Hard-Core Dx Digest Vol. 86 Issues 1-3
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Today’s Topics:
1. Logs (Manuel M?ndez)
2. logs for ca one week (Zacharias Liangas )
3. Thomson rotatable shortwave antenna system (Alokesh Gupta)
4. Re: Darwin still on for last day (Glenn Hauser)
5. Glenn Hauser logs January 30-31, 2010 (Glenn Hauser)
6. Re: Darwin still on for last day (Glenn Hauser)
7. Jan 30-31 Logs (Brian384875@aol.com)
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Message: 1 (No in English)
Message: 2
Date: Sun, 31 Jan 2010 17:43:48 +0200
From: “Zacharias Liangas ” <greekdx@otenet.gr>
To: <>
Subject: [HCDX] logs for ca one week
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LOgs 23+ 24 + 29
typed and sent today due to house works
http://zlgr.multiply.com/journal/item/262
ON 23th
9510 PBS Xinjang 1022 musical & YL talking over 1030 with IS S0 9685 VoA? 1342 withtalks in tai S 3 1357*
9750 MSIA VIslam 1400 OM with talksin ML with ID jingle then chants andon 1407 with psalms S4 co ch QRM NHK
ON 24th
Special report for Amica and Atlantis (I received andlaso repy from them sending mesage same time… )
7610 Amica 1200 + with pop songs , ID in intalian R Amica Onde corte S3 25433
ON 1537 with prg Atlantis and ID then OM in French then song s’ total eclips of the heart ‘ and song she is a lady .my daughter hearing these songs danced with them!!
Back on 1620 R amica with paris Latino , then ID wih email , song shes a lady
6140 Gloria with rock song ID Mc hein , S10 at 1004 some C tone at +1 kHZ greek pirate Dinamitis heard on 4857 or 3x 1619 with best reception fron the basic frq
15610 wewn ? 1843 prg in Eng on children abuse @1844 S4-5 ,24333 6040 R poland in Ukrainina 2000 music before IS rhen news S10 15340 RAE is back (thx to WB and Glen )2044 ID with National la radio
publica
ON 29th
9370 ??? 2042 with a religious kind of music 2045 with soms slf adverts S5 with the 16 h antna
WJTC per Eibi
9580 R africa N1 2048 with afropops talks by 2 om s follwed by talks and phone ins S8 @16H antenna
9645 Aparecida? 2055 with talks in P by 2xOM S0-2
9695 Rio MAr? 2059 with some on off signal S8
9680 VOR? in FF with news on 2105 S6 max
3905 pirate 2209 with germanic songs S8 over S3 local qrn
3925 NIkkei R //6055 with music @2202 talks in 2215 in JJ lower modualtion
6010 BLR mixed with CNR . At 2217 heard song Vemnus apprently from BLR S9 signal
On 30th
for WEWN
11520 WEWN 0732 with their regular prg in Eng S5
11870 WEWNsspanish with submarginal signal
7555 WEWN under a FDM signal same times
7730 !! 0740 in a lang seems unrainina , a prg seems as religious ,back on
0755 but nothing . poiisbly off at 0745 WYFR per Eibi
……..
Zacharias Liangas , Thessaloniki Greece
greekdx @ otenet dot gr —
Pesawat penerima: ICOM R75 , Lowe HF150 , Degen 1102,1103,108,
Tecsun PL200/550, Chibo c300/c979, Yupi 7000
Antenna: 16m hor, 2×16 m V invert, 1m australian loop
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Message: 3
Date: Sun, 31 Jan 2010 21:30:54 +0530
From: “Alokesh Gupta” <alokeshgupta@gmail.com>
To: “Alokesh-Hotmail” <alokeshgupta@hotmail.com>
Subject: [HCDX] Thomson rotatable shortwave antenna system
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Video of Thomson rotatable shortwave antenna system at IBB Kuwait, Phase 2.
http://www.shortwaveradioreceivers.com/shortwaveradioantennas/rotatable-shortwave-transmitting-antenna/
Alokesh Gupta, VU3BSE
New Delhi, India
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Message: 4
Date: Sun, 31 Jan 2010 08:29:14 -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>,
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Subject: Re: [HCDX] Darwin still on for last day
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CVC Darwin rechecked shortly after 2300 UT Jan 30: 15170 audible weakly, succeeding 9585, used only for the first hour of CVC Chinese; 15250 for CVC Indonesian (and 15255) totally blocked by Venezuela via Cuba, of course. 12010 R. Australia no longer // talk on 12040, 15560, but music presumably in Burmese service.
UT Jan 31, surely the final day now, started checking at 1415:
13635 good with gospel rock or whatever they call such a format with indecipherable lyrix, just as well. At 1415 mentioned “cvcradio.in“. 1418 YL DJ with Oz accent mentions this will be the final time on shortwave, so switch to mobile streaming (yeah, right).
Then greeted countless Kumars by the full name of each, of the Cosmos Club in India. As usual fast-paced format suitable for those with deficient attention spans; you never know when they are going to drop in an ID as the music plays.
BTW, Andrew Flynn of CVC HQ in England told me a few days ago that the SW transmissions via Uzbekistan for India would continue.
1428 she gives full website without the http which I always insert to assist hotlinking: http://www.cvcradio.in for song requests, or text 99-45-97-77-77. Will they play anything that is unChristian, or godforbid, off-format?
At 1430 it`s local midnight in Cox Peninsula and Feb 1 starts, but that`s only incidental as it is already midnight in Queensland, and four hours away in India, so the broadcast goes on. By 1440 the signal is weakening considerably; by 1504 recheck still audible; 1542 just a carrier detectable, tho on Sunday there is no Tirana ACI from 13640.
Meanwhile I was switching back and forth to CVC`s Chinese service on 13685, but paying less attention to it. At 1416 music presumably with a gospel element in Chinese; 1417 Chinese YL announcement. Fortunately, Habana has been missing from 13680 lately, but still some ACI from Farda, and just as much from very strong WYFR 13695, ever-increasing problems as 13685 weakened by 1504.
I assume that English on 13635 will play on until final final QRT at the usual time of 1830, and Chinese 13685 until 1800.
Also looked for the Kaze clands for North Korea, 9880 at 1430, 9690 at 1500, but nothing heard UT Jan 31, so already gone. I assume these will have switched to some other site(s). Monitoring Palau extensively, Hiroshi via Hasegawa reported as of Jan 29, only a different (?) one: 1530-1600 9965 JCIC Korean “Ilbone Baram”.
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** 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: 5
Date: Sun, 31 Jan 2010 09:48:38 -0800 (PST)
From: Glenn Hauser <wghauser@yahoo.com>
To: dxld@yahoogroups.com
Cc: swl@mailman.qth.net
Subject: [HCDX] Glenn Hauser logs January 30-31, 2010
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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 (Glenn Hauser, OK, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST)
CVC Darwin rechecked shortly after 2300 UT Jan 30: 15170 audible weakly, succeeding 9585, used only for the first hour of CVC Chinese; 15250 for CVC Indonesian (and 15255) totally blocked by Venezuela via Cuba, of course. 12010 R. Australia no longer // talk on 12040, 15560, but music presumably in Burmese service.
UT Jan 31, surely the final day now, started checking at 1415:
13635 good with gospel rock or whatever they call such a format with indecipherable lyrix, just as well. At 1415 mentioned “cvcradio.in“. 1418 YL DJ with Oz accent mentions this will be the final time on shortwave, so switch to mobile streaming (yeah, right).
Then greeted countless Kumars by the full name of each, of the Cosmos Club in India. As usual fast-paced format suitable for those with deficient attention spans; you never know when they are going to drop in an ID as the music plays.
Andrew Flynn of CVC HQ in England told me a few days ago that the SW transmissions via UZBEKISTAN for India would continue. He may have been referring only to the Hindi service, not the English service.
Hindi: 0000-0400 6260, 0100-0400 9425, 0400-1100 13630, 1100-1400 9500.
English: 0030-0230 7395, 0230-0630 11970, 0630-0930 15700.
1428 on 13635 she gives full website without the http which I always insert to assist hotlinking: http://www.cvcradio.in for song requests, or text 99-45-97-77-77. Will they play anything that is unChristian, or godforbid, off-format? I would have wanted to hear Stockhausen.
At 1430 it`s local midnight in Cox Peninsula and Feb 1 starts, but that`s only incidental as it is already midnight in Queensland, and four hours away in India, so the broadcast goes on. By 1440 the signal is weakening considerably; by 1504 recheck still audible; 1542 just a carrier detectable, tho on Sunday there is no Tirana ACI from 13640.
Meanwhile I was switching back and forth to CVC`s Chinese service on 13685, but paying less attention to it. At 1416 music presumably with a gospel element in Chinese; 1417 Chinese YL announcement. Fortunately, Habana has been missing from 13680 lately, but still some ACI from Farda Wertachtal, and just as much from very strong WYFR 13695, ever-increasing problems as 13685 weakened by 1504.
I assume that English on 13635 will play on until final final QRT at the usual time of 1830, and Chinese 13685 until 1800.
Also looked for the Kaze clands for North Korea, 9880 at 1430, 9690 at 1500, but nothing heard UT Jan 31, so already gone. I assume these will have switched to some other site(s). Monitoring Palau extensively, Hiroshi via Hasegawa reported as of Jan 29, only a different (?) one: 1530-1600 9965 JCIC Korean “Ilbone Baram”. S. Hasegawa says he has not been able to confirm 9690 or 9880 for more than a week
As for what becomes of the Darwin facility, this is totally unclear, other than that CVC will now start “dismantling“ it and get out by the time its lease expires in June (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** AUSTRALIA. Correlating with audibility of Cox Peninsula for the last time on 13 MHz, Morocco 15341 also had a strong het from HCJB Kununurra, Jan 31 at 1445 on 15340, but the Arabic audio was dominant as HCJB was scheduled just to have started English (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CUBA. RHC has been missing lately from 13680 in the mornings. That`s one of the hi-power signals normally // 13780 until 1500 and producing leapfrogs on 13880 and weaker 13580, so those are also absent, e.g. Jan 31 at 1416 as I am monitoring CVC Darwin Chinese final broadcast on 13685. Lacking RHC helps that a lot, but soon moot. All is not lost: RHC 13770 is still leapfrogging over CRI relay 13740 to land on 13710 QRMing India. 13680 was back later on with the weak daytime transmitter for Al?, Presidente; see VENEZUELA [non].
Routine check for weekly Esperanto service at 1500 Sunday on 11760: Jan 31 at 1503 only open carrier, off and on for several minutes, but at next check 1513 the Esperanto program was underway (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** ITALY. After hearing Northern Ireland on 21290 [see UKOGBANI], I tuned a bit more on 15m. Mostly nothing, but just down on 21285, matching DW 15285, was another USB calling CQ from northern Italy, Dom, IW2CLM, Jan 31 at 1453 and soon in contact with someone in “north central Oklahoma“ who was weaker here but audible, evidently by groundwave, so not far from Enid. Could not catch his call but his name was Dan. QRZ.com shows:
IW2CLM
Domenico Bova
Via G.B. Rota 22
Bergamo, 24124
Italy
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** KOREA NORTH [and non]. 3973, noise jamming of the NK style centered here, Jan 31 at 1335, almost BFO-ing the Breakfast Club net with a number of US hams in the Midwest checking in, some also mentioning the unusual noise but not knowing its provenance. Sort of like an airplane engine revving as the pitch continually varies up and down.
Breakfast Club is in the final Nets to You of April 2007, as daily 1000 UT (0900 summer) on 3973. Apparently it goes on for hours and hours.
Nothing is known on 3973 needing jamming, but Aoki shows a 5 kW Wonsan transmitter of KCBS/Pyongyang BS on 3970, so perhaps that is out of whack, or repurposed for jamming as needed.
Usual NK jamming on 3985 mixing with Echo of Hope, Korean talk audible; and similar noise on 3912 against Voice of the People. Louder jamming on 3480 against KNDF, but not much signal from the 90m N Korean non-jammers, as checked until 1340 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** SAUDI ARABIA. 15435 The Buzz, checked Jan 31 at 1539. Did not sound as loud as usual around 15435, but nevertheless full brunt could be heard down to 15300 or so, and 4-per-minute pulses down to 15140, so yes, again also QRMing BSKSA`s other Qur`an channel 15225 plus countless other stations. On the hi side, however, full brunt lasted only until 15470, and could not hear 4-per-minute pulses up from there, other stations seeming in clear, altho by now some TVs are on adding their own swish QRM possibly disaudiblizing the weaker pulses. But who says this monstrosity has to be symmetrical? Every little bit helps (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U K O G B A N I. Nice to hear some USB on 15m hamband, Jan 31 at 1449 on 21290, English with an Irish accent soon IDed as MI0JAT, mentioning that “people don`t realize the band is open“; how true. He was in contact with a K4 or a W4. Hmm, are there any MI5-prefixed hams? QRZ.com says:
MI0JAT
Joey Mc Goldrick
23 Lettercarn Rd, Co Tyrone
Castlederg, N Ireland, BT8 17QY,
Northern Ireland
Hadn`t noticed any significant signals on 13m SWBC band, so searched again, and barely audible Spain on 21570, 21610; better Libya on 21695, all those with incomparably greater power than any ham, yet inferior results (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) See also ITALY
** VENEZUELA [non]. Quick check for “Al?, Presidente“, Sunday via CUBA at 1656 UT Jan 31 found it running but the speaker at the moment unsounded like El Hugazo, perhaps a press-conference plant, on all five usual frequencies in order of increasing signal strength: 13680, 11690, 17750, 12010, 13750 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 13630, open carrier, noticed when checking doomed Darwin on 13635, Jan 31 at 1439; nothing remotely near this time scheduled in HFCC, Aoki or EiBi; not strong enough to detract from Darwin. Someone else might want this or 13635 from Feb 1 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ###
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Message: 6
Date: Sun, 31 Jan 2010 14:14:44 -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: Re: [HCDX] Darwin still on for last day
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** AUSTRALIA. Since we knew that the CVC transmission around 1430 UT Jan 31 on 13635 was “the last one on shortwave“ as announced, I made another routine check of Darwin frequencies at 2200 UT Jan 31, not expecting to hear anything, but the three of them are still on!
Tune in 12010 at 2159 to find open carrier, and 2200 sharp, start modulating R. Australia news, as 24 hours earlier; slightly delayed compared to Shep 15560 and a longer delay on 12040 via Palau.
On 9630, Indonesian had also started, R. Australia, and music on 9585, presumably CVC Chinese as previously scheduled.
So where does that leave us? No clean break, depending on the station or language service, not all stopped at the end of January. It is now indisputably February everywhere east of Central Europe and West Africa (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
BTW, Argentina with live sports at 2201 on 15345v, not 11710v as we were led to believe on a Sunday.
VOA Creole at 2200 on 13725, but // 11905 did not cut on until 2102:45, par for the course at Greenville (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
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Message: 7
Date: Sun, 31 Jan 2010 18:26:45 EST
From: Brian384875@aol.com
To: hard-core-dx@hard-core-dx.com
Subject: [HCDX] Jan 30-31 Logs
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** DJIBOUTI. 4780, Radio Djibouti, *0300-0330, Jan 31, sign on with National Anthem. Arabic talk at 0301. Qur`an at 0302. Talk at 0313. Rustic local music at 0325. Poor to fair with CODAR QRM and noisy conditions. (Brian Alexander, PA)
** ETHIOPIA. 7110.07, Radio Ethiopia, 2035-2101*, Jan 31, variety of local pop music and Western/Euro-pop music. Amharic talk. Sign off with National Anthem. // 9704.19 – both frequencies fair to good. (Brian Alexander, PA)
** ETHIOPIA [non]. via Nauen, Germany, 11830, Ethiopia Adera Dimtse Radio, *1700-1759*, Jan 30, presumed with talk in listed Amharic. Some local Horn of Africa music. Poor to fair but some QRM from weak noise jammer. Sat only. (Brian Alexander, PA)
** EURO-PIRATE. 7610.05, Radio Amica, 0040-0055, Jan 31, pop music by Madonna and others. Italian ID announcements. Poor. Weak. (Brian Alexander, PA)
** MADAGASCAR [non]. via Pridnestrovye, 15670, Radio Mada Int, *1530-1600*, Jan 31, test tone started at 1523. Sign on with opening announcements at 1530 and talk in presumed Malagasy. Local music at 1555 to 1600 sign off. Poor in noisy conditions. Sat, Sun only. Thanks to Ron Howard tip. (Brian Alexander, PA)
Brian Alexander, Mechanicsburg, PA, USA
Equipment: Icom IC-7600, two 100 foot longwires
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Today’s Topics:
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1. Glenn Hauser logs January 31-February 1, 2010 (Glenn Hauser)
2. The Union of Asian DXers is back !! (Andy Sennitt)
3. Greenville to close; VOA and Marti join for new service; LVA
update (Glenn Hauser)
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Message: 1
Date: Mon, 1 Feb 2010 09:48:38 -0800 (PST)
From: Glenn Hauser <wghauser@yahoo.com>
To: dxld@yahoogroups.com
Cc: swl@mailman.qth.net
Subject: [HCDX] Glenn Hauser logs January 31-February 1, 2010
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** ARGENTINA. While checking out Darwin, Jan 31 at 2201, also punched up 15345v, and there was R. Nacional with live sports, not 11710v as we were led to believe is used on Sunday evenings instead (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** AUSTRALIA. Since we knew that the CVC English transmission around 1430 UT Jan 31 on 13635 was “the last one on shortwave“ as announced, I made another routine check of Darwin frequencies at 2200 UT Jan 31, not expecting to hear anything, but the three of them were still on!
