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Today's Topics:
1. U.S. civilians donate radios to Afghans (Arnaldo)
2. sATmORN dx (Charles Bolland)
3. Oct. 05 - 08 logs (L?cio Ot?vio Bobrowiec)
4. Glenn Hauser logs October 8-9, 2010 (Glenn Hauser)
5. Fw: [DXplorer] RMRC broadcast at 9.10.2010 (Wolfgang Bueschel)
6. Re: [DXplorer] RMRC to NA 6130 (Wolfgang Bueschel)
7. Re: RMRC to NA 6130 (Brandon Jordan)
8. Logs for Al Muick (Albert Muick)
9. Glenn Hauser logs October 9, 2010 (Glenn Hauser)
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Message: 1
Date: Sat, 9 Oct 2010 06:52:42 +0200
From: "Arnaldo" <sl...@ciudad.com.ar>
To: <cumbr...@cs2.ralabs.com>
Cc: hard-core-dx@hard-core-dx.com, playdx2003
<playdx2...@yahoogroups.com>, DXLD <d...@yahoogroups.com>,
bcln...@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [HCDX] U.S. civilians donate radios to Afghans
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The U.S. military's mission in Afghanistan is more often about helping farmers
and teachers than firefights with the Taliban. That gives people at home, like
Royse City plastics maker John Stettler, a way to support the war by helping
the military help the Afghans.
Stettler put up $10,000 this year to buy radios for villagers in Afghanistan's
Helmand province. A battalion of U.S. Marines is handing out these solar and
hand-crank radios in places where there is no electricity.
"If we send Americans to risk their lives in other countries, it's important
for civilians to do their part," said Stettler, 53. "It's a citizen's duty."
Stettler's $10,000 was a challenge grant given to Spirit of America, a Los
Angeles charity. Jim Hake, founder of Spirit of America, asked Stettler and
other donors to respond after he got an appeal for radios from the 3rd
Battalion of the 1st Marine Division in Garmsir.
The appeal raised $30,000 that's being spent on 3,000 radios shipped directly
to the Marines in Afghanistan.
"Broadly speaking, we help the troops help the local people," Hake said. "From
our perspective, by providing radios, we're helping to open families and
villages to outside information and music as well. From the Marine Corps'
perspective, it also opens villages to outside information and helps them
combat Taliban propaganda."
Hake said Brig. Gen. Larry Nicholson, who led the Marine forces into Helmand
province last year, told him: "We spend 10 percent of our time hunting and 90
percent of our time helping."
U.S. generals running the war in Afghanistan say information is one of the key
battlefields, and radio is the medium both sides use in this fight. Most
Afghans live in small villages, cannot read or write, and don't have
electricity. Their news comes over the radio.
Taliban stations
Media surveys in Afghanistan by aid groups have found most villages have had
radios since U.S. forces overthrew the Taliban almost nine years ago. But the
radio in the tea shop or mosque, powered by a small generator or a car battery,
could be tuned by a Taliban sympathizer to a Taliban station. Giving families
their own radios lets them listen to something else.
So far this year, U.S. forces and their allies have handed out 45,000 radios -
and put on-air many of their own radio stations.
"We have three radio stations set up on combat outposts, with a fourth station
coming in the next couple of weeks," Lt. Col. Ben Watson, the 3rd Battalion's
commanding officer, wrote in an e-mail from Garmsir.
Watson explained that the stations are manned by two local Afghan DJs and
Marines working with translators. They offer a mix of programming, including
local leaders supporting the government, music and news.
"We encourage locals to write in or tell our patrols what they like and don't
like about the programming so that we can constantly improve," he wrote.
Scores of radio stations are operating in Afghanistan and sending signals from
across the border in Pakistan. The Afghan government, Britain's BBC and the
U.S. government's Voice of America broadcast nationwide.
Voice of America also sends FM and short-wave signals into the tribal regions
of Pakistan across the Afghan border - an area rich in Taliban radio operations
as well, according to a State Department inspector general's report released
last year.
"The Taliban operate a large number of unlicensed FM transmitters throughout
the region," the report found. "While they have limited range, these 'rogue'
stations regularly broadcast propaganda, including frequent claims for
terrorist actions carried out by the Taliban."
