[HCDX] Glenn Hauser logs April 29-30, 2008

[Glenn Hauser <wghauser@xxxxxxxxx>]

** GERMANY [non]. DW Hausa via Rwanda, 15410, April 30 at 1304 talking about Nigeria (pronounced more or less as in English with long I), DW theme and ID; this was over co-channel CVC Chile, with the usual slow SAH, same as noted on CVC before 1300 when DW is in French per EiBi (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)  

** INDONESIA. VOI may have been more or less active on 9526 lately, as traces sometimes heard, but reception has been nowhere near as good as it was in winter; April 30 at 1323, only fair with songs (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** KOREA NORTH. April 30 at 1315 came upon something new: broadcast in English on 11644. From stilted style soon became obvious it was P`yongyang, and // 9335. Also // nominal 11710 so 11644 is a spur, furthermore matched by one on 11776 putting a warbling het on DGS Anguilla. The 11644 signal was only slightly weaker than 11710 which is to NAm, but not heard the last few days; FE conditions were improved today, also with Firedrake making it on 11785, 11990. 

Are the spurs always with 11710, only requiring good propagation to audiblize them here? It was hard to pin down a specific carrier frequency, but close to 11644, which was unstable, with distortion and hum, while 11710 only had ``generator hum``.

The `news` was just ending, followed by an announcement that V. of ``Korear`` frequency changes would take place May 5. The whole thing was read twice, so I think I got it down:

To Europe at 13-14, 15-16, 18-19 and 21-22 on 13760, 15245.
To N America at 13-14, 15-16 on 9335, 11710
To NE Asia at 01-02, 03-04 on 7140, 9345, 9730

The trouble is, the NAm and NE Asia broadcasts are already on these frequencies, as per Arnulf Piontek`s comprehensive schedule issued last November after the B-07 changes went into effect. So only the European frequencies are changing, from 7570 and 12015. Besides this anomaly, it may well be that the above announcement does not deal with any further changes to other targets. No doubt their man in Berlin will publish the full new schedule shortly.

Rechecked at 1354, all the VOK frequencies were off, probably closing around 1350. Recheck at 1520, when 9335, 11644, 11710 and 11776 should have been back on for the second morning hour to NAm, but none heard. While KJES was not audible at 1315 on 11715, it was audible at 1520 when VOK was not. How times change (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 

** MEXICO. XEYU detectable by its het to RHC 9600, April 29 at 1221 on 9599.3 with classical music. Cuba goes off at 1300, so Radio UNAM should be clear then, if propagating (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** SPAIN [non]. Yet another check of REE`s Lenguas Co-Oficiales block, April 30 on 15170 via CR: 1249 wrapping up Galician segment OK; 1250+ Intro Euskadi segment, but then immediately into Castilian items about Basque country, 1252 a bilingual anti-terrorism PSA, back to Castilian; 1255 promo REE show El Mundo del Teatro, but no time mentioned that I heard, and a song, no Catalan, just Castilian. Last beep of time signal at 1300 matched the Big Ben bong on 9410 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U K [non]. BBC Mundo Radio, 9410 via Furman, Wednesday April 30 at 1235 played exactly the same unannounced classical fill-music as on Monday April 28, i.e. the Gershwinesque piano and orchestra suite, 1248 segué into something that starts like The Moldau, but isn`t, followed by a choral piece until 1300 when one bong of Big Ben was heard! And yes, it was 1 o`clock pm GMT, but surely B.B. observes BST, so must have been cut off before the second bong could be broadcast. This time WHRI carrier stayed on until 1303* so no urgency to get it going on another frequency, due to startling gap in usage.

I have thus put together solely by monitoring the program schedule for this last remnant of BBC SW broadcasts to the western half of the planet, M-F only:
1200 News
1203 Extended news
1215 Estudio Abierto, call-in show, always pre- and back-announced as from the archives (possibly some days other archived shows)
1230 Efemérides, 2 or 3 this-day-in-history items
1234 M/W/F unannounced classical fill music, duplicated
1234 Tue/Thu BBC Top Diez de la Semana, top 10 countdown of pop music in English (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1406, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. WYFR treats us to not one, but two, Harold Campings at once, April 30 at 1335, both of them talking about, what else? God. So HC outdoes DGS, BS and PPP, all of whom come only one at a time, even if they are 24/7! Audio sounded the same, as if before a live audience, but content did not match: one set on 11830 and 11910, the other on 11865. Could have been non-synchronized feeds of same speech, but I could not bear to listen long enough to figure that out (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A [and non]. WEWN, 11550, April 30 at 1401 also with a fast SAH indicating some co-channel collision. Per EiBi that could be RTI in Vietnamese, or less likely R. Free Afghanistan via Kuwait (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ###


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