[HCDX] Glenn Hauser logs November 21-22, 2008

[Glenn Hauser <wghauser@xxxxxxxxx>]

** ALASKA [and non]. Pleased to hear KNLS still audible as late as 1603 Nov 22 on 6150, from music to ID in Russian at 1604. We are just a couple weeks from the latest sunrise of the year. Except for WEWN still on 5755 until 1700, no contest, this was strongest signal on 49m band, better than a few others remaining, 6160-CKZU, 6145-jamming/Taiwan, 5920-WBOH. North Korean oscillating jammer still audible too on 6350 at 1601 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** ALBANIA. R. Tirana, 13720, English to NAm with fairly good modulation, S9+15, Sat Nov 22 at 1536, news about UK and Kosovo, 1538 press review on budget; 1544 folk music, into notes from a meeting in Nicosia, Cyprus, the same announcer reading someone else`s speech. 1553 Albanian Outstanding Personalities, about someone in the independence movement around the turn of the XIX to the XX century; next check at 1557 was already off (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** AUSTRALIA. RA, Friday Nov 21 at 1433 with Art Works, movie review, and then report on an Aboriginal publishing house in Alice; SSB QRM near 7240, but that`s about the best we can do at this hour, with 9590 not propagating so well (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** BULGARIA [and non]. At 0125 Nov 21, was getting warbling carriers and little else on both 5900 and 7400, so either both R. Bulgaria transmitters are acting up, or 5900 is still the Russian one.

At 1454 Nov 21, R. Bulgaria poor and fluttery but audible on 11700 and modulation seemed OK; usual much stronger // 15700 was again off the air.

R. Bulgaria`s defective transmitter on the air again, very strong signal on 15700, Nov 22 at 1357, heavy warble messing up otherwise nice folk music when listening in AM mode; the constant frequency variation even more obvious with BFO. It`s amazing they keep running this, also on 7400, 5900 at other times of day. Do the engineers have no awareness that something is drastically wrong? Kai Ludwig says it`s the exciter which should have been replaced immediately long ago. Still going at 1445 recheck during talk segment in 13-15 UT Bulgarian language broadcast (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** CHINA. CRI in English on 11790, Nov 21 at 2314, with slight echo, long/short path, and running about two words behind // 11970 Sackville, so is this site further from China than Canada? What is the site, PWBR `2009`? You don`t know? You don`t even list CRI on this time and frequency, but EiBi and Aoki B08 do, as Xi`an, 190 degrees to SE Asia, which is certainly a lot closer to Beijing than Sackville is, just an example of how `satellite delays` can be very misleading. Modulation quality also rather different than that heard on the external relays (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** ECUADOR. HCJB pausing in German hour 2329 Nov 21, VG on 12040 for ID break, claiming time is 1830 in Quito, 2330 UT and 2030 Brasília Zeit; thus HCJB does not recognize current DST there, which makes the clox claim it is 2130 local. We would applaud this if it were really contra-DST, but no doubt just another instance of HCJB not keeping up with the times, so out of touch with its listeners, but at least they got the UT and Ecuador time right. So far I have not heard Portugal colliding on this optional frequency (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** EQUATORIAL GUINEA. R. Africa, 15190, good signal but undermodulated, and no QRM, Nov 21 at 2207 with the low-key preaching of jailbird ``Tony Alamo``. BTW, here`s the website tracking all the latest press about his case, including linx to lots of video from Arkansas: http://www.tonyalamonews.com/ (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** GERMANY [non]. 15620 at 1528 Sat Nov 22 with Vivaldi from The Seasons, 1530 DW ID in Russian, into music show which I am pretty sure is still Muzprosvet; sounds like the usual host but I never heard that show name mentioned. Started with folk song in German, later fiddling, and odd instruments. 1536 found it on // 11720 except running about 1 second behind 15620. Slightly better reception on 15620, but that cut off at 1556:30 in the middle of an announcement, while 11720 continued until 1559:30, cutting off during music. DW seems incapable of coordinating its programming with its transmissions, except in some schedule versions they warn that certain frequencies close 3 minutes early. 15620 is via Sines, PORTUGAL; 11720 via Rampisham, UK. If it`s DW, you know it can never be from Germany (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** PRIDNESTROVYE. Radio PMR, European service now making it with winter-onset conditions, Friday Nov 21 at 1437 on 7370 in English, commentary about Ukraine; fair with flutter (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** SOUTH CAROLINA [non]. It`s always fun to listen to Brother Scare trying to announce his frequencies; he never gets them right. God help him! Paused on 13810, via Germany, Nov 22 at 1436 to hear him have a go at it. Said his Sabbath 10 am to noon broadcast [1500-1700 UT] would be on 9265, 9330, 9385, 6110, 13570, 15420, 17435. And also all day on 9385, 10-noon on 9330 and 8 am to 8 pm on 9265. Guess what: can`t be on 9265 and 13570 at same time since that`s one WINB transmitter. 17435 is a long-standing typo for 17485, which is via Germany. If he knew anything about SWBC, he would instantly recognize 17435 as impossible, since 17485 is the current absolute lower limit, to 17m out-of-band usage. 9265 does not run all-day from WINB, but mornings and evenings, tho on Saturdays it`s extended later than other days for the benefit of B.S.

At 1506 check, WBCQ with B.S. both on 9330.0 and 15420, no BBC co-channel audible (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** THAILAND. R. Thailand, 9725, Nov 22 at 1407 YL with news about Zimbabwe, 1409 ID by OM as ``Radio Thailand English language service``, on to report on Thai tourism, over music by Albinoni; fair with flutter but readable and no QRM. This is aimed at Australia where it is a bit late; if they aimed it to NAm it would reach us better than the 0030 and 0200 broadcasts, i.e. not at all, or even better on 7 MHz band in our mornings (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 11975 with big open carrier and tentative-sounding tone test faded up and down, Nov 22 at 1436-1437*. Typical behavior of IBB, and I have no doubt this was Greenville testing; currently scheduled on this frequency only at 1800-1830 in English to WAf, per EiBi.

Surprised to find very strong, loud and clear signal from R. Martí on 15530, Nov 22 at 1447, // 13820 with heavy jamming, and nothing but jamming on 15330 where it`s supposed to be. Obviously a punch-up error, or maybe no mistake at all since it temporarily escaped jammers? No, at 1456 it was back on 15330, uncovering a poor victim on 15530, with a weak signal which had been totally covered by Martí, i.e. VOA Kurdish via South Africa. Americans vs Americans! This cut off at 1459* just as a vocal (Kurdish?) version of Yankee Doodle started, and I really would have liked to hear clearly (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. WWCR-3, 7490, Sat Nov 22 at 1605 with heavy reverb which could have been mistaken for a long-path echo, during The Church of the Lord Jesus Christ of the Apostolic Faith with Bishop S. C. Johnson, as scheduled at 1500 UT Sats during DST. Same frequency had much more enjoyable program until 1400, Rock The Universe. At 1743 check, WWCR-3 on 12160 was just barely audible with WORLD OF RADIO, but I hope it`s doing better further away than 1 megameter, beyond the skip zone. Then I checked the webcast, and heard crosstalk from some music in the background (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A [non]. CVC A Sua Voz, Miami, via Calera de Tango, 15410, Friday Nov 21 at 2228 outroing a version of Bachianas Brasileiras No. 2, 3 minute pause for commercials (oops, promos), in Sem Limites show of classical music. So it and apparently everything else have been shifted one UT hour earlier for the duration of DST in part of Brasil. This should be appear Mon-Sat 2200-2300 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ###


      

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