martedì 9 luglio 2013

Glenn Hauser logs July 9, 2013

** BANGLADESH. 15505, July 9 at 1358, BB IS is playing, fading down for unimpeded but always inaccurate 5+1 timesignal ending at 1359:32.5, i.e. 27.5 seconds faster than anyplace else in the UT+6 zone. Signal level a little better than lately, but still only poor (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** CHINA. Firedrake [non], before 1330 July 9, CNR1 jamming instead:
13970, fair at 1329; none in 14s, 12s, and only 15115, 15195 in 15s
16100, good at 1326
17510, good at 1326 – target here is BBC Uzbek via Oman during this semihour only, as China interferes in the affairs of its neighbor (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** CUBA. 15340, July 9 at 1324, RHC Spanish with some modulation breakup, but it could be, and has been, far worse. But why any at all? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** MEXICO [and non]. 1320, July 9 at 1204, checking hi-end MW for remnants of skywave, 42 minutes after sunrise, something in Spanish with 7:04 timecheck before fading. Loops NE/SW, rather than NW/SE, so not KXYZ Houston which could be in Spanish instead of Chinese at this hour, and no known SS in other neighboring UStates, so most likely XECPN in Piedras Negras, Coahuila. A minute later on 1350, then found Univisión América, i.e. KCOR San Antonio so that ties in (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** MEXICO. 15825 WWCR had been Es-boosted around 1400 UT July 9, so expected some VHF activity too.

1415 tune-in channel 2, with antenna south, yes, some weak Spanish audio, seems drama; and traces of video at times on ch 4

1432 on 2, fades in with toon from Televisa net-5 as bugged in LR

1446 on 4, algo again, and some zero CCI on ch 5 to my cable radiation

past 1530, just weak video CCI mostly on 2

1532 on 4, fades in toon from Televisa-5 in LR. To be continued? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** MOROCCO. 9579.1, July 9 at 0517, weak music, but it`s not on 9580, so not Africa Number One, Gabon, as some have assumed/listlogged lately, but instead Médi Un, Nador. ANO remains absent, maybe gone for good (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** PAPUA NEW GUINEA. 3205, July 9 at 1145, which is 23 minutes after sunrise here but as early as I awaken, quick check of 90m for NBC signals. 3205 is the only one with some modulation audible, but also carriers on 3260, 3325, none of the others. Also something comes and goes on 3230 where no broadcasters exist (except RSA one other hour weekly, unpropagable to here) (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** SUDAN [and non]. 15400, July 9 at 0512, 1 kHz tone atop R. Dabanga, again presumed jamming from, or on behalf of, Sudan`s repressive government (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

UNIDENTIFIED. 9410, July 9 at 1150, big distorted blob, maybe jamming if Fu Hsing has reactivated from Taiwan (Glen Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

UNIDENTIFIED. In previous report of 13650-13300-, in explaining the units I should have said ``1.96 kHz per second = kilocycles per second per second`` rather than ``kilohertz per second per second``. One could also write kHz/sec, or kc/sec squared (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)