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[HCDX] Glenn Hauser logs July 22-23, 2010
** CHINA [and non]. Firedrake July 23:
8400, JBA at 1215
10500, good at 1230, 1341
No others found up to 18 MHz; hardly anything was propagating above 13 MHz before 1300. Costa Rica 15170 the only significant signal on 19m, at 1240 Catalan (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** COLOMBIA. 5910+, July 23 at 0527, usual peppy music for the insomniax from Marfil Estéreo, as quickly IDed, but timechex are always off. At 0527:20 claimed it was 12:26. Circa 0530 full FM ID with alfanumeric callsign; good signal, often absent but not tonight. I could tell it`s slightly on the hi side, and Maurits van Driessche, Belgium measured it on 5910.010 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CUBA. RHC check July 23 at 0520: English on 6150, 6060, 6010, 5970. Nothing on 6110 except Japan/Canada. Spanish on 6120, 5040.
12030 transmitter is still defective, July 23 at 1234 with weak spurs on 12000 and 12060, also frying-sound buzz occupying most of the range between 12000 and 12030; on the hi side obscured by other stations (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** HAWAII [and non]. I monitored the first half-hour (by tape) of the much-promoted ``tsunami warning test`` from WWVH and WWV, for July 22 at 1800-1900 UT. 15000 kHz had VG signal from WWV, and WWVH could also be heard in the background. Nothing out of the ordinary until:
1803, WWV with tone, overriding WWVH announcement about the test. You`d think WWV would have made this a silent minute.
1804, WWV: ``Your attention, please. Radio station WWV is conducting a test of our emergency notification system. In the event of a real emergency you would be instructed on the nature of the emergency, and given additional information. This is only a test.`` (and repeated immediately before the WWVH time announcement).
1805, WWV: tone. WWVH: underneath making the same announcement as above, by the same OM voice, twice.
1806, WWV: tone. WWVH: silent.
1807, WWV: tone. WWVH: the same announcement as above except says WWVH instead of WWV. Once again, WWV should have been silent.
1808, WWV: real tropical storm warnings. WWVH: silent.
1809, WWV: continues with more tropical storm warnings, pt 2. WWVH: test announcement! Normally they never collide. Coördination failed.
1810, WWV: north Pacific weather. WWVH: silent.
1811, WWV: ``[something] reserved for the National Weather Service``. WWVH: emergency test announcement, the rest of it uncovered.
1812, WWV: emergency test announcement. WWVH: silent
1813, WWV: silent. WWVH: test announcement starts, but only can hear the ``Your attention please``, fade? Then back with the tail of it.
1814, WWV: test announcement. WWVH: seemingly silent
1815, WWV: silent. WWVH: test announcement.
1816, WWV: test announcement. WWVH: silent
1817, WWV: silent. WWVH: test announcement
1818, WWV: test announcement --- pre-empting propagation info! WWVH: silent
1819, WWV: silent. WWVH: test announcement starts and fades
1820, WWV: test announcement. WWVH: silent?
1821, WWV: silent. WWVH: test announcement, barely audible
1822, WWV: test announcement. WWVH: silent?
1823, WWV: silent. WWVH: test announcement
1824, WWV: test announcement. WWVH: silent?
1825, WWV: silent. WWVH: test announcement, traces audible
1826, WWV: test announcement. WWVH: silent?
1827, WWV: silent. WWVH: test announcement, repeated, audible again, best copy of it so far
1828, WWV: test announcement. WWVH: silent
1829, WWV: silent. WWVH: full ID announcement as usual by YL with address, ending with ``aloha``
1830, WWV: full ID announcement by OM, address, no aloha. WWVH: silent
Presumably similar pattern for the second half of the hour. There was really nothing worth preserving beyond one copy of the standard announcement, which did not even mention the word ``tsunami``. Plus evidence of the collisions.
Never were the time ticks, on-the-minute tones, or time announcements by either station disrupted (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** LIBERIA. 4025-, Star Radio presumed, with carrier barely detectable, slightly low compared to Cuba 5025, July 23 at 0523. Had not been able to hear it for a couple weeks, but finally enough signal to surpass noise level; still totally inadequate for axual listening (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MEXICO. WWCR was inbooming on 15825 the morning of July 22, so I started monitoring TV channel 2 for signs of sporadic E on VHF.
1547 UT, 2 finally fades in, from SSE, 10:47 clock in LR and a bug I cannot make out. Seems infomercial. UR says TELEVISA. Another fade-in around 1600, and 1604, still infomercial.
