[HCDX] Glenn Hauser logs July 18-19, 2011

[Glenn Hauser <wghauser@xxxxxxxxx>]

** CHINA. Firedrake July 19, first at midday in China:

16100, fair at 0516: only one heard 12-18 MHz

Before 1200 UT:
 7990, trying to detect here under TADIL-A bonker at 1158, but not
11500, fair at 1158
12270, fair at 1158
12980, JBA at 1258
14700, poor at 1159
14970, poor at 1158

Before 1300 UT:
11500, poor at 1257
12980, poor at 1257
13920, poor at 1255
14700, fair at 1255
14970, poor at 1255
15900, good-very good at 1254
16100, very good at 1253
16980, good at 1253

After 1300 UT:
11500, very poor at 1329
13920, very poor at 1327
14700, poor at 1326
15430, unlike previous two days, no FD here before 1330; see CYPRUS
15545, fair at 1324
15970, good at 1325; no 15900 now
16100, very good at 1326
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** CYPRUS. 16380-16405, July 19 at 1326, weak OTH radar pulses, presumed from here. Also 15420-15445 at 1330 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** ITALY [non]. On July 18, Ron Norton of NEXUS-IBA notified us: 

``IRRS-Shortwave new daily broadcast to Asia and Australia --- Hello There from IRRS-Shortwave in Milan, Italy, Effective today, June [sic] 18, 2011, we are adding another daily broadcast to Middle East, Asia and Australia from 1300 to 1400 UT on 15610 kHz.
All our broadcasts can also be heard online at:
http://mp3.nexus.org or http://www.egradio.org
You can find our updated frequency schedule at:
http://www.nexus.org/schedules/
We welcome your comments and reception reports for these new broadcasts at: reports (at) nexus (dot) org Thanks, and stay tuned!``

Also via ROMANIA? Frequency schedule page shows it`s 300 kW in English, unlike the other SW frequencies with 150 kW. I`ll bet it`s a preacher, but they never say what their new programming is, and it`s not yet on the day-by-day programming schedule pages as of July 19.

Does Tiganeshti have a spare 300 kW transmitter during this hour? Yes, per EiBi, only two of the three are in use for RRI: 1300-1330 on 17600 and 15435; 1330-1400 on 11835 and 15140. In each case one of the frequencies would be 2-3 kHz off to the low side; see ROMANIA.

So on July 19 I tune 15610 in at 1258, and guess what, Brother Scare is already on, past 1301 with no sign-on or ID from IRRS/NEXUS-IBA/EGR, talking about being on 5 satellites, etc. Not // WWCR 9980, until I found a music bit starting on 15610 about 72 seconds after it started on 9980 (The BS from BS is so generic and repetitive that it`s hard to make a match on that at such a long delay.) By 1358, 15610 has declined to JBA with flutter. At 1359 another voice is heard, and a `news` cast starts before 1400, about Republicans until off at 1401*

Or by then, was it WEWN instead? HFCC and FCC show they start 15610 at 1500, but WEWN website, EiBi, Aoki all show from 1400. I was alert for any Queen of Heaven mix before 1400 but heard none. BTW, July 19 Aoki already lists the 13-14 IRRS on 15610 as Overcomer via Rimavská Sobota, Slovakia. I don`t think so. 

True to form, BS is all mixed up about his own schedule, with this flashing red on the Overcomer homepage:
``New Shortwave 300,000 watt starting July 18 at 18:00 UTC 15.610``
It`s still not on the less-than useful SW frequency schedule with non-specific local times at
ftp://www.overcomerministry.org/RadioSchedule/Short%20Wave%20Radio.html
1800 would be Pakistan time for 1300 UT. Just what the Pakis need! (Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** KUWAIT. 21540, July 19 at 1246 fair signal in Arabic, breaking into S Asian-sounding song; can`t hear Spain mixing. At 1332 Kuwait is stronger with Arabic music, drama. 13m conditions improving slightly, with solar flux up to 102 July 18, but K-index 3 at 1500 July 19 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** KUWAIT. 17840, July 19 at 1249, South-Asian sounding song, but 1250 Arabic announcement and current rock song in English by some American female star; I can never remember which is which, and could not care less. Warbly carrier with BFO, compared e.g. to France on 17850. This is R. Sawa until 1300 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** MAURITANIA. 7245, July 19 at 0540, IGIM is already on earlier than usual with chants, stronger than Vatican 7250. I had not heard on this frequency for some time, perhaps signing on later than I sign off, as reported by others. 0625 still on, now with talk in normal tone of voice. 

