giovedì 28 giugno 2012

Glenn Hauser logs June 27-28, 2012

** ANTARCTICA. 15476, June 28 at 1327, no signal from LRA36, in my roughly monthly Thursday chex in case it ever come back. Note: a previous non-log of this published in DSWCI SW News as if I had heard it, has not been corrected despite my request to do so (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** CANADA. 9555, June 28 at 0537, RCI IS with French and English IDs alternating is playing after the closedown at 0528 of the Voice of Vietnam relay. Perhaps for old times` sake? Very good signal (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** CHINA. Firedrake June 28, circa 1230:
11500, very poor at 1231
13920, fair at 1229; none in the 12s
14600, poor at 1228
14700, poor at 1228
15445, poor at 1224
15545, poor at 1236
15900, poor at 1224
15970, poor at 1224
16100, JBA at 1228; none in the 17s

Circa 1330:
11500, very poor at 1322
13920, fair-good at 1322
14600, fair at 1322
14700, fair-good at 1322
15485, poor at 1325
15565, fair at 1325
15755, very poor at 1325
16100, good at 1328
16920, poor at 1328
16980, very poor at 1328
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** COSTA RICA. 9630, June 28 at 0536 one of the biggest signals on the band is missing, REE relay which normally runs until 0600* (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** GUATEMALA. 4055, June 28 at 1039 I awoke briefly so checked whether R. Verdad was already on. Make that Radio Truth, since they were devotional in English. Others have reported this, but their program schedule page © 2009, at
http://www.radioverdad.org/programaci%C3%B3n
still shows *1100, later on Sundays. Could Guatemala have slipped into DST as they have done in some previous years? Not according to timeanddate.com, still UT-6 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** KUWAIT. 15540, June 27 at 1833, R. Kuwait is really in English today during main newscast, about, who else, government honcho Sheikh al-Sabah; at 2009 in rock music, while 17550 was in Arabic. Both with good, improved signals (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** MEXICO. Sporadic E analog TVDX, UT June 28:
1443, ch 2 fades in from south with net-4 `f` bug lower-right in news magazine, briefly snow-free; XHY Mérida? 1505 `Matutino Express`. SIPSE-2 live UStreaming is ``off air`` so no comparison possible
1452, signs of CCI, video up to ch 5 video
1458, on 4, toon briefly locks in, so net-5?
1501, on 3, tv3 bug in UR, i.e. XHP Puebla; with almost-zero beat bars much like we get from the BCN clash, but definitely not from west.
1515, on 3, Universidad Autónoma de Puebla ad after IFE PSAs
Opening continues maybe building as I close this report
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** SOUTH AFRICA. 9800, June 28 at 0525, BaBcoCk IS already, preceding the DW Portuguese via Meyerton from 0530, 100 kW at 335 degrees which started 1 June (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. WORLD OF RADIO 1623 monitoring: first airing UT Thursday June 28 at 0330 confirmed on WRMI webcast, while 9955 as usual totally blocked by wall-of-noise jamming; tnx a lot, Arnie! WRMI repeats are: Sat 0800, 1500, 1730; Sun 0800, 1530, 1730; Mon 0500, 1130.

On WTWW: Thu 2100 9479, UT Sun 0400 5755.
On WWRB: UT Fri 0330v 5050
On WBCQ: UT Sat 0130v 5110v-CUSB Area 51
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)