[HCDX] Glenn Hauser logs October 16, 2008

[Glenn Hauser <wghauser@xxxxxxxxx>]

** BRAZIL. With a little help from the solar flux level, which reached 71 the day before, a few Brazilians were audible in the nightmiddle on 25m, Oct 16 at 0555, such as 11895 with closing credits to a drama and IDs as ``Super-Rede Boa Vontade``. Aoki has this fair signal as only 1 kW from Porto Alegre, but it`s just a gospel-huxter from the country where domestic SW is now dominated by them. However, WRTH 2008 lists it as 10 kW from ZYE856. A real commercial SW relay of R. Bandeirantes, São Paulo, 10 kW, ZYE958, was better on 11925 at 0550, with ID and promos at 0601. 11780 RNA not yet on (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** INDONESIA. For second morning in a row, VOI English at 1300 on 9526, and very good reception Oct 16. Tuned in around 1325 after Turkey, with usual string of features, news headlines, Indonesian Wonders, Miscellany, music from a Sumateran instrument (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** MEXICO. XEXQ, 6045, detectable with fast SAH from FE station, Oct 16 at 1349, but seems no better than before, altho Julián Santiago reports they have just improved their antenna setup (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** SPAIN [non]. See previous report under COSTA RICA. REE relay, this time monitored on 9630 at 0600 sign-off Oct 16: announcer said it would resume at 1100 for Central America on ``5970 y 15170 kHz en la banda de 19 metros`` so the frequencies were right but the implication was that both frequencies are in the 19m band! Another SW announcer who really knows nothing about SW, reads copy without fixing such obvious mistaxe. BTW, that applies to M-F only; on Sat & Sun 5970 is not in use and 15170 opens at 1200 per EiBi. And why didn`t he mention 5930 which comes on at 1000 M-F? Because that`s for South America. As if no one in CAm, or CNAm for that matter, could hear it or vice versa (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** TURKEY. Live from Turkey coming in quite well on VOT 15450, Thu Oct 16 at 1300+ tune-in, long phone/internet report from correspondent at the Frankfurt Book Fair, where Turkey is the honored guest country, and also the Turkish Nobel Prize winner in literature is present; seems his stuff is more popular abroad (in translation, presumably) than in Turkey where his style makes for tough reading (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A [and non]. Observations during the final presidential debate, UT Oct 16: at 0110, WBCQ 5110-CUSB was playing music instead, and at 0112 nothing heard, so guess they did not carry it this time and Area 51 was just running over a bit.

At 0110 weak unID signal on 15795, maybe VOA again with this from unknown site. 6055, REE Spain had it again with immediate translation into Spanish. 6040 VOA Greenville as usual did not cut on until 0130 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ###


      

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