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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. Re: [SWL] sShortwave Radio Logs from WDX6AA (Duane Fischer, W8DBF) 2. Glenn Hauser logs July 13-14, 2012 (Glenn Hauser) 3. July 13-14 Logs (brian384...@aol.com) 4. Peruvian Stations (David Goren) 5. (no subject) (Dave Valko) 6. Shortwave Radio Logs from WDX6AA (Stewart MacKenzie) 7. European Music Radio Today on 6005 KHz (tom taylor) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2012 19:55:32 -0500 From: "Duane Fischer, W8DBF" <dfisc...@usol.com> To: "Short-Wave radio Listening" <s...@mailman.qth.net>, "Adrian Peterson" <adr...@awr.org>, "Gerry Dexter" <g...@wi.rr.com>, "Anker Peterson" <anker.peter...@mail.dk>, "BCL NEWS" <bcln...@yahoogroups.com>, "Hard Core DX" <hard-core-dx@hard-core-dx.com>, "Maryann Kehoe" <atl...@webtv.net>, "Prime Time Shortwave" <primetimeshortw...@yahoogroups.com> Subject: Re: [HCDX] [SWL] sShortwave Radio Logs from WDX6AA Message-ID: <00b601cd5fc9$8ad0d720$e654e8cc@hpdc5100mt> Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; reply-type=original Great to see Stewart's SWL loggings appearing here again! ----- Original Message ----- From: "Stewart MacKenzie" <wdx...@yahoo.com> To: "Adrian Peterson" <adr...@awr.org>; "Gerry Dexter" <g...@wi.rr.com>; "Anker Peterson" <anker.peter...@mail.dk>; "BCL NEWS" <bcln...@yahoogroups.com>; "Duane Fischer" <dfisc...@usol.com>; "Hard Core DX" <hard-core-dx@hard-core-dx.com>; "Maryann Kehoe" <atl...@webtv.net>; "Prime Time Shortwave" <primetimeshortw...@yahoogroups.com>; "SWL QTH" <s...@mailman.qth.net> Sent: Wednesday, July 11, 2012 4:59 PM Subject: [SWL] sShortwave Radio Logs from WDX6AA >>>>>> BONAIRE Radio Japan Relay NHK 15265 2330 GMT Japanese 444 July 10 OM with comments plus a 2nd OM with comments. YL with comments at 2334 GMT. MacKenzie-CA.. COSTA RICA REE Spain Relay 17850 1843 GMT Spanish 444 July 10 Two OMs woth comments plus some music. MacKenzie-CA.. CUBA Radio Havana Cuba RHC 17750 2250 GMT Spanish 444 July 10 YL with comments plus an OM with RHC ID and into comments. Suddenly of the air 2257 GMT. MacKenzie-CA.. CUBA Radio Havana Cuba RHC 17705 2302 GMT Spanish 333 July 10 Bongo music with a YL singing. YL woth RHC ID 2305 GMT. MacKenzie-CA.. RWANDA Voice of Germany Relay DW 21780 1838 GMT French 333 July 10 Two OMs with comments. MacKenzie-CA.. NEW ZEALAND RADIO NEW ZEALAND INTL RNZI 15720 2313 GMT English 444 July 10 YL singing. OM on band music 2317 GMT YL singing a song "Please Do Not Leave Me.. MacKenzie-CA.. NORT MARIANNAS Radio Free Asia RFA 15585 2320 GMT Chinese 444 July 10 YL and OM with comments. //15430 [444] via North Mariannas. MacKrenzie-CA.. UNITED STATES, Tennessee WWCR 13845 2338 GMT English 444 July 10 YL preaching from the Bible.. MacKenzie - CA.. 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Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 2012.0.2195 / Virus Database: 2437/5122 - Release Date: 07/09/12 ------------------------------ Message: 2 Date: Sat, 14 Jul 2012 10:52:23 -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 July 13-14, 2012 Message-ID: <1342288343.21066.yahoomailclas...@web114012.mail.gq1.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 ** AUSTRALIA [and non]. 15160, July 14 at 0230, RA English no longer has CCI from Spain, but CCI from China, i.e. CRI Chinese, 500 kW, 59 degrees via Jinhua, at 01-05 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CANADA. 9625.0, July 14 at 0230, poor signal in incomprehensible language, presumably CBCNQ in Inuktitut, badly squeezed between stronger REE 9620 Spain and much stronger almost // 9630 REE Costa Rica --- at least the latter finishes DRM circa 0200, which totally wipes out CBC. All three are right on frequency, per 5-kHz BFO stepping on the DX-398 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CHINA [and non]. Firedrake July 14, no full bandscans, just noted: 13970, good at 1259 14700, very good at 1259-1300* plus a few syllables of Chinese starting with ``Bei-jing`` before cutting off, and then uncovering very weak signal, presumably Sound of Hope, Taiwan 15445, fair at 1202; not checked before 1200 15485, poor with flutter at 1302 15560, fair with flutter at 1302 17450, poor at 1357 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** COLOMBIA. 14950+, July 14 at 0132, Salem Stereo in usual preaching segment rather than music, very poor but recognizable; and also at 0226, back to music by 0240. A little better at 0511, music peaking S9+5. Also poorly audible at 1300 citing a vers?culo, back to music (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** COLOMBIA. 