Media groups operating in Afghanistan say villagers are skeptical of the Afghan
government's broadcasts and prefer programs that relate information about their
local area. That's where the Taliban and the U.S. military try to operate.
'First with the truth'
Soon after the war started, the U.S. Agency for International Development sent
30,000 radios to Afghanistan, but U.S. AID workers in Kabul say that effort has
ended. Voice of America is distributing 20,000 more radios.
Gen. David Petraeus, commander of U.S. and NATO forces in Afghanistan, issued
guidelines in August that urge his forces to "fight the information war
aggressively."
"Be first with the truth," the guidelines read. "Beat the insurgents and
malignant actors to the headlines."
But supplies aren't always in place when they're needed, which is why Watson
turned to Spirit of America.
"We are at the end of a long and challenging logistics pipeline out here, and
we don't get everything we want just as fast as we'd like it," Watson wrote.
"SOA [Spirit of America] helps immensely to supplement the number of
hand-crank, solar-powered radios we get through military channels in order to
allow us to supply to the local population so they can listen to our radio
stations. Their support is a huge help."
Some radios are both hand-crank and solar.
Stettler said he's been seeking ways to support U.S. forces in Iraq and
Afghanistan since 9/11. He said he worries that Americans are losing interest
in the conflict in Afghanistan.
"There seems to be a big drop-off in support domestically," he said. "A lot of
what needs to be done over there are things American citizens can do, not by
going there, but just by supporting people who are going over there do these
things."(Dallas news)
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Message: 2
Date: Sat, 9 Oct 2010 11:56:06 -0000
From: "Charles Bolland" <ka4...@peoplepc.com>
To: "ALF" <alf.e.pers...@telia.com>, "Arnaldo slaen"
<sl...@ciudad.com.ar>, "Bob Wilkner" <r...@earthlink.net>,
"brainman214" <brainman...@gmail.com>,Carlos
GonA?alves<carlos-rel...@sapo.pt>, "Cumbre" <cumbr...@n2jeu.net>,
"DSWCI" <l...@directbox.com>, "Gayle Van Horn"
<gaylevanh...@monitoringtimes.com>, "Glenn Hauser"
<wghau...@yahoo.com>, "Hard-core-dx" <hard-core-dx@hard-core-dx.com>,
"Marie Lamb" <mal...@cumbredx.org>
Subject: [HCDX] sATmORN dx
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Bolivia, 6134.83, Radio Santa Cruz, 0950-1020, Noted
a female and two
males in Quecha Language comments while the signal
bounces between
good and poor. At 0956 music presented. At times the
language sounds like
Quecha and then Spanish. Signal seemed to peak on the
hour to a good level.
(Chuck Bolland, October 9, 2010)
WR-G31DDC
26.37N 081.05W
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Message: 3
Date: Sat, 9 Oct 2010 14:04:07 -0300
From: L?cio Ot?vio Bobrowiec <eefi...@yahoo.com.br>
To: <Hard-Core-DX@hard-core-dx.com>, <cumbr...@n2jeu.net>,
<playdx2...@yahoogroups.com>, <d...@yahoogroups.com>,
<g...@apple.email.ne.jp>, "Anker Petersen" <anker.peter...@mail.dk>,
<worldbandra...@yahoogroups.com>
Subject: [HCDX] Oct. 05 - 08 logs
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3945, R. Vanuatu, Port Vila. October, 05 0835-0845 female in English hosting
listeners by phone, listener talks followed by male in studio in comments "in
1993..police..Australia rescue", many times this sequence. 35322, (lob-B).
3970, Korea, North, KCBS Pyongyang, Wonsan. October, 05 0846-0855 elation
music, short male and female in Korean talks in music break. 25222, (lob-B).
5020, Solomon Islands BC, Honiara. October, 05 0858-0910 Pacific music, male
and female in English announcements on top of the hour "Solomon
Islands..company..you're listening radio..www". 34333, (lob-B).
