[HCDX] Glenn Hauser logs July 11-12, 2010

[Glenn Hauser <wghauser@xxxxxxxxx>]

** ANTARCTICA. 15476, no trace of a carrier Monday July 12 at 1338 or 1413; wonder if anyone else had LRA36 or if they were truly missing (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** CHINA. Firedrake July 12:
 9040, poor at 1314
10500, poor-fair at 1316, JBA at 1421
14700, JBA at 1321, tho CNR1 jammers good on 15265, 15285, 15330 plus motorboating noise; 14700 very poor at 1415
14960, JBA at 1322; gone at 1415
15555, JBA at 1414 vs WJHR SSB slop and not certain it was FD
17920, fair at 1328, 1410

CNR1 jammer, besides as above:
15520, at 1339 // 15285, but with het on 15521 or so. Had also noticed the het against V. of Turkey 15520 as it was closing at 1324* after IS. Both this and 15555 are probably inspired by V. of Tibet, which jumps all over the place in this region; Aoki July 11 had them on 15530 and 15547 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** CUBA. For the third night in a row, RHC in English instead of Spanish on 6150, at 0542 mailbag with Ed and a Cuban YL sidekick, // 6060, 5970 and this time 6010 is also in English instead of Spanish instead of English. Spanish on 6120 only, since 5040 was absent, while 5025 Rebelde was on as usual.  

Has the schedule at 
http://www.radiohc.cu/espanol/c_frecuencia/frecuencias.htm
been changed to show English on 6150, let alone the outdated 
http://www.radiohc.cu/ingles/c_frecuencia/frecuencias.htm
? of course not!

I guess the lazy person in charge of routing program feeds sticks patch cords into wrong holes (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** CYPRUS [and non]. 13755-13770, weak OTH radar pulses, presumed from here, July 12 at 1417 vs KOREA NORTH on 13760. Would also bother Vatican which starts 13765 at 1410, not audible (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** INDONESIA. After a spate of good modulation and signals on 9525.9, VOI strong as ever but lacking any modulation except hum, July 12 at 1310, still 1337 during the English hour. Stayed on past 1357 with het from CRI Russian, and now there is modulation at 1422 check, Indo talk and music equal to, then stronger than CRI, but unusable without a notch (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** LIBYA. 17735, July 12 at 1329, poor signal with folk song until 1332 YL announcement, sounds like Swahili by non-native speaker, mentions Africa, percussive music, more talk mentioning habara (news?), Afrika, Zimbabwe, 1335 Gamal Abdul Nasser. 

All the lists show this hour is YFR in Kannada, a S Asian language, via UAE, but this sure sounds like Swahili, V. of Africa, Libya to me, which is scheduled instead on 17725 with Swahili, where nothing was audible. Nothing audible on 21695 either, supposedly // Libya; only weak signals from Spain 21610, 21570, 21540 detectable on 13m. 17735 went off around 1356, also matching Libya 17725 schedule. After 1400 could not hear it in English on either channel.

It looks like Libya has just made some rare frequency changes! Then I got this:

``LIBYA. 15240 kHz, Voice of Africa. Jul 12. VoAfr was on 15240 kHz at 1500 UT instead of 17725 kHz (I confirmed the frequency on my Grundig G4000A to make sure it wasn't some spurious signal caused by the Roadstar). Moderate signal strength at first with no interference with some shallow fading (SIO: 333) with fading increasing around 1520 (SIO: 222), only to improve around 1530 UT (SIO: 333). Programs about "The African woman's continued success" and another about cities in Africa. IDs (âThis is Voice of Africa from the Great Jamahiriya") at 1510, 1519 and 1531. During this time, I checked 17725 several times but there was no signal. Had to quit listening around 1535 due to a local thunderstorm. Hope this is of some use, KH Schmitter, Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany (48ÂN, 7.8ÂE), Receiver: Roadstar TRA-2350P, Antenna: Sony AN-LP1 active indoor`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** NETHERLANDS [non]. RNW`s all-out coverage only in Dutch of the World Cup finale, July 11: at 1918 on 15310 via Bonaire, listing all the frequencies including this one for Carib and FL. It`s running about 1 second behind Sackville on 13640, 11905. I suppose the game was about to start. 

Since nothing much else was going on Sunday afternoon, I condescended to watch the second half of the game on ABC/UnivisiÃn with occasional chex of SW RN and REE which was also covering it with exhausting enthusiasm on 17850, 17595, 15110, 11815, etc. I was trying to figure out why this stupid ballgame enthralls millions (billions?), some of them even dying because of watching it in a vulnerable public group.

