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[HCDX] Glenn Hauser logs November 27
** CANADA. What in the world is going on at RCI? Major changes apparently
effective Monday morning Nov 27; it`s hard to believe they were unintentional.
The 14-17 UT broadcast consisting of The Link 1 & 2, then Sounds like Canada
from CBC, had been on 9515, 13655 and 17820.
But now I found RCI on only one frequency, 9610, sounding like what was on
9515, undermodulated, at 1508 with RCI news, 1510 starting The Link. Quickly
scanned the 6, 7, 9, 11, 13, 15, 17 and 21 MHz bands and did not find any //
frequency.
I was hoping for a new frequency announcement around 1600 but instead Jim
Craig`s This Day in History feature just kept running past hourtop ? since the
news earlier ran later than usual, the whole block may have started late.
Closed The Link at 1603 plugging its next hour, so this was I, rather than the
usual II during the 15 UT hour.
But then at 1604 abruptly changed to Russian, with RCI+ ID for Sirius and into
news in Russian, still in Russian at 1621. This is on the schedule for RCI Plus
at 1100 EST, http://www.rcinet.ca/rci/PDF/B06_RCI_Plus.pdf
and no changes have been made in the accompanying RCI B-06 schedules still
showing 9515, 13655 and 17820 at 14-17 UT.
Has RCI dumped its usual morning programming and just plugged the RCI+ feed
into one Sackville transmitter rather than three, on a new announced frequency,
without bothering to tell anyone what it is doing? Perhaps this new frequency
was chosen for being available beyond the 3 hours 9515 was in use.
After 1635, 9610 was still in Russian, but RCI, not a relay of R. France
Internationale as on the pdf grid (why would RCI be relaying RFI on its Sirius
channel, anyway?). Everything seems to run a few minutes late, still in Russian
past 1700, wrapping that up at 1703, into French song; 1704 back to English,
YL, with RCI+ ID on Sirius 188, RCI news by Terry Hayes, 1709 into The Link
again. Had other things to do so did not keep monitoring, but 9610 seemed to be
still on the air at 1822 recheck amid local noise sources (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** GABON. ANU The Buzz, 19160, with bits of modulation also audible, Nov 27 at
1522 was wavering between S3 and occasional S9 peaks (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** INDONESIA. VOI, 9525, VG signal here, much better e.g. than Japan 9505/9535
or RCI 9610; Nov 27 during 1530 semihour again running gamelan orchestra 6:24
loop with English IDs; not checked during 1600 hour when no doubt in Arabic;
seems to be running a few minutes late like RCI. 1703 music and opening
Spanish, La Voz de Indonesia, news, spoken syl-la-ble-by-syl-la-ble with
accent. Made some mistakes a native speaker would not, such as ``Indonesio`` as
a noun, and ``democratíco``. 1712-1717 brief Arte y Cultura program about
something in East Java, then music from different propinsis of Indonesia. Still
on at 1802 into German. No sign of anything on 15150 at 1703 check where all
these are supposedly scheduled toward Europe instead of 9525 toward North
America (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** NEW ZEALAND. Surprised to find RNZI on an unannounced new frequency, 9765,
Nov 27 at 0615 with music, then lengthy discussions of dingos and Tasmanian
devils, whether they should be re-introduced onto Aussie mainland. Why? 9870
had been fine here. DRM remains on 9885-9890-9895 at the same time.
RNZI website says ``Frequency Schedule Changes effective immediately ! (07 Nov
2006 · 1914 UTC)`` but that refers to the previous jumble, not the latest one,
altho the schedule page still dated effective 08 Nov instead of 27 Nov has this
latest change entered, all daily:
08 Nov 2006 - 24 Mar 2007
UTC kHz Target Azimuth
0559-1058 9765 AM, 9890 DRM All Pacific 0°
1059-1258 13840 AM NW Pacific, Bougainville, PNG, Timor 325°
1059-1258 9870 DRM All Pacific 0°
1259-1750 5950 AM, 7145 DRM All Pacific 0°
1751-1850 9870 AM, 11675 DRM NE Pac, Fiji, Samoa, Cook Islands 35°
1851-1950 11675 AM, 15720 DRM All Pacific 0°
1951-2150 11675 DRM NW Pacific, Vanuatu, Solomon Islands 325°
1951-2150 17675 AM All Pacific 0°
2151-0558 15720 AM, 17675 DRM All Pacific 0°
Another notice on the website dated 24 Nov says DRM transmitter would be off
air for maintenance part of the time. If RNZI did not make some schedule
adjustment at least every three weeks, SWLing would be boring (Glenn Hauser,
OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** RUSSIA [and non]. VOR in Japanese, balalaika recital with some fancy
fingerwork, Nov 27 at 1440 on 6005 in the clear and // 5995 mixing with R.
Australia`s Health Report on risk factors for heart attax. BTW, No sign of RHC
in between on 6000, which used to run until 1500; maybe that transmitter is the
one that is on new 15370 or 13680 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 9795-9800-9805, DRM, Nov 27 at 1558. 9800 is Sackville DRM but
not scheduled at http://baseportal.com/baseportal/drmdx/main until much later,
2045-2359.
More unID DRM, not on the schedule above at any time, 11955-11960-11965, at
1556 Nov 27 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
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