martedì 19 giugno 2012

Glenn Hauser logs June 18-19, 2012

** AUSTRALIA. 17750, June 19 at 0510, RA in English saying ``it was a bit long``, long pause, then Indonesian, so it`s a LL; 0511 jingle and says ``English lesson from Australia``, I think. Poor signal way offbeam here (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** BRAZIL. 11780, June 19 at 0506, RNA madrugada show with only fair instead of usual bigsig --- QRP or propped down? While nosig on 6180 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** CHINA. Firedrake June 19, before 0500:
16100, poor at 0454; no others audible

Before 1300:
11500, fair at 1238 with CCI, SOH or VOR? None in the 10s, 12s
11970, fair at 1238
13920, very good at 1242
13970, very good at 1242
14700, good at 1242, with lo audible het, QRM: hi-power Sound of Hope?
14950, very good at 1243
15555, good at 1244, het on lo side
16100, fair at 1245
17250, very poor at 1245
17450, JBA at 1246; none in the 18s
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** KUWAIT. 15540, June 18 at 2036, R. Kuwait English service is again in Arabic instead, Qur`an // weaker 17550. And again today cut off the Q for English news headlines at 2050-2053 by YL with accent who speaks too fast (showing off her fluency?) and is hard to copy, and not // 17550; then back to Arabic, apparently with two or three program shifts by 2100 timesignal. 15540 stayed on the air with Arabic news until cut off at 2112*. I wonder if they also switch to English for the 1830 newscast when I am seldom listening (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** MEXICO. 6185, June 19 at 0458, Dixieland music, quite undermodulated, blocked at *0459:20 by 6190 CRI English via Sackville, on the correct frequency for a change, but XEPPM is about to sign off, anyway (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 10000, June 19 at 0504, upcoming leap second announcement by YL voice, for 2359:60 UT June 30. Must be mentioning this more than once an hour. Since she doesn`t say ``aloha``, and is not masculine, this one was from WWV, tho following time announcement was equally well heard from WWVH (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 13570, June 19 at 1241, no signal at all from WINB (nor on 9265; nor at 1327), which last week started BSing us starting at 1200 weekdays filling unsold time with The Last Day Prophet of God; is that an experiment over already? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)