Due to a 0-0 tie, the game went on and on, until Spain finally won at 2102 UT. I have a modest suggestion for improving football, and enabling scores a bit higher than 0-1 after two hours of effort: get rid of the goalies. Since both sides would lack them, the teams would still be evenly matched, but there would be a lot more goals, and less likelihood of ties. If this overdid it, then the goal nets could be smallerized. You`re welcome.

Congratulations to The Netherlands, which will not have to bear the onus of being known as champs in stupid ballgames, but can redirect efforts toward worthwhile endeavors such as arts and science. Remember Rembrandt? Leeuwenhoek? Conquering the East Indies?

Not only does RNW put most of its effort into Dutch rather than English, spoken by countless millions more, and most Dutch understand English anyway, but it even broadcasts two separate Dutch programs at once: July 12 at 0526 I am hearing non // Dutch on 9865 and 9895, but 9865 is about to sign off with national anthem. 9895 stays on talking about, what else, World Cup, which is all over. 9865 is via Bonaire to NZ; 9895 via Wertachtal to SE Europe until 0557 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** OKLAHOMA. 1580, KOKB Blackwell managed to maintain overmodulation distortion this weekend, July 10-11, preventing any chance of beneath-the-carrier DXing, but:

1640, KFXY Enid has taken over the open carrier format, with occasional interruptions. Their automation must really be screwed up, and there is no human to intervene. Would any listener clue them in? Not me.

First noted July 11 at 1811-1916+ UT, OC whenever checked. I then left a receiver on frequency for hours, altho not always close enough to hear if anything came on. 

At 2247, the carrier dumped off for a moment as a storm blew thru the east-of-Hennessey transmitter site. 

At 2309, came to life with severe weather alert, probably automatically overriding ``programming`` on this and sister stations 1390, 107.1. Right back to OC on 1640. Another one at 2323, and this time I confirm it`s // KCRC 1390 and KNID 107.1; altho synchronized with 107.1, the 1640 audio is a reverb apart from 1390. IDs are only for ``Chisholm Trail Broadcasting``. NOT including 96.9 which has been spun off to OKC tho Enid is still COL and within prime coverage area from transmitter near Crescent. Who cares if its listeners get hit by a tornado?

More OC until 2336 when a truck ad and others cut on; 2339 back to OC; 2340 weather, OC. Well, ads and weather are what really matter.

UT July 12 at 0011 gospel music on for a few sex; wiggle that patchcord? 0013, Faith 1640 ID, no music. 0023, ``Your favorite southern gospel music on the new Faith 16-40``, followed by NO music.

0235 still OC but bits of fitful audio here and there. 

1323 UT next morning, STILL OC only and at 1426, 1618. Now a new business week has started and yet no human at CTB has noticed the problem. 

BTW, altho my initial observation weeks ago that KFXY had switched to southern gospel music, ``Faith 1640``, has made it to the MW clubs` listings of format changes, my significant follow-up has not, i.e. that live sports such as ML baseball still pre-empts the music, and during the games it reverts to previous slogan, ``The Score``. Will anyone pick this up now? (Glenn Hauser, Enid, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U K. 9680, supersignal from WYFR normally has no competition, but July 12 at 0537 there is equal-level CCI in Russian. This is BBC via Rampisham, 04-06, 500 kW at 47 degrees. Solar flux hit 83 on July 11, and K-index at 06 July 12 was 0. Lots of other good signals from Europe at this time on 31m (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. WEWN missing from 12050, July 12 at 1419, tho Spanish VG on 11550 with Taiwan het; and English audible on 13835. So one transmitter is down. Previous summers, has been off for weeks of maintenance (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A [and non]. 15730, July 11 at 2023 open carrier S9+18 but weak audio underneath causing SAH. 2029 ``VOA, Washington DC, signing on`` and into French at 2030. This is another case of Americans vs Americans, VOA interfering with itself due to unnecessary site changes, frequency overlaps. 

Here`s what happens: VOA French at 2000-2030 is daily on 15730 via SÃo TomÃ. On Sat and Sun only there is an additional semihour at 2030-2100, but it`s via Greenville. So GB should crash-start on 15730 and tune up on some other open channel before 2030 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

UNIDENTIFIED. 9870 and 9880 // Arabic YL singer with orchestra, July 11 at 0525. Pause at 0529:55-0530:25 as if closing or something were about to happen, but then resuming music. Could be Umm Kalthoum, great singer. VG signals on both. But nothing such is scheduled on either per EiBi, Aoki, HFCC or WRTH Update. 

My guess is VTC, DTK or TDF testing on behalf of Algeria. However, VOA is scheduled on 9880 M-F at 0530-0600 in French via South Africa, and I heard no sign of that; so IBB may be in on this, if only to QRX. Saudi Arabia uses 9870 at other times. At 0540 checked 7275 Tunisia, 7295 Algeria via France, but they were not parallel. That music has also been involved with spy transmissions (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ###


      

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