----- Original Message ----- From: "Glenn Hauser" Sent: Saturday, August 18, 2012 7:22 PM
Subject: [HCDX] Glenn Hauser logs August 18, 2012
At 1840 UT Aug 18, 7105 Dhaka on air S=9+20dB. Western music. (wb) BANGLADESH. 15105, Aug 18 at 1248, finally getting the 1230 English broadcast of Bangladesh Betar, but very poor signal with S Asian music, 1249 announcement in English; 1252 rock music; 1256 segué to another we can recognize, ``Thriller`` by M. Jackson! Just what we need to hear from BB. 1259 closing with request to ``write us`` with Dhaka P O address, probably e-mail too. 1300 cut to tone test over 1 kHz. Thruout, bothered by lightning crashes, but no thunder sonically audible yet, so still on external antenna. 15105, retune at 1314, now the BB IS with drone is playing, signal somewhat better. 1315 5+1 timesignal ending 21 seconds late, sign-on in presumed scheduled Nepali, 1318 news? but soon into music. After Nepali, at 1345-1347.5*, tone test on 15105. Two of the schedule versions via DX Mix News, one for 15520, the other for 15505, neither in use now for these broadcasts, show English at 1230-1300 is for SE Asia at 140 degrees, then Nepali at 1315 reversed 180 degrees to an azimuth of 320 degrees, which is right on Kathmandu, and also London, but hitting the Americas right across Venezuela. At 1359, 15105 only has B-B-C- chimes from Ascension prior to Hausa, so like yesterday I check 15505 and find BB has moved there, with their IS best heard yet. This time the timesignal ends 19 seconds late. Is it consistently circa 20 seconds late? No, on Aug 13 I timed it 7 seconds late. If they can`t do better than that, they should eliminate it, no timesignal at all, but just playing a recording with a margin of error, deception of the worst kind. Anyhow, presumed Urdu is then opening with a ``salaam aleikum``. This one is listed at 290 degrees, further offbeam for us than Nepali. T-storms are getting closer so after 1400 I change to internal antenna, where 15505 is still audible weaker (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) 6164.960 S=8-9 at 1910 UT Aug 18. (wb) CHAD. 6165, August 18 at 0527, 4+ kHz het against CKZN but sufficient to escape it by slight uptuning, assertive talk in French, so must be RNT, mixing bits of music; 0528 just drumming for a sesquiminute; 0529.5 French announcements, Chad mentioned, YL with news? Then OM mentioning ``islamique``. S9+12 this late and rather undermodulated. Makes up for degraded propagation from Africa on higher bands, e.g. 15400 Dabanga/Madagascar much weaker than usual, and also even R. Australia on that band. Ndjamena sunrise today was 0449, and will still be a month from now; varies little at 12 degrees north, per gaisma.com, only one semihour over the entire year. RNT had apparently been inactive for a few weeks; always beware of co-channel Zambia which would never be in French. Or rather almost co-channel: Chad has been measured by others at 40v Hz low, while Zambia is spot on (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) MADAGASCAR. 13765, Aug 18 at 0537, Vatican Radio in Portuguese, defective modulation with whistle varying along with the speech. At 0530 switch from English to Portuguese, Talata also changes from a 158 antenna at 270 degrees to a 105 antenna at 300 degrees, which ought to be more favorable for us. HFCC antenna definition reference table shows: 158 AHR(S)2/4/1.0 105 AHR1/2/0.3 Would anyone like to explain those in plain English? BTW, 15115 after 0600 Aug 18, SW Radio Africa via Madagascar was JBA carrier, with propagation degraded unlike last weekend; not surprised, since 15400 R. Dabanga before 0600 was also very weakened. Hope for better luck on Sunday when in English (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Type Antenna Description Band Feed Reflector Reference Code AHR Curtain antenna, half-wave dipole array multi band centre/end feed reflector aperiodic screen Reference Code 100-299 2.1 Type 1: Multi band centre/end - fed curtain antenna arrays with aperiodic screen reflector Designation: AHR(S) m/n/h, where: (S) slew angle m = number of half-wave dipoles in each horizontal row n = number of rows spaced half a wavelength apart one above the other h = height above the ground in wavelengths of the bottom row of dipoles slew angle and the design frequency are notified separately. Reference Code 158 AHR(S) 2/4/1.0 Reference Code 105 AHR 1/2/0.3 UNIDENTIFIED. 9675, Aug 18 at 0553, I am again hearing a het between two weak signals, both South American? Pitch is about B3 = 247 Hz. Replying to my previous unID, Bryan Clark in Mangawhai, New Zealand says: ``Glenn, Subsequent to Carlos' report last month I began monitoring the low side of 9675. Usually Brazil dominates around 9675.01 to 9675.02 but with a heterodyne from around 9674.8. I was eventually able to establish that the signal on 9674.8 carried a gospel music format and on a subsequent day that it was broadcasting in Spanish. Then on 6 August, just before 0458 UT I caught a full ID in Spanish for Radio del Pacífico [PERU] on 9674.79 kHz. The station address was given. Nothing was traced on their traditional 60 metre channel at this time [4975v]. The heterodyne interference between the two stations is evident most days around 0500 UT but mostly Canção Nova is too strong here, and del Pacífico too weak.`` However, Wolfgang Büschel in Germany was checking 9675 at almost the same time I was: ``At 06-07 UT Aug 18: 9674.766 ... 768 wandered, probably Riyadh Saudi Arabia. 9675.0 CNR Beijing tx center #572 9675.006 probably ZYE971 Radio Canção Nova, Cachoeira Paulista SP`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ---[Start Commercial]--------------------- Order your WRTH 2011: http://www.hard-core-dx.com/redirect2.php?id=wrth2011 ---[End Commercial]----------------------- ________________________________________ Hard-Core-DX mailing list Hard-Core-DX@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/hard-core-dx http://www.hard-core-dx.com/ _______________________________________________ THE INFORMATION IN THIS ARTICLE IS FREE. 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