1608 on 2, Azteca7 in UR, fade-in, video only at first; 11:08 clock in upper right. Then two OM presenting a receta del día = recipe of the day
1610 on 4, no audio at first, but 11:10 clock in LR, star bug in UR = Televisa-2 net. Likely Tampico, XHD
1618 on 4, elaborate promo film for Quintana Roo, apparently vacation destination, so likely from elsewhere than QR itself. Televisa credit
1627 on 2, Azteca7, with huge lettering at bottom: info7.mx
1640 on 2, Televisa about Nuestra Belleza, in Veracruz; 1642 mentions TeleVer and Veracruz a few times. Safely assumed to be XHFM there
1702 on 5, something starts to appear, looks like game show
1703 on 4, yes 4, bug in UR for italic tv3, as in XHP-3 Puebla. Danny Oglethorpe says there is a 4 relaying XHP-3 fulltime in Tehuacán, Puebla. W9WI.com agrees; apparently it has the same call letters XHP, but is 20 kW compared to 100 kW on 3. Show is about jeeps, featuring a YL with a sash, probably attesting to her regional beauty
1704 on 5, game show has TeleVer bug in UR, so XHAJ Las Lajas
1710 on 2, Azteca7 news, local rather than from DF HQ? A7 on 2 most likely Tampico, or maybe Campeche
1713 on 4, net-5 with toons. Lots of them around México, but most likely in the PTA (probable target area) are Coatzacoalcos, Veracruz; or maybe Mérida, Yucatán
1718 on 3, tv3 bug in UR, game show teams consisting of two OMs as ZANCUDOS [long-legs], vs two YLs as ABEJAS [bees]. It`s the seVale program as per bug in LR. XHP Puebla
1725 on 2, Azteca7 news again, about roads out, flooded? in Nuevo León, Monterrey mentioned several times, but XEFB-2 in Mty itself is not A7, so probably XHTAU Tampico
1730 on 2, Info7 promo, NFL promo, more news. Various signals continue the next semihour, but weakening, and opening just about gone by 1800 UT (Glenn Hauser, Enid OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** OKLAHOMA. I have found that with some tropo enhancement I can get additional lower-powered signals from OKC, 65-80 miles away.
46, KOCM, licensed to Norman but FCC service area map shows it really in the NE OKC antenna farm with the big stations. The only iffy DTV from OKC. It`s Daystar, so totally gospel huxter and nothing worth watching on it, anyway. W9WI.com listing shows calls KOCM without any suffix but licensed as DT, 50 kW, 416m. Axually I can get a somewhat jumpy decode of this even during dead conditions at midday with antenna aimed just right, as checked July 23 at 1645.
Remaining low-powered analogs, invisible in dead conditions, do not all come in at the same time, so must be distinct sites:
17, Spanish religion from KLHO-LP. W9WI says it`s Reino Unido, which means United Kingdom, obviously not referring to an offshore quasi-European country. Site is between Valley Brook and Moore on the S side of OKC, and does not even cover the entire Metro. Is this the old KSBI-52 tower? Has CP for DTV on 31. I have never heard of Valley Brook in any other context.
19, GCN bug in lower right. Silly me, I assumed this has something to do with the pirate-friendly radio network GCN, Genesis Communications Network. But on TV, GCN means Global Christian Network. Has a fancy website http://www.gcntv.org/ with an affiliate list including KUOT-CA, ch 19, OKC, but like Daystar, nothing but gospel huxters. Site looks to be the same as 17, but with greater coverage.
21, home shopping, they all look alike to me, MEGO, but W9WI.com listed as HSN for KTOU-LP. Site slightly different than 17 and 19, closer to Valley Brook, intersexion of I-240 and I-35, but in same general area. Has CP for DTV on 23, and an APP for 43!
36, KCHM-CA, with Univisión, the tail which wags the dog of the full-power KUOK 35 in Woodward. 36 is the first of the LP OKC stations to show up, sometimes only, obviously higher powered/towered tho W9WI.com listings do not account for that.
48, // 36 with Univisión, KWDW-LP, site is just east of Nichols Hills in the N Central part of OKC. Closer than 36 but much weaker.
So far I have not seen any sign of others listed in W9WI.com:
38, KOHC-CA with Azteca América
41, KXOC-LP, but it`s on KSBI-51 as virtual 52-2, mostly infomercials. However, this is labeled at KSBI-SD, but the last I checked the programming scheduled was identical. 51-1 is labeled KBSI-HD (Glenn Hauser, Enid, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 7555, WEWN absent, Friday July 23 at 0516, just the FUG noise on the hi side. WEWN supposed to start Spanish at 0500, Tue-Sat with ``Paz a la luz de la luna,`` which is ``en vivo desde Miami`` altho the unctuous announcer always speaks the same old Catholic catch-phrases, and might as well be recorded once and played back forever. Still going on the other Spanish frequency 11870 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** VATICAN [and non]. 9645, Friday July 23 at 0515 with ``Turn Your Radio On`` song in English, then into Scandinavian language as scheduled. Perhaps this introduced a DX report, but could not make out any DX content as the YL announced. Plus usual het from always off-frequency R. Bandeirantes, Brasil on the hi side; and probably WYFR 9715/9680 leapfrog mixing product (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 9485.5, approx., Spanish 2-way SSB, detectable July 23 at 1348, much too close to WTWW 9479 splash (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ###
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