[HCDX] Glenn Hauser logs December 8-9, 2011

[Glenn Hauser <wghauser@xxxxxxxxx>]

** ALBANIA [and non]. 7425, Dec 9 at 0013, R. Tirana with CRI interference under, which could be resolved if Albania would just move 5 kHz to open 7420 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** AUSTRALIA [and non]. 6020, Dec 9 at 1334, R. Australia sports talk has heavy CCI from music. HFCC shows the problem now at 13-14 is CNR in Mongolian, 100 kW, 15 degrees from Beijing site. Aoki says it is the CNR8 service in Mongolian, but 100 kW, 283 degrees. Since it`s carrying on so well to NAm, I suspect the former azimuth, vs. RA which is 30 degrees from Shepparton toward Alaska (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** AUSTRIA. 6155, Dec 9 at 0647, R. Austria International in regular morning classical music show with short pieces: madrigal song, then D. Scarlatti, very good signal with YL announcer; wish I could listen to this and Spain 5965 and Mexico 6185 all at the same time (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** CHINA. Firedrake Dec 9, after 1400:
15495, very good with flutter at 1406, during initially rather unfamiliar passage in the 60-minute loop skipped on most frequencies. Presumably here again as yesterday to block unheard V. of Tibet 2 or 3 kHz away. Had just come on, not there a couple minutes earlier as I tuned by.

Before 1500:
1454-1500, none found manually tuning quickly from 7 to 19 MHz
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** CUBA. 15380, Dec 9 at 1408, dead air with some hum from RHC, while normal on 13780 and the other frequencies. 1425 transmitter also cut off and on the air a few times, 1429 finally started modulating. Every day there is some anomaly on RHC if not several (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** FRANCE [and non]. 9765, Dec 9 at 0635, chanson in French, so RFI Musique fill instead of regular English news programming; At 0636 the French service on 7390 was not replaced by musique; both with fair signals.

15300 and 17620 French service, much stronger 17690 Spanish service via GUIANA FRENCH, Dec 9 at 1410 all in // RFI musique strike-filler.

Another update from Mike Cooper to DXLD, earlier Dec 9: ``Workers at RFI voted today to extend the strike another day, until a meeting of workers on Friday afternoon. There were three votes to suspend the strike and five abstentions. At today's meeting, workers heard a statement from French presidential candidate François Holland (Socialist) "assuring RFI personnel of his full support."`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** INDONESIA. 9526-, Dec 9 at 1344, VOI has switched to their other transmitter after many months on 9525-, but the signal is no better, JBA carrier in fact, tipped by tell-tale het of only 4 kHz against the loud Chinese radio war on 9530 vs the inaudible VOI English hour (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** IRAN [non]. 13635, Dec 9 at 1420, great S/SW Asian pop music, from R. Farda, ID at 1425, fair signal until 1429* was 250 kW, 105 degrees via Wertachtal, GERMANY (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** KOREA NORTH [non]. 6135, Dec 9 at 1332, ``Shiokaze, Sea Breeze from Tokyo, Japan`` then ``News Flash`` brief items about NK with same stinger every few seconds. They need to tighten up and diversify their produxion. From Hiroshi`s latest compilation of clandestines to N Korea, via S. Hasegawa: JSR Shiokaze complicated language rotation:

Full hour 1330-1430: English on Friday, Japanese on Monday-Thursday.
1330-1400 Japanese on Sunday, Korean on Saturday. 1400-1430: Korean on Sunday, Japanese on Saturday.

The other broadcast which we never hear in North America, 5910 at 2000-2100 has exactly the same pattern, e.g. English on UT Fridays, i.e. on the following morning local time (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 

** KOREA SOUTH. 6550, Dec 9 at 0638, no signal from unID Korean as heard 24.5 hours earlier. But Sei-ichi Hasagawa replies to our previous report:

``Dear Glenn, It seems to be MND Radio, new version program by female.
6135 and 6230 kHz is a program by male. The station name announcement as ever neither. MND Radio on 6550 kHz in addition from 1100 UT December 9; I can receive 6550 from 1100 in Korean`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) MND = Ministry of National Defense, S Korea