Tune in 12010 at 2159 to find open carrier, and 2200 sharp, start modulating R. Australia news, as 24 hours earlier; slightly delayed compared to Shep 15560 and a longer delay on 12040 via Palau.
On 9630, Indonesian had also started, R. Australia, and music on 9585, presumably CVC Chinese as previously scheduled.
So where does that leave us? No clean break, depending on the station or language service, not all stopped at the end of January. It is now indisputably February everywhere east of Central Europe and West Africa.
Then I heard from Craig Seager in Australia, that the scheduled Darwin frequencies ceased to be heard after 2400 UT, so the final final close-down apparently was timed according to the end of January according to UT.
At 1515 UT Feb 1, no signals detectable on 13635 or 13685. But annoying clicking in the 13685-13690 range (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** AUSTRALIA. Something amiss with R. Australia transmissions, as English on 9475 at 1450 was much stronger than // 9590, discussing radiation hazards in space. Why? Because 9590 is registered as 30 degrees, and 9475 as 329 degrees, both from Shepparton, so 9590 is much closer to USward and normally is stronger. 9590 on low power, or one of them on wrong antenna? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CYPRUS. OTH radar rapid pulses, presumed from here, Feb 1 at 1518 ranging 15700-15755 as I was checking the extent of the Sa`udi buzz; more pulses below 15495 merging with the buzz and not to be confused with its edges (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CZECHIA [and non]. 13580, R. Prague gone around 1515 Feb 1; used to be Spanish to America, but one of many frequencies canceled so they can use only one transmitter at a time; also applies to English at 1400, but both still on 11600, along with French intervening. That is often audible here before the Cuban jamming starts at 1600.
English at 1400 on 11600 is for S Asia now, but 13580 had been a good reliable morning English broadcast for us; we`ll miss it. North America still gets English on five transmissions between 2100 and 0427, but we would gladly swap two of them for retaining one in the mornings.
Furthermore, R. Prague relays via WRMI are being reduced, apparently no longer English at 1500 on 9955, once the NW antenna and the 50 kW transmitter are back in service, which Jeff White expects to be soon. He says Prague in English is to be scheduled daily, only at 0300 and 1000 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** INDIA [and non]. 9690, AIR GOS with perpetual big hum, Monday Feb 1 at 1430 tune-in, time for mailbag Faithfully Yours, which was pre-empted last week by Republic Day speech earlier in the hour. Hosted by main announcer Sanjit — and a co-host whose name I could not catch. First up was mail from someone in China who reported on several AIR English frequencies (not mentioning that AIR`s Mandarin frequencies are jammed). Someone referred to it instead as “Sincerely Yours“.
Next a letter from Hannover, Germany, in November! Emphasized that no return postage is wanted, IRCs or money, as the Indian Government pays the postage, and any such enclosures risk the letter being stolen. Also pointed out that 11620 to Europe has been replaced by 6180 at the end of October, and another new frequency is 7550; please try them.
This is sounding VERY familiar. I am afraid AIR GOS is playing back an old FY I already heard several weeks ago. Yet another old letter from 16 November, Hiroyuki Okada, 38, electrical engineer in Japan who reported on 9690. They get lots of mail from Japan, and another one dated 20 November. 1445 on to film music programme.
Not only did I waste my time hearing a rerun, but I completely forgot to check again this Monday whether REE`s Sephardic service was back on the 15385 air at 1425-1455, as it was missing last week! I could ask if anyone else noticed, but I am afraid there would be no responses (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** INDONESIA. 3995, RRI Kendari, Sulawesi, nice signal at 1353 Feb 1 song with piano, occasional weak hets presumably from NAm hams. 1359 Indonesian announcement, and singing ID (?) jingle. Makassar 4750 also in well, but not much else (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** JAPAN. 3925, Feb 1 at 0648 “Claire de Lune“ on piano, pretty clear with hams avoiding the frequency, thanks very much. JOZ, Radio Nikkei. I am a bit startled to be hearing it this early, 1548 JST. Again audible at 1352 UT shortly before closing, S9+20 with guitar or ukulele strumming but SSB hams nearby (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** KOREA NORTH [and non]. V. of the People, from S to N Korea, big signal with music as I tuned across 6600 Feb 1 at 1407, S9+15 atop jamming, // 6512 almost as good. Usually the jamming is atop here.
6348, Echo of Hope, from S to N Korea, also atop jamming, with music at 1407, but 6003 had nothing but noise jamming audible.
Same jamming on 6015 against the month-old KBS Hanminjok Bangsong 1, 100 kW ND from Hwaseong, S Korea, as per Aoki, itself inaudible. XEOI managed to squeeze in between; see MEXICO (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MALAYSIA. 5030, RTM Sarawak, 1403 Feb 1 announcement and song, fair against splash from Cuba 5025 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MEXICO. 6010, XEOI during talk block, Feb 1 at 1409 with roundup of political news from BCN to QR, poor strength but clear in between the Juche jammers on 6003 and 6015 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MONGOLIA [and non]. 9665 with audible het Feb 1 at 1531, and a bit of music, as VOM`s English broadcast is scheduled. Trouble is, P`yongyang was already on this frequency long before, or rather never quite on it, with imprecise transmitter. What genius at VOM picked this channel? I suspect the music I could hear was from NK (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** NORTH AMERICA. A friend passes on a twitter tip that The Crystal Ship is about to start another Sunday evening broadcast on 5385 AM, so I try it at 2337 Jan 31. Yes, there it is with ID mentioning “freedom of the airwaves“, e-mail tcsshortwave @ gmail.com Axually closer to 5385.4, signal around S9+12 but with quite a bit of deep fading. I need to turn off local noise sources to increase its S/N ratio.
2338 on to ID in Spanish with echo. 2343 “last briefing before atomic detonation; three things: blast, heat, radiation“. 2349, song “Don`t Fear the Reefer“. (Did not hear any of the music identified on air.) 2354 unreadable child`s voice, then Tarzan yell, ID mentioning “in glorious AM“, e-mail address again. 2355 song “Big Muddy“, sounds like an early Pete Seeger. 2358 song “The Man Who Shot Liberty Valence“, by Gene Pittney.
Now into UT Feb 1: after 0000 I am paying less attention as 60 Minutes is starting on CBS-TV. Seems to be more music now, fewer announcements but there is one at 0008; 0031 “Official Voice of the Blue States Republic“, music with steel drums(?). 0039 “El Paso“ by Marty Robins; 0058 still music audible, but not heard after 0100, off?
Enjoyed the familiar but seldom-heard tunes, creativity of the comedy and IDs; pse QSL (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** PAPUA NEW GUINEA. 90m check at 1355 Feb 1 found signals with at least some audio, non-// music on 3365, 3345, 3325, 3315, all PNG frequencies; altho due to a great breakdown in regional frequency management, 3325 and 3345 are also active Indonesian frequencies. Nothing on 3385 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** SAUDI ARABIA. 15435 buzz check Feb 1: at 1455 I started listening to Farda music on 15410, but blasted by the buzz from *1456. At 1518 I monitor its range today: not nearly as bad as last few days, but I suspect this is no sign of deliberate tightening up; rather due to random and/or propagational variation. Brunt covers only 15400-15475 and BBC can still be heard on 15400. 4x/minute clicking not audible beyond either side; 15435 itself metered just(?) S9+12. Covering *only* 75 kHz is of course totally unacceptable too, an improvement only by comparison to its usual range (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. Lavwadlamerik, VOA Creole at 2200 Jan 31 on 13725, but // 11905 did not cut on until 2102:45, par for the course at Greenville (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) See also UNIDENTIFIED 15390
** U S A. 17760, WYFR at 1525 Feb 1 with a bit of “Onward, Christian Soldiers“, not the WHR version which has a monopoly on that as theme, but any missionary station is free to threaten Moslems in this way, marching as to war. And into Bible reading in English.
This frequency had very heavy flutter on it, like trans-polar or sometimes trans-equatorial, but the path from Okeechobee is neither, and I have noticed this before. Less than two megameters away, we must be on the edge of the skip zone at this time, not getting full signal altho not too far off the 285 degree WNW beam toward northern Mexico. Perhaps backscatter mix is involved; another possibility is meteor scatter, causing a Doppler effect so the WYFR signal interferes with itself (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 15160, beautiful performance of the Qur`an, by OM tenor cantor [what else? Inferior YLs aren`t allowed], Feb 1 at 1505, much stronger and clearer than BSKSA`s version on 15225; still going at 1535. I was thinking I had logged this recently, but not so, and unlisted, so it`s something new. One thing for sure: it`s not AWR via Austria as in PWBR 2009! Nothing shows in current Aoki, EiBi or HFCC. Must be one of the major stations (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 15390, open carrier briefly at *1525 Feb 1, presumably VOA Greenville testing its Krey?l frequency, as often noted before around this time. Would it be too much to ask to add some IDs or Yankee Doodles? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ###
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Date: Mon, 1 Feb 2010 20:17:37 +0100
From: “Andy Sennitt” <andys@euronet.nl>
To: “Hard-Core-Dx@Hard-Core-Dx. Com” <hard-core-dx@hard-core-dx.com>
Subject: [HCDX] The Union of Asian DXers is back !!
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After a break of about 17 years, the Union of Asian DXers has risen like a phoenix from the ashes. The UADX has published its first Newsletter since July 1993 as a PDF file on the DXAsia website, edited now, as then, by my good friend Victor Goonetilleke in Sri Lanka. Familiar UADX names such as Gerhard Werdin, Sarath Amukotuwa & Sarath Weerakoon will also be helping
Victor, who says that the first edition of the E-Newsletter is meant as an introduction and sample. The next edition is scheduled before the end of February. I hope SWLs and DXers amongst our readership will support this venture.
Victor has also written an article about Eclipse Monitoring on 15 January 2010. A UADX blog will also be starting soon. Thanks to Alok das Gupta and his son Abhishek for technical help in getting this material online.
http://wwww.dxasia.info
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Message: 3
Date: Mon, 1 Feb 2010 19:33:02 -0800 (PST)
From: Glenn Hauser <wghauser@yahoo.com>
To: dxld@yahoogroups.com
Cc: swl@mailman.qth.net
Subject: [HCDX] Greenville to close; VOA and Marti join for new
service; LVA update
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** U S A. VOA and Radio Mart? have started a “co-production“, one-hour Spanish broadcast at 0100-0200 UT weeknights.
The two former rivals are now co?perating! There were reports recently that VOA would start to have access to RM`s produxion facilities in Miami. This could also be the beginning of the end for Radio Mart?, starting by merging it back into VOA, as there is considerable congressional pressure just to kill RM.
Without any advance publicity that I know of, I first found this in progress at 0114 UT February 2 on 11625: a station in Spanish talking about Ch?vez, in the hour after VOA Spanish normally closes on different frequencies, 5890 and 9885. At 0100, I was tuned to 9885; it was still on and announcement seemed to be starting another hour, but cut off before 0101. This made me wonder if programming was continuing on some other frequency, so started bandscanning from 5745 upwards.
At 0118 an ID on 11625 gave the full frequency list for this, 11625, 9415 and 7340. I quickly found the lower two were much stronger here and continued to listen on 7340. They were all in synch, and no doubt Greenville B, which is doomed to extinction at the end of FY 2010, 30 September as just came out today. Gee, what will BBG/IBB/VOA do if they need to start another “surge“ broadcast after then?
There was too much jamming on regular R. Mart? frequencies to tell if they were //, i.e. 6030, 7365, 9825, but suspect not since only the new frequencies were announced — and with no jamming at all on the new ones — yet! Usual DCJC noise jamming was audible also on 9810 at 0111 against Rep?blica, and at 0113 on 9715 — another stray, against nothing?
Since this is a brand-new, previously unknown service, I monitored it attentively during the remainder of the hour. At 0118 they were quoting El Nuevo Herald, Miami and some European papers about Cuban/Venezuelan relations.
0123 ID as “A Punto (?) en La Voz de Am?rica y Radio Mart?; 0126 with schedule as 8-9 pm [EST] M-F, i.e. 01-02 UT Tue-Sat, again with the three frequencies, “una co-producci?n de La Voz de Am?rica y Radio Mart?“. And “El Mundo del Espect?culo“ segment about the Grammy Awards last night. 0130 co-hosts in Washington and Miami briefly discussed their respective weathers, rather divergent.
Rest of hour called in correspondents from several Latin American countries for a few minutes each, starting with Bolivia, concern with contentious Morales.
0137 news from Venezuela about protests in various cities against the banning of RCTV even from cable. 0139 about the political campaign in Costa Rica. 0141 about the IMF from Buenos Aires. 0143 corresponsal Federico in Bogot?, Colombia. 0148 interviewing a UCR professor about the situation in Honduras. 0153 Nicaragua, on the sale of Canal 8 TV to Ortega/Ch?vez, leaving only one independent TV station, Canal 2.
The program seems to concentrate on what`s going on in hostile Latin American countries, and will likely be labeled “propaganda“ by them, but it seemed to me the analysis was balanced. A bigger question arises: will Radio Mart? gain credibility or will VOA lose credibility with this joint venture??
Name of the program was mentioned every few minutes. To me, sometimes it sounded like “A Fondo“, meaning in depth or background; sometimes “Apunte“ which means abstract or notes.
Looking around the VOA Spanish and Martinoticias websites, I see nothing yet about this service. I suppose they wanted to slip in under the radar, or the usual bureaucratic delays. Nor is there any press release about it yet at the VOA site, the latest one being from Jan 27 about Creole.
I recorded some excerpts, and was all set to get the sign-off before 0200, but 7340 just cut off at 0159:30 while show was still in progress. Then tuned to 9415 and heard it for a few seconds longer, I think a sign-off. Then tuned to 11625 and heard only a very weak signal, but that proved to be in English after 0200, sounded like VOA. Nothing scheduled then either, and may have been something else, and not necessarily Greenville.
I was also bandscanning on another receiver during this hour, to check out among other things, Lavwadlamerik`s Krey?l service, which had also been at 01-02 ? and discovered two very interesting things. Besides 5960, it was also // on new 5835 first noted at 0105. Another frequency VOA refuses to publish on its A-Z language schedule. Are there too many frequencies now during this hour for all of them to come from Greenville? We remember that 5835 was once a World Harvest Radio frequency, but that`s no proof it`s the site now.
The other //, 7465, is now clashing with WWCR, which has just extended its broadcast on that frequency until 0200, ex-3240! At the beginning of the hour, WWCR was atop, but before long by 0110 it was losing out to LVA, and by the end of the hour I could not be certain WWCR was still there underneath, but probably as it was still missing from 3240.
LVA`s additional Creole hour at 01-02 had been on 7465 since shortly after the quake, as we have been reporting, but apparently WWCR did not notice. Since it fades out anyway, WWCR should not have extended 7465 another three hours past previous close at 2300, tho one or possibly two hours would have worked. This collision has to be resolved ASAP. Altho we lose WWCR here, the situation may be quite different in Haiti and elsewhere.
At 0200 LVA had left 5835 as well as 5960 which it must due to NHK/Sackville, but continued on 7465; still no 7590 had come on by 0205, so apparently that has been dropped during the final hour, at least.
During this hour I also checked MW 1180, but as usual could not pull anything out of Marathon. And MW 1030 where Commando Solo is making it into Florida from Haiti. Dominating the frequency at 0124 was some not // talk in Spanish, looping roughly east/west, so most likely WGSF Memphis, per NRC AM Log listings (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
If the above report is repeated in our next log report along with other items, it will have been updated/added to, so use the later version. I did not want to delay getting this hot news out.
What`s that about Greenville closing?? I filed this report earlier, late Feb 1, to the DXLD yg:
** U S A. I hear from a confidential source that the Greenville transmitting station of VOA will be closing on September 30, 2010. What this will mean for the broadcasts it still transmits, Radio Mart?, VOA English, Special English, recently expanded Creole, Hausa, Portuguese, Spanish, RNW relay is as yet unknown (Glenn Hauser, February 1, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
Thanks to kimandrewelliott.com we have a link to:
Broadcasting Board of Governors FY 2011 Budget Request
http://www.bbg.gov/reports/documents/BBGFY2011CONGBudgetSubmission-ForInternetPost.pdf
We have found pertinent excerpts from the 119 page document concerning Greenville, EMPHASIS ADDED WITH CAPS; et al.:
PROGRAM CHANGES:
* The BBG proposes the following reductions in the support area: reduction of contracting costs by 4 percent throughout the Agency through efficiencies; sale of a former transmitting site in Erching, Germany [which one is that by a name we recognize?];
CLOSING THE GREENVILLE TRANSMITTING STATION;
restructuring operations at overseas transmitting stations; reduction of IBB Engineering support positions and IBB general operating expenses; and reduction of BCI maintenance and repair budget.
(page 24)
FY 2011 Program Decreases
Transmission
The BBG proposes restructuring operations at some of its overseas transmitting stations. The BBG will retain ownership of these facilities; however, it would turn over operations of these sites to a third party on a fee-for-service basis ($1.5 million).
