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[HCDX] Glenn Hauser logs March 7
** ECUADOR [and non]. DRM buzz from HCJB on new frequency March 7 and 8 to
avoid DW 14-20 via Kigali, Sines on 15275. Supposed to be on 15480-15485-15490
at 1400-2100, but already on at 1343 March 7, nominal 4 kW transmitter power,
but quite a bit stronger than neighboring DRM from Vatican on 15510-15515-15520
which was scheduled only until 1400. Also checked the third special for the SWL
Winter Fest, and it was on too at 1355, TDF Guiana French, 17835-17840-17845,
which had also changed from its usual 17870-17875-17880 to avoid some
interference. However, on Saturday, 17840 will collide with Lisbon from 1400,
weekends only (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** ISRAEL. Galei Zahal, 15781.8, talk in Hebrew at 1443 March 7, poor signal,
but better than an hour before when IBA was much stronger in Hebrew on 15760
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** KOREA NORTH [non]. Shiokaze via JSR, Japan, 5985, in English once again on
Friday March 7 at 1404, this time with chronology of news about NK, at this
point Feb 20 on de-nuclearization, next item dated Feb 21; hard to understand
due to accent; 34333 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** ROMANIA [and non]. March 7 at 1349 was getting 5 Hz SAH on REE via Costa
Rica, 15170, as REE was ending Gallego news segment; some talk audible from the
QRM; at 1444 recheck, REE had gone and was getting music and talk with
continuous crackle/breakup in the modulation tho carrier was steady. Checking
listings later, must be RRI Galbeni, in Romanian as scheduled, well-known for
its audio problems, at 285 degrees, more or less toward Costa Rica! Great
coördination (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** RUSSIA. Another check for 8GAL, 6074 proved negative as it has been for the
past week, but March 7 at 1400. R. Rossii 6075 timesignal closing after jazz
was 5.5 seconds late compared to WWV! If you can`t do any better than that, you
should not pretend to broadcast an accurate timesignal (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** RUSSIA. YFR via Samara longpath, 6020, checked again March 7 at 1402: just
buzz/hum, no modulation audible, but at 1406 recheck presumed Telugu talk
mixing with hum (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** SAUDI ARABIA. 17660, March 7 at 1429 in French giving address for ``Club de
l`Auditeur``, but couldn`t copy it, fading in and out; after 1430 mentioned
Côte d`Ivoire several times. Consulting PWBR 2008 you will have no leads on
this, but it`s the French service of BSKSA at 1400, beamed due west from
Riyadh. This misses Ivory Coast, crossing sparsely inhabited northern regions
of ex-French West Africa, Chad, Niger, Mali, finally not far from Bamako (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** SOUTH CAROLINA [non]. Brother Scare on 15325, March 7 at 1455, barely
audible in skirts of Martí Greenville 15330, but unmistakable hoarseness, and
// WWRB 9385. This is Nauen 14-16, 100 kW, 165 degrees (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 7457, Friday March 7 at 1410, Air Force MARS net on SSB, NCS AFA2AJ,
first ``calling all stations in Puerto Rico``, and asking for relays; then
North Carolina, then Kentucky, Georgia with a few check-ins; constant RTTY QRM
from 7455. Googling AFA2AJ, the top four hits (why??) were from the Russian
bulletin World DX quoting other logs of this including 7457-USB, from
Starchat/UDXF but not mentioning location. Searching on UDXF yg itself only got
two hits on the callsign, one from Sept 2007, and another from Aug 2006, in
fact the same logs picked up by World DX. A very seldom-reported station!
Another Google hit had afa2aj as part of an e-mail address by someone
participating in something to do with a Nuclear Regulatory Commission seminar
in April 2005, ``Presentation by Dr. Norman Abrahamson and Dr. Lloyd Cluff on
the new generation ground motion attenuation model and results for large
magnitude earthquakes.``
Another hit led to this: ``TRAINING MESSAGES: AFA2AJ IS CERTIFIED AS ALTERNATE
REGION TRAINER TO EXCHANGE TRAINING MESSAGES WITH TRAINEE STATIONS. THIS
STATION IS AUTHORIZED TO AWARD OR DENY CREDIT FOR TRAINING TRAFFIC EXCHANGES.``
from:
USAF MARS Virginia Communicator Region 2 Bulletin,
http://usafmars.wordpress.com/2008/01/14/region-2-bulletin/
Another hit led to an image of the shack, but possibly disinformation, since
it`s apparently the Air Force Academy, nowhere near Virginia;
http://img311.imageshack.us/my.php?image=afa2aj.jpg See where a hard-to-copy
SSB log can lead? (Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ###
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