** MAURITANIA. 7245, Dec 9 at 0637, IGIM is on the air in Arabic talk, not chanting (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** MEXICO. 6185, Dec 9 at 0642, XEPPM albums cuts by YL sound like Eartha Kitt: ``My Heart Belongs to Daddy``, 0643 segué to ``Let`s Fall In Love``, Cole Porter songs. So much good music during this semihour on 49m: we are torn among this and Austria and Spain, but R. Educación has the weakest signal (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** MOROCCO. 15349.1, Dec 9 at 1409, IMM stix here with Arabic music, in the clear during this hour after hetting Turkey until 1356, and before hetting Vatican from 1457 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** SPAIN [non]. 5965, Dec 9 at 0645, jazz song in French, from what else? REE via COSTA RICA, soon followed by Castilian announcement; vies with MEXICO 6185 and AUSTRIA 6155 for our musical enjoyment (Glenn hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** TAIWAN [non]. 6875, Dec 9 at 0638, RTI via WYFR, VG still in wrong language, German (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 15590, Dec 9 at 1354, ``Buenos Días, América`` is celebrating its fiftieth anniversary on VOA with a special show from 1330; all three frequencies heavily jammed by Cuba, tnx a lot, Arnie! But 15590 has better s/n ratio than 13750, 9885. VOA jingles, mentions ``50 años en el éter`` tho the etheric medium was overlooked in VOA PR release the day before about this. This is a salute from longtime affiliate R. Carve in Uruguay, no doubt the last of many more earlier in the show. 1356 VOA announces its shortwave frequencies, plus jingles, singing IDs in English, ``direct from Wáshington``. Asking for recuerdos from oyentes if they have any recordings or ephemera of the early years; show webpage
http://www.voanews.com/spanish/programs/radio/45706177.html
has link to audio of this latest show, i.e.
http://www.voanews.com/mp3/voa/latam/span/SPANISH_BUENOSDIAS.mp3
which may be up until Monday morning and no further? I am escuching it unjammed while compiling this report. No news this time (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. WORLD OF RADIO 1594 monitoring: confirmed Thursday Dec 8 at 2200 on WTWW 9479, excellent signal. Also from 2229.5 on WBCQ 7490, but with heavy BBC QRM, co-channel from Thailand almost as strong. This clash varies from day to day, but today grayline propagation from E Asia was working very well on this signal aimed USward. (WOR was also interrupted at 2235 for a few notes of Eine Kleine Nachtmusik, pause, and resumed.)

Meanwhile, 7505 remains empty, as WRNO has been off the air for more than a year but ties up the frequency. I can`t seem to persuade Allan to consider a frequency change, even tho BBC co-channel collision affects all other programming in the 22-24 UT period, not just WOR.

More WORLD OF RADIO airings:
On WRMI 9955: Sat 0900, 1600, 1830, Sun 0900, 1630, 1830, Mon 1230.
On WTWW 5755: UT Sun 0500 
On WBCQ 5110v-CUSB: UT Mon 0330 [maybe; as last week]
On HLR 5980: Tue 1030
Also on SiriusXM 120: Sat & Sun 1830, Sun 0930
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 9990/5085, WTWW-2, still nothing heard, but the spurs at plus/minus 12-13 kHz intervals discovered during the test a few weeks ago, have finally been fixed. George McClintock updates Dec 9: ``To get rid of the spurs, we had to take the synthesizer and move it away from the screen voltage supply filter.`` Continental personnel are now at WTWW working on a few other minor problems before regular service can begin, target date still not set, but will be another full-time religious broadcaster (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

UNIDENTIFIED. 6023, Dec 9 at 1453, suspicious carrier hetting 6025 RFA Cantonese via TINIAN, no to be jammed until Mandarin starts at 1500. Nothing in Aoki, Eibi or HFCC (of course). Perhaps a tribute to Avogadro`s number, which since I first studied chemistry, has been refined closer to 6.022 x 10 to the 23rd (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

UNIDENTIFIED. 9610, Dec 9 at 1345-1347* fluttery open carrier, tone on and off. Nothing scheduled during this hour in HFCC, EiBi or Aoki, but the next occupant at 14-15 is CRI in Sinhala, 500 kW, 258 degrees from Jinhua 831 site (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)


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