domenica 22 agosto 2010

Glenn Hauser logs August 21-22, 2010

** ANGUILLA. CB was back on 6090 around 0515 Aug 22 with TUN, having been stuck on the day frequency 11775 the night before (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** BULGARIA. 15700, Sunday Aug 22 at 1307 Zamfir-like pan-flute, 1310 switch to Swingle Singers or clone accompanying brief R. Bulgaria ID, on to Bulgarian song. Distorted, somewhat overmodulated (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** CHINA. Firedrake Aug 22: nothing found on initial upward scan after 1305, until I got to 16100; then I checked again from 19 MHz down to 8.

16100, good at 1319, S9+10 peaks with flutter; still past 1331, 1352
10500, good at 1323 // 16100; 1324 usual ``ramshorn`` passage; 1352
 8400, very poor at 1326, // 10500 and 16100; not heard earlier
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** EQUATORIAL GUINEA. 6250.0, RNGE, Sunday Aug 22 at 0536 singing, 0544 announcement, choral or gospel music. Fair signal but undermodulated; ute beeper on hi side. 6250 is quite irregular, usually missing lately (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** GREECE. 9420, VOG VG Aug 22 around 0530 amid multi-hour Sunday morning Greek Orthodox singing service; good signal vs zero signal 24 hours earlier (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** IRAN [non]. 17695, Aug 22 at 1357, R. Farda ID, fair signal and back to Iranian music; via Lampertheim, GERMANY until 1430, then Biblis (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** JAPAN [and non]. 9750, poor Sunday Aug 22 at 1350 going from Wagner, to Japanese announcement, to Mozart, then found almost // 11655 VG via Sackville, while 9750 is 290 degrees from Yamata, with fast SAH. Three other stations are registered at same time: Malaysia, Kuwait, Moscow (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** PHILIPPINES. 7225, VOA Korean via Tinang, Aug 22 at 1252 check, minus the spurs heard 24 hours earlier (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. WEWN 13835 slushy spur messing up neighboring WWCR 13845, Aug 21 at 1408, made obvious by fundamental 13835 being so much stronger than 13845 at the moment. I have tried to make both stations plus other victim WYFR aware of this problem, but apparently nobody cares, as it`s been going on for years (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** VATICAN. 15235, Aug 22 at 1314 VR IS, and 1315 opening Vietnamese, fair with S9 peaks; still at 1356 recheck. VR`s Vietnamese services are a regular in NAm, far offbeam from SMG at 72 degrees, so we are closer to off the side than off the back (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** VENEZUELA [non]. El Hugazo missing another Sunday, from ``Aló, Presidente`` Cuban relay frequencies at 1555 check Aug 22: nothing on 12010, 13750, 17750. I heard somewhere that he has suspended the show during elexion campaign, which would seem to be counterintuitive and counterproductive (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ###