[HCDX] Glenn Hauser logs July 5-10

[Glenn Hauser <wghauser@xxxxxxxxx>]

** ALBANIA [and non]. Tried to listen to R. Tirana, July 10 at 0147 on 7425 and
6115, but both were too undermodulated. Nearby Ukraine 7440 and WBCQ 7415 were
much louder, so I would up listening to Secular Bible Study show (Glenn Hauser,
OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** CANADA. R. Sweden relay on 15240, July 9 at 1353 kept cutting off the air
several times. Rechecked at 1401, I found R. Sweden in Swedish, presumably back
to Hörby site now, but heavy co-channel with an audible het from CRI in
Chinese! This was // 15220 Sackville relay but about one second ahead of it.
CRI 15240 abruptly off at 1405. Despite the non-synchronization, and the lack
of any other scheduled CRI relay frequency at 1400, I suspect Sackville was the
cause of this. Signal quality was equivalent to R. Sweden relay alone before
1400.

BTW, EiBi and WRTH A07 show 15220 at 1400-1500 with CRI via Sackville in
English, but it has always been in Mandarin. Aoki has it right, with Mandarin
following at 1500-1600 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** CHINA. CNR1 well heard at 1320 UT July 8 on 13855, where I had not noticed
it before. I`ll bet it`s jamming something. Yes: during this semihour only,
BBCWS is scheduled in Uzbek, which the ChiCom jam on behalf of their good
neighbor, or is it because Uzbek-like languages are understood in parts of
western China. HFCC says Moscow site for BBC; EiBi says Cyprus. Aoki agrees on
Cyprus and confirms it is jammed by China.

Also Firedrake on 10300, July 8 at 1325, off for monitoring at 1400 recheck;
against Sound of Hope (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** CHINA [non]. No sign of 9570 CRI relay via Cuba, July 8 at 1310 and 1324
chex; probably just broke down, but let`s hope for Andy Reid`s sake that it be
gone for good. In Ontario, he complains it interferes with Radio Australia on
9560, 9580, 9590 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** GUIANA FRENCH [non]. There was a report recently that DRM had shifted 5 kHz
down to be centred at 17870; but July 9 at 1407 check it was back to 17875,
covering 17870 to 17880 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** INTERNATIONAL. Checking the China channel of LiveEarth, UT Saturday July 7
at 2205, I found Sarah Brightman performing Nessun Dorma, and at 2210 another
aria, so there`s your classical token. Presumably a playback loop since at 6:05
am in July it should not be dark in Shanghai. Applause was tepid, however,
befitting a pop-orientated crowd even in the PRC. Whew, she must have qualified
for this because she also does pop. See
http://liveearth.msn.com/artists/sarahbrightman Then it started raining on the
crowd (not the stage) and she was drowned out not only by the raindrops but the
crowd shouting at each other as they scurried for cover. How rude. Blame Mother
Earth? After a pause, she was back in the clear with that perennial favourite,
``Time to Say Goodbye`` starting off in Italian, of course. I think by then her
voice was ailing a bit. But some of the Chinese artists who followed could
hardly carry a tune.

Of the other unfamiliar performers on the China schedule who have bios linked,
none are classical, but these should be worth seeing, Twelve Girls Band,
http://liveearth.msn.com/artists/12girlsband who play traditional instruments.
It seems you have to watch each loop wherever it is in progress, rather than
being able to skip to a certain segment such as 12GB. At least for most of the
venues the performer lists are in running order. Then I see a crawler saying
come back on July 8 for video on demand. I did just that and enjoyed the three
performances by Twelve Girls Band, tho the ``classical`` one kept buffering.

This event has ``Corporate`` stamped all over it, starting with MSN, Philips
(buy new lamps!) and Chevy. ``SOS`` is one of the themes of the promotion, and
I hear the code being sent, except the pauses are not correct, so it comes over
like ``STTB`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** MALI. The July 8 edition of Oklahoma Horizon, of all things, had a report on
Mali; video segments available, with captioning;
http://www.okhorizon.com/2007_07_july.htm#topic_08
the third is about radio: 
http://www.okhorizon.com/2007/Show0727/videos/0727_03_vid_lg.mov
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** MEXICO. July 8 at 1310 check, I could detect a very weak signal with
classical music on telltale 9599.2 rather than 9600; XEYU must be back, as
Julian Santiago soon confirmed. XEYU seemed back to its fair strength on
9599.2v, July 10 at 0135 check with classical, stronger than the het from
9600.0 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** MOROCCO. July 10 at 0141 noticed considerable CCI to HCJB 11920 in
Portuguese; finally decided language was Arabic. No clues in HFCC or Eibi, but
Aoki has RTVM Morocco A07 on 11920 at 00-05. WRTH May update adds that this
transmission only is ``Radio Tanger`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** SPAIN. REE`s Sefarad show coming in well in that strange dialect of Spanish
with Portuguese elements, UT Tue July 10 at 0137 on 11795; just a little ACI
from Rai 11800, avoidable. This weekly transmission is to SAm, while Tue 0415
on 9650 is to NAm (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** TURKEY. In updating DX/SWL/MEDIA PROGRAMS,
http://www.worldofradio.com/dxpgms.html I listened to the webcast of VOT`s
final repeat of Saturday programming, UT Sunday July 8 from 0315, when DX
Corner was expected to appear according to the alternate-weekly scheduling we
had been keeping track of. But no --- no sign of it. Instead we heard: 0315
Outlook; 0319 New Dimensions of the Armenian Issue, music break; 0329 Thru
History, music break; 0335 Turkish Music. Possibly they, or we, lost track of
which week was which for DX Corner; but the program schedule we went to so much
trouble to figure out in DXLD 6-036 is now expired since June 30, and we can
expect to wait several weeks before the second semester 2007 folder comes in
the P-mail. As usual, there is nothing at all about programming to be found on
the website! The show which supposedly alternated with DX Corner was From Our
Correspondents, which is perhaps the Armenian segment above, but not identified
as FOC. We shall tentatively assume that DX Corner appears in the :19-:25 slot
on July 14/15 and thence fortnightly?

BTW, they announced that due to an anticipated electricity outage in the part
of Ankara including the TRT studios on July 8, the 1230 UT English broadcast
would be heard on internet and satellite only. How they could still accomplish
that is not clear, especially since the SW transmitters are somewhere else,
anyway.

A few weeks ago I concluded they were never going to notice they kept
announcing the wrong time for the 2030 UT broadcast as 2330, which is local
time, so e-mailed them about it. This is at close of transmission, and is
certainly read each time from copy, not a recording. Never got a reply, but
noticed tonite that they had indeed changed that to 2030 on 7170 --- but it was
still out of order between the 2200 and 0300 UT frequencies (Glenn Hauser, OK,
DX LISTENING DIGEST)


       
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