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Today's Topics:
1. Glenn Hauser logs (Glenn Hauser)
2. Testing the Alinco DX-R8 Receiver (cafe-...@islandnet.com)
3. Logs 27-30/4 (Zacharias Liangas )
4. Logs 27-30/4 (Zacharias Liangas )
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Message: 1
Date: Wed, 2 May 2012 08:31:09 -0700 (PDT)
From: Glenn Hauser <wghau...@yahoo.com>
To: d...@yahoogroups.com
Cc: NASWA <na...@yahoogroups.com>, s...@mailman.qth.net
Subject: [HCDX] Glenn Hauser logs
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** AUSTRALIA. 21740, May 2 at 0028, RA English very good here on reactivated
frequency we used to listen to years ago. Great to have this OSOB back for good
evening listening in off-target NAm. This is even stronger than NF 19000 (AM
but destined to be DRM), which in turn is much stronger than old 17795. Tnx to
Rick Barton, AZ, for tip about this. Remains to be heard whether this is a
fluke or intentional once a new schedule ever emerge. Aoki May 2 shows 21740
was in use April 26 at 22-01, on the most favorable azimuth for US, 70 degrees.
Tending to confirm my theory that recent RAnomalies are not due to intentional
changes, but mixed-up program feed lines and/or transmitter/antenna hookups:
15240, which had been in Indonesian until 0530 the past week, May 2 is suddenly
back in English! Checked at 0519, // 15515 and 13630 with equivalent signals
Pacific- and USward, while much weaker 15415, which used to be in Indonesian at
this time toward Asia, is also // in English --- so what has become of
Indonesian now??
Another de-change: new 9890, which has been VG in English the past week until
1500, is gone again May 2 at 1303 and further during this hour. This is one
which was originally planned to be in DRM, not AM. See also PHILIPPINES.
New/extended 11945 English is still running.
Another2 de-change: 6020, which had been in Chinese after 1300 the past week,
is back in English! May 2 at 1329 check, // 11945. Also noted by Rick Barton,
AZ, 6020 in English until 1400*.
9475, May 2 at 1258 is poorly audible in English, *1259:45 blown away by 9479
WTWW cutting on, but I could still detect RA after 1300 when it had changed to
Chinese, just as in the old schedule, and still definitely Chinese at 1331
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CHINA. Firedrake May 2, before 1300, a dozen:
17450, poor at 1246
17100, good at 1246
16980, poor at 1246
16700, good at 1246
16100, fair at 1246
15970, very good at 1246
15940, good at 1247
15900, very good at 1247
15555, good at 1247
15440 or 15435, gone at 1247, but noticed it far enough away from 15450 Turkey
earlier in the semihour, without nailing the frequency
13970, good at 1251; none in the 14s
13680, poor at 1252
12600, very good at 1252; none in the 11s, 10s, 18s
Before 1400:
12600, very good at 1338 with flutter; none lower and no 13s, 14s
15610, good at 1345
15940, very good at 1340
15970, very good at 1340 with flutter; bad edit break at 1340:15
16980, JBA at 1343
17100, fair at 1343; none in the 18s
17170, very poor at 1343
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** HAWAII [and non]. 15000 and better 10000, May 2 at 1345, WWVH propagation
minute is back after missing at least two consecutive hours yesterday, and it`s
by a humale, not a robofem. Does `she` ever appear on WWVH? At 1518 on WWV
10000, `she` was funxioning as usual (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** KOREA NORTH. 15180, May 2 at 1249, NK NA, VG with flutter and off 1250*.
