Hard-Core DX Digest Vol. 85 Issues 27-31
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1. Re: Tue Morn (Charles Bolland)
2. Glenn Hauser logs January 25-26, 2010 (Glenn Hauser)
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Message: 1
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 2010 10:53:45 -0000
From: “Charles Bolland” <ka4prf@peoplepc.com>
To: “‘Charles Bolland’” <ka4prf@peoplepc.com>, ”‘ALF’”
<alf.e.persson@telia.com>, “‘Arnaldo slaen’” <slaen@ciudad.com.ar>,
“‘Bob Wilkner’” <rlcw@earthlink.net>, ” ‘Carlos Gon??alves’ ”
<carlos-relvas@sapo.pt>, ”‘Cumbre’” <cumbredx@n2jeu.net>, “‘DSWCI’”
<logs@directbox.com>, “‘Eike Bierwirth’” <capercaillie@gmx.net>,
“‘Gayle Van Horn’” <gaylevanhorn@monitoringtimes.com>, ”‘Glenn
Hauser’” <wghauser@yahoo.com>, ”‘Hard-core-dx’”
<hard-core-dx@hard-core-dx.com>, ”‘Marie Lamb’” <malamb@cumbredx.org>,
“‘Ron Howard’” <ron888howard@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [HCDX] Tue Morn
Message-ID:
peoplepc.com>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=”iso-8859-1″ Also change the language from French to Creole
Thanks
Chuck
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From: Charles Bolland [mailto:ka4prf@peoplepc.com]
Sent: Tuesday, January 26, 2010 01:03
To: ‘Charles Bolland’; ALF; Arnaldo slaen; Bob Wilkner; Carlos Gon??alves; Cumbre; DSWCI; Eike Bierwirth; Gayle Van Horn; Glenn Hauser; Hard-core-dx; Marie Lamb; Ron Howard
Subject: RE: Tue Morn
Please correct my logging below to read “Voice of America” Heard a complete ID at 0100 as “VOA, Washington D.C.”
Thanks Glenn for the heads up.
Chuck Bolland
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From: Charles Bolland [mailto:ka4prf@peoplepc.com]
Sent: Tuesday, January 26, 2010 00:20
To: ALF; Arnaldo slaen; Bob Wilkner (rlcw@earthlink.net); Carlos Gon??alves; Cumbre (cumbredx@n2jeu.net); DSWCI (logs@directbox.com); Eike Bierwirth (capercaillie@gmx.net); Gayle Van Horn (gaylevanhorn@monitoringtimes.com); Glenn Hauser (wghauser@yahoo.com); Hard-core-dx
(hard-core-dx@hard-core-dx.com); Marie Lamb (malamb@cumbredx.org); Ron Howard (ron888howard@gmail.com)
Subject: Tue Morn
Unid, 7590, 0013-0030 Noted two male individuals in French language conversation.
Heard “Washington” mentioned and “Fort Lauderdale” mentioned. This is probably a local station broadcasting for Haitians. It is very strong. Could not find a listing anywhere for this type of broadcast. The signal was very good. (Chuck Bollland, January 26, 2010)
Note: will amend the above logging if I catch an ID.
26.27N 81.05w
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Message: 2
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 2010 09:37:08 -0800 (PST)
From: Glenn Hauser <wghauser@yahoo.com>
To: dxld@yahoogroups.com
Cc: swl@mailman.qth.net
Subject: [HCDX] Glenn Hauser logs January 25-26, 2010
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** ARGENTINA. 11710.6 approx., RAE with good clear signal in music during English hour, UT Wed Jan 26 at 0219 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CHINA. Firedrake music jammer Jan 26 at 1546: fair on 9000, 8400 but 9000 had an unstable het on it, not noticed previously (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CHINA [and non]. 5965, Jan 26 at 1556 could hear CRI theme music weakly and co-channel from something else. Per Aoki, CRI is until 1557 in Russian via Beijing site, while RCI is in Chinese until 1559 via Yamata, JAPAN site, which one would expect to be mutually exclusive, but they are officially to different target areas, aimed in different, almost opposite direxions (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CUBA. 11600, Jan 26 at 1559 noise jamming, while a few minutes earlier there was none and Slovakia was audible in Spanish. Consistent schedule by the DCJC which must be convinced there is something here needing jamming (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** INDONESIA. 9526-, VOI carrier was off around 1415 Jan 26, but at 1553 it was back on causing a het with CRI East Turkistan on 9525.0, and continued past 1600, as CRI continues another hour in English, but I could not copy languages from either. Aoki shows VOI in Indonesian at 1600, but monitoring Jan 21 by Atsunori Ishida found Arabic during that hour (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MOROCCO. 15345, RTVM missing Jan 26 at 1515, tho it had been on the air before 1500 on 15340. Recheck at 1545, 15345 was back on tho hummy and undermodulated. Transmitter appears to be ailing, and previously did not find it colliding with reactivated Argentina later in the day. Neither country registers its frequencies with HFCC (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** SAUDI ARABIA. Buzzing Service of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, the worst ever, Jan 26: from the 15435 transmitter, already on at 1456 blasting away R. Farda 15410 whose music I had just started to enjoy. Could hear the buzz between 15390 and 15455, along with some Arabic modulation underneath. By 1516 recheck the buzz could be heard all the way from 15355 to 15500, tapering off at both edges, but still audible under WYFR 15355, making Spain 15385 unlistenable. Instead of multiple overlays of buzzing, at the edges it was steady pulsing at the rate of four times per second, something I had not noted previously. Certain other days there was little if any buzz audible around 15435, I suppose depending on propagational variations.
I find it incredible that other users of this spectrum have not filed official complaints about it through ITU, or if they have, that nothing has been done about it; just as incredible that the Saudis are unable or unwilling to fix it or turn it off since it is doing them no good whatsoever, making them a laughingstock in the international engineering community, and wasting countless megawatts.
The // 15225 with Qur`an from the same Riyadh transmitter site has no such problems, but a relatively minor one at 1525 Jan 26: some intermittent hum and minor buzz on the modulation; wiggle that patchcord! (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** SUDAN [non]. 17745, SRS via PORTUGAL, Jan 26 at 1520 with neat jingle IDs featuring “Sudan Radio Service“ sung in English several times along with music by full hilife orchestra; continued in Arabic dialect with the echo turned off, thankfully (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U K. 12095, BBCWS in English, Jan 26 at 1500 with news teasers, huge echo; in fact it sounded like a double echo. Scheduled as Rampisham site only at 95 degrees. Short/long path plus another unscheduled site on the air too? 1507 story about France vs the veil and the burka.
9505, Jan 26 at 1558 with BBCWS promos in English, poor signal, but 1600 switch into another language. Scheduled as Urdu via Singapore (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. Lavwadlamerik, still on secret frequencies 7465 and 7590 Jan 26 at 0219 quick check. This pair have been running until 0300 despite missing from A-Z schedule at
http://author.voanews.com/english/about/frequenciesAtoZ_c.cfm
Was also still hearing covert 13725 before 2200 Jan 25 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 5755, WTWW was back on testing with music Jan 26 at quick check 0219, good signal and modulation. George McClintock says he has been experimenting with 125% positive modulation, rather than negative, both on this and earlier in the afternoon Jan 25 on 9480, and wanted reports on modulation quality as heard. This is common on MW, but rarely employed on SW (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ###
End of Hard-Core-DX Digest, Vol 85, Issue 27
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Today’s Topics:
1. Glenn Hauser logs January 26-27, 2010 (Glenn Hauser)
2. Small ferrite antenna (Giampiero Bernardini)
3. Florida Logs (Robert Wilkner)
4. Thr Early DX (Charles Bolland)
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Message: 1
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 2010 09:25:05 -0800 (PST)
From: Glenn Hauser <wghauser@yahoo.com>
To: dxld@yahoogroups.com
Cc: swl@mailman.qth.net
Subject: [HCDX] Glenn Hauser logs January 26-27, 2010
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** ARGENTINA. 15345, the 8-note RAE IS fair at 2157 Jan 26, following German broadcast; had I realized that Aoki shows a one-hour gap until Spanish from *2300, I would have stayed tuned a bit longer to reconfirm that Spanish axually starts at 2200 weekdays, as per WRTH (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CUBA [and non]. 11600, jamming still going at 2202 Jan 26, later than usual? Altho maybe not continuously since it started at 1600. Now it`s pulsing, which means maybe only one of multiple transmitters which add up to walls of noise. Tried comparing it to 11930, and much stronger pulsing there matched, exactly synchronized at the rate of four per second, except the pitch was slightly higher on 11930, where Radio Mart? had just closed (BTW, Aoki somehow misses Mart? on this frequency). We remained baffled why the DCJC runs jammers on 11600, where nothing at all is known to be broadcasting after 1600 — but hey, no better place for them!
15360, Jan 27 at 1445, RHC`s Formalmente Informal, a lo-fi interview mixing with something in Persian, about equal level and precisely zero beat, so rather confusing as they took turns dominating. Latter is RFI Issoudun at 1430-1500 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CYPRUS. OTH radar, presumed from here, but maybe not, Jan 27 at 1450 spanning 15745-15815, with peaks at odd spots such as 15780 and 15810, so most damaging to Galei Zahal, ISRAEL on 15783.6 and BBC Arabic on 15790, which is definitely Cyprus; overshadowed by the Saudi buzz, q.v. (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** EGYPT. 15080, R. Cairo, poor with distorted modulation as always on this frequency, music at 1430 Jan 27, into 4+1 timesignal 35 seconds late, Cairo news theme and distorted talk in Arabic. This is 13-16 via Abis site to West Africa, where they`d better set their clox by something else (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** OMAN. 15140, R. Sultanate of Oman, fair signal but barely audible modulation, 1433 Jan 27 with YL in English news mentioning Baghdad, and highly likely it was bad news (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** RUSSIA [and non]. 9996, binary code at 1255 Jan 27, presumably RWM, and beating against WWV/H on 10000 where there was also a fast SAH indicating some other station`s frequency was not standard at all (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** SAUDI ARABIA. I thought the Buzzing Service of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia was bad the day before, but much worse on Jan 27, a new record: first check at 1500, the horrible 15435 transmitter was audible just between 15390 and 15460, leaving e.g. fluttery Spain 15385 in the clear.
But at 1518 If found that blotted out, with the buzz now extending from 15270 to 15775! I can`t begin to enumerate all the stations this was interfering with, but who cares?
The edges reduced to just pulsing of four times per second, ranged 15270-15300, and 15630-15775, leaving the full brunt at 15300-15630. The upper end overlapped OTH radar from 15745, see CYPRUS. Standard but amplified remarks of incredulity over the Saudi monstrosity (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** SOLOMON ISLANDS [non]. SIBC missing from 5020 for at least a week in chex around 1300-1430, including Jan 27 at 1307, when no carrier at all detectable. This is because they have ceased overnight relays of BBCWS which used to start at 12 UT, due to power expense of over US$11K per year, per Media Network blog:
http://blogs.rnw.nl/medianetwork/sibc-drops-nighttime-relays-of-bbc-to-save-money
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** TUNISIA. 7275, RTT music had just switched to announcement when cut to brief OC and off the air at 0626:50* Jan 27 while // 7335 continued. This is a consistently odd closing time for 7275, contrary to published schedules; as for 7335 closing, on the schedules as 0910, Noel Green says it goes off around 0810, and Wolfgang B?schel heard it until 0807* (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U K [non]. Jan 27 was monitoring barely early enough to hear the conclusion of BBC`s new Creole service, VG on 9410 via WHRI; a bit of music at 1250, then closing announcement giving the only time for “Connexion[s] Ha?ti“ (pardon my French) as 9:10 am, which is 1410 UT when it repeats on Haitian FM stations; as usual, shortwave gets no respect from the BBC, just an afterthought if we are lucky. Or in this case, a beforethought.
At 1252:30 introduced in Spanish classical music fill show 19 minutes later than previously, which would last only 7.5 minutes until 1300:00* sharp without announcement, matching a timesignal underneath which must have been BBC Oman just overtaking the channel.
Altho this is the least of their problems, now the Haitians are faced with a logjam of special programming at 1230, from VOA, BBC and WRMI. A bit of co?rdination rather than competition would be nice (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 9955, straining to hear WRMI`s new French service to Haiti, Jan 27 at 1257, very weak signal I was about to conclude to be in French when DentroCuban Jamming Command cut on at 1257:40 with one pulser, quickly joined by others, and a pileup noise wall before 1300 when WRMI presumably is running a new Cuban exile program daily, Radio Libertad until 1400. But Cuba was jamming this hour anyway for months when it contained no contrary programming, just victimized DX and other innocent shows.
WRMI`s website still has not been updated to tell us anything about Radio Libertad: http://www.wrmi.net/schedule.php but it allegedly is not strictly an anti-Castro show. Close enough.
WRMI is not only on the SSE antenna at this time but on the backup 5 kW transmitter, pending repairs, making it virtually inaudible here, and not a chance of overcoming jamming, which the Cubans keep on thru the 1400 hour for good measure against DX and other programs, and even past 1500 when R. Prague is relayed in English.
Jeff White says the 12-13 M-F hour is now occupied by programs in French for Haiti: Prague, Vatican and UN Radio, perhaps to be replaced by religious programs in Creole when available (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A [and non]. Lavwadlamerik, Jan 27 at 1305 on 6135 via Bonaire, 9505 presumably Greenville, with announcement over sad piano music reminiscent of Sea Breeze. This semihour does not conflict with Haitian services from BBC and WRMI at 1230 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A [non]. As I tuned in 15315, Jan 27 at 1438, heard gruff announcer mention “shortwave radio station“, then “Family Radio“ and later, “Open Forum“, but otherwise in a S Asian language. Aoki shows it`s Malayalam, since Dec 30 at 14-15 via Wertachtal, GERMANY (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A [non]. 17610 with extremely repetitious rustic melody of only a few notes up and down being sung at 1456 Jan 27, 1458 briefly to other music before cut off at 1458:40 without any announcement. Another example of AWR`s Afar service via AUSTRIA, to what must be a tiny minority, Adventist Afars, but AWR voices hope of their peculiar sect catching on from afar (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ###
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Message: 2
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 2010 22:43:19 +0100
From: “Giampiero Bernardini” <g.bernardini@avvenire.it>
To: “HCDX” <hard-core-dx@hard-core-dx.com>,
<ultralightdx@yahoogroups.com>
Subject: [HCDX] Small ferrite antenna
Message-ID:
<5B9BD0362FAE1340B6AAB3C4CA7AFE7703AB9412@exch04.local.avvenire.it>
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I got from RadioPlus+ (USA) a nice ferrite antenna, useful with portable and ultralight radios: The Q-Stick+. You can see some info and my impressions on my blog http://radiodxinfo.blogspot.com/
<http://radiodxinfo.blogspot.com/>
Ciao
Giampiero
Giampiero Bernardini
Milano, Italia
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Message: 3
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 2010 18:29:11 -0500
From: Robert Wilkner <rlcw@earthlink.net>
To: undisclosed-recipients:;
Subject: [HCDX] Florida Logs
Message-ID: <4B60CC47.7040602@earthlink.net>
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Logs
4700 Bolivia, Radio San Miguel, Riberalta 1030 to 1045 ”seis in la manana” ..”en todos el tiempo”.. ..” en Bolivia hoy”….. rooster crows “..en la radio seis en las manana” ..much improved signal as returned to
4700. 2300 ‘Amigos en las mision ” 27 January [Wilkner]
4800 Mexico XERTA, 1117 om espanol with weak signal 27 January [Wilkner]
4985 Brasil Radio Brasil Central, Goainia 2258 2300 football live “gooooal!”, strong signal 27 January [Wilkner]
5952.45 Bolivia Pio XII, Siglo Veinte yl en espanol, co channel, narrow filter, 27 January [Wilkner]
73s de
Bob
Pompano Beach, Florida
Drake R 8, Icom 746Pro DL, NRD 535D
noise reducing antenna
60 meter band dipole
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Message: 4
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 2010 02:03:49 -0000
From: “Charles Bolland” <ka4prf@peoplepc.com>
To: “ALF” <alf.e.persson@telia.com>, “Arnaldo slaen”
<slaen@ciudad.com.ar>, ”Bob Wilkner” <rlcw@earthlink.net>,
“brainman214″ <brainman214@gmail.com>, Carlos Gon??alves
<carlos-relvas@sapo.pt>, ”Cumbre” <cumbredx@n2jeu.net>, “DSWCI”
<logs@directbox.com>, “Gayle Van Horn”
<gaylevanhorn@monitoringtimes.com>, “Glenn Hauser”
<wghauser@yahoo.com>, “Hard-core-dx” <hard-core-dx@hard-core-dx.com>,
“Marie Lamb” <malamb@cumbredx.org>
Subject: [HCDX] Thr Early DX
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India, 4920, All India Radio, (Chennai), 0111-0120, Initially noted a male in Hindi language news until 0013 when canned promos presented. At 0115 a female takes over the mic with more comments. Heard “India” mentioned during these. Signal was fair which is better than usual. (Chuck Bolland, January 28, 2010)
India, 4800, All India Radio, (Hyderabad), 0146-0200,
Noted a male in Hindi language comments with bridge type music. Male continues to talk however. Signal was poor.
(Chuck Bolland, January 28, 2010)
NRD545
26.27N 081.05W
End of Hard-Core-DX Digest, Vol 85, Issue 28
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Today’s Topics:
1. DX thur Morn (Charles Bolland)
2. three mediumwave logs – am stereo + Cuba (aurel chiochiu)
3. Glenn Hauser logs January 28, 2010 (Glenn Hauser)
4. WWCR Leaving 3240 (J.D. Stephens)
5. DX Listening Digest 10-04; World of Radio 1497 (Glenn Hauser)
6. New MW QSL card (WYLL) (Patrick Martin)
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Message: 1
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 2010 12:08:00 -0000
From: “Charles Bolland” <ka4prf@peoplepc.com>
To: “ALF” <alf.e.persson@telia.com>, “Arnaldo slaen”
<slaen@ciudad.com.ar>, ”Bjorn Fransson” <bjornfransson@hotmail.com>,
“Bob Wilkner” <rlcw@earthlink.net>, “brainman214″
<brainman214@gmail.com>,Carlos GonA?alves<carlos-relvas@sapo.pt>,
“Cumbre” <cumbredx@n2jeu.net>, “DSWCI” <logs@directbox.com>, ”Gayle
Van Horn” <gaylevanhorn@monitoringtimes.com>, “Glenn Hauser”
<wghauser@yahoo.com>, “Hard-core-dx” <hard-core-dx@hard-core-dx.com>,
“Marie Lamb” <malamb@cumbredx.org>
Subject: [HCDX] DX thur Morn
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Czech, 9880, Radio Prague, 1105-1120, Noted a program of German language news and features. At 1110 a male gives live ID. Signal was poor to fair with some fading.
