1 Feb 2011 02:07
Glenn Hauser logs January 31, 2011
** CHINA. Firedrake Jan 31: after finding 5 frequencies 24 hours earlier, I look again at 2327-2330: 8400, good, but very heavy flutter 10300, slightly stronger, also very heavy flutter No sign of it anywhere else up to 18 MHz, including the three frequencies heard yesterday, 13960, 14950, 15900. But the CNR1 jammer on 15550 was again audible (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CHINA [non]. 13650, CRI in Portuguese via CUBA, Jan 31 at 2314, VG signal but very undermodulated, distorted; also with BFO one can tell the carrier is slightly unstable. Disco-beat song about ``Internationale``, then announcement in Brazilian, at 2316 into `Panorama Económico``. During brief fades of 13650 at 2318, I can hear an echo, apparently 38 megameters by longpath, obscured without the fades by direct off-the-back path of the 135 degree beam toward Brasil. Just before this, during CRI talk segment, I could hear some very weak music underneath 13650, not even enough to make a SAH, no doubt R. Japan in Thai, 300 kW, 235 degrees from Yamata, also arriving here direct off its back. Much stronger and clearer signal from Cuba`s relay of Venezuela on 13680. If the ChiCom only knew what crappy equipment their Cuban clients are using for CRI relays: others on 5990, 13740, 15120 are also inferior to the excellent modulation RHC manages to achieve on some, but hardly all, of its own frequencies (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CZECHIA [and non]. Stations cutting their own throat by closing down SW rarely give us the specifix we need to monitor the very last broadcast, like what time by UT? If the QRT date is January 31, does that mean turned off at 2300 UT = midnight local? How about the repeats well into the next UT day which ordinarily air to the Americas? I know I can hear Radio Prague`s SW finale program on their preferred medium of the web, anyway, so I am not monitoring before 2300 UT Jan 31, but at 2310 there is no signal on 5930, when French used to air, nor at 2330 for English, so it`s already gone. Alokesh Gupta points us to 17-minute audio access and full transcript:(Continue reading)
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