This frequency is missing from Arnulf Piontek`s new VOK schedule by language,
but included in his schedule by time, as KCBS in Korean to C&S America from
1200. Not the only inconsistency, so cross-check when uplooking. Also is
included in the DX Re Mix News schedule version (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** MALAYSIA. 9835, May 2 at 1335, RTM talking about Qur`an, bits of Arabic such
as ``Salaam aleikum`` (or is that Malay too?), poor signal but no CCI; 1334
into Qur`an recitation, i.e. musical, mixed with crowd noises. No Separation of
Mosque and State here! Even tho Malaysia is only 60.4% Islamic, per CIA
Factbook. Other frequency 11665, as always, if on, is buried in CCI from the
Taiwan/China radio war (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MEXICO. More sporadic-E analog TVDX May 2: turned on ch 2 around 1350 and
nothing showing, but at 1410 now there is Spanish CCI, audio and video, plus
some video showing on 3. Generally weak, in and out.
1435 on 2, f bug in lower left amid CCI, i.e. Net-4 foro TV
1435 on 2, program promo with net-2 Star bug in LR, different station?
1444 on 2, hoy bug in LL, i.e. net-2 Today show
Opening remains marginal past 1530, mostly out (Glenn Hauser, Enid OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** PHILIPPINES. 9890, May 2 at 1346, Chinesish language poor signal uncovered
by RA vacating this frequency after a week, i.e. FEBC Bocaue, 1330-1400 in
Yunnan dialect per Aoki, WRTH (ex-9465). Did FEBC complain to RA about this
usurpation? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** RWANDA. 9800, May 2 at 0526, DW English, which always has a good signal here
aimed 295 degrees USward beyond W Africa, now suffers from frequent IADs,
satellite program-feed problem? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U K. 9915, May 2 at 0524, BBCWS in Arabic, G signal S9+22 but with
Saudi-style big buzz and with BFO engaged, carrier is wobbling rapidly, not
what you would expect from Woofferton or Skelton, both of which are registered
by BaBcoCk in HFCC for this hour; or did they really mean that Woofferton
replaced Skelton on April 14? WOF is 140 degrees, close to directly off the
back from here, vs SKN 180 degrees. Not the first time we have heard this
terrible defect on 9915, and seemed to worsen later in the hour: see April 13
report in DXLD 12-16. Cyprus is also in use for BBC Arabic 9915 at 03-04 (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
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Message: 2
Date: Wed, 2 May 2012 09:14:17 -0700
From: cafe-...@islandnet.com
To: hard-core...@hard-core-dx.com
Subject: [HCDX] Testing the Alinco DX-R8 Receiver
Message-ID:
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Short youtube snippet of the Alinco DX-R8 receiver
tuned to Brazil on 11780khz.
Just received a sample unit from a
Canadian vendor - seems to have pretty rich
features at the price point -
Will be testing it up against the venerable R8 Drake,
the Kenwood R2000 and an assortment of portables.
http://youtu.be/w7dvwl1wjXU
Passband tuning, RIT, noise blanker, some
reasonably well thought out bandwidth choices...
and I/Q outputs for SDR analysis
Will post a full review at some point soon.
Colin Newell - www.dxer.ca
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Message: 3
Date: Wed, 02 May 2012 22:17:38 +0300
From: "Zacharias Liangas " <gree...@otenet.gr>
To: <>
Subject: [HCDX] Logs 27-30/4
Message-ID: <4fa18852.26715.8e...@greekdx.otenet.gr>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII
http://sites.google.com/site/zliangas/pl200 NEW::::: review for PL200
Notice : new languages have been uploaded in my MF account :
Uzbek http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?kxp4p2s7kj36irh
Pilipino http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?vvha6ct09roud10 (I can assume
Tagalog
as aoki shows nothing except Pilipino )
