[HCDX] Glenn Hauser logs May 3-4, 2017
Autor: PY2VOA - PRADO | Publicado: 2017-05-05T03:12:00-03:00


** ALBANIA [non]. 5850, May 3 at 2319 quick check of R. Tirana via WRMI,
 during music. Back to my WORLD OF RADIO 1876 recording. Hope they had a
 new program on today unlike the May 1 one repeated on May 2 (Glenn 
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** ARGENTINA [non]. 9395, May 4 at 0120, checking RAE ATTW via WRMI, 
during interview about architecture. Recheck at 0135 to hear the 
multi-lingual ID, song; 0138 MLID again! and talk about dinosaurs at a 
provincial park in San Juan; 0148 another MLID, song; 0151 MLID; 0152 
headlines: selling Argentine products in China by e-commerce; president 
to visit on Monday; tax collexions in April up 24% by 786 gigapesos; 
0153 the fifth MLID this hour during my sporadic monitoring, and 
sign-off with SW schedule, P O Box 555, 1000 WAF Buenos Aires address 
for reports (and Fernando utters ham-like fonetix 
``whisky-alfa-foxtrot``). 0156 back to WRMI Oldies music but no ID 
break. (I wonder how long their playlist is; everything sounds 
familiar).
Meanwhile, I received a very nice personal reply from RAE`s director 
Adri?n Korol, who remembers me from my Spanish DX reports on Espacio 
Diexista - Radio Enlace from Radio Nederland. He says I will be 
receiving the #001 special QSL for inauguration of the WRMI relays. The 
first broadcast I heard on UT May 2 was a week-old test file they had 
sent to WRMI, which explains the lack of new news, and the May 1 Madres 
de Plaza de Mayo demonstration would be covered subsequently. He agrees 
the dozen multi-lingual IDs were excessive, and they have plenty of 
other bumpers which could be inserted.
He took over in February when the SW service was already off. The 
transmitter needs two new tubes, which are expensive and have to be 
imported. He credits the director of RNA with deciding to support the 
external service, which had largely been neglected. Good listener 
response to the WRMI relays has already been coming in.
I`ll be publishing his complete reply in Spanish. It`s great to have 
someone running an international service who actually has experience as a
 SW listener and DXer. And of course, Argentina is the ONLY South 
American country with an external SW service, even in English, with only
 one other in all of Latin America, Cuba of course (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
 LISTENING DIGEST)
** CHINA [and non]. 6110.285v, May 4 at 1237, wavering carrier in 
Chinese vs weaker one on 6110.0, i.e. CNR1 jamming against VOA Chinese 
via Thailand, making big het too (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CUBA. 6145, May 4 at 0552, RHC English is S9+10 but just barely 
modulated, so I check the remainder of The Cuban Five: 6100 S9+10/20 
with sufficient mod; 6060 loud and splattering over 6070 CFRX; 6000 
S9+10/20 undermodulated; 5040 very good (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING 
DIGEST)
** KOREA SOUTH. 15575, May 4 at 1325, KBS World Radio is starting to 
show up for its summer-season peak, English to North America at S9-S7 
with choppy fading, also vs my HNL. Only May-August or so do we have a 
chance of hearing it as they stay on this unpropagating frequency all 
winter. Aoki still shows azimuth as 81 degrees from Kimjae, i.e. way 
south of North America, aimed right at Honolulu and Santiago, which also
 helps explain why this puts a much better signal into Chile.
