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It may be copied, distributed and/or modified under the conditions set down in the Design Science License published by Michael Stutz at http://dsl.org/copyleft/dsl.txt Today's Topics: 1. New Radio Heritage ZB99 Competition (Radio Heritage Mail) 2. Glenn Hauser logs December 15, 2010 (Glenn Hauser) 3. COREXION FOR 12-12-10 LOGS (Zacharias Liangas ) 4. Shortwave Radio Logs from WDX6AA (Stewart MacKenzie) 5. 9420 kHz - Voice of Greece? (T Witherspoon) 6. Re: 9420 kHz - Voice of Greece? (Glenn Hauser) 7. Shortwave Radio Logs from WDX6aa (Stewart MacKenzie) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Wed, 15 Dec 2010 18:56:40 +1300 From: "Radio Heritage Mail" <i...@radioheritage.net> To: i...@radioheritage.net Subject: [HCDX] New Radio Heritage ZB99 Competition Message-ID: <380-220101231555640...@radioheritage.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 New Radio Heritage ZB Competition www.radioheritage.net _________________________________ Merry Christmas! Season's Greetings! As a thank you for radio hobby and listener support during 2010, we've got a great prize as well as something special for the first 20 correct entries we receive to our new competition....... Visit our website www.radioheritage.net and tell us the total number of visits expected to our website for the month of December...a hint, you'll find the figure in our new feature about 150 Sponsors in 2011..... 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You may get more than one copy of this message because your name may appear on more than one of our mailing lists. Our lists are scheduled to be consolidated in 2011. ------------------------------ Message: 2 Date: Wed, 15 Dec 2010 09:31:59 -0800 (PST) From: Glenn Hauser <wghau...@yahoo.com> To: d...@yahoogroups.com Cc: s...@mailman.qth.net Subject: [HCDX] Glenn Hauser logs December 15, 2010 Message-ID: <525233.55895...@web51103.mail.re2.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii ** COSTA RICA. 5965, Dec 15 at 0630, automatic half-hour REE timesignal mixing with unpaused Spanish discussion, about one second late, due to satellite feed delay, etc. Standard remark about the necessity for TS to be accurate, otherwise deleted. BTW, unusually at this time, was not hearing any CCI from VATICAN, scheduled 0400-0805, normally a big bother (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** GERMANY [non]. 9560, Dec 15 at 1602, news in English by YL with British accent, so is it BBC? But R. Australia is on 9560 earlier. But not // 9710 OM news, certainly RA, which has just opened this frequency toward Alaska. Really 9560 now is scheduled as DW in English via Trincomalee, 250 kW, 345 degrees so also USward (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** NIGERIA [and non]. 7275, Dec 15 at 0626 Tunisian music seems atop a much weaker signal; we`ll soon see as RTT stops modulating at 0626:50 and turns off the carrier at 0626:58*; yes, uncovering something very weak with undermodulated talk, presumably R. Nigeria, Abuja. Tunisia continued on // 7335 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** NIGERIA [non]. 17485, Dec 15 at 1415, Hamada Radio International, fair with IDs in passing mixed with music; program seems heavily produced. One of these M/W/Fs, I will catch them at *1400 via Wertachtal, GERMANY (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** PERU. 18058-, Dec 15 at 1558, very weak carrier, trace of modulation, so the R. Victoria third harmonic from 6019.3+ is still there, not logged here in some weeks. Ham ``17m`` enthusiasts with beams should be able to pull it in better, but they wouldn`t be interested as long as it stays below 18068 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** PHILIPPINES. 