[HCDX] Glenn Hauser logs October 27

[Glenn Hauser <wghauser@xxxxxxxxx>]

** CHINA. Firedrake, still on 10450, Oct 27 at 1524, fair (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)

** CUBA [and non]. The spurious clicks from DentroCuban Jamming command
transmitters on 11930 were easily audible Oct 27 at 1521 on 11880, bothering
nothing, but the one matching on the high side, 11980, was causing severe
interference to someone in English sounding like Carl Watts, talking about
Japan; yes, V. of Russia is scheduled there. But do the Cubans care about such
collateral damage caused by their battle against freedom of expression? Ask
Arnie. Of course not (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** ECUADOR. La Voz de los Andes has now made it through the entire B-06 season
announcing an imaginary frequency. Checked once again at 1359 UT Oct 27 on
9745, the ``Albert Einstein`` ID, which came on automatically at 1359:30
requiring the hymn in progress to be faded out, once again claimed that the
frequencies in use were 11760 for South America, 9745 for Mexico; while in fact
HCJB has never been on 11760 and would find a lot of QRM from Cuba if it were,
but instead 11690. In B-06 9745 is replaced by 11960 which will require a new
ID recording, but will they bother with updating it for that either, and if so,
will they get it right this time? B-06:
1100 1500 11690 100 150 S. America 
1300 1500 11960 100 324 Mexico
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** FRANCE [non]. RFI, 6120 via Japan, Oct 27 at 1400 with late timesignal,
opening English with local timecheck as 4 pm, News Hour (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)

** GABON. ANO harmonic, 19160, just barely audible with French talk, Oct 27 at
1509, 2 x 9580. If I had nothing else to do, it would be fun to track this all
day long and see how the signal varies, exactly when it peaks (Glenn Hauser,
OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** GERMANY [and non]. DW in German via Sackville, 15445, Oct 27 at 1515 was
under an even bigger open carrier about 6 Hz away. My guess is Greenville,
which is not supposed to come up on this frequency until 1900. VOA often runs
OC tests hours before scheduled broadcasts for reasons unknown, testing or
tune-up. It could hardly be warm-up, this much earlier. Just because a carrier
is unmodulated does not mean it will not cause destructive interference against
legitimate occupants of the frequency, and IBB could do such tests just as well
on a nearby frequency which is really unoccupied (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)

** INDONESIA. The program feed mix infesting VOI/RRI 9525 the past couple days
had been fixed on Oct 27; at 1311, one program in the clear with Indonesian
talk. Rechecked at 1430, carrier was still on mixing with CRI in Russian. At
1525, still carrier, but a couple of weak audios were also to be heard, not
sure from this transmitter or something else (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)

** ISRAEL. Kol Israel in Persian, 15760, Oct 27 at 1511 with hum and whine, and
a slight warble/instability of the carrier. Very good strength, but also
undermodulated. Previously I thought there was Iranian jamming, but this time,
it could just be defective transmission (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** KOREA NORTH [non]. Shiokaze, 9485 via Taiwan, Friday Oct 27 at 1327 check
was in Korean, not English; poor (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** LIBYA [non]. V. of Africa, via France, Oct 27 at 1507 was audible on 21695
in English about African Union, one of their few favorite subjects, and hum, //
17850 also hummy and undermodulated (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** LIBYA [and non]. Oct 27 at 1340, 17660 with African music; 17665 with Arabic
music, SAH, presumably against Sawt al-Amal (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)

** NEW ZEALAND. RNZI, analog 7145 with good signal at 1333 Oct 27 playing some
Jamaican music (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** RUSSIA [and non]. VOR, 15605, Oct 27 at 1513 in Hindi suffering buzz QRM
from KTBN: see U S A. 11980 with QRM from jamspurs: see CUBA

** SAUDI ARABIA. Friday Oct 27 at 1507, BSKSA on 15435 with Qur`an and no buzz
for the second day, quite strong. Also audible on 21460 at 1505 but with buzz,
not so strong as to totally override the non // Qur`aning. 21460 is the Holy
Qur`an Service, while 15435 is the Call of Islam service (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)

** SOMALIA [non]. R. Waaberi, 17550 via Germany, with ID just before closing at
1357 Oct 27, in its weekly semihour on Fridays, suffering from WYFR adjacency
on 17555 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** SPAIN. Enjoyed the final Nuestro Sello from REE, Friday Oct 27 at 1345 on
17595, and 1355 with Triumphal March from Aïda. The B-06 program schedule at
http://www.rtve.es/rne/ree/OndaCorta/America.htm does not show any times at all
for this title, altho there is something called Nuestra Música. BTW, altho an
html page, the schedule grid looks like fuzzy jpg so I could only search it
with my eyeballs (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U K. BBCWS in English, Oct 27 at 1518 had a big echo on 12095. Per EiBi, at
this hour Woofferton is running two transmitters, one to Eu and another to EEu.
HFCC does not show this until 1600, however, at 78 and 140 degrees. Let`s hope
the echo is not due to the two transmitters being unsynchronized, but instead
long and short path simultaneously (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. Most of the time, the KTBN transmitter on 15590 is accompanied by a
huge raspy buzz out to at least 15 kHz on each side. This has been going on for
years, and apparently has never drawn an FCC citation. Why should they care?
Paul Crouch and Co. obviously have no respect for other occupants of the
airwaves. Oct 27 at 1513, V. of Russia on 15605 was suffering from this QRM
during their Hindi broadcast, and so was BBC on 15575 in Pashto. Something
might be done if its victims complained, but why should they care either?
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. KAIJ, 9975, with non-DGS programming sometime before 1400 Oct 27. I
paid more attention at 1527 when the signal was very strong running hi-pitched
tone tests, 7 kHz or so? KAIJ was even stronger than WWCR 9985, against which
the tones could also be heard on the low side. 1532 played KAIJ ID, and 1537
bits of music intermittently, off sometime before 1600. Some sporadic E may
have been causing the strong signal here in the skip-or-not zone, tho none is
reported at http://dxworld.com/tvfmlog.html and apparently not reaching VHF.
WWCR 15825 also had Es enhancement instead of its usual weak and marginal
signal here one megameter away (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)


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