[HCDX] Glenn Hauser logs June 9-10, 2008

[Glenn Hauser <wghauser@xxxxxxxxx>]

** CHINA. Not much Firedrake above 12 MHz audible June 10 at 1308, but weakly in on 14410 against Sound of Hope; none found within the 20m hamband (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) See also TIBET [non]

** CUBA. RHC once again with nothing but open carrier on 11760, while 9550, 11805, 12000, 13680, 13760, 15370 were funxioning normally in Spanish, 1436 June 9 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** INDONESIA [and non]. VOI, 9526, June 9 at 1438 making big het with CRI in Russian toward NAm on 9525 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** KOREA NORTH. 13650, June 10 at 1306 choral music in DPRK style, 1307 talk in Chinese, so quite sure it is VOK as scheduled, 238 degrees from Kujang per Aoki; altho that also shows CRI itself in Chinese via Urumqi, 270 degrees (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** KOREA NORTH [and non]. 9940 with strong open carrier June 10 at 1252; 1259 pulse jamming becomes audible before 1300 start of North Korea Reform Radio, via Taiwan, with Carmen theme, Korean talk (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** NETHERLANDS [non]. June 9 was the first day of special RNW broadcasts of ``the national team`` -- I guess playing some silly ballgame, never revealed what in the DXLD 8-068 item from Media Network! Tuned in 17765 at 1842 when my ear was caught by a big signal on a normally clear frequency as a crowd were singing the Netherlands national anthem, 1843 into announcement in Dutch. 17765 is Guiana French at 300 degrees toward us. Still going at 2033 check when I also tried 15650, very weak from Issoudun, France southwards, and I could not even tell if WBCQ was on the 15420 air, the frequency RNW first planned to use. Next date for all this, whatever it is: June 13 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** OKLAHOMA [and non]. WWLS 640 IBOC was off when checked June 9 at 1857, clearing 650, and mostly clear 630 which also gets it from much weaker here KMKI 620 in The Metroplex. It`s also been sporadic around KTOK 1000, but was running at this time, and also audible around KFAQ 1170 Tulsa (Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** TAIWAN [and non]. 11560, June 10 at 1258 with Hail Marys from WEWN, fast SAH from another station under, which per Aoki is Family Radio via Hu Wei, Taiwan, in English, 100 kW, 285 degrees. Catholix vs Protestants! (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** TIBET [non]. 11775 with Firedrake making 4 Hz SAH over Defunct Gene Scott, Anguilla, June 10 at 1302, but no trace of its real target: AIR Tibetan via Goa, 1215-1330, 250 kW at 25 degrees, per Aoki (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. Perhaps WHRI has started running Angel 6, 11785 on its entire schedule instead of with large gaps on weekday mornings: anyway, Monday June 9 it was on with gospel rock at 1436, bad news for Firedrake.

But WHRI missing from scheduled 11785 again, June 10 at 1301 and 1439 checks. At 1301, Firedrake and VOA Chinese via Thailand were dominating (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

UNIDENTIFIED. The mysterious never-IDing Cuban music tests heard June 5, 6 and 7 at 16-19 on 15460, 19-22 on 17660, were gone at several chex June 8 and 9. Meanwhile, Chuck Bolland in FL heard the same music in the before and after 1100 June 9 hour on 6100, IDing as WHRI. Around 1840 June 9 I scanned all the bands but found no replacement for 15460; however at 2020 I was able to detect lite residual jamming on 17660, while Cuba`s Venezuela relay on 17705 had a good signal. When the music tests were on, I could never hear jamming under 17660. I hope people will tune around at all hours on all bands and see if they can find more such Cuban music tests.

Cuban music test via WHRI 6100: June 10 at 1016 heard Cuban music in same style as previously on 15460, 17660 in the daytime, which never had any IDs or announcements, but not identical selexions, not Guantanamera at 1020. Jamming clearly audible mixing. Recheck at 1059 with WHRI ID and more music. Per Chuck Bolland`s monitoring, 6100 is doing this from before 0900, so it probably runs 0800-1200 at least. WHR online schedules do not have anything about this, with Angels 1, 2 and 6 all shown on other frequencies with other programming during this period (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ###


      
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