6010+, July 14 at 0237, religious discussion in Spanish, no music, poor signal, presumed La Voz de tu Conciencia, in the protracted absence of R. Mil; but nothing audible on the other HJDH frequency 5910, Marfil Est?reo. 6010 slightly on the hi side; 500 kW, Sirjan, Iran and 5 kW from Belarus are also registered on 6010 at this time but no sign of them (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CUBA [and non]. 9810, July 14 at 0233, RHC Spanish is undermodulated and suffering from heavy DentroCuban Jamming Command bleeding over from adjacent 9805, where it has no need to be at all, since R. Mart? uses 9805 only at 09-13. Commies vs Commies! 9885 also has lighter pulse jamming against nothing, as VOA Spanish is on there only at 2330-0100 except weekends, and 12-13 daily. 9503 approx., July 14 at 1146, distorted spur in Spanish with hum, hetting 9500 something, soon matched to 9550 RHC, except an echo apart, so it must be the missing 9540 transmitter, extraviated to this frequency around where IIRC there have been spurs before. 15340 was way late coming on July 14, still audiblizing HCJB in some Asian language at 1303 for many more minutes tho 15230 was running; first noticed RHC had come on 15340 at 1322 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ECUADOR [and non]. Re my previous query about HCJB: ``I wonder when they will get that 100 kW transmitter going again inside the country?`` Kai Ludwig replies: Never. They had to give up this project, cf. http://www.andenstimme.org/index.php?id=353 and here is part of that Google-translated, improved by gh: ``Department Newsletter May - June 2012 by Horst Rosiak --- Dear listeners of Radio HCJB family and friends, Three years ago we had big plans in Ecuador, we wanted to build our own transmission site! Following the closure of HCJB transmission site in Pifo the German-language service took over responsibility for regional frequency 6050 kHz. In February 2010, we had a large donation from HCJB including a 100 kW transmitter, transmission towers, antenna cable and everything you need to build a transmitter site. The condition: Within two years accomplish this project. Despite all the efforts, we now have to abandon this plan. There was no technical missionary who wanted to be responsible for leading this project``. Maybe that anyway encouraged them to assist setting up the 1 kW, 4810 missionary station in Chazuta, Per?, target date August 8 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** EGYPT. 9315, July 14 at 0226, R. Cairo with decent modulation for a change, as occasionally happens, showing that it`s possible if they would just get their acts together. YL in English introducing a song; a far cry from the horrible Arabic-service blob on neighboring 9305, very strong signal, undermodulated yet extremely distorted, plus hum. Still nothing on 9720, allegedly about to replace 9315. At 0243, 9315 was starting a new program with some distortion compared to what preceded it (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** INDONESIA. 9526-, July 14 at 1140, VOI with very undermodulated orchestral music, cut off the air at 1142:30*, but back shortly; 1145 vocal music sounds like Chinese. At 1217 now the undermodulation sounds like special Japanese. I listened for a while but could detect no IADs. Those are the languages scheduled, and as always, slightly on the low side of 9526 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** KOREA SOUTH [non]. 9650 via CANADA, Saturday July 14 at 1249-1252, Kevin O`Donovan`s ``Listening Tips`` segment following KBS World Radio`s mailbag; he mentions VR relays via Canada about to end July 31, with the English schedule, and CVC`s reduced schedule via Chile; something about SiriusXM as I was distracted. Still no annoying audio artifacts on the feed (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** LAOS [non]. 9325, July 14 at 1151, intriguing rustic Hmongish music, singing with 2?-string accompaniment, fairly good signal. It`s R. Free Asia in Lao, 100 kW, 285 degrees from SAIPAN at 11-12; North Korea does not start 9325 until 1300 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX ILSTENING DIGEST) ** MEXICO. Some sunrise MW DX July 14: 680, July 14 at 1117, ``en L-G, la Grande``, i.e. per Cant? 680 XELG La Grande + FM 95.5 Le?n, Gto. 10,000 3,000 So the L-G has a double meaning. Also with IFE PSA, same heard on several other stations, congratulating themselves on carrying out the elexion, and with an artificially sped-up disclaimer at the end, something about not representing any particular party. 