(Chuck Bolland, January 28, 2010)
Guam, 9910, KTWR, 1112-1120, With a very weak signal, noted a female in Chinese language comments. This continues but noise is very loud. Turned off all electric appliances and lights, even the computer, but the noise remained. It’s tough Dxing in the dark. (Chuck Bolland, January 28, 2010)
Unid/Russia, 9720, Family Radio, WYFR, 1130-1145, This is listed in AOKI coming via a relay in Novosibirsk. Signal is poor and can’t exactly identify the language although it sounds like English. Heard the WYFR theme music as well as a partial URL link in English on the half hour. This could be WYFR from Okeechobee, Florida too. Many times that signal skips over my location since I am so close. At 1137 a female talks in English. So the 1100 to 1200 sked for WYFR listed in AOKI is suppose to be Cantonese. The listing in EIBI says that WYFR broadcasts on 9720 between 1200 to 1300 in Cantonese. The signal has really deteriorated by 1145.
(Chuck Bolland, January 28, 2010)
Chile, 9780, CVC International, 1145-1200, Noted a male and female in Spanish language comments. At 1150 music presented. Signal was good. (Chuck Bolland, January 28, 2010)
NRD545
26.27N 081.05W
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Message: 2
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 2010 11:43:24 -0500
From: aurel chiochiu <acq@videotron.ca>
To: hard-core-dx@hard-core-dx.com, BACONTI@aol.com, nrcidxd@aol.com,
mwdx@yahoogroups.com, condiglist@yahoogroups.com,
amstereoforum@yahoogroups.com, amstereo@yahoogroups.com,
ABDX@yahoogroups.com
Cc: Jorge Medina <jjllms@yahoo.com.ar>, Juan Carlos Lemieux <elroockie007@hotmail.com>, mtardif17@hotmail.com, Pierre CHABOT <chabot-pierre@wanadoo.fr>, “Philippe …” <le_sorcier_xl@hotmail.com>, jrtrevilly@free.fr, MarkWA1ION@aol.com, Kyru Rex <kyrukyru@hotmail.com>, fkp36@yahoo.fr, ve2shw@yahoo.com, “Tudor M. Vedeanu” <tmvedeanu@yahoo.com>, stephanecounot@yahoo.fr, “olivier.tequi” <olivier.tequi@laposte.net>, da_18gurlz@hotmail.com, lpa754@hotmail.com, pkloops@bigpond.net.au, bourdeau_annemarie22@hotmail.com, alaingutton@yahoo.fr, o_p_nimigean@yahoo.com, pepe8877@hotmail.com,venezuelanqslhelp@yahoo.com, flying_dead_corpses_in_the_sky@hotmail.com, Jorge Garcia <garcia.jorgegarcia@gmail.com>
Subject: [HCDX] three mediumwave logs – am stereo + Cuba
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Warm greetings to all of you !
While the Radio Coro 780 peaked up nicely for a few minutes, I put the tape to delet the low-signal parts and now, I’m glad to admit, I have a full C90 tape with 780 oddities: Radio Coro on one side and WTEM in Maine, a daytimer with Post Sunset Authority staying on late with it’s full power on the other one !
But the best is yet to come: armchair copy of KCJJ-1630 with over and under the co-channel QRM and CJRS Radio Shalom splatter ! Unbelievable, but true…do not really sounds like they switched to their 1 kW night rig, though it may seem stronger because they are omnidirectionnal !
Into the logs:
1630 KCJJ Iowa City, IA 01/28 0154 EST – End of ad bloc, “Hot Talk, Hot Hits” jingle with very clean stereo separation during a very good signal peak, followed by an Alicia Keys number. Also heard a couple of dozens of minutes earlier with a man host talking about the best way to take care of a golden retriever (like the very sensitive one I already breed and cheers). SINPO 43523 and I more reliable than WIRY-1340 as far as its signal strength goes, at least that’s the way it was the past night. I’m very happy with this one ! Heard with a fair level of QRM from WDAG (also new !) and a Spanish Mexican playing ranchera that was probably the one in Wyoming. Also some IBOC hash, unsure from who… Is there something IBOC on 1620-1640 in the northeast or even further into the midwest that could potentially harm KCJJ in the Montreal area ? Still, not too bad overall, as far as the reception goes ! How many IBOC “badcasters” are slicing the X-band ? (BC-QC)
1680 WTTM Princettown, NJ 01/28 0235 EST – in order to get it in CQuam, I almost had to break the dial which stopss right at 1678 or 1679 kHz, sounded like some stereo separation on WTTM, maybe just a fake ? Always hard to tell with those forced stereo sets like my trusty Sony CFS-6000 (which works very well between 515 and 1670 kHz) and the poor stereo separation on ranchera music, though I thought I had one instrument one side and the other on the left side with the voice in both channels, though it was hard to tell. Fadings on the X-band are choppy and my inability to tune right to 1680 made the fadings sound even more unbearable than on KCJJ ! (BC-QC)
600 CUBA CMKV, Radio Rebelde, Urbano Norr?s JAN 28 0422 UTC – woman doing a speech against racism and taking phone calls from her listeners. Atop CKAT ! Heard on the Sony SRF-A1 barefoot while walking the dog near the C?res park in Pierrefonds. Briefly good, then overtaked by QRM. Condx toward Latin America generally very poor. (Chiochiu-QC)
Additionnal comments:
While I’ve only slept 4 hours the past night, I’ve dreamed a lot… Time to get ready for walking the dog and starting to do that Spanish homework with the Radio Coro tape in mind !
This report is brougt to you by Bogdan Alexandru Chiochiu DXing using his Sony CFS-6000 with the passive tunable PK AM loop or the Sony SRF-A1 barefoot while walking the dog – both excellent for mediumwave and DXing and Motorola C-Quam listening !
May the good DX be with you !
Bogdan Chiochiu
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Message: 3
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 2010 09:28:52 -0800 (PST)
From: Glenn Hauser <wghauser@yahoo.com>
To: dxld@yahoogroups.com
Cc: swl@mailman.qth.net
Subject: [HCDX] Glenn Hauser logs January 28, 2010
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** CHINA. 7585 again bearing Firedrake against unknown target, Jan 28 at 1455; good signal but heavy flutter, while 8400 was very weak and not positive it was //. Only thing listed on 7585 at this time is Vatican in Tamil via Tajikistan (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** FRANCE [non]. 11605, good in rapid-paced French morning program, Jan 28 at 0655; sounded like commercials, but surely not on RFI, which is scheduled here via SOUTH AFRICA, 0500-0700 but only 100 kW at 345 degrees, consequently USward as well. 0700 time signal about 7 seconds late, 8 am timecheck in Paris, news, but cut off abruptly at 0702* — another example of sloppy operations at SENTECH, Meyerton (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** INDONESIA [and non]. VOI, 9526-, Jan 28 at 1459 was on causing heavy het to CRI 9525.0 via EAST TURKISTAN, and also still at 1508 when CRI was trying to talk to us in English.
RRI, 9680 much better in the clear at 1459 Jan 28, good with gamelan orchestra and singing. This continued right thru hourtop until 1504 when switched to a bit of Western orchestral music and then cut off the air at 1504:30* without any ID, announcement or sign-off (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MEXICO [and non]. 6104.8v, Jan 28 at 0724 the irrepressively peppy upbeat music XEQM plays in the nitemiddle for insomniax, several sex of dead air, then YL DJ and produced IDs mentioning 95.3, “la m?s grande“. Good at peaks revealing somewhat distorted modulation, but usual deep fades. 0728 she gave timecheck for 1:29 over music, then also put phone caller on air. 0729-0731 a carrier went on and off a couple times on 6105.0 causing het: probably TWR tuning up prior to its 0745 start via Nauen (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** ROMANIA. 15235, Jan 28 at 1525 SW Asian language talk and music, lively show but could not catch ID. Did not think it was Arabic, until uplooked later and found RRI is scheduled in Arabic 15-16 on 15235, 247 degrees from Tiganeshti. Maybe that`s what Arabic sounds like with a Romanian accent (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** SAUDI ARABIA. Buzzing Service of the Kingdom of Sa`udi Arabia, 15435 transmitter still blotting large portion of 19m Jan 28 at 1530, but somewhat less than on Jan 27. Exact range varies from minute to minute, as well as from day to day, probably more due to intensity of propagation than of transmission. On a much less sensitive receiver, it was much less noticeable.
The 4-per-minute pulsing at the edges reached 15160-15220, the full brunt 15220-15500, but not much above 15500 as it`s assymetrical — altho with such a wide blob, could be riding or bridging the MUF. Final check at 1555 found the boundary between pulsing and brunting around 15250 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A [and non]. A few hours before President Obama`s State of the Union address, I found out the special frequencies VOA was going to use to broadcast it live at 0200-0330 UT Jan 28:
Africa: 909, 1530, 4930, 6080, 9885, 15580
Asia: 11705, 11745, 13680, 15260, 15445, 15520, 17845
Middle East: 9550, 9780
Not expecting to hear much in the night from relays presumably Eastern-Hemispheric, I quickly tuned thru the list around 0209 UT. The only ones heard for sure were 4930, when the President had not quite started and the announcer mentioned voanews.com; shortly afterwards found 9885 better as welcoming applause was ongoing. Nothing audible on the others except traces of carriers on a few of them. Both 4930 and 9885 normally open at 0300 via Botswana, but the earlier hour could also have been via S?o Tom?, or even Greenville on 9885.
BTW, I also noticed that the secret VOA Creole transmission at 02-03 was lacking 7590 but still on 7465, apparently not covering the speech. Perhaps the 7590 transmitter was needed for SOTU; we`ll have to see if it`s back following nights.
REE Spain has also been known to broadcast voice-over translations of such significant US live events on 6055, but not this time (Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ###
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Message: 4
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 2010 14:24:37 -0800 (PST)
From: “J.D. Stephens” <jdstephens_99@yahoo.com>
To: HardCore DX <hard-core-dx@hard-core-dx.com>, Cumbre DX
<cumbredx@n2jeu.net>, wghauser@yahoo.com
Subject: [HCDX] WWCR Leaving 3240
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Saw the below news item posted on WWCR’s website:
Beginning 31 January, WWCR will cease to operate on 3.240 MHz. WWCR’s Transmitter #1 will broadcast on 7.465 MHz from 2100-0200 UTC.
73,
J.D. Stephens
Hampton Cove, AL. USA
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Message: 5
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 2010 14:44:36 -0800 (PST)
From: Glenn Hauser <wghauser@yahoo.com>
To: Glenn Hauser <wghauser@yahoo.com>
Cc: swl@mailman.qth.net
Subject: [HCDX] DX Listening Digest 10-04; World of Radio 1497
Message-ID: <247088.52744.qm@web51106.mail.re2.yahoo.com>
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DX Listening Digest 10-04 has now been posted at http://www.dxld.org
or http://www.w4uvh.net/dxlatest.txt or http://dxld.worldofradio.org
and now also without delay at http://www.w4uvh.net/dxld1004.txt
CONTENTS:
WOR 1497 / ALBANIA +non / ANTARCTICA +non / ARGENTINA +non / ARMENIA / AUSTRALIA +non CVC / AUSTRALIA non RA / AUSTRALIA HCJB / AUSTRIA / AZERBAIJAN / BAHAMAS +non / BELGIUM non DRM / BOLIVIA / BRAZIL / BULGARIA / BURMA non / CAMEROON non / CANADA RCI / CANADA CKZU/CKZN / CANADA CFVP / CANADA +non CFAC+ / CANADA CISL / CANADA CHU / CHAD / CHINA +non / COLOMBIA / CONGO / CUBA +non / CYPRUS / CZECHIA +non / DIEGO GARCIA / DJIBOUTI / EAST TURKISTAN / ECUADOR +non / EGYPT / EQUATORIAL GUINEA / ESTONIA / ETHIOPIA +non / GERMANY / GREECE / HAITI +non ham+ / HONDURAS / INDIA +non / INDONESIA / IRAN / ISRAEL / ITALY non / JORDAN / KASHMIR / KOREA NORTH +non / KURDISTAN / KUWAIT / LAOS +non / LIBERIA / MADAGASCAR / MALAYSIA/SARAWAK / MEXICO +non / MONGOLIA / MOROCCO / MYANMAR +non / NETHERLANDS non / NETHERLANDS ANTILLES / NEW ZEALAND / NIGERIA +non / NORTH AMERICA Pirates / OKLAHOMA KMUS / OMAN / PALAU / PAPUA NEW GUINEA / PARAGUAY / PERU / PHILIPPINES / POLAND
non / RUSSIA +non / SAUDI ARABIA / SLOVAKIA / SOLOMON ISLANDS non / SPAIN / SRI LANKA / SUDAN non / SURINAME / SWAZILAND / SYRIA / TAIWAN +non / TAJIKISTAN / THAILAND / TUNISIA / TURKEY +non / UGANDA / UK Scilly / UK ham / UK non BBCWS / USA +non VOA / USA WTWW / USA ham WB8PUM/W2XKE / USA WWCR/WSNL / USA WRMI / USA +non AWR / USA +non WYFR / USA WEWN B09 / USA WBCQ / USA WJHR / USA WWRB / USA +non ham / USA USCG / USA HIFERS / USA KEDM/WOR / USA WNAX/KFYR/KFRM/KCRS/KWMT / USA KZMP/KTNO/KZUE/WGEM/ESPN+ / USA KRCN/KZEE/KFXR/WSKR / USA KGBC / USA WTNI / USA KB5XSZ/KBSZ / USA FCC/Quello / USA WGGH / USA EAS / USA FCC/Pirates / USA Air America/KQKE/KGO/C2C/KABC/WIBW/WWKB/KKEE/KPHX+ / USA WARV / USA YPR / URUGUAY / VATICAN / VENEZUELA +non / VIETNAM / YEMEN / ZANZIBAR / ZIMBABWE non / UNIDENTIFIED 830 / UNIDENTIFIED non 4330 / UNIDENTIFIED 5940 / UNIDENTIFIED 6104 / UNIDENTIFIED 9394 / UNIDENTIFIED 15140 / UNIDENTIFIED 15725 / UNIDENTIFIED 15800 /
UNIDENTIFIED 21745 / TESTIMONIALS / TINY TRAP / LANGUAGE LESSONS / MUSEA / DIGITAL BROADCASTING / RADIO EQUIPMENT FORUM / PROPAGATION
For restrixions and searchable 2010 contents archive see
http://www.worldofradio.com/dxldmid.html
NOTE: If you are a regular reader of DXLD, and a source of DX news but have not been sending it directly to us, please consider yourself obligated to do so. Thanks, Glenn
WORLD OF RADIO 1497 headlines:
*Reactivations from Argentina, Greece, Indonesia
*Darwin shortwave site to be dismantled, off the air after Jan 31
*Vienna MW 1476 antenna to be demolished by end of February
*MW harmonics from Colombia and Paraguay
*Coping with Cuban jamming
*More on special broadcasts for Haiti
*DX news from Indonesia, Philippines, Solomon Islands
*Program news from Poland
*The Saudi buzz versus 19 metres
*WTWW test widely heard
SHORTWAVE AIRINGS OF WORLD OF RADIO 1497, January 29-February 3, 2010 [note WRMI is off the air or on reduced power/schedule; still webcast]
Fri 0100 WBCQ Area 51 5110-CUSB
Fri 0200 WRMI 9955
Fri 1530 WRMI 9955
Fri 2130 WWCR1 7465
Sat 0900 IPAR/IRRS/NEXUS/IBA 9510 [2-weekly from Jan 29?]
Sat 0900 WRMI 9955
Sat 1430 WRMI 9955
Sat 1730 WWCR3 12160
Sat 1900 IPAR/IRRS/NEXUS/IBA 6170
Sat 2000 WRMI 9955
Sun 0330 WWCR3 5070
Sun 0730 WWCR1 3215
Sun 0900 WRMI 9955
Sun 1230 South Herts Radio 5835
Sun 1615 WRMI 9955
Sun 2000 WRMI 9955
Tue 1630 WRMI 9955
Tue 2000 WBCQ 7415 9330-CUSB?
Wed 1630 WRMI 9955 [usually first airing]
Wed 1930 South Herts Radio 3935
Wed 2000 WBCQ 7415 9330-CUSB?
Thu 2000 WBCQ 7415 9330-CUSB? [aired 1496 instead Jan 28]
Latest edition of this schedule version, including AM, FM, satellite
and webcasts with hotlinks to station sites and audio, is at:
http://www.worldofradio.com/radioskd.html or http://schedule.worldofradio.org or http://sked.worldofradio.org
For updates see our Anomaly Alert page: http://www.worldofradio.com/anomaly.html
WRN ON DEMAND: http://193.42.152.193/listeners/stations/station.php?StationID=24
WORLD OF RADIO PODCASTS VIA WRN: http://www.wrn.org/wrn-listeners/world-of-radio/
http://www.wrn.org/listeners/world-of-radio/rss/09:00:00UTC/English/541
OUR ONDEMAND AUDIO: http://www.worldofradio.com/audiomid.html
or http://wor.worldofradio.org
Best DX wishes, Glenn Hauser
I have just noticed that the sujbect line of last week`s notification for 10-03 read 10-02, but the info within was correctly for 10-03.
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Message: 6
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 2010 21:09:19 -0800
From: mwdxer@webtv.net (Patrick Martin)
To: mwoz@Yahoogroups.com, wienbob@aol.com, BACONTI@aol.com,
gaylemt@brmemc.net, irca@hard-core-dx.com, martinfoltz@cox.net,
am@nrcdxas.org, hard-core-dx@kotalampi.com, showe@csc.albany.edu
Subject: [HCDX] New MW QSL card (WYLL)
Message-ID: <14306-4B626D7F-1949@storefull-3252.bay.webtv.net>
Content-Type: Text/Plain; Charset=US-ASCII
1160 WYLL IL, Chicago, received a very nice blue and grey FD printed QSL card in 10d for snail mail report. Already had an e mail reply. V/S: Paul Easter-CE, also QSLer for WIND-560. Enclosed business card. I enclosed SASE and CD report. Nice to have another great QSL card. Never logged the old WJJD, so finally getting 1160 under any call with KSL on 1160, is a real thrill for me. Address: 25 Northwest Point Blvd, Suite 400, Elk Grove Village, IL 60007. (PM-OR)
Patrick Martin
KGED QSL Manager
End of Hard-Core-DX Digest, Vol 85, Issue 29
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dari hard-core-dx-request@hard-core-dx.combalas ke hard-core-dx@hard-core-dx.comke hard-core-dx@hard-core-dx.comtanggal 30 Januari 2010 12:35subjek Hard-Core-DX Digest, Vol 85, Issue 30milis hard-core-dx.hard-core-dx.com—————————————————————————
Today’s Topics:
1. Fri Morn DX (Charles Bolland)
2. Glenn Hauser logs January 28-29, 2010 (Glenn Hauser)
3. Re: Fri Morn DX (Charles Bolland)
4. Jan 29-30 Logs (Brian384875@aol.com)
5. Logs from NH-USA, Jan 26-29. (Scott R. Barbour Jr.)
6. 1323 khz new station in Australia (dxer@fl.net.au)
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Message: 1
Date: Fri, 29 Jan 2010 10:54:54 -0000
From: “Charles Bolland” <ka4prf@peoplepc.com>
To: “ALF” <alf.e.persson@telia.com>, “Arnaldo slaen”
<slaen@ciudad.com.ar>, ”Bjorn Fransson” <bjornfransson@hotmail.com>,
“Bob Wilkner” <rlcw@earthlink.net>, “brainman214″
<brainman214@gmail.com>,Carlos GonA?alves<carlos-relvas@sapo.pt>,
“Cumbre” <cumbredx@n2jeu.net>, “DSWCI” <logs@directbox.com>, ”Gayle
Van Horn” <gaylevanhorn@monitoringtimes.com>, “Glenn Hauser”
<wghauser@yahoo.com>, “Hard-core-dx” <hard-core-dx@hard-core-dx.com>,
“Marie Lamb” <malamb@cumbredx.org>
Subject: [HCDX] Fri Morn DX
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Peru, 6047.11, Radio Santa Rosa, Tent, 0936-0940, There’s a carrier on this freq which is probably Santa Rosa. Unfortunately, I can’t hear any audio at this time. Possibly the station has not come on the air yet? Regardless, I thought I’d post this carrier for continuity.