9310, poor Dec 15 at 1559, Yankee Doodle sign-on music concluding, so one might reasonably expect VOA to follow, but 1600 ID as Radio Svoboda. Scheduled as IBB Tinang with R. Liberty Tatar-Bashkir service, 250 kW, 332 degrees. Axually it sounded more like Radio Svobodna, perhaps a variant ID for those non-Russian tongues (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** PHILIPPINES [non]. 15435, Dec 15 at 1430, unlike yesterday, Vatican gets the audio from Quezon City on air timely, with opening fanfare, 1431 sign-on in Urdu including mention of Radio Veritas Asia, MHz, Pakistan (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 13570, WINB, Dec 15 at 1551, Radio 2-11 program ID as I tune in, so now we know one time it is on, missing from the previous publicity about it. Carrier is more unstable than usual, really warbling with BFO on, and sounds unsteady even on AM. This is running 13 seconds ahead of WBCQ 9330-CUSB. Seems Rod Hembree has a preference for transmitters which are not normal full AM. Believe it or not, the WINB program schedule has finally been updated ``effective Dec 5, prepared Dec 7``, both by-time and by-title versions, in EST, so for a while it may be more or less correct. Only start-times are shown, so we can only assume each show lasts until the following entry starts. Below we have converted all times and days to UT, and added a few other programs of interest. No mention of Radio 2-11 there, but instead the parent ministry, GFR, which may contain other subprograms as well: Good Friends Radio: Sun 1600-1730, M-F 1500-1900 Musical Memories: Sun 2200-2230, Tue 1130-1200 The Overcomer: M-F 1300-1500, 2200-2400; Sat 1430-2130 Global Spirit Proclamation: M-F 1900-2200 Family Radio - Spanish: daily 1200-1300, 0000-0100 [WYFR; no English] As we figured out previously, frequency usage is 9265, except: 13570, Sun-Fri 1500-2200. Altho registered as starting at 1100, the schedule shows *1130 except Saturdays *1145; also 9265 registered during standard time period until 0400. Final program of day of unknown length starts at 0300 except UT Tue 0230. The UT Monday 0300 program, Radio Bible Study, lasts only a semihour at its other airing Saturday 1400 (Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. Re my previous report, about where the three FM relays of KSKY 660 Dallas are located, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KSKY has info about this, altho not all frequencies match. Do such STAs have own callsigns, however unemployed? Tnx to Doug Smith, Trip Ericson and Scott Fybush for explaining this (Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST) Found 'em. http://licensing.fcc.gov/cgi-bin/ws.exe/prod/cdbs/forms/prod/prefill_and_display.pl?Application_id=1256296&Service=AM&Form_id=911&Facility_id=6591 http://licensing.fcc.gov/cgi-bin/ws.exe/prod/cdbs/forms/prod/prefill_and_display.pl?Application_id=1256315&Service=AM&Form_id=911&Facility_id=6591 http://licensing.fcc.gov/cgi-bin/ws.exe/prod/cdbs/forms/prod/prefill_and_display.pl?Application_id=1256330&Service=AM&Form_id=911&Facility_id=6591 I never would have suspected the filing of FM translators under an AM license like that, but there you go (Trip Ericson, http://www.rabbitears.info ibid.) You have to click on the pdf linx at the very bottom of each file in order to get the real info on channels, powers, locations, etc. (gh, DXLD) Because (as Trip noted) these are licensed as STA [special temporary authority] under the AM station's license, they do not have their own separate facility ID numbers or callsigns. To the extent they have callsigns at all, the callsign is simply "KSKY." As Doug will testify, it's getting more complicated to uniquely match a callsign with a transmission facility these days. The KSKY STA-FM relays aren't the only such example. DTV stations with digital replacement translators don't get separate calls for those, either - so "WTAE-TV" is the call for both the main Pittsburgh ABC transmitter on channel 51 south of town and the low-power fill-in translator (on channel 22) from the WQED tower in the city's Oakland neighborhood. Doug has been using the last few characters of the replacement translator's CP application to identify it, so the WTAE 22 signal is "WTAE-1223AKV" or somesuch in his listings. That probably makes as much sense as anything else. s (Scott Fybush, NY, ibid.) ### ------------------------------ Message: 3 Date: Wed, 15 Dec 2010 22:08:35 +0200 From: "Zacharias Liangas " <gree...