770, July 14 from 1120, a weak Spanish station with no QRM unlike all the other frequencies; 1128, promo for 1,110 Radio Red, i.e. relay of M?xico DF, and by now there is a weak SAH from something else. As this signal is weakening, a mention of Grupo Radio Centro, i.e. per Cant?: 700 XEDKR Radio Red AM Guadalajara, Jal. 10,000 150 Site axually Tonala, Jalisco. Standard remark about day vs night power 770, July 14 at 1126, ``Los 40 Principales`` slogan and ID sounded like Radio Ka (the letter K), with an FM ID I could not copy, but also definite 5:25 timecheck, so the only one fitting is, per Cant? 770 XEREV Los 40 Principales + FM 104.3 Los Mochis, Sin. 5,000 100 Standard remark about day power vs night power 860, July 14 at 1112, ``Radio Frecuencia`` which sounded like a station name rather than a generic mention, into a balada. But nonesuch listed in Cant?, IRCA or WRTH. KKOW Kansas no problem yet. 990, July 14 at 1105, XET Monterrey NL, ``La T Grande`` with morning newscast, temp 24 and pleasant, child electrocuted, as he was wet, barefoot and grounded when he touched something. 1320, July 14 at 1059, unfamiliar presumably state anthem in progress, 1101 segu? to familiar choral NA, heavy QRM and lost by the time any ID would follow (Glenn Hauser, Enid OK, DX LISTIENING DIGEST) ** PHILIPPINES [and non]. 11945, July 14 at 1155 tune-in, IS and English ID as R. Veritas Asia, the following broadcast at 1200 UTC would be in Hmong on 11935; then 11945 off at 1155:43*. It was way over R. Australia, then uncovered; this was end of 2-hour Chinese broadcast on 11945, 250 kW due north from the PUG site. So then I retune to: 11935, July 14 at 1158, CRI fill-music, 1200 theme and IDs in Chinese and Russian, each twice, once by a man, once by a woman. If RVA Hmong was on there too, it was only weak CCI under CRI. That is listed as 250 kW, 280 degrees from Palauig, so the azimuth change made a big difference here (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SRI LANKA [non]. Is anyone still hearing the Tamil Tigers clandestine, 12140 at 1530-1630? Since first reported over a week ago, I have been trying for it almost every day at 1530 with not even a carrier, including today July 14, but that`s not surprising considering it`s from the opposite worldside during very poor propagation, blackouts. If it could be propagating to your location, look around other 12 MHz frequencies in case it changed --- and look out for the SL jammer too. As earlier reported in DXLD and the yg by David Kernick, schedule in Tamil shows 2100-2200 local time on 12140, at http://votradio.com and also see Voice of the Tigers, http://pulikalinkural.com (Glenn Hauser, 1537 UT July 14, dxldyg via DX LISTENING DIGEST) Early answers: David Kernick in England has not been hearing it either July 8-13 but S. Hasegawa in Japan got it today as well as some other days by other Japanese DXers. Andrea Lawendel says Davide Borroni gets it in Italy, sounds like a DX signal, and who`s the broker? (Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SUDAN SOUTH [non]. 15725, July 14 at *0503:27, I was waiting for V. of South Sudan Revolutionary Radio to come on with carrier. At 0504 started sign-on routine with chanting in Arabish, 0505 ID, drumming and `CW` whistling (not by mouth but some instrument) --- the rhythm spelt out ``KX``, of some significance? 0506 Arabic ID ``Huna Idha`at ---``, 0507 English ID with motto. Peaks only S9+3 tonight. Would be nice if someone could get a quality recording of this opening. How about http://www.intervalsignals.net/countries/sudan.htm --- not yet, tho David Kernick has quite a good collexion of other Sudanese stuff, domestic, extraterritorial and clandestine clips. Where is this, anyway? VOSSR has settled on this frequency (only?), which would seem a bit high for good propagation from north to South Sudan. Just how far is it from Omdurman to Juba? 1205 km or 749 miles, says Distances-between-cities, std disclaimer, after it first tried to put Juba in Bolivia! Yes, a bit close for ideal F-layer skip distance at this frequency, unless sporadic E is often in play, which could well be the case near the Equator. Then I tried the latest ITU monitoring report at: http://www.itu.int/ITU-R/terrestrial/docs/monitoring/files/pdffiles/334.pdf but on 15725 it only has R. Dabanga at an earlier hour from Sri Lanka (which is obviously the reason VOSSR chose this same frequency, perhaps trumping propagational theory, if they know anything about it). The question remains whether 15725 is really emanating from further than Sudan (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A [and non]. 