THE BBG ALSO PROPOSES TO CLOSE ITS GREENVILLE TRANSMITTING STATION ($3.2 MILLION).
In addition, the proposed FY 2011 reductions to and eliminations of language services will reduce transmission costs by ($.91 million).
Operating Expenses and Contractual Services
The FY 2011 request for Engineering and Technical Services includes a reduction in positions and operating expenses ($2.3 million) as well as a reduction in contractual services through improved practices ($.8 million).
(page 75)
Engineering and Technical Services
Summary of Increases and Decreases
FY 2010- FY 2011
($ in thousands):
FY 2011 Net Program Changes + (3,135)
Program Decreases – (8,710)
Reflects the following reductions to base operations:
A) TRANSMISSION NETWORK REDUCTION (GREENVILLE STATION) ( 3,149)
b) Reduce support positions and operating expenses ( 2,330)
c) Consolidate services at BBG transmitting stations with other
Western international broadcasters ( 1,500)
d) Eliminate VOA Croatian, VOA Greek; reduce VOA Persian News Network;
end MBN Alhurra Europe (910)
e) Reduce Agency contract costs by 4% through improved efficiencies
(821)
(page 77)
Engineering and Technical Services
Summary of Funds FY 2009 – FY 2011 ($ in thousands) 2009 2010 2011 Increase or Actual Estimate Request Decrease (-)
Domestic Transmitting Stations
Greenville 4,496 4,874 1,812 (3,062)
Tinian 7,974 8,875 9,008 133
Total, Domestic Stations 12,470 13,749 10,820 (2,929)
Overseas Transmitting Stations
Afghanistan 1,809 3,885 3,031 (854)
Botswana 1,660 1,945 2,066 121
Germany 9,144 11,237 11,417 180
Kuwait 4,485 4,940 5,121 181
Philippines 5,721 5,747 6,026 279
Sao Tome 3,189 3,392 3,706 314
Sri Lanka 2,991 3,043 2,419 (624)
Thailand 3,931 3,882 3,310 (572)
Total, Overseas Stations 32,930 38,071 37,096 (975)
Monitors 1,098 1,249 1,291 42
TOTAL, ENGINEERING AND TECHNICAL SERVICES 169,630 189,839 190,724 885
(page 78) (extracted by Glenn Hauser for DX LISTENING DIGEST)
It is interesting to note the last item above, that BBG spends over a megadollar per year on Monitors, i.e. paying some names you would know as DXers to be official monitors; how many of them are there, for an average salary? They also get perqs such as monitoring equipment, occasional visits to the USA.
You will note that there are still some funds for Greenville; of course the site will need to be maintained in some form for a while once it is off the air, until it can be disposed of (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
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Today’s Topics:
1. DX MIX NEWS # 610 (Jaisakthivel)
2. UADX Newsletter (Jaisakthivel)
3. Tues DX (Charles Bolland)
4. Re: UADX Newsletter (Andy Sennitt)
5. Glenn Hauser logs February 1-2, 2010 (Glenn Hauser)
6. Radio Canada International (Hector (Luigi) Perez)
7. logs (Robert Wilkner)
8. Re: Radio Canada International (Joe Strain aka Yodar)
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Message: 1
Date: Tue, 2 Feb 2010 11:05:21 +0530 (IST)
From: Jaisakthivel <ardicdxclub@yahoo.co.in>
To: ardic <ardicdxclub@yahoo.co.in>
Subject: [HCDX] DX MIX NEWS # 610
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CZECH REP.: Frequency change of Radio Prague from Feb.1
1130-1230 NF 9880 LIT 100 kW / 356 deg to NWEu in English/Czech, ex 11640
GERMANY(non) Frequency changes of Deutsche Welle effective from Feb.1:
0300-0400 NF 9485 ASC 250 kW / 085 deg to CeAf in Swahili, ex 9565
1000-1100 on 9865 HRI 250 kW / 152 deg to SoAm in German, canceleed
2200-2400 on 15640 HRI 250 kW / 152 deg to SoAm in German, canceleed
PAKISTAN Some changes of Radio Pakistan effective from Feb.1: Bangla, retimed
0900-1000 on 9375vISL 100 kW / 118 deg & 11570 ISL 100 kW / 118 deg,new
1200-1245 on 7475 ISL 100 kW / 118 deg & 9345vISL 100 kW / 118 deg,delete Hindi, retimed
1045-1145 on 9375vISL 100 kW / 147 deg & 11570 ISL 100 kW / 147 deg,new
1030-1130 on 7475 ISL 100 kW / 147 deg & 9345vISL 100 kW / 147 deg,delete Gujrati, additional txion
1145-1215 on 9375vISL 100 kW / 147 deg & 11570 ISL 100 kW / 147 deg Pashto, retimed
1345-1445 on 4835 ISL 100 kW / 270 deg & 6235vISL 100 kW / 270 deg,new
1300-1400 on 4835 ISL 100 kW / 270 deg & 6235vISL 100 kW / 270 deg,delete Dari, retimed
1445-1545 on 4835 ISL 100 kW / 270 deg & 6235vISL 100 kW / 270 deg,new
1430-1530 on 4835 ISL 100 kW / 270 deg & 6235vISL 100 kW / 270 deg,delete Nepali, new language service
1000-1030 on 9375vISL 100 kW / 118 deg & 11570 ISL 100 kW / 118 deg Sinhala, new language service
1230-1300 on 11525 ISL 100 kW / 147 deg & 15630vISL 100 kW / 147 deg Tamil, new language service
1300-1330 on 11525 ISL 100 kW / 147 deg & 15630vISL 100 kW / 147 deg v=vary freq. xxxxx.4 kHz
U.K.(non) Winter B-09 Schedule of VT Communications Relays. Part 1 of 3: Radio Japan NHK World
0000-0020 on 5920 SKN 300 kW / 140 deg to WeEu English
0200-0300 on 11860 SNG 250 kW / 340 deg to SEAs Japanese
0500-0530 on 5975 RMP 500 kW / 140 deg to WeEu English
0800-1000 on 11740 SNG 250 kW / 001 deg to SEAs Japanese
0945-1030 on 9640 SNG 250 kW / 140 deg to SEAs Indonesian
1030-1100 on 11740 SNG 250 kW / 001 deg to SEAs Burmese
1130-1200 on 11740 SNG 250 kW / 001 deg to SEAs Thai
1230-1330 on 11740 SNG 250 kW / 001 deg to SEAs Vietnamese/Chinese
1400-1430 on 11780 RMP 500 kW / 062 deg to EaEu English
1500-1700 on 12045 SNG 250 kW / 315 deg to WeAs Japanese
1700-1900 on 9575 DHA 250 kW / 285 deg to NoAf Japanese
2200-2300 on 7225 DHA 250 kW / 285 deg to NoAf Japanese
Radio Prague from Feb.1
0000-0027 on 7420 ASC 250 kW / 245 deg to SoAm Spanish
1730-1757 on 7285 SIN 250 kW / 040 deg to WeEu German
Gospel for Asia
0000-0130 on 6140 DHA 250 kW / 085 deg to SoAs SoEaAs langs
1600-1615 on 9820 DHA 250 kW / 100 deg to SoAs SoEaAs langs
1615-1630 on 9820 DHA 250 kW / 070 deg to SoAs SoEaAs langs Sun-Wed
1615-1630 on 9820 DHA 250 kW / 120 deg to SoAs SoEaAs langs Thu-Sat
2330-2400 on 6160 DHA 250 kW / 085 deg to SoAs SoEaAs langs
Voice of Vietnam
0100-0125 on 6175 SAC 250 kW / 212 deg to NoAm English
0130-0225 on 6175 SAC 250 kW / 212 deg to NoAm Vietnamese
0230-0255 on 6175 SAC 250 kW / 212 deg to NoAm English
0300-0325 on 6175 SAC 250 kW / 212 deg to NoAm Spanish
0330-0355 on 6175 SAC 250 kW / 212 deg to NoAm English
0400-0425 on 6175 SAC 250 kW / 212 deg to NoAm Spanish
0430-0525 on 6175 SAC 250 kW / 240 deg to NoAm Vietnamese
1800-1825 on 5955 MOS 100 kW / 300 deg to WeEu English
1830-1925 on 5955 MOS 100 kW / 300 deg to WeEu Vietnamese
1930-1955 on 5955 MOS 100 kW / 300 deg to WeEu French
2000-2025 on 5970 WOF 300 kW / 075 deg to EaEu Russian
2030-2125 on 3985 SKN 250 kW / 121 deg to WeEu German
2130-2125 on 7370 WOF 300 kW / 105 deg to SEEu Vietnamese
Adventist World Radio
0100-0200 on 15445 TAI 100 kW / 250 deg to SEAs Vietnamese Sat
Sudan Radio Service
0400-0500 on 7280 DHA 250 kW / 245 deg to EaAf Arabic
0500-0600 on 13720 DHA 250 kW / 240 deg to EaAf Arabic/English
1500-1530 on 17745 SIN 250 kw / 114 deg to EaAf English
1530-1700 on 17745 SIN 250 kw / 114 deg to EaAf Arabic
1700-1730 on 9840 DHA 300 kW / 240 deg to EaAf Dinka Mon
1700-1730 on 9840 DHA 300 kW / 240 deg to EaAf Zande Tue
1700-1730 on 9840 DHA 300 kW / 240 deg to EaAf Muro Wed
1700-1730 on 9840 DHA 300 kW / 240 deg to EaAf Bari Thu
1700-1730 on 9840 DHA 300 kW / 240 deg to EaAf Shiluk Fri
1700-1730 on 9840 DHA 300 kW / 240 deg to EaAf Arabic Sat/Sun
1730-1800 on 9840 DHA 300 kW / 240 deg to EaAf English
BBC Darfur Salaam:
0500-0530 on 9440 DHA 250 kW / 255 deg to Sudan Arabic
0500-0530 on 11865 CYP 250 kW / 187 deg to Sudan Arabic
1700-1730 on 9760 CYP 250 kW / 185 deg to Sudan Arabic
1700-1730 on 11895 CYP 250 kW / 185 deg to Sudan Arabic
Radio Okapi
0400-0500 on 11690 MEY 250 kW / 340 deg to Congo French/Lingala
1600-1700 on 9635 MEY 250 kW / 340 deg to Congo French/Lingala
BBC/DW:
0600-0800 on 3995 SKN 100 kW / 120 deg to WeEu English/German DRM
1000-1500 on 9545 WOF 100 kW / 114 deg to WeEu English/German DRM
1500-1700 on 5790 WOF 100 kW / 172 deg to WeEu English/German DRM
1600-2000 on 3995 SKN 100 kW / 120 deg to WeEu English/German DRM
Voice of Croatia
0700-1100 on 15360 SNG 100 kW / 135 deg to AUS Croatian+English news
KBS World Radio
0700-0800 on 6045 SKN 300 kW / 110 deg to WeEu Korean
1100-1130 on 9760 WOF 100 kW / 105 deg to WeEu English Sat DRM
1800-1900 on 7235 RMP 500 kW / 062 deg to EaEu Russian
1900-2000 on 5935 RMP 500 kW / 168 deg to NoAf Arabic
2000-2100 on 3955 SKN 250 kW / 106 deg to WeEu German
2100-2200 on 3955 SKN 250 kW / 175 deg to WeEu French
2200-2230 on 3955 SKN 250 kW / 106 deg to WeEu English
Cotton Tree News
0730-0800 on 11875 RMP 250 kW / 189 deg to CeAf English/Local
IRIN Radio(Integrated Regional Information Network)
0830-0930 on 17680 DHA 250 kW / 225 deg to EaAf Somali
Eternal Good News
1130-1145 on 15525 DHA 250 kW / 100 deg to SoAs English Fri
Trans World Radio Africa
1300-1315 on 13765 KIG 250 kW / 030 deg to EaAf Afar Fri-Sun
1730-1800 on 9745 DHA 250 kW / 230 deg to EaAf Oromo Fri
1800-1815 on 5965 DHA 250 kW / 225 deg to EaAf Tigrinya Mon-Wed
1800-1815 on 5965 DHA 250 kW / 225 deg to EaAf Amharic Thu/Fri
1800-1830 on 5965 DHA 250 kW / 225 deg to EaAf Tigre Sat
1800-1830 on 5965 DHA 250 kW / 225 deg to EaAf Kunama Sun
1815-1845 on 5965 DHA 250 kW / 225 deg to EaAf Tigrinya Mon-Fri
1830-1845 on 5965 DHA 250 kW / 225 deg to EaAf Amharic Sun
USA(non) Correction of WYFR Family Radio via TRW=TV Radio Waves:
1400-1500 on 9440 ARM 200 kW / 147 deg to SoAs in Assamese, not Pashto
(Jaisakthivel, India Via Ivo Ivanov)
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Date: Tue, 2 Feb 2010 11:47:25 +0530 (IST)
From: Jaisakthivel <ardicdxclub@yahoo.co.in>
To: ardic <ardicdxclub@yahoo.co.in>
Subject: [HCDX] UADX Newsletter
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The Union of Asian DXers has published its first Newsletter since July 1993 as a PDF file. Now again they start the issue in same format. It is edited by my good friend Victor Goonetilleke in Sri Lanka. You will read the recent issue on the following our club blog.
www.dxersguide.blogspot.com
(Jaisakthivel, Asst. Professor, Dept. of Communication, MS University,
Tirunelveli – 627012, India)
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Date: Tue, 2 Feb 2010 12:01:23 -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″
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“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>,
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Peru, 3329.62, Ondas Del Huallaga, 1050-1105, Noted a male in Spanish language comments here. I can hear a female joining in with the comments. From the tone and nuances of the comments, this could be religious or political comments.
At 1059 canned promos or ADs heard with mentions of “Peru”. After the promos at 1103, the male and female continue their talking.
At 1105 noted a canned ID, Signal was poor and mixing with CHU. (Chuck Bolland, February 02, 2010)
Papua New Guinea, 3385, Radio East New Britain, 1105-1130, Noted a female in steady comments until 1115. Language was unidentifiable, but sounded like Pidgin. At 1115,
PNG type music was presented. Signal was poor. (Chuck Bolland, February 2, 2010)
Indonesia, 9680, RRI Jakarta, 1124-1135, Tuned in with the Qu’ran being performed. At 1125, a canned promo by a female mentioning Jakarta. More promos follow.
Afterwards a male and female perform a Radio Drama of some kind? Signal was fair. (Chuck Bolland, February 2, 2010)
Indonesia, 9525.98, Voice of Indonesia, 1140-1200, Tuned in during music segment, but noted a female in English(?) between tunes. Everything was soft and low, making copy difficult. Couldn’t hear the comments clearly to distinguish the language one hundred percent. Signal was weak. (Chuck Bolland, February 2, 2010)
Thailand, Relay, 9605, BBC, 1148-1200, Noted a female describing in English a medical topic. This is mixing with Family Radio on the same freq in Spanish. Both stations are at fair level. (Chuck Bolland, February 2, 2010)
Philippines, 9615, Radio Veritas Asia, 1152-1157, Noted a female in Chinese language comments. At 1155, after female finished, Interval Signal followed by ID in English with schedule. Off the air at 1156. Signal was good. (Chuck Bolland, February 2, 2010)
NRD545
26.27N 081.05W
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Date: Tue, 2 Feb 2010 17:54:19 +0100
From: “Andy Sennitt” <andys@euronet.nl>
To: “Hard-Core-Dx@Hard-Core-Dx. Com” <hard-core-dx@hard-core-dx.com>
Subject: Re: [HCDX] UADX Newsletter
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I have just heard from Victor Goonetilleke that he has not given permission for other websites to host the PDF file of this E-Newsletter. Copies of the PDF file may be downloaded for private use only, not uploaded to other sites. In order to assess how successful this revival of UADX is, it’s
important that the statistics on the DXAsia site accurately reflect the number of downloads. Other websites are welcome to use and quote material from it, provided the apppropriate credit is given, but it is not allowed to host the PDF file which was specially created for the DXAsia site by
Abhishek das Gupta. A direct link to the PDF file at http://dxasia.info/features/UADX%2031JAN2010.pdf will enable users of other sites to access the PDF directly, while maintaining the integrity of the site statistics.
A copyright notice will be added to future editions of the UADX Newsletter to make this clear.
Thank you for your cooperation.
Andy Sennitt
On behalf of the DXAsia team
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[mailto:hard-core-dx-bounces@hard-core-dx.com] On Behalf Of Jaisakthivel
Sent: 02 February 2010 07:17
To: ardic
Subject: [HCDX] UADX Newsletter
The Union of Asian DXers has published its first Newsletter since July 1993 as a PDF file. Now again they start the issue in same format. It is edited by my good friend Victor Goonetilleke in Sri Lanka. You will read the recent issue on the following our club blog.
www.dxersguide.blogspot.com
(Jaisakthivel, Asst. Professor, Dept. of Communication, MS University, Tirunelveli – 627012, India)
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Message: 5
Date: Tue, 2 Feb 2010 11:23:44 -0800 (PST)
From: Glenn Hauser <wghauser@yahoo.com>
To: dxld@yahoogroups.com
Cc: swl@mailman.qth.net
Subject: [HCDX] Glenn Hauser logs February 1-2, 2010
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** BRAZIL. 11815, R. Brasil Central, Goi?nia, Feb 2 at 0623 with lively talk, 0624 TC for 4:24. Some music audible underneath, but as nothing else is scheduled, may have been receiver overload from RHC 11760, tho I could not get rid of it with attenuation (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CROATIA [non]. Tnx to a tip from Dragan Lekic, V. of Croatia heard testing new 7385 via Woofferton UK, Feb 2 at 0309, YL with weather report in English, then something about recipes. This was // only a slight echo behind usual 7375, which is Wertachtal 100 kW at 300 degrees plus Nauen 100 kW at 325 degrees. But stronger signal from the Germans.