27-4
1620 on 0308 rather Cuba with talks in SO S3
28-4
9510 Free speech radio net 0803 about the alliance of Lib and democrats
against ACTA . ID
FSRN with S10 signal
My Gogle plus account for acting against ACTA is
https://plus.google.com/u/0/108225899117908626173 with links from the net
7335 ?? 0806 with Quran preaches S9 and sudden s/off!! R Tunis per Eibi
7515 Vo Martyrs 1723 with pop song then a hip hop and 1730* S8 max 35423 Also
29-4
using the 1103 outdoors with poor signal
66304.7 pirate 1732 with pops of 70s S3 only
11735 Tanzania Zanzibar 1735 with hilife song 1736 with talks in VN
(Swahili?) then 1746
with a lengthy hilife that ended on 1802 . New followed in Eng and on 1914 in
Arabic . IN
between a very fast ID S10 45523 SAH
Sample http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?1abi9ri0d5td56c
9526 VoINs 1743 with very low modulation (dangdut music , jatuh bangun) and
with some
'disk jumping' problems
11720 R Filipinas 1913 with prg in Tagalog (??? Aoki shown only Pilipino) with
discussions
S9
11725 RNZI classical msx and operas 1918 mean signal of S5 max S7 .
Surprisingly 16H
antenna provides better signal to noise radio Listen to a sample:
http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?44z4re4bvuc3kwd
11870 Biafra two men in VN (seems not Hausa ) mixed with English words
mentioning also
11870 . a musical clip of the station "R B London is back , ...everyday" S10 .
Intense and
fast discussions on 2052
7000 ??? 2055 a funny sounded signal with an audio of a oscillated
'whistle' in between 0
and 4??? kHz , as like being a time sinusoidal freq . Sample you will find on
my soundcloud
page there :
http://soundcloud.com/greekdx/7000-mysterious-sinewace-audio
15191.47 Inconfidencia 2119 with religious talks ,also mentioning Amen S3
9835 RTM Sarawak 2132 with quite 'strong' signal for that time od S9 on the 16
H antenna .
that time Muslim prg was started with a song then OM praying first in Arabic
then in Malay
followed by a nasyid song (Hijazz?? )
9745 C+U Bahrain 2139 alone in the freq with signal up to S7 (a VERY rare case
for that
level ) with classical Arabic songs (era of 70??) with also good modulation ON
2143 a nice
song started with lead violin(s) that ended on 2204 . NO ID however
Sample: http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?iqpbpj54zeccy9d
29.4
11885 XJPBS 0821 with adverts and songs S1 only!! or S4/S3 QRN with preamp
15760 a TV like sounded audio 0853 . Does anyone know if this is DRM or
something else?
http://soundcloud.com/greekdx/peculiar-tv-sounded
6095 Mighty KBC 0900 ID with seemingly German music S8 over S3 noise floor!!
lower
levels to S5 Dl on
30.4
4930 VoA 0343 with news (mentioning Osama ) S5
4778.5 Roraima - BR 0346 mixed with another station S3
Standard rig : ICOM R75 / 2x16 V / m@h40 heads Sennheiser
Please read and distribute this 15 year research article
http://tinyurl.com/5vzg7e
Please read my article on SINPO at http://tinyurl.com/yt7qjd
________________________
http://zlgr.multiply.com (radio monitoring site plus audio clips ) MAIN SITE
http://www.delicious.com/gr_greek1/@zach (all mypages !!)
........