13750, July 14 at 1204, I notice that VOA Spanish is missing from this frequency, and on 9885 I only hear jamming. But at 1205, 15590 is operational with the usual off-topic ``M?sica Country`` show, and so is 9885. Left a receiver on 13750 the rest of the hour, and it never came on, so one of the GB transmitters is down. 15590, however stayed on with open carrier until 1306:32* 9510, July 14 at 1229, only 50 kW, 285 degrees from the PHX site, VOA is concluding `American Caf?`, a show new to me, 1230 into `Press Conference USA`, a very old show. Why is it, searching the entire VOAnews.com website on ``American Caf?`` with or without the acute, I get only one generic hit on that phrase, not program title. But looking at the list of programs, I do find it: http://www.voanews.com/archive/american-cafe/latest/706/1440.html ``Join us at the American Caf? on the Voice of America. Every weekend, host David Byrd introduces you to stories from and about the United States of America - whether it's a topic making headlines, a discussion of new trends, or just sharing a slice of life as it's lived in the U.S. American Caf? provides you with just the right mix to keep you interested and informed. Join the conversation, by submitting questions and comments, via email, telephone, or through the post. Broadcast Schedule Friday @ 2305 UTC/GMT Saturday @ 0105, 0505, 1205, 1505, 1705, 2305 UTC/GMT Sunday @ 0305, 1405, 1905 UTC/GMT Listen to Our Latest Show MP3 | Windows Media`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 12105, following up previous July 13 WTWW report: still in Arabic at 1905, and 1959 past 2000, but at 2002 pause and English ID by Ted Randall with reverent music, saying ``daily broadcasting the word of God to the entire world in ten different languages`` and then into French. I assume that announcement is ``forward-looking`` since we only know of six, tho seven are on the website schedule; not sure I have ever caught them in German. Rather, I think I have heard Portuguese in our afternoon, not just in the Brazilian nightmiddle. WTWW just started the Russian segment, and as noted, Arabic really runs from 15 to 20, while 12105 is off the air from 05 to 12 UT. And Central time probably rules, which means the +6 UT conversion below applies to winter, not summer; they can`t both be correct now: ``Transmitter 3 Scripture readings 12.105 Mhz New schedule to start shortly: Central UTC 6 - 9 am Russian 1200 - 1500 9 - 12 noon Arabic 1500 - 1800 12 - 3pm French 1800 - 2100 3 - 6pm German 2100 - 0000 6 - 9pm Spanish 0000 - 0400 9 - 12 midn Portuguese 0400 - 0600 12MN - 3am English 0600 - 0900 3 - 6am English 0900 - 1200`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. WORLD OF RADIO 1625 monitoring: confirmed on Area 51 via WBCQ 5110v-CUSB, UT Saturday July 14 from 0130. WRMI 9955 times: Saturday 1730, Sunday 0800, 1530, 1730, Monday 0500, 1130. WTWW 5755: UT Sunday 0400 Also on WRN via SiriusXM 120: Sat & Sun 1730, Sun 0830 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. 13570, July 14 at 1204, WINB is missing tho Vatican/Sackville 13730 is well audible. It was on by 1359. That`s to be expected as the Saturday schedules shows a start at 1245, unlike 1200 on weekdays with Brother Scare, and much earlier on Sundays. Program schedule now at http://www.winb.com/schedule.htm is dated effective July 22! Anticipatory, or did they mean June 22? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ------------------------------ Message: 3 Date: Sat, 14 Jul 2012 15:24:41 -0400 (EDT) From: brian384...@aol.com To: hard-core-dx@hard-core-dx.com Subject: [HCDX] July 13-14 Logs Message-ID: <9e57a.6ccc48b0.3d332...@aol.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" ** BOLIVIA. 6134.82, Radio Santa Cruz, 0025-0208*, July 14, wide variety of Spanish pops, ballads, and Bolivian music. Spanish talk. IDs. Closing announcements at 0204 and sign off with ?Santa Cruz? song at 0206. Fair. (Brian Alexander, PA) ** BRAZIL. 4877.75v, Radio Roraima, 0325-0400*, July 13, Brazilian ballads. Portuguese announcements. Sign off with National Anthem at 0357. Was on 4877.75 at 0325 tune-in, drifting down to 4877.67 by sign off. Better than usual. Still somewhat distorted and wobbly, but readable. Sometimes just a blob of noise. (Brian Alexander, PA) ** SOUTH SUDAN. 