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[HCDX] Glenn Hauser logs April 1-2
Another DXpedition to a park in Enid away from household noise sources, this
one Government Springs Park, which was a watering hole on the old Chisholm
Trail, and accounts for Enid existing where it has since 1893. It`s more urban
than Meadowlake, in fact only a block from a hospital, but line noise level
only slightly detectable on some bands, 13, 15 MHz. Again using portable
ATS-909 with cells, now more than half depleted, and this time with funxional
reel-out wire antenna from a lamp pole to a tree, which gained me a bit over
the whip, or make that telescopic, to avoid Internet naughty filters. 0058-0138
UT April 2. Mixed with loggings from HQ earlier.
** CHILE. Tuning above 12 MHz at 0115 April 2, I came upon a broadcast signal
on 12195, where there isn`t supposed to be anything. Sounds like thinly
disguised religious pop. Oh oh, another spur from CVC? Then immediately checked
12275, where Brian Alexander has reported a CVC mixing product. There that is,
amazingly strong, could easily be mistaken for a fundamental, and stronger than
12195.
As in DXLD 7-040, we see that CVC is operating not two but three transmitters
on the 11 MHz band between 0100 and 0400:
11665 Spanish at 01-08
11745 Portuguese at 00-04
11970 Spanish at 01-04
I then went looking for all the other possible mixing products, and found most
of them in the next few minutes! What a dirty installation they have.
Summarizing:
12275 = 11665 over 11970 at 305 kHz, strong
12195 = 11745 over 11970 at 225 kHz, less strong, mostly Port audio
12115 = doesn`t fit pattern but weaker // 12195, 80 kHz from it. Both
of these had CODAR QRM, BTW
11825 = 11665 over 11745 at 80 kHz [unheard but probably obscured by
splash from big signals on 11815 and 11835; see U S A: VOA]
11585 = 11745 over 11665 at 80 kHz, weakest
11520 = 11970 over 11745 at 225 kHz, weaker than 12195, Spanish + Port
11360 = 11970 over 11665 at 305 kHz, strong
(Glenn Hauser, GSPDX, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) see also U S A [non]
** CHINA [non]. Collision on 6020, April 2 at 0100: CRI via Albania in English,
305 degrees, SAH, atop something in Spanish, which must be REE via Costa Rica,
which is not beaming in this direxion, 110 degrees. You`d think Spain would
coördinate with China, since after all they have their own relay exchanges
(Glenn Hauser, GSPDX, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CUBA. Caught the ending of RHC`s DX program En Contacto, Sunday April 1 at
1349 with mailbag segment, and ``muy buenas noches`` so they must have taped it
at night, even tho its first airing is in the morning. Gave two e-mail
addresses, one of which was radiohc @ enet.cu This was on 15190, and 15370
missing, tho it had been on during the previous semihour (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** CUBA. Dentro-Cuban Jamming Command wasting its kilowatts on 5910, UT Monday
April 2 at 0058 check, oblivious of the fact that R. República via Germany
operates UT Tue-Sat only. Tsk2, also damages the gospel huxters in Colombia.
Think how many dentro-Cubans could have their food rations increased to some
survivable level if the cost of this electricity went for the benefit of the
people. Let alone the other jamming which actually has a target (Glenn Hauser,
GSPDX, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** RUSSIA. I can now confirm that contrary to the new VOR Spanish sked sent out
by the DX program, the second hour is at 0100 on SAm frequencies, as heard UT
April 2 on 7330 // 9830 with news of Bolivia; also on 7300 but with huge
warbling QRM from something if not itself. 0113 LV de Rusia ID in passing. 9830
also suffered from 9825 Cuban-type jamming bleedover, against what? However,
not checked after 0200, the alleged time (Glenn Hauser, GSPDX, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** U S A. VOA Jazz America, Sunday April 1 at 1333 on 9760 via Tinang with
usual unpleasant modulation, after ``What a Wonderful World`` with host
editorializing how much better it would be if the world were run by jazz
musicians than politicians. Come, now! (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. I could hardly believe my ears: Huge signal from VOA Spanish via
Delano at 100 degrees on 11815, April 2 at 0119, with piano, violin music and
BIG WOW on the audio ruining the music as it went on and on. 0122 announcement
mentioned Cielo Tropical, apparently interviewing a classic Cuban musician and
playing some of his performances. Could not detect wow on speech but resumed as
soon as music did thru the rest of the semihour. During pauses, lite
DentroCuban jamming was audible, and same wow situation on weaker // 9885. 0128
ID as VOA and at 0129 signal rapidly faded down as jamming gains on it, and by
0130 VOA was much weaker as it introduced Buenas Noches América, Fin de Semana.
It almost seemed like a site change, but none scheduled, still Delano.
I can only conclude that at least for this service, VOA is still using ancient
reel-to-reel tape machines for program playback, and this one badly in need of
new capstan, pinch roller, or something more serious in the motor to maintain
constant speed. Was nobody monitoring the playback at the studio or master
control? Could at least have stopped it and quickly changed to a better
machine. Surely they have at least two. Another embarrassment displayed to the
world by our national voice (Glenn Hauser, GSP DX, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A [non]. Big signal on 7145, talk in presumed Urdu as this is scheduled
as R. Aap ki Dunyaa = VOA Urdu to Pakistan, via Morocco, April 2 at 0106. There
was a motorboating sound on the audio but not on the carrier as announcer was
talking about Republican Senator John McCain. It would be fascinating to know
what fraxion of the 250 kW is axually going out at 67 degrees toward Pakistan,
and how much, must be a lot, toward Enid (Glenn Hauser, GSPDX, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** U S A. Brahms` Lullaby with French lyrix playing at the unlikely hour of
1339 UT April 1 on 11970, i.e. WYFR, where it`s 6:39 am in Oakland and 9:39 am
in Okeechobee; perhaps an April Fish joke (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** U S A [non]. CVC La Voz, via Chile 17680, confirmed continuing with its
token ``arts`` program, Sunday April 1 at 1313 check playing ``Waltz of the
Flowers`` which they would not be caught dead playing the other 167.5 hours per
week of gospel/rap/crap. But they couldn`t stand to let it play all the way
thru, faded down at 1317 to talk about the history of the waltz.
Checking the online schedule at http://www.cvclavoz.com/article/frontpage/49
we find that times are all wrong, with a 5-hour difference between Miami and
UT, so that this is supposedly at 1400-1500 instead of 1300-1400: ``El mundo
del Arte con Marisol Popovitz``. Previous logs of this also showed it ending at
the half hour rather than a full hour, but did not reconfirm that now.
At this early hour with disturbed propagation conditions, K=4, even this
usually super-signal was weak and fadey, but it was almost back up to par by an
hour later. CVC Portuguese 15410 at 1318 was only fair to poor. The only
European making it on 19m was Portugal 15560, and even that was fluttery (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) See also CHILE for spurs ###
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