mercoledì 21 gennaio 2009

Glenn Hauser logs January 19-21, 2009

** ANGUILLA. Caribbean Beacon missing again from 6090, Jan 21 at 0610 check; and also from 11775 at 1402 recheck. Shux, have to listen to WWCR to get my PMS/DGS fix. Can it be coincidental that the long-silent MW 1610 outlet was reported on the air again a few hours earlier, by Juan Gualda, FL, in ABDX? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** CUBA. At 1405 UT Jan 20 on 15370 in Spanish, the confused RHC announcer said something about their providing live coverage of Pres. Obama`s inauguration today, on ``9826 in the 21 and 49 meter bands``. Didn`t catch the time but obviously starting well before 1700 UT B-hour. 9820 would be a good bet and maybe two others of their known frequencies on 6 and 13 MHz. I wonder if they will have a correspondent there or just pirate some TV coverage and voice-over it in Habana.

[But later:] No sign of 9820 or anything on 6, 9, 11 or 13 MHz bands as late as 1630, and I could not pull away from US TV coverage after that.

RHC running late for some reason, UT Wed Jan 21 at 0609 on 6000, just ending DXers Unlimited; as a 17-minute show, must have started around 0552 rather than 0535 (Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** INDONESIA. VOI, 9526, nothing much audible at first check 1335 Jan 21, nor during the 1400 hour, but at 1500 recheck it was in with pop vocal music; finally at 1504 YL opening English with perpetual mention of wrong frequency, 11785; and then cut off at 1505* as also per custom in this SNAFUed station (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** OKLAHOMA. Off-again, on-again: KEOR, 1120, Catoosa/Sperry/Tulsa, was again being heard at 2150 UT Jan 20, with the same limited playlist of oldies; already losing out to KMOX, about 7 Hz away; pause at 2158 but no legal ID audible tho they have done so in the past. Around 2210 it was the whistling ``Westminster Cathedral`` (Glenn Hauser, Enid, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. WBOH, 5920, just open carrier with het caused by its being off-frequency, Jan 19 at 1405; 9370 WTJC was modulated. Same thing Jan 20 at 1338 check; was WBOH silent all that time? But Jan 21 at 0607, 5920 was hymning and preaching, het (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ###