[HCDX] Glenn Hauser logs June 1-2, 2013

[Glenn Hauser <wghauser@xxxxxxxxx>]

** BANGLADESH. 15505, June 2 at 1357, BB very poor carrier with tone, quits at 1337.5 and soon replaced by IS; timesignal barely detectable ending at 1359:56 --- Getting close! But no doubt only by chance (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** CHINA. 13795, June 2 at 1238, Firedrake is here again! Very poor with CCI from victim. Who would have guessed that the Firedrake would become an endangered species? All other ex-FD frequencies occupied by CNR1 jamming:

13820, poor at 1239 with CCI, also vs pulse jamming from Cuba against no Martí, but Greenville had just tuned up its carrier on same, and back off
13830, poor at 1239 in the clear
13920, very poor at 1239 mixing with presumed Oz wxfax
14700, very good at 1242
14980, very good at 1242, now with ``opera`` Sunday night CNR1 cultural programming, vocal music and traditional/orchestral music
15195, fair at 1242
15250, good at 1242 with hets also jamming
15970, very poor at 1248
16160, poor at 1248, seems echoey; none in the 17s, 18s, poor prop
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** CUBA. 12120, UT Sunday June 2 after 0500, RHC is gone again, back to fundamental 6060. There may be more to the 12120 appearance 24 hours earlier; Dave Hughes, Kansas City, points out: ``I don't know if there is any connection, but Cuban "intelligence" is on 12120 at 0500 UT with the number/digital mode station every Tuesday, Thursday & Saturday. This sounds like more of the same screwups between DGI & RHC``

Wolfgang Büschel was also hearing RHC on 12120 some hours before I encountered it: ``12120 undoubtedly RHC La Habana HARMONIC of fundamental 6060 kHz Spanish program. S=9+10dB surprisingly signal at 0420 UT June 1st. But 6060 kHz heard seemingly on S=3 tiny level only underneath?`` But when I was getting 12120 there was NO RHC on 6060 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** GERMANY [non]. 15275, new summer frequency for DW English via RWANDA is VG here: June 1 at 2057 report about whistling and the Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra (maybe produced by RNW?) stops modulating at 2058 but open carrier stays on until 2058:20* --- what a waste, in usual refusal to coördinate programming with SW transmission. 

15275 again in English at 0540 check, fair signal. DX Re Mix News had reported that from June 1, 15275 replaced 12045 (which used to be OK here too) at 0500-0630, and was added at 2000-2100, all 295 degrees (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** MEXICO. 710, UT Sunday June 2 at 0509, Spanish talk about carreras, with crowd noises, from southwest, no doubt XEDP, Cuauhtémoc, Chihuahua again, as this is another late béisbol game, carreras meaning ``runs``, altho home run is traditionally pronounced ``jonrón`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** MEXICO. Fitful Es into channel A2, June 2 at 1404 tune-in; antenna south, but 6m maps show all the axion is N and NE of me, so rotate? No, peaks SSE to S; briefly locks in with Spongebob and net-5 bug LR.

I was bringing up the XHY-TV Mérida UStream to make a match, but certainly not that. It`s showing an old B&W musical movie featuring a variety of hats and neck-kerchiefs, marimba and guitarists. At 1442, now XHY-TV itself fades in briefly for a match. Lotsa news and ads at http://sipse.com but I can`t find a plain old program schedule to ID the movie. Try TV Guide: provides cable listings only abroad, and can`t find XHY-TV or Sipse on one Mérida system, and the other doesn`t start until channel 43!

Ch A4, June 2 at 1538 now the MUF is hitting this channel, dubbed Spongebob again from net-5. Also signs of skip on channel A5, but everything is weak, in and out, mostly out as I close this report at 1550. More to come? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** PERU. 5980, June 2 at 0056, R. Chaski carrier audible, bothered by squealing sounds which are different musical pitches emanating from 5990 CRI relay via Cuba. 0059 Chaski is talking, cut off at 0101:31* which is 5.5 seconds later than yesterday (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** SOUTH CAROLINA [non]. 9955, June 2 at 0547 at 1221 chex, Brother Scare is still on WRMI, despite contract expiring May 31. How much longer? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** TAIWAN [non]. 11835, Sunday June 2 at 1258, very poor carrier with music, presumably CNR2 from Xianyang 594 site about to close. 

At 1300 I can make out the PCJ Radio IS on new frequency via Trincomalee, SRI LANKA, but also very poor signal. Probably Andy Sennitt opening the hour, but unreadable; no better at 1335 recheck. No problem, anyway from inaudible 11840 India vs China scheduled until 1315. Propagation is very poor today from the transpolar area; maybe OK in target China? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. WORLD OF RADIO 1671 monitoring: confirmed on WTWW-2, 9930, Saturday June 1 starting at 2329:21, and off by 2358:30 in time for QSY announcement to 5085 and 9930 off immediately (5085 with a QSO show stayed on a bit past 0100 June 2). WOR also confirmed UT Sunday June 2 at 0400.5 on WTWW-1 5830. Next: Sunday 2329v on 9930; also could appear at any time, any day after 1800 on 9930 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 12105, WTWW-3 chex; beginning to look like the Bible languages are being randomly rotated: Sat June 1 at 2015: Russian; Sun June 2 at 1306: Arabic (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 5050, June 2 at 0059 check, WWRB is off. Usually had been on this frequency at least on UT Sundays (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A [and non]. 830, UT Sunday June 2 at 0522, surprised to hear phone number of WBZ 1030 Boston (which ends in -1030); 0525 appears this is a joint WBZ/WCCO show about music and comedy in the early XX century. Both are CBS owned stations. Yet the WCCO show list at http://minnesota.cbslocal.com/audio-on-demand/wcco-radio-shows/
skips Saturday 10 pm until Sunday 7:30 am! 

But WBZ has a schedule:
http://boston.cbslocal.com/2010/03/18/wbz-newsradio-program-schedule/
showing at 12-3:30 am Sundays [EDT = 0400-0740 UT] this is
http://boston.cbslocal.com/the-jordan-rich-show/
Does the date in the URL mean that has not been changed since 38+ months ago? 

In semi-auroral conditions, WCCO loses out to Spanish, probably opposite XEIK, with 12:23 timecheck amid music at 0523 but no ID (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 840, UT Sunday June 2 at 0514 UT, ``All Shook Up`` not by Elvis: surprised to hear music from what must be WHAS Louisville KY --- or is it? WHAS is supposedly a talk station. Conditions are strange, semi-auroral with WSM 650 replaced by Spanish, Chicago clears attenuated. The DF on 840 fits Louisville, and when nulled there is a weak Spanish signal. 0516, ``Johnny Be Good`` fading out at 0520 but announcing something about a pledge drive. Googling later, it must be the 60th annual WHAS Crusade for Children, http://crusadeforchildren.org/ simulcast with TV
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 980, June 2 at 0515 UT, `Coast to Coast AM` is inbooming from NE/SW, no doubt KMBZ Kansas City, the usual primary occupant, but much stronger than usual. It`s 5 kW day and night, with slightly different patterns both favoring westward. BTW, the C2C station list 
http://www.coasttocoastam.com/stations/missouri
shows day and night powers for some affiliates, unusual, but not KMBZ (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

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