domenica 10 gennaio 2016

Glenn Hauser logs January 10, 2016

DX/SWL/MEDIA PROGRAMS updated:
http://www.worldofradio.com/dxpgms.html

** CUBA. 6100, Sunday Jan 10 at 0715 or so, Esperanto confirmed from RHC, but by 0725 it`s already off, replaced by undermodulated Spanish which is not supposed to be on any frequency at this time (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** INDONESIA. 4749.95 approx., Jan 10 at 1415, very poor talk vs CODAR on off-frequency signature of RRI Makassar, rather than China or Bangladesh. Haven`t had any signs of RRI lately here. What does Atsunori Ishida say? It`s been on every day this year from before 1000 until sign-off circa 1557. He doesn`t deal with precise frequencies, but Ron Howard had it on 4749.95 on Dec 15 after a week`s absence (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** U S A. 600, Jan 10 at 0545 UT on the R75 with E/W longwire, first check for the WBOB Jacksonville FL DX test which started at 0500 UT. Really too much WMT on this antenna, so switch to DX-398 nulling WMT IA as much as possible, i.e. aiming SE instead of ESE, which leaves a mix of Cuba and who knows what. Soon I hear Morse code spelling out JACKSONVILLE, so I could stop right there; 0549 UT sweep tones; 0550 UT rising beeps, phone-off-hook pulses; 0554 UT fire alarm siren & bells; very slow Morse spelling out WBOB a few times; 0555 UT phone-off-hook; 0557 UT WBOB in Morse many times; 0558 UT sweeps upward; 0559 UT beeps upward; 0600 UT phone-off-hook; 0603 UT fire alarm; 0605 UT I hear a voice mention Jacksonville, but suspect it was coincidental at end of Fox ``news`` from WMT; etc., etc. Tnx for the test, reportedly with 35 kW non-direxional day power and ND pattern rather than 9.5 kW out into the Atlantic normally at night (Glenn Hauser, Enid OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** YEMEN [non]. 11860, Jan 10 at 1449:18.5, R. Sana`a interrupts programming for Maghrib, call to prayer for 2 or 3 minutes before resuming. Usual good signal during this window. That`s 63.5 seconds later than yesterday at 1448:15, making up for lost time in chasing the latening sunset, which per gaisma.com today was 1450 UT in Aden, 1449 UT in Sana`a (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

This report dispatched at 1854 UT January 10