5055, Brasil, R. Difusora, C?ceres. October, 06 0900-0918 male in Portuguese ID
annoucements "..60 metros..", religious talks "Igreja..pedir a Deus a
sabedoria", religious music; fading, 25322. October, 08 0859-0908 sign on at
0900 with male ID announcements "R. Difusora de C?ceres para o Brasil", "abre
espa?o para seu programa A hora milagrosa..a Igreja Apost?lica apresenta o
programa A hora milagrosa" male explaining miracles happened with followers of
this religious entity Igreja Apost?lica "a m?e, a Sra..explicou ao filhinho que
confiasse no poder da f?..ent?o o garoto recebeu um milagre atestado pelo
m?dico..pois voltou a enxergar"; 35333, (lob-B).
73's
L?cio Ot?vio Bobrowiec
Embu SP Brasil - Sony ICF SW40 - Dipole 18m, 32m; Longwire 22m.
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Message: 4
Date: Sat, 9 Oct 2010 10:50:05 -0700 (PDT)
From: Glenn Hauser <wghau...@yahoo.com>
To: d...@yahoogroups.com
Cc: s...@mailman.qth.net
Subject: [HCDX] Glenn Hauser logs October 8-9, 2010
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** AUSTRALIA. 15400, unlike yesterday, HCJB propagating well Saturday Oct 9 at
1325 with some downunderite reading boring loggings, so checked their other
frequency, 15340: nice south Asian vocal music, and still no het from Morocco,
neither audibly from ex-15341, nor subaudibly from presumed 15340, whence it is
presumably not propagating instead. Back to 15400 at 1330 just as DX Partyline
ends on time, no ID, immediately into Chinese (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** BULGARIA. 15700, Oct 9 at 1333, R. Bulgaria with folk music on accordion,
lo-fi announcement; 1350 now it`s accordion with piano in Saturday traditional
music show (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CANADA. 6070, Oct 9 at 0601, CFRX newscast by YL with improved modulation,
and I was ready to give them an R5, but a few minutes later it declined to R4
and continued to plummet (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CANADA. 9625, Oct 9 at 0553, tone test as happens so frequently, long after
CBCNQ 0506 sign-off; why? Vs splatter from REE/CR 9630 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** CHINA. Firedrake Oct 9: none found 8-16 MHz before 1300 (Glenn Hauser, OK,
DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CUBA. 11760, back on the air and VG with RHC English, Oct 9 at 0551, jazz
piano music // 5970, 6060 and JBM 6150, but no 6010. Next check 0603, 6010 had
replaced 11760. But unlike a previous night, 9525 in Spanish was not extended.
As I started to tune down the 21m band, Oct 9 at 1339, no signal on 13880, so
figured one of the RHC channels would be off, unable to produce this leapfrog.
Yes: 13780 VG as usual, but nothing on 13680.
Despertar con Cuba was airing a report from Puerto Rico on a baseball
championship, slanted to how the Cuban team was doing; 1342 Agenda 21
environmental report about a weather radar in Pinar del R?o established in
1972; urging us to go green. By this time I was axually listening on 12030
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** GUATEMALA. 4055-, TGAV, Oct 9 at 0555 carrier and JBA music (Glenn Hauser,
OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** INDIA. Can`t get enough of that Bengaluru hum! 9690, AIR GOS English channel
at 1330-1500, already on air at 1318 Oct 9, otherwise open carrier, but off
again at 1322 check, having confirmed that the transmitter will be ready to
radiate.
9425, Bengaluru at 1318 Oct 9, AIR IS, flutter, ACI de FEBC 9430; 1320 Vande
Mataram, 1321+ sign-on in Hindi mentioning kHz. Could not hear this National
Channel on // 9470 Aligarh with huge WTWW from 9479.
9870, Bengaluru with VBS, Oct 9 at 1319 pop music, flutter, CCI from presumed
China (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** INDONESIA. 3325, Oct 9 at 1231 tune-in to hear talk in Indonesian, but
vanished at 1231:30*. This could explain why I was not hearing any signal the
day before when I tuned in somewhat later, after having had nice daily peaks
before 1300: RRI Palangkaraya turning off transmitter earlier, for some reason.