Incidentally, the carrier is poor. Checked back at 1034. The carrier was still on the air, but no audio could be heard. (Chuck Bolland, January 29, 2010)
Brazil, 5045, Radio Guaruja Paulista, 1005-1025, (pres) Noted a male and a female in Portuguese language news. At 1018 promos presented and again at 1023. Never heard a clear ID during this t he listening period. Signal was fair however. (Chuck Bolland, January 29, 2010)
Bolivia, 6134.80, Radio Santa Cruz, 1028-1035, At tune-in, noted a few bars of music before a male
talks in Spanish language. Back to music at 1032. Signal was poor. (Chuck Bolland, January 29, 2010)
NRD545
26.27N 081.05W
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Message: 2
Date: Fri, 29 Jan 2010 09:26:36 -0800 (PST)
From: Glenn Hauser <wghauser@yahoo.com>
To: dxld@yahoogroups.com
Cc: swl@mailman.qth.net
Subject: [HCDX] Glenn Hauser logs January 28-29, 2010
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** CHINA. Firedrake Jan 29 at 1426: poor on 10210, very poor on 8400, only a het on 9000. Nothing on 7585 at this time, but did not check closer to 1500 when Firedrake has been inexplicably there previous days (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** COLOMBIA [and non]. Tnx to Jim Evans tip from Tennessee on WORLD OF RADIO 1497, I made a point of looking for the harmonic on 2980, which he heard at 0647 Jan 26. Yes, Jan 29 at 0611 definitely something on 2980.0, very weak music vs QRN level now including lite T-storming close enough to propagate but not nearby. Still just barely audible at 0630, never heard anything but music.
He had an ID at 0650 for R. Vida Nueva. Will keep trying. WRTH 2010 says it`s HJAY, Barranquilla with 5 kW on 1490, slogan “te acerca a Dios“, so the music should be nothing but religious. It had also been reported months ago, but not lately.
I`m sure that the other active MW harmonic, R. San Carlos, Costa Rica, 2859.8 would be much stronger if they would only stay on the air past 0200v.
The harmonic on 2980 making it all the way from Colombia speaks well for the technical standards of the hundreds of US stations on 1490. Decades ago, one could depend on there being a few harmonics audible at any given time on 2 x graveyard frequencies, 2460, 2480, 2680, 2800, 2900, 2980, and the probabilities are still highest on those channels (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) See also USA: 4050
** KOREA NORTH [non]. 5910, Shiokaze, Friday Jan 29 at 1410 with heavily accented English headlines from earlier in January about North Korea, interrupted by their newsy stinger every minute. F-G signal via JAPAN, no jamming audible. Ron Howard found them also in English on Thursday, which is unusual (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** LIBYA. 21695, Voice of Africa, OSOB, Jan 29 at 1508 in English, but better on // 17725, “dawn of a new age thru the African Union“, 1511 outroing a talk on “the devolution of Al-Fatah“, or so it sounded to me; 1512 ID “Voice of Africa from the Great Jamahiriyah“ and then hilife music (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** SAUDI ARABIA. From 15435 transmitter, Buzzing Service of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, checked again Jan 29 at 1502: full brunt of huge buzz interfering with numerous other stations ranged approximately 15380-15680, with the 4-per-minute pulsing at the edges 15680-15780, and 15350-15380. Strong signal from Portugal on 15690 was still not enough to overcome the pulsing. Then the upper pulse range became 15480-15780, instead of full brunt up to 15680. Exact ranges vary from minute to minute; at 1518 check, full brunt was 15300-15650, bad news for Greece on 15650, while 4x/minute pulsing reached 15650-15770 and 15240-15300, conveniently short of QRMing the // BSKSA Qur`an channel 15225.
Since SA won`t do anything about it, a precision air strike could take it out, but probably not without also destroying several other transmitters at the same Riyadh site. ITU ought to have its own air force for such situations (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. Having heard the harmonic on 2980 from Colombia, q.v., I was motivated to look again for the third harmonic of KWMO, 1350, “The Mouth“, Washington MO on 4050, Jan 29 at 0616: yes, intermittent bits of US talk in English, but mostly ute QRM. Since there was any signal at all from presumed KWMO, probably another instance of running day facilities at night. Still no Truth from Guatemala on 4052.5 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. Driving around Enid Jan 28 near low noon, which is always 1832 UT, still some X-band daytime skywave DX tho the sun is zenithing higher every day as spring oncomes. (Snow did not start until 2100 Jan 28; plenty snow into midday Jan 29 but no significant icing or power outages here unlike further south in OK.) Tuning around the X-band in the daytime is always interesting as propagation conditions vary widely.
A music station weakly on 1690 around 1815 UT, audible when propagation peaks matched increasingly rare low-noise spots in the city. And again at 1912 when a Radio Disney ID made it. Therefore it can only be KDDZ in Arvada CO as the only dizzy outlet on frequency, and the only other station normally heard here on 1690 is talker WVON in the Chicago area. Denver`s other X-bander, Spanish KBJD 1650, might have accompanied KDDZ if it were not for splash from our local KFXY-1640. No other significant skywave skywave signals on X-band during this hour, not even KXTR-1660 Kansas City KS (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ###
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Message: 3
Date: Sat, 30 Jan 2010 00:44:50 -0000
From: “Charles Bolland” <ka4prf@peoplepc.com>
To: “‘Charles Bolland’” <ka4prf@peoplepc.com>, “ALF”
<alf.e.persson@telia.com>, ”Arnaldo slaen” <slaen@ciudad.com.ar>,
“Bjorn Fransson” <bjornfransson@hotmail.com>, “Bob Wilkner”
<rlcw@earthlink.net>, “brainman214″ <brainman214@gmail.com>, Carlos
Gon??alves <carlos-relvas@sapo.pt>, “Cumbre” <cumbredx@n2jeu.net>,
“DSWCI” <logs@directbox.com>, “Gayle Van Horn”
<gaylevanhorn@monitoringtimes.com>, “Glenn Hauser”
<wghauser@yahoo.com>, “Hard-core-dx” <hard-core-dx@hard-core-dx.com>,
“Marie Lamb” <malamb@cumbredx.org>
Subject: Re: [HCDX] Fri Morn DX
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Hi all,
Please cancel my logging of Guaruja Paulista on 5045 of January 29, 2010 1005 to 1025.
Thanks
Chuck
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From: Charles Bolland [mailto:ka4prf@peoplepc.com]
Sent: Friday, January 29, 2010 10:55
To: ALF; Arnaldo slaen; Bjorn Fransson; Bob Wilkner (rlcw@earthlink.net); brainman214; Carlos Gon??alves; Cumbre (cumbredx@n2jeu.net); DSWCI (logs@directbox.com); Gayle Van Horn
(gaylevanhorn@monitoringtimes.com); Glenn Hauser (wghauser@yahoo.com); Hard-core-dx
(hard-core-dx@hard-core-dx.com); Marie Lamb (malamb@cumbredx.org)
Subject: Fri Morn DX
Peru, 6047.11, Radio Santa Rosa, Tent, 0936-0940, There’s a carrier on this freq which is probably Santa Rosa. Unfortunately, I can’t hear any audio at this time. Possibly the station has not come on the air yet? Regardless, I thought I’d post this carrier for continuity.
Incidentally, the carrier is poor. Checked back at 1034. The carrier was still on the air, but no audio could be heard. (Chuck Bolland, January 29, 2010)
Brazil, 5045, Radio Guaruja Paulista, 1005-1025, (pres) Noted a male and a female in Portuguese language news. At 1018 promos presented and again at 1023. Never heard a clear ID during this t he listening period. Signal was fair however. (Chuck Bolland, January 29, 2010)
Bolivia, 6134.80, Radio Santa Cruz, 1028-1035, At tune-in, noted a few bars of music before a male talks in Spanish language. Back to music at 1032. Signal was poor. (Chuck Bolland, January 29, 2010)
NRD545
26.27N 081.05W
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Message: 4
Date: Fri, 29 Jan 2010 20:19:16 EST
From: Brian384875@aol.com
To: hard-core-dx@hard-core-dx.com
Subject: [HCDX] Jan 29-30 Logs
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** ARGENTINA. 11710.78, RAE, 0015-0110+, Jan 30, tune-in to Portuguese programming with talk and Argentine music. IS/ID sequence at 0056. Spanish ID announcements at 0100 and local music. Japanese talk at 0108. Fair to good. (Brian Alexander, PA)
** COLOMBIA. 6034.98, LV del Guaviare, San Jos? Guaviare, 0053-0301*, Jan 29, local pop music. IDs. Spanish announcements. Local folk music. Sign off with National Anthem at 0259. Poor with
adjacent channel splatter. (Brian Alexander, PA)
** GUINEA. 7125, Radio Guine?, 2352-0001*, Jan 29-30, local Afro- op music. French talk. Abrupt sign off. Fair to good. (Brian Alexander, PA)
** MEXICO. 6104.76, XEQM, Candela FM, Merida, 0635-0710, Jan 29, Spanish talk. Local ballads. Local pop music. Fair signal. (Brian Alexander, PA)
** NORTH AMERICA. [Pirate]. 6925 USB, Outhouse Radio, 0043-0053, Jan 29, country music. Pop music by Madonna. IDs. Poor to fair. (Brian Alexander, PA)
** SUDAN [non]. via Slovakia, 9825, Miraya 101 FM, 1500-1600, Jan 29, IDs at 1500 & English news. Gave mirayafm.org website. Sports news at 1507. IDs as ?Miraya 101?, ?Miraya FM? and ?101 Miraya FM?. Canned IDs. Extended English programming to 1545 with occasional short vernacular talks. Into Arabic at 1545 with talk and local music. Usually goes into Arabic around 1513. Fair signal. (Brian Alexander, PA)
** SYRIA. 9330, Radio Damascus, 2132-2201*, Jan 29, tune-in to English news about Haiti earthquake and Middle-East peace efforts. IDs. Local pop music. Talk about plans to preserve Old Damascus. More news at 2150. Anthem at 2200 and off the air. Back at 2202 sign on with Spanish programming. Good, strong audio but slight hum. 12085 not heard. (Brian Alexander, PA)
Brian Alexander, Mechanicsburg, PA, USA Equipment: Icom IC-7600, two 100 foot longwires
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Message: 5
Date: Fri, 29 Jan 2010 18:24:14 -0800 (PST)
From: “Scott R. Barbour Jr.” <srbjrswl@yahoo.com>
To: Gayle Van Horn <gaylemt@brmemc.net>, Mark Taylor
<markokpik@tds.net>, Dave Valko <djvalko@verizon.net>, NASWAyg
<NASWA@yahoogroups.com>, DXLD <dxld@yahoogroups.com>, DXplorer
<Dxplorer@yahoogroups.com>, HCDX <hard-core-dx@hard-core-dx.com>
Subject: [HCDX] Logs from NH-USA, Jan 26-29.
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3385, PNG, R. East New Britain Rabaul, 1126-1139, Jan 26, Tok Pisin. M announcer w/ brief talks between choral-like mx selections; fair w/ “hum” of sorts. (Barbour-NH)
4750, UNIDENTIFIED, 1148-1200, Jan 26. Hindi-like vocal mx; continuos thru ToH; barely audible under band noise; very poor & at imagination level by 1200 in ECCS-LSB. If I had to guess who; I’d say Bangladesh. (Barbour-NH)
4828, ZIMBABWE, presumed ZBC Gweru, 0320, Jan 29. Strong carrier w/ audio at imagination level; nothing but noise on 3396. (Barbour-NH)
5045, BRAZIL, R. Cultura do Para Belem, 0109-0138, Jan 29, English/Portuguese. “Live” concert featuring Cambridge, MA. legends, Morphine. A few quick breaks for studio ancr w/non-descript PP comments; lenghty ID announcment at 0137 & back to mx; very pleasurable listening. Saw Morphine back in ‘94 at a WBCN sponsored fest w/ six other 90’s era bands. (Barbour-NH)
9500, UZBEKISTAN, CVC Tashkent, 1223-1228, Jan 29, listed Hindi. Pop-ish, choral-like mx at t/in; ad/promo string w/ phone number; wiped out by huge splash via Voa Greenville 9505 s/on at 1228; fair. (Barbour-NH)
9950, UKRAINE, R. Ukraine Int’l Kharkov, 1205-1212, Jan 29, English. News re Ukrainian
politics & elections; ID & “Ukraine Today” prg re government support for small business’; fair. (Barbour-NH)
15190, EQ. GUINEA, R. Africa Bata, 1552-1611, Jan 29, English. M & occasional W ancrs w/ religous talk, straight thru ToH, re Matthew & other Bible stuff; no ID noted; poor & noisy. (Barbour-NH)
Scott R. Barbour Jr. Intervale, N.H. USA
NRD-545, RX-350D, MLB1, 200′ Beverages, 60m dipole.
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Message: 6
Date: Sat, 30 Jan 2010 15:38:22 +1100
From: dxer@fl.net.au
To: Hard-core-dx <hard-core-dx@hard-core-dx.com>
Subject: [HCDX] 1323 khz new station in Australia
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Just heard that the new 2KIX transmitter now on air as of 0400UTC 30/1/10 on air Canberra 400 watts of power on/off as testing as required by the authorities for interference etc…for a full week John Wright Australian Radio DX Club.
End of Hard-Core-DX Digest, Vol 85, Issue 30
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dari hard-core-dx-request@hard-core-dx.combalas ke hard-core-dx@hard-core-dx.comke hard-core-dx@hard-core-dx.comtanggal 31 Januari 2010 13:35subjek Hard-Core-DX Digest, Vol 85, Issue 31milis hard-core-dx.hard-core-dx.comdikirim oleh hard-core-dx.com—————————————————————————————————
Today’s Topics:
1. CME – Colombian log (aurel chiochiu)
2. Visita a Banda Oriental en Uruguay (Arnaldo)
3. LA ROSA DE TOKYO PARA HOY: La radiodifusion en Italia y la
RAI (Arnaldo)
4. Peru, Zimbabwe, Surinam, PNG (Dave Valko)
5. 15435 Riyadh (Wolfgang Bueschel)
6. Radio Vida Nueva 2980 (Brian384875@aol.com)
7. Glenn Hauser logs January 30, 2010 (Glenn Hauser)
8. Re: Glenn Hauser logs January 30, 2010 (Wolfgang Bueschel)
9. Darwin still on for last day (Glenn Hauser)
10. Re: [ODXA] Darwin still on for last day (Mick Delmage)
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Message: 1
Date: Sat, 30 Jan 2010 03:02:58 -0500
From: aurel chiochiu <acq@videotron.ca>
To: condiglist@yahoogroups.com, ABDX@yahoogroups.com, nrcidxd@aol.com,
BACONTI@aol.com, hard-core-dx@hard-core-dx.com,
LatinMWDX@yahoogroups.com, mwdx@yahoogroups.com
Cc: Juan Carlos Lemieux <elroockie007@hotmail.com>,
mtardif17@hotmail.com, Pierre CHABOT <chabot-pierre@wanadoo.fr>,
“Tudor M. Vedeanu” <tmvedeanu@yahoo.com>, curious.george@att.net,
venezuelanqslhelp@yahoo.com,
flying_dead_corpses_in_the_sky@hotmail.com, jrtrevilly@free.fr,
pepe8877@hotmail.com, Alain Gutton <a.gutton@fotovista.com>,
minimarcos_@hotmail.com, da_18gurlz@hotmail.com,
stephanecounot@yahoo.fr, lpa754@hotmail.com, Jorge Garcia
<garcia.jorgegarcia@gmail.com>, pkloops@bigpond.net.au, “Philippe …”
<le_sorcier_xl@hotmail.com>, o_p_nimigean@yahoo.com
Subject: [HCDX] CME – Colombian log
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690 COLOMBIA HJCZ Radio Recuerdo, Santa F? de Bogot? JAN 30 0628 UTC – ranchera, “Los bailados de siempre est?n en Radio Recuerdos”, then a classic cumbia track. Poor-fair, but dominant over apparent Cuba which was IDed earlier and residual hash. SINPO 22332. NEW ! Colombia#8… I have HJKL-610, HJKH-650, HJAJ-760, HJJX-770, HJCY-810, HJIJ-1070, HJCG-1070, so this is indeed my 8th Colombian on mediumwave… First new Colombian in ages ! In WLW-700 null ! It’s hard to null out WLW-700 without also semi-nulling Colombia, but a semi-null is better than a total null ! (Chiochiu-QC)
This is what a clear channel can do during non-auroral conditions… Imagine if WLW-700 was HDless or if there was some auroral enhancement !
May the good DX be with you !
Bogdan Chiochiu in Pierrefpnds (Montreal’s West Island), QC
Heard on the Sony CFS-6000 / PK AM loop combination
Btw.: An MP3 will follow tomorrow !
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Message: 2 (No in English)
Message: 3 (No in English)
Message: 4
Date: Sat, 30 Jan 2010 10:44:26 -0500
From: “Dave Valko” <djvalko@verizon.net>
To: “Guy Atkins” <dx@guyatkins.com>, <kirk74601@yahoo.com>,
<hard-core-dx@hard-core-dx.com>, <srbjrswl@yahoo.com>,
<lyamron@comcast.net>, <rlcw@earthlink.net>, ”cumbredx@cs2.ralabs.com”
<cumbredx@n2jeu.net>, “Nicolas Eramo” <neramo@gmail.com>
Subject: [HCDX] Peru, Zimbabwe, Surinam, PNG
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PERU 5485.472 R. Reina de la Selva End of song then M anncr at 0012. More mx for 2 min. then fast-tlking M in slight echo effect including several IDs. Back to nice lively OA campo mx at 0016. M returned again at 0020. (30 Jan)
ZIMBABWE 3396 Zimbabwe BC 0022 Hi-life Afro mx. Continuing at 0028 and 0058 checks. Went over ToH w/mx. Some nasty noise started on the freq around 0115 which rendered a canned anmnt at 0120 inaudible. Finally in the clear again at 0132.
