domenica 7 luglio 2013

Glenn Hauser logs July 7, 2013

** AUSTRALIA. 9580, July 7 at 1415, RA with classical music, but it`s just a Mahler clip amid quiz as this is his birthday. Rest of questions are about religion, so must be ``The Inquisition`` segment of the great ABC show `Sunday Nights`. We used to hear the quiz an hour or two earlier. Now the RA online schedule shows SN at 12-14 and also at 14-16, so is the second bihour a repeat of the first, and if so, why? Isn`t there more original programming available?

As for 9580, it used to cut off rudely at 1358, but now is scheduled until 1500, per Aoki, and also resuming same 70 degree beam at 1700 when it`s not useful in mid-day North America (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** BOLIVIA. 6135-, July 7 at 0058, R. Santa Cruz, good signal with music stingers and swooshes amid news items, mentioning the word ``aparecida`` which could be confusing since there is a Brasilian by that name also listed on 6135, but this was certainly in Spanish. [Omitted this bit before my previous log item after 0100 of IDs and sign off] (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** CHINA. 6135, July 7 at 1222, music from CNR1 is one of the best signals left on 49m, // weaker 6105, and 6180. Aoki shows 6135 as a CNR1 jammer at 10-15, but no known target, so could it really be a new non-jammer? You`ve got a PR problem when such questions arise about your station. 6105 and 6180 are jamming Taiwan. Similar music on 6165, but that is apparently CNR6 if not VOV4, surely not Myanmar as Ron Howard has pointed out.

Non-Firedrake CNR1 jammer survey July 7 on higher bands before 1430:
16160, fair at 1425; none in the 17s, 14s, 12s
16100, good at 1425
15565, poor at 1420 [vs Voice of Tibet, Tajikistan 15568, inaudible]
15525, very poor at 1424 [vs Voice of Tibet, Madagascar, inaudible]
13970, poor-fair at 1422 // 15565 [this and the 16s surely vs Sound of Hope, Taiwan, all inaudible] (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** CUBA. 6060, July 7 at 0527, Cuban jazz as I tune across, cut off the air by 0528, then found other RHC English frequencies also gone: 6010 and 6165, while 6125 is still on but JBM. Power failure? At 0530, all come back on, but with 6125 still JBM.

11860 et al., Sunday July 7 at 1230 expecting `Cuba Campesina` criolla music from RHC, but keeps talking in `Así es mi Tierra` interview about Haití, running late. 1238 CC finally starts. Are there other times for it? Consulting
http://www.radiohc.cu/de-interes/programacion.html
we see that the nominal time is 1233, with no other entries! However, it may well be included in the 21-23 UT `Revista Iberoamericana` for which no content details are ever published.

13780, 11860 and 11760, July 7 at 1412 are all in open carrier/dead air while RHC Spanish continues on 15340 and all the weaker frequencies, 11750, 11690, 9540. Next check at 1421 they have all resumed modulation. What about 16m? No propagation except for a very weak 17630 signal in English, i.e. CRI via Urumqi (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** GERMANY. 15785, Hamburger Lokalradio tests scheduled Sunday July 7 with 1 kW from Göhren: hardly expected to pick it up in deep North America, especially with pitiful propagation conditions, but try anyway since it`s including WORLD OF RADIO. Hope it`s better heard closer to Europe. Yes, absolutely nothing audible at 1409, 1428 or 1458. Even full-power stations from Europe on 19m are inaudible, such as Greece 15630/15650; only signals are weak ones from Asia and Cuba.
Next chance is 1800-2000 on 15785-CUSB, including WOR at 1830.

In the British DX Club, Alan Pennington confirms the test was running and audible at 0745 amid WOR 1675 (instead of latest 1676):

``Fair clear reception of Hamburger Lokalradio on 15785 kHz this morning on just my Sony 7600GR portable with telescopic here in Lancashire. Tune-in at 0745 UT with Glenn Hauser's World of Radio No. 1675. English ID of test requesting reports at 0759 with addresses, then programme in German about North Korea(?). Slow fading with good strong peaks, so SINPO 35433. Alan Pennington, Longton, Preston``.

The first test block had been planned for 06-08 UT last week, when tech problems intervened, but now moved one hour later to 07-09, in order to avoid CRI, Xi`an on 15785 until 0657; thus WOR also an hour later than anticipated, at 0730 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** INDONESIA. 9680, July 7 at 1417, RRI fair with music, Indonesian announcements, and NO CCI from the China radio war for a change! Nice to hear RRI by itself. Taiwan and Chicom jamming continue until 1700/1705 per Aoki but must be propped out today due to higher latitude path? Or is that one of the frequency/sites Taiwan is tearing down? Aoki shows ``Tamsui District``, which no doubt has two or three other identities depending on the source. Both VOI and China have enough signals on 9526/9525 only to produce a very weak het (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. WORLD OF RADIO 1676 monitoring: confirmed on WTWW-1, 5830, from 0400.5 UT Sunday July 7. VG signal but some overmodulation / distortion. Next: Sunday 1830 test on 15785-CUSB from HLR, Germany [q.v.]; Sunday 2330v on WTWW-2, 9930 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

UNIDENTIFIED. 15150, July 7 at 0429, 0449, 0458, 0513, no sign of the continuous 1 kHz tone test heard the previous three nights during this hour; nor 17690. Propagation degraded, but Australia was still OK on 15160 before 0500. Wolfgang Büschel heard no tone on 15150 either, but on 15400 at 0521 July 7, covering Dabanga/Madagascar and thinx that may be Kamalabad, Iran testing prior to their 1300 UT broadcast on same frequency. For propagational reasons, I doubt 15150 was from Iran (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)