What does Atsunori Ishida at http://rri.jpn.org/ say? Observations since Oct 7
not yet entered
However, Ron Howard heard 3325 on the air from 1439 Oct 9 Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** INDONESIA. 9526-, VOI, back to normal VG signal Oct 9 after weakish
yesterday; 1249 rock in English during Japanese hour; 1314 in English Today in
History about consequences of NK nuclear tests; 1315 Focus, on ``Indonesia
becoming more attractive to international business``; usual IADs (Glenn Hauser,
OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** JAPAN. R. Nikkei, Oct 9 at 0553 fair on both 9595 and 9760 in non //
Japanese talk (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MALAYSIA. 6049.6, Oct 9 1306, weak music to talk, VP, 1308 mixing music and
talk. Confirmed off-frequency compared to WEWN 12050. A semihour earlier I was
only hearing the het with HCJB(?). Now with some audio there is still a het
from algo on 6050.0.
I defer to Ron Howard who reported thus Oct 4: ``pop music show at
1301 in vernacular with many "Radio Malaysia Asyik FM" IDs; fair;
slight drift.`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** NIGERIA. 7350, Oct 9 at 0559, JBA carrier from presumed R. Nigeria, Abuja;
wonder if this will ever rise to audibility over here. Shame to have such a
nice clear frequency, with pitiful peanut power. Is anyone in Europe hearing it
in the evenings? But then it would collide with Russia, Moldova, Iran, China,
East Turkistan. Maybe there are some gaps when it could be detected (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** OKLAHOMA. 1610, NWS Enid relay again audible, Oct 8 at 2200 UT, JBA on
caradio in Enid, so the Great Salt Plains TIS (Jet/Cherokee OK), WQCL720, is
back in biz after radiating loud noise blob for a few weeks.
1580, checked KOKB Blackwell Saturday Oct 9 at 1347, and it`s nominal with
local sports talk during the hour when, tnx to KOKB open carrier, we used to
hear the mystery Spanish sports show which turned out to be KHGG Fort Smith AR.
With KOKB applying modulation, no chance of hearing that any more, tsk. We got
that while the getting was good, i.e. all summer.
Compared to sister station KOKP 1020 Perry OK, and found 1580 about one second
behind, instead of a much longer delay, so suspect they are now using satellite
rather than internet feed from Stillwater studio, and modulation quality has
also improved to normal (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** PORTUGAL. 15560, Oct 9 at 1334 song in English but instrumental
accompaniment too loud to make out the words; 1335 segu? to rock song in
Portuguese, words also drowned by non-acoustic instruments. This RDPI frequency
to NAm is on the air at this hour only on weekends, VG signal (Glenn Hauser,
OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** PORTUGAL [and non?]. 7325, Oct 9 at 0605 DW news in English, ID, into
Newslink; heavy flutter and a quick echo. Another anomaly from them. This is
listed as Sines site, in use by DW only at 0600-0630, nowhen else on this
frequency from any other site, so inadvertent overlap unseems explication. 250
kW, 180 degrees.
The echo quick enough to be short/long path, but unlikely now as would have to
cross the dayside. Also, no other 40m signals had such a flutter, which could
have instead been a subaudible heterodyne by two DW transmitters (both at
Sines, or one somewhere else) nevertheless carrying the same feed by different
routing on slightly different frequencies (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** SAINT HELENA [non]. 9770, the RMRC special in German substituting for a real
R. Saint Helena Day, on 9770 at 1530-1630 Oct 9 only: inaudible here at 1610
check, but not suprisingly.
English for NAm will be at 2230-2330 on 6130, both via LITHUANIA. The latter
time looks to be a clear frequency, so we have only propagation to contend
with. Should be less of a challenge than 11092.5 would have been (Glenn Hauser,
OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** TUNISIA. 7335, RTT open carrier started musical modulation at 0557:25 Oct 9,
// 7275 for the semi-hour overlap (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** TURKEY. 15450, VOT, Oct 9 at 1301, YL reading reception reports, yawn, so
this is confirmed as an on-week for the fortnightly so-called DX Corner.
Axually should have listened earlier and closer, as Tibor Szilagyi, EDXC
Chairman, said an interview with him would be on today, following the EDXC
Conference in Ankara last weekend; anyhow should repeat thru the 0300+ UT
Sunday broadcast, and if we are lucky, ondemand for a day or so. Look for the
09.10.2010 broadcast linked at the lower left corner of
http://www.trt-world.com/trtworld/en/news.aspx
Yes, the EDXC report starts 12 minutes in, on an expanded DX Corner, to contain
interviews with him from before the conference, and another with a DXer from
Finland; more interviews to come in subsequent fortnights.
