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Today's Topics:
1. Glenn Hauser logs October 23, 2012 (Glenn Hauser)
2. Recent Logs (jerrye5...@aol.com)
3. Oct 23 Logs (Brian Alexander)
4. Alaska (maurits)
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Message: 1
Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2012 10:40:22 -0700 (PDT)
From: Glenn Hauser <wghau...@yahoo.com>
To: d...@yahoogroups.com
Cc: s...@mailman.qth.net
Subject: [HCDX] Glenn Hauser logs October 23, 2012
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** ALBANIA. 9590, Oct 23 at 0517, CRI Arabic via C?rrik, which had been
distorted, has almost recovered, but is still slightly clearer and stronger on
// 9515 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** BANGLADESH. 15505, Oct 23 at 1358, Bangladesh Betar on the air in time for a
change to play a bit of IS, very poor with flutter; time signal ending early at
1359:45, opening Urdu. I think I also heard a bit of signal before 1300 on
15105 for English too (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** BRAZIL. 6180, Oct 23 at 0520, RNB is off the air again, but still going
strong on 11780 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CANADA. 9555, Oct 23 at 0516, VOV relay in Vietnamese is on correct
frequency instead of 6175; no longer a solid signal in the nightmiddle; only a
few more days before this is all over. I made a point of listening to the
BaBcoCk music loop at 0527.6-0529, followed by the Radio Canada Internationale
IDs in French and English, and the first two notes of ``O Canada`` IS, before
cut off the air (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) See also VATICAN; JAPAN
[non]; KOREA SOUTH [non]
** CHINA. Firedrake Oct 23, before 1400, all with flutter:
12980, good at 1342
13920, very good at 1342
13970, very good at 1342; none in the 14s
15515, fair at 1349, het on hi side
15560, fair at 1349, plus noise jamming, het on lo side
16250, very good at 1351
16980, very good at 1351
17250, very good at 1352; none in the 18s
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** GUIANA FRENCH. 11995, Oct 23 at 0513 at first thought the open carrier was
off, but soon faded back up to very poor level, with usual hum (Glenn Hauser,
OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** INDONESIA. 3325, Oct 23 at 1242, some continuous talk modulation is audible
vs the noise level; no carriers at all on other PNG 90m frequencies, so it
appears to be an Indonesian-morning rather than a PNG-morning, i.e. tentatively
RRI Palangkaraya. Altho some of the PNGs probably signed off earlier. I keep
listening, as the sun rises here, straining to make out a keyword to clinch it
as Indonesian, but all I can get is a possible ``berita`` at 1300, tho I must
admit I was expecting it (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** INDONESIA. 9526-, Oct 23 at 1303, VOI English has the best modulation level
yet since its reactivation, but is still woefully low, not enough to overcome
flutter fading noise. Some hum, but no IADs: at least that`s one problem
apparently fixed in the meantime. I also have to avoid splash from 9520, and
put FRG-7 in ATTenuation mode because of overload from 9479 WTWW and even 9980
WWCR.
Plugs website, then news, starting with story about a homemade bomb. 1305 over
to the Kalimantan guy, so they are still doing ``Exotic Indonesia`` joint
programs on Tuesdays with RRI Banjarmasin. Haven`t been able to hear that for
many months! At 1308, continues to hand back and forth between two OM voices in
Jak and Banj. 1317 Jak YL announcer is more readable by the pitch of her voice,
but only briefly, previewing `Today in History` segment. 1320 really mentions
``Exotic Indonesia`` and T.I.H. 1329 starts another segment with music and it
keeps playing in background for next dekaminute, further impeding readability.
