[HCDX] Glenn Hauser logs October 1-2, 2008

[Glenn Hauser <wghauser@xxxxxxxxx>]

** CUBA [and non]. RHC`s English program at 23-24 UT is supposed to be only on 9550 --- to Rio de Janeiro? To the Caribbean? Who know? But I was monitoring 11800 at 2301 UT Oct 1, and guess what --- RHC opening English, not unusual for this frequency to be running overtime past scheduled 2300* in Spanish. 

So I then checked 9550 --- just open carrier! Then I checked 9600 --- and there was RHC English // 11800. Modulation on 9550 came up around 2303. It came to pass that 11800, bothered by QRDRM from 11790-11795-11800 HCJB with 4 kW aimed 110 degrees from Pifo, cut off sometime between 2305 and 2307, but 9600 kept going past 2330 as if it were intended. 

BTW, RHC does not announce its frequencies at the beginning of English hours, which is a very good idea since they change from day to day, and the studionix are in no position to know them, unlike an axual monitor in faraway Oklahoma. 

Also, while listening to RHC on 9600, I could barely hear the Vatican IS underneath at 2314, but did not notice whether they still had a 2.5 minute English service just before it; RHC was much stronger.

DentroCuban Jamming Command was busy jamming nothing the evening of Oct 2, early UT: at 0010 on 9515 vs R. República which closes at 0000 (but heavier jamming on its axual frequency 9640 to the extent that RR was inaudible); also against nothing on 5890 and 6110, which are VOA Spanish frequencies not opening until 0030 and then not exclusively for Cuba (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 

** ECUADOR. HCJB`s Kulina service on 11920, Oct 1 at 2253 with carefully enunciating preacher referring to Matthew XXIV, pronounced in Portuguese, at 2253 and again at 2256. 

I figured they would have moved much further into the NT by now, since my last log of this on May 10 found them also citing Matthew XXIV. 
Either they`re really hooked on this chapter, or more likely, they have recorded only a few programs in this exotic language and play the same ones over and over. And just like 5 months ago, the speaker was faded out rudely at 2259:30 with no outro or closing, just in time for the automated introduxion to the Portuguese service which follows (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** EGYPT. R. Cairo notes Oct 2: at 0012, 9360 with open carrier, or almost so: straining to make out any traces of modulation I thought I heard ``Qahira`` mentioned; this is scheduled in Arabic to S America. Meanwhile, 9280 at same time had good modulation with Arabic music; this is English to North America at 2300-2430, commonly mis-listed as Arabic, e.g. in Aoki, since schedules emanating from ERTU repeatedly overlook this English broadcast and people are also ignoring my correxions about it in DXLD! Here`s another chance to do so. At 0014, also checked 6290 and found that good in an Arabic drama, W&M alternating (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** EQUATORIAL GUINEA. On Oct 1 I did not get around to checking 15190 for R. Africa until 2250, too late for modulation but not too late for a big open carrier they had not yet turned off (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** MEXICO. I finally had a chance to check XEPPM`s program with an English title ``On the Road`` per their website SW schedule for 6185, at 0015 UT. Oct 2 at 0015 music, then segué into a romantic song in Spanish, but by 0019 the announcer was talking and it soon became clear that this is a series presented in Spanish about Jack Kerouac`s ``On the Road``, at its fiftieth anniversary. Plus hiway SFX, and even at 0020 the theme music to ``Ruta 66``. Now we know. Wikipedia:

``On the Road is a novel by American writer Jack Kerouac, written in April 1951, and published by Viking Press in 1957. It is a largely autobiographical work that was written based on the spontaneous road trips of Kerouac and his friends across mid-century America. It is often considered a defining work of the postwar Beat Generation that was inspired by jazz, poetry, and drug experiences. While many of the names and details of Kerouac's experiences are changed in the novel, hundreds of references in On the Road have real-world counterparts.`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** PRIDNESTROVYE. Radio PMR still on 6040 to NAm, Oct 1 at 2339 check in German, which alternates every quarter hour with English and French. As important as it may be, German is not a language native to Moldova or to North America, but very much a minority language at best, not even worth DW`s trouble to broadcast to NAm, so why does PMR aim it at us? Probably because they have someone on staff capable of translating and reading their propaganda in German, which is useful for the European service, so by golly, NAm gets it too (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** VENEZUELA [non]. In the Oct issue of BDXC-UK Communication, page 39, appears this: ``RNV, English at 2300-2330 is now on 15250 (ex 13680) via Cuba. Heard by Glenn Hauser (DXLD) on 6 September with the usual heavy-accented translations from Spanish to English.``

I said no such thing. Here is that log item verbatim: ``** VENEZUELA [non]. RNV, 15250 via Cuba, Sat Sept 6 at 2314 in English, YL with tedious enumeration of constitutional articles concerning corruption, apparently trying to dismiss such charges against Chávez in the 1990s, made only worse by her didactic and heavy accent. . . (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)``

I said nothing about 13680 one way or the other, but this transmission has been on both frequencies for years, not one moving to another, and reconfirmed on both Oct 1 at 2343 in Spanish. I also did not say English was at 2300-2330. Editors are eager to pin RNV`s English to specific times, but in fact it appears at irregular times, usually mixed in with Spanish segments (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ###


      

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