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[HCDX] Glenn Hauser logs October 18, 2008
** CUBA. SNAFU report Oct 18: tuned in RHC 12000 at 1430 as Antonio was giving the last three frequencies in a list, presumably meaning those currently on air, but two of them are not: he said 12000, 9600 and 6000, but as any listener would know, 9600 closes at 1300 and 6000 at 1400. Then Cancionero Iberoamericano, one of their better and less political shows, starting with songs by Milton Nascimento from Minas Gerais (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** INDONESIA. VOI still on 9526 in English at 1330 check Oct 18. Day number 4 and counting (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** LAOS [non]. Hmong Lao Radio, via WHRI 11785, altho missing last Saturday, was back on the air Oct 18 at 1339 check, Hmong hmusic with chirps, 1345 into what sounds like Hmong via an artificial larynx; do they smoke or chew a lot? 1346 a cappella tonal chanting. 1425 the other Hmong program was on, and at 1430 recheck DXing With Cumbre already in progress so must have started early. VG signal overloading nearby frequencies (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MEXICO. XEXQ, 6045, Sat Oct 18 at 1325 with Spanish talk rather than classical music; made big rumbling lo-frequency het with E Asian transmitter; by 1327 XEXQ was fading up, something about ``cultura deportiva en esta capital potosina``, another contradixion in terms (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MONGOLIA [and non]. 12085 is V. of Mongolia`s only frequency and per Aoki they only want to use it at 09-11 and 14-16, so could other stations with frequency-agility give them a break? Of course not! Oct 18 at 1428 I was hearing Russian on the frequency with a low audible het, but cut off at 1429. Something came back on a semiminute later. After 1430 there was weak music with flutter. Per Aoki, R. Sweden Russian service is on here at 1400-1430, and then Iran in Bengali until 1527.
However, the WRTH A-08 update shows VOM on 12085 at 08-11 and 15-16, so maybe there is now a collision only at 1500-1527, and English in the clear at 1530? It looks as if VOM has changed its language times trying to avoid the worst QRM on the only frequency it can use, 12085. 12015 used to be an alternative (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** SOUTH CAROLINA [non]. Brother Scare on WWRB, 3185, Oct 18 at 0605 was saying in addition to 7185 [sic], Brother Dave at WWRB was going to put him on a lower [sic] frequency which might give better coverage at night, 3270, maybe tonight. Well, nothing on 3270 at the moment; WWRB has used it in the past but it is not currently coördinated there nor for B-08, but I suppose WWRB can have it again if they want it.
B.S. went on to brag about how various brothers and sisters were sending him tens of thousands of dollars at a pop, and how most of that was going to buying more airtime; and gloating how his ministry eclipses such minor players as Texe Marrs, etc., since B.S. purveys the True Word of God and they don`t.
If not on WWRB yet, the money to burn was evident a few hours later, it being The Sabbath, when his live service, where he gets even more worked up than usual, appeared not only on WWRB 9385 and WINB 9265, but also on WBCQ 15420 and 9330!
At 1402 found horrible mix on 15420 of Hammond(?) organ music and DW Russian via UK, a collision I had warned WBCQ about as soon as they planned to use 15420 last spring. WBCQ is as usual slightly off-frequency making the mix worse. So much for being able to hear DW`s ``Muzprosvet`` avant-garde music show Saturdays at 1430.
Not being able to get another frequency or to get DW to move, after a few tests, WBCQ held off opening 15420 so early, but now with B.S. money to be wasted, it`s on the air, and tough luck for anyone axually wanting to listen to B.S. or DW on that frequency. If they could have waited another two weeks, DW will be gone from 15420, altho BBC will still be using it in B-08 between 1200 and 1900 from Seychelles, Cyprus, South Africa.
While the two WBCQ channels were synchronized, 9265 and 9385 were all out of synch with each other. It was not until 1414 that I noticed 9330 WBCQ was also back on the air, and that 9265 was still on altho some days it closes around 1400 instead of scheduled 1200 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** SWEDEN [and non]. I had already noticed with alarm that tentative B-08 skeds failed to show R. Sweden on 15240 any longer, either direct or via Canada; an oversight, or not yet complete?
No, Radio Sweden is deleting its morning services in English to North America! At the end of the Saturday Oct 18 broadcast, George Wood announced the B-08 English schedule. I ran across it first at 1355 on 15735 direct, but that was fading, so reconfirmed an hour later on 11640 via Canada:
Europe/Africa/Mideast: 1430 on 9400, 1530 on 9360
plus MW 1179 at 1730, 1830, 2000
Africa also via Madagascar: 2030 on 9895, 2130 on 7395
Asia/Pacific: 1330 on 7465, 1430 on 9400
also via Madagascar at 0230 on 11550
North America: via Canada at 0230 and 0330 on 6010
That`s it. That`s all. Always positively spinning, George put it this way ``Continuing relay from Sackville on 6010 at 0230 and 0330``.
NO: ``sorry, but no more service to North America at breakfast time``.
Not a word about blowing off morning listeners in North America! I for one frequently listen in the mornings, but never in the evenings. Could this be because the Sackville antenna for 15240 supposedly failed a few weeks ago, and 11640 had to be used instead? So if they can`t go back to 15240, just quit? 11640 is working just fine and 25m would have continued to do so all winter. Of course the first broadcast on 15240 at 1230 has been direct from Hörby anyway. North Americans can try for 9400 direct at 1330 or 1430, but results last winter were not good here.
15735 cut off the air abruptly at 1358* when George was about to give the mailing address for a printed schedule. After all these years, Hörby still cannot get coördinated with the Stockholm studio or vice versa (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. WWCR, PMS service on 5935, with big problems Oct 18 at 0557, ringing sound on each side. It seems there are spurs between 4 and 5 kHz above and below, which intermittently beat against the main carrier as modulation comes and goes. On the main channel one can also hear crosstalk from Pastor Pete Peters on 5890. These two are very strong at the moment, exacerbating the situation, and furthermore producing a mixing product on 5980, also with the ringing sound. I suppose this could have arisen from an audio feed without proper rolloff at higher frequencies. On 5890 itself, crosstalk underneath could also be heard, but not from the 5935 service. Did not seem to match 5070 or 3215 either; maybe 1300? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. Navy MARS calls were originally N0 plus three letters. Then to make it absolutely clear that these were USA, N was changed to NNN. Now they`ve expanded to four characters after the zero and they are both alfa and numeric. Sat Oct 18 at 1315 found an SSB net on 4825 with NNN0AS74 discussing updated Navy MARS manuals being available only in pdf from a website, print them yourself if you`ve got to have them on paper, with NNN0KODT, who was stronger, altho AS74 seemed to be the NCS. Neither of the new callsigns gets any search hits (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A [non]. R. Free Asia, via Tinian, Oct 18 at 1420 in Burmese on 9320, running two sesquiseconds behind // 7390 to even out power consumption. Fair with no QRM or jamming audible (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** VENEZUELA [non]. You never know whether RNV via Cuba will be in English. Sat Oct 18 at 1459 the transmission was already beginning on 11680, fair signal with SAH, presumably Turkey scheduled until 1530. Opening was entirely in Spanish, 1501 into a vals (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 6157.0, Spanish 2-way SSB at 1423 Oct 18, presumably Mexico or illegals, QRMing CKZU 6160 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 13777.5, at 1350 Oct 18, rapid clicking which may or may not be jamming, about halfway between 13775 CVC Chinese via Darwin, and 13780 DW via Woofferton (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ###
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