Recheck in time to hear the 9525.0 CRI Russian pr?lude cut on at 1357 producing
big het (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** JAPAN [non]. 6110, Oct 23 at 0521, NHK English via CANADA is still a bigsig
for a few more nights, and at this time announcing some frequency changes
effective Oct 28, without giving any sites, but I insert the old ones,
presumably the same:
05 to S Africa, 11970 to 9770 [France]
10 & 12 to SE Asia, 9695 to 11740 [Singapore]
13 to SW Asia 15735 to 11730 [Uzbekistan]
14 to SE Asia 11705 to 11925 [Palau]
14 to SW Asia 15735 to 11695 [Uzbekistan]
But this announcement is incomplete! Notably the very frequency we are
listening to, which as I have publicized several times will be moving from
Sackville 6110 to Guiana French 11740 at 0500. And 1200 from Sackville 6120 to
Guiana French 15190 and/or 6120. Surely 6120 is not going to work or really be
used over that path. I suppose at other breaks they will give the rest of the
frequency changes.
0522 on to `Once Upon a Time in Japan`, folk tales, this week, ``Click-Clack
Mountain`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** KOREA SOUTH [non]. 6045, Oct 23 at 0613, KBS in Spanish with the usual
``clacking`` accompanying all their program feeds to CANADA. Another
transmission going away in a few days with the demise of Sackville, and nothing
known to replace it. KBS has not registered anything at all with HFCC for B-12.
And checked Oct 23, still has nothing on own website about B-12, just A-12
schedules (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MADAGASCAR [and non]. 15542 approx., Oct 23 at 0505, big blob of extremely
distorted FMy overmodulation, presumed the Talata transmitter missing from
15400 with Radio Dabanga, and which 24 hours earlier was doing the same circa
15497; and which on July 26 was also in the 15550 area. This time, // 11650 via
Vatican too weak to establish a //, but I have little doubt my explanation is
correct.
This was another all-Africa night on 19m, with VOA Botswana 15580 in well, and
VON Ikorodu 15120 sufficient. By 0526, the 15542 blob was much weaker and the
others had also faded down. Apparently they are clueless in Talata that
something is very, very wrong with this transmitter (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** MEXICO. 690, Oct 23 at 0605 UT, ``La 69, Siempre Deportiva``, and repeat of
a Jacobo Zabludovsky show which originally aired 12 hours earlier at 1 pm;
loops N/S, and Cant? shows:
690 XEN La 69 M?xico, DF 100,000 5,000
Last summer I heard him in the afternoon on some FM DX
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MEXICO. 700, Oct 23 at 0544 UT, in WLW null, interview about escuelas en la
Rep?blica Mexicana. If it were not for the night power of only 150 watts, I
would choose R. Red as the most likely talker vs several music stations listed
in Cant?:
700 XEDKR Radio Red AM Guadalajara, Jal. 10,000 150
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MOROCCO [and non]. 9579.12, Oct 23 at 0516, M?di Un, Nador transmitter is
still way off-frequency and hetting GABON 9580.0 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** OKLAHOMA. 960, UT Tuesday October 23 at 0500, KGWA Enid again fails to
transmit dead air for five minutes, instead continued with Fox `News`, so no
DXing under it tonight (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** OKLAHOMA 1020, Oct 23 at 0557 UT, KOKP Perry has again lost programming,
dead air only, but producing a SAH probably with KDKA (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** ROMANIA. 7225-7230-7235, Oct 23 at 0611, DRM noise must be RRI German as
scheduled from Tiganeshti for 0600-0630. Tho legit, it`s a shame they don`t
have a little more consideration for hams in the Western Hemisphere, blotting
out 10 kHz of their band. At least this is RRI`s only current DRM frequency in
the 7200-7300 range; RNZI managed to use 7440 instead of 7285 which it had also
registered (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** SOUTH CAROLINA [non]. 9980, Oct 23 at 1159, WWCR is already on with Brother
Scare, very poor signal before sunrise with band not open yet from TN, but may
have been on for an hour already. The transmitter schedule now shows 9980 at
11-01, but the program schedule dated 1 Oct still shows no start weekdays until
1600. But by 1240 signal had built up to daytime blast level, causing overload
thruout the 31m band (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** SPAIN [and non]. Following up on the missing REE DX program `Amigos de la
Onda Corta`, which has been absent for several weeks from its previously
scheduled final repeat Sundays at 1230 UT ? I notified Pepe Bueno about this,
who circulates weekly advance publicity about the program topix, and he asked
producer and host Antonio Buitrago. His full reply in Castilian will appear in
the next DXLD 12-43, but summarizing:
It was replaced (apparently without notice) by a broadcast Mondays at 2230 on
7275, 9570 and 15110, the latter to North America, and all direct from Spain.