SIRUNAM 4990 R. Apintie 0039 long live tlk by M in Sranan Tongo w/ments of Surinam and what sounded like SRS. 0043 soft instru. mx. 0048 banter by studio W and M anncrs. Again, a ment or two of Surinam. Seemed // to their web site radio audio, but about 2 minutes behind 4990. Best at t/in and getting very fady later. (30 Jan)
INDONESIA 4869.93 RRI Wamena (pres.) 1050 Tlk by W and M in lang. Mx from 1057-1100, then same W anncr, poss. nx to 1109, but couldn’t copy as it was too weak. Mx bridge, then more tlk features w/same W and M until 1122, then into Pop mx pgm. W again at 1159, mx bridge, then very short signature of some sort, and W once again. Was still in at 1316. Never got quite good enough for ID. Have noted this for some time but haven’t seen any loggings reported. (30 Jan)
SOLOMON ISLANDS 5020 R. Happy Isles/SIBC Horrible Rebelde splatter until about 1113, then Pop mx plainly audiable for some reason. Took phone callers on air w/dedication requests. 1154 Reggae version of “One More Time” by Phil Collins. Impossible at the 1200 ToH due to Rebeldes +/-20 khz splatter. (30 Jan)
PAPUA NEW GUINEA 3315 R. Manus 1226 tlk by little girl, then into Pop song. 1231 studio M anncr pgm host w/song anmnt, ment of “album”, then “local news”. Back to mx pgm. 1251-1258 messages w/ments of names and Manus, “OK, this record especial ubla.”, “.goodnight now until morning Papa”, Saturday night, “.all the listeners ?? good morning.”. Mx to 1301, W anncr w/NBC nx promo, and more mx. More messages at 1305. Still going at 1316. Best signal in the ? hour after sunrise (1230-1300). Other 90 mb PNGs on this morning included 3275, 3290, 3225, 3365, and 3385 (QRMed). (30 Jan)
PAPUA NEW GUINEA 3275 R. Southern Highlands 1236-1316 Island and Pop mx pgm w/M host. 1245-1249 messages by M anncr w/ment of “.11 o’clock ?? number one station service.program.”, and “.tomorrow ?? radio broadcast.long Papua Southern Highlands Province.”. Then a number of songs in a row over ToH, and M finally returning at 1309. Nice to see this one still on. (30 Jan)
73 Dave Valko
Persues with preamp and T2FD antenna
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Message: 5
Date: Sat, 30 Jan 2010 17:01:14 +0100
From: “Wolfgang Bueschel” <BueschelW@web.de>
To: “DXLD” <dxld@yahoogroups.com>, “HCDX” <hard-core-dx@kotalampi.com>
Subject: [HCDX] 15435 Riyadh
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Top record, BSKSA Riyadh on 15435 kHz heavy BUZZ signal super wide in 15108 to 15938 kHz range. Scheduled 15-18 UT.
Nothing heard in Germany of WRN 6230 kHz Liverpool v Bolton English football live commentaries in Chinese via Tashkent Uzbekistan. Rather data signal of G2D/G7D CODAR format interfers ?
ITU Monitoring List shows Quimper – Brest in France location, due of cross finding by monitorings in Klagenfurt Austria, El Casar in Spain, and Baldock in U.K.
http://www.itu.int/ITU-R/terrestrial/monitoring/files/pdffiles/324.pdf
wb
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Message: 6
Date: Sat, 30 Jan 2010 11:07:37 EST
From: Brian384875@aol.com
To: hard-core-dx@hard-core-dx.com
Subject: [HCDX] Radio Vida Nueva 2980
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** COLOMBIA. 2980.00, Radio Vida Nueva, Barranquilla, 0620-0655, Jan 30, 2nd harmonic. 2 x 1490. A mix of Spanish religious music, slow ballads, and more lively Spanish music. Several Spanish
announcements. Threshold signal but occasional peaks up to a very weak level. IDed by comparing it to their web broadcast which was running parallel at _www.radiovidanueva.net/_
(http://www.radiovidanueva.net/) . I first heard this harmonic back on April 9, 2009 and IDed with the help of Henrik Klemetz at that time. (Brian Alexander, PA)
Brian Alexander, Mechanicsburg, PA, USA
Equipment: Icom IC-7600, two 100 foot longwires
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Message: 7
Date: Sat, 30 Jan 2010 09:52:00 -0800 (PST)
From: Glenn Hauser <wghauser@yahoo.com>
To: dxld@yahoogroups.com
Cc: swl@mailman.qth.net
Subject: [HCDX] Glenn Hauser logs January 30, 2010
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** ALBANIA. 13640, R. Tirana, VG S9+12 signal for English to NAm at 1530 Jan 30: going from talk to music segment at 1543, and no problem from doomed Darwin transmission of CVC whose carrier was barely detectable on 13635; see AUSTRALIA. 1553 the music outro sounded like “Dance with Me“, then another folk song with ululations, 1557 outro that as “Folk edition musical program“, closing theme to 1558, IS until 1600 and open carrier until 1601*. Altho modulation level was good, modulation quality was as usual deficient, especially during the music (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** AUSTRALIA. I posted this early UT Jan 30 to the dxldyg whose members always get first shot at our perishable information:
The Cox Peninsula “Darwin“ transmitter site is closing down as of January 31, and to be dismantled. CVC has not told us exactly when the last transmission will go on air, or whether any of the existing transmissions of its own or relays of R. Australia, and JCI (Japanese clandestines to North Korea) will have stopped earlier, but based mostly on Aoki, here is the full schedule we have been able to put together for all Darwin transmissions, in station, language, and then time order:
9585, 2200-2300 340 CVC Chinese
15170, 2300-0200 340 CVC Chinese
17690, 0400-0600 340 CVC Chinese
17635, 0600-1200 340 CVC Chinese
13685, 1200-1800 340 CVC Chinese
15535, 0930-1230 303 CVC English
13635, 1230-1830 303 CVC English
15250, 2300-0200 290 CVC Indonesian
17820, 0400-1000 290 CVC Indonesian
9890, 1000-1300 290 CVC Indonesian
11925, 1300-1700 290 CVC Indonesian
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11825, 1300-1430 340 RA Chinese
12010, 2200-2400 317 RA English [except Burmese 2300-2330]
17665, 0000-0200 317 RA English [except Burmese 0100-0130]
11980, 1600-1700 317 RA English
9630, 2200-2330 290 RA Indonesian
15180, 0000-0030 290 RA Indonesian
0400-0430 290 RA Indonesian
0500-0530 290 RA Indonesian
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9880, 1430-1530 3 JCI Japanese – Furusato no Kaze, alt 11995
9690, 1500-1530 3 JCI Korean - Nippon no Kaze, alt 11650
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17755, 0700-0800 317 TDP English DRM 17750-17760
This should be useful in monitoring which transmissions are still going or end as of UT January 30, 31, or even February 1; and attempting to get a historically-dated QSL
Altho WRTH says Darwin has 2 x 100 kW, 3 x 250 kW, and 1 x 300 kW transmitters, all these are listed as 250, except for a semi-250 for DRM.
As in DXLD 10-04, RA has already added Palau frequencies for some of its Darwin transmissions, presumably using both sites temporarily in transition. This schedule accounts for maximum of four transmitters, so perhaps the `300` is the fourth unit being run at 250 instead (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
Then Kai Ludwig replied that the transmitter power info in WRTH and Aoki, HFCC? is all wrong:
“The situation is such that two of the three 250 kW Collins transmitters from 1968 (the only other site still using such equipment is Sackville) have been disconnected and replaced by two Continental 100 kW transmitters, brought in from somewhere else (does anybody know the details?). But it seems that these transmitters are mere stand-by units and never in regular use.
“The third old Collins is still operational but has to be tuned manually now, requiring 15 minutes for a frequency change. This transmitter covers the peak requirements when four frequencies are on air simultaneously.
“Otherwise the site has the Thomson transmitter originally installed in 1984 at Carnarvon, the provisional site that remained in use for two decades. After its final closure in 1996 the transmitter was moved to Darwin. Two further Thomson units were purchased and installed at the Darwin site in 1994. These three 300 kW Thomson transmitters are the core of the operations nowadays.
“So far only the lease of the station grounds to Christian Vision has been discussed, but which arrangements have been made in regard to the equipment? The antenna system must have cost millions, and the transmitters certainly also still represented a considerable value in 2000, when two of them were just six years old.
“Has all this equipment just been given away by the Australian authorities (the broadcasting distribution service, nowadays Broadcast Australia, was not privatized yet at this point), have they sold it to Christian Vision for a reasonable price, or is it not the property of Christian Vision at all and instead used under some other kind of arrangement?“ [end quotation of Kai Ludwig`s comments to the dxldyg]
Not surprisingly, none of the listed Darwin frequencies were audible around 0600 Jan 30, altho in other yearparts, 17820 has made it here in the nightmiddle.
I resumed trying to hear Cox Peninsula at 1541 UT Jan 30, when it is already Jan 31 in the NT, so quite possibly the last day on the air. Propagation was certainly not favorable, but I could detect carriers on 13635 and 13685 from CVC, vs. extremely stronger signals on adjacent frequencies such as Albania [q.v.] 13640, Farda 13680.
Initially 13685 could be made out with a bit of modulation which sounded like English, but later Chinese. Perhaps language lesson. Or maybe not CVC: while the only station in the world ever using 13635 has been CVC Australia, on 13685, CRI via Mali is also scheduled at 13-16 in French, English and English.
After Tirana closed at 1601* I could still detect only a carrier on 13635, likewise 13685, so CVC apparently still on.
Meanwhile, Radio Australia was scheduled to start 11980 via Darwin at 1600, and this has been audible recently. From a few minutes before, only that blasted rapid clicking centered on 11982 was audible, and likewise after 1600, so Radio Australia seems to be gone already.
See above schedule for resumption at 2200 or 2300 of several Darwin frequencies, if they still exist one more day (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CHINA. Firedrake music jamming, Jan 30 at 1532: good but fluttery on 8400; poor on 10210; just a het on 9000 and nothing on 7585 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** INDONESIA. RRI doing well on 75 and 60 meters Jan 29: 3995 at 1342 with music whenever the SSB-senders would pause, i.e. Kendari.
4750, Makassar, best in quite a while at 1345 with semi-classical piano music, talkovers, still at 1413 when singing and violin had been added. SSOB except for 5025 Cuba at the outset.
9526-, VOI Jakarta, unusually on the air at 1534, since CRI East Turkistan 9525 had a het on it; CRI English dominated, but VOI probably also in English (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** SAIPAN. IBB transmitter on 9725 is upacting again, Jan 30 at 1537 with Vietnamese from VOA, putting hash up to 9735 but apparently not to the low side. It could have been far worse as in previous logs, but needs tweaking now to prevent further deterioration (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** SAUDI ARABIA. Buzzing Service of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, bad as it was Jan 29, got even worse Jan 30 at 1522 check. Now the horrible buzz from 15435 transmitter even QRMs its own // Qur`an service on 15225, as the full brunt covers roughly 15205-15500, with 4-per-minute pulsing edges reaching down to 15115 and up to 15940! At first the upper boundary between brunt and pulses was around 15500, but by 1526 it shifted up to 15840.
The only signal in this entire range which was strong enough to overcome it was Portugal on 15560; all other stations suffering harmful interference which is totally unnecessary, but will a single one of them complain? How about at HFCC A-10 imminent in Kuala Lumpur? If any Saudi reps are there, they should get an earful, e.g. from Dr Jerry Plummer representing WWCR and all private US stations.
Will a single one of victims` would-be listeners complain? How many of them would figure it`s a local noise problem rather than callously transmitted from Riyadh? Those who believe in the Qur`an might consider boycotting Sa`udi Arabia in any way possible including suspending their Hajj.
Wolfgang B?schel in Germany was also monitoring this and reported at 1601 Jan 30, neatly/nearly matching our obs: “Top record, BSKSA Riyadh on 15435 kHz heavy BUZZ signal super wide in 15108 to 15938 kHz range. Scheduled 15-18 UT.“ (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** SOUTH AFRICA. 17860, pleased to hear a bit of Bokmakirie birdchirping surviving from the old Radio RSA days, Jan 30 at 1459 as Channel Africa was about to open Swahili service with IDs also in English. Don`t often hear this transmission which is not aimed USward, of course, but 19 degrees from Meyerton (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** SRI LANKA. 9650, Jan 30 at 1536, immediately identifiable tnx to DW riff, and S Asian language, flutter. I bet this is via Trincomalee. Yes, Aoki shows Bengali at 345 degrees, while before 1530 it`s Hindi at 15 degrees. Now, why wouldn`t they aim Bengali toward Bengal, instead of further west than Hindi?? Probably they do not, as HFCC shows them both at 15 degrees (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. Lavwadalmerik, checking the 0200 UT transition between overt and covert broadcasts to Haiti: Jan 30 at 0159:30, 5960 started playing “Yellow Bird“ and it was shortly overlain by NHK IS via Canada starting Japanese trihour as Greenville went off. After 0200, LVA continued on 7465, but not heard on 7590 which was previously back on // until 0300. Unfortunately, I did not get around to checking for it later in the hour in case it was just late upcoming (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 4050, looking again for the KWMO third harmonic from Washington, MO, Jan 30 at 0606, traces of country music, a bit better at 0614 with YL DJ talking about who would sing the NA at the Superbowl. Just barely audible tho S-meter displayed S9; trouble is, the noise level on a clear frequency was S8. 0621 more country music peaking.
This matches the format when I heard them some weeks ago with a definite ID, but none this time. As for “The Mouth“ slogan I mentioned yesterday, that has not been heard but listed in the NRC AM Log 2009-2010, when they had a talk format, probably outdated now.
Day power is 500 watts, night power 84 watts on fundamental 1350. Compared to inbooming AM hams on 80 meters as far away as New England, who could not be running more than 1000 watts, I could now believe the extremely weak KWMO signal on 4050 is really just a fraxion of the night power, not necessarily the day power (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ###
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Message: 8
Date: Sat, 30 Jan 2010 21:27:50 +0100
From: “Wolfgang Bueschel” <BueschelW@web.de>
To: “DXLD” <dxld@yahoogroups.com>, “HCDX” <hard-core-dx@kotalampi.com>
Subject: Re: [HCDX] Glenn Hauser logs January 30, 2010
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Tonight to report like FIRST springtime propagation condition on 19 mb.
ALBANIA The quarter hour of Radio Tirana in English at 1945-1958 UT on 11635 kHz to North America surprisingly strong and excellent audio quality by the tube of the 2nd TX at Shijak, S=9+30dB superb, but on \\ 7465 kHz channel much poorer.
ARGENTINA 15344.89…88 kHz by RAE Buenos Aires more than fair S=8 signal, on weekends in usual Spanish section at 1930 UT.
NIGERIA 15120 strong at S=9+10dB level at 1935 UT. Modulation amplitude for music segment was too high. But talk audio from studio was superb “clean” tonight. Music selection from West Africa sound was excellent.
Also noted very strong VoVenezuela in Spanish on 15290 kHz via Quivican Cuba at 1900-2000 UT.
French of RCI Montreal to Africa higher-than-average on 13650, 15365, and 17790! … and Skelton 11845 kHz relay too.
wb, Jan 30
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Message: 9
Date: Sat, 30 Jan 2010 14:25:53 -0800 (PST)
From: Glenn Hauser <wghauser@yahoo.com>
To: dxld@yahoogroups.com
Cc: naswa@yahoogroups.com, ODXA yg <odxa@yahoogroups.com>, ARDXC
<ardxc@ardxc.info>, ABDX <ABDX@yahoogroups.com>,
hard-core-dx@hard-core-dx.com, swl@mailman.qth.net
Subject: [HCDX] Darwin still on for last day
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** AUSTRALIA [and non]. Is Darwin still on the air January 31? Yes! But it should be the last day ever.
UT January 30 at 2159 I look for the three frequencies scheduled to start at 2200, 9585 CVC Chinese, 9630 RA Indonesian, and 12010 RA English — nothing. But Maltilda is Waltzing on 15560, loud and clear from Shepparton; path from Darwin is rather different, but there should be some traces if on the air.
Then at 2200 I find RA on 12040 in English, which is the new Palau relay, news running about 3.5 seconds behind 15560. Must be quite a circuitous feed route; since VTC is involved, to London and back?
Finally at 2201 I am also hearing RA English on 12010, and that is Darwin, with a much shorter delay, less than one second or about one word behind 15560. It`s weaker than 12040. Must have come on a bit late, or at least without any pr?lude.
By 2206 I check the 31m channels again, and now I am getting them fairly: 9585 with music which I assume is CVC Chinese service, and 9630 in Indonesian talk, soon music, which fits for Radio Australia.
The fourth transmitter starts at 2300 with CVC Indonesian on 15250 (some sources say 15255), so here I repeat the full schedule showing that also at 2300 the 9585 service switches to 15170, and the 12010 service switches to Burmese.
9585, 2200-2300 340 CVC Chinese
15170, 2300-0200 340 CVC Chinese
17690, 0400-0600 340 CVC Chinese
17635, 0600-1200 340 CVC Chinese
13685, 1200-1800 340 CVC Chinese
15535, 0930-1230 303 CVC English
13635, 1230-1830 303 CVC English
15250, 2300-0200 290 CVC Indonesian
17820, 0400-1000 290 CVC Indonesian
9890, 1000-1300 290 CVC Indonesian
11925, 1300-1700 290 CVC Indonesian
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11825, 1300-1430 340 RA Chinese
12010, 2200-2400 317 RA English [except Burmese 2300-2330]
17665, 0000-0200 317 RA English [except Burmese 0100-0130]
11980, 1600-1700 317 RA English
9630, 2200-2330 290 RA Indonesian
15180, 0000-0030 290 RA Indonesian
0400-0430 290 RA Indonesian
0500-0530 290 RA Indonesian
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9880, 1430-1530 3 JCI Japanese – Furusato no Kaze, alt 11995
9690, 1500-1530 3 JCI Korean - Nippon no Kaze, alt 11650
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17755, 0700-0800 317 TDP English DRM 17750-17760
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
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Message: 10
Date: Sat, 30 Jan 2010 16:41:24 -0700
From: “Mick Delmage” <ve6idx@3web.com>
To: <odxa@yahoogroups.com>
Cc: hard-core-dx@hard-core-dx.com
Subject: Re: [HCDX] [ODXA] Darwin still on for last day
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Booming in here at 2335 UTC 15170 with “Let’s Talk in English” after CC talk and “CVC” ID.
