martedì 26 maggio 2015

Glenn Hauser logs May 24-26, 2015

** BANGLADESH. 15505, May 26 at 1359, Bangladesh Betar IS is JBA, but with BFO, the timesignal cuts thru better right on the hour 1400:00! Incredible; a fluke, or will it be accurate from now on? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** CHINA [and non]. Correxion: 15275 not 15265 is to block RFA: fixed:

15275, May 25 at 1315, CNR1 jammer in clear // 15265 with usual het from Taiwan off-frequency. 15275 is to block Radio Free Asia, Tibetan via Tajikistan daily at 13-14 since April 12, per Aoki (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** EGYPT. 12070, May 26 at 0108, R. Cairo, VG signal but with extremely distorted music in Spanish service

11935, May 26 at 0108, R. Cairo, VG signal but extremely distorted Spanish service: compared to 12070, 11935 is cutting out a bit more

9315, May 26 at 0108, R. Cairo, good signal, the last chance to hear the Spanish service clearly, but --- dead air

9965, May 26 at 0109, R. Cairo, Arabic, good signal but undermodulated with usual whine (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** MEXICO [and non]. 1570, May 26 at 0647 UT, XERF with IMER call-in about the tornado that hit Ciudad Acuña; strangely, by 0652 they are playing a Spanish song to the tune of ``Fascination``, while fighting QRM from KBCV Missouri (see USA log). XERF should have been more interesting listening earlier. 

And you should have heard how Laura Whatshername butchered ``Ciudad Acuña`` on BBC World News America, May 25 after 22 UT via OETA. How do you get to be anchorette of a major network newscast without knowing the first thing about pronouncing Spanish? Or not even knowing that she needed to look it up, practice? At least the other anchorette, Katty Kay, was distancing herself from uttering ``Los Angeleeez`` when recently originating from there (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** NORTH AMERICA. 6876-AM, May 26 at 0106, 0117, 0119 and 0126 chex, no trace of The Crystal Ship, which per an advisory from John Poet at 2345 May 25, was expected to be relayed starting circa 0100. Storm noise a problem here, but not even a carrier detectable. Numerous posts at this thread
show it was on by 0133 after I had quit, past 0306 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** OKLAHOMA. 89.1, May 24 at 1940 UT, Enid translator is dead air again, i.e. K206CA, Oasis Network allegedly relaying 90.5 KNYD Broken Arrow, i.e. 80 kW on the other side of Tulsa. This may have been true initially, but now 90.5 pickup here would be blocked by much closer station, KGVV, 14 kW in Goltry NW of Enid, while Oasis` 88.1 KMSI 50 kW in somewhat closer than B.A. Moore would be a more likely source, altho not without CCI problems itself from KWOU Woodward et al. 

WTFDA Database shows K206CA is only 205 watts instead of the usual 250 for a translator, maybe compensating for too-hi antenna of 93.6 meters? The same is true of another Oasis translator, K201IJ, 88.1 in Miamuh etc. OK with a height of 100.2 metres. If K206CA is really picking up 88.1 or 90.5 off the air, repeated dead air spans could be automuting when there is CCI? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** OMAN. 15140, May 26 at 0122, poor and undermodulated signal in Arabic, presumably RSO, which is missing from 9500 where it should be during the first bihour of any UT day, and not on 9740 either where it should have been at 22-24, with 15140 off after 2200 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** PERU. 5980, May 26 at 0107, JBA carrier from R. Chaski, OBX4M, Urubamba, until autocutoff at 0112:36* which is 19 seconds later than three nights ago, 0112:17*, averaging 6.33 later per. Altho rarely enough signal to listen to modulation, its 5 kW signal is just about always there to be detected with BFO. We are still anticipating an abrupt reset of the timer to circa 0100* to begin another long precession (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** SRI LANKA. 11905, May 26 at *0114:10.5, SLBC carrier cuts on, no doubt about it with BFO, yet it`s only a VP signal; music prélude starts at 0114:46.5, and 2+1 mistimesignal ends at 0115:21, typically late (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 17765, Sunday May 24 at 1936, recent new frequency from WHRI, with Indianapolis 500 coverage: apparently the stupid carace is over by now, sounds like a wrapup. On the entire SW band, this proves to be the second strongest signal, only after 9980 WWCR BS (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 7490, May 26 at 0123, sitar music, to WBCQ The Planet singing ID, jingle, bing, and JIP Brother Scare at 0124, who was already on 5110. Contrary to 7490 schedule for UT Tue which shows Rabbi Yaakov Spivak at 01-02, then at 02-04 The Overcomer (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 1570, May 26 at 0655 UT as I am trying to listen to XERF [see MEXICO], it has usual heavy SAH and QRM primarily from the closest US station allowed to share the frequency at night, ID as KBCV Hollister, i.e. SW Missouri, address in Springfield, Bott gospel huxter. They must have been desperate to get on the air, only 675 miles from 100 kW ND Ciudad Acuña = 1086 km. KBCV is 5/3 kW, night pattern major lobe NW, minor SE, with a null toward Del Rio, but plenty signal here away from the null if not on the major, while daytime is ND (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 

UNIDENTIFIED. 12760-USB, May 26 at 0113, very poor signal with 2-way, seems Spanish, dashing hope that AFN Diego Garcia might have resumed on 12759-USB (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

This report despatched at 1548 UT May 26