@otenet.gr> To: <> Subject: [HCDX] COREXION FOR 12-12-10 LOGS Message-ID: <4d093c63.27519.ab...@greekdx.otenet.gr> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 LOG CORECTION Errata : 1. typo for Bangladesh of 6750 should be read 4750 4750 Bangladesh Betar 1434 with talks /news in Hindi like lang (I think that Bangla is close? )? and with many mentions on BGL S5? 3xx3x3 with a SAH of ca 10 HZ 2. 6297 RASD 1907 with one man talking and sitar like instrument as? background music . Some little QRM from 6295 As for the shitar (i meant: sounded ) like instrument , the follwing text could show some explanation with thanks to Dario Monferini Other String Instrumentsin Sub-Sahara Africa Mouth bows and other musical bows, the earliest forms of string instruments, may well have originated in Sub-Sahara Africa, the birthplace of modern humanity, evolving from the first hunting bows. Evidence suggests that the San (Bushmen) of southern Africa probably played tunes on their hunting bows in pre-historic times, much like they do today. In addition to the amazing variety of different kinds of musical bows found throughout Sub-Sahara Africa, there's also an incredible variety of harps, lyres and zither-type string instruments. However, lute family instruments are, for the most part, to be found only in West Africa. The notable exceptions to this rule are the various different kinds of spike fiddles (bowed lutes) found in East and South West Africa as well as the guitar-like ramkie of southern Africa, first documented in the 18th century, and the gabbus of Zanzibar (the East African island nation of the coast of Tanzania), which is the local version of an Arab short-neck lute known by several names: gabbus (Oman), qabus (Saudi Arabia), qanbus (Yemen) and so on. The Arab oud, the forbearer of the Western European classic lute, was introduced into Zanzibar around 1870 with the arrival of takht (traditional Arab music) ensembles from Egypt. Takht subsequently inspired the creation of taarab, the Zanzibari/ East African "pop" music form, often referred to as "Swahili wedding music." The oud, the lead instrument of both takht and taarab music, is pretty much used in East Africa only in the context of that taarab orchestras and "musical clubs" that are found up and down the Swahili coast. There are two branches of the lute family which are unique and indigenous to West Africa, namely harp-lutes (now generally referred to as bridge- harps), the best known example being the kora of the Mande griots, and bow lutes (also, pluriarcs), which are basically instruments comprised of several musical bows (up to eight) emanating from a single body. Generally speaking, both harp-lutes and bow lutes are folk instruments associated primarily with hunters' societies in rural villages. Two notable exceptions are the griot kora, a large 21-string bridge-harp (also classed as a spike harp, because the big stick that serves as the instrument's neck runs through the body and out the tail end) with a huge gourd body topped with a cowhide head, and the bolon, another type of Mande griot harp-lute with a large skin- headed gourd body, distinguished by an arched neck bearing three to four strings.?? -- Shlomo Pestcoe 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, Chibo c300/c979, Yupi 7000 Antenna: 16m hor, 2x16 m V invert, 1m australian loop ------------------------------ Message: 4 Date: Wed, 15 Dec 2010 15:46:40 -0800 (PST) From: Stewart MacKenzie <wdx...