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[HCDX] Glenn Hauser logs September 13-15, 2008
** ARGENTINA. RAE with Suplemento DX, in Spanish, Friday Nov 14 at 2156 UT, its hour-earlier DST timing, on 15344.8, announcers reading various schedules; only poor. Program concluded with ``DX`` in code mixing with 2200 automatic timesignal. No QRMorocco (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** BULGARIA. R. Bulgaria resumed 15700, Nov 15 after a few days off for adjustments(?). At 1351 with music, splatter somewhat, but not the spikes out to 30 kHz I had been observing before it went off (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CANADA. Checking out a report that RCI had been inaudible in Illinois on 9755 a few nights before: at least on UT Nov 14, RCI was indeed on 9755 in English at 0040 check with The Link, but rather weak, and weaker than República via Sackville on 9785. We are facing low winter evening MUFs, especially from stations that are relatively close, skipping over or just not propagating. 6100 meanwhile was VG in Radio Sweden relay. Yes, RCI should certainly be on the lower frequency in B than in A season. I guess they are a bit fuzzy about basic propagation (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CUBA [and non]. Hee hee, DentroCuban Jamming Command ruining reception of RHC on 9600, Nov 13 at 2315, while jamming on 11835 against R. República was much less effective. Commies vs Commies! (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** EQUATORIAL GUINEA. R. Africa seems irregular, but confirmed on 15190, Nov 14 at 2150 with preacher singing (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** INDONESIA [and non]. VOI, 9526, had been clear during the 13-14 UT hour when English is scheduled, so even tho it is almost 1 kHz off-frequency, no het to worry about. But Nov 14 at 1339 a strong carrier was cutting on and off 9525, as well as an hour later at 1449 check. It could be anybody testing, but I would like to suspect WHRI, which is registered for 9525 for only one hour at 21-22 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** JAPAN [and non]. Listening to World Interactive, Sat Nov 15 at 1410 on NHKWNRJ via Sackville, 11705, this time with considerable pre-echo via Yamata direct. This time the relay cut off at 1429* before the outro announcement about when the next English broadcast would be, 2200. That uncovered a good signal from Yamata with the announcement unimpeded (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) gd
** LAOS [non]. Hmong Lao Radio via WHRI, 11785, Sat Nov 15 until 1500, no break for ID, and immediately into Hmong World Christian Radio for another semi-hour, including website http://www.hwcr.us where we see it is a.k.a. Voice of Hope, a slightly overused slogan (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** LIBYA. V. of Africa, in English, Nov 14 at 1418 much better on 21695 than // 17725, robotic declarations from the self-assured Qaddafi spoxeman, about African development, Sénégal, mentioning several alfabetical UN agencies; at the moment was also strongest station on 13m, with Spain 21610 soon gaining on it. At 1446 recheck, 21695 was down below the level of 17725 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** NEW ZEALAND. RNZI, 11725, Nov 15 at 0657 starting playing Copland`s Fanfare for the Common Man, then cut it off after a few notes for frequency change announcement to 9765, Bell Bird, and off. How rude! (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** SAUDI ARABIA. BSKSA, Riyadh, 17895 with Qur`an, Nov 15 at 1408. Altho some such broadcasts are quite beautiful musically, this one was not. The reciter had a most unpleasant delivery, including yodel-like sounds (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** TURKEY. VOT, The DX Corner, Sat Nov 15 at 1352-1357 on 12035, tuned in missing first minute. Chief announcer was reading partial schedules of Portugal, Slovakia, as they have appeared recently in DXLD, and in between an item about Romania`s 100 kW transmitter being back on air Saftica since Oct 8 with schedule. Besides his accent, he was going far too fast, for even me to copy everything accurately even if I had wanted to. What`s the point of such a program? The Portugal schedule is so complex it does not lend itself to being conveyed verbally, especially in such a hurry. He also kept referring to the Slovakia broadcasts around 0100 as to ``North Africa`` rather than North America!
He added one more item about VOT itself, that from Dec 17, Dari, and Pashto, and Afghan Uzbek to Afghanistan would expand from 30 to 60 minutes, and Bosnian would be on FM frequency TBA.
This contradicts one version of the B-08 schedule which showed:
Dari-Uzbek-Peshtu(2) 7155 41 1600-1700 CAK 250
Dari-Uzbek-Peshtu(3) 7155 41 1600-1730 CAK 250
(2): This transmission will be on the air 26 October-31 December 2008
(3): This transmission will be on the air 01 January-28 March 2009
I.e. the three languages are already sharing a one hour block which would be expanded to a one-sesquihour block on January 1. And is that Dec 17 date correct? Dragan Lekic heard VOT announce a schedule change in Serbian effective Nov 17. One might try to monitor Saturday/UT Sunday repeats of DX Corner at 51 or 21 minutes after the hours.
Repeated at 1949-1955 UT on webcast starting with Iran in English B-08 schedule first, then as above (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. WWRB on new 3215, scheduled at 22-02 UT, before WWCR uses it from 0200. Nov 13 at 2315 check, 3215 had Brother Scare (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A [and non]. RNA, Brasil, 11780, good signal with music until 0700 Nov 15, but then open carrier for 3 minutes before resuming modulation. During that pause I could detect something else on frequency, much weaker making a SAH --- then the unmistakable Scriptures for America theme music, so it was WWCR, 2 x 5890! Haven`t heard that particular harmonic before. Fundamental is usually very strong, so maybe receiver-produced. The preselector was peaked properly on 11 MHz band (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. WBCQ again this Saturday with unscheduled Brother Scare broadcast on 15420-CUSB, Nov 15 at 1533, as he was working himself into a lather, // 9330.0 --- yes, I was pleased to find that, following my urging, WBCQ has adjusted its 31m frequency from 9329.9 so there will no longer be a het with the Syrian carrier later in the day, or anything else on the correct frequency (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A [non]. VOA on 9520, Nov 15 at 1527 with NHL news, VOA World News Now ID, fluttery and poor, Today in History. At 1532 found it was not // 9760 which had Special English. This is via Sri Lanka at 49 degrees; further usage of 9520: 16-17 Wertachtal at 45 degrees, 17-18 Biblis at 63 degrees, 20-21 Thailand at 22 degrees, tho I have not researched whether all of that is in English; no, Eibi has, and all the other hours are R. Liberty in Russian.
Also on 7520 at 1536 Nov 15, VOA Spe-cial Eng-lish news in English re divorce of former Thai PM, // 9760. 7520 is also Tinang, Philippines, 275 degrees (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** VATICAN. VR is a regular here on 7250 in the 0600-0700 period, and especially enjoyed some classical organ music at 0652 Nov 14. But this was just fill following Latin Mass at 0630, also scheduled on 15595, 11740, 9645, 5965, 4005 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** ZANZIBAR. 11735 with Zanzibar rap, fair Nov 15 at 1741. I rather prefer their traditional music (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. The rapid pulsing believed to be OTH radar ranged from 15180 to 15205, especially bothering GFA on 15185, Nov 14 at 1415. Would it be too much to ask for them to keep this out of the SWBC bands? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
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