[HCDX] Glenn Hauser logs November 28, 2009

[Glenn Hauser <wghauser@xxxxxxxxx>]

** CANADA. Aha, I caught CFRX mentioning the still applicable but suppressed CFRB call letters just before ``Newstalk 10-10``, Nov 28 at 2237 on 6070, then ads. As for the SW call, CFRX, forget it, never to be spoken. CFRX lux out with little co-channel QRM much of the time, despite not being protected by DOC or RCI at HFCC. 

But this hour is worst, a fast SAH of some 10 Hz and audio under, probably Romania in Spanish at 247 degrees. VOA English via Thailand USward at 18 degrees could also be a grayline problem here at 22-24. Not to mention ELWA Liberia, 5 kW non-direxional until 2300, if active? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** COLOMBIA [and non]. 5910, during the previous hour had been BBCWS via South Africa --- see UK [non] --- but at 2321 Nov 28 that was gone tho it did run past 2300, and instead hearing ``BÃsame Mucho``, slow song which would seem too hot for an evangelical station, as romantic human love can detract from mandatory love of God, but it must have been Marfil EstÃreo nonetheless, as after a couple of seguÃs to other tunes, typical announcement with time check at 2333.

Since this was in, I also tuned for the other HJDH, its sibling station on 6010, La Voz de tu Conciencia --- a messy pileup there at 2325; think I heard some Brazilian and some Chinese, but mainly a wavering audible het plus some music. What`s on 6010 at this hour, per Aoki?

CNR 11, Baoji in Tibetan, 100 kW, 255 degrees, active?
R. Bahrain, 5 kW, non-direxional, 24 hours and really rare in NAm
R. Free Asia, via UAE in Tibetan, plus ChiCom CNR1 jamming, natch
R. InconfidÃncia, Belo Horizonte, Brasil, 5 kW, 122 degrees
R. Parinacota, Putre, Chile, 1 kW, non-direx 24h; but active?
Voz de tu Conciencia, Puero Lleras, 5 kW, N-D, 24h, active?
XEOI, NÃcleo Radio Mil, DF, 250 watts, N-D, 24h

Earlier Nov 28 at 0700, Brian Alexander in PA measured:
6009.95, Radio InconfidÃncia, Belo Horizonte,
6009.81, Possibly Colombiaâs LV de tu Conciencia
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** CUBA. Any English from RHC at 2030-2130? No English before or after 2100 Nov 28 on: 11730, 11760, 11770, 11800, 13770, just Spanish.

DCJC grinding on 11600 at 2059 Nov 28, against what? I tuned aside momentarily to check DW on 11605, and when I went back to 11600, the jamnoise was gone, or almost. With BFO there was a bit of hash, possibly a spur of something unID (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** ECUADOR [non]. Nov 28 I was prepared to catch HCJB sign-on via Chile, 11920: at 2243 open carrier; 2245 opening in Portuguese but no mention of CVC, right into Kulina, where its only radio speaker was reading from Chapter XXI of something I could not catch, not Matthew. 

Good steady S9+20 signal, no modulation problem on 11920, but nonetheless, accompanied by distorted FMy spurs at 11900.0 and 11940.0; the // audio was unmistakable, sounding much lower than the still strong S-meter reading of S9+15 on the extras at 2251. Nothing to bother on 11900, but at 2256, 11940 REE IS was getting mushed just before its sign-off. 

At 2300, HCJB Global introduced Portuguese service, and reconfirmed its ignorance of what time it is in Brazil by claiming it was at 2000-2145 `hora oficial de BrasÃlia` = 2300 UTC (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)  

** GERMANY [non]. As I as noting the Cuban jamming on 11600, also noticed DW on 11605 at 2059 UT Sat Nov 28, outroducing ``Wort zum Sonntag``. Hmmm, do they have Words for Friday, Saturday or any other day that any of the multitude of religions observed in Germany may consider holy? How about strict separation of church and state (including public broadcasting). Asking for trouble, otherwise.