@yahoo.com> To: Anker Peterson <anker.peter...@mail.dk>, Arnie Coro <ar...@rhc.cu>, BCL NEWS <bcln...@yahoogroups.com>, Duane Fischer <dfisc...@usol.com>, Hard Core DX <hard-core-dx@hard-core-dx.com>, Marie Lamb <mal...@cumbredx.net>, Maryann Kehoe <atl...@webtv.net>, Prime Time Shortwave <primetimeshortw...@yahoogroups.com>, SWL QTH <s...@mailman.qth.net> Cc: Adrian Peterson <adr...@awr.org>, Allen Graham <agra...@hcjb.org.ec> Subject: [HCDX] Shortwave Radio Logs from WDX6AA Message-ID: <87870.73129...@web30701.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 >>> BONAIRE?? Radio Japan Relay-NHK?? 6195? 0504 GMT? Spanish? 444? Dec 12? OM with comments.??? MacKenzie-CA... CANADA?? Voice of Vietnam Relay-VOV?? 6175? 0510 GMT? Vietnamese? 444? Dec 12? YL and OM with comments.??? MacKenzie-CA. CANADA?? Radio Japan Relay-NHK?? 6110? 0518 GMT? English? 444? Dec 12? YL singing followed by two YLs with comments on Christmas.????? MacKenzie-CA. COSTA RICA?? Radio Exterior Espana Relay-REE?? 9675? 0436 GMT? Spanish? 333? Dec 12? YL and OM with comments.??? MacKenzie-CA. CUBA?? China Radio Intl Relay-CRI?? 9790? 0430 GMT? Cantonese? 444? Dec 12? YL with comments.??? MacKenzie-CA. GUINA, French?? Voice of Russia Relay-VOR?? 7335? 0447 GMT? Spanish? 444? Dec 12? YL with comments.?? MacKenzie-CA. JAPAN?? Radio Nikkei?? 9595? 0438 GMT? Japanese? 333? Dec 12? YL with comments plus an OM at times.? MacKenzie-CA. SPAIN?? Radio Exterior Espana-REE?? 6055? 0522 GMT? Spanish? 433? Dec 12? OM interviewing an OM.??? MacKenzie-CA.. .Stewart MacKenzie, WDX6AA Huntington Beach, California, United States of America Rcvrs: Kenwood R5000 and Grundig Satellit 650 "World Friendship Through Shortwave Radio Where Culture and Language Come Alive" ASWLC: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ASWLC SCADS: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/SCADS ------------------------------ Message: 5 Date: Wed, 15 Dec 2010 20:39:39 -0500 From: T Witherspoon <twithersp...@gmail.com> To: hard-core-dx@hard-core-dx.com Subject: [HCDX] 9420 kHz - Voice of Greece? Message-ID: <aanlktik9ykfngkjsdt+_vkggf1nzam+cnk9lphuos...@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Hi, Group, Can anyone ID if I heard Voice of Greece on 9420 starting around 21:00 UTC tonight (15 Dec 10)? There were few interruptions in the continuous music I heard--starting with a Dave Brubeck set, then into classical music for several hours. Really enjoyed the Jazz. Started listening on my IC-735, then moved to Grundig G8. Strong signal--very little fading until 23:30 UT. Listening to 9420 at 1:00 UTC and classical continues. Any help with ID appreciated. TNX! Cheers, Thomas Witherspoon Sylva, NC USA ------------------------------ Message: 6 Date: Wed, 15 Dec 2010 19:04:40 -0800 (PST) From: Glenn Hauser <wghau...@yahoo.com> To: T Witherspoon <twithersp...@gmail.com>, hard-core-dx@hard-core-dx.com Subject: Re: [HCDX] 9420 kHz - Voice of Greece? Message-ID: <12503.37331...@web51106.mail.re2.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii ** GREECE. At least 10 people were detained Wednesday and five were hurt, including a conservative politician who was beaten in the street by protesters. Two people were injured in Athens and three in Greece's second largest city, Thessaloniki, where another anti-austerity protest turned violent. Unions said Wednesday's strike aimed to pressure the Socialists into slowing down the spending cuts they said were hurting average Greeks. Crippled by high budget deficits and a mountain of debt, Greece was saved from bankruptcy in May by an international rescue loan package. In return, the Socialist government slashed pensions and salaries, hiked taxes, raised retirement ages and eased