[HCDX] Glenn Hauser logs May 18-19, 2013

[Glenn Hauser <wghauser@xxxxxxxxx>]

** CUBA. 6125, May 19 at 0519, RHC English is somewhat undermodulated and distorted; 6165 is somewhat undermodulated and not distorted. // 6060 mod is OK but weakest as usual aimed toward Europe; and 6010 is OK.

Sunday May 19 at 1401, RHC Spanish has lost modulation, only dead air on: 17580, 15340 vs HCJB, 11860, 11760. Nominal on 17730, 15230, 13780, 11750, 11690; trace of signal? on 9540. Things always go more haywire than usual on Sunday mornings, presumably because of long- defunct `Aló Presidente` relay from Venezuela, which required transmitter and feed shuffling to accommodate, from which RHC has yet to recover (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** JAPAN [non]. 11730, May 19 at 0529, surprised to hear NHK giving full English schedule, 0530 into `Sakura` theme and French as scheduled. The English was // 11970 just before it closed. TDF Issoudun applied off-topic modulation to 11730 a minute too early (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** MEXICO. 2, May 19 at 1533 UT, sporadic-E signal fades in, Spanish. Jockeying rotor, seems slightly east of due south. A B&W documentary. Probably XHY-TV Mérida, Yucatán; yes, during ads at 1541 I make a match to webstream via http://sipse.com/canal2/ with the usual delay. It`s only a weak opening so far, in and out, mostly out, and not above ch 2. Hope to have more in my next report.

Glad to be getting some real TV DX again, while analog still exist in parts of México. But I continue to pine for something further, extended single hop from Central America, double-hop from Central or South America, which DXers further east now have little trouble getting with no US stations in the way. But for me, Mexicans are still in the way.

At 1550 UT, the essential 50 MHz Es maps at 
http://www.tvcomm.co.uk/radio/muf5.html 
and
http://www.dxmaps.com/spots/map.php?Lan=E&Frec=50&Map=NA
show lots of paths across eastern, southern and western USA, but no linx between Enid and Mérida.

BTW, I appreciate the tolerance in SW lists for my including VHF/UHF DX which may simply be ignored if not interested, but which I find hard to fathom (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** NETHERLANDS [non]. 9925, May 19 at 0058 check, The Mighty KBC via Nauen, GERMANY, good signal but very heavy flutter in propagation disturbance. I wonder how that affected Kim`s Radiograms (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** OKLAHOMA. 1120, Saturday May 18 at 1948 UT check on caradio at squirrel haven, KEOR Catoosa is gone again (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** OKLAHOMA. Typo in yesterday`s URL about KIZS 101.5 Collinsville: of course should have read http://www.lapreciosa.com (Glenn Hauser, Enid, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** OKLAHOMA. 48, May 19 after 0230 UT, with my new C-490 antenna in service, I am pleased to find that KOCY-LP is still NTSC from OKC, 18.1 kW with Estrella TV network. Under dead conditions I am lucky to see a frame bar, but with a little help from the troposphere, it visiblizes, hardly ever snow-free: the nearest if not only OK TV station that hasn`t gone DTV yet, which I will really miss as a signal-checker that antenna be funxional (Glenn Hauser, Enid, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** PERU. 5980, May 19 at 0057, no signal at first, then a JBA carrier, but seems slightly on the lo side, unlike usual 5980.00 from R. Chaski, or is it some other carrier? No time to measure it, so I just listen for the cutoff, This one goes off about 0100:18*, 11 seconds later than last heard two evenings ago, so still correlates as the Urubamban (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 5000, May 19 at 0518, WWV propbotess intones: SF 132, Ap 21, K 4 at 03; minor, G1, S1; next 24 hours forecast: G2, S1, R1. That explains why not much to report this time on SW: horrible conditions (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 5050, UT Sun May 19 at 0101, WWRB is on again with hymn, since it`s Saturday night (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 5085, UT Sun May 19 at 0057, WTWW-2 is on with music. Did anyone notice whether WOR 1669 appeared at 2329 Saturday on 9930? I was otherwise occupied, but earlier in the afternoon suspected they were live from the Dayton Hamvention, if not a previous QSO show.

WORLD OF RADIO 1669 monitoring: confirmed on WTWW-1, 5830, UT Sunday May 19 at 0400.6, very good reception. Next: Sunday 2329v on WTWW-2 9930 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 720, May 18 at 1954 UT, caradio bandscan at squirrel haven north of Enid, quiet location (but lite line noise detectable on some MW channels; I can still see powerlines in the distance), baseball game. Can this be WGN? Some player named deJesús. Yes, it`s the Cubs, daytime groundwave all the way from Chicago! I`ve heard it before in the daytime; in winter there is some question whether it`s residual skywave, but surely not now. City to city distance is 667 miles, maybe a bit less to the site.

670, the strange thing is, I am not hearing anything from WSCR, which theoretically should have at least as good a signal as WGN under these circumstances. KLTT Denver, a couple hundred miles closer, is alone with some non-sports talk mentioning area code 303. Why does WGN get out so much better than WSCR? Is the latter not up to par? Unfortunately, Okie stations block the other Chi-town possibilities, 780 and 890 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. RF 9, May 18 at 1929 UT, KAFT Fayetteville AR, tropo is in with high humidity, even at mid-afternoon. 37.9 kW KAFT emits the usual four subchannels, three varieties of PBS, plus 13-4 with a reading service, video being nothing but a slide which changes colors and fonts every so often; I assume like all the other Arkansas PTV stations (OETA OTOH, restricts to only two so they can run HD on the prime one. KPTS-8 Wichita also has 3 or 4 channels we are missing in OK).

Inaugurating my new C-490 Antennacraft antenna, which replaces the same model severely damaged by icing last winter. I was trying to hold off till after tornado season, but couldn`t wait any longer with sporadic E erupting (and the lowband elements being longest were the most damaged on the old one). The UHF `arrow` segment of the C-490 was not damaged, and now I am wondering if I can detach it and use it productively independently? Heavy storms and high winds followed this night, but whew, no tornados here. 

Axually the first non-local signal I got on the new antenna was KOTV-45 Tulsa, as I was realigning the rotor and it was axually pointing WNW. Hmm. Also in: KOED-11, Tulsa. I discovered that with end point due west, the rotor won`t reach 270-280 degrees or so, but nothing much to be seen directly from that angle.

Then on the way to squirrel haven, on caradio north of Enid on 107.9 heard an ad for Rogers at 1942 UT May 18, which must have been nearby KEZA, 99 kW also in Fayetteville AR (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 

UNIDENTIFIED. 580, May 18 at 1953 UT from squirrel haven, a daytime bandscan audiblizes a weak talk station underneath WIBW Topeka KS, the very dominant signal here. Lubbock TX, KRFE? But only 500 watts and supposedly directional westward. I do recall it gets out well. Or is it KJMJ Alexandria LA, 5 kW, non-direxional, and a couple hundred miles further than Lubbock, over a not-so-good ground conductivity path? No nulling and no DFing on the caradio. I guess we can rule out WILL, despite WGN incoming, with WILL`s null toward Topeka and us --- or is it out of order? IIRC they had some problems a while ago.

Speaking of which, I hear that KCKN 1020 Roswell NM is running only 1 kW non-direxional as its 50 kW has failed and is not being fixed by the new owners. That might audiblize it here, no longer nulled toward KDKA (not heard yet and not likely unless KOKP is off), while opening up 1020 for much else in the West (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

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