Or is it? 13-14 English, 14-15 Korean, and also a 00-03 UT broadcast on 
15575 are now in HFCC as 40 degrees to CIRAF 1, 2 and 6, i.e. only 
Alaska, NW Canada, and western third of conterminous USA. This beam 
crosses USA from Vancouver to Matamoros, only about 6 degrees away from 
Enid (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** KURDISTAN [non]. 7350, May 4 at 0412, Denge Kurdistane with talk at 
S9+10. Ivo says this recently replaced 11600 for the 0230-0500 segment, 
and is via Issoudun, FRANCE site, not Pridnestrovye nor B`lgariya (Glenn
 Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** KUWAIT. 15540, May 3 at 1936 check, R. Kuwait with ME music segment, 
greatly preferable to the Western rock MOI feels they must also play to 
be well-rounded, fair at S9 vs my HNL. Still no reports of any other 
language services reactivated (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MADAGASCAR [and non]. 11825, May 4 at 0421, MWV African Pathways 
Radio playing neat reggae music, S7 with deep fades to S3 during English
 hour; 0424 `This Day in History` feature for 4 May, from Kent State 
killings of students to International Respect for Chickens Day, but 
always leading up to an irrelevant Bible verse. 0429 on to a `Creation 
Moment` about pain management, concluding that medicine doesn`t matter 
because pain is caused by sin. Enough of that crap. We can only pray 
that Africans don`t fall for it.
11825, meanwhile, an understation of NHK IS starts at *0425. That`s 300 
kW Yamata direct prior to Chinese at 290 degrees from 0430 to 0500 
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MEXICO. 800, May 4 at 0449 UT, XEROK music blasting over KQCV OKC 
like a cannon. I really think it must have ramped up to full power 
lately of 50 kW ND, which means it`s probably tearing up KQCV in parts 
of OKC as well, outside its main lobe, supposedly protecting XEROK. 
Seems like I have a pipeline from the WSW, with 1020 KCKN also 
inbooming, but I really think it`s the stations, not propagation (Glenn 
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** NORTH AMERICA. 7615-AM, May 4 at 0410, Station YHWH is on, very poor 
at S8. Other reports indicate he starts at 0230, but that may vary 
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** OKLAHOMA. 1000, May 4 at 0446 UT, KTOK OKC with Dodgers baseball 
play-by-play, and not the OKC farmteam, because an ad for Southern 
California Toyotathon is then inserted, in the bottom of the eighth, 
just before midnight here (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** SRI LANKA. 15255, May 4 at 1324, South Asian song at S9-S7. This is 
AWR at 1300-1330 in Bengali, then 1330-1400 in Kok Borok, both 125 kW at
 25 degrees from Trincomalee. Always fun to get these virtually 
trans-polar signals better than lower latitude ones. According to EiBi`s
 language listings, Kok Borok, a.k.a. Tripuri, is spoken by 800 
kiloindians (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 10000, May 4 at 0414, WWV is making this announcement every 
hour (and perhaps at other times, also on WWVH), not verbatim: NWS 
Atlantic and Pacific High Seas and Storm Warnings on WWV and WWVH are 
scheduled to be discontinued on October 1, 2017. Comments or issues 
about this should be sent not later than May 31 to nws.issues@noaa.gov
 --- Rechecked at 1214 and 1514 May 4, I copied this once as nwws, not 
nws; not sure what the automaton says (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING 
DIGEST)
** U S A [and non]. WORLD OF RADIO 1875 monitoring: awake at 1043 
Wednesday May 3, I succeed in confirming that the 1030 WOR airing on 
WRMI 5850 is also on // 9455. But I miss checking the 1315.5 airing on 
9955, surely still running. Also confirmed Wed May 3 at 2100 on WBCQ 
7490 webcast; also confirmed Wed May 3 at 2330 on WBCQ 9330.4v-CUSB, 
good.