Evidently VTC, or whatever it is called this week, is making a bid to take business away from DTK, or whatever it is called this week. Dragan says this test on 7385 is for four nights only, UT Feb 2-5 at 03-05 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CUBA. 11930, DCJC pulsing against nothing, Feb 2 at 0622, long before/after Radio Mart? is on this frequency, currently scheduled only at 13-22. The jamming bothers more R. Bandeirantes, Brasil on 11925v.
Meanwhile RHC 11760 was super-strong causing overload in its vicinity; see BRAZIL.
Now that Prague has killed its morning service to the Americas on 13580, RHC leapfrog has the frequency to itself, Feb 2 at 1453 in Spanish, mix of 13780 over 13680 which is back on the air. Well, not quite; now on 13580 it QRMs CODAR or vice versa.
RHC, 11760, 11690, etc., Feb 2 at 1557 had Arnaldo Coro talking about Cycle 24, in his sci/tech segment in Spanish (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** GUAM. 11955, Feb 2 at 1530, “KSDA, Agat, Guam; the following program is in — on 11955 kHz“, poor but clear, opening with classical fanfare, into S Asian language, then ethnic music. The answer in Aoki: Malayalam, daily 1530-1600 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** INDONESIA. 9526-, VOI with no het from CRI Kashgar, East Turkistan, Feb 2 at 1546, undermodulated dialog in Indo/Malay, drama? Usually VOI is off the air during this hour, or if on, it`s in English. And normally CRI has at least enough signal on 9525.0 to produce a het; propagation must be favoring Indonesia this date.
Unfortunately, Atsunori Ishida has not updated his site http://www.max.hi-ho.ne.jp/a-ishida/ins/
since Jan 25, but in the previous week, only on Jan 21 did he find VOI on the 9526 air at this time, when it was Indonesian straight thru from 1404 to 1600 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** KOREA NORTH [non]. Shiokaze, 5910 via JSR JAPAN, Tuesday Feb 2 at 1425 with YL speaking Chinese slowly and clearly over usual piano bed, and also whoop-whoop oscillating Juche jamming, which is usually inaudible here, but at least we know the DPRK considers Chinese a language worth jamming (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** SAUDI ARABIA. Patrolling 15 MHz band around 1500 UT Feb 2, I was braced for another blast of buzz from Riyadh 15435 transmitter, but it never happened! At 1506 I checked 15435 itself and there was BSKSA, but it`s been fixed, (or transmitter substituted), no buzz at all, and occupying normal bandwidth not exceeding 10 kHz!!! But not totally healthy as it does have a lite whine on it.
Apparently BSKSA finally got an earful at HFCC Kuala Lumpur, or somehow, that they had a slight problem for the past year. By 1548 recheck, 15435 was weakening with flutter, now in Arabic talk rather than Qu`ran recitation, still stronger than // 15225. Let us hope the buzz be gone forever, but it`s too early to count on that (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) See also UNIDENTIFIED 15360, 15380
** SOUTH CAROLINA [non]. 9385, WWRB with Brother Scare, extremely strong as usual, Feb 2 at 1545, but also with considerable CCI from station in Korean, producing rippling SAH since WWRB is off-frequency. Went from a wild non-BS preacher to BS himself at 1546 pushing some giveaway concerning “the inevitable destruxion of the USA“. Tnx for letting us know! We may as well stop trying to make anything better.
The station under would have been perfectly good without WWRB. It`s RFA, 325 degrees via Saipan at 15-17. Let`s hope the poor North Koreans do not get enough of this BS to bother them: WWRB azimuth is 340 degrees per Aoki, i.e. toward them also, but that was B-08 info. FCC and HFCC B-09 list 45 degrees. Since it`s such a blast here, I would have gone with 340, tho we are closer to 270 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** SUDAN [non]. Miraya FM relay via IRRS via SLOVAKIA is back on 19m, without notice, a new frequency, 15670, Feb 2 at 1508 when I wondered what`s this? English and Arabic dialect mixed together, axualities and voice-overs. Reminded me of Libya 17725 but not //. Nor // SRS via Portugal 17745. At 1510 headlines alternating with stingers, “end of news, [www. but lost to fade], FM news, 101 M?ra FM“ (that`s the way it`s pronounced, almost dropping the -ya, so I must stop saying Mir?ya).
Somewhat rough modulation, probably a feed input problem rather than a transmission problem. This broadcast at 15-18 had been on 9825 so far in B-09, where we could not hear it, so welcome back! Furthermore, IRRS found a clear frequency this time instead of resuming 15650 where it collided for months with Greece despite our advice. Ironically, Greece was missing from 15650 at the moment, but was back at 1528 check.
At 1553, 15670 still audible but weaker, and again mixing English with Arabic (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** SUDAN [non]. 13800, Feb 2 at 1535 in Arabic, but also a tone test producing SAH. Source of latter unknown, but the former per Aoki is R. Dabanga, 250 kW, 330 degrees via MADAGASCAR at 1530-1627. Apparently it now has an interference problem; possibly Bulgaria or Iran which may be using the channel at other times (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U K [non]. 9580, Feb 2 at 1439, good signal in Vietnamese I had not noticed before, way stronger than Iran plus and minus 5 and also than Australia 9590; mentioned BBC, and clinched at 1444 with “BBC London“ and BBC vamp music, off at 1444.5.
This is a quarter-hour broadcast via SINGAPORE at 13 degrees, tacked on to the end of the half-sesquihour Burmese service from 1345 at 340 degrees. Axually, to my surprise, this is the ONLY BBCWS Vietnamese service remaining on the radio, per WRTH 2010, daily 1430-1445, also on 1503, 6135 and 7315. Seems like a token to me, and likely destined for deletion. As we know, all Vietnamese sport hand-held devices lacking SW tuners (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A [and non]. Distributed in advance earlier UT Feb 2 to this same log mailing list, see separate post titled:
GREENVILLE TO CLOSE; VOA AND MARTI JOIN FOR NEW SERVICE; LVA UPDATE
Which is very important but I am not repeating it here; however, some updates and additions:
Yimber Gaviria found this brief announcement about the VOA/Mart? program, correctly called A FONDO, but do they mention the frequencies? Of course not!
http://www1.voanews.com/spanish/news/A-fondo-83291037.html
Dragan Lekic, Serbia, says: “New VOA & R Marti joint new service can be downloaded at [RM file, 9.1 MB]:
ftp://8475.ftp.storage.akadns.net/real/voa/latam/span/span0100a.rm
When you open the file in Real Player and click to “Clip Info”, you get this:
=============================================
SPANISH_VENEZUELA_RADIOSURGE 01:00 To 02:00
VOA-SPANISH_VENEZUELA_RADIOSURGE
Public Domain (02/02/10)
=============================================
So, it is a program intended mainly to Venezuela! Since it is “Surge”, probably will be cancelled in the future?“
Kim Elliott follows up on this:
“A Fondo”: new VOA/Radio Mart? co-production for, apparently, Venezuela. http://kimelli.nfshost.com/index.php?id=8250
And translates “A Fondo“ as “thoroughly“.
Media Network follows up:
http://blogs.rnw.nl/medianetwork/voa-radio-marti-launch-joint-news-programme#comments
BTW, the UTC originally published, 1500-1600, is totally wrong.
Kim Elliott has followed up on this, partially quoting us:
BBG budget plan includes closure of Greenville transmitting station, last IBB shortwave facility in the US.
http://kimelli.nfshost.com/index.php?id=8252
Kai Ludwig in dxldyg suggests that Greenville may not really close until the end of October, A-10 season, rather than end of Sept, FY 2010.
Media Network also follows up on this:
http://blogs.rnw.nl/medianetwork/more-on-the-ibbs-plans-for-fiscal-year-2011
Wolfgang B?schel, dxldyg, says the Erching, Germany IBB site refers to the former longwave 173 kHz facility.
Finally: WWCR and IBB are working on resolving their collision on 7465 at 01-02 (Glenn Hauser, 1905 UT Feb 2, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. KJES is back! Not reported for almost two months, but on 11715, Feb 2 at 1449 I am hearing some off-key singing, a dead giveaway, 1450 into OM intoning verses, undermodulated and mixing badly with at least two other stations, i.e. R. Liberty in Uzbek via Lampertheim, and ChiCom jamming, probably CNR1 (tho Aoki does not show it as jammed, we know they jam other Uzbek services).
This mess quit at 1459, but now there is an open carrier as Vatican is about to start relaying RVA Philippines in Tagalog/English back to the jobless Catholic Filipino Gastarbeiter stuck in the UAE et al. Can`t make much out of KJES while this is on, but at 1518 I think I can detect KJES still under there.
Finally at 1559 frequency is clear for KJES, monotone OM preacher in English with robokidsinging off-key in background. 1559.5, kid ID in English with usual “please let me know if you can hear me“ but not “and get me out of here!“, 1600 into Spanish as scheduled. Still very undermodulated and must strain to copy. Now there is increased ACI from music on 11720 which is RFA in Uighur via Saipan plus ChiCom jamming; also squeezed on lower side by weaker N Korea. Since KJES had been making a lo het with co-channel stations, I determine it is slightly off-frequency to the low side, but probably not as low as 11714.90.
Now we need to check its other scheduled transmissions to see if they are back too: 1900-2100 on 15385, 0200-0330 on 7555. For starters: yes, 15385 with kidchoir at 1905 Feb 2, doing its best against Greenville 15390 Lavwadlamerik.
All three KJES frequencies supposedly rotate the LP antenna to different azimuths at top of each hour, tho I did not notice any difference at 1500 and 1600. Long ago, I believe they had problems with it being stuck in one direxion. Even when active, their broadcasts were sporadic, and some listings show KJES as M-F only (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 9369v, Arabic at 0111 UT Tue Feb 2, fair signal, obviously from WTJC. Does their program schedule at http://www.fbnradio.com/new_page_copy%281%29.htm
yet show Arabic anywhere around 8 pm ET? Of course not! In fact there is no Arabic anywhere on their schedule, any day of the week, altho there used to be a bit somewhere. Not to be confused with IBB`s Deewa Radio in Pashtu via Lampertheim, GERMANY, also scheduled on 9370 during this hour (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 13845, PMS via WWCR, Feb 2 at 1455 with heavy swish QRM from WEWN 13835 spur, a constant unresolved problem from at least one of their transmitters; how bad it is heard depending on relative propagation. Shortly WEWN moves its spurs to 15600 and 15620, clearing 13845 after 1500 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 1660, not a sign of classical KXTR Kansas City, Feb 1. Home page http://www.kxtr.com/pages/1447847.php? which is what you get if you merely enter www.kxtr.com, does not have any announcement about antenna work, as it did for some weeks in December, January, that it would be off the air weekdays, but it must be missing this afternoon, as I am mobile around Enid with nondirexional caradio.
At 2018 UT, 1660 exhibits only a very weak SAH between two other stations, no doubt ND and TX, and furthermore, KC-area stations on 1250-Spanish, 1090-Catholic were inbooming by skywave already. 2027 the same. At final check of 1660 at 2153 UT, heard an ESPN station with an ad for Morehead, i.e. KQWB West Fargo ND.
Furthermore, at 2025 UT I was hearing a “Radio Disney“ as IDed in passing atop 1190 before fading, ending some teeny-bopper music, kid on phone in quiz. The only R. Disney on 1190, per NRC AM Log 2009-2010, is KPHN Kansas City MO, day power 5 kW, but a new one to me. That`s strange, as it`s non-direxional, and has been on the air more than 31 years, tho under different calls before March 3, 1997.
At 2019 I was gettin` a surfin` song on 1010. Uplooked later, among adjacent-state stations, format matches KCHI Chillicothe MO, yet another near KC, but there are too many other 1010s around to be sure (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 12000.8, strong and steady open carrier, Feb 2 at 0620. It makes a het with the 12000 birdie in the FRG-7, but it stands alone on the YB-400. Something new, possibly of local origin? But the band is certainly open at this hour, as far as Brazil, q.v., 11815. Is anyone else hearing it?
Next check at 1447, still there, but now the open carrier is intermittently interrupted by digital data bursts. And still at 1536, interfering with CODAR. BTW, this is a BROADCAST band where such utility signals should only be subtracted, not added (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 15360, qontinuous Qur`an, Feb 2 at 1456 aside WYFR Spanish 15355. Fortunately, no RHC on 15360, perhaps just having closed to QSY. Qur`an qeeps going thru hourtop, no break until 35-second pause within the 1504 minute, when they could have easily inserted a full ID! But that might have broken the mood. Meanwhile at 1459 some lite CCI developed on 15360. The only thing scheduled on 15360 is RFI Persian via Issoudun at 1430-1500, previously heard with QubaRM, but not today, perhaps also off at least 4 minutes early.
Or the 15360 transmitter in France has been turned over to the Algerians for a new schedule, or new tests from elsewhere? Periodically, RTA`s Qur`an service tries other sites a few weeks, perhaps for competitive bidding or comparative propagation evaluation. So far in B-09, Algeria via France relays have been using only the 5, 7 and 9 MHz bands, but TDF is known for making mid-season changes at the beginning of Feb, also for RFI broadcasts.
This performer sounds like the same one heard the day before on 15160 around this time, and there is nothing there today! Except splash from REE/Costa Rica plus/minus 15 from 15170 as noted before 1500, gone after then. A good bet that 15360 Qur`an is the same transmission trying another frequency, tho 15160 was quite a bit stronger. Where will it be Feb 3?
However, by 1548 Feb 2, 15360 is gone, and I am hearing an even weaker Qur`an on 15380 versus clicking circa 15382 and Spain 15385 splash. So is 15380 the same transmitter as 15360 in yet another shift? Nothing scheduled now, but Sa`udi HQS is shown on 15380 until 1355, so maybe that was extended. No, I don`t think it was // 15435.
However there are two separate Sa`udi programs in Arabic. WRTH 2010 says 15435 and 15225 are the general program, not the HQS, even tho most of the time they too are reciting.
Perhaps related is Jari Savolainen`s observation:
“UNIDENTIFIED. 7130 / 7160 / 7190 / 7220 — On 27 Jan at 1615 UT tune-in noted a station with endless Qur`an reciting on 7130. No ID at all at any time. Strong signal and nice, clean AM modulation. Audio went off at 1700 but the carrier stayed on until 1714. A minute or two later I noted them back with Qur`an, now on 7160. This lasted until 1755 when they switched to 7190. And at 1858 they jumped to 7220. Then I had to leave my radio. All I could hear was that Qur`an recording without ID. Sounds like someone testing, but who could this be (Jari Savolainen, Kuusankoski, Finland, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST)“
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ###
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Message: 6
Date: Tue, 2 Feb 2010 16:16:12 -0800 (PST)
From: “Hector \(Luigi\) Perez” <capecuatro@yahoo.com>
To: hard-core-dx@hard-core-dx.com
Subject: [HCDX] Radio Canada International
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RCI in spanish via 11.990 khz. Very nice signal into Puerto Rico. Reception made using a small Grundig radio P-400. Program went from 23:30 utc tu 23:59
Best 73s
Luigi KP3003SWL San Juan
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Message: 7
Date: Tue, 02 Feb 2010 19:21:46 -0500
From: Robert Wilkner <rlcw@earthlink.net>
To: +d x s f <rlcw@earthlink.net>
Subject: [HCDX] logs
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Feb 3rd On at the moment
4700 Bolivia. Radio San Miguel, Riberalta being received well at 0000-0015 Possibly two transmitter in use, one weaker on 4699.95; 4700 stronger and on at the moment. Major difference in strength noted in Florida and NSW, Australia [Wilkner]
5485.45 Peru, Radio Reina de la Selva, Chachapoyas very strong at 0000-0015,om vocal, Dave Valko original tip and log. [Wilkner]
73s de
Bob
Robert Wilkner
Pompano Beach, Florida
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Message: 8
Date: Tue, 2 Feb 2010 17:06:30 -0800 (PST)
From: Joe Strain aka Yodar <cz52_99@yahoo.com>
To: “Hector \(Luigi\) Perez” <capecuatro@yahoo.com>
Cc: hard-core-dx@hard-core-dx.com
Subject: Re: [HCDX] Radio Canada International
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NUTS ! I was working 49 M at that time, it would have been a good logging here in florida
Yodar words MEAN things
— On Tue, 2/2/10, Hector (Luigi) Perez <capecuatro@yahoo.com> wrote:
From: Hector (Luigi) Perez <capecuatro@yahoo.com>
Subject: [HCDX] Radio Canada International
To: hard-core-dx@hard-core-dx.com
Date: Tuesday, February 2, 2010, 7:16 PM
RCI in spanish via 11.990 khz. Very nice signal into Puerto Rico. Reception made using a small Grundig radio P-400. Program went from 23:30 utc tu 23:59
Best 73s
Luigi KP3003SWL San Juan
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Today’s Topics:
1. Logs (Manuel M?ndez)
2. logs for ca one week (Zacharias Liangas )
3. Thomson rotatable shortwave antenna system (Alokesh Gupta)
4. Re: Darwin still on for last day (Glenn Hauser)
5. Glenn Hauser logs January 30-31, 2010 (Glenn Hauser)
6. Re: Darwin still on for last day (Glenn Hauser)
7. Jan 30-31 Logs (Brian384875@aol.com)
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Message: 1 (No in English)
Message: 2
Date: Sun, 31 Jan 2010 17:43:48 +0200
From: “Zacharias Liangas ” <greekdx@otenet.gr>
To: <>
Subject: [HCDX] logs for ca one week
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LOgs 23+ 24 + 29
typed and sent today due to house works
http://zlgr.multiply.com/journal/item/262
ON 23th
9510 PBS Xinjang 1022 musical & YL talking over 1030 with IS S0 9685 VoA? 1342 withtalks in tai S 3 1357*
9750 MSIA VIslam 1400 OM with talksin ML with ID jingle then chants andon 1407 with psalms S4 co ch QRM NHK
ON 24th
Special report for Amica and Atlantis (I received andlaso repy from them sending mesage same time… )
7610 Amica 1200 + with pop songs , ID in intalian R Amica Onde corte S3 25433
ON 1537 with prg Atlantis and ID then OM in French then song s’ total eclips of the heart ‘ and song she is a lady .my daughter hearing these songs danced with them!!
Back on 1620 R amica with paris Latino , then ID wih email , song shes a lady
6140 Gloria with rock song ID Mc hein , S10 at 1004 some C tone at +1 kHZ greek pirate Dinamitis heard on 4857 or 3x 1619 with best reception fron the basic frq
15610 wewn ? 1843 prg in Eng on children abuse @1844 S4-5 ,24333 6040 R poland in Ukrainina 2000 music before IS rhen news S10 15340 RAE is back (thx to WB and Glen )2044 ID with National la radio
publica
ON 29th
9370 ??? 2042 with a religious kind of music 2045 with soms slf adverts S5 with the 16 h antna
WJTC per Eibi
9580 R africa N1 2048 with afropops talks by 2 om s follwed by talks and phone ins S8 @16H antenna
9645 Aparecida? 2055 with talks in P by 2xOM S0-2
9695 Rio MAr? 2059 with some on off signal S8
9680 VOR? in FF with news on 2105 S6 max
3905 pirate 2209 with germanic songs S8 over S3 local qrn
3925 NIkkei R //6055 with music @2202 talks in 2215 in JJ lower modualtion
6010 BLR mixed with CNR . At 2217 heard song Vemnus apprently from BLR S9 signal
On 30th
for WEWN
11520 WEWN 0732 with their regular prg in Eng S5
11870 WEWNsspanish with submarginal signal
7555 WEWN under a FDM signal same times
7730 !! 0740 in a lang seems unrainina , a prg seems as religious ,back on
0755 but nothing . poiisbly off at 0745 WYFR per Eibi
……..
Zacharias Liangas , Thessaloniki Greece
greekdx @ otenet dot gr —
Pesawat penerima: ICOM R75 , Lowe HF150 , Degen 1102,1103,108,
Tecsun PL200/550, Chibo c300/c979, Yupi 7000
Antenna: 16m hor, 2×16 m V invert, 1m australian loop
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Message: 3
Date: Sun, 31 Jan 2010 21:30:54 +0530
From: “Alokesh Gupta” <alokeshgupta@gmail.com>
To: “Alokesh-Hotmail” <alokeshgupta@hotmail.com>
Subject: [HCDX] Thomson rotatable shortwave antenna system
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Video of Thomson rotatable shortwave antenna system at IBB Kuwait, Phase 2.
http://www.shortwaveradioreceivers.com/shortwaveradioantennas/rotatable-shortwave-transmitting-antenna/
Alokesh Gupta, VU3BSE
New Delhi, India
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Message: 4
Date: Sun, 31 Jan 2010 08:29:14 -0800 (PST)
From: Glenn Hauser <wghauser@yahoo.com>
To: dxld@yahoogroups.com
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<ardxc@ardxc.info>, ABDX <ABDX@yahoogroups.com>,
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Subject: Re: [HCDX] Darwin still on for last day
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CVC Darwin rechecked shortly after 2300 UT Jan 30: 15170 audible weakly, succeeding 9585, used only for the first hour of CVC Chinese; 15250 for CVC Indonesian (and 15255) totally blocked by Venezuela via Cuba, of course. 12010 R. Australia no longer // talk on 12040, 15560, but music presumably in Burmese service.
UT Jan 31, surely the final day now, started checking at 1415:
13635 good with gospel rock or whatever they call such a format with indecipherable lyrix, just as well. At 1415 mentioned “cvcradio.in“. 1418 YL DJ with Oz accent mentions this will be the final time on shortwave, so switch to mobile streaming (yeah, right).
Then greeted countless Kumars by the full name of each, of the Cosmos Club in India. As usual fast-paced format suitable for those with deficient attention spans; you never know when they are going to drop in an ID as the music plays.
BTW, Andrew Flynn of CVC HQ in England told me a few days ago that the SW transmissions via Uzbekistan for India would continue.
1428 she gives full website without the http which I always insert to assist hotlinking: http://www.cvcradio.in for song requests, or text 99-45-97-77-77. Will they play anything that is unChristian, or godforbid, off-format?
At 1430 it`s local midnight in Cox Peninsula and Feb 1 starts, but that`s only incidental as it is already midnight in Queensland, and four hours away in India, so the broadcast goes on. By 1440 the signal is weakening considerably; by 1504 recheck still audible; 1542 just a carrier detectable, tho on Sunday there is no Tirana ACI from 13640.
Meanwhile I was switching back and forth to CVC`s Chinese service on 13685, but paying less attention to it. At 1416 music presumably with a gospel element in Chinese; 1417 Chinese YL announcement. Fortunately, Habana has been missing from 13680 lately, but still some ACI from Farda, and just as much from very strong WYFR 13695, ever-increasing problems as 13685 weakened by 1504.
I assume that English on 13635 will play on until final final QRT at the usual time of 1830, and Chinese 13685 until 1800.
Also looked for the Kaze clands for North Korea, 9880 at 1430, 9690 at 1500, but nothing heard UT Jan 31, so already gone. I assume these will have switched to some other site(s). Monitoring Palau extensively, Hiroshi via Hasegawa reported as of Jan 29, only a different (?) one: 1530-1600 9965 JCIC Korean “Ilbone Baram”.
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** 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: 5
Date: Sun, 31 Jan 2010 09:48:38 -0800 (PST)
From: Glenn Hauser <wghauser@yahoo.com>
To: dxld@yahoogroups.com
Cc: swl@mailman.qth.net
Subject: [HCDX] Glenn Hauser logs January 30-31, 2010
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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 (Glenn Hauser, OK, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST)
CVC Darwin rechecked shortly after 2300 UT Jan 30: 15170 audible weakly, succeeding 9585, used only for the first hour of CVC Chinese; 15250 for CVC Indonesian (and 15255) totally blocked by Venezuela via Cuba, of course. 12010 R. Australia no longer // talk on 12040, 15560, but music presumably in Burmese service.
UT Jan 31, surely the final day now, started checking at 1415:
13635 good with gospel rock or whatever they call such a format with indecipherable lyrix, just as well. At 1415 mentioned “cvcradio.in“. 1418 YL DJ with Oz accent mentions this will be the final time on shortwave, so switch to mobile streaming (yeah, right).
Then greeted countless Kumars by the full name of each, of the Cosmos Club in India. As usual fast-paced format suitable for those with deficient attention spans; you never know when they are going to drop in an ID as the music plays.
Andrew Flynn of CVC HQ in England told me a few days ago that the SW transmissions via UZBEKISTAN for India would continue. He may have been referring only to the Hindi service, not the English service.
Hindi: 0000-0400 6260, 0100-0400 9425, 0400-1100 13630, 1100-1400 9500.
English: 0030-0230 7395, 0230-0630 11970, 0630-0930 15700.
1428 on 13635 she gives full website without the http which I always insert to assist hotlinking: http://www.cvcradio.in for song requests, or text 99-45-97-77-77. Will they play anything that is unChristian, or godforbid, off-format? I would have wanted to hear Stockhausen.
At 1430 it`s local midnight in Cox Peninsula and Feb 1 starts, but that`s only incidental as it is already midnight in Queensland, and four hours away in India, so the broadcast goes on. By 1440 the signal is weakening considerably; by 1504 recheck still audible; 1542 just a carrier detectable, tho on Sunday there is no Tirana ACI from 13640.
Meanwhile I was switching back and forth to CVC`s Chinese service on 13685, but paying less attention to it. At 1416 music presumably with a gospel element in Chinese; 1417 Chinese YL announcement. Fortunately, Habana has been missing from 13680 lately, but still some ACI from Farda Wertachtal, and just as much from very strong WYFR 13695, ever-increasing problems as 13685 weakened by 1504.
I assume that English on 13635 will play on until final final QRT at the usual time of 1830, and Chinese 13685 until 1800.
Also looked for the Kaze clands for North Korea, 9880 at 1430, 9690 at 1500, but nothing heard UT Jan 31, so already gone. I assume these will have switched to some other site(s). Monitoring Palau extensively, Hiroshi via Hasegawa reported as of Jan 29, only a different (?) one: 1530-1600 9965 JCIC Korean “Ilbone Baram”. S. Hasegawa says he has not been able to confirm 9690 or 9880 for more than a week
As for what becomes of the Darwin facility, this is totally unclear, other than that CVC will now start “dismantling“ it and get out by the time its lease expires in June (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** AUSTRALIA. Correlating with audibility of Cox Peninsula for the last time on 13 MHz, Morocco 15341 also had a strong het from HCJB Kununurra, Jan 31 at 1445 on 15340, but the Arabic audio was dominant as HCJB was scheduled just to have started English (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CUBA. RHC has been missing lately from 13680 in the mornings. That`s one of the hi-power signals normally // 13780 until 1500 and producing leapfrogs on 13880 and weaker 13580, so those are also absent, e.g. Jan 31 at 1416 as I am monitoring CVC Darwin Chinese final broadcast on 13685. Lacking RHC helps that a lot, but soon moot. All is not lost: RHC 13770 is still leapfrogging over CRI relay 13740 to land on 13710 QRMing India. 13680 was back later on with the weak daytime transmitter for Al?, Presidente; see VENEZUELA [non].
Routine check for weekly Esperanto service at 1500 Sunday on 11760: Jan 31 at 1503 only open carrier, off and on for several minutes, but at next check 1513 the Esperanto program was underway (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** ITALY. After hearing Northern Ireland on 21290 [see UKOGBANI], I tuned a bit more on 15m. Mostly nothing, but just down on 21285, matching DW 15285, was another USB calling CQ from northern Italy, Dom, IW2CLM, Jan 31 at 1453 and soon in contact with someone in “north central Oklahoma“ who was weaker here but audible, evidently by groundwave, so not far from Enid. Could not catch his call but his name was Dan. QRZ.com shows:
IW2CLM
Domenico Bova
Via G.B. Rota 22
Bergamo, 24124
Italy
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** KOREA NORTH [and non]. 3973, noise jamming of the NK style centered here, Jan 31 at 1335, almost BFO-ing the Breakfast Club net with a number of US hams in the Midwest checking in, some also mentioning the unusual noise but not knowing its provenance. Sort of like an airplane engine revving as the pitch continually varies up and down.
Breakfast Club is in the final Nets to You of April 2007, as daily 1000 UT (0900 summer) on 3973. Apparently it goes on for hours and hours.
Nothing is known on 3973 needing jamming, but Aoki shows a 5 kW Wonsan transmitter of KCBS/Pyongyang BS on 3970, so perhaps that is out of whack, or repurposed for jamming as needed.
Usual NK jamming on 3985 mixing with Echo of Hope, Korean talk audible; and similar noise on 3912 against Voice of the People. Louder jamming on 3480 against KNDF, but not much signal from the 90m N Korean non-jammers, as checked until 1340 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** SAUDI ARABIA. 15435 The Buzz, checked Jan 31 at 1539. Did not sound as loud as usual around 15435, but nevertheless full brunt could be heard down to 15300 or so, and 4-per-minute pulses down to 15140, so yes, again also QRMing BSKSA`s other Qur`an channel 15225 plus countless other stations. On the hi side, however, full brunt lasted only until 15470, and could not hear 4-per-minute pulses up from there, other stations seeming in clear, altho by now some TVs are on adding their own swish QRM possibly disaudiblizing the weaker pulses. But who says this monstrosity has to be symmetrical? Every little bit helps (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U K O G B A N I. Nice to hear some USB on 15m hamband, Jan 31 at 1449 on 21290, English with an Irish accent soon IDed as MI0JAT, mentioning that “people don`t realize the band is open“; how true. He was in contact with a K4 or a W4. Hmm, are there any MI5-prefixed hams? QRZ.com says:
MI0JAT
Joey Mc Goldrick
23 Lettercarn Rd, Co Tyrone
Castlederg, N Ireland, BT8 17QY,
Northern Ireland
Hadn`t noticed any significant signals on 13m SWBC band, so searched again, and barely audible Spain on 21570, 21610; better Libya on 21695, all those with incomparably greater power than any ham, yet inferior results (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) See also ITALY
** VENEZUELA [non]. Quick check for “Al?, Presidente“, Sunday via CUBA at 1656 UT Jan 31 found it running but the speaker at the moment unsounded like El Hugazo, perhaps a press-conference plant, on all five usual frequencies in order of increasing signal strength: 13680, 11690, 17750, 12010, 13750 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 13630, open carrier, noticed when checking doomed Darwin on 13635, Jan 31 at 1439; nothing remotely near this time scheduled in HFCC, Aoki or EiBi; not strong enough to detract from Darwin. Someone else might want this or 13635 from Feb 1 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ###
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Message: 6
Date: Sun, 31 Jan 2010 14:14:44 -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>,
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Subject: Re: [HCDX] Darwin still on for last day
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** AUSTRALIA. Since we knew that the CVC transmission around 1430 UT Jan 31 on 13635 was “the last one on shortwave“ as announced, I made another routine check of Darwin frequencies at 2200 UT Jan 31, not expecting to hear anything, but the three of them are still on!
Tune in 12010 at 2159 to find open carrier, and 2200 sharp, start modulating R. Australia news, as 24 hours earlier; slightly delayed compared to Shep 15560 and a longer delay on 12040 via Palau.
On 9630, Indonesian had also started, R. Australia, and music on 9585, presumably CVC Chinese as previously scheduled.
So where does that leave us? No clean break, depending on the station or language service, not all stopped at the end of January. It is now indisputably February everywhere east of Central Europe and West Africa (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
BTW, Argentina with live sports at 2201 on 15345v, not 11710v as we were led to believe on a Sunday.
VOA Creole at 2200 on 13725, but // 11905 did not cut on until 2102:45, par for the course at Greenville (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
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Message: 7
Date: Sun, 31 Jan 2010 18:26:45 EST
From: Brian384875@aol.com
To: hard-core-dx@hard-core-dx.com
Subject: [HCDX] Jan 30-31 Logs
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** DJIBOUTI. 4780, Radio Djibouti, *0300-0330, Jan 31, sign on with National Anthem. Arabic talk at 0301. Qur`an at 0302. Talk at 0313. Rustic local music at 0325. Poor to fair with CODAR QRM and noisy conditions. (Brian Alexander, PA)
** ETHIOPIA. 7110.07, Radio Ethiopia, 2035-2101*, Jan 31, variety of local pop music and Western/Euro-pop music. Amharic talk. Sign off with National Anthem. // 9704.19 – both frequencies fair to good. (Brian Alexander, PA)
** ETHIOPIA [non]. via Nauen, Germany, 11830, Ethiopia Adera Dimtse Radio, *1700-1759*, Jan 30, presumed with talk in listed Amharic. Some local Horn of Africa music. Poor to fair but some QRM from weak noise jammer. Sat only. (Brian Alexander, PA)
** EURO-PIRATE. 7610.05, Radio Amica, 0040-0055, Jan 31, pop music by Madonna and others. Italian ID announcements. Poor. Weak. (Brian Alexander, PA)
** MADAGASCAR [non]. via Pridnestrovye, 15670, Radio Mada Int, *1530-1600*, Jan 31, test tone started at 1523. Sign on with opening announcements at 1530 and talk in presumed Malagasy. Local music at 1555 to 1600 sign off. Poor in noisy conditions. Sat, Sun only. Thanks to Ron Howard tip. (Brian Alexander, PA)
Brian Alexander, Mechanicsburg, PA, USA
Equipment: Icom IC-7600, two 100 foot longwires
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Today’s Topics:
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1. Glenn Hauser logs January 31-February 1, 2010 (Glenn Hauser)
2. The Union of Asian DXers is back !! (Andy Sennitt)
3. Greenville to close; VOA and Marti join for new service; LVA
update (Glenn Hauser)
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Message: 1
Date: Mon, 1 Feb 2010 09:48:38 -0800 (PST)
From: Glenn Hauser <wghauser@yahoo.com>
To: dxld@yahoogroups.com
Cc: swl@mailman.qth.net
Subject: [HCDX] Glenn Hauser logs January 31-February 1, 2010
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** ARGENTINA. While checking out Darwin, Jan 31 at 2201, also punched up 15345v, and there was R. Nacional with live sports, not 11710v as we were led to believe is used on Sunday evenings instead (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** AUSTRALIA. Since we knew that the CVC English transmission around 1430 UT Jan 31 on 13635 was “the last one on shortwave“ as announced, I made another routine check of Darwin frequencies at 2200 UT Jan 31, not expecting to hear anything, but the three of them were still on!