News from the meeting: VOT plans to launch Japanese. Radio Saint Helena Day
schedule as if it were happening today! The YL reporter whose name I can never
catch, has not heard about the cancellation.
Many other items mentioned, but already in written reports on the conference
appearing in two versions in DX Listening Digest 10-40, under TURKEY, and
CONVENTIONS & CONFERENCES:
http://www.w4uvh.net/dxld1040.txt
Music break at :24 to :28 into the hour, and still no interviews, as she starts
reading reception reports. One listener complained that she speaks too fast, so
said she would be ``more attentive`` from now on. Ends program at :36, but it
turns out the interviews are outside DX Corner in the rest of the hour normally
filled with music. Tibor is at :37-:46 minutes, the Finn whose name I couldn`t
catch either, follows, and as I dispatch this report have not yet had time to
finish listening to them (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A [and non]. VOA jazz hour, Saturday Oct 9 at 1323 on 9760, 9510, 7575,
in decreasing order of quality, from Tinang 250, Tinang 50, and Tinian 250
respectively.
VOA has a great heritage of jazz programming, and it`s great to be maintained,
but how about classical. Is there ANY classical music (yes, American), in the
VOA Music Mix? Let alone relayed on SW? Just try to find any mention of
classical here:
http://www.voanews.com/english/programs/radio/64964082.html
``VOA Music Mix is the Voice of America?s 24/7 English language music network.
We combine the best songs from pop, rock, country, Hip-Hop, rap, jazz to give
you the World?s Best Variety.``
Is there a 24/7 program schedule of MM so we can look for any token classical
hour? Not that we can find. Since this is primarily a satellite/internet
stream, excuses that the fine art of classical would be ruined by lousy SW
fading and interference will not be accepted.
VOA ignoring it, or even Broadway musicals, another great American music genre,
is absolutely scandalous. The VOA music director, if any, must be extremely
narrow-minded, perhaps without even realizing it (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 5050, WWRB is normally long gone from this frequency before 0600, but
Saturday Oct 9 at 0607, talk in Biblese, seems like a Pauline epistle in KJV
English. Had vanished a few minutes later (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** U S A [and non]. 15420-CUSB, WBCQ, Oct 9 at 1355-1400 with IS and ID --- the
best and only time worth listening to this frequency, since all the rest is one
gospel huxter or another. Text voiced by non-Allan announcer is: ``You are
listening to WBCQ, Monticello, Maine, the United States of America, The
Planet``, and IS a big-band fanfare of about 20 notes (hard to count,
overlapping), lo fi, maybe from the Marion Webster Collexion.
This repeated over and over, until just before 1400, standard canned ID by
Allan Weiner with jingle, but cut off last word ``Planet`` to join primitive
organ music introducing Brother Scare Sabbath service. Compared USB to LSB on
the DX-398: definitely favors USB, but some modulation also audible on LSB.
By next check 1610, 15420 dominated by BBCWS with report from Commonwealth
Games, even when tuned to USB. BBC via SEYCHELLES is scheduled on 15420 from
1300 to 1700, alternating English, Somali, Swahili, English finally at 280
degrees. For reasons unknown, this collision has never been considered by
respective frequency managers as worth resolving; presumably because
theoretically, Seychelles should be no problem for WBCQ on the way to its
Mexican target area. In the B-season, BBC switching from Seychelles to
southward from Cyprus at 1400 might be less of a problem, but then there`s via
South Africa in our afternoons (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A [and non]. WORLD OF RADIO 1533 confirmed on WWCR-2, 12160, Saturday
Oct 9 at 1610, excellent signal. Next airings should be 0230 UT Sunday on 4840,
and 0630 Sunday --- back on 3215, or still on 3255 test? They were on 3255 UT
Oct 9 around 0600.
Also via IRRS, SLOVAKIA, 7290, Saturday at 1800.