Or does WzS embrace all religions now? Website has archive of last six shows, unclear to me from the unfamiliar abbrs. whether they all be somehow Christian, but they sure look native German:

Wort zum Sonntag | 14.11.2009 Von Pfarrerin Lucie Panzer
Wort zum Sonntag | 21.11.2009 Von P. Hans Peters SVD
Wort zum Sonntag | 28.11.2009 Von Pfarrerin Lucie Panzer
Wort zum Sonntag | 31.10.2009 Zum Reformationstag
Wort zum Sonntag | 07.11.2009 Von P. Hans Peters SVD
Wort zum Sonntag | 24.10.2009 Von Sr. Dr. Aurelia Spendel OP

Linx go to full scripts, not audio, if one wants to investigate further. Today`s is obviously Christian from a ``Reverend``.

I got to those by searching, but this page does have audio linx:
http://www.dwelle.de/dw/0,,2954,00.html?id=2954&x=14&y=10

These sermonettes are nothing compared to the live complete church service Sundays at 0905 UT on DW, apparently either ``Evangelical`` or ``Catholic``, and that`s all (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** MEXICO. Cf. my previous report under CUBA [non] of Radio Martà with a feature on ``DoÃa la Negra``. No wonder I could not locate her under that name. JuliÃn Santiago DÃez de Bonilla in the DF explains, ``Hola Glenn: la cantante que refieres era conocida como "ToÃa la Negra". ToÃa es el sobrenombre que se les da a las Antonias, por tanto "ToÃo" a los Antonios, y efectivamente aquà no hay problema por decirle a alguien "negro", incluso no siÃndolo del todo. Saludos, JuliÃn`` (Glenn Hauser, Oclajoma, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** NETHERLANDS [non]. 9895, VG S9+22 signal Nov 28 at 2213 with Arabic music, soon pausing for announcement in Arabic as ``Huna Amsterdam`` and e-mail arabic @ rnw.nl Kept a receiver running on this the rest of the hour and it was nothing but music, breaking every quarter hour or so for same announcement. 

Amsterdam? What became of Hilversum; has it been absorbed into the metro, or they figure no Arab will recognize Hilversum as the historic radio city of the Netherlands, whence RNW still operates, or is this particular service really coming from studios in Amsterdam? 

What studios? The Dutch taxpayers are paying for hours of musical entertainment for the Arabs they cannot get elsewhere? It was mostly pop vocal, so possibly had an underlying message, but I doubt it. RNW has gone to the trouble of reviving its Arabic service on SW, presumably with loftier goals. At 2257 the music seemed to go into some kind of loop; at 2259, 9895 switched to RNW carillon IS, and then opening in Spanish, claiming to be via Greenville!

But the 22-23 hour on 9895 is scheduled as via RWANDA 325 degrees, so also defacto Arabic to North America. I tuned away to other things at 2300, assuming Spanish would really follow and there must have been a site switch, but at recheck 2302, 9895 was off. Kigali 9895 must not have cut off the Arabic feed on time. But why would RNW feed any Spanish at all to that site? 

RNW Spanish on 9895 via Greenville does not really start until 0000. During the previous hour, it`s on 11655, as I soon found at 2302. I had first noticed 11655 at 2248 with continuous tone test, and wondered what would ensue. By 2336 the co-channel IBB transmitter on 11655 had overtaken RNW Spanish, Udorn, THAILAND at 30 degrees. That does not start until 2330 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U K [non]. 5910, poor signal in African English with discussion of development, Nov 28 at 2228, continuing past 2230. Soon became obvious this was not spontaneous, but scripted. 2258 turned out to have been BBC World Drama, with produxion credits, 2259 regular BBCWS jingle and ID, 2300 starting news in The World Today. Did not recheck until 2321 when BBC was gone, Marfil EstÃreo [see COLOMBIA] instead. What`s going on here?