Tune in 12010 at 2159 to find open carrier, and 2200 sharp, start modulating R. Australia news, as 24 hours earlier; slightly delayed compared to Shep 15560 and a longer delay on 12040 via Palau.
On 9630, Indonesian had also started, R. Australia, and music on 9585, presumably CVC Chinese as previously scheduled.
So where does that leave us? No clean break, depending on the station or language service, not all stopped at the end of January. It is now indisputably February everywhere east of Central Europe and West Africa.
Then I heard from Craig Seager in Australia, that the scheduled Darwin frequencies ceased to be heard after 2400 UT, so the final final close-down apparently was timed according to the end of January according to UT.
At 1515 UT Feb 1, no signals detectable on 13635 or 13685. But annoying clicking in the 13685-13690 range (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** AUSTRALIA. Something amiss with R. Australia transmissions, as English on 9475 at 1450 was much stronger than // 9590, discussing radiation hazards in space. Why? Because 9590 is registered as 30 degrees, and 9475 as 329 degrees, both from Shepparton, so 9590 is much closer to USward and normally is stronger. 9590 on low power, or one of them on wrong antenna? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CYPRUS. OTH radar rapid pulses, presumed from here, Feb 1 at 1518 ranging 15700-15755 as I was checking the extent of the Sa`udi buzz; more pulses below 15495 merging with the buzz and not to be confused with its edges (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CZECHIA [and non]. 13580, R. Prague gone around 1515 Feb 1; used to be Spanish to America, but one of many frequencies canceled so they can use only one transmitter at a time; also applies to English at 1400, but both still on 11600, along with French intervening. That is often audible here before the Cuban jamming starts at 1600.
English at 1400 on 11600 is for S Asia now, but 13580 had been a good reliable morning English broadcast for us; we`ll miss it. North America still gets English on five transmissions between 2100 and 0427, but we would gladly swap two of them for retaining one in the mornings.
Furthermore, R. Prague relays via WRMI are being reduced, apparently no longer English at 1500 on 9955, once the NW antenna and the 50 kW transmitter are back in service, which Jeff White expects to be soon. He says Prague in English is to be scheduled daily, only at 0300 and 1000 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** INDIA [and non]. 9690, AIR GOS with perpetual big hum, Monday Feb 1 at 1430 tune-in, time for mailbag Faithfully Yours, which was pre-empted last week by Republic Day speech earlier in the hour. Hosted by main announcer Sanjit — and a co-host whose name I could not catch. First up was mail from someone in China who reported on several AIR English frequencies (not mentioning that AIR`s Mandarin frequencies are jammed). Someone referred to it instead as “Sincerely Yours“.
Next a letter from Hannover, Germany, in November! Emphasized that no return postage is wanted, IRCs or money, as the Indian Government pays the postage, and any such enclosures risk the letter being stolen. Also pointed out that 11620 to Europe has been replaced by 6180 at the end of October, and another new frequency is 7550; please try them.
This is sounding VERY familiar. I am afraid AIR GOS is playing back an old FY I already heard several weeks ago. Yet another old letter from 16 November, Hiroyuki Okada, 38, electrical engineer in Japan who reported on 9690. They get lots of mail from Japan, and another one dated 20 November. 1445 on to film music programme.
Not only did I waste my time hearing a rerun, but I completely forgot to check again this Monday whether REE`s Sephardic service was back on the 15385 air at 1425-1455, as it was missing last week! I could ask if anyone else noticed, but I am afraid there would be no responses (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** INDONESIA. 3995, RRI Kendari, Sulawesi, nice signal at 1353 Feb 1 song with piano, occasional weak hets presumably from NAm hams. 1359 Indonesian announcement, and singing ID (?) jingle. Makassar 4750 also in well, but not much else (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** JAPAN. 3925, Feb 1 at 0648 “Claire de Lune“ on piano, pretty clear with hams avoiding the frequency, thanks very much. JOZ, Radio Nikkei. I am a bit startled to be hearing it this early, 1548 JST. Again audible at 1352 UT shortly before closing, S9+20 with guitar or ukulele strumming but SSB hams nearby (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** KOREA NORTH [and non]. V. of the People, from S to N Korea, big signal with music as I tuned across 6600 Feb 1 at 1407, S9+15 atop jamming, // 6512 almost as good. Usually the jamming is atop here.
6348, Echo of Hope, from S to N Korea, also atop jamming, with music at 1407, but 6003 had nothing but noise jamming audible.
Same jamming on 6015 against the month-old KBS Hanminjok Bangsong 1, 100 kW ND from Hwaseong, S Korea, as per Aoki, itself inaudible. XEOI managed to squeeze in between; see MEXICO (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MALAYSIA. 5030, RTM Sarawak, 1403 Feb 1 announcement and song, fair against splash from Cuba 5025 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MEXICO. 6010, XEOI during talk block, Feb 1 at 1409 with roundup of political news from BCN to QR, poor strength but clear in between the Juche jammers on 6003 and 6015 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MONGOLIA [and non]. 9665 with audible het Feb 1 at 1531, and a bit of music, as VOM`s English broadcast is scheduled. Trouble is, P`yongyang was already on this frequency long before, or rather never quite on it, with imprecise transmitter. What genius at VOM picked this channel? I suspect the music I could hear was from NK (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** NORTH AMERICA. A friend passes on a twitter tip that The Crystal Ship is about to start another Sunday evening broadcast on 5385 AM, so I try it at 2337 Jan 31. Yes, there it is with ID mentioning “freedom of the airwaves“, e-mail tcsshortwave @ gmail.com Axually closer to 5385.4, signal around S9+12 but with quite a bit of deep fading. I need to turn off local noise sources to increase its S/N ratio.
2338 on to ID in Spanish with echo. 2343 “last briefing before atomic detonation; three things: blast, heat, radiation“. 2349, song “Don`t Fear the Reefer“. (Did not hear any of the music identified on air.) 2354 unreadable child`s voice, then Tarzan yell, ID mentioning “in glorious AM“, e-mail address again. 2355 song “Big Muddy“, sounds like an early Pete Seeger. 2358 song “The Man Who Shot Liberty Valence“, by Gene Pittney.
Now into UT Feb 1: after 0000 I am paying less attention as 60 Minutes is starting on CBS-TV. Seems to be more music now, fewer announcements but there is one at 0008; 0031 “Official Voice of the Blue States Republic“, music with steel drums(?). 0039 “El Paso“ by Marty Robins; 0058 still music audible, but not heard after 0100, off?
Enjoyed the familiar but seldom-heard tunes, creativity of the comedy and IDs; pse QSL (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** PAPUA NEW GUINEA. 90m check at 1355 Feb 1 found signals with at least some audio, non-// music on 3365, 3345, 3325, 3315, all PNG frequencies; altho due to a great breakdown in regional frequency management, 3325 and 3345 are also active Indonesian frequencies. Nothing on 3385 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** SAUDI ARABIA. 15435 buzz check Feb 1: at 1455 I started listening to Farda music on 15410, but blasted by the buzz from *1456. At 1518 I monitor its range today: not nearly as bad as last few days, but I suspect this is no sign of deliberate tightening up; rather due to random and/or propagational variation. Brunt covers only 15400-15475 and BBC can still be heard on 15400. 4x/minute clicking not audible beyond either side; 15435 itself metered just(?) S9+12. Covering *only* 75 kHz is of course totally unacceptable too, an improvement only by comparison to its usual range (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. Lavwadlamerik, VOA Creole at 2200 Jan 31 on 13725, but // 11905 did not cut on until 2102:45, par for the course at Greenville (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) See also UNIDENTIFIED 15390
** U S A. 17760, WYFR at 1525 Feb 1 with a bit of “Onward, Christian Soldiers“, not the WHR version which has a monopoly on that as theme, but any missionary station is free to threaten Moslems in this way, marching as to war. And into Bible reading in English.
This frequency had very heavy flutter on it, like trans-polar or sometimes trans-equatorial, but the path from Okeechobee is neither, and I have noticed this before. Less than two megameters away, we must be on the edge of the skip zone at this time, not getting full signal altho not too far off the 285 degree WNW beam toward northern Mexico. Perhaps backscatter mix is involved; another possibility is meteor scatter, causing a Doppler effect so the WYFR signal interferes with itself (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 15160, beautiful performance of the Qur`an, by OM tenor cantor [what else? Inferior YLs aren`t allowed], Feb 1 at 1505, much stronger and clearer than BSKSA`s version on 15225; still going at 1535. I was thinking I had logged this recently, but not so, and unlisted, so it`s something new. One thing for sure: it`s not AWR via Austria as in PWBR 2009! Nothing shows in current Aoki, EiBi or HFCC. Must be one of the major stations (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 15390, open carrier briefly at *1525 Feb 1, presumably VOA Greenville testing its Krey?l frequency, as often noted before around this time. Would it be too much to ask to add some IDs or Yankee Doodles? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ###
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Date: Mon, 1 Feb 2010 20:17:37 +0100
From: “Andy Sennitt” <andys@euronet.nl>
To: “Hard-Core-Dx@Hard-Core-Dx. Com” <hard-core-dx@hard-core-dx.com>
Subject: [HCDX] The Union of Asian DXers is back !!
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After a break of about 17 years, the Union of Asian DXers has risen like a phoenix from the ashes. The UADX has published its first Newsletter since July 1993 as a PDF file on the DXAsia website, edited now, as then, by my good friend Victor Goonetilleke in Sri Lanka. Familiar UADX names such as Gerhard Werdin, Sarath Amukotuwa & Sarath Weerakoon will also be helping
Victor, who says that the first edition of the E-Newsletter is meant as an introduction and sample. The next edition is scheduled before the end of February. I hope SWLs and DXers amongst our readership will support this venture.
Victor has also written an article about Eclipse Monitoring on 15 January 2010. A UADX blog will also be starting soon. Thanks to Alok das Gupta and his son Abhishek for technical help in getting this material online.
http://wwww.dxasia.info
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Message: 3
Date: Mon, 1 Feb 2010 19:33:02 -0800 (PST)
From: Glenn Hauser <wghauser@yahoo.com>
To: dxld@yahoogroups.com
Cc: swl@mailman.qth.net
Subject: [HCDX] Greenville to close; VOA and Marti join for new
service; LVA update
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** U S A. VOA and Radio Mart? have started a “co-production“, one-hour Spanish broadcast at 0100-0200 UT weeknights.
The two former rivals are now co?perating! There were reports recently that VOA would start to have access to RM`s produxion facilities in Miami. This could also be the beginning of the end for Radio Mart?, starting by merging it back into VOA, as there is considerable congressional pressure just to kill RM.
Without any advance publicity that I know of, I first found this in progress at 0114 UT February 2 on 11625: a station in Spanish talking about Ch?vez, in the hour after VOA Spanish normally closes on different frequencies, 5890 and 9885. At 0100, I was tuned to 9885; it was still on and announcement seemed to be starting another hour, but cut off before 0101. This made me wonder if programming was continuing on some other frequency, so started bandscanning from 5745 upwards.
At 0118 an ID on 11625 gave the full frequency list for this, 11625, 9415 and 7340. I quickly found the lower two were much stronger here and continued to listen on 7340. They were all in synch, and no doubt Greenville B, which is doomed to extinction at the end of FY 2010, 30 September as just came out today. Gee, what will BBG/IBB/VOA do if they need to start another “surge“ broadcast after then?
There was too much jamming on regular R. Mart? frequencies to tell if they were //, i.e. 6030, 7365, 9825, but suspect not since only the new frequencies were announced — and with no jamming at all on the new ones — yet! Usual DCJC noise jamming was audible also on 9810 at 0111 against Rep?blica, and at 0113 on 9715 — another stray, against nothing?
Since this is a brand-new, previously unknown service, I monitored it attentively during the remainder of the hour. At 0118 they were quoting El Nuevo Herald, Miami and some European papers about Cuban/Venezuelan relations.
0123 ID as “A Punto (?) en La Voz de Am?rica y Radio Mart?; 0126 with schedule as 8-9 pm [EST] M-F, i.e. 01-02 UT Tue-Sat, again with the three frequencies, “una co-producci?n de La Voz de Am?rica y Radio Mart?“. And “El Mundo del Espect?culo“ segment about the Grammy Awards last night. 0130 co-hosts in Washington and Miami briefly discussed their respective weathers, rather divergent.
Rest of hour called in correspondents from several Latin American countries for a few minutes each, starting with Bolivia, concern with contentious Morales.
0137 news from Venezuela about protests in various cities against the banning of RCTV even from cable. 0139 about the political campaign in Costa Rica. 0141 about the IMF from Buenos Aires. 0143 corresponsal Federico in Bogot?, Colombia. 0148 interviewing a UCR professor about the situation in Honduras. 0153 Nicaragua, on the sale of Canal 8 TV to Ortega/Ch?vez, leaving only one independent TV station, Canal 2.
The program seems to concentrate on what`s going on in hostile Latin American countries, and will likely be labeled “propaganda“ by them, but it seemed to me the analysis was balanced. A bigger question arises: will Radio Mart? gain credibility or will VOA lose credibility with this joint venture??
Name of the program was mentioned every few minutes. To me, sometimes it sounded like “A Fondo“, meaning in depth or background; sometimes “Apunte“ which means abstract or notes.
Looking around the VOA Spanish and Martinoticias websites, I see nothing yet about this service. I suppose they wanted to slip in under the radar, or the usual bureaucratic delays. Nor is there any press release about it yet at the VOA site, the latest one being from Jan 27 about Creole.
I recorded some excerpts, and was all set to get the sign-off before 0200, but 7340 just cut off at 0159:30 while show was still in progress. Then tuned to 9415 and heard it for a few seconds longer, I think a sign-off. Then tuned to 11625 and heard only a very weak signal, but that proved to be in English after 0200, sounded like VOA. Nothing scheduled then either, and may have been something else, and not necessarily Greenville.
I was also bandscanning on another receiver during this hour, to check out among other things, Lavwadlamerik`s Krey?l service, which had also been at 01-02 ? and discovered two very interesting things. Besides 5960, it was also // on new 5835 first noted at 0105. Another frequency VOA refuses to publish on its A-Z language schedule. Are there too many frequencies now during this hour for all of them to come from Greenville? We remember that 5835 was once a World Harvest Radio frequency, but that`s no proof it`s the site now.
The other //, 7465, is now clashing with WWCR, which has just extended its broadcast on that frequency until 0200, ex-3240! At the beginning of the hour, WWCR was atop, but before long by 0110 it was losing out to LVA, and by the end of the hour I could not be certain WWCR was still there underneath, but probably as it was still missing from 3240.
LVA`s additional Creole hour at 01-02 had been on 7465 since shortly after the quake, as we have been reporting, but apparently WWCR did not notice. Since it fades out anyway, WWCR should not have extended 7465 another three hours past previous close at 2300, tho one or possibly two hours would have worked. This collision has to be resolved ASAP. Altho we lose WWCR here, the situation may be quite different in Haiti and elsewhere.
At 0200 LVA had left 5835 as well as 5960 which it must due to NHK/Sackville, but continued on 7465; still no 7590 had come on by 0205, so apparently that has been dropped during the final hour, at least.
During this hour I also checked MW 1180, but as usual could not pull anything out of Marathon. And MW 1030 where Commando Solo is making it into Florida from Haiti. Dominating the frequency at 0124 was some not // talk in Spanish, looping roughly east/west, so most likely WGSF Memphis, per NRC AM Log listings (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
If the above report is repeated in our next log report along with other items, it will have been updated/added to, so use the later version. I did not want to delay getting this hot news out.
What`s that about Greenville closing?? I filed this report earlier, late Feb 1, to the DXLD yg:
** U S A. I hear from a confidential source that the Greenville transmitting station of VOA will be closing on September 30, 2010. What this will mean for the broadcasts it still transmits, Radio Mart?, VOA English, Special English, recently expanded Creole, Hausa, Portuguese, Spanish, RNW relay is as yet unknown (Glenn Hauser, February 1, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
Thanks to kimandrewelliott.com we have a link to:
Broadcasting Board of Governors FY 2011 Budget Request
http://www.bbg.gov/reports/documents/BBGFY2011CONGBudgetSubmission-ForInternetPost.pdf
We have found pertinent excerpts from the 119 page document concerning Greenville, EMPHASIS ADDED WITH CAPS; et al.:
PROGRAM CHANGES:
* The BBG proposes the following reductions in the support area: reduction of contracting costs by 4 percent throughout the Agency through efficiencies; sale of a former transmitting site in Erching, Germany [which one is that by a name we recognize?];
CLOSING THE GREENVILLE TRANSMITTING STATION;
restructuring operations at overseas transmitting stations; reduction of IBB Engineering support positions and IBB general operating expenses; and reduction of BCI maintenance and repair budget.
(page 24)
FY 2011 Program Decreases
Transmission
The BBG proposes restructuring operations at some of its overseas transmitting stations. The BBG will retain ownership of these facilities; however, it would turn over operations of these sites to a third party on a fee-for-service basis ($1.5 million).
