[HCDX] Glenn Hauser logs August 29-31, 2008

[Glenn Hauser <wghauser@xxxxxxxxx>]

** CUBA [and non]. Sat Aug 30 at 2013 checked 9955 to reconfirm new WORLD OF RADIO time on WRMI. Weak signal, but after a while I could recognize my own voice if not what I was saying. Still being jammed with pulses also weak at this absorptive hour, but enough to ruin reception. Thanks a lot, Arnie! Your show on RHC an hour later won`t be jammed, courtesy of the US government. Yes, at 2111 check on 11760, DXers Unlimited in the clear. How unfair. Try WOR again Sunday at 2030.

Then made various chex as Hurricane Gustav was crossing western Cuba. At 2111 the secret 2030-2130 English broadcast existed on 11760, but no sign of // 9505. Neighboring Spanish service on 11750 was talking about Gustav. I wonder if RHC was simulcasting R. Rebelde for the occasion. Busy at the Ringwood OK watermelon festival during Mesa Redonda at 2230, so next checked UT August 31 at 0132: 11760 was normal, but // 11680 was just open carrier. Its modulation was back when rechecked at 0141. 9580 CRI relay normal with poor modulation. 9600 RHC Spanish mentioning Manolo de la Rosa, and special programming on the air at the moment. 9550 in French. 

At 0143, found Arnie`s DXUL, unjammed yet again, big signal on 6140 but undermodulated with hum. No signal on 6180 at 0143 which is supposedly RHC Spanish to CAm now, but that leaves XEPPM 6185 in the clear with Huasteca music, as well as Vietnam via Canada on 6175. Terry Krueger in FL enjoys the same anomaly, but I`m not so sure Gustav is responsible since all the other RHC frequencies are funxional. Absence of 6180 reinforced by the detexion nevertheless of the very weak leapfrog mixing product of 6060 RHC Spanish over 6140 on 6220, // 9600 at 0151. At 0213 compared the modulation of English on 6140 and 6000, and found 6000 even lower. Wiggle those patchcords!

Checking some jammed frequencies, R. República, 6100 at 0207 in non-Cuban music show was VG with selective fades, no jamming audible but probably there and overridden here. At 0212, 6030 R. Martí béisbol over audible jamming, likewise 7365 at 0217. At 0245 on 9955, jamming over detectable WRMI, which per their August 1 schedule is supposed to be relaying R. Praga --- how sad; Cuba and Czechoslovakia used to be such good friends (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** EGYPT [and non] Wonder if R. Cairo is still on 11550 for European service including English 2115-2245? Aug 30 at 2148 could not detect it mixing with WEWN Spanish, which was not very strong. Other signals from Eurafrica were coming in well, English from Czechia with language lesson at 2145 on 11600, Equatorial Guinea [q.v.] on 15190.

Radio Cairo, 6290, good signal and decent modulation during Qur`an, Aug 31 at 0151; kept going past hourtop 0200, into Arabic announcement at 0204 which was very undermodulated by comparison, but not the horrible distortion which used to appear here. Recheck 0217, again in OK Qur`an. This transmission had been closing at 0200 UT due to DST in Egypt of UT +3 since April 25, but per timeanddate.com, that ended August 29, so now Egypt is back on UT +2, and the domestic relay transmissions on SW which had shifted one UT hour earlier should be back to their normal times, including 6290 Arabic to NAm closing at 0300. However, Ramadan is about to start and may throw another monkeywrench into the scheduling. But timeanddate.com thinx it won`t begin in USA until Sept. 2: http://www.timeanddate.com/holidays/muslim/ramadan-begins
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** EQUATORIAL GUINEA [and non]. R. Africa again active Friday Aug 29 at 2031 check on 15190, American-accented gospel huxter overshadowed by VOA Hausa 15185. Meanwhile, presumably due to lack of any E-layer propagation, no signal at all from WWCR 15825 while WOR was on.

Sat Aug 30 I found R. Africa, 15190, at 2155 airing a Saskatchewan preacher I had heard before, closing Gospel Tidings with address, somewhat undermodulated and with worse distortion when YL started singing hymn at 2157; deep fades, and some QRM from YFR via Ascension playing music on 15195. 

At 2200 hymn ended and another program started immediately with no ID break, #640 by Pastor somebody. Now 15195 was off but WYFR itself had started up on 15190, theme audible way below R. Africa. At 2214 recheck, R. Africa still going with good signal, and no YFR cochannel audible, while its 15130 in the clear was also quite weak; meanwhile, REE 15110 Spain direct was at its usual VG strength. So the skip on this band is much longer than the 2 megameters to Florida (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** GERMANY [non]. Bad collision on 6075, Aug 31 at 0232 with RCI in Spanish about, what else, immigration from Chile to Winnipeg, and refugees in Victoria, within Reflejo Boreal program, atop DW in German which is on both Sines, Portugal, and Rampisham UK at 0200-0400 despite RCI Sackville at 0205-0305. DW aimed NE and SE, so cannot be a problem in CNAm, right? Well, DW succeeds in making itself unlistenable in NAm, just as it wishes, while no one in USA or Canada wants to listen to R. Canada Internal in Spanish either, making this a good share (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** SOUTH CAROLINA [non]. The Overcomer Ministry, 11520 presumably via Germany, Aug 31 at 2147 playing C&W tune, and not // WWRB 9385 which had Brother Scare talking, so initially not certain 11520 was same program, but previously determined it was some 2 minutes out of synch. By 2148 BS had started talking on 11520 too. See also USA: WWRB (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 

** TURKEY. I listened to almost the entire VOT Saturday Aug 30 broadcast, on webcast UT Sunday Aug 31 from 0305 to 0355+, when it is also via Canada 7325, and the fortnightly DX corner never appeared. They did have a talk for a special event Aug 30, the 86th (?) anniversary of some attack, which may have replaced it, or is it out of synch again, and DX Corner will be on next week and fortnightly thereafter? My DX/SWL/Media programs listing at http://www.worldoradio.com/dxpgms.html will have to be annotated (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. WRNO missing from 7505, Aug 31 at 0218 during their only scheduled 0100-0400 broadcast. Perhaps they have battened down the hatches in New Orleans or even dismantled the antenna in preparation for Hurricane Gustav? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. Not everything on WWRB 3185 is Brother Scare; UT Sunday Aug 31 at 0223 the Bluegrass Gospel Hour was in progress, country-boy accented preacher giving address repeatedly of P O Box 3451, Hueytown /spelt/, AL 25023. Audio a bit muffled. Is this Mike Gibson, shown on the Global 1 schedule at http://www.wwrb.org/schedule/global_1/combined.pdf for 10-11 pm, timezone unspecified, on Saturdays? Meanwhile, BS was on two other WWRB frequencies, 5745 and 6890. He does not start on 3185 until midnight in some timezone or other and then runs 9 hours straight. Personally, I need much more than 9 hours straight to satisfy my craving for the revelations of the Last Day Prophet of God (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 11740 had open carrier long before 2200 Sat Aug 30; at 2205 check WYFR was in English, an introductory philately discussion about topicals with a sub-official of http://www.stamps.org --- the American Philatelic Society. Host pronounces philately with a long A. I only listened for a few minutes, but during that time it seemed secular, no religious undertones! Turned out to be part 1 of a show called For the Record, from Family Radio; and part 2 from 2214 would be about Alzheimer`s Disease. I assume the stamp segment was just a fluke and not a regular repeatable feature. VG signal. See also EQUATORIAL GUINEA (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)



      

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