giovedì 14 ottobre 2010

Glenn Hauser logs October 14, 2010

** ANTARCTICA. 15476, LRA36 carrier detectable Oct 14 at 1350, usually easy to pin down by quick comparison to RA on 9475, WTWW permitting (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** AUSTRALIA [and non]. HCJB, Oct 14 at 1352, fair in Chinese on 15400; and MOROCCO 15340.0 in Arabic had a subaudible heterodyne (SAH) no doubt from HCJB in Hindi (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** CANADA. 6070, CFRX modulation finally seems back up to par, Oct 14 at 0630 with talkshow phone number 877-876-PHIL --- yes, now carrying the syndicated Phil Hendrie Show, and I guess it`s live, at 10 pm - 1 am PT, i.e. 05-08 UT, soon to be 06-09. However, signal soon faded. Next check at 1323, CFRX still audible over daylit path (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** CHINA. Firedrake Oct 14: none found 8-18 MHz between 1330 and 1353 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** NIGERIA. 7350-, Oct 14 at 0622, best audio yet from R. Nigeria, Abuja, 0624 tentative ID in passing. Slightly on the low side compared to signals on MW 1350. Wolfgang Büschel explains the poor reception in Europe and North America: altho both near Abuja, this is separate from the new VON 3 x 250 kW site at Lugbe; Thomson also put in 2 x 100 kW for domestic service at the old site Gwagwalarda, some 33 km westward, same as MW 909 kHz. Looking at Google map, has dipole oriented 85/265 degrees (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** PERU. 18057.9, Oct 14 at 1357, just barely audible (JBA) carrier, first time detected in many weeks; by 1404 some modulation could be heard. No doubt it`s R. Victoria, Lima, 3 x 6019.3 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 11715, KJES, Oct 14 at 1340, M with religious exhortations, then harmonious singers with guitar accompaniment. Excellent signal like S9+30, modulation only fair but sufficient at that level, some hum. Not a chance to hear Pyongyang on 11710. My last log of KJES was Oct 5, so rather sure it had been absent ever since in daily morning bandscans. I should report on this every day like LRA36? Naah (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** WESTERN SAHARA [non]. SASASAM, Oct 14 at 0615, not on either 6297.1 nor 6248.3 --- but at next check 0628, 6297.1 was musical (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ###