[HCDX] Glenn Hauser logs October 26-27, 2008

[Glenn Hauser <wghauser@xxxxxxxxx>]

** ALBANIA. R. Tirana chex Sunday Oct 26 when broadcasts are only in Albanian: at 2200, fair on extended 9345 in the clear; UT Oct 27 at 0105, 9345 barely audible as really needs to be on 7 MHz band, while 6110 was much better but with jamming left over from the DentroCuban Jamming Command against VOA Spanish, which vacated 6110 the night before. Hope DCJC wises up quickly. For the rest of the week, let`s see how R. Tirana does in English: 1530 on 13720; 1945 on 11645, 7465; 2100 on 7510, 9345; 0130 on 9345, 0245 on 7390, 0330 on 6110, 0430 on 6100 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** CUBA. RHC missing from 6140, Oct 27 at 0327, so I could hear instead R. Romania International in Spanish, as now scheduled via Galbeni, 310 degrees at 03-04. But Cuba just had a breakdown (or a monitoring pause?), and was back on with overpowering signal at 0401 check, also bothering V of Russia English relay from unknown location on 6135 starting at 0400 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** EGYPT. Checking R. Cairo`s new frequencies in English for B-08 as in DXLD 8-114: Oct 26 at 0105 it was too late to tell if 6850 had been in English at 2300-2430, but was on the air and audible in subsequent Arabic service; weaker than 6290 also in Arabic. Next check at 0300, when 7535 is scheduled for English at 0200-0330: a signal there but too weak to be sure it was Cairo in English. Meanwhile, 6290 was quite strong by comparison. Why don`t they put English there? Because Arabic is more important to them, even when broadcasting to North America (Glenn Hausaer, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** RUSSIA [and non]. A previous item below lacked date and time! It was 0542 UT Oct 24 in A-08: 7200 with heavy SAH of about 6 Hz, between a station in Russian with pop music, and unID language. Russian must be Yakutsk at 45 degrees, on very long hours, and the other R. Bulgaria, scheduled in German during this semihour at 295 degrees, so neither is aimed here, but both cross somewhere in North America when extended. Yakutsk is also the one that used to motorboat, but not currently (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** ROMANIA. RRI on 6140 with Romanian folk music, Oct 27 at 0327, Spanish announcement a few minutes later, as now scheduled via Galbeni at 03-04, 310 degrees. Amazingly, no RHC which had been on 6140 with big signal in English for the last few weeks including the night before. Did RHC axually cede 6140 to RRI? RHC still on weaker 6000 in English, 6060 in Spanish.

Not checked again until 0401, and RHC 6140 was back on with usual huge signal in Cuban music; wonder if they waited until RRI was finished? No, Jeramy Ross, W5XTL in Lawton OK tells me that RHC came back on at 0350. Why in the world would RRI choose 6140 and collide with RHC? Because as an outlaw nation, RHC does not register its frequencies with HFCC, and RRI would have had to inform itself by reading DXLD to find out where RHC really operates (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** RUSSIA [non]. Looking around for R. República, no longer on 6100, and not heard earlier on 6135, 6155, 6185, 9515, or 9640 --- Oct 27 at 0256 found same MOR music playing on 6100 and stronger 6155 – could that be it? No, at 0259 both into Golos Rossii ID and frequencies, but several seconds out of synch; at 0300 6155 cut to opening of VOR WS in English to NAm, and 6100 to continuous tone which was still going at 0330. Obviously this is intended for something more modulated, but whence? 6155 is on the DTK schedule B08 as 02-05 via Wertachtal, 300 degrees to NAm, but not 6100. 6135, which I heard the night before with VOR English closing at 0600, not yet on the air at 0300 Oct 27. 6135 was added at 0400, running a couple of words behind 6155 Wertachtal, and 6135 also suffering heavy splash from RHC 6140. At 0330 check, also found VOR English on 7350, which is Vatican scheduled at 02-06.

As usual, VOR doesn`t have their new season schedule up yet and when it appears will not show transmitter sites anyway; as of 0305 UT Oct 27, the English page still showed useless A-08 info, including earlier 2008 change dates: http://www.ruvr.ru/main.php?lng=eng&w=129&p=
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** TURKEY [non]. Since VOT via Sackville 7325 was missing during the 0400 UT hour Oct 26, I expected to find it still during the 0300 hour UT Oct 27, but nothing then either. It was on at 0417 recheck, in English, so that has been outstraightened; and at 0425 // 6020 direct, which was a few seconds ahead of 7325`s circuitous relay path. CRI via Sackville 6020 now gone, but that leaves the perpetually off-frequency gospel-huxter in Perú. CRI always had this het on it, and now VOT suffers the same fate. No doubt they don`t know about the non-HFCC participant Radio Victoria, not keeping up with DX publications. If they did, they would surely avoid 6020 or even zero beat it. Yes, if Perú won`t correct its frequency, all the other 6020 stations should match it! Like that would ever happen (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U K [and non]. BBCWS, good in English at 0425 Oct 27 on 7255, but wasted on sports report which I hope only took a few minutes. In B-08 that`s Ascension ex-7160 to WAf at 65 degrees from 0300 to 0600 so should be good for us; plus another hour until 07 via Skelton at 180 degrees. I assume VTC are getting a head start on evacuating the 7100-7200 band to attain squatter`s rights on 7200-7300 channels (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ###


      

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