15725, Voice of South Sudan Revolutionary Radio, *0501:40-0515, July 13, sign on with African tribal music. Talk. English ID at 0505 and into talk in listed Arabic and local African tribal music. Fair. (Brian Alexander, PA) Brian Alexander, Mechanicsburg, PA, USA Equipment: Icom IC-7600, two 100 foot longwires ------------------------------ Message: 4 Date: Sat, 14 Jul 2012 16:59:46 -0400 From: David Goren <dbgo...@panix.com> To: Hard-core-dx Mailing List <Hard-Core-DX@hard-core-dx.com> Subject: [HCDX] Peruvian Stations Message-ID: <248778b8-9761-43f6-82c4-18100de33...@panix.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Can one of the Peruvian DX experts help me figure out what (if any) Peruvian shortwave stations are in the general region of Carhuaz, Ancash Peru. Thanks. dg ------------------------------ Message: 5 Date: Sat, 14 Jul 2012 17:49:25 -0400 From: "Dave Valko" <djva...@verizon.net> To: "Hardcore DX" <hard-core-dx@hard-core-dx.com> Subject: [HCDX] (no subject) Message-ID: <285280E85E5D40D3A225283C88534379@DavePC> Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; reply-type=original RUSSIA 15175 R. Tatarstan (tent.) Set the NRD timer to start before 0800. Mx seemed to come on just before sked 0810 s/on. Much too weak though. (6 July) BRAZIL 4805 R. Difusoras do Amazonas 0931 lucky to catch the complete canned ID by M w/freq and ments of Difusoras and Manaus. Then short canned ID and jingle, and live studio M anncr w/sev. "Bon Dia"s. Signal strength wasn't too bad but it was very noisy. (6 July) MONGOLIA 12085 V.O. Mongolia Apparent Mongolia lang. lesson at 1025. Instru. mx, off the air at 1029, back on and audio extremely low. Could only detect the audio in USB to avoid 12080 Australia splash. A little stronger at 1032 w/nx. They always seem to have some sort of tech. problem. (6 July) INDONESIA 9680.06 RRI Jakarta No sign of this at 1035. Apparently Japans signal on at 1055 w/a few words in JP. (6 July) PIRATE (EUROPE) 6524.95 R. Mustang 0026 echo anmnt for the Summermeeting, then into The Beatles at 0028. Live ID at 0030. Fair signal for the disturbed and noisy conditions. 0032 "good morning". 0120 Polka and voice-over anmnts. 0125 greetings to listeners and ID too. 0136 stopped the Polka and started another song. 0137 freera...@live.nl , "Africa" by Toto 0139, "Message in a Bottle" by Police 0142. 0146 canned ID/e-mail addr. 0147 "Don't You Forget About Me" by Simple Minds, then live anmnts, thanks for rpts, and said was closing down. (8 July) PIRATE (EUROPE) 6289.85 R. Focus Int. 0033 carrier here. Caught a little instru. mx at 0034. A little stronger by 0050. 0112 sounded like "Seven Wonders" by Fleetwood Mac. 0115 M anncr but just too much noise to copy. 0116-0119 "Ramblin Man" by Allman Bro. 0119:35 ID jingle w/laser shooting, W briefly and used the 'shooting' from Steve Millers "Jingle Town". 0120-0123 possibly Eric Johnson w/heavy blues guitar. 0123 M anncr briefly. 0131:03 short canned echo anmnt by M. 6289.82 on the Perseus at 0058. (8 July) PIRATE (EUROPE) 6240.06 R. Caroline (pres.) Could hear a carrier on this as well at 0035, but conditions just too poor. Poss. anmnts at 0040. Audio at threshold after 0100. Went off at 0110:43. Noisy. (8 July) PIRATE (EUROPE) 6325U R. Underground Getting some mx here at 0037. Went off to give the xmtr a rest, but then came back on and got mx at 0103. Same echo jingle at 0116 as hrd in the past. (8 July) PIRATE (EUROPE) 6305 R. Powerliner Heard from the 0025 start with just bits of mx. Finally some anmnts at 0130. Could hear Polka at 0140. Anmnts at 0142 then more Polkas. Went off at 0147:17. Said was running 150 watts tonight. (8 July) PIRATE (EUROPE) 6259.89 R. Whitestar (pres.) A signal here at 0107. Also getting apparently Tashkent on 6260. This just a little bit stronger but no real audio on either. Still there at 0148, and still no audio. (8 July) CLANDESTINE 15725 V.O. South Sudan Revolutionary R. (pres.) Set the NRD to record from 0355 but only went to abt 0440 before the MD ran out. Severe adjacent QRM though during that time. Found in the clear w/long impassioned tlk by M anncr 0715. 0736 very exotic Afro mx w/feverish vcls and chorus by men. Better signal w/more tlk in African lang. by M 0736-0751 but definitely not AR. Kept repeating word sounding like "Jambi"!! Actually quite readable and IDable from 0736-0741 or so, but then faded. 