73
Mick Delmage
Sherwood Park, AB
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1. Re: Tue Morn (Charles Bolland)
2. Glenn Hauser logs January 25-26, 2010 (Glenn Hauser)
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Message: 1
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 2010 10:53:45 -0000
From: “Charles Bolland” <ka4prf@peoplepc.com>
To: “‘Charles Bolland’” <ka4prf@peoplepc.com>, ”‘ALF’”
<alf.e.persson@telia.com>, “‘Arnaldo slaen’” <slaen@ciudad.com.ar>,
“‘Bob Wilkner’” <rlcw@earthlink.net>, ” ‘Carlos Gon??alves’ ”
<carlos-relvas@sapo.pt>, ”‘Cumbre’” <cumbredx@n2jeu.net>, “‘DSWCI’”
<logs@directbox.com>, “‘Eike Bierwirth’” <capercaillie@gmx.net>,
“‘Gayle Van Horn’” <gaylevanhorn@monitoringtimes.com>, ”‘Glenn
Hauser’” <wghauser@yahoo.com>, ”‘Hard-core-dx’”
<hard-core-dx@hard-core-dx.com>, ”‘Marie Lamb’” <malamb@cumbredx.org>,
“‘Ron Howard’” <ron888howard@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [HCDX] Tue Morn
Message-ID:
peoplepc.com>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=”iso-8859-1″ Also change the language from French to Creole
Thanks
Chuck
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From: Charles Bolland [mailto:ka4prf@peoplepc.com]
Sent: Tuesday, January 26, 2010 01:03
To: ‘Charles Bolland’; ALF; Arnaldo slaen; Bob Wilkner; Carlos Gon??alves; Cumbre; DSWCI; Eike Bierwirth; Gayle Van Horn; Glenn Hauser; Hard-core-dx; Marie Lamb; Ron Howard
Subject: RE: Tue Morn
Please correct my logging below to read “Voice of America” Heard a complete ID at 0100 as “VOA, Washington D.C.”
Thanks Glenn for the heads up.
Chuck Bolland
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From: Charles Bolland [mailto:ka4prf@peoplepc.com]
Sent: Tuesday, January 26, 2010 00:20
To: ALF; Arnaldo slaen; Bob Wilkner (rlcw@earthlink.net); Carlos Gon??alves; Cumbre (cumbredx@n2jeu.net); DSWCI (logs@directbox.com); Eike Bierwirth (capercaillie@gmx.net); Gayle Van Horn (gaylevanhorn@monitoringtimes.com); Glenn Hauser (wghauser@yahoo.com); Hard-core-dx
(hard-core-dx@hard-core-dx.com); Marie Lamb (malamb@cumbredx.org); Ron Howard (ron888howard@gmail.com)
Subject: Tue Morn
Unid, 7590, 0013-0030 Noted two male individuals in French language conversation.
Heard “Washington” mentioned and “Fort Lauderdale” mentioned. This is probably a local station broadcasting for Haitians. It is very strong. Could not find a listing anywhere for this type of broadcast. The signal was very good. (Chuck Bollland, January 26, 2010)
Note: will amend the above logging if I catch an ID.
26.27N 81.05w
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Message: 2
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 2010 09:37:08 -0800 (PST)
From: Glenn Hauser <wghauser@yahoo.com>
To: dxld@yahoogroups.com
Cc: swl@mailman.qth.net
Subject: [HCDX] Glenn Hauser logs January 25-26, 2010
Message-ID: <147613.46125.qm@web51107.mail.re2.yahoo.com>
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** ARGENTINA. 11710.6 approx., RAE with good clear signal in music during English hour, UT Wed Jan 26 at 0219 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CHINA. Firedrake music jammer Jan 26 at 1546: fair on 9000, 8400 but 9000 had an unstable het on it, not noticed previously (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CHINA [and non]. 5965, Jan 26 at 1556 could hear CRI theme music weakly and co-channel from something else. Per Aoki, CRI is until 1557 in Russian via Beijing site, while RCI is in Chinese until 1559 via Yamata, JAPAN site, which one would expect to be mutually exclusive, but they are officially to different target areas, aimed in different, almost opposite direxions (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CUBA. 11600, Jan 26 at 1559 noise jamming, while a few minutes earlier there was none and Slovakia was audible in Spanish. Consistent schedule by the DCJC which must be convinced there is something here needing jamming (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** INDONESIA. 9526-, VOI carrier was off around 1415 Jan 26, but at 1553 it was back on causing a het with CRI East Turkistan on 9525.0, and continued past 1600, as CRI continues another hour in English, but I could not copy languages from either. Aoki shows VOI in Indonesian at 1600, but monitoring Jan 21 by Atsunori Ishida found Arabic during that hour (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MOROCCO. 15345, RTVM missing Jan 26 at 1515, tho it had been on the air before 1500 on 15340. Recheck at 1545, 15345 was back on tho hummy and undermodulated. Transmitter appears to be ailing, and previously did not find it colliding with reactivated Argentina later in the day. Neither country registers its frequencies with HFCC (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** SAUDI ARABIA. Buzzing Service of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, the worst ever, Jan 26: from the 15435 transmitter, already on at 1456 blasting away R. Farda 15410 whose music I had just started to enjoy. Could hear the buzz between 15390 and 15455, along with some Arabic modulation underneath. By 1516 recheck the buzz could be heard all the way from 15355 to 15500, tapering off at both edges, but still audible under WYFR 15355, making Spain 15385 unlistenable. Instead of multiple overlays of buzzing, at the edges it was steady pulsing at the rate of four times per second, something I had not noted previously. Certain other days there was little if any buzz audible around 15435, I suppose depending on propagational variations.
I find it incredible that other users of this spectrum have not filed official complaints about it through ITU, or if they have, that nothing has been done about it; just as incredible that the Saudis are unable or unwilling to fix it or turn it off since it is doing them no good whatsoever, making them a laughingstock in the international engineering community, and wasting countless megawatts.
The // 15225 with Qur`an from the same Riyadh transmitter site has no such problems, but a relatively minor one at 1525 Jan 26: some intermittent hum and minor buzz on the modulation; wiggle that patchcord! (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** SUDAN [non]. 17745, SRS via PORTUGAL, Jan 26 at 1520 with neat jingle IDs featuring “Sudan Radio Service“ sung in English several times along with music by full hilife orchestra; continued in Arabic dialect with the echo turned off, thankfully (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U K. 12095, BBCWS in English, Jan 26 at 1500 with news teasers, huge echo; in fact it sounded like a double echo. Scheduled as Rampisham site only at 95 degrees. Short/long path plus another unscheduled site on the air too? 1507 story about France vs the veil and the burka.
9505, Jan 26 at 1558 with BBCWS promos in English, poor signal, but 1600 switch into another language. Scheduled as Urdu via Singapore (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. Lavwadlamerik, still on secret frequencies 7465 and 7590 Jan 26 at 0219 quick check. This pair have been running until 0300 despite missing from A-Z schedule at
http://author.voanews.com/english/about/frequenciesAtoZ_c.cfm
Was also still hearing covert 13725 before 2200 Jan 25 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 5755, WTWW was back on testing with music Jan 26 at quick check 0219, good signal and modulation. George McClintock says he has been experimenting with 125% positive modulation, rather than negative, both on this and earlier in the afternoon Jan 25 on 9480, and wanted reports on modulation quality as heard. This is common on MW, but rarely employed on SW (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ###
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Today’s Topics:
1. Glenn Hauser logs January 26-27, 2010 (Glenn Hauser)
2. Small ferrite antenna (Giampiero Bernardini)
3. Florida Logs (Robert Wilkner)
4. Thr Early DX (Charles Bolland)
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Message: 1
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 2010 09:25:05 -0800 (PST)
From: Glenn Hauser <wghauser@yahoo.com>
To: dxld@yahoogroups.com
Cc: swl@mailman.qth.net
Subject: [HCDX] Glenn Hauser logs January 26-27, 2010
Message-ID: <69170.94991.qm@web51106.mail.re2.yahoo.com>
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** ARGENTINA. 15345, the 8-note RAE IS fair at 2157 Jan 26, following German broadcast; had I realized that Aoki shows a one-hour gap until Spanish from *2300, I would have stayed tuned a bit longer to reconfirm that Spanish axually starts at 2200 weekdays, as per WRTH (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CUBA [and non]. 11600, jamming still going at 2202 Jan 26, later than usual? Altho maybe not continuously since it started at 1600. Now it`s pulsing, which means maybe only one of multiple transmitters which add up to walls of noise. Tried comparing it to 11930, and much stronger pulsing there matched, exactly synchronized at the rate of four per second, except the pitch was slightly higher on 11930, where Radio Mart? had just closed (BTW, Aoki somehow misses Mart? on this frequency). We remained baffled why the DCJC runs jammers on 11600, where nothing at all is known to be broadcasting after 1600 — but hey, no better place for them!
15360, Jan 27 at 1445, RHC`s Formalmente Informal, a lo-fi interview mixing with something in Persian, about equal level and precisely zero beat, so rather confusing as they took turns dominating. Latter is RFI Issoudun at 1430-1500 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CYPRUS. OTH radar, presumed from here, but maybe not, Jan 27 at 1450 spanning 15745-15815, with peaks at odd spots such as 15780 and 15810, so most damaging to Galei Zahal, ISRAEL on 15783.6 and BBC Arabic on 15790, which is definitely Cyprus; overshadowed by the Saudi buzz, q.v. (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** EGYPT. 15080, R. Cairo, poor with distorted modulation as always on this frequency, music at 1430 Jan 27, into 4+1 timesignal 35 seconds late, Cairo news theme and distorted talk in Arabic. This is 13-16 via Abis site to West Africa, where they`d better set their clox by something else (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** OMAN. 15140, R. Sultanate of Oman, fair signal but barely audible modulation, 1433 Jan 27 with YL in English news mentioning Baghdad, and highly likely it was bad news (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** RUSSIA [and non]. 9996, binary code at 1255 Jan 27, presumably RWM, and beating against WWV/H on 10000 where there was also a fast SAH indicating some other station`s frequency was not standard at all (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** SAUDI ARABIA. I thought the Buzzing Service of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia was bad the day before, but much worse on Jan 27, a new record: first check at 1500, the horrible 15435 transmitter was audible just between 15390 and 15460, leaving e.g. fluttery Spain 15385 in the clear.
But at 1518 If found that blotted out, with the buzz now extending from 15270 to 15775! I can`t begin to enumerate all the stations this was interfering with, but who cares?
The edges reduced to just pulsing of four times per second, ranged 15270-15300, and 15630-15775, leaving the full brunt at 15300-15630. The upper end overlapped OTH radar from 15745, see CYPRUS. Standard but amplified remarks of incredulity over the Saudi monstrosity (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** SOLOMON ISLANDS [non]. SIBC missing from 5020 for at least a week in chex around 1300-1430, including Jan 27 at 1307, when no carrier at all detectable. This is because they have ceased overnight relays of BBCWS which used to start at 12 UT, due to power expense of over US$11K per year, per Media Network blog:
http://blogs.rnw.nl/medianetwork/sibc-drops-nighttime-relays-of-bbc-to-save-money
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** TUNISIA. 7275, RTT music had just switched to announcement when cut to brief OC and off the air at 0626:50* Jan 27 while // 7335 continued. This is a consistently odd closing time for 7275, contrary to published schedules; as for 7335 closing, on the schedules as 0910, Noel Green says it goes off around 0810, and Wolfgang B?schel heard it until 0807* (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U K [non]. Jan 27 was monitoring barely early enough to hear the conclusion of BBC`s new Creole service, VG on 9410 via WHRI; a bit of music at 1250, then closing announcement giving the only time for “Connexion[s] Ha?ti“ (pardon my French) as 9:10 am, which is 1410 UT when it repeats on Haitian FM stations; as usual, shortwave gets no respect from the BBC, just an afterthought if we are lucky. Or in this case, a beforethought.
At 1252:30 introduced in Spanish classical music fill show 19 minutes later than previously, which would last only 7.5 minutes until 1300:00* sharp without announcement, matching a timesignal underneath which must have been BBC Oman just overtaking the channel.
Altho this is the least of their problems, now the Haitians are faced with a logjam of special programming at 1230, from VOA, BBC and WRMI. A bit of co?rdination rather than competition would be nice (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 9955, straining to hear WRMI`s new French service to Haiti, Jan 27 at 1257, very weak signal I was about to conclude to be in French when DentroCuban Jamming Command cut on at 1257:40 with one pulser, quickly joined by others, and a pileup noise wall before 1300 when WRMI presumably is running a new Cuban exile program daily, Radio Libertad until 1400. But Cuba was jamming this hour anyway for months when it contained no contrary programming, just victimized DX and other innocent shows.
WRMI`s website still has not been updated to tell us anything about Radio Libertad: http://www.wrmi.net/schedule.php but it allegedly is not strictly an anti-Castro show. Close enough.
WRMI is not only on the SSE antenna at this time but on the backup 5 kW transmitter, pending repairs, making it virtually inaudible here, and not a chance of overcoming jamming, which the Cubans keep on thru the 1400 hour for good measure against DX and other programs, and even past 1500 when R. Prague is relayed in English.
Jeff White says the 12-13 M-F hour is now occupied by programs in French for Haiti: Prague, Vatican and UN Radio, perhaps to be replaced by religious programs in Creole when available (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A [and non]. Lavwadlamerik, Jan 27 at 1305 on 6135 via Bonaire, 9505 presumably Greenville, with announcement over sad piano music reminiscent of Sea Breeze. This semihour does not conflict with Haitian services from BBC and WRMI at 1230 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A [non]. As I tuned in 15315, Jan 27 at 1438, heard gruff announcer mention “shortwave radio station“, then “Family Radio“ and later, “Open Forum“, but otherwise in a S Asian language. Aoki shows it`s Malayalam, since Dec 30 at 14-15 via Wertachtal, GERMANY (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A [non]. 17610 with extremely repetitious rustic melody of only a few notes up and down being sung at 1456 Jan 27, 1458 briefly to other music before cut off at 1458:40 without any announcement. Another example of AWR`s Afar service via AUSTRIA, to what must be a tiny minority, Adventist Afars, but AWR voices hope of their peculiar sect catching on from afar (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ###
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Message: 2
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 2010 22:43:19 +0100
From: “Giampiero Bernardini” <g.bernardini@avvenire.it>
To: “HCDX” <hard-core-dx@hard-core-dx.com>,
<ultralightdx@yahoogroups.com>
Subject: [HCDX] Small ferrite antenna
Message-ID:
<5B9BD0362FAE1340B6AAB3C4CA7AFE7703AB9412@exch04.local.avvenire.it>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=”us-ascii”
I got from RadioPlus+ (USA) a nice ferrite antenna, useful with portable and ultralight radios: The Q-Stick+. You can see some info and my impressions on my blog http://radiodxinfo.blogspot.com/
<http://radiodxinfo.blogspot.com/>
Ciao
Giampiero
Giampiero Bernardini
Milano, Italia
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Message: 3
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 2010 18:29:11 -0500
From: Robert Wilkner <rlcw@earthlink.net>
To: undisclosed-recipients:;
Subject: [HCDX] Florida Logs
Message-ID: <4B60CC47.7040602@earthlink.net>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed
Logs
4700 Bolivia, Radio San Miguel, Riberalta 1030 to 1045 ”seis in la manana” ..”en todos el tiempo”.. ..” en Bolivia hoy”….. rooster crows “..en la radio seis en las manana” ..much improved signal as returned to
4700. 2300 ‘Amigos en las mision ” 27 January [Wilkner]
4800 Mexico XERTA, 1117 om espanol with weak signal 27 January [Wilkner]
4985 Brasil Radio Brasil Central, Goainia 2258 2300 football live “gooooal!”, strong signal 27 January [Wilkner]
5952.45 Bolivia Pio XII, Siglo Veinte yl en espanol, co channel, narrow filter, 27 January [Wilkner]
73s de
Bob
Pompano Beach, Florida
Drake R 8, Icom 746Pro DL, NRD 535D
noise reducing antenna
60 meter band dipole
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Message: 4
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 2010 02:03:49 -0000
From: “Charles Bolland” <ka4prf@peoplepc.com>
To: “ALF” <alf.e.persson@telia.com>, “Arnaldo slaen”
<slaen@ciudad.com.ar>, ”Bob Wilkner” <rlcw@earthlink.net>,
“brainman214″ <brainman214@gmail.com>, Carlos Gon??alves
<carlos-relvas@sapo.pt>, ”Cumbre” <cumbredx@n2jeu.net>, “DSWCI”
<logs@directbox.com>, “Gayle Van Horn”
<gaylevanhorn@monitoringtimes.com>, “Glenn Hauser”
<wghauser@yahoo.com>, “Hard-core-dx” <hard-core-dx@hard-core-dx.com>,
“Marie Lamb” <malamb@cumbredx.org>
Subject: [HCDX] Thr Early DX
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India, 4920, All India Radio, (Chennai), 0111-0120, Initially noted a male in Hindi language news until 0013 when canned promos presented. At 0115 a female takes over the mic with more comments. Heard “India” mentioned during these. Signal was fair which is better than usual. (Chuck Bolland, January 28, 2010)
India, 4800, All India Radio, (Hyderabad), 0146-0200,
Noted a male in Hindi language comments with bridge type music. Male continues to talk however. Signal was poor.
(Chuck Bolland, January 28, 2010)
NRD545
26.27N 081.05W
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Today’s Topics:
1. DX thur Morn (Charles Bolland)
2. three mediumwave logs – am stereo + Cuba (aurel chiochiu)
3. Glenn Hauser logs January 28, 2010 (Glenn Hauser)
4. WWCR Leaving 3240 (J.D. Stephens)
5. DX Listening Digest 10-04; World of Radio 1497 (Glenn Hauser)
6. New MW QSL card (WYLL) (Patrick Martin)
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Message: 1
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 2010 12:08:00 -0000
From: “Charles Bolland” <ka4prf@peoplepc.com>
To: “ALF” <alf.e.persson@telia.com>, “Arnaldo slaen”
<slaen@ciudad.com.ar>, ”Bjorn Fransson” <bjornfransson@hotmail.com>,
“Bob Wilkner” <rlcw@earthlink.net>, “brainman214″
<brainman214@gmail.com>,Carlos GonA?alves<carlos-relvas@sapo.pt>,
“Cumbre” <cumbredx@n2jeu.net>, “DSWCI” <logs@directbox.com>, ”Gayle
Van Horn” <gaylevanhorn@monitoringtimes.com>, “Glenn Hauser”
<wghauser@yahoo.com>, “Hard-core-dx” <hard-core-dx@hard-core-dx.com>,
“Marie Lamb” <malamb@cumbredx.org>
Subject: [HCDX] DX thur Morn
Message-ID:
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Czech, 9880, Radio Prague, 1105-1120, Noted a program of German language news and features. At 1110 a male gives live ID. Signal was poor to fair with some fading.