THE BBG ALSO PROPOSES TO CLOSE ITS GREENVILLE TRANSMITTING STATION ($3.2 MILLION).
In addition, the proposed FY 2011 reductions to and eliminations of language services will reduce transmission costs by ($.91 million).
Operating Expenses and Contractual Services
The FY 2011 request for Engineering and Technical Services includes a reduction in positions and operating expenses ($2.3 million) as well as a reduction in contractual services through improved practices ($.8 million).
(page 75)
Engineering and Technical Services
Summary of Increases and Decreases
FY 2010- FY 2011
($ in thousands):
FY 2011 Net Program Changes + (3,135)
Program Decreases – (8,710)
Reflects the following reductions to base operations:
A) TRANSMISSION NETWORK REDUCTION (GREENVILLE STATION) ( 3,149)
b) Reduce support positions and operating expenses ( 2,330)
c) Consolidate services at BBG transmitting stations with other
Western international broadcasters ( 1,500)
d) Eliminate VOA Croatian, VOA Greek; reduce VOA Persian News Network;
end MBN Alhurra Europe (910)
e) Reduce Agency contract costs by 4% through improved efficiencies
(821)
(page 77)
Engineering and Technical Services
Summary of Funds FY 2009 – FY 2011 ($ in thousands) 2009 2010 2011 Increase or Actual Estimate Request Decrease (-)
Domestic Transmitting Stations
Greenville 4,496 4,874 1,812 (3,062)
Tinian 7,974 8,875 9,008 133
Total, Domestic Stations 12,470 13,749 10,820 (2,929)
Overseas Transmitting Stations
Afghanistan 1,809 3,885 3,031 (854)
Botswana 1,660 1,945 2,066 121
Germany 9,144 11,237 11,417 180
Kuwait 4,485 4,940 5,121 181
Philippines 5,721 5,747 6,026 279
Sao Tome 3,189 3,392 3,706 314
Sri Lanka 2,991 3,043 2,419 (624)
Thailand 3,931 3,882 3,310 (572)
Total, Overseas Stations 32,930 38,071 37,096 (975)
Monitors 1,098 1,249 1,291 42
TOTAL, ENGINEERING AND TECHNICAL SERVICES 169,630 189,839 190,724 885
(page 78) (extracted by Glenn Hauser for DX LISTENING DIGEST)
It is interesting to note the last item above, that BBG spends over a megadollar per year on Monitors, i.e. paying some names you would know as DXers to be official monitors; how many of them are there, for an average salary? They also get perqs such as monitoring equipment, occasional visits to the USA.
You will note that there are still some funds for Greenville; of course the site will need to be maintained in some form for a while once it is off the air, until it can be disposed of (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
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Today’s Topics:
1. DX MIX NEWS # 610 (Jaisakthivel)
2. UADX Newsletter (Jaisakthivel)
3. Tues DX (Charles Bolland)
4. Re: UADX Newsletter (Andy Sennitt)
5. Glenn Hauser logs February 1-2, 2010 (Glenn Hauser)
6. Radio Canada International (Hector (Luigi) Perez)
7. logs (Robert Wilkner)
8. Re: Radio Canada International (Joe Strain aka Yodar)
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Message: 1
Date: Tue, 2 Feb 2010 11:05:21 +0530 (IST)
From: Jaisakthivel <ardicdxclub@yahoo.co.in>
To: ardic <ardicdxclub@yahoo.co.in>
Subject: [HCDX] DX MIX NEWS # 610
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DX MIX NEWS # 610 01 February 2010
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CZECH REP.: Frequency change of Radio Prague from Feb.1
1130-1230 NF 9880 LIT 100 kW / 356 deg to NWEu in English/Czech, ex 11640
GERMANY(non) Frequency changes of Deutsche Welle effective from Feb.1:
0300-0400 NF 9485 ASC 250 kW / 085 deg to CeAf in Swahili, ex 9565
1000-1100 on 9865 HRI 250 kW / 152 deg to SoAm in German, canceleed
2200-2400 on 15640 HRI 250 kW / 152 deg to SoAm in German, canceleed
PAKISTAN Some changes of Radio Pakistan effective from Feb.1: Bangla, retimed
0900-1000 on 9375vISL 100 kW / 118 deg & 11570 ISL 100 kW / 118 deg,new
1200-1245 on 7475 ISL 100 kW / 118 deg & 9345vISL 100 kW / 118 deg,delete Hindi, retimed
1045-1145 on 9375vISL 100 kW / 147 deg & 11570 ISL 100 kW / 147 deg,new
1030-1130 on 7475 ISL 100 kW / 147 deg & 9345vISL 100 kW / 147 deg,delete Gujrati, additional txion
1145-1215 on 9375vISL 100 kW / 147 deg & 11570 ISL 100 kW / 147 deg Pashto, retimed
1345-1445 on 4835 ISL 100 kW / 270 deg & 6235vISL 100 kW / 270 deg,new
1300-1400 on 4835 ISL 100 kW / 270 deg & 6235vISL 100 kW / 270 deg,delete Dari, retimed
1445-1545 on 4835 ISL 100 kW / 270 deg & 6235vISL 100 kW / 270 deg,new
1430-1530 on 4835 ISL 100 kW / 270 deg & 6235vISL 100 kW / 270 deg,delete Nepali, new language service
1000-1030 on 9375vISL 100 kW / 118 deg & 11570 ISL 100 kW / 118 deg Sinhala, new language service
1230-1300 on 11525 ISL 100 kW / 147 deg & 15630vISL 100 kW / 147 deg Tamil, new language service
1300-1330 on 11525 ISL 100 kW / 147 deg & 15630vISL 100 kW / 147 deg v=vary freq. xxxxx.4 kHz
U.K.(non) Winter B-09 Schedule of VT Communications Relays. Part 1 of 3: Radio Japan NHK World
0000-0020 on 5920 SKN 300 kW / 140 deg to WeEu English
0200-0300 on 11860 SNG 250 kW / 340 deg to SEAs Japanese
0500-0530 on 5975 RMP 500 kW / 140 deg to WeEu English
0800-1000 on 11740 SNG 250 kW / 001 deg to SEAs Japanese
0945-1030 on 9640 SNG 250 kW / 140 deg to SEAs Indonesian
1030-1100 on 11740 SNG 250 kW / 001 deg to SEAs Burmese
1130-1200 on 11740 SNG 250 kW / 001 deg to SEAs Thai
1230-1330 on 11740 SNG 250 kW / 001 deg to SEAs Vietnamese/Chinese
1400-1430 on 11780 RMP 500 kW / 062 deg to EaEu English
1500-1700 on 12045 SNG 250 kW / 315 deg to WeAs Japanese
1700-1900 on 9575 DHA 250 kW / 285 deg to NoAf Japanese
2200-2300 on 7225 DHA 250 kW / 285 deg to NoAf Japanese
Radio Prague from Feb.1
0000-0027 on 7420 ASC 250 kW / 245 deg to SoAm Spanish
1730-1757 on 7285 SIN 250 kW / 040 deg to WeEu German
Gospel for Asia
0000-0130 on 6140 DHA 250 kW / 085 deg to SoAs SoEaAs langs
1600-1615 on 9820 DHA 250 kW / 100 deg to SoAs SoEaAs langs
1615-1630 on 9820 DHA 250 kW / 070 deg to SoAs SoEaAs langs Sun-Wed
1615-1630 on 9820 DHA 250 kW / 120 deg to SoAs SoEaAs langs Thu-Sat
2330-2400 on 6160 DHA 250 kW / 085 deg to SoAs SoEaAs langs
Voice of Vietnam
0100-0125 on 6175 SAC 250 kW / 212 deg to NoAm English
0130-0225 on 6175 SAC 250 kW / 212 deg to NoAm Vietnamese
0230-0255 on 6175 SAC 250 kW / 212 deg to NoAm English
0300-0325 on 6175 SAC 250 kW / 212 deg to NoAm Spanish
0330-0355 on 6175 SAC 250 kW / 212 deg to NoAm English
0400-0425 on 6175 SAC 250 kW / 212 deg to NoAm Spanish
0430-0525 on 6175 SAC 250 kW / 240 deg to NoAm Vietnamese
1800-1825 on 5955 MOS 100 kW / 300 deg to WeEu English
1830-1925 on 5955 MOS 100 kW / 300 deg to WeEu Vietnamese
1930-1955 on 5955 MOS 100 kW / 300 deg to WeEu French
2000-2025 on 5970 WOF 300 kW / 075 deg to EaEu Russian
2030-2125 on 3985 SKN 250 kW / 121 deg to WeEu German
2130-2125 on 7370 WOF 300 kW / 105 deg to SEEu Vietnamese
Adventist World Radio
0100-0200 on 15445 TAI 100 kW / 250 deg to SEAs Vietnamese Sat
Sudan Radio Service
0400-0500 on 7280 DHA 250 kW / 245 deg to EaAf Arabic
0500-0600 on 13720 DHA 250 kW / 240 deg to EaAf Arabic/English
1500-1530 on 17745 SIN 250 kw / 114 deg to EaAf English
1530-1700 on 17745 SIN 250 kw / 114 deg to EaAf Arabic
1700-1730 on 9840 DHA 300 kW / 240 deg to EaAf Dinka Mon
1700-1730 on 9840 DHA 300 kW / 240 deg to EaAf Zande Tue
1700-1730 on 9840 DHA 300 kW / 240 deg to EaAf Muro Wed
1700-1730 on 9840 DHA 300 kW / 240 deg to EaAf Bari Thu
1700-1730 on 9840 DHA 300 kW / 240 deg to EaAf Shiluk Fri
1700-1730 on 9840 DHA 300 kW / 240 deg to EaAf Arabic Sat/Sun
1730-1800 on 9840 DHA 300 kW / 240 deg to EaAf English
BBC Darfur Salaam:
0500-0530 on 9440 DHA 250 kW / 255 deg to Sudan Arabic
0500-0530 on 11865 CYP 250 kW / 187 deg to Sudan Arabic
1700-1730 on 9760 CYP 250 kW / 185 deg to Sudan Arabic
1700-1730 on 11895 CYP 250 kW / 185 deg to Sudan Arabic
Radio Okapi
0400-0500 on 11690 MEY 250 kW / 340 deg to Congo French/Lingala
1600-1700 on 9635 MEY 250 kW / 340 deg to Congo French/Lingala
BBC/DW:
0600-0800 on 3995 SKN 100 kW / 120 deg to WeEu English/German DRM
1000-1500 on 9545 WOF 100 kW / 114 deg to WeEu English/German DRM
1500-1700 on 5790 WOF 100 kW / 172 deg to WeEu English/German DRM
1600-2000 on 3995 SKN 100 kW / 120 deg to WeEu English/German DRM
Voice of Croatia
0700-1100 on 15360 SNG 100 kW / 135 deg to AUS Croatian+English news
KBS World Radio
0700-0800 on 6045 SKN 300 kW / 110 deg to WeEu Korean
1100-1130 on 9760 WOF 100 kW / 105 deg to WeEu English Sat DRM
1800-1900 on 7235 RMP 500 kW / 062 deg to EaEu Russian
1900-2000 on 5935 RMP 500 kW / 168 deg to NoAf Arabic
2000-2100 on 3955 SKN 250 kW / 106 deg to WeEu German
2100-2200 on 3955 SKN 250 kW / 175 deg to WeEu French
2200-2230 on 3955 SKN 250 kW / 106 deg to WeEu English
Cotton Tree News
0730-0800 on 11875 RMP 250 kW / 189 deg to CeAf English/Local
IRIN Radio(Integrated Regional Information Network)
0830-0930 on 17680 DHA 250 kW / 225 deg to EaAf Somali
Eternal Good News
1130-1145 on 15525 DHA 250 kW / 100 deg to SoAs English Fri
Trans World Radio Africa
1300-1315 on 13765 KIG 250 kW / 030 deg to EaAf Afar Fri-Sun
1730-1800 on 9745 DHA 250 kW / 230 deg to EaAf Oromo Fri
1800-1815 on 5965 DHA 250 kW / 225 deg to EaAf Tigrinya Mon-Wed
1800-1815 on 5965 DHA 250 kW / 225 deg to EaAf Amharic Thu/Fri
1800-1830 on 5965 DHA 250 kW / 225 deg to EaAf Tigre Sat
1800-1830 on 5965 DHA 250 kW / 225 deg to EaAf Kunama Sun
1815-1845 on 5965 DHA 250 kW / 225 deg to EaAf Tigrinya Mon-Fri
1830-1845 on 5965 DHA 250 kW / 225 deg to EaAf Amharic Sun
USA(non) Correction of WYFR Family Radio via TRW=TV Radio Waves:
1400-1500 on 9440 ARM 200 kW / 147 deg to SoAs in Assamese, not Pashto
(Jaisakthivel, India Via Ivo Ivanov)
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Message: 2
Date: Tue, 2 Feb 2010 11:47:25 +0530 (IST)
From: Jaisakthivel <ardicdxclub@yahoo.co.in>
To: ardic <ardicdxclub@yahoo.co.in>
Subject: [HCDX] UADX Newsletter
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The Union of Asian DXers has published its first Newsletter since July 1993 as a PDF file. Now again they start the issue in same format. It is edited by my good friend Victor Goonetilleke in Sri Lanka. You will read the recent issue on the following our club blog.
www.dxersguide.blogspot.com
(Jaisakthivel, Asst. Professor, Dept. of Communication, MS University,
Tirunelveli – 627012, India)
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Message: 3
Date: Tue, 2 Feb 2010 12:01:23 -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] Tues DX
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Peru, 3329.62, Ondas Del Huallaga, 1050-1105, Noted a male in Spanish language comments here. I can hear a female joining in with the comments. From the tone and nuances of the comments, this could be religious or political comments.
At 1059 canned promos or ADs heard with mentions of “Peru”. After the promos at 1103, the male and female continue their talking.
At 1105 noted a canned ID, Signal was poor and mixing with CHU. (Chuck Bolland, February 02, 2010)
Papua New Guinea, 3385, Radio East New Britain, 1105-1130, Noted a female in steady comments until 1115. Language was unidentifiable, but sounded like Pidgin. At 1115,
PNG type music was presented. Signal was poor. (Chuck Bolland, February 2, 2010)
Indonesia, 9680, RRI Jakarta, 1124-1135, Tuned in with the Qu’ran being performed. At 1125, a canned promo by a female mentioning Jakarta. More promos follow.
Afterwards a male and female perform a Radio Drama of some kind? Signal was fair. (Chuck Bolland, February 2, 2010)
Indonesia, 9525.98, Voice of Indonesia, 1140-1200, Tuned in during music segment, but noted a female in English(?) between tunes. Everything was soft and low, making copy difficult. Couldn’t hear the comments clearly to distinguish the language one hundred percent. Signal was weak. (Chuck Bolland, February 2, 2010)
Thailand, Relay, 9605, BBC, 1148-1200, Noted a female describing in English a medical topic. This is mixing with Family Radio on the same freq in Spanish. Both stations are at fair level. (Chuck Bolland, February 2, 2010)
Philippines, 9615, Radio Veritas Asia, 1152-1157, Noted a female in Chinese language comments. At 1155, after female finished, Interval Signal followed by ID in English with schedule. Off the air at 1156. Signal was good. (Chuck Bolland, February 2, 2010)
NRD545
26.27N 081.05W
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Message: 4
Date: Tue, 2 Feb 2010 17:54:19 +0100
From: “Andy Sennitt” <andys@euronet.nl>
To: “Hard-Core-Dx@Hard-Core-Dx. Com” <hard-core-dx@hard-core-dx.com>
Subject: Re: [HCDX] UADX Newsletter
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I have just heard from Victor Goonetilleke that he has not given permission for other websites to host the PDF file of this E-Newsletter. Copies of the PDF file may be downloaded for private use only, not uploaded to other sites. In order to assess how successful this revival of UADX is, it’s
important that the statistics on the DXAsia site accurately reflect the number of downloads. Other websites are welcome to use and quote material from it, provided the apppropriate credit is given, but it is not allowed to host the PDF file which was specially created for the DXAsia site by
Abhishek das Gupta. A direct link to the PDF file at http://dxasia.info/features/UADX%2031JAN2010.pdf will enable users of other sites to access the PDF directly, while maintaining the integrity of the site statistics.
A copyright notice will be added to future editions of the UADX Newsletter to make this clear.
Thank you for your cooperation.
Andy Sennitt
On behalf of the DXAsia team
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[mailto:hard-core-dx-bounces@hard-core-dx.com] On Behalf Of Jaisakthivel
Sent: 02 February 2010 07:17
To: ardic
Subject: [HCDX] UADX Newsletter
The Union of Asian DXers has published its first Newsletter since July 1993 as a PDF file. Now again they start the issue in same format. It is edited by my good friend Victor Goonetilleke in Sri Lanka. You will read the recent issue on the following our club blog.
www.dxersguide.blogspot.com
(Jaisakthivel, Asst. Professor, Dept. of Communication, MS University, Tirunelveli – 627012, India)
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Message: 5
Date: Tue, 2 Feb 2010 11:23:44 -0800 (PST)
From: Glenn Hauser <wghauser@yahoo.com>
To: dxld@yahoogroups.com
Cc: swl@mailman.qth.net
Subject: [HCDX] Glenn Hauser logs February 1-2, 2010
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** BRAZIL. 11815, R. Brasil Central, Goi?nia, Feb 2 at 0623 with lively talk, 0624 TC for 4:24. Some music audible underneath, but as nothing else is scheduled, may have been receiver overload from RHC 11760, tho I could not get rid of it with attenuation (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CROATIA [non]. Tnx to a tip from Dragan Lekic, V. of Croatia heard testing new 7385 via Woofferton UK, Feb 2 at 0309, YL with weather report in English, then something about recipes. This was // only a slight echo behind usual 7375, which is Wertachtal 100 kW at 300 degrees plus Nauen 100 kW at 325 degrees. But stronger signal from the Germans.
