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[HCDX] Glenn Hauser logs January 24, 2009
** IRAN. VIRI Russian, Jan 24 at 1519 had good signal on 9575, but low modulation also cutting out occasionally; tho signal was weaker on // 9735, I could tell the modulation was much better. Sites are Sirjan and Ahwaz, respectively. You may have a bunch of 500 kW transmitters, but if you can`t modulate them properly, what`s the point? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** PHILIPPINES. Classical piano music on 9570, Sat Jan 24 at 1550, fair signal. PWBR says it`s Radio Veritas Asia, in Russian, but at 1555 English ID and sign-off, IS and cut carrier at 1555:40. This is daily from 1500. RVA has no real English broadcasts on schedule, but uses English as continuity language; that`s something (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** SERBIA [non]. Last summer we suggested that IRS should move to 6190 in order not to collide with Mexico, and perhaps Brasil, on 6185. Dragan Lekic got them to do it and then IRS was in the clear on 6190. Apparently that idea expired with 2008, or someone looked at their online schedule, which was never updated, and figured ``gee, we are supposed to be on 6185``, so back they went!
Tnx to a tip from Kaj Bredahl Jørgensen, Denmark, DSWCI, that the NAm service was back on 6190 as of Jan 1: indeed at 0137 check Jan 24, I hear nice Mexican music on 6185 with something barely audible underneath, and nothing on 6190. This would include English at 0100 and 0200, the former except UT Sundays. IRS must have a death-wish, but at least we got it resurrected for a semiyear. You`re welcome (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** SLOVAKIA. 9445 with Spanish program about Christmas trees --- isn`t it a bit late for Xmas programming, Jan 24 at 1553? What station is this? PWBR `2009` lists BOTH RSI and R. Prague in Spanish at 1530-1600 on 9445, in the W season! But it`s really RSI as per 1556 sign-off, without ID but with IS, and off (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. KJES, at The Lord`s Ranch near Vado NM, not heard in a long time, so one wonders if they have been more or less inactive. But there it was Jan 24 at 1516, YL with religious lesson in English, modulation very low on fair 11715 signal. I see in WRTH 2009 that besides the main 50 kW transmitter, they have a 5 kW backup, so that may explain poor signals and/or modulation at times. US SW stations are supposed to use 50 kW at least, but if you`re on the backup of necessity, that is a legitimate excuse. This station has always stayed on-message, never straying, never selling any airtime to outsiders in order to finance its own output or obviously needed upkeep (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. As others have noted, the best chance to hear DXing With Cumbre has been deleted by World Harvest Radio, replaced by yet another gospel huxter: Saturday 1530 on WHRI 11785, as happened again Jan 24, following the Hmong sesquihour (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. For the past eight years there has been an ``Acting Presidential Radio Address``, since Bush and his cronies stole two elexions. Now there is a real Presidential Radio Address, so I am removing the `Acting` from entries in my Monitoring Reminders Calendar. Presumably the original airing is still Saturdays at 1506 UT, availablized on many radio networks but carriage depends on each station: it would have been interesting to compare which ones added or subtracted it following The Transition. Even in Bush territory it was hard to find, with most stations preoccupied with their own formats and why give away 4 valuable minutes of airtime which could be crammed with commercials instead? There is no such thing as a public service requirement.
The Address is also scheduled on AFRTS, so I reconfirmed that it is still running, with Pres. Obama heard Saturday Jan 24 at 1730 on 12133.5-USB. Scheduled repeat is 0230 UT Sundays, and presumably on most if not all the other AFRTS SSB frequencies from Florida and other sites. And each followed by the Republican response, which I did not bother to keep listening for.
The two are also scheduled each Saturday on C-SPAN 1, but that programming is so flexible, that you can never depend on their following through. In the last few years there was a fairly reliable slot around 2322 UT Saturdays, just before their quasi-DX program, The Communicators, which almost always starts a few minutes before 2330; but that seems no longer to be the case.
The online C-SPAN schedule for Jan 24 as consulted at 1740 UT, showed the Presidential Radio Address (no, mention of Republican response, but surely that is understood) at: 1942 UT Saturday; 0048 and 0739 UT Sunday. Of course now there is video to go with Obama, tnx to his use of YouTube, which already started months ago in the campaign; that also means it is ondemand and you don`t have to try to catch it on scheduled AFRTS, C-SPAN or other broadcasts (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ###
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