(Chuck Bolland, January 28, 2010)
Guam, 9910, KTWR, 1112-1120, With a very weak signal, noted a female in Chinese language comments. This continues but noise is very loud. Turned off all electric appliances and lights, even the computer, but the noise remained. It’s tough Dxing in the dark. (Chuck Bolland, January 28, 2010)
Unid/Russia, 9720, Family Radio, WYFR, 1130-1145, This is listed in AOKI coming via a relay in Novosibirsk. Signal is poor and can’t exactly identify the language although it sounds like English. Heard the WYFR theme music as well as a partial URL link in English on the half hour. This could be WYFR from Okeechobee, Florida too. Many times that signal skips over my location since I am so close. At 1137 a female talks in English. So the 1100 to 1200 sked for WYFR listed in AOKI is suppose to be Cantonese. The listing in EIBI says that WYFR broadcasts on 9720 between 1200 to 1300 in Cantonese. The signal has really deteriorated by 1145.
(Chuck Bolland, January 28, 2010)
Chile, 9780, CVC International, 1145-1200, Noted a male and female in Spanish language comments. At 1150 music presented. Signal was good. (Chuck Bolland, January 28, 2010)
NRD545
26.27N 081.05W
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Message: 2
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 2010 11:43:24 -0500
From: aurel chiochiu <acq@videotron.ca>
To: hard-core-dx@hard-core-dx.com, BACONTI@aol.com, nrcidxd@aol.com,
mwdx@yahoogroups.com, condiglist@yahoogroups.com,
amstereoforum@yahoogroups.com, amstereo@yahoogroups.com,
ABDX@yahoogroups.com
Cc: Jorge Medina <jjllms@yahoo.com.ar>, Juan Carlos Lemieux <elroockie007@hotmail.com>, mtardif17@hotmail.com, Pierre CHABOT <chabot-pierre@wanadoo.fr>, “Philippe …” <le_sorcier_xl@hotmail.com>, jrtrevilly@free.fr, MarkWA1ION@aol.com, Kyru Rex <kyrukyru@hotmail.com>, fkp36@yahoo.fr, ve2shw@yahoo.com, “Tudor M. Vedeanu” <tmvedeanu@yahoo.com>, stephanecounot@yahoo.fr, “olivier.tequi” <olivier.tequi@laposte.net>, da_18gurlz@hotmail.com, lpa754@hotmail.com, pkloops@bigpond.net.au, bourdeau_annemarie22@hotmail.com, alaingutton@yahoo.fr, o_p_nimigean@yahoo.com, pepe8877@hotmail.com,venezuelanqslhelp@yahoo.com, flying_dead_corpses_in_the_sky@hotmail.com, Jorge Garcia <garcia.jorgegarcia@gmail.com>
Subject: [HCDX] three mediumwave logs – am stereo + Cuba
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Warm greetings to all of you !
While the Radio Coro 780 peaked up nicely for a few minutes, I put the tape to delet the low-signal parts and now, I’m glad to admit, I have a full C90 tape with 780 oddities: Radio Coro on one side and WTEM in Maine, a daytimer with Post Sunset Authority staying on late with it’s full power on the other one !
But the best is yet to come: armchair copy of KCJJ-1630 with over and under the co-channel QRM and CJRS Radio Shalom splatter ! Unbelievable, but true…do not really sounds like they switched to their 1 kW night rig, though it may seem stronger because they are omnidirectionnal !
Into the logs:
1630 KCJJ Iowa City, IA 01/28 0154 EST – End of ad bloc, “Hot Talk, Hot Hits” jingle with very clean stereo separation during a very good signal peak, followed by an Alicia Keys number. Also heard a couple of dozens of minutes earlier with a man host talking about the best way to take care of a golden retriever (like the very sensitive one I already breed and cheers). SINPO 43523 and I more reliable than WIRY-1340 as far as its signal strength goes, at least that’s the way it was the past night. I’m very happy with this one ! Heard with a fair level of QRM from WDAG (also new !) and a Spanish Mexican playing ranchera that was probably the one in Wyoming. Also some IBOC hash, unsure from who… Is there something IBOC on 1620-1640 in the northeast or even further into the midwest that could potentially harm KCJJ in the Montreal area ? Still, not too bad overall, as far as the reception goes ! How many IBOC “badcasters” are slicing the X-band ? (BC-QC)
1680 WTTM Princettown, NJ 01/28 0235 EST – in order to get it in CQuam, I almost had to break the dial which stopss right at 1678 or 1679 kHz, sounded like some stereo separation on WTTM, maybe just a fake ? Always hard to tell with those forced stereo sets like my trusty Sony CFS-6000 (which works very well between 515 and 1670 kHz) and the poor stereo separation on ranchera music, though I thought I had one instrument one side and the other on the left side with the voice in both channels, though it was hard to tell. Fadings on the X-band are choppy and my inability to tune right to 1680 made the fadings sound even more unbearable than on KCJJ ! (BC-QC)
600 CUBA CMKV, Radio Rebelde, Urbano Norr?s JAN 28 0422 UTC – woman doing a speech against racism and taking phone calls from her listeners. Atop CKAT ! Heard on the Sony SRF-A1 barefoot while walking the dog near the C?res park in Pierrefonds. Briefly good, then overtaked by QRM. Condx toward Latin America generally very poor. (Chiochiu-QC)
Additionnal comments:
While I’ve only slept 4 hours the past night, I’ve dreamed a lot… Time to get ready for walking the dog and starting to do that Spanish homework with the Radio Coro tape in mind !
This report is brougt to you by Bogdan Alexandru Chiochiu DXing using his Sony CFS-6000 with the passive tunable PK AM loop or the Sony SRF-A1 barefoot while walking the dog – both excellent for mediumwave and DXing and Motorola C-Quam listening !
May the good DX be with you !
Bogdan Chiochiu
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Message: 3
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 2010 09:28:52 -0800 (PST)
From: Glenn Hauser <wghauser@yahoo.com>
To: dxld@yahoogroups.com
Cc: swl@mailman.qth.net
Subject: [HCDX] Glenn Hauser logs January 28, 2010
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** CHINA. 7585 again bearing Firedrake against unknown target, Jan 28 at 1455; good signal but heavy flutter, while 8400 was very weak and not positive it was //. Only thing listed on 7585 at this time is Vatican in Tamil via Tajikistan (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** FRANCE [non]. 11605, good in rapid-paced French morning program, Jan 28 at 0655; sounded like commercials, but surely not on RFI, which is scheduled here via SOUTH AFRICA, 0500-0700 but only 100 kW at 345 degrees, consequently USward as well. 0700 time signal about 7 seconds late, 8 am timecheck in Paris, news, but cut off abruptly at 0702* — another example of sloppy operations at SENTECH, Meyerton (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** INDONESIA [and non]. VOI, 9526-, Jan 28 at 1459 was on causing heavy het to CRI 9525.0 via EAST TURKISTAN, and also still at 1508 when CRI was trying to talk to us in English.
RRI, 9680 much better in the clear at 1459 Jan 28, good with gamelan orchestra and singing. This continued right thru hourtop until 1504 when switched to a bit of Western orchestral music and then cut off the air at 1504:30* without any ID, announcement or sign-off (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MEXICO [and non]. 6104.8v, Jan 28 at 0724 the irrepressively peppy upbeat music XEQM plays in the nitemiddle for insomniax, several sex of dead air, then YL DJ and produced IDs mentioning 95.3, “la m?s grande“. Good at peaks revealing somewhat distorted modulation, but usual deep fades. 0728 she gave timecheck for 1:29 over music, then also put phone caller on air. 0729-0731 a carrier went on and off a couple times on 6105.0 causing het: probably TWR tuning up prior to its 0745 start via Nauen (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** ROMANIA. 15235, Jan 28 at 1525 SW Asian language talk and music, lively show but could not catch ID. Did not think it was Arabic, until uplooked later and found RRI is scheduled in Arabic 15-16 on 15235, 247 degrees from Tiganeshti. Maybe that`s what Arabic sounds like with a Romanian accent (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** SAUDI ARABIA. Buzzing Service of the Kingdom of Sa`udi Arabia, 15435 transmitter still blotting large portion of 19m Jan 28 at 1530, but somewhat less than on Jan 27. Exact range varies from minute to minute, as well as from day to day, probably more due to intensity of propagation than of transmission. On a much less sensitive receiver, it was much less noticeable.
The 4-per-minute pulsing at the edges reached 15160-15220, the full brunt 15220-15500, but not much above 15500 as it`s assymetrical — altho with such a wide blob, could be riding or bridging the MUF. Final check at 1555 found the boundary between pulsing and brunting around 15250 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A [and non]. A few hours before President Obama`s State of the Union address, I found out the special frequencies VOA was going to use to broadcast it live at 0200-0330 UT Jan 28:
Africa: 909, 1530, 4930, 6080, 9885, 15580
Asia: 11705, 11745, 13680, 15260, 15445, 15520, 17845
Middle East: 9550, 9780
Not expecting to hear much in the night from relays presumably Eastern-Hemispheric, I quickly tuned thru the list around 0209 UT. The only ones heard for sure were 4930, when the President had not quite started and the announcer mentioned voanews.com; shortly afterwards found 9885 better as welcoming applause was ongoing. Nothing audible on the others except traces of carriers on a few of them. Both 4930 and 9885 normally open at 0300 via Botswana, but the earlier hour could also have been via S?o Tom?, or even Greenville on 9885.
BTW, I also noticed that the secret VOA Creole transmission at 02-03 was lacking 7590 but still on 7465, apparently not covering the speech. Perhaps the 7590 transmitter was needed for SOTU; we`ll have to see if it`s back following nights.
REE Spain has also been known to broadcast voice-over translations of such significant US live events on 6055, but not this time (Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ###
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Message: 4
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 2010 14:24:37 -0800 (PST)
From: “J.D. Stephens” <jdstephens_99@yahoo.com>
To: HardCore DX <hard-core-dx@hard-core-dx.com>, Cumbre DX
<cumbredx@n2jeu.net>, wghauser@yahoo.com
Subject: [HCDX] WWCR Leaving 3240
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Saw the below news item posted on WWCR’s website:
Beginning 31 January, WWCR will cease to operate on 3.240 MHz. WWCR’s Transmitter #1 will broadcast on 7.465 MHz from 2100-0200 UTC.
73,
J.D. Stephens
Hampton Cove, AL. USA
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Message: 5
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 2010 14:44:36 -0800 (PST)
From: Glenn Hauser <wghauser@yahoo.com>
To: Glenn Hauser <wghauser@yahoo.com>
Cc: swl@mailman.qth.net
Subject: [HCDX] DX Listening Digest 10-04; World of Radio 1497
Message-ID: <247088.52744.qm@web51106.mail.re2.yahoo.com>
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DX Listening Digest 10-04 has now been posted at http://www.dxld.org
or http://www.w4uvh.net/dxlatest.txt or http://dxld.worldofradio.org
and now also without delay at http://www.w4uvh.net/dxld1004.txt
CONTENTS:
WOR 1497 / ALBANIA +non / ANTARCTICA +non / ARGENTINA +non / ARMENIA / AUSTRALIA +non CVC / AUSTRALIA non RA / AUSTRALIA HCJB / AUSTRIA / AZERBAIJAN / BAHAMAS +non / BELGIUM non DRM / BOLIVIA / BRAZIL / BULGARIA / BURMA non / CAMEROON non / CANADA RCI / CANADA CKZU/CKZN / CANADA CFVP / CANADA +non CFAC+ / CANADA CISL / CANADA CHU / CHAD / CHINA +non / COLOMBIA / CONGO / CUBA +non / CYPRUS / CZECHIA +non / DIEGO GARCIA / DJIBOUTI / EAST TURKISTAN / ECUADOR +non / EGYPT / EQUATORIAL GUINEA / ESTONIA / ETHIOPIA +non / GERMANY / GREECE / HAITI +non ham+ / HONDURAS / INDIA +non / INDONESIA / IRAN / ISRAEL / ITALY non / JORDAN / KASHMIR / KOREA NORTH +non / KURDISTAN / KUWAIT / LAOS +non / LIBERIA / MADAGASCAR / MALAYSIA/SARAWAK / MEXICO +non / MONGOLIA / MOROCCO / MYANMAR +non / NETHERLANDS non / NETHERLANDS ANTILLES / NEW ZEALAND / NIGERIA +non / NORTH AMERICA Pirates / OKLAHOMA KMUS / OMAN / PALAU / PAPUA NEW GUINEA / PARAGUAY / PERU / PHILIPPINES / POLAND
non / RUSSIA +non / SAUDI ARABIA / SLOVAKIA / SOLOMON ISLANDS non / SPAIN / SRI LANKA / SUDAN non / SURINAME / SWAZILAND / SYRIA / TAIWAN +non / TAJIKISTAN / THAILAND / TUNISIA / TURKEY +non / UGANDA / UK Scilly / UK ham / UK non BBCWS / USA +non VOA / USA WTWW / USA ham WB8PUM/W2XKE / USA WWCR/WSNL / USA WRMI / USA +non AWR / USA +non WYFR / USA WEWN B09 / USA WBCQ / USA WJHR / USA WWRB / USA +non ham / USA USCG / USA HIFERS / USA KEDM/WOR / USA WNAX/KFYR/KFRM/KCRS/KWMT / USA KZMP/KTNO/KZUE/WGEM/ESPN+ / USA KRCN/KZEE/KFXR/WSKR / USA KGBC / USA WTNI / USA KB5XSZ/KBSZ / USA FCC/Quello / USA WGGH / USA EAS / USA FCC/Pirates / USA Air America/KQKE/KGO/C2C/KABC/WIBW/WWKB/KKEE/KPHX+ / USA WARV / USA YPR / URUGUAY / VATICAN / VENEZUELA +non / VIETNAM / YEMEN / ZANZIBAR / ZIMBABWE non / UNIDENTIFIED 830 / UNIDENTIFIED non 4330 / UNIDENTIFIED 5940 / UNIDENTIFIED 6104 / UNIDENTIFIED 9394 / UNIDENTIFIED 15140 / UNIDENTIFIED 15725 / UNIDENTIFIED 15800 /
UNIDENTIFIED 21745 / TESTIMONIALS / TINY TRAP / LANGUAGE LESSONS / MUSEA / DIGITAL BROADCASTING / RADIO EQUIPMENT FORUM / PROPAGATION
For restrixions and searchable 2010 contents archive see
http://www.worldofradio.com/dxldmid.html
NOTE: If you are a regular reader of DXLD, and a source of DX news but have not been sending it directly to us, please consider yourself obligated to do so. Thanks, Glenn
WORLD OF RADIO 1497 headlines:
*Reactivations from Argentina, Greece, Indonesia
*Darwin shortwave site to be dismantled, off the air after Jan 31
*Vienna MW 1476 antenna to be demolished by end of February
*MW harmonics from Colombia and Paraguay
*Coping with Cuban jamming
*More on special broadcasts for Haiti
*DX news from Indonesia, Philippines, Solomon Islands
*Program news from Poland
*The Saudi buzz versus 19 metres
*WTWW test widely heard
SHORTWAVE AIRINGS OF WORLD OF RADIO 1497, January 29-February 3, 2010 [note WRMI is off the air or on reduced power/schedule; still webcast]
Fri 0100 WBCQ Area 51 5110-CUSB
Fri 0200 WRMI 9955
Fri 1530 WRMI 9955
Fri 2130 WWCR1 7465
Sat 0900 IPAR/IRRS/NEXUS/IBA 9510 [2-weekly from Jan 29?]
Sat 0900 WRMI 9955
Sat 1430 WRMI 9955
Sat 1730 WWCR3 12160
Sat 1900 IPAR/IRRS/NEXUS/IBA 6170
Sat 2000 WRMI 9955
Sun 0330 WWCR3 5070
Sun 0730 WWCR1 3215
Sun 0900 WRMI 9955
Sun 1230 South Herts Radio 5835
Sun 1615 WRMI 9955
Sun 2000 WRMI 9955
Tue 1630 WRMI 9955
Tue 2000 WBCQ 7415 9330-CUSB?
Wed 1630 WRMI 9955 [usually first airing]
Wed 1930 South Herts Radio 3935
Wed 2000 WBCQ 7415 9330-CUSB?
Thu 2000 WBCQ 7415 9330-CUSB? [aired 1496 instead Jan 28]
Latest edition of this schedule version, including AM, FM, satellite
and webcasts with hotlinks to station sites and audio, is at:
http://www.worldofradio.com/radioskd.html or http://schedule.worldofradio.org or http://sked.worldofradio.org
For updates see our Anomaly Alert page: http://www.worldofradio.com/anomaly.html
WRN ON DEMAND: http://193.42.152.193/listeners/stations/station.php?StationID=24
WORLD OF RADIO PODCASTS VIA WRN: http://www.wrn.org/wrn-listeners/world-of-radio/
http://www.wrn.org/listeners/world-of-radio/rss/09:00:00UTC/English/541
OUR ONDEMAND AUDIO: http://www.worldofradio.com/audiomid.html
or http://wor.worldofradio.org
Best DX wishes, Glenn Hauser
I have just noticed that the sujbect line of last week`s notification for 10-03 read 10-02, but the info within was correctly for 10-03.
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Message: 6
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 2010 21:09:19 -0800
From: mwdxer@webtv.net (Patrick Martin)
To: mwoz@Yahoogroups.com, wienbob@aol.com, BACONTI@aol.com,
gaylemt@brmemc.net, irca@hard-core-dx.com, martinfoltz@cox.net,
am@nrcdxas.org, hard-core-dx@kotalampi.com, showe@csc.albany.edu
Subject: [HCDX] New MW QSL card (WYLL)
Message-ID: <14306-4B626D7F-1949@storefull-3252.bay.webtv.net>
Content-Type: Text/Plain; Charset=US-ASCII
1160 WYLL IL, Chicago, received a very nice blue and grey FD printed QSL card in 10d for snail mail report. Already had an e mail reply. V/S: Paul Easter-CE, also QSLer for WIND-560. Enclosed business card. I enclosed SASE and CD report. Nice to have another great QSL card. Never logged the old WJJD, so finally getting 1160 under any call with KSL on 1160, is a real thrill for me. Address: 25 Northwest Point Blvd, Suite 400, Elk Grove Village, IL 60007. (PM-OR)
Patrick Martin
KGED QSL Manager
End of Hard-Core-DX Digest, Vol 85, Issue 29
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dari hard-core-dx-request@hard-core-dx.combalas ke hard-core-dx@hard-core-dx.comke hard-core-dx@hard-core-dx.comtanggal 30 Januari 2010 12:35subjek Hard-Core-DX Digest, Vol 85, Issue 30milis hard-core-dx.hard-core-dx.com—————————————————————————
Today’s Topics:
1. Fri Morn DX (Charles Bolland)
2. Glenn Hauser logs January 28-29, 2010 (Glenn Hauser)
3. Re: Fri Morn DX (Charles Bolland)
4. Jan 29-30 Logs (Brian384875@aol.com)
5. Logs from NH-USA, Jan 26-29. (Scott R. Barbour Jr.)
6. 1323 khz new station in Australia (dxer@fl.net.au)
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Message: 1
Date: Fri, 29 Jan 2010 10:54:54 -0000
From: “Charles Bolland” <ka4prf@peoplepc.com>
To: “ALF” <alf.e.persson@telia.com>, “Arnaldo slaen”
<slaen@ciudad.com.ar>, ”Bjorn Fransson” <bjornfransson@hotmail.com>,
“Bob Wilkner” <rlcw@earthlink.net>, “brainman214″
<brainman214@gmail.com>,Carlos GonA?alves<carlos-relvas@sapo.pt>,
“Cumbre” <cumbredx@n2jeu.net>, “DSWCI” <logs@directbox.com>, ”Gayle
Van Horn” <gaylevanhorn@monitoringtimes.com>, “Glenn Hauser”
<wghauser@yahoo.com>, “Hard-core-dx” <hard-core-dx@hard-core-dx.com>,
“Marie Lamb” <malamb@cumbredx.org>
Subject: [HCDX] Fri Morn DX
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Peru, 6047.11, Radio Santa Rosa, Tent, 0936-0940, There’s a carrier on this freq which is probably Santa Rosa. Unfortunately, I can’t hear any audio at this time. Possibly the station has not come on the air yet? Regardless, I thought I’d post this carrier for continuity.