However in B-12 there will be further changes: Saturdays at 0605 (ex-0505),
2330 (ex Sunday 0030) and UT Tuesdays at 0130. This starts Sunday October 29,
so presumably only affects the Tuesday broadcast that week.
However2, from November 12 a new REE program schedule goes into effect, and
`Amigos de la OC` will expand from 25 to 50 minutes with the last half being a
mailbag like the former `Correo del Oyente`. Times for that are not yet known
but will likely change again (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** TAIWAN [non]. 5950, Oct 23 at 0513, RTI in English, usual VG signal via
WYFR, M&W chatting rather than significant programming; 0524 finishing and next
program to be `We`ve Got Mail`, but then it starts and there they are chatting
again. Maybe we will not be missing much:
Ever since we had a look at the WYFR B-12 frequency schedule a couple months
ago, we have been apprehensive that the RTI relays would be terminated, as 5950
and/or 9680 are no longer on the schedule at the long-established times
yearound for RTI English, 0200, 0300 and 0500. There are still some earlier
transmissions which must be RTI relays, but how about English?
Less than a week before B-12, RTI has finally made public its plans: there will
be only one English relay via WYFR and it will be at the new time of 22-23 UT
on 15440 and 6115; tnx to dxldyg member Ashik Eqbal Tokon, Rajshahi,
Bangladesh, who found that on the RTI website. 15440 is registered as 285
degrees, and 6115 at 355 degrees (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U K [non]. 7350-7355-7360, Oct 23 at 0611, DRM noise stronger than Romania
7230; this is registered as BBC, 100 kW, 300 degrees via AUSTRIA, so USward
altho targeted only at W Europe, 0600-0800. I thought they had canceled SW to
Europe (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A [and non]. WORLD OF RADIO in B-12: WRN is making some schedule
changes: the Africa/Asia/Pacific service which has been carrying WOR Saturdays
at 0800, is replaced by Sunday 1500 UT effective October 28.
The North American service Saturday 1730 broadcast makes the usual off-DST
shift to 1830 UT as from November 10, but the other two broadcasts are
canceled. This also applies to WRN via SiriusXM 120, so no longer aired there
Sundays at what would have been 0930 and 1830 UT. Thus we also must also say
goodbye to listeners via the only two US stations known to be relaying WRN
overnight, WXPR in Wisconsin and KSFC in Washington.
WRN, which originally required WOR to run 28:43 minutes, also need it to be
29:00 from next week, and I hope this will not cause any problems for all our
other affiliates. If they need to edit something out, the final propagation
outlook should be sufficient (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 710, Oct 23 at 1207 UT, KCMO Kansas City MO, ``now on FM 103.7``,
another big AM station which thinx that`s not enough. But FM is not new:
already in NRC AM Log 2012 as of last August at latest. Opening local `KCMO
Morning Show` with Greg-somebody who is anti-Obama, of course (Glenn Hauser,
OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** VATICAN. 11905, Oct 23 at 0512, something in English, poor signal; by 0524
had faded down to JBA carrier. Tnx to tip from Pat Blakely who says on Oct 21
and 22 he was hearing CBC Radio One, Overnight relaying items from other
stations such as R. Netherlands, from 0530 to off at 0600, but may have started
earlier.
We looked up this frequency, and it`s supposed to be VOA Kurdish via Vatican!
