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[HCDX] Glenn Hauser logs October 14-15, 2008
** COSTA RICA. REE relay, 3350, with hum and whine, 0559 Oct 15 sign-off announcement said would be back to CAm at 1100 on 15930 and 15170 in the 19 meter band. I think that`s what he said, in Spanish, but was not recording. Should be 5930 and 15170. Must recheck (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CUBA. RHC, 6220, UT Wed Oct 15 at 0553, Arnie Coro wrapping up DXUL; very poor signal and fading out. But then, there isn`t supposed to be any signal on this frequency, a leapfrog mixing product of 6060 over 6140. The latter, BTW, still has quite a constant hum on it. Why is that so hard to fix? Maybe it`s not just a patchcord making a bad connexion (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** INDONESIA [and non]. VOI is back on 9526 kHz for the local evening broadcasts, morning here. On Oct 13 and 14 it was still on 11786, but Oct 15 at 1216 tell-tale het with something on 9525, Suara Indonesia ID heard immediately during the 1200 hour in Indonesian. At 1229 checked 11785 area and detected nothing on 11786, but there were very weak carriers on 11785.0 and another one slightly below, which could be Brasil rather than Indonesia. After 1246 mostly songs on 9526.
Anyhow, this puts English at 1300-1400 back on a good clear frequency, long may it last. Around July 26 it had switched from 9526 to 11785v; see DXLD 8-085. 1259 Oct 15 ending Indonesian hour, gave website. 9525 het went off at 1300 sharp.
That was presumably Poland in English from 1200, via Wertachtal at 300 degrees. So that`s the downside of VOI going back to 9526, especially for listeners in ENAm, but Poland has not been listenable here anyway all summer. However, in B-08 Poland goes back to 9450 via Nauen an hour later in English at 1300-1400, // Nauen 7325.
1300 VOI with one more Indo ID, website, 1301:30 opening English with good signal, http://www.voi.co.id plugged, and as always does not attempt to announce one correct frequency but all the possibilities: 9525 [sic], 11785 [sic] and 15150. 9526 has a continuous lite hum on it but not too annoying. More annoying is the almost continuous musical bed under the talk, impeding intelligibility; what a crutch, but VOI is hardly the only station afraid to talk straight. The YL announcer`s accent does not help, either.
But in honor of the QSY, I listened to most of the hour. After program summary including Today in History and Indonesian Wonders, 1303 into news. 1320 Today in History about Anwar Sadat; 1322 ID with slogan ``voice of dignity`` --- what`s this dignity business, implying other stations do not have it? Then commentary about World Wildlife Fund. 1324, VOI, ``keeping dignity alive``! Thank God for VOI promoting dignity. And news headlines.
1327 contact addresses, VOI, P O Box 1157, Jakarta 10110 and english @ voi.co.id Better put INDONESIA in big letters, lest your letter go to US ZIP 10110, which of course is in New York City. I see that WRTH 2008 does not show the postal code.
1328, Indonesian Wonders; 1334 Let`s Speak Bahasa Indonesia, which on Wednesdays is about grammar, this time explaining active vs passive voice, and transitive active vs intransitive active. 1339 Music Corner, songs of the 1980s. 1353 addresses again.
1357 as always happens, hit by big het from CRI warming up 9525 for Russian service at 1400. This is at 37 degrees from Shijiazhuang site, which means it`s aimed not only at DV Russia but also at NAm (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. Tuned in 9265v Oct 14 at 1400 to hear last few bars of Star Spangled Banner, so WINB was just signing off, to 1400:25; then parked on 13570v and it came on at 1402:25, first with buzz, hum, then cleared at 1403:30 for sign-on announcement. But another day they were still on 9265 well past 1400, and are scheduled to switch at 1200 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** VATICAN. 15235 fair with sad-sounding S Asian song, Oct 15 at 1440, didn`t sound especially Catholic but immediately followed by Vatican Radio IDs (pronounced as in English) in S Asian language, postal address I could not make out but probably within India. 1444 talk about cardinals. Per EiBi this is Hindi at 1430-1450 to be followed by Tamil (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 15000+, 2-way SSB in Spanish, slightly off WWV/H but QRMing them heavily, presumably narco-traffickers or poachers, Oct 14 at 1356 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ###
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