Incidentally, the carrier is poor. Checked back at 1034. The carrier was still on the air, but no audio could be heard. (Chuck Bolland, January 29, 2010)
Brazil, 5045, Radio Guaruja Paulista, 1005-1025, (pres) Noted a male and a female in Portuguese language news. At 1018 promos presented and again at 1023. Never heard a clear ID during this t he listening period. Signal was fair however. (Chuck Bolland, January 29, 2010)
Bolivia, 6134.80, Radio Santa Cruz, 1028-1035, At tune-in, noted a few bars of music before a male
talks in Spanish language. Back to music at 1032. Signal was poor. (Chuck Bolland, January 29, 2010)
NRD545
26.27N 081.05W
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Message: 2
Date: Fri, 29 Jan 2010 09:26:36 -0800 (PST)
From: Glenn Hauser <wghauser@yahoo.com>
To: dxld@yahoogroups.com
Cc: swl@mailman.qth.net
Subject: [HCDX] Glenn Hauser logs January 28-29, 2010
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** CHINA. Firedrake Jan 29 at 1426: poor on 10210, very poor on 8400, only a het on 9000. Nothing on 7585 at this time, but did not check closer to 1500 when Firedrake has been inexplicably there previous days (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** COLOMBIA [and non]. Tnx to Jim Evans tip from Tennessee on WORLD OF RADIO 1497, I made a point of looking for the harmonic on 2980, which he heard at 0647 Jan 26. Yes, Jan 29 at 0611 definitely something on 2980.0, very weak music vs QRN level now including lite T-storming close enough to propagate but not nearby. Still just barely audible at 0630, never heard anything but music.
He had an ID at 0650 for R. Vida Nueva. Will keep trying. WRTH 2010 says it`s HJAY, Barranquilla with 5 kW on 1490, slogan “te acerca a Dios“, so the music should be nothing but religious. It had also been reported months ago, but not lately.
I`m sure that the other active MW harmonic, R. San Carlos, Costa Rica, 2859.8 would be much stronger if they would only stay on the air past 0200v.
The harmonic on 2980 making it all the way from Colombia speaks well for the technical standards of the hundreds of US stations on 1490. Decades ago, one could depend on there being a few harmonics audible at any given time on 2 x graveyard frequencies, 2460, 2480, 2680, 2800, 2900, 2980, and the probabilities are still highest on those channels (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) See also USA: 4050
** KOREA NORTH [non]. 5910, Shiokaze, Friday Jan 29 at 1410 with heavily accented English headlines from earlier in January about North Korea, interrupted by their newsy stinger every minute. F-G signal via JAPAN, no jamming audible. Ron Howard found them also in English on Thursday, which is unusual (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** LIBYA. 21695, Voice of Africa, OSOB, Jan 29 at 1508 in English, but better on // 17725, “dawn of a new age thru the African Union“, 1511 outroing a talk on “the devolution of Al-Fatah“, or so it sounded to me; 1512 ID “Voice of Africa from the Great Jamahiriyah“ and then hilife music (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** SAUDI ARABIA. From 15435 transmitter, Buzzing Service of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, checked again Jan 29 at 1502: full brunt of huge buzz interfering with numerous other stations ranged approximately 15380-15680, with the 4-per-minute pulsing at the edges 15680-15780, and 15350-15380. Strong signal from Portugal on 15690 was still not enough to overcome the pulsing. Then the upper pulse range became 15480-15780, instead of full brunt up to 15680. Exact ranges vary from minute to minute; at 1518 check, full brunt was 15300-15650, bad news for Greece on 15650, while 4x/minute pulsing reached 15650-15770 and 15240-15300, conveniently short of QRMing the // BSKSA Qur`an channel 15225.
Since SA won`t do anything about it, a precision air strike could take it out, but probably not without also destroying several other transmitters at the same Riyadh site. ITU ought to have its own air force for such situations (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. Having heard the harmonic on 2980 from Colombia, q.v., I was motivated to look again for the third harmonic of KWMO, 1350, “The Mouth“, Washington MO on 4050, Jan 29 at 0616: yes, intermittent bits of US talk in English, but mostly ute QRM. Since there was any signal at all from presumed KWMO, probably another instance of running day facilities at night. Still no Truth from Guatemala on 4052.5 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. Driving around Enid Jan 28 near low noon, which is always 1832 UT, still some X-band daytime skywave DX tho the sun is zenithing higher every day as spring oncomes. (Snow did not start until 2100 Jan 28; plenty snow into midday Jan 29 but no significant icing or power outages here unlike further south in OK.) Tuning around the X-band in the daytime is always interesting as propagation conditions vary widely.
A music station weakly on 1690 around 1815 UT, audible when propagation peaks matched increasingly rare low-noise spots in the city. And again at 1912 when a Radio Disney ID made it. Therefore it can only be KDDZ in Arvada CO as the only dizzy outlet on frequency, and the only other station normally heard here on 1690 is talker WVON in the Chicago area. Denver`s other X-bander, Spanish KBJD 1650, might have accompanied KDDZ if it were not for splash from our local KFXY-1640. No other significant skywave skywave signals on X-band during this hour, not even KXTR-1660 Kansas City KS (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ###
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Message: 3
Date: Sat, 30 Jan 2010 00:44:50 -0000
From: “Charles Bolland” <ka4prf@peoplepc.com>
To: “‘Charles Bolland’” <ka4prf@peoplepc.com>, “ALF”
<alf.e.persson@telia.com>, ”Arnaldo slaen” <slaen@ciudad.com.ar>,
“Bjorn Fransson” <bjornfransson@hotmail.com>, “Bob Wilkner”
<rlcw@earthlink.net>, “brainman214″ <brainman214@gmail.com>, Carlos
Gon??alves <carlos-relvas@sapo.pt>, “Cumbre” <cumbredx@n2jeu.net>,
“DSWCI” <logs@directbox.com>, “Gayle Van Horn”
<gaylevanhorn@monitoringtimes.com>, “Glenn Hauser”
<wghauser@yahoo.com>, “Hard-core-dx” <hard-core-dx@hard-core-dx.com>,
“Marie Lamb” <malamb@cumbredx.org>
Subject: Re: [HCDX] Fri Morn DX
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Hi all,
Please cancel my logging of Guaruja Paulista on 5045 of January 29, 2010 1005 to 1025.
Thanks
Chuck
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From: Charles Bolland [mailto:ka4prf@peoplepc.com]
Sent: Friday, January 29, 2010 10:55
To: ALF; Arnaldo slaen; Bjorn Fransson; Bob Wilkner (rlcw@earthlink.net); brainman214; Carlos Gon??alves; Cumbre (cumbredx@n2jeu.net); DSWCI (logs@directbox.com); Gayle Van Horn
(gaylevanhorn@monitoringtimes.com); Glenn Hauser (wghauser@yahoo.com); Hard-core-dx
(hard-core-dx@hard-core-dx.com); Marie Lamb (malamb@cumbredx.org)
Subject: Fri Morn DX
Peru, 6047.11, Radio Santa Rosa, Tent, 0936-0940, There’s a carrier on this freq which is probably Santa Rosa. Unfortunately, I can’t hear any audio at this time. Possibly the station has not come on the air yet? Regardless, I thought I’d post this carrier for continuity.
Incidentally, the carrier is poor. Checked back at 1034. The carrier was still on the air, but no audio could be heard. (Chuck Bolland, January 29, 2010)
Brazil, 5045, Radio Guaruja Paulista, 1005-1025, (pres) Noted a male and a female in Portuguese language news. At 1018 promos presented and again at 1023. Never heard a clear ID during this t he listening period. Signal was fair however. (Chuck Bolland, January 29, 2010)
Bolivia, 6134.80, Radio Santa Cruz, 1028-1035, At tune-in, noted a few bars of music before a male talks in Spanish language. Back to music at 1032. Signal was poor. (Chuck Bolland, January 29, 2010)
NRD545
26.27N 081.05W
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Message: 4
Date: Fri, 29 Jan 2010 20:19:16 EST
From: Brian384875@aol.com
To: hard-core-dx@hard-core-dx.com
Subject: [HCDX] Jan 29-30 Logs
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** ARGENTINA. 11710.78, RAE, 0015-0110+, Jan 30, tune-in to Portuguese programming with talk and Argentine music. IS/ID sequence at 0056. Spanish ID announcements at 0100 and local music. Japanese talk at 0108. Fair to good. (Brian Alexander, PA)
** COLOMBIA. 6034.98, LV del Guaviare, San Jos? Guaviare, 0053-0301*, Jan 29, local pop music. IDs. Spanish announcements. Local folk music. Sign off with National Anthem at 0259. Poor with
adjacent channel splatter. (Brian Alexander, PA)
** GUINEA. 7125, Radio Guine?, 2352-0001*, Jan 29-30, local Afro- op music. French talk. Abrupt sign off. Fair to good. (Brian Alexander, PA)
** MEXICO. 6104.76, XEQM, Candela FM, Merida, 0635-0710, Jan 29, Spanish talk. Local ballads. Local pop music. Fair signal. (Brian Alexander, PA)
** NORTH AMERICA. [Pirate]. 6925 USB, Outhouse Radio, 0043-0053, Jan 29, country music. Pop music by Madonna. IDs. Poor to fair. (Brian Alexander, PA)
** SUDAN [non]. via Slovakia, 9825, Miraya 101 FM, 1500-1600, Jan 29, IDs at 1500 & English news. Gave mirayafm.org website. Sports news at 1507. IDs as ?Miraya 101?, ?Miraya FM? and ?101 Miraya FM?. Canned IDs. Extended English programming to 1545 with occasional short vernacular talks. Into Arabic at 1545 with talk and local music. Usually goes into Arabic around 1513. Fair signal. (Brian Alexander, PA)
** SYRIA. 9330, Radio Damascus, 2132-2201*, Jan 29, tune-in to English news about Haiti earthquake and Middle-East peace efforts. IDs. Local pop music. Talk about plans to preserve Old Damascus. More news at 2150. Anthem at 2200 and off the air. Back at 2202 sign on with Spanish programming. Good, strong audio but slight hum. 12085 not heard. (Brian Alexander, PA)
Brian Alexander, Mechanicsburg, PA, USA Equipment: Icom IC-7600, two 100 foot longwires
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Message: 5
Date: Fri, 29 Jan 2010 18:24:14 -0800 (PST)
From: “Scott R. Barbour Jr.” <srbjrswl@yahoo.com>
To: Gayle Van Horn <gaylemt@brmemc.net>, Mark Taylor
<markokpik@tds.net>, Dave Valko <djvalko@verizon.net>, NASWAyg
<NASWA@yahoogroups.com>, DXLD <dxld@yahoogroups.com>, DXplorer
<Dxplorer@yahoogroups.com>, HCDX <hard-core-dx@hard-core-dx.com>
Subject: [HCDX] Logs from NH-USA, Jan 26-29.
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3385, PNG, R. East New Britain Rabaul, 1126-1139, Jan 26, Tok Pisin. M announcer w/ brief talks between choral-like mx selections; fair w/ “hum” of sorts. (Barbour-NH)
4750, UNIDENTIFIED, 1148-1200, Jan 26. Hindi-like vocal mx; continuos thru ToH; barely audible under band noise; very poor & at imagination level by 1200 in ECCS-LSB. If I had to guess who; I’d say Bangladesh. (Barbour-NH)
4828, ZIMBABWE, presumed ZBC Gweru, 0320, Jan 29. Strong carrier w/ audio at imagination level; nothing but noise on 3396. (Barbour-NH)
5045, BRAZIL, R. Cultura do Para Belem, 0109-0138, Jan 29, English/Portuguese. “Live” concert featuring Cambridge, MA. legends, Morphine. A few quick breaks for studio ancr w/non-descript PP comments; lenghty ID announcment at 0137 & back to mx; very pleasurable listening. Saw Morphine back in ‘94 at a WBCN sponsored fest w/ six other 90’s era bands. (Barbour-NH)
9500, UZBEKISTAN, CVC Tashkent, 1223-1228, Jan 29, listed Hindi. Pop-ish, choral-like mx at t/in; ad/promo string w/ phone number; wiped out by huge splash via Voa Greenville 9505 s/on at 1228; fair. (Barbour-NH)
9950, UKRAINE, R. Ukraine Int’l Kharkov, 1205-1212, Jan 29, English. News re Ukrainian
politics & elections; ID & “Ukraine Today” prg re government support for small business’; fair. (Barbour-NH)
15190, EQ. GUINEA, R. Africa Bata, 1552-1611, Jan 29, English. M & occasional W ancrs w/ religous talk, straight thru ToH, re Matthew & other Bible stuff; no ID noted; poor & noisy. (Barbour-NH)
Scott R. Barbour Jr. Intervale, N.H. USA
NRD-545, RX-350D, MLB1, 200′ Beverages, 60m dipole.
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Message: 6
Date: Sat, 30 Jan 2010 15:38:22 +1100
From: dxer@fl.net.au
To: Hard-core-dx <hard-core-dx@hard-core-dx.com>
Subject: [HCDX] 1323 khz new station in Australia
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Just heard that the new 2KIX transmitter now on air as of 0400UTC 30/1/10 on air Canberra 400 watts of power on/off as testing as required by the authorities for interference etc…for a full week John Wright Australian Radio DX Club.
End of Hard-Core-DX Digest, Vol 85, Issue 30
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dari hard-core-dx-request@hard-core-dx.combalas ke hard-core-dx@hard-core-dx.comke hard-core-dx@hard-core-dx.comtanggal 31 Januari 2010 13:35subjek Hard-Core-DX Digest, Vol 85, Issue 31milis hard-core-dx.hard-core-dx.comdikirim oleh hard-core-dx.com—————————————————————————————————
Today’s Topics:
1. CME – Colombian log (aurel chiochiu)
2. Visita a Banda Oriental en Uruguay (Arnaldo)
3. LA ROSA DE TOKYO PARA HOY: La radiodifusion en Italia y la
RAI (Arnaldo)
4. Peru, Zimbabwe, Surinam, PNG (Dave Valko)
5. 15435 Riyadh (Wolfgang Bueschel)
6. Radio Vida Nueva 2980 (Brian384875@aol.com)
7. Glenn Hauser logs January 30, 2010 (Glenn Hauser)
8. Re: Glenn Hauser logs January 30, 2010 (Wolfgang Bueschel)
9. Darwin still on for last day (Glenn Hauser)
10. Re: [ODXA] Darwin still on for last day (Mick Delmage)
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Message: 1
Date: Sat, 30 Jan 2010 03:02:58 -0500
From: aurel chiochiu <acq@videotron.ca>
To: condiglist@yahoogroups.com, ABDX@yahoogroups.com, nrcidxd@aol.com,
BACONTI@aol.com, hard-core-dx@hard-core-dx.com,
LatinMWDX@yahoogroups.com, mwdx@yahoogroups.com
Cc: Juan Carlos Lemieux <elroockie007@hotmail.com>,
mtardif17@hotmail.com, Pierre CHABOT <chabot-pierre@wanadoo.fr>,
“Tudor M. Vedeanu” <tmvedeanu@yahoo.com>, curious.george@att.net,
venezuelanqslhelp@yahoo.com,
flying_dead_corpses_in_the_sky@hotmail.com, jrtrevilly@free.fr,
pepe8877@hotmail.com, Alain Gutton <a.gutton@fotovista.com>,
minimarcos_@hotmail.com, da_18gurlz@hotmail.com,
stephanecounot@yahoo.fr, lpa754@hotmail.com, Jorge Garcia
<garcia.jorgegarcia@gmail.com>, pkloops@bigpond.net.au, “Philippe …”
<le_sorcier_xl@hotmail.com>, o_p_nimigean@yahoo.com
Subject: [HCDX] CME – Colombian log
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690 COLOMBIA HJCZ Radio Recuerdo, Santa F? de Bogot? JAN 30 0628 UTC – ranchera, “Los bailados de siempre est?n en Radio Recuerdos”, then a classic cumbia track. Poor-fair, but dominant over apparent Cuba which was IDed earlier and residual hash. SINPO 22332. NEW ! Colombia#8… I have HJKL-610, HJKH-650, HJAJ-760, HJJX-770, HJCY-810, HJIJ-1070, HJCG-1070, so this is indeed my 8th Colombian on mediumwave… First new Colombian in ages ! In WLW-700 null ! It’s hard to null out WLW-700 without also semi-nulling Colombia, but a semi-null is better than a total null ! (Chiochiu-QC)
This is what a clear channel can do during non-auroral conditions… Imagine if WLW-700 was HDless or if there was some auroral enhancement !
May the good DX be with you !
Bogdan Chiochiu in Pierrefpnds (Montreal’s West Island), QC
Heard on the Sony CFS-6000 / PK AM loop combination
Btw.: An MP3 will follow tomorrow !
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Message: 2 (No in English)
Message: 3 (No in English)
Message: 4
Date: Sat, 30 Jan 2010 10:44:26 -0500
From: “Dave Valko” <djvalko@verizon.net>
To: “Guy Atkins” <dx@guyatkins.com>, <kirk74601@yahoo.com>,
<hard-core-dx@hard-core-dx.com>, <srbjrswl@yahoo.com>,
<lyamron@comcast.net>, <rlcw@earthlink.net>, ”cumbredx@cs2.ralabs.com”
<cumbredx@n2jeu.net>, “Nicolas Eramo” <neramo@gmail.com>
Subject: [HCDX] Peru, Zimbabwe, Surinam, PNG
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PERU 5485.472 R. Reina de la Selva End of song then M anncr at 0012. More mx for 2 min. then fast-tlking M in slight echo effect including several IDs. Back to nice lively OA campo mx at 0016. M returned again at 0020. (30 Jan)
ZIMBABWE 3396 Zimbabwe BC 0022 Hi-life Afro mx. Continuing at 0028 and 0058 checks. Went over ToH w/mx. Some nasty noise started on the freq around 0115 which rendered a canned anmnt at 0120 inaudible. Finally in the clear again at 0132.
