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Re: [HCDX] Glenn Hauser logs September 21-24, 2015
re ANGOLA - at present at 22.40 UT on Sept 24 noted on lower side on
exact 4949.734 kHz footprint.
But my small statistic of past 12 months monitoring reveal:
4949.740 1 time
4949.741 4 times
4949.742 1 time
4949.743 2 times
4949.745 3 times.
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re Vatican Radio - special SW broadcasts covering the popal visit to Cuba
and US
looked few times into their website in past week,
but never read any proposed schedule of special broadcasts,
never heard any on the 15, 17, 21 MHz bands from SMG site...
of Pope's visit to Cuba and Fidel Castro audience.
But German nationwide terrestrial/europeanwide ASTRA satellite spread
public broadcaster Bayerisches Fernsehen / Bavarian Radio TV
had hour long extensive LIVE TV bcast relays direct from La Habana visit and
speach to crowd and others from different places.
Cuban Guantanamo concentration camp prisoners matter -
But the main newscast covered the news, the Obama administration or ? US
army justice? - Have ACQUITTED a Saudi Arabian national, and transferred him
already by plane to Riyadh. Some 115 more prisoners still held back on
Guantanamo concentration camp.
wb
----- Original Message -----
From: "Glenn Hauser via Hard-Core-DX" Sent: Thursday, September 24, 2015
9:37 PM
Subject: [HCDX] Glenn Hauser logs September 21-24, 2015
ANGOLA. 4949.7, Sept 23 at 0127, JBA carrier, presumed the usual RNA, as
always a weak carrier here evenings on the lo side of 4950. I did not think
it varied much from 4949.9, but Rumen Pankov presumed it at 1840 Sept 9 on
4951.9. Sept 13 at 0128, Manuel Méndez put it on 4949.9. But Sept 17 at
2117, Carlos Gonçalves also reported 4949.7, somewhat low modulation.
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
VATICAN [and non]. VR must have had special SW broadcasts covering the popal
visit to Cuba, but I never ran across any; who needed them with extensive
coverage on WEWN, Radio Martí, and even RHC, not to mention several cable TV
networx?
As linked from Hitlist,
http://www.w4uvh.net/hitlist.htm
VR is supposed to have a particular page with Rome times and SW frequencies
for specials,
http://en.radiovaticana.va/special-broadcast
but as of 1440 UT Sept 22, it`s blank! Still blank on Sept 23.
We do find however, an extensive schedule of the ``Apostolic Journey to the
USA`` with linx for online coverage of each event in several languages:
http://en.radiovaticana.va/epg-web#!/?cid=167#2
This runs thru Sept 28. i buttons lead to video players, some not yet
enabled for future events.
Sept 22 at 1343 UT, I come across Vatican Bells ringing on 9610, which is
the Greenville relay frequency for VR in Spanish at 1130-1200, violating
Separation of Church and State --- so it may well be that more specials are
planned on this or other GB frequencies, as well as direct from SMG, but
what and when are they? Recheck at 1354, 9610 is off. VR habitually tolls
the bells *after transmissions.
I learn later that on this date Sept 22, the regular 1130-1200 Spanish relay
broadcast was extended to 1345; also Sunday Sept 20 until 1515, but
apparently not since. That covered Pope`s visit to Cuba. No 9610 on Sept 23
at 1238 check.
VR hardly needs to bother with SW during his US visit; there`s always WEWN,
of course, but as of Sept 24, we have not heard a single other private US SW
station covering his speeches, masses, etc., as all are controlled by, or
indebted to, Protestants of various ilx.
During his address to Congress, Sept 24 after 14 UT, I tune AM, FM and basic
cable to find where PopeFran is to be heard: on daytime AM dial, not a
single station is broadcasting him! On FM, nothing but NPR via KGOU and
KOSU. It`s biz as usual everywhere else with sports talk, required music
formats (political talk remains mostly on AM in OK).
Cable TV is a different story. Of the basic channels we get in the single-
and double-digits, there he is, live on 16! of them: KFOR/NBC, KOCO/ABC,
KOKH/Fox, KWTV/CBS, Univisión (currently on C15 as well as C18*),
KTUZ/Telemundo, EWTN English, CSPAN-1, Fox News, CNN, CNN Headline, CNBC,
MSNBC, Gala, EWTN Spanish.
His English is so halting that he should have spoken in Spanish and allowed
a competent interpreter to be heard instead. It was odd to be hearing him
interpreted back into real Spanish on 5 of the channels.
*Suddenlink cable made a major overhaul of their channel lineup in Enid on
Sept 15, landing Univisión on C18 ex-C61. C15 most of the time remains ``NO
SIGNAL`` for the past sesquiyear+ since the demise of KXOK-LD (yet
continuing to display their imaginary programs), but occasionally, such as
for a while Sept 18, and during the Sept 24 Popespeech, Univisión has also
come up on C15 --- where it`s at normal correct aspect ratio, while on C18
it`s always been Squeezed. So far, the national satellite feed of Uni has
been carried, even tho there is a local affiliate in OKC, KUOK, ``36-1`` via
the KTUZ RF 29 transmitter. Maybe that`s what`s being tried sporadically on
C15? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
This report despatched at 1938 UT September 24
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