Upcoming WRMI 9955 airings are: Sat 1730, Sun 0800, 1530, 1730; Tue 1530, 2230,
Wed 0030, maybe 1530 unless new one is ready. WBCQ 7415 Tue 1900, maybe Wed
1900 too unless new one is ready (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** WESTERN SAHARA [non]. 6297.1, looking for SASASAM Oct 9 at 0600, and found
open carrier with soft noise bursts, which we think are coming from own
transmitter rather than ute QRM, but not sure; 0602 ending NA into chanting.
The previous evening, Brian Alexander caught them again instead on 6248.33
until 0033* (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ###
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Message: 5
Date: Sat, 9 Oct 2010 20:09:20 +0200
From: "Wolfgang Bueschel" <buesch...@web.de>
To: "DXLD" <d...@yahoogroups.com>, "HCDX"
<hard-core-dx@hard-core-dx.com>
Subject: [HCDX] Fw: [DXplorer] RMRC broadcast at 9.10.2010
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Subject: Re: [DXplorer] RMRC broadcast at 9.10.2010
Wonderful strong signal of S=9+35dB, here in Stuttgart, Germany, centered in
the main lobe of the 259 degrees outlet from Lithuania, no QRM.
China co-channel now heard at 1633 UT after Sitkunai ceased transmission,
but CRI Hakka bcast weak in 212 degrees from Urumchi site, in direction of
Bombay, Maledives/Seychelles, Madagascar and Eastern South Africa.
... and three seconds bargain of HCJB's German feed too, bcast on 9770 kHz
instead of scheduled 5940 kHz from 1630 UT regularly.
Same excellent transmission signals from Sitkunai heard already 40 years ago
on USSR era. But not that happening content ... :-)
Danke RMRC und Harald f?rs Ereignis.
73 wb
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Message: 6
Date: Sun, 10 Oct 2010 01:04:04 +0200
From: "Wolfgang Bueschel" <buesch...@web.de>
To: "DXLD" <d...@yahoogroups.com>, "HCDX"
<hard-core-dx@hard-core-dx.com>, "DXplorer"
<dxplo...@yahoogroups.com>
Subject: Re: [HCDX] [DXplorer] RMRC to NA 6130
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LITHUANIA 6130 TCI-California antenna beamed in direction of 310 degrees
serves a powerful signal in target zones 4,7,8,9,10,11 in North America.
6130 here in Stuttgart only co-channel CNR Lhasa Tibet in English (!) with
typical Chinese dance music, S=9+10dB, 2230 UT Oct 9.
>From 2234 UT onwards heard the St. Helena Happening broadcast TINY
UNDERNEATH.
In an angle difference of 51 degress ... to main lobe via TCI 8-dipol beast
at 310 degrees.
(wb)
----- Original Message -----
From: "Don Jensen" Sent: Sunday, October 10, 2010 12:49 AM
Subject: Re: [DXplorer] RMRC to NA 6130
Powerful signal from carrier on at 2228. IS, ID into pgming, which
continues strong at 2350/
--don
From: James Ronda
Sent: Saturday, October 09, 2010 5:38 PM
Subject: Re: [DXplorer] RMRC to NA 6130
Traces of audio here at 2230; some improvement so that individual words and
voices could be heard by 2236; best in LSB
Jim Ronda Tulsa, OK
On Oct 9, 2010, at 5:33 PM, John Herkimer wrote:
Huge signal on clear freq (6130) at *2230 with Rhein-Main Radio Club English
program to NA.
John
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Message: 7
Date: Sat, 09 Oct 2010 18:36:10 -0500
From: Brandon Jordan <bcdx....@gmail.com>
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LITHUANIA, Rhein-Main Radio Club special RSH 2009 broadcast via
Sitkuani, 6130, 2230-2330 - English with clips of RSH 2009 broadcast,
comments, QSL details. Initially poor but improving to fair by 2330.
Transmitter left on until 2332.
Brandon Jordan, Memphis, TN
Perseus SDR, Wellbrook K9AY, Welbrook ALA330S, KAZ
www.bcdx.org | www.dxtests.info
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Message: 8
Date: Sun, 10 Oct 2010 06:12:22 +0430
From: "Albert Muick" <radioresearch_field_operati...@yahoo.com>
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Subject: [HCDX] Logs for Al Muick
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QTH: Kabul, Afghanistan
RX: WinRadio G303e
ANT: 200m Longwire/Randomwire
ACC: Palstar MW-550P Mediumwave Preselector
6676 USB 09 OCT, 1624 UTC, SINGAPORE, Singapore VOLMET with synthesized
male voice reading weather conditions for Malaysia and Singapore. Good
quality signals and no QRM.
