lunedì 12 maggio 2014

Glenn Hauser logs May 12, 2014

** BRAZIL. 6180, May 12 at 0556, RNA is still off, while at 0559, 11780 is on, and rather distorted with overmodulation and rough unstable carrier (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** CHINA. Firedrake found on one frequency, rest CNR1 jammers:

15195, May 12 at 1229, Firedrake music jammer, poor; no CNR1 mix? Still FD here and only here at rechex 1306, fair; 1344 poor with CCI

11605, May 12 at 1238, CNR1 jammer, very poor with CCI
11640, May 12 at 1238, CNR1 jammer, fair with heavy CCI
11785, May 12 at 1238, CNR1 jammer, fair
11825, May 12 at 1238, CNR1 jammer, very good with CCI not synch 17300
13795, May 12 at 1234, CNR1 jammer, very poor
13830, May 12 at 1234, CNR1 jammer, very poor with CCI
15115, May 12 at 1306, CNR1 jammer, fair with CCI
15250, May 12 at 1230, CNR1 jammer, fair with 1+1 time pips
15265, May 12 at 1306, CNR1 jammer, fair with usual het, ex-15250
16300, May 12 at 1231, CNR1 jammer, good
16920, May 12 at 1231, CNR1 jammer, poor
17300, May 12 at 1232, CNR1 jammer, good; none in the 18s, 19s, 14s

14600, May 12 at 1343, CNR1 jammer, good with flutter; no 12s, 13s
16100, May 12 at 1345, CNR1 jammer, poor-fair
16360, May 12 at 1345, CNR1 jammer, fair-good
16920, May 12 at 1345, CNR1 jammer, very poor
17300, May 12 at 1346, CNR1 jammer, fair; none in the 19s

18930: see TIBET [non] (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** CUBA. 12330, May 12 at 1212, RHC Spanish with VG signal on this totally strange frequency! This is no mixing product or accidental harmonic, but full strength transmission even if erroneous. // and synchronized with 11760, an echo apart from // 12010. But which frequency is missing? 11860.

Most obvious way RHC could come up on 12330 would be mistuning the 6165 transmitter to radiate only on its second harmonic. Yes, nothing now on 6165, tho 6000 is propagating. 6165 is normally used, most of the time, only for English at 01-07. Further chex of 12330: at 1236 it`s off, so they realized the mistake? 11860 is still off too. No, at 1303, 12330 is back on, and still no 11860. But 12330 cuts off at 1310*, still no 11860, but next check at 1341, 11860 is finally on.

15340, May 12 at 1304, no signal yet from RHC or 15370, but at 1305, 15340 comes on with modulation, while 15370 is dead air at first, modulation on, and off and then on to stay. These are synchronized with 12330, so from same site (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** SOUTH CAROLINA [non]. BS: see USA: WTWW, WRMI, WWRB

** TIBET [non]. 18930, May 12 at 1348, JBA something, presumably RFA Tibetan via KUWAIT as per Aoki scheduled only on Mondays during this hour; rather than CNR1 jamming since it`s not // 17300 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. WORLD OF RADIO 1720 monitoring. I missed confirming the 0300 UT Monday May 12 broadcast via Area 51 on WBCQ 5110v-CUSB, but at 0355 there was a JBA signal on frequency, so probably fulfilled. Next:
Tuesday 1100 on WRMI-10, 9955
Wednesday 1315 on WRMI-11, 9955
Wednesday 0630 & 1430 on Hamburger Lokalradio, 7265-CUSB
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A [and non]. 12105, May 12 at 0558, Brother Scare with fair signal, same as on 9955 and 7570 WRMIs --- so WTWW-3 is again with BS, instead of WTWW-2, silenced on 5085. Next check at 1213, only Chinese is audible on 12105, i.e. KSDA at 11-13, partly in Amoy, Cantonese. Ivo Ivanov thinx that 12105 is now running 14-07 UT with BS (and on at 1620 UT check here), while day/nite switch times on 9475/5830 are nominally 1400/0200 UT (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 3185, May 12 at 1202, BS is JBA on WWRB, and not yet 9370; just enough to make it // 9980 WWCR bigsig (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 9955, May 12 at 1354, big open carrier, dead air from WRMI on NW antenna, comes to life at 1359 with Sennitt ID, 1400 into Brother Scare matching 15770, 9690. The Monday-Friday 1345 program is supposed to be `Moments in Bible Prophecy`.

I just figured out the proportion of secular vs religious programming on 9955: per week, 52.25 hours secular, 115.75 religious, close to a 1:3 ratio: 31% secular. (Approx., as some program titles are unfamiliar, ambiguous). This includes non-English, so a much smaller proportion of secular shows in English. Of course, all the other WRMI transmitters are overwhelmingly religious, mostly 100% except for token relay deals with Taiwan, Japan, but never in English! (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 11880, May 12 at 1210, WHRI music is such a huge signal that it`s overloading the FRG-7, popping up at other spots on the 25mb unless I attenuate. Even worse, it`s mixing with local Enid KCRC:

13270, May 12 at 1225, instead of Gander or New York Radio on USB, I am hearing a buzzy mess, so at first I check KCRC 1390, which puts out such harmonix at least up to 13900, but no match in modulation. Not from locals 960 KGWA or 1640 KZLS either. Now in talk, it does match 11880 WHRI, so here we have 11880 plus 1390 = 13270. Fortunately, 11880 is on for only one hour at 12-13 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 17775, May 12 at 1308, KVOH is propagating with fair signal only a few minutes after weekday sign-on, preacher in Spanish. But 1401 recheck, it`s down to only a JBA carrier (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)