[HCDX] Glenn Hauser logs October 23, 2008

[Glenn Hauser <wghauser@xxxxxxxxx>]

** GUAM [non]. Oct 23 at 1310 found English broadcast on 15320 I had not noticed before, about proverbs for children. After a sidetrack to Turkey, resumed listening at 1321, examples: ``The pen is mightier than the pig``, ``A penny saved is not much``, ``Two is company, three is musketeers``, and other clever variants apparently produced by first-graders. Signal was fair but with deep fades. 1326 closing with addresses, Debbie, Hong Kong, Kowloon, Central PO Box 71030, or zhaoming at vohc. something; seems show was called ``Jewels from the Internet``. VOHC? Finally figured it must stand for Voice of Hope, China. 1328 brief Chinese announcement also giving e-mail. After a pause, finally at 1330 Adventist World Radio ID, in English and French, theme music, web address, ``following program in ---`` fade, but must have said Chinese, since I then heard more Chinese. 

KSDA Guam at this hour? No such ID, and no site heard. Looked up later, it`s AWR via Wertachtal, Germany, which is also even used for Chinese broadcasts, in A-08 per Aoki:

15320 ADVENTIST WORLD R. 1300-1330 .23456. Chinese 250 75 Wertachtal D 
15320 ADVENTIST WORLD R. 1300-1330 1.....7 Uighur  300 75 Wertachtal D 
15320 ADVENTIST WORLD R. 1330-1500 1234567 Chinese 250 75 Wertachtal D 01041E 4805N AWR a08 

However, these transmissions will move in B-08, to 11720 via Nauen.

KSDA is still on 15320 at 22-24, but in Indonesian, English, Vietnamese. Except as noted, the program before 1330 was entirely in English, presumably for advanced students, despite the fact that this semihour is officially ``Chinese`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** INDONESIA. VOI, still on 9526 for day 9, Oct 23 at 1302, Indonesian-to-English announcement, but then fragments in Korean, and dead air. Finally at 1305 joined English news in progress. Good reception as usual, but the hum was getting worse (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** MEXICO. XEXQ, 6045, Oct 23 at 1340 check, classical music with rumbling het from Vladivostok. Both of them stay audible later day by day as Solstice approaches. But in B-08 Vlad should be gone, and the only co-channel Delhi from 1315 in Nepali, 1430 in Urdu, both 334 degrees; that could be audible along grayline for a while, but less of a problem than Vlad at 230 degrees = 50 degrees off the back (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** TURKEY. VOT, enjoying last few days of good 15450 reception on the 1230 broadcast to Europe which is also onward to N America: Thu Oct 23 at 1311 discussing their new web service, début of which has been postponed again until Nov 20, tho the YL working on it thought they could use another 6 months of testing. It will be multimedia, with podcasts, ``programs published`` -- meaning transcripts? Covering 20 languages. There is a ``huge crew working on it downstairs``. That finished Live from Turkey, plus a Did You Know That? feature on how tulips had originated in Central Asia, brought to Anatolia by Suleiman the Magnificent, and onward to Holland where they became big business. From Oct 26 this transmission moves to 1330 on 12035, // 11735 eastward, and we found out last winter that 11735 was sometimes inexplicably better here than 12035, reversed antennas, or strange long- vs short-path propagation? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ###


      

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