7165 09 OCT, 1605 UTC, ETHIOPIA, Radio Ethiopia (tent.). Strong carrier
but very weak modulation. I could just barely make out the English language
by the male announcer. Taking turns with a female announcer and many
mentions of Ethiopia.
7175 09 OCT, 1540 UTC, ERITREA, Voice of the Broad Masses, in presumed
Amharic (according to schedule) with area music and announcements by man.
Station ID at 1558 and suddenly smashed by what appeared to be strong DRM
signal as viewed on the specral display, however, although it locked, there
was no data. Fair signals with no QRM and some slight fading up to that
point.
Well, it's been a couple of weeks since I had time for the hobby, but
finally getting some spare time again. I completely missed the RMRC
broadcast by drifting off to sleep.
If there are any fiber optic technicians out there who might be interested
in working on Kandahar Airfield, please drop me a note and a CV/resume. I
need 2-3 technicians and a project manager for converting our WiMAX network
to fiber, utilizing the existing NATO pit and duct systems.
Hope everyone is well!
73
Al Muick
"When the government keeps detailed records on every move we make
and we either need advance permission for everything we do or are
penalized for not knowing what the rules are, America will be
declared a police state."
- Rep. Ron Paul, Texas
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Message: 9
Date: Sat, 9 Oct 2010 18:50:24 -0700 (PDT)
From: Glenn Hauser <wghau...@yahoo.com>
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Subject: [HCDX] Glenn Hauser logs October 9, 2010
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** ARGENTINA. Reception from Lithuania, q.v., was so poor that I kept
bandscanning during the 2230 sesquihour Oct 9, periodically checking 6130. On
15345.0, R. Nacional seemed right on frequency for a change, Oct 9 at 2248 with
silly ballgame, as obvious from keywords ``pelota`` and ``partido`` but they
never really said ``partido tonto de pelota`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** BRAZIL. 12174, SRDA is still putting out horrible loud extremely distorted
spur, Oct 9 at 2246, also much weaker 11356. Checking the fundamental 11765,
seemed to be a YL gospel huxter alternating with David Miranda, and much lower
modulation level (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CHAD. 6165, RNT, Oct 9 at 2254, hilife music with French comments
interspersed, considerably better signal than Lithuania; 2301, ``Ici Ndjamena,
La Station(?) Nationale``, brief NA by military band until 2302:30, carrier
stayed on a while. I assume this is back to normal schedule following Ramadan,
-2300 Sats, unlike -2230 otherdays. RN Venezuela did not reappear as it had
once recently on this unscheduled frequency (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** COLOMBIA. 6035, Oct 9 at 2319, could make out some Spanish
commercial-hype-sounding talk vs the 6030 ACI from the DentroCuban Jamming
Command, and R. Mart?, so presumably LV del Guaviare, not doing as well as DR
on the other side. No major broadcasters are scheduled here in Spanish (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** DOMINICAN REPUBLIC. 6025, as soon as I tuned in Oct 9 at 2255, they said
``Amigos oyentes de Radio Amanecer Internacional``, so I could immediately tune
on, escaping the religionist exhortations to follow; fair over CCI (Bolivia? Or
Iran`s 13-hour overnight Arabic service), and considerable ACI from the
Dentro-FueraCuban radio war on 6030. Another check at 6025: CCI worse, making
low rumble tnx to RAI being off-channel (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** LITHUANIA [and non]. 6130, Rhein-Main Radio Club special consolation
broadcast for Radio Saint Helena Day, which was canceled: Did not anticipate
very good reception from that far into eastern Europe, and such was the case.
No CCI or ACI, but signal generally too weak and fading vs noise level.
Tune-in Oct 9 at 2235 , poor with music only; 2241 some talk but unreadable,
2242 music, and so forth. 2252 mentioning QSL cards; 6130 now a little better,
maximum 7 bars on the DX-398 with reel-out antenna, 8 with a longer random wire
clipped on, but that`s still far from enough for clear copy considering the
noise and modulation levels.
