W, poor, 325 degrees from Benguluru (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** OKLAHOMA. KOKC, 1520, OKC, UT Oct 12 around 0108 on the caradio was weak and getting lots of co-channel QRM, leading me to believe that once again they are on greatly reduced power instead of 50 kW, maybe 5? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** PHILIPPINES. FEBC Manila, 9435, Oct 11 at *2223 with ID in Bahasa Indonesia and IS, programming from 2229. So my previous report of this on 9445 was probably in error (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. WHRA, 11885, Sat Oct 11 at 2136 had a woman preacher with an indeterminate Central European accent and a very limited vocabulary. She says `vord` instead of `word` most but not all of the time. She interjects ``glory`` several times a minute, and was also praising God repeatedly for circumcision: ``the word of the gospel is a sharp two-edged sword`` suitable for the operation, but our hearts should also be circumcised, whatever that means. I don`t think she was talking about female genital mutilation. Per WHR online schedule this is: ``Secret Of Eternal Life``, with Lilly Janian. She is not going onto our Monitoring Reminders Calendar (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A [non]. 9355 with a heterodyne from something on the hi side, about 9355.1, Oct 11 at 2222. Only thing scheduled here is R. Free Asia in Cantonese via Saipan, which per Aoki is jammed, so perhaps this was CNR-1 or some other kind of interference. By 2224 the QRM seemed like a hymn, so could also be spur from some FE gospel huxter (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. Glad to note that KXTR, Kansas City, 1660, is back playing classical music, Dvorak`s New World Symphony, UT Oct 12, in honor of Columbus? Please; at 0110, instead of stupid ballgames which have preëmpted its nominal classical format a couple previous evenings checked. Not so enjoyable, tho, with all the QRM from non-zero beat 1660 stations, producing multiple subaudible heterodynes. There are 8 other US stations on this frequency, the most crowded X-band channel, and it sounded like all of them were fighting KXTR for dominance via non-direxional caradio antenna (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

UNIDENTIFIED. 9528, motorboating sound centered here, Oct 11 at 2145 past 2200. Could be a jammer or a maladjusted transmitter. Possibly Voice of Vietnam-1, 9530, which per Aoki signs on at this very hour, but that`s just when I tuned in and could have been on earlier. At 2258, noticed similar if not identical sound on 9478 aside Radio Netherlands 9475 in Indonesian via Tinang (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ###


      

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