[HCDX] Glenn Hauser logs October 5, 2008

[Glenn Hauser <wghauser@xxxxxxxxx>]

** AUSTRALIA [non]. R. Australia, via WRN, via CBC Overnight, via 4-hour delay, via CBU via CKZU, 6160, Vancouver, Sunday Oct 5 at 1228 with Roger Broadbent ending ``Australian Express`` program, and I do mean ending, since he said it was time to give the show a rest and from next week, a new show called ``Australian Bus`` [? Not sure of second word] would ensue. He also mentioned CBC Overnight, so the show was specially re-packaged for that even tho it is, rather was, heard on RA direct at other times. 1230 into another RA show, Innovations, with Desley Blanch. Weak but clear signal on 6160 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** CANADA. ``CBC North Quebec`` is the ID, not ``Northern``, on 9625 heard after the news at 1310 Oct 5 and before starting The Sunday Edition at 1311. Native-accented announcer included 800 phone number twice for contact. TSE first hour was about the US economic crisis, the rest about global warming. Listenable until 1330 with some difficulty due to SAH of approximately 9 Hz, Sackville most likely the one more off-frequency, and mixing with religious music from Asia which per Aoki is FEBC Hmanila in Hmong. 

That`s a lot better than WYFR, also on 9625 and wiping out CBCNQ, a collision between adjacent countries which should never have been allowed to happen, but the frequency managers for both must keep agreeing it`s OK at HFCCs; who cares about the listeners? Okeechobee is currently scheduled on 9625 at 1100-1245, not to mention a couple more hours via overseas relays (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** CANADA [and non]. The revived CFRX is now performing this funxion all night on 6070: If propagating at all, makes a rippling subaudible heterodyne against CVC Chile, the stealth evangelical outlet in Spanish originating in Miami, making it more unpleasant to listen to, so it is not a total waste. At best, CFRX signal is accompanied by a bit of undermodulated audio, as noted for example Oct 5 at 0541 check. I doubt that anywhere in the CFRX `coverage area`, such as wherever its maximum signal skips down in the middle of the night, the ratio is any more favorable for it, 100 vs 1 kW, tho proximity counts for very little in the shortwave scenario. They can`t even hear it in much of southern Ontario nor even a few miles away by groundwave in Toronto (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** NEW ZEALAND. RNZI, which was inexplicably in DRM the day before until 1258 on 6165-6170-6175, missing again like it is supposed to be per its own schedule, when rechecked Oct 5 at 1228 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** PALAU. VT Communications test loop on 9965 via T8WH, tho never identified on-air as such, which had been heard the past two days, missing Sunday Oct 5 at 1247 check (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. WWCR, 13845 with DGS service, Oct 5 at 1256, good signal and no crosstalk audible, even during his pregnant pauses, unlike the previous afternoon. Other programming on WWCR 15825 also good at 1303, so must be an off-season sporadic-E opening. Otherwise 19m was pretty dead with not much besides Sackville and Habana, and 16m was even deader. K-index at 12 was 2, and solar flux for Oct 4 was still 67 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A [non]. With little propagating on 19m, found open carrier on 15115, Oct 5 at 1259, so stayed with it. At 1300, ``VOA Washington`` ID in unID language, poor with fades. Strangely, there was no YDD VOA sign-on nor any announcement in English of the language to follow, altho possibly I missed the latter in a fade. Turns out this is Somali via Madagascar. Do the RNW relays of IBB disallow the standard VOA sign-on and sign-off procedures? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ###


      
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