Must be a colossal feed mixup. Then on Oct 23 Pat heard it again from 0500,
with CBC relaying programming from PRI. Meanwhile, Wolfgang B?schel had
contacted Arto Mujunen of IBB monitoring in Finland, who replied:
``Thanks for the info. We are aware of this problem and trying to get it
solved. Recent jamming by Iran and Syria targeting satellite feeds have been
causing problems. 73 Arto``
So they have had to change their feed routing to other transponders or
satellites, but there is still no excuse for the SW relay operators putting on
a completely wrong feed, day after day. Is no one paying attention at SMG?
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 15976-USB approx., Oct 23 at 1346, 2-way in Spanish, discussing
``fuerza del corriente``, but also ``aeronave``, so not sure if aeronautical or
marine, poachers or narcotraffickers? Frequency may have been 0.5 kHz above or
below (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
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Message: 2
Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2012 17:06:28 -0400 (EDT)
From: jerrye5...@aol.com
To: rmont...@verizon.net, rdange...@aol.com,
hard-core-dx@hard-core-dx.com, markokp...@gmail.com
Cc: kc5...@amsai.org
Subject: [HCDX] Recent Logs
Message-ID: <3210.13503029.3db86...@aol.com>
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11800 GERMANY DW Bonn 0414 EE OM with African accent giving reports on
several items. Nigeria/Niger boarder, Judicial action in Hamburg re: Somali
Pirates, Human Rights re: children. There were also occasional reports
by DW announcers. It appears that I tuned this in by accident, as I had not
received DW in a very long time. It was also coincidental that B-12 WDXC
News should come out the next day with DW African frequencies. Thank you
Wolfgang, it was a delight to hear DW once again. Very Good; 10/19
(Ervine-TX)
11795 ROMANIA RRI Bucarest 0235 SS OM/YL talk and MX with IS at 0258.
0300 waltz MX, YL with ID EE. NX items; the economy, human rights,
gathering of high officials and Romanian Woman's Handball Team. Mention that
education is a gross investment and the effort being made to advance. 0350
ID,
MX. YL with frequencies and contact info. G. 10/20 (Ervine-TX)
11985 INDIA AIR (tent) Location? Language? 0353 IS OM/Y alternating.
IS 0357 anthem by group. Program continued with a variety of musical
pieces. All appeared to resemble Richard D'Angelo's entry in the October 2012
issue of Journal. Major difference is the time heard. Richard' entry was
for 0234-0300. Pos. closing at 0432. Again, another surprise for me.
10/23 (Ervine-TX)
JERRY ERVINE
2500 E BUS 83 LOT 564
MISSION TEXAS 78572
All received on SONY 2010 (still in good shape)
73 Jerry
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Message: 3
Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2012 19:59:15 -0400 (EDT)
From: Brian Alexander <brian384...@aol.com>
To: dxplo...@yahoogroups.com
Cc: shortwavewo...@yahoogroups.com, cumbre...@yahoogroups.com,
na...@yahoogroups.com, hard-core-dx@hard-core-dx.com,
worldbandra...@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [HCDX] Oct 23 Logs
Message-ID: <8cf7f9189e3a406-6a0-24...@webmail-d064.sysops.aol.com>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"
** BANGLADESH. 15105, Bangladesh Betar, *1229-1300*, Oct 23,
sign on with IS. 6 time pips at 1230 and opening announcements in
English. Local subcont music and English talk. Speech by man at
approximately 1250. Sign off with 5 second test tone. Weak but
readable. (Alexander-PA)
?
** BANGLADESH. 15505, Bangladesh Betar, *1358-1430*, Oct 23,
sign on with IS. 6 time pips and opening announcements in listed
Urdu. Subcont music. Urdu talk. Fair to good. (Alexander-PA)
?
** BANGLADESH. 15505, Bangladesh Betar, *1514-1545*, Oct 23,
sign on with IS. 6 time pips and opening announcements in listed
Hindu at 1515. Subcont music. Talk in Hindu. 6 second test tone at
1545 sign off. Fair to good. (Alexander-PA)
?
** BRAZIL. 11854.94, Radio Aparecida. 2305-2325, Oct 23, Portuguese
talk. Inspirational Portuguese music. // 5035, 6135.13, 9629.94. All
frequencies weak. (Alexander-PA)
?