Evidently VTC, or whatever it is called this week, is making a bid to take business away from DTK, or whatever it is called this week. Dragan says this test on 7385 is for four nights only, UT Feb 2-5 at 03-05 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CUBA. 11930, DCJC pulsing against nothing, Feb 2 at 0622, long before/after Radio Mart? is on this frequency, currently scheduled only at 13-22. The jamming bothers more R. Bandeirantes, Brasil on 11925v.
Meanwhile RHC 11760 was super-strong causing overload in its vicinity; see BRAZIL.
Now that Prague has killed its morning service to the Americas on 13580, RHC leapfrog has the frequency to itself, Feb 2 at 1453 in Spanish, mix of 13780 over 13680 which is back on the air. Well, not quite; now on 13580 it QRMs CODAR or vice versa.
RHC, 11760, 11690, etc., Feb 2 at 1557 had Arnaldo Coro talking about Cycle 24, in his sci/tech segment in Spanish (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** GUAM. 11955, Feb 2 at 1530, “KSDA, Agat, Guam; the following program is in — on 11955 kHz“, poor but clear, opening with classical fanfare, into S Asian language, then ethnic music. The answer in Aoki: Malayalam, daily 1530-1600 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** INDONESIA. 9526-, VOI with no het from CRI Kashgar, East Turkistan, Feb 2 at 1546, undermodulated dialog in Indo/Malay, drama? Usually VOI is off the air during this hour, or if on, it`s in English. And normally CRI has at least enough signal on 9525.0 to produce a het; propagation must be favoring Indonesia this date.
Unfortunately, Atsunori Ishida has not updated his site http://www.max.hi-ho.ne.jp/a-ishida/ins/
since Jan 25, but in the previous week, only on Jan 21 did he find VOI on the 9526 air at this time, when it was Indonesian straight thru from 1404 to 1600 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** KOREA NORTH [non]. Shiokaze, 5910 via JSR JAPAN, Tuesday Feb 2 at 1425 with YL speaking Chinese slowly and clearly over usual piano bed, and also whoop-whoop oscillating Juche jamming, which is usually inaudible here, but at least we know the DPRK considers Chinese a language worth jamming (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** SAUDI ARABIA. Patrolling 15 MHz band around 1500 UT Feb 2, I was braced for another blast of buzz from Riyadh 15435 transmitter, but it never happened! At 1506 I checked 15435 itself and there was BSKSA, but it`s been fixed, (or transmitter substituted), no buzz at all, and occupying normal bandwidth not exceeding 10 kHz!!! But not totally healthy as it does have a lite whine on it.
Apparently BSKSA finally got an earful at HFCC Kuala Lumpur, or somehow, that they had a slight problem for the past year. By 1548 recheck, 15435 was weakening with flutter, now in Arabic talk rather than Qu`ran recitation, still stronger than // 15225. Let us hope the buzz be gone forever, but it`s too early to count on that (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) See also UNIDENTIFIED 15360, 15380
** SOUTH CAROLINA [non]. 9385, WWRB with Brother Scare, extremely strong as usual, Feb 2 at 1545, but also with considerable CCI from station in Korean, producing rippling SAH since WWRB is off-frequency. Went from a wild non-BS preacher to BS himself at 1546 pushing some giveaway concerning “the inevitable destruxion of the USA“. Tnx for letting us know! We may as well stop trying to make anything better.
The station under would have been perfectly good without WWRB. It`s RFA, 325 degrees via Saipan at 15-17. Let`s hope the poor North Koreans do not get enough of this BS to bother them: WWRB azimuth is 340 degrees per Aoki, i.e. toward them also, but that was B-08 info. FCC and HFCC B-09 list 45 degrees. Since it`s such a blast here, I would have gone with 340, tho we are closer to 270 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** SUDAN [non]. Miraya FM relay via IRRS via SLOVAKIA is back on 19m, without notice, a new frequency, 15670, Feb 2 at 1508 when I wondered what`s this? English and Arabic dialect mixed together, axualities and voice-overs. Reminded me of Libya 17725 but not //. Nor // SRS via Portugal 17745. At 1510 headlines alternating with stingers, “end of news, [www. but lost to fade], FM news, 101 M?ra FM“ (that`s the way it`s pronounced, almost dropping the -ya, so I must stop saying Mir?ya).
Somewhat rough modulation, probably a feed input problem rather than a transmission problem. This broadcast at 15-18 had been on 9825 so far in B-09, where we could not hear it, so welcome back! Furthermore, IRRS found a clear frequency this time instead of resuming 15650 where it collided for months with Greece despite our advice. Ironically, Greece was missing from 15650 at the moment, but was back at 1528 check.
At 1553, 15670 still audible but weaker, and again mixing English with Arabic (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** SUDAN [non]. 13800, Feb 2 at 1535 in Arabic, but also a tone test producing SAH. Source of latter unknown, but the former per Aoki is R. Dabanga, 250 kW, 330 degrees via MADAGASCAR at 1530-1627. Apparently it now has an interference problem; possibly Bulgaria or Iran which may be using the channel at other times (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U K [non]. 9580, Feb 2 at 1439, good signal in Vietnamese I had not noticed before, way stronger than Iran plus and minus 5 and also than Australia 9590; mentioned BBC, and clinched at 1444 with “BBC London“ and BBC vamp music, off at 1444.5.
This is a quarter-hour broadcast via SINGAPORE at 13 degrees, tacked on to the end of the half-sesquihour Burmese service from 1345 at 340 degrees. Axually, to my surprise, this is the ONLY BBCWS Vietnamese service remaining on the radio, per WRTH 2010, daily 1430-1445, also on 1503, 6135 and 7315. Seems like a token to me, and likely destined for deletion. As we know, all Vietnamese sport hand-held devices lacking SW tuners (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A [and non]. Distributed in advance earlier UT Feb 2 to this same log mailing list, see separate post titled:
GREENVILLE TO CLOSE; VOA AND MARTI JOIN FOR NEW SERVICE; LVA UPDATE
Which is very important but I am not repeating it here; however, some updates and additions:
Yimber Gaviria found this brief announcement about the VOA/Mart? program, correctly called A FONDO, but do they mention the frequencies? Of course not!
http://www1.voanews.com/spanish/news/A-fondo-83291037.html
Dragan Lekic, Serbia, says: “New VOA & R Marti joint new service can be downloaded at [RM file, 9.1 MB]:
ftp://8475.ftp.storage.akadns.net/real/voa/latam/span/span0100a.rm
When you open the file in Real Player and click to “Clip Info”, you get this:
=============================================
SPANISH_VENEZUELA_RADIOSURGE 01:00 To 02:00
VOA-SPANISH_VENEZUELA_RADIOSURGE
Public Domain (02/02/10)
=============================================
So, it is a program intended mainly to Venezuela! Since it is “Surge”, probably will be cancelled in the future?“
Kim Elliott follows up on this:
“A Fondo”: new VOA/Radio Mart? co-production for, apparently, Venezuela. http://kimelli.nfshost.com/index.php?id=8250
And translates “A Fondo“ as “thoroughly“.
Media Network follows up:
http://blogs.rnw.nl/medianetwork/voa-radio-marti-launch-joint-news-programme#comments
BTW, the UTC originally published, 1500-1600, is totally wrong.
Kim Elliott has followed up on this, partially quoting us:
BBG budget plan includes closure of Greenville transmitting station, last IBB shortwave facility in the US.
http://kimelli.nfshost.com/index.php?id=8252
Kai Ludwig in dxldyg suggests that Greenville may not really close until the end of October, A-10 season, rather than end of Sept, FY 2010.
Media Network also follows up on this:
http://blogs.rnw.nl/medianetwork/more-on-the-ibbs-plans-for-fiscal-year-2011
Wolfgang B?schel, dxldyg, says the Erching, Germany IBB site refers to the former longwave 173 kHz facility.
Finally: WWCR and IBB are working on resolving their collision on 7465 at 01-02 (Glenn Hauser, 1905 UT Feb 2, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. KJES is back! Not reported for almost two months, but on 11715, Feb 2 at 1449 I am hearing some off-key singing, a dead giveaway, 1450 into OM intoning verses, undermodulated and mixing badly with at least two other stations, i.e. R. Liberty in Uzbek via Lampertheim, and ChiCom jamming, probably CNR1 (tho Aoki does not show it as jammed, we know they jam other Uzbek services).
This mess quit at 1459, but now there is an open carrier as Vatican is about to start relaying RVA Philippines in Tagalog/English back to the jobless Catholic Filipino Gastarbeiter stuck in the UAE et al. Can`t make much out of KJES while this is on, but at 1518 I think I can detect KJES still under there.
Finally at 1559 frequency is clear for KJES, monotone OM preacher in English with robokidsinging off-key in background. 1559.5, kid ID in English with usual “please let me know if you can hear me“ but not “and get me out of here!“, 1600 into Spanish as scheduled. Still very undermodulated and must strain to copy. Now there is increased ACI from music on 11720 which is RFA in Uighur via Saipan plus ChiCom jamming; also squeezed on lower side by weaker N Korea. Since KJES had been making a lo het with co-channel stations, I determine it is slightly off-frequency to the low side, but probably not as low as 11714.90.
Now we need to check its other scheduled transmissions to see if they are back too: 1900-2100 on 15385, 0200-0330 on 7555. For starters: yes, 15385 with kidchoir at 1905 Feb 2, doing its best against Greenville 15390 Lavwadlamerik.
All three KJES frequencies supposedly rotate the LP antenna to different azimuths at top of each hour, tho I did not notice any difference at 1500 and 1600. Long ago, I believe they had problems with it being stuck in one direxion. Even when active, their broadcasts were sporadic, and some listings show KJES as M-F only (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 9369v, Arabic at 0111 UT Tue Feb 2, fair signal, obviously from WTJC. Does their program schedule at http://www.fbnradio.com/new_page_copy%281%29.htm
yet show Arabic anywhere around 8 pm ET? Of course not! In fact there is no Arabic anywhere on their schedule, any day of the week, altho there used to be a bit somewhere. Not to be confused with IBB`s Deewa Radio in Pashtu via Lampertheim, GERMANY, also scheduled on 9370 during this hour (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 13845, PMS via WWCR, Feb 2 at 1455 with heavy swish QRM from WEWN 13835 spur, a constant unresolved problem from at least one of their transmitters; how bad it is heard depending on relative propagation. Shortly WEWN moves its spurs to 15600 and 15620, clearing 13845 after 1500 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 1660, not a sign of classical KXTR Kansas City, Feb 1. Home page http://www.kxtr.com/pages/1447847.php? which is what you get if you merely enter www.kxtr.com, does not have any announcement about antenna work, as it did for some weeks in December, January, that it would be off the air weekdays, but it must be missing this afternoon, as I am mobile around Enid with nondirexional caradio.
At 2018 UT, 1660 exhibits only a very weak SAH between two other stations, no doubt ND and TX, and furthermore, KC-area stations on 1250-Spanish, 1090-Catholic were inbooming by skywave already. 2027 the same. At final check of 1660 at 2153 UT, heard an ESPN station with an ad for Morehead, i.e. KQWB West Fargo ND.
Furthermore, at 2025 UT I was hearing a “Radio Disney“ as IDed in passing atop 1190 before fading, ending some teeny-bopper music, kid on phone in quiz. The only R. Disney on 1190, per NRC AM Log 2009-2010, is KPHN Kansas City MO, day power 5 kW, but a new one to me. That`s strange, as it`s non-direxional, and has been on the air more than 31 years, tho under different calls before March 3, 1997.
At 2019 I was gettin` a surfin` song on 1010. Uplooked later, among adjacent-state stations, format matches KCHI Chillicothe MO, yet another near KC, but there are too many other 1010s around to be sure (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 12000.8, strong and steady open carrier, Feb 2 at 0620. It makes a het with the 12000 birdie in the FRG-7, but it stands alone on the YB-400. Something new, possibly of local origin? But the band is certainly open at this hour, as far as Brazil, q.v., 11815. Is anyone else hearing it?
Next check at 1447, still there, but now the open carrier is intermittently interrupted by digital data bursts. And still at 1536, interfering with CODAR. BTW, this is a BROADCAST band where such utility signals should only be subtracted, not added (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 15360, qontinuous Qur`an, Feb 2 at 1456 aside WYFR Spanish 15355. Fortunately, no RHC on 15360, perhaps just having closed to QSY. Qur`an qeeps going thru hourtop, no break until 35-second pause within the 1504 minute, when they could have easily inserted a full ID! But that might have broken the mood. Meanwhile at 1459 some lite CCI developed on 15360. The only thing scheduled on 15360 is RFI Persian via Issoudun at 1430-1500, previously heard with QubaRM, but not today, perhaps also off at least 4 minutes early.
Or the 15360 transmitter in France has been turned over to the Algerians for a new schedule, or new tests from elsewhere? Periodically, RTA`s Qur`an service tries other sites a few weeks, perhaps for competitive bidding or comparative propagation evaluation. So far in B-09, Algeria via France relays have been using only the 5, 7 and 9 MHz bands, but TDF is known for making mid-season changes at the beginning of Feb, also for RFI broadcasts.
This performer sounds like the same one heard the day before on 15160 around this time, and there is nothing there today! Except splash from REE/Costa Rica plus/minus 15 from 15170 as noted before 1500, gone after then. A good bet that 15360 Qur`an is the same transmission trying another frequency, tho 15160 was quite a bit stronger. Where will it be Feb 3?
However, by 1548 Feb 2, 15360 is gone, and I am hearing an even weaker Qur`an on 15380 versus clicking circa 15382 and Spain 15385 splash. So is 15380 the same transmitter as 15360 in yet another shift? Nothing scheduled now, but Sa`udi HQS is shown on 15380 until 1355, so maybe that was extended. No, I don`t think it was // 15435.
However there are two separate Sa`udi programs in Arabic. WRTH 2010 says 15435 and 15225 are the general program, not the HQS, even tho most of the time they too are reciting.
Perhaps related is Jari Savolainen`s observation:
“UNIDENTIFIED. 7130 / 7160 / 7190 / 7220 — On 27 Jan at 1615 UT tune-in noted a station with endless Qur`an reciting on 7130. No ID at all at any time. Strong signal and nice, clean AM modulation. Audio went off at 1700 but the carrier stayed on until 1714. A minute or two later I noted them back with Qur`an, now on 7160. This lasted until 1755 when they switched to 7190. And at 1858 they jumped to 7220. Then I had to leave my radio. All I could hear was that Qur`an recording without ID. Sounds like someone testing, but who could this be (Jari Savolainen, Kuusankoski, Finland, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST)“
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ###
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Message: 6
Date: Tue, 2 Feb 2010 16:16:12 -0800 (PST)
From: “Hector \(Luigi\) Perez” <capecuatro@yahoo.com>
To: hard-core-dx@hard-core-dx.com
Subject: [HCDX] Radio Canada International
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RCI in spanish via 11.990 khz. Very nice signal into Puerto Rico. Reception made using a small Grundig radio P-400. Program went from 23:30 utc tu 23:59
Best 73s
Luigi KP3003SWL San Juan
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Message: 7
Date: Tue, 02 Feb 2010 19:21:46 -0500
From: Robert Wilkner <rlcw@earthlink.net>
To: +d x s f <rlcw@earthlink.net>
Subject: [HCDX] logs
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Feb 3rd On at the moment
4700 Bolivia. Radio San Miguel, Riberalta being received well at 0000-0015 Possibly two transmitter in use, one weaker on 4699.95; 4700 stronger and on at the moment. Major difference in strength noted in Florida and NSW, Australia [Wilkner]
5485.45 Peru, Radio Reina de la Selva, Chachapoyas very strong at 0000-0015,om vocal, Dave Valko original tip and log. [Wilkner]
73s de
Bob
Robert Wilkner
Pompano Beach, Florida
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Message: 8
Date: Tue, 2 Feb 2010 17:06:30 -0800 (PST)
From: Joe Strain aka Yodar <cz52_99@yahoo.com>
To: “Hector \(Luigi\) Perez” <capecuatro@yahoo.com>
Cc: hard-core-dx@hard-core-dx.com
Subject: Re: [HCDX] Radio Canada International
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NUTS ! I was working 49 M at that time, it would have been a good logging here in florida
Yodar words MEAN things
— On Tue, 2/2/10, Hector (Luigi) Perez <capecuatro@yahoo.com> wrote:
From: Hector (Luigi) Perez <capecuatro@yahoo.com>
Subject: [HCDX] Radio Canada International
To: hard-core-dx@hard-core-dx.com
Date: Tuesday, February 2, 2010, 7:16 PM
RCI in spanish via 11.990 khz. Very nice signal into Puerto Rico. Reception made using a small Grundig radio P-400. Program went from 23:30 utc tu 23:59
Best 73s
Luigi KP3003SWL San Juan
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