By pretending to be in Accra, Ghana, listening on FM, I found that BBC World Drama was running at 22-23 UT, specifically

``The Prison Graduates, by Efo Kodjo Mawugbe
Broadcast Saturday 28 November 2009 at 2001 GMT [sic]
Listen to The Prison Graduates

Daniel Francis, David Gyasi, Richard Pepple, Wale Ojo and Mo Sesay
This is the second of our two prize-winning plays from the BBC World Service and British Council International Radio Playwriting Competition 2009 - which won the English as a second language category.

Efo Kodjo Mawugbeâs play was described by the judges as "imaginative", "muscular" and "hysterically funny".

The play sees four men try to make their way in the world after being released from prison in Ghana. They explore their many options â only to choose the one that might have surprised them all. This is a surreal, post-colonial fable - whereWoza! Albert [sic] meets Samuel Beckett. . .``
http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/arts/2009/03/000000_world_drama.shtml

As for the transmission, 5910 is supposed to be on at 2200-2300 only, 100 kW, 330 degrees via Meyerton, SOUTH AFRICA, so yet another African service also USward. Often happens that SENTECH doesn`t end a transmission right on time; or did BBC deliberately keep it on at least for the hourtop news until 2306? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. Would WWCR be testing on 60m this Saturday evening? No, on regular 3240, Nov 28 at 2304 opening Golden Age Radio Theatre, with a Duffy`s Tavern from 1951y to be followed later in hour by The Haunting Hour (Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 1860 kHz AM at 2308 Nov 28, with ham news bulletins, sounding like one-way broadcasts rather than two-way contacts, since, well, that`s what they are. Could hear some zero-beat SSB QRM, and occasional hets, presumably from hams not too pleased with this weekly, er, broadcast on 160m, even tho it may be legal like W1AW. 

2313 had story of pirate Raymond Frank bust in Austin TX, the one who claims FCC has no jurisdixion in the Republic of Texas; courtesy Amateur Radio Newsline. At 2316 Don Carlson in NV credited a bunch of sources (not including DXLD), but including something in Australia, ``W-one-A``, unaware that it`s WIA, for Wireless Institute of Australia, their equivalent of ARRL. 

Local ID as ``Gateway 160 [meter] Newsletter, on WA0RCR, Westville, Missouri``. ARNL, ARRL, RAIN, TWIAR reports rotate on no particular schedule, from Saturday afternoon into Sunday morning. Next segment was from RAIN. Signal is clear and steady with occasional slight fades, just as good if not better than KMOX, and with no IBOC sidebands (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A [non]. 5835, VOA sports at 2226 Nov 28, its usual position in their news wheel, 2235 non-sports news, poor signal, whence? 21 degrees USward from Tinang, PHILIPPINES.

7220 much better with same // 5835 at 2240. And I do mean same, as also 21 degrees and synchronized; at the moment saying that Honduras is holding elexions ``today`` --- meaning Sunday Nov 29, but it`s not ``today the 29th`` for another 7+ hours in Honduras, 6+ hours in Washington, so how can they justify calling this day before ``today`` just because the service is intended for next-day Asia? 24 hours from now, would VOA say the elexions were ``yesterday`` instead of ``today`` while the polls are still open? See also NETHERLANDS [non] 11655 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** ZAMBIA. 9505, Nov 28 at 2206 sorta British accent encouraging men not to beat their wives, unless in self-defense, like she`s coming at you with a knife. Good advice, soon justified by bible citations. Fairly good signal from the Nigerian service of 1Africa/CVC at 315 degrees from Lusaka, ergo also to North America (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

UNIDENTIFIED. 11888-USB, intruder, Nov 28 at 2244, intermittent 2-way conversation in tonal Asian language, and still some time after 2300. Much like what we frequently hear on 11789.9 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ###


      

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