** CHAD. 6164.96, RNT, 2020-2138*, Oct 23, French talk. Wide variety
of Afro-pop, Euro-pop and local tribal music. Abrupt sign off mid-song.
Weak but readable. (Alexander-PA)
?
** CHAD. 6164.96, RNT, *0506-0555, Oct 23, abrupt sign on with
Afro-pop music. French talk. African hi-life music. Fair. Is this a new
sign on time? Now heard signing on at 0505-0506 several times
this past week. (Alexander-PA)
?
** CUBA. 23680 H, Radio Havana Cuba, 2103-2155, Oct 23, 2nd
harmonic of 11840. Spanish talk. ID. Weak, but fair on peaks.
2 x 11840. Thanks to Colin Newell tip. (Alexander-PA)
?
** NIGERIA. 15120, Voice of Nigeria, *0446-0505, Oct 23, sign on with
IS and English ID sequence. National Anthem at 0555. Opening English
ID announcements at 0456 along with preview of upcoming programs.
News at 0501. Poor to fair. Not as strong as usual. (Alexander-PA)
?
?
Brian Alexander, Mechanicsburg, PA, USA
Equipment: Icom IC-7600, two 100 foot longwires
?
?
sign on with IS. 6 time pips at 1230 and opening announcements in
English. Local subcont music and English talk. Speech by man at
approximately 1250. Sign off with 5 second test tone. Weak but
readable. (Alexander-PA)
?
** BANGLADESH. 15505, Bangladesh Betar, *1358-1430*, Oct 23,
sign on with IS. 6 time pips and opening announcements in listed
Urdu. Subcont music. Urdu talk. Fair to good. (Alexander-PA)
?
** BANGLADESH. 15505, Bangladesh Betar, *1514-1545*, Oct 23,
sign on with IS. 6 time pips and opening announcements in listed
Hindu at 1515. Subcont music. Talk in Hindu. 6 second test tone at
1545 sign off. Fair to good. (Alexander-PA)
?
** BRAZIL. 11854.94, Radio Aparecida. 2305-2325, Oct 23, Portuguese
talk. Inspirational Portuguese music. // 5035, 6135.13, 9629.94. All
frequencies weak. (Alexander-PA)
?
** CHAD. 6164.96, RNT, 2020-2138*, Oct 23, French talk. Wide variety
of Afro-pop, Euro-pop and local tribal music. Abrupt sign off mid-song.
Weak but readable. (Alexander-PA)
?
** CHAD. 6164.96, RNT, *0506-0555, Oct 23, abrupt sign on with
Afro-pop music. French talk. African hi-life music. Fair. Is this a new
sign on time? Now heard signing on at 0505-0506 several times
this past week. (Alexander-PA)
?
** CUBA. 23680 H, Radio Havana Cuba, 2103-2155, Oct 23, 2nd
harmonic of 11840. Spanish talk. ID. Weak, but fair on peaks.
2 x 11840. Thanks to Colin Newell tip. (Alexander-PA)
?
** NIGERIA. 15120, Voice of Nigeria, *0446-0505, Oct 23, sign on with
IS and English ID sequence. National Anthem at 0555. Opening English
ID announcements at 0456 along with preview of upcoming programs.
News at 0501. Poor to fair. Not as strong as usual. (Alexander-PA)
?
?
Brian Alexander, Mechanicsburg, PA, USA
Equipment: Icom IC-7600, two 100 foot longwires
?
?
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Message: 4
Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2012 10:37:08 +0200
From: maurits <mauritsvandriess...@skynet.be>
To: "'[DXA-leden]'" <dxa-le...@yahoogroups.co.uk>, BDX luisteramateur
list <b...@elcalist.nl>, "hard-core-dx@hard-core-dx.com"
<hard-core-dx@hard-core-dx.com>
Subject: [HCDX] Alaska
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KNLS New Life Station Alaska weak on 9655khz at 0835utc
73,
Maurits
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