0751 more of the exotic Afro mx 0751. Went off apparently w/out any anmnts at 0754:34. (8 July) COLOMBIA 14950.76 Salem Estereo 0759:45 caught canned ID promo between songs again. Quick heavy QSB. Also getting QRM from that crummy machine gun UTE. Basically gone by 0830. (8 July CLANDESTINE 15725 V.O. South Sudan Revolutionary R. Set the NRD timer/MD to record from 0555. Same M w/impassioned preaching-like tlk from the start. Sounded like EG at 0603 w/ment of ".the people of the.revolution.you have the right.", and possibly weapon, fight, and "the law". 0604 native male chorals, then more tlk by diff. M in African lang. but definitely not AR 0604-0620. Pretty decent by 0609. 0620-0623 more choral vcls. Another M 0623. Really faded badly and quickly at 0635. Nothing by 0651 and never did come back by 0800. Best reception yet but did have some annoying lcl noise on the freq. Pgming, and especially the mx sounds a lot like the reception videos on Youtube. (9 July) USA 11565 Fiji Democracy and Freedom Movement R. (via WHRI) 0830 program sign-on with pleasant local Fijian choral vocals and percussion. 0830-0832 opening EG anmnt by M "Good evening listeners. This is FDFM Radio, Na Domo i Viti, Kacivaka na Dina broadcasting to you on shortwave frequency 11,565 kiloHertz. The station belongs to the Fiji Democracy and Freedom Movement in Australia, a group together with our Fiji Freedom groups around the world fighting for the restoration of democracy in Fiji", then continued opening announcements by same man announcer apparently in the Fijian language with another station identification and welcome to the program. Then tlks in Fijian occasionally mentioning "...Fiji Democracy Freedom Movement Radio...", mixed with Pleasant island vcl music. Apparent closing at 0858 by same man announcer. 0859 Another lively local island song ending the program. 0900 Off the air. Fair and clear and almost no fading. (9 July) Current Solar Indicies from WWV 10-Jul-2012 at 0005 UTC SFI = 174 A = 30 K = 5 Conditions during the last 24 hours Space weather for the past 24 hours has been minor. Geomagnetic storms reaching the G1 level occurred. Solar radiation storms reaching the S1 level occurred. Radio blackouts reaching the R1 level occurred. ANGOLA 4949.75 R. Nacional Angola Audio was finally up to readable lvl. 0101 W w/nx in PT. Had 1 report from the field. Crowd cheering at 0104 possibly an intro for very short sports segment. Canned ID by M 0104:55, then W returned w/another ID 0105:10, and sev. canned anmnts. Into rom. Pop mx at 0108. Too bad the QRN was high. (10 July) COLOMBIA 14950.76 Salem Estereo Recorded on the Perseus all night from 0123. Usual LA Pops and canned promo anmnts by M after every 2 songs and at ToH. Long tlk by M from abt 0725-0738, then couple promos/IDs before going back to nice mx. Really strong at 0751 but faded very fast right at the ID!! Likes to f/out right at IDs!! Had problems when an annoying UTE here in the early evening. Clear later. Seems best and most consistent here in the 0700-0800 hour. Can be fairly decent one minute but then f/out completely for as much as hours. (10 July) RUSSIA 15195 R. Tatarstan No sign of this at 0810+. (10 July) BRAZIL 15191.76 R. Inconfidencia Really nice at 0123 recording start but trailed off and gone after about 0430. (10 July) CLANDESTINE 15725 V.O. South Sudan Revolutionary R. Was hoping to get a good recording but it was just too weak tonight, 0500+. (10 July) PAPUA NEW GUINEA 6039.98 NBC 0924-1000 national general election coverage with M and W studio hosts in the EG. Of course voter turn-out numbers and results were announced. Included were reports from journalists in the studio as well as many phone reports. Parties mentioned included the People's National Congress Party, and People's Democracy Movement. IDs for NBC National Radio, and e-mail n...@nbc.com.pg. Usual bird call, percussion/wind instru. native mx signature at ToH, then NBC national nx to 1015. Sev. promos w/phone and e-mail, and ID anmnt. Deadair 1018-1021, then what sounded like "Wonderful Tonight" by Kenny G. More tlk by studio M anncr abt the election. Fair and fading. Nice to hear the NBC again. (10 July) INDONESIA 9680.06 RRI Jakarta After not hearing this for at least a week, found good signal at 1059 w/nice canned ID anmnt just before Japan came on. By 1023, Japan way over top and Jakarta quite weak. (10 July) TAIWAN 11570 Suab Xaa Moo Zoo (V.O. Hope) (via Taiwan) Signal already on at 1126. Pgm start at 1130 w/anmnt by deep-voiced M presumably in Hmong, then instru. Asian mx w/flute prominent and possibly some vcls. Weak but clear and never got any better. Downloaded the pgm from the website and matched it up with what I heard. (10 July) BRAZIL 