domenica 5 agosto 2012

Glenn Hauser logs August 3-4, 2012

** CANADA. 9625, August 4 at 0507, CBC NQ tone test with flutter just after sign-off, QRM de much stronger Spain/Costa Rica 9630. Andy Reid in Ontario found a CRTC notice that CBC has resubmitted 5 applications for low-power FM relays in Northern Quebec, adding that "CKCX-SW" [9625] will close November 1 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGESET)

** CHINA. Firedrake August 4, before 1300:
17250, very poor at 1246
16100, fair at 1246
15555, very good at 1258; none in the 14s, 13s, 12s

Before 1400:
15605, fair at 1356 vs WEWN 15615 squishy spur on 15605
15560, good at 1335
15500, fair at 1333 mixing equally with Chinese // 11990, CNR1 jammer
15490, fair at 1356, het on lo side; none in 17s, 16s, 14s, 13s, 12s
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** CUBA. 17705, August 3 at 2109, RHC Spanish is very undermodulated on this frequency compared to // 17750.

6125, August 4 at 0510, RHC English absent, but still on the redundant other three 49m channels (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** IRAN [non]. 9760, Aug 4 at 0520 pop music, off at 0530*. HFCC shows IBB Persian, i.e. R. Farda, 0230-0530, 100 kW, 108 degrees from Lampertheim, GERMANY (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** SRI LANKA [non]. 12140, Saturday August 4 at 1528-1532, another try for V. of Tigers weekly clandestine hour, but nothing audible here except CODAR swishes (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. WORLD OF RADIO 1628 monitoring: confirmed on Area 51 via WBCQ 5110v-CUSB, and on webcast at 0130 UT Saturday August 4. Further airings: on WRMI 9955, Sat 1730, Sun 0800, 1530, 1730, Mon 0500, 1130. On WTWW 5755, UT Sun 0400. Also on WRN via SiriusXM 120, Sat & Sun 1730, Sun 0830 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 9367.7, August 4 at 0130, WTJC is missing, and also at 0505 and 1528 rechex. An engineer familiar with the Newport NC facility tells me that the transmitter is an old 50 kW GE medium wave rig converted to shortwave by Armstrong, plate modulated. The "frequency source" is a Kenwood TS440 or similar ham rig which explains some things. Most broadcasters use high quality frequency synthesizers. TDP just lists it as Armstrong (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)