In the NASWA Flashsheet, Ed Wlodarski in NJ had reported Mauritania back on 4845, excellent signal July 17 at 0728-0735. That frequency had been off for many months. If past performance be any guide, their usage of both and switchover times will be highly irregular (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** MEXICO. Following the Es opening into FM July 18 past 1836 still on TV, occasional chex showed some signals the rest of the UT day, mostly ch 2.

UT July 19:
0125 on 2, net-4 talk show with f bug LL; also has smaller f bug in UR
0215 on 2, Televisa promo, unknown which net
0353 on 3, net-5 with lucha libre (wrestling); also CCI on 2
0403 on 2, promo mentioning Monterrey, so maybe XEFB; 0407 local newscast, unfamiliar round bug in UR: not XEFB per Oglethorpe

1403 on 2, turn on to find Es in progress mentioning Veracruz; also some weaker signals up to ch 5. During following sesquihour, mostly just CCI on 2 peaking SSW.

1547 on 3, net-5 with Smurfs; algo on 4, CCI; MUF is building
1548 on 5, net-2 with HOY variety morning show, 10:48 clock
1549 on 4, net-13 with grafic of a large 6, game show?
1552 on 5, Televisa Música promo, then shots of pope
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** ROMANIA. 17767.3, July 19 at 0515, RRI VG in French, // weaker 15340.0. Since there was no het I at first assumed it was on proper 17770 until measured. One of the Tiganeshti transmitters has been 2-3 kHz low in frequency on all broadcasts since July 9, first discovered by Ron Howard, and tracked extensively by Wolfgang Büschel, but this is the first one I have run across. WB notified the Romanians about it, but nothing has been done (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) See also ITALY [non]

** SOUTH CAROLINA [non]. New Overcomer relay on 15610: see ITALY [non]

** SPAIN. 21610, July 19 at 1203, REE Spanish very poor but some signal at least and rather early for band open at all lately. Did not improve in following hour and weaker // 21540 never bothered KUWAIT, q.v. (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)  

** SUDAN [non]. As in previous report, R. Dabanga has expanded schedule since July 18. On July 19 monitored:

13730, fair at 0523 via Wertachtal, GERMANY, a few sex behind 13620 via Madagascar; S9+10 at peaks. Had not been hearing 13730 when it was UAE, just some oscillating jamming at times. Now no jamming heard. Still not hearing the UAE frequency which is now 15550.

13620 at 0523, still has tone jammer; 0527 brief overlap at site switch from MADAGASCAR to Nauen, GERMANY, and continues audible but weaker. Tone jammer stops at 0530: ha, they don`t know about the extended schedule. During the 0529 minute, singing IDs and kHz announcements. At 0530 I compare 13620 and 13730: now they are only an echo apart from the two German sites (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U K [non]. 9740, July 19 at 1221, BBCWS via Singapore, fair in Newshour, Robin Lustig says expanded to next 4 hours today to cover the events at Westminster (testimony of Rupert Murdoch et al. in the phone-hacking scandal), but then on to other news. At 1339 had declined to poor (and nothing better from BBCWS audible anywhere on SW), with seemingly live testimony by ex-police commissioner Yates, but could not match it to audio on CSPAN2. 

(By the time Murdochs came on, around 1355, CSPAN2 had to switch to Sen. Tom Coburn, on budget matters as the US Senate always comes first. But then MSNBC, CNN, and even Fox News were live from London.)
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A [non]. 12050, July 19 at 0533, fair signal in Arabic. Nothing in HFCC, but Aoki shows AWR via Wertachtal, GERMANY at 05-06 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

UNIDENTIFIED. 6900.0, July 19 at 0540-0543:40* strong multiple carriers 1 kHz apart roughly up to plus and minus 5 kHz beating against each other, seemingly centred here. Back on at 0544 until 0545:35* and not resuming in next few minutes. One suspects HAARP acting like this (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

UNIDENTIFIED. 15300, July 19 at 1206, 1000 Hz tone test on yet another frequency, still at 1230 and 1254 but not at 1323 check. RFI is scheduled here all the way from 04 to 20 UT, but not heard: poor propagation or was the tone axually coming from Issoudun? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ###

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