4894.93 Brazil R. Novo Tempo?? Canned anmnts from 0101 t/in. Possible ID at 0105, then long tlk by deep-voiced M. Ment of Sao Paulo. Rom. ZY songs. Ad block again at 0131. Not too bad but there was another signal here. This is on 4894.926 while the other signal (Kurseong??) is a closeby 4894.955. Very noisy too. (11 July) CLANDESTINE 15725 V.O. South Sudan Revolutionary R. Again, set the NRD timer/MD recorder on this. Was shocked to find a good signal. And since I'd set the AGC off trying to suck up every microvolt of signal, the recording ended up being distorted unfortunately. Signal on the air a little late at 0503:58, then pgm start 15 seconds later w/native chorals and drums mixed w/short anmnts by M. AR ID at 0506, 0507, and EG ID at 0507:30 "This is the Voice of South Sudan Revolutionary R. The voice of South Sudan Revolutionary Radio stands for freedom, justice, equality, and human rights". Tlks began then at 0611 in lcl dialect. 0541 finally back to native choral mx bridge. Then M w/another EG ID at 0542 and political commentary in EG!! "(ID) ?? radio is today ?? Sudan. The program today is broadcast a lot of items and the kind of situations, political situations in southern Sudan as well as communist(?) situation in southern Sudan. The first item of the program today is about the pain and suffering to ?? in southern Sudan. First we have achieved our independence last July.". Started fading at 0547 and barely there by 0600. Completely gone at 0605 and still hadn't returned by 0715. But for the first 45 minutes, it was good. Glad to finally get the EG ID on this. Haven't noted it on any of the other sked xmsns. (11 July) PERU 6134.83 R. Santa Cruz Incredible signal with end of LA Pop song, then canned promo ending w/ID at 0021, then back to mx. Another nice promo ID by M and W, then another w/FM freq at 0033. 0035 nice "Santa Cruz" singing jingle, then another "Santa Cruz en la noche" promo ID. A solid 10 over!! Best using the Eton E1 in AM Sync USB to avoid the UTE here. (12 July) ZAMBIA 6165 Zambia Nat. BC A nice surprise; caught a canned EG ID promo by W at t/in at 0513. Followed by another anmnt, brief instru. Afro mx, then another EG ID at 0516 and what sounded like national nx in EG by W. Fair and fady with a little slop QRM. (12 July) UNID. 9674.77 UNID. Getting a carrier here at 0521. Both still on the air after 0600. QRM from 9675. Cancao Nova?? (12 July) FINLAND 6170 No sign of R. Hami here after 0500. Finland is already in daylight. (12 July) EQUATORIAL GUINEA 15190 R. Africa Decent OC from as early as 0520. Still OC at 0537. Came back a min. later and it was in EG rel. pgm w/hard-sell preaching. So prob. no ID. Audio was breaking up at times and unuseable. (12 July) CANADA 6160.868 CKZN End of "The Current" at 0547 w/CBC ID, then "The Sound-Off" segment. Stronger than 6160 CKZU and slopping over. Filler mx 0559, promo for "Metamorphosis" pgm. Into CBC nx by W. I see it was reported on this freq back in 2009 too. Looking at a Perseus recording from 25 June showed this was on freq then. So must have jumped up here in the last 2 and a half weeks. (12 July) CANADA 6159.991 CKZU 0549 pgm w/tlk about robots. Was hoping to get a lcl ID at 0600 but too much slop QRM from St. Johns. CBC promo ending at 0605 w/ID. Pgm promo at 0606. (12 July NIGERIA 15120 V.O. Nigeria Nice full EG ID by W w/e-mail addr, etc. at 0557. Came back at 0610 and W w/EG African nx, then world nx at 0613. Power kept dropping down just after t/in. Nice ID at 0616. Financial nx. 0621 sports. 0626 another ID by W, then nx headlines. 0627 ID and website URL. 0628 diff. W w/TC and ID and pgm preview. 0629 "You're listening to the Voice of Nigeria in Lagos". M and W w/national promo "Nigeria, great people, great nation", then family planning PSA w/discussion between W and girl. 0631 nice ID by studio W again and into Reggae mx. Voice audio just a tad low. Still has a bit of a hum as well. Faded pretty badly around 0625, but then picked back up. (12 July) TAIWAN 11570 Suab Xaa Moo Zoo Just caught the end of the opening anmnt by M at 1131. Sounded like there was a fair amount of EG in the bdcst today. (12 July) RUSSIA 15245 V.O. Asena (pres.) (via Samara Russia) Heavy percussion from 1704-1708, then M anncr, and back to the drums at 1712. Hrd the drums again at 1725 but had faded. Too weak and very fady along w/lcl QRN. Modulation seems too low also. First time to hear anything on this. (13 July) RUSSIA?? 