restrictions on private sector layoffs. Late Tuesday, the government won a key vote in parliament on new labor reforms that include deeper pay cuts, salary caps and involuntary staff transfers at state companies. The new law also reduces unions' collective bargaining power in the private sector, allowing employers to substantially cut salaries. Journalists are also holding a 24-hour strike, causing blackouts for TV, radio and Internet news, and newspapers will not be published on Thursday (Source? Via John Babbis, MD, Dec 15, DXLD) Not logged, but I had noticed VOG was playing non-Greek music, around 0630 on 7475 and 1430 on 9420 Dec 15; thought it rather strange. Maybe that explains it (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) --- On Wed, 12/15/10, T Witherspoon <twithersp...@gmail.com> wrote: > From: T Witherspoon <twithersp...@gmail.com> > Subject: [HCDX] 9420 kHz - Voice of Greece? > To: hard-core-dx@hard-core-dx.com > Date: Wednesday, December 15, 2010, 7:39 PM > Hi, Group, > > Can anyone ID if I heard Voice of Greece on 9420 starting > around 21:00 > UTC tonight (15 Dec 10)? There were few interruptions in > the > continuous music I heard--starting with a Dave Brubeck set, > then into > classical music for several hours. > > Really enjoyed the Jazz. > > Started listening on my IC-735, then moved to Grundig G8. > Strong > signal--very little fading until 23:30 UT. > > Listening to 9420 at 1:00 UTC and classical continues. > > Any help with ID appreciated. TNX! > > Cheers, > Thomas Witherspoon > Sylva, NC USA ------------------------------ Message: 7 Date: Wed, 15 Dec 2010 19:45:55 -0800 (PST) From: Stewart MacKenzie <wdx...@yahoo.com> To: Anker Peterson <anker.peter...@mail.dk>, Arnie Coro <ar...@rhc.cu>, BCL NEWS <bcln...@yahoogroups.com>, Duane Fischer <dfisc...@usol.com>, Hard Core DX <hard-core-dx@hard-core-dx.com>, Marie Lamb <mal...@cumbredx.net>, Maryann Kehoe <atl...@webtv.net>, Prime Time Shortwave <primetimeshortw...@yahoogroups.com>, SWL QTH <s...@mailman.qth.net> Cc: Adrian Peterson <adr...@awr.org>, Allen Graham <agra...@hcjb.org.ec> Subject: [HCDX] Shortwave Radio Logs from WDX6aa Message-ID: <741906.76174...@web30708.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 >>> ASCENSION?? BBCWS Relay?? 9915? 2240 GMT? English? 433? Dec 13? YL and OM with comments. YL with comments at a sports event. //12095[433]Ascension.???? Mackenzie-CA. CUBA?? Radio Havana Cuba-RHC?? 9820? 2234 GMT? Spanish? 433? Dec 13? OM with comments. YL with comments 2237 GMT.????? Mackenzie-CA. KOREA, North?? Voice of Korea-VOK?? 11535? 2253 GMT? Chinese? 333? Dec 13? YL with comments . Suddenly off the air at 2255 GMT.??? MacKenzie-CA. KOREA, North?? Korean Broadasting Servie-KCBS?? 11535? 2300 GMT? Korean? 333? Dec 13? IS music then a YL with a s/on. Strident choir music 2304.??? Mackenzie-CA. PHILIPPINES?? VOA Relay?? 9545? 2225 GMT? Chinese? 333? Dec 13? YL and OM with comments. //11925[444] Philippiones.????? MacKenzie-Ca. TAIWAN?? Radio Taiwan Intl-RTI?? 11635? 2313 GMT? Chinese? 333? Dec 13? Yl with comments plus an OM at times. Also being Jammed by YL singing in Chinese via China.????? MacKenzie-CA. UNITED STATES, Pennsylvania??? WINB?? 9265? 2213 GMT? English? 333? Dec 13? OM with religous comments in the Tony Alamo program.????? Mackenzie-CA. UNITED STATES, NoCarolina?? WWRB?? 9980? 2246 GMT? English? 444? Dec 13? OM with the Overcomer Ministry program.??? Mackenzie-CA.. .?Stewart MacKenzie, WDX6AA Huntington Beach, California, United States of America Rcvrs: Kenwood R5000 and Grundig Satellit 650 "World Friendship Through Shortwave Radio Where Culture and Language Come Alive" ASWLC: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ASWLC SCADS: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/SCADS End of Hard-Core-DX Digest, Vol 96, Issue 15 ********************************************