SIRUNAM 4990 R. Apintie 0039 long live tlk by M in Sranan Tongo w/ments of Surinam and what sounded like SRS. 0043 soft instru. mx. 0048 banter by studio W and M anncrs. Again, a ment or two of Surinam. Seemed // to their web site radio audio, but about 2 minutes behind 4990. Best at t/in and getting very fady later. (30 Jan)
INDONESIA 4869.93 RRI Wamena (pres.) 1050 Tlk by W and M in lang. Mx from 1057-1100, then same W anncr, poss. nx to 1109, but couldn’t copy as it was too weak. Mx bridge, then more tlk features w/same W and M until 1122, then into Pop mx pgm. W again at 1159, mx bridge, then very short signature of some sort, and W once again. Was still in at 1316. Never got quite good enough for ID. Have noted this for some time but haven’t seen any loggings reported. (30 Jan)
SOLOMON ISLANDS 5020 R. Happy Isles/SIBC Horrible Rebelde splatter until about 1113, then Pop mx plainly audiable for some reason. Took phone callers on air w/dedication requests. 1154 Reggae version of “One More Time” by Phil Collins. Impossible at the 1200 ToH due to Rebeldes +/-20 khz splatter. (30 Jan)
PAPUA NEW GUINEA 3315 R. Manus 1226 tlk by little girl, then into Pop song. 1231 studio M anncr pgm host w/song anmnt, ment of “album”, then “local news”. Back to mx pgm. 1251-1258 messages w/ments of names and Manus, “OK, this record especial ubla.”, “.goodnight now until morning Papa”, Saturday night, “.all the listeners ?? good morning.”. Mx to 1301, W anncr w/NBC nx promo, and more mx. More messages at 1305. Still going at 1316. Best signal in the ? hour after sunrise (1230-1300). Other 90 mb PNGs on this morning included 3275, 3290, 3225, 3365, and 3385 (QRMed). (30 Jan)
PAPUA NEW GUINEA 3275 R. Southern Highlands 1236-1316 Island and Pop mx pgm w/M host. 1245-1249 messages by M anncr w/ment of “.11 o’clock ?? number one station service.program.”, and “.tomorrow ?? radio broadcast.long Papua Southern Highlands Province.”. Then a number of songs in a row over ToH, and M finally returning at 1309. Nice to see this one still on. (30 Jan)
73 Dave Valko
Persues with preamp and T2FD antenna
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Message: 5
Date: Sat, 30 Jan 2010 17:01:14 +0100
From: “Wolfgang Bueschel” <BueschelW@web.de>
To: “DXLD” <dxld@yahoogroups.com>, “HCDX” <hard-core-dx@kotalampi.com>
Subject: [HCDX] 15435 Riyadh
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Top record, BSKSA Riyadh on 15435 kHz heavy BUZZ signal super wide in 15108 to 15938 kHz range. Scheduled 15-18 UT.
Nothing heard in Germany of WRN 6230 kHz Liverpool v Bolton English football live commentaries in Chinese via Tashkent Uzbekistan. Rather data signal of G2D/G7D CODAR format interfers ?
ITU Monitoring List shows Quimper – Brest in France location, due of cross finding by monitorings in Klagenfurt Austria, El Casar in Spain, and Baldock in U.K.
http://www.itu.int/ITU-R/terrestrial/monitoring/files/pdffiles/324.pdf
wb
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Message: 6
Date: Sat, 30 Jan 2010 11:07:37 EST
From: Brian384875@aol.com
To: hard-core-dx@hard-core-dx.com
Subject: [HCDX] Radio Vida Nueva 2980
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** COLOMBIA. 2980.00, Radio Vida Nueva, Barranquilla, 0620-0655, Jan 30, 2nd harmonic. 2 x 1490. A mix of Spanish religious music, slow ballads, and more lively Spanish music. Several Spanish
announcements. Threshold signal but occasional peaks up to a very weak level. IDed by comparing it to their web broadcast which was running parallel at _www.radiovidanueva.net/_
(http://www.radiovidanueva.net/) . I first heard this harmonic back on April 9, 2009 and IDed with the help of Henrik Klemetz at that time. (Brian Alexander, PA)
Brian Alexander, Mechanicsburg, PA, USA
Equipment: Icom IC-7600, two 100 foot longwires
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Message: 7
Date: Sat, 30 Jan 2010 09:52:00 -0800 (PST)
From: Glenn Hauser <wghauser@yahoo.com>
To: dxld@yahoogroups.com
Cc: swl@mailman.qth.net
Subject: [HCDX] Glenn Hauser logs January 30, 2010
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** ALBANIA. 13640, R. Tirana, VG S9+12 signal for English to NAm at 1530 Jan 30: going from talk to music segment at 1543, and no problem from doomed Darwin transmission of CVC whose carrier was barely detectable on 13635; see AUSTRALIA. 1553 the music outro sounded like “Dance with Me“, then another folk song with ululations, 1557 outro that as “Folk edition musical program“, closing theme to 1558, IS until 1600 and open carrier until 1601*. Altho modulation level was good, modulation quality was as usual deficient, especially during the music (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** AUSTRALIA. I posted this early UT Jan 30 to the dxldyg whose members always get first shot at our perishable information:
The Cox Peninsula “Darwin“ transmitter site is closing down as of January 31, and to be dismantled. CVC has not told us exactly when the last transmission will go on air, or whether any of the existing transmissions of its own or relays of R. Australia, and JCI (Japanese clandestines to North Korea) will have stopped earlier, but based mostly on Aoki, here is the full schedule we have been able to put together for all Darwin transmissions, in station, language, and then time order:
9585, 2200-2300 340 CVC Chinese
15170, 2300-0200 340 CVC Chinese
17690, 0400-0600 340 CVC Chinese
17635, 0600-1200 340 CVC Chinese
13685, 1200-1800 340 CVC Chinese
15535, 0930-1230 303 CVC English
13635, 1230-1830 303 CVC English
15250, 2300-0200 290 CVC Indonesian
17820, 0400-1000 290 CVC Indonesian
9890, 1000-1300 290 CVC Indonesian
11925, 1300-1700 290 CVC Indonesian
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11825, 1300-1430 340 RA Chinese
12010, 2200-2400 317 RA English [except Burmese 2300-2330]
17665, 0000-0200 317 RA English [except Burmese 0100-0130]
11980, 1600-1700 317 RA English
9630, 2200-2330 290 RA Indonesian
15180, 0000-0030 290 RA Indonesian
0400-0430 290 RA Indonesian
0500-0530 290 RA Indonesian
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9880, 1430-1530 3 JCI Japanese – Furusato no Kaze, alt 11995
9690, 1500-1530 3 JCI Korean - Nippon no Kaze, alt 11650
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17755, 0700-0800 317 TDP English DRM 17750-17760
This should be useful in monitoring which transmissions are still going or end as of UT January 30, 31, or even February 1; and attempting to get a historically-dated QSL
Altho WRTH says Darwin has 2 x 100 kW, 3 x 250 kW, and 1 x 300 kW transmitters, all these are listed as 250, except for a semi-250 for DRM.
As in DXLD 10-04, RA has already added Palau frequencies for some of its Darwin transmissions, presumably using both sites temporarily in transition. This schedule accounts for maximum of four transmitters, so perhaps the `300` is the fourth unit being run at 250 instead (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
Then Kai Ludwig replied that the transmitter power info in WRTH and Aoki, HFCC? is all wrong:
“The situation is such that two of the three 250 kW Collins transmitters from 1968 (the only other site still using such equipment is Sackville) have been disconnected and replaced by two Continental 100 kW transmitters, brought in from somewhere else (does anybody know the details?). But it seems that these transmitters are mere stand-by units and never in regular use.
“The third old Collins is still operational but has to be tuned manually now, requiring 15 minutes for a frequency change. This transmitter covers the peak requirements when four frequencies are on air simultaneously.
“Otherwise the site has the Thomson transmitter originally installed in 1984 at Carnarvon, the provisional site that remained in use for two decades. After its final closure in 1996 the transmitter was moved to Darwin. Two further Thomson units were purchased and installed at the Darwin site in 1994. These three 300 kW Thomson transmitters are the core of the operations nowadays.
“So far only the lease of the station grounds to Christian Vision has been discussed, but which arrangements have been made in regard to the equipment? The antenna system must have cost millions, and the transmitters certainly also still represented a considerable value in 2000, when two of them were just six years old.
“Has all this equipment just been given away by the Australian authorities (the broadcasting distribution service, nowadays Broadcast Australia, was not privatized yet at this point), have they sold it to Christian Vision for a reasonable price, or is it not the property of Christian Vision at all and instead used under some other kind of arrangement?“ [end quotation of Kai Ludwig`s comments to the dxldyg]
Not surprisingly, none of the listed Darwin frequencies were audible around 0600 Jan 30, altho in other yearparts, 17820 has made it here in the nightmiddle.
I resumed trying to hear Cox Peninsula at 1541 UT Jan 30, when it is already Jan 31 in the NT, so quite possibly the last day on the air. Propagation was certainly not favorable, but I could detect carriers on 13635 and 13685 from CVC, vs. extremely stronger signals on adjacent frequencies such as Albania [q.v.] 13640, Farda 13680.
Initially 13685 could be made out with a bit of modulation which sounded like English, but later Chinese. Perhaps language lesson. Or maybe not CVC: while the only station in the world ever using 13635 has been CVC Australia, on 13685, CRI via Mali is also scheduled at 13-16 in French, English and English.
After Tirana closed at 1601* I could still detect only a carrier on 13635, likewise 13685, so CVC apparently still on.
Meanwhile, Radio Australia was scheduled to start 11980 via Darwin at 1600, and this has been audible recently. From a few minutes before, only that blasted rapid clicking centered on 11982 was audible, and likewise after 1600, so Radio Australia seems to be gone already.
See above schedule for resumption at 2200 or 2300 of several Darwin frequencies, if they still exist one more day (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CHINA. Firedrake music jamming, Jan 30 at 1532: good but fluttery on 8400; poor on 10210; just a het on 9000 and nothing on 7585 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** INDONESIA. RRI doing well on 75 and 60 meters Jan 29: 3995 at 1342 with music whenever the SSB-senders would pause, i.e. Kendari.
4750, Makassar, best in quite a while at 1345 with semi-classical piano music, talkovers, still at 1413 when singing and violin had been added. SSOB except for 5025 Cuba at the outset.
9526-, VOI Jakarta, unusually on the air at 1534, since CRI East Turkistan 9525 had a het on it; CRI English dominated, but VOI probably also in English (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** SAIPAN. IBB transmitter on 9725 is upacting again, Jan 30 at 1537 with Vietnamese from VOA, putting hash up to 9735 but apparently not to the low side. It could have been far worse as in previous logs, but needs tweaking now to prevent further deterioration (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** SAUDI ARABIA. Buzzing Service of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, bad as it was Jan 29, got even worse Jan 30 at 1522 check. Now the horrible buzz from 15435 transmitter even QRMs its own // Qur`an service on 15225, as the full brunt covers roughly 15205-15500, with 4-per-minute pulsing edges reaching down to 15115 and up to 15940! At first the upper boundary between brunt and pulses was around 15500, but by 1526 it shifted up to 15840.
The only signal in this entire range which was strong enough to overcome it was Portugal on 15560; all other stations suffering harmful interference which is totally unnecessary, but will a single one of them complain? How about at HFCC A-10 imminent in Kuala Lumpur? If any Saudi reps are there, they should get an earful, e.g. from Dr Jerry Plummer representing WWCR and all private US stations.
Will a single one of victims` would-be listeners complain? How many of them would figure it`s a local noise problem rather than callously transmitted from Riyadh? Those who believe in the Qur`an might consider boycotting Sa`udi Arabia in any way possible including suspending their Hajj.
Wolfgang B?schel in Germany was also monitoring this and reported at 1601 Jan 30, neatly/nearly matching our obs: “Top record, BSKSA Riyadh on 15435 kHz heavy BUZZ signal super wide in 15108 to 15938 kHz range. Scheduled 15-18 UT.“ (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** SOUTH AFRICA. 17860, pleased to hear a bit of Bokmakirie birdchirping surviving from the old Radio RSA days, Jan 30 at 1459 as Channel Africa was about to open Swahili service with IDs also in English. Don`t often hear this transmission which is not aimed USward, of course, but 19 degrees from Meyerton (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** SRI LANKA. 9650, Jan 30 at 1536, immediately identifiable tnx to DW riff, and S Asian language, flutter. I bet this is via Trincomalee. Yes, Aoki shows Bengali at 345 degrees, while before 1530 it`s Hindi at 15 degrees. Now, why wouldn`t they aim Bengali toward Bengal, instead of further west than Hindi?? Probably they do not, as HFCC shows them both at 15 degrees (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. Lavwadalmerik, checking the 0200 UT transition between overt and covert broadcasts to Haiti: Jan 30 at 0159:30, 5960 started playing “Yellow Bird“ and it was shortly overlain by NHK IS via Canada starting Japanese trihour as Greenville went off. After 0200, LVA continued on 7465, but not heard on 7590 which was previously back on // until 0300. Unfortunately, I did not get around to checking for it later in the hour in case it was just late upcoming (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 4050, looking again for the KWMO third harmonic from Washington, MO, Jan 30 at 0606, traces of country music, a bit better at 0614 with YL DJ talking about who would sing the NA at the Superbowl. Just barely audible tho S-meter displayed S9; trouble is, the noise level on a clear frequency was S8. 0621 more country music peaking.
This matches the format when I heard them some weeks ago with a definite ID, but none this time. As for “The Mouth“ slogan I mentioned yesterday, that has not been heard but listed in the NRC AM Log 2009-2010, when they had a talk format, probably outdated now.
Day power is 500 watts, night power 84 watts on fundamental 1350. Compared to inbooming AM hams on 80 meters as far away as New England, who could not be running more than 1000 watts, I could now believe the extremely weak KWMO signal on 4050 is really just a fraxion of the night power, not necessarily the day power (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ###
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Message: 8
Date: Sat, 30 Jan 2010 21:27:50 +0100
From: “Wolfgang Bueschel” <BueschelW@web.de>
To: “DXLD” <dxld@yahoogroups.com>, “HCDX” <hard-core-dx@kotalampi.com>
Subject: Re: [HCDX] Glenn Hauser logs January 30, 2010
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Tonight to report like FIRST springtime propagation condition on 19 mb.
ALBANIA The quarter hour of Radio Tirana in English at 1945-1958 UT on 11635 kHz to North America surprisingly strong and excellent audio quality by the tube of the 2nd TX at Shijak, S=9+30dB superb, but on \\ 7465 kHz channel much poorer.
ARGENTINA 15344.89…88 kHz by RAE Buenos Aires more than fair S=8 signal, on weekends in usual Spanish section at 1930 UT.
NIGERIA 15120 strong at S=9+10dB level at 1935 UT. Modulation amplitude for music segment was too high. But talk audio from studio was superb “clean” tonight. Music selection from West Africa sound was excellent.
Also noted very strong VoVenezuela in Spanish on 15290 kHz via Quivican Cuba at 1900-2000 UT.
French of RCI Montreal to Africa higher-than-average on 13650, 15365, and 17790! … and Skelton 11845 kHz relay too.
wb, Jan 30
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Message: 9
Date: Sat, 30 Jan 2010 14:25:53 -0800 (PST)
From: Glenn Hauser <wghauser@yahoo.com>
To: dxld@yahoogroups.com
Cc: naswa@yahoogroups.com, ODXA yg <odxa@yahoogroups.com>, ARDXC
<ardxc@ardxc.info>, ABDX <ABDX@yahoogroups.com>,
hard-core-dx@hard-core-dx.com, swl@mailman.qth.net
Subject: [HCDX] Darwin still on for last day
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** AUSTRALIA [and non]. Is Darwin still on the air January 31? Yes! But it should be the last day ever.
UT January 30 at 2159 I look for the three frequencies scheduled to start at 2200, 9585 CVC Chinese, 9630 RA Indonesian, and 12010 RA English — nothing. But Maltilda is Waltzing on 15560, loud and clear from Shepparton; path from Darwin is rather different, but there should be some traces if on the air.
Then at 2200 I find RA on 12040 in English, which is the new Palau relay, news running about 3.5 seconds behind 15560. Must be quite a circuitous feed route; since VTC is involved, to London and back?
Finally at 2201 I am also hearing RA English on 12010, and that is Darwin, with a much shorter delay, less than one second or about one word behind 15560. It`s weaker than 12040. Must have come on a bit late, or at least without any pr?lude.
By 2206 I check the 31m channels again, and now I am getting them fairly: 9585 with music which I assume is CVC Chinese service, and 9630 in Indonesian talk, soon music, which fits for Radio Australia.
The fourth transmitter starts at 2300 with CVC Indonesian on 15250 (some sources say 15255), so here I repeat the full schedule showing that also at 2300 the 9585 service switches to 15170, and the 12010 service switches to Burmese.
9585, 2200-2300 340 CVC Chinese
15170, 2300-0200 340 CVC Chinese
17690, 0400-0600 340 CVC Chinese
17635, 0600-1200 340 CVC Chinese
13685, 1200-1800 340 CVC Chinese
15535, 0930-1230 303 CVC English
13635, 1230-1830 303 CVC English
15250, 2300-0200 290 CVC Indonesian
17820, 0400-1000 290 CVC Indonesian
9890, 1000-1300 290 CVC Indonesian
11925, 1300-1700 290 CVC Indonesian
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11825, 1300-1430 340 RA Chinese
12010, 2200-2400 317 RA English [except Burmese 2300-2330]
17665, 0000-0200 317 RA English [except Burmese 0100-0130]
11980, 1600-1700 317 RA English
9630, 2200-2330 290 RA Indonesian
15180, 0000-0030 290 RA Indonesian
0400-0430 290 RA Indonesian
0500-0530 290 RA Indonesian
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9880, 1430-1530 3 JCI Japanese – Furusato no Kaze, alt 11995
9690, 1500-1530 3 JCI Korean - Nippon no Kaze, alt 11650
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17755, 0700-0800 317 TDP English DRM 17750-17760
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
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Message: 10
Date: Sat, 30 Jan 2010 16:41:24 -0700
From: “Mick Delmage” <ve6idx@3web.com>
To: <odxa@yahoogroups.com>
Cc: hard-core-dx@hard-core-dx.com
Subject: Re: [HCDX] [ODXA] Darwin still on for last day
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Booming in here at 2335 UTC 15170 with “Let’s Talk in English” after CC talk and “CVC” ID.
73
Mick Delmage
Sherwood Park, AB
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End of Hard-Core-DX Digest, Vol 85, Issue 31
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