2304 announced ``Life on the Ocean Waves``, RSH theme tune and played a bit of
it; then schedule to different regions, presumably studio recording of last
year`s RSHD. 2307 seems two guys conversing, mentioning R-M-R-C-. SINPO at best
35333. 2317 mentioned 11092.5 U-S-B, time quarter to one GMT.
By 2327 signal had worsened, now unreadable. Tnx to RMRC for undertaking this,
and hope we may get to hear this hour later online. Probably would have been
better to NAm on 7 MHz band; e.g. RUI on 7440 was much stronger in English
before 2300, but they do have a few hundred more kW and I assume lots more
antenna gain. I gather reception was quite a bit better north and east of here,
as would be expected (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** NIGERIA [and non]. 7350, I`m wondering if this new frequency for R. Nigeria,
Abuja, weakly audible here from 0600, is also on the air in the evenings? No
sign of it on a few chex after 2235 UT Oct 9, and by 2358 the frequency had
Chinese on it, which is CRI English via EAST TURKISTAN from 2300.
Unfortunately, unlike the mornings, there are several other major broadcasters
scheduled on 7350 in the evenings; but it might be free after 2030 if Moldova`s
registration at 2000-2200 is wooden; and surely between 2200 and 2300. A
Nigerian would not likely be on later than 2300 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** RUSSIA. 5900, checked Oct 9 at 2256 and later, no sign of V. of Russia,
English to North America, apparently gone since the end of September, but is
there a replacement as yet unfound? Predictably, their sked at
http://english.ruvr.ru/radio_broadcast/schedule/ still shows 5900 at 22-02. But
it also fails to show 9665 at 23-02 which has really been on for several weeks.
What do they know back in Moscow? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 9330-CUSB, Oct 9 at 2325 plugging http://www.radio211.com where you
may request a QSL for SW or webcast, or P O Box 456, Orangeville Ont., missed
postal code. ``Radio 211, on WBCQ, 50,000 watts of Amplitude Modulation``
(well, not exactly: ``compatible`` USB, i.e. reduced carrier and reduced LSB
but could also hear some modulation on lower side.) On to Bible quotation about
olive oil.
This is Rod Hembree`s latest enterprise, part of the Good Friends Radio
Network, which has bought out 9330 for 15 hours daily, 13-04 UT per WBCQ
current online schedule, which linx to this: http://www.thestreamtv.com/
which linx further to this for Radio 2:11 --
http://www.thestreamtv.com/welcome_003.htm
which is where the URL heard announced forwards to.
I find nothing on home or any of the pages about reporting or QSLing.
Aha, 2:11 with a colon, must be obscure reference to some Bible verse, but
which? There are countless eleventh verses of second chapters. I`m not going to
keep listening hoping to find out.
There`s also a message board, i.a. trashing fellow gospel-huxter ``Harold
Campee``:
http://www.thestreamtv.citymax.com/board/board_topic/4160401/712665.htm
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** WESTERN SAHARA [non]. 6297.1, SASASAM is on its usual frequency this
evening, Oct 9 at 2245, poor in Arabish talk; night before, Brian Alexander
caught them on alternate(?) 6248.33. Unusually, Carlos Gon?alves in Portugal
was not hearing them on 6297 during this hour (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. Since I was bandscanning Oct 9 before 24 UT, I checked once again
for the anomalies heard only once before in this hour. At 2350, 6165 had no RN
Venezuela; 5935 had no BBCWS; 5800 heard more than once, had no WEWN, but some
ute QRM on lo side (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 9587.7, weak modulation but stronger carrier here first noticed
as het to CRI Spanish on 9590 via Kashgar, EAST TURKISTAN, Oct 9 at 2335, seems
in Portuguese, likely the Brazilian perpetually off-frequency, what used to be
R. Globo, S?o Paulo, nominal 9585 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 15705-USB, 2-way in colloquial Spanish, Oct 9 at 2249, one of
them whistling into mic, proving his lack of class. Next check at 2356 they
were still at it (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ###
End of Hard-Core-DX Digest, Vol 94, Issue 10
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