WORLD OF RADIO 1876 ready for first airings May 4:
Thu 2130&nbsp; &nbsp;WRMI 11580 to NE
Thu 2330&nbsp; &nbsp;WBCQ 9330v-CUSB to WSW
Fri 2230&nbsp; &nbsp;WRMI 11580 to NE, 5950 to S
Fri 2330&nbsp; &nbsp;WBCQ 9330v-CUSB to WSW
Sat 0630&nbsp; &nbsp;HLR 6190-CUSB to WSW
Sat 1431&nbsp; &nbsp;HLR 7265-CUSB to WSW
Sat 1930v&nbsp; WA0RCR 1860-AM ND
Sat 2230&nbsp; &nbsp;WBCQ 9330v-CUSB to WSW
Sun 0310v&nbsp; WA0RCR 1860-AM ND
Sun 1030&nbsp; &nbsp;HLR 9485-CUSB to WSW
Sun 2330&nbsp; &nbsp;WBCQ 9330v-CUSB to WSW
Mon 0300v&nbsp; WBCQ 5130v Area 51 to WSW
Mon 0330&nbsp; &nbsp;WRMI 9955 to SSE
Mon 2330&nbsp; &nbsp;WBCQ 9330v-CUSB to WSW
Tue 0030&nbsp; &nbsp;WRMI 7730 to WNW
Tue 1100&nbsp; &nbsp;WRMI 9955 to SSE, 9455 to WNW
Tue 2130&nbsp; &nbsp;WRMI 15770 to NE, 9455 to WNW
Tue 2330&nbsp; &nbsp;WBCQ 9330v-CUSB to WSW
Wed 1030&nbsp; &nbsp;WRMI 5850 to NW, 9455 to WNW
Wed 1315.5 WRMI 9955 to SSE
Wed 2100&nbsp; &nbsp;WBCQ 7490v to WSW
Wed 2330&nbsp; &nbsp;WBCQ 9330v-CUSB to WSW
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 9455, May 4 at 1246, this WRMI is off, since 9395 and 9955 are good at S9+10 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 690, May 4 at 0556 UT, one minute of Fox News Radio, ``Mighty 
690`` KGGF, Coffeyvile KS`` ID (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 1020, May 4 at 0446 UT, KCKN Roswell NM in Spanish sermon from
 WWRV 1330 is S9+30, blowing away semi-local KOKP Perry OK.
Jerry Kiefer, FL, who used to be with KCKN, replied to my previous log 
of April 28: ``Greetings Glenn, Quick comment on KCKN. They might be 
running non directional at the moment. The night pattern throws 40 watts
 in your direction and the day pattern less than 500. Either could be 
screwed up. Not being in the loop anymore that's the only thing I can 
offer. Take care``
This signal is no 500 or 40 watts. How about 50,000, ND? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 1480, May 4 at 1208 UT, song in Spanish about Mar?a with 
various rhymes such as fr?a; after a ``Tally-ho!`` as in Bollywood, 1211
 UT English announcement, paraphrased, ``KBXD, 50,000 watts covering 
North Texas and as far as Oklahoma City to the north, Waco to the south.
 If you would like to rent this station, please call John Hammond, 
972-904-5904``. Same music resumes in a loop, 1216 UT same announcement 
again.
So Radio Namaste is gone. Wonder why they couldn`t make it? Rather 
enjoyed their music and Hinglish chat. I question how much of a signal 
they put into OKC on daytime groundwave when really 50 kW. This daytime 
coverage map
http://radio-locator.com/cgi-bin/patg?id=KBXD-AM&amp;h=D
has OKC just inside its outer ``fringe`` contour, whatever that amount 
to. Night map of only 1900 watts shows a deep notch toward OKC and five 
others in a ``flower`` pattern; you couldn`t even hear it in Plano
http://radio-locator.com/cgi-bin/patg?id=KBXD-AM&amp;h=N
Radio locator also claims its format is still gospel music! (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 1530, May 4 at 0600 UT, WCKY in dead air interrupted by bits 
of Brother Scare who was already on the previous hour; finally 0604 UT 
cuts back on without breaking up. Meanwhile I could hear an understation
 in Spanish, probably KGBT among several other possibilities (Glenn 
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 1590, May 4 at 0558 UT, Bing Crosby song, 0600 UT ``WAIK, 
Galesburg IL`` ID and back to another oldsong. NRC AM Log 2016-2017 had 
it as NWS/TLK/SPT, 5000/55 watts U4 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING 
DIGEST)
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Date: Thu, 4 May 2017 17:48:30 +0000 (UTC)
From: Glenn Hauser &lt;wghauser@yahoo.com&gt;
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Subject: [HCDX] Glenn Hauser logs May 3-4, 2017
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