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Re RHC, log Febr 4, 01.00 - 01.30 in Cape Canaveral, Rochester NY
and CA / Seattle states installations.4765 kHz R Progreso Bejucal not on air 01.03 UT,
     but S=9+25dB at 01.45 UT on air now,
     so seemingly starts not 00.30, but 01.30 UT ?
5025 S=9+30 BAU
5040 S=9+20 BAU
6000 S=9+40 QUI excellent audio quality in the clear.
6060 not on air at 01.04 UT
11670 BAU
11760 BAU
11850 QUI not propagate into MI nor CA northwards,
     but heard strong S=9+35dB -49dBm in Sao Paulo BRA
     Much DISTORTED audio feed at 01.22 UT
9699.998 BAU 01.10 UT
9650.005 BEJ
9535.007 BEJ
15140 BAU off air at 01.22 UT
15230 QUI
and CRI relay site Quivican 250 kW TX#1, CRI
6180even  at 01.15 UT on Febr 4, S=9+30dB in Rochester NY.
73 wb
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Glenn Hauser via groups.io"

Sent: Thursday, February 04, 2021 2:05 AM
Subject: [WOR] Glenn Hauser log roundup January 28-February 3, 2021CUBA. 6060, Jan 30 at 0637, RHC in English, S9/+10, reactivated!
This frequency had been off for months despite originally scheduled
before 0500 in Spanish, afterwards in English. Is it back to stay?
Also // 6000 & 6100 all with adequate modulation and 9700
undermodulated. Something's always wrong at RHC

(Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)
CUBA [non]. 6060, Jan 31 at 0113, JBA algo presumed IRAN, no RHC,
yet? which had resumed last night after 0600

(Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)
CUBA. 6060, Jan 31 at 0515, RHC English is on again via frequency
reactivated last night; maybe starts at 0500 for English? If not
Spanish earlier.
5040, 6000, 6060, 6100, 6145 or 9700, Sunday January 31 at 0803 when I
am unfortunately still awake, all RHCs are off when Esperanto is
supposed to air on one of them. (However, SW Radiogram has just
started on WRMIs 5850 & 7730). Something's always wrong at RHC.
15140 // weaker 11760, Sun Jan 31 at 1602, this airing of Esperanto is
starting a bit late with themesong and sign-on

(Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)
CUBA. 6060, February 1 at *0315 approx., reactivated RHC is on with
open carrier. Exploring when it may start, I had turned on the extra
ATS-909 with whip antenna only a few minutes earlier to nothing, but
now the frequency quietens with carrier. I let it run, and it turns
out it's dead air only for hours and hours! 0325, 0415, 0450, 0506,
0522, 0657 ---! Think of all the nutritious meals semi-starved Cubans
could have been served for the cost of all this 250+ kWh wasted juice!
Something's always wrong at RHC.
At 0657, besides 6060 deadair I check all the others and find English
still emanating on 5040, 6000, 6100, 9700; but at 0708 recheck all
these including 6060 are OFF. The final repeat at 07-08 UT during
Standard Time is certainly iffy. Something's always wrong at RHC
(Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)
CUBA. Doug Brown, FL/ON, asks, UT Mon Feb 1 at 0223, "I haven't
heard Arnie on the radio for some time now. Do we know if he has
retired? There is no one else doing his DX program. D Brown."
I replied, "Doug, I think he has been semi? retired for quite a while
and/or in ill health. I haven't tried to hear him in English or
Spanish lately, but when last checked the programs were still on,
mostly Marta Ríos in Spanish reading his scripts. Did you mean
"some"one else instead of no one? DXers Unlimited totally missing?
Glenn"
Before any reply, I start to check this out in addition to the dead
air on 6060. The weekend edition of DXers Unlimited had been appearing
during the first half of the English hour on Sundays into UT Mondays,
as early as :09 to as late as :23 per DX/SWL/MEDIA PROGRAMS, so with
6000 managing to modulate in English, I monitor starting at 0408 UT
Mon Feb 1: 'The Week in Cuba' until 0414; 'Mailbag' with "Ed Newman"
from 0415, soon replying to a listener, "Arnie Coro has been ill;
he's home resting and recuperating." By 0428, the YL with the
annoying voice is reading a script about Star Wars movies, etc., etc.
0445 finally music starts.
So, no DXUL. Arnie had long been working-from-home anyway, feeding via
snazzy fibre-optic cable, but apparently now he has even been unable
to send in scripts for someone else to read. The mit-week edition
typically appeared about halfway into the English hours on Tuesdays,
into WZ Mittwoch, so check then too. I haven't looked for 'En
Contacto', his Spanish DX program, but approx. times for that were
Sundays 1440, 2340, UT Mondays 0140. He also did a science show on
Saturdays, 'Breakthrough" --- is that suspended too? Anyhow, despite
certain policy differences, we wish him well

(Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)
CUBA [and non]. 6060, Feb 2 after 0200, I start checking for when
RHC may come on; Iran is there with lots of Qur'aning until it goes
off at 0226*, fair signal into Bonaire and a good idea for RHC to hold
off. Not checked again until 0305, this time direct, to find that RHC
has appeared, VG S9+20/30 and managing to modulate in Spanish, instead
of last night's dead air for almost 4 hours. 0500 recheck, medianoche
timecheck and more Spanish: I guess another hour before English from
0600

(Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)
CUBA. 6060, Feb 2 at 0558, RHC still in Spanish ID & IS, but at
0558.5, cut roughly to end of English hour and then 0600 re-opening
English hour. I was hearing no trace of it before 0300, but Ivo Ivanov
thinx it start at 0100; and there is another conflict at 04-05 with
Algeria via France, an hour I was not checking.
Recheck at 0710, ¿qué pasa? 6060 is still on unlike last night, and in
English, good modulation, the best of the lot, as 6000 is off; 6100 //
9700 are both suptorted but 9700 signal holding up to S9+10. 5040 is
unusually still on this late, but in Spanish. Something's always wrong
at RHC.
Checking 6060 next night, UT Feb 3 at 0200, again no sign of Cuba
here, just JBA Iran; 0315 recheck, now RHC is on with VG signal in
Spanish; so approx. start 0300

(Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)
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