15195 UNID. Signal came on here at 0745:17. Went off at 0901:22. Never even strong enough for audio. I guess it would have been Tatarstan. (14 July) TAIWAN 11570 Suab Xaa Moo Zoo Carrier came on at 1119:05. Pgm start at 1130 w/instru. mx and opening anmnt by M w/ment of freq in kHz. Immediately into pleasant SE Asian mx, then into preaching by M w/audience and apparent translation in pres. Hmong by another M. Finally went into a rel. song at 1155-1159, and closing anmnts by deep-voiced M at 1159. I guess this was their "Evangelism Explosion" pgm per their website. Went immediately into WYFR relay at 1200. (14 July) NIGERIA 15120 V.O. Nigeria Found here by accident at 1530. "Africa Hour" pgm. Tlk on human rights violations. 1558 W w/e-mail, and mailing addr. Pgm anmnt, and sked for Sunday, drum IS briefly, then off the air. Surprised to find this here. Fair and very fady. Was also getting some QRM from some sort of UTE xmsn, similar to the machine gun, varying around 15180-15200. (14 July) MADAGASCAR?? 12115 Zimbabwe Commnity R.??? Just a weak signal here at 1600 amid slop QRM from 12105 WTWW. First time I ever got any kind of a signal here. (14 July) ZANZIBAR 11735 Spice FM via R. Tanzania Zanzibar 2055-2059 AR mx, then Spice FM promos to ToH, and into lively Afro Pop mx w/M voice-over at 2104 w/ments of Spice, Zanzibar, Tanzania, and radio. Really nice signal. Had some lcl QRN at the beginning. (14 July) 73 Dave Valko Dunlo, PA, USA NRD-535D and Perseus SDR T2FD (Wellbrook is down with a bad PS) ------------------------------ Message: 6 Date: Sat, 14 Jul 2012 16:51:49 -0700 (PDT) From: Stewart MacKenzie <wdx...@yahoo.com> To: Adrian Peterson <adr...@awr.org>, Gerry Dexter <g...@wi.rr.com>, Anker Peterson <anker.peter...@mail.dk>, BCL NEWS <bcln...@yahoogroups.com>, Duane Fischer <dfisc...@usol.com>, Hard Core DX <hard-core-dx@hard-core-dx.com>, Maryann Kehoe <atl...@webtv.net>, Prime Time Shortwave <primetimeshortw...@yahoogroups.com>, SWL QTH <s...@mailman.qth.net> Subject: [HCDX] Shortwave Radio Logs from WDX6AA Message-ID: <1342309909.65274.yahoomailclas...@web162906.mail.bf1.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 >>>>>> AUSTRALIA?? Radio Australia??? Shepparton?? 21740? 2130 GMT? English? 444? July 14? OM with comments on Chocolate coins from China.? OM with Good Morning program from? Australia.? //15515[444]Shepparton, 15290[333]via Taiwan Relay.??? Mackenzie-CA.. BONAIRE?? Radio Japan Relay? NHK?? 15265? 2240 GMT? Japanese? 444? July 14? YL singing pop music.? OM ancr 2242 GMT plus a YL with comments.? Good Pop music for Me!!!? Mackenzie-CA.. CHINA? Not sure!!?? Chinese? 15385? 2213 GMT? Chinese? 333? July 14? YL and OM with comments.? Off the air 2230 GMT.????? Mackenzie-CA.. COSTA RICA?? Radio Exterior Espana - Spain?? 17850? 2147? Spanish? 444? July 14? YL with comments.? OM singing by 2148 GMT.????? Mackenzie-CA.. CUBA?? Radio Havana Cuba? RHC? 17750? 2150 GMT? Spanish? 333? July 14? YL with comments. OM with comments 2152 GMT.? Band music then a YL with comments.?? MacKenzie-CA.. CUBA?? Radio Havana Cuba? RHC?? Radio Nacional Relay? from Venezuela.? 2158 GMT? Spanish? 333? July 14? YL with comments. OM with Cuba ID 2159 GMT? YL with RHC ID 2200 GMT.????? MacKenzie-CA.. FRENCH GUIANA?? Radio France Intl - RFI??? Relay??? 21690? 2138 GMT? French? 333? July 14?? Two OMs with comments.??? MacKenzie-CA.. NEW ZEALAND?? RNZI?? 15720? 2200 GMT? English? 444? July 14? OM with local weather report mentioning that Rainstorm has arrived.????? 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: 7 Date: Sun, 15 Jul 2012 07:30:46 +0100 From: "tom taylor" <em...@sky.com> To: "tom taylor" <em...@sky.com> Subject: [HCDX] European Music Radio Today on 6005 KHz Message-ID: <11FB87978FFB4ABEB4EBBD59768A86D4@dellcb21k2j> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" European Music Radio Today on 6005 KHz European Music Radio will be on the air today Sunday the 15th of July on 6005 kHz via Radio 700 transmitting from Kall-Krekel in Germany, with 1 kW of power. The schedule is: 08:00 to 09:00 UTC 16:00 to 17:00 UTC Reports are welcomed at : stu...@emr.org.uk <http://mail.google.com/a/sky.com/h/1vx6iyyvt13ib/?&v=b&cs=wh&to=studio@emr. org.uk> EMR's internet broadcasts are at the following times: 0800, 1300, 1600 1900 on Sunday and Monday. Please visit <http://www.emr.org.uk/> www.emr.org.uk and click on the "EMR internet radio" button which you will find throughout the website (see the menu on the left). Good Listening 73s Tom PS. EMR Transmissions are back to normal in August 2012 End of Hard-Core-DX Digest, Vol 115, Issue 15 *********************************************