Zacharias Liangas , Thessaloniki Greece
greekdx @ otenet dot gr ---
Pesawat penerima: ICOM R75 , Lowe HF150 , Degen 1102,1103,108,
Tecsun PL200/550/600, Chibo c300/c979, Yupi 7000
Antenna: 16m hor, 2x16 m V invert, 1m australian loop
------------------------------
Message: 4
Date: Wed, 02 May 2012 22:10:41 +0300
From: "Zacharias Liangas " <gree...@otenet.gr>
To: <>
Subject: [HCDX] Logs 27-30/4
Message-ID: <4fa186b1.6403.28...@greekdx.otenet.gr>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1
http://sites.google.com/site/zliangas/pl200 NEW::::: review for PL200
Notice : new languages have been uploaded in my MF account :
Uzbek http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?kxp4p2s7kj36irh
Pilipino http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?vvha6ct09roud10 (I can assume
Tagalog
as aoki shows nothing except Pilipino)
27-4
1620 on 0308 rather Cuba with talks in SO S3
28-4
9510 Free speech radio net 0803 about the alliance of Lib and democrats
against ACTA . ID
FSRN with S10 signal
My Gogle plus account for acting against ACTA is
https://plus.google.com/u/0/108225899117908626173 with links from the net
7335 ?? 0806 with Quran preaches S9 and sudden s/off!! R Tunis per Eibi
7515 Vo Martyrs 1723 with pop song then a hip hop and 1730* S8 max 35423 Also
29-4
using the 1103 outdoors with poor signal
66304.7 pirate 1732 with pops of 70s S3 only
11735 Tanzania Zanzibar 1735 with hilife song 1736 with talks in VN
(Swahili?) then 1746
with a lengthy hilife that ended on 1802 . New followed in Eng and on 1914 in
Arabic . IN
between a very fast ID S10 45523 SAH
Sample http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?1abi9ri0d5td56c
9526 VoINs 1743 with very low modulation (dangdut music , jatuh bangun) and
with some
'disk jumping' problems
11720 R Filipinas 1913 with prg in Tagalog (??? Aoki shown only Pilipino) with
discussions
S9
11725 RNZI classical msx and operas 1918 mean signal of S5 max S7 .
Surprisingly 16H
antenna provides better signal to noise radio Listen to a sample:
http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?44z4re4bvuc3kwd
11870 Biafra two men in VN (seems not Hausa ) mixed with English words
mentioning also
11870 . a musical clip of the station "R B London is back , ...everyday" S10 .
Intense and
fast discussions on 2052
7000 ??? 2055 a funny sounded signal with an audio of a oscillated
'whistle' in between 0
and 4??? kHz , as like being a time sinusoidal freq . Sample you will find on
my soundcloud
page there :
http://soundcloud.com/greekdx/7000-mysterious-sinewace-audio
15191.47 Inconfidencia 2119 with religious talks ,also mentioning Amen S3
9835 RTM Sarawak 2132 with quite 'strong' signal for that time od S9 on the 16
H antenna .
that time Muslim prg was started with a song then OM praying first in Arabic
then in Malay
followed by a nasyid song (Hijazz?? )
9745 C+U Bahrain 2139 alone in the freq with signal up to S7 (a VERY rare case
for that
level ) with classical Arabic songs (era of 70??) with also good modulation ON
2143 a nice
song started with lead violin(s) that ended on 2204 . NO ID however
Sample: http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?iqpbpj54zeccy9d
29.4
11885 XJPBS 0821 with adverts and songs S1 only!! or S4/S3 QRN with preamp
15760 a TV like sounded audio 0853 . Does anyone know if this is DRM or
something else?
http://soundcloud.com/greekdx/peculiar-tv-sounded
6095 Mighty KBC 0900 ID with seemingly German music S8 over S3 noise floor!!
lower
levels to S5 Dl on
30.4
4930 VoA 0343 with news (mentioning Osama ) S5
4778.5 Roraima - BR 0346 mixed with another station S3
Standard rig : ICOM R75 / 2x16 V / m@h40 heads Sennheiser
Please read and distribute this 15 year research article
http://tinyurl.com/5vzg7e
Please read my article on SINPO at http://tinyurl.com/yt7qjd
________________________
http://zlgr.multiply.com (radio monitoring site plus audio clips ) MAIN SITE
http://www.delicious.com/gr_greek1/@zach (all mypages !!)
........
Zacharias Liangas , Thessaloniki Greece
greekdx @ otenet dot gr ---
Pesawat penerima: ICOM R75 , Lowe HF150 , Degen 1102,1103,108,
Tecsun PL200/550/600, Chibo c300/c979, Yupi 7000
Antenna: 16m hor, 2x16 m V invert, 1m australian loop
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