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To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/hard-core-dx or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to hard-core-dx-requ...@hard-core-dx.com You can reach the person managing the list at hard-core-dx-ow...@hard-core-dx.com When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than "Re: Contents of Hard-Core-DX digest..." ________________________________________ Hard-Core-DX mailing list Hard-Core-DX@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/hard-core-dx http://www.hard-core-dx.com/ _______________________________________________ THE INFORMATION IN THIS ARTICLE IS FREE. 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. Lates logs here in Lugo (Manuel M?ndez) 2. WORLDWIDE DX CLUB Top News #1203 (Michael Bethge (WWDXC)) 3. Vakarel Bulgaria History petition. NO to the destruction of RPS "Vakarel", the symbol of Bulgarian Radio. (Wolfgang Bueschel_DF5SX) 4. Unscheduled frequency 17550 of VIRI/IRIB in Arabic (Ivo Observer) 5. Reception of Voice of Mongolia due to absence of Voice of Korea, part 2 (Ivo Observer) 6. Re: Radio Canada International to return to air (Paul) 7. Glenn Hauser logs April 1-2, 2015 (and a March 29) (Glenn Hauser) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Thu, 02 Apr 2015 09:18:50 +0200 From: Manuel M?ndez <manuelmend...@gmail.com> To: "DX Listenig Digest" <d...@yahoogroups.com> Subject: [HCDX] Lates logs here in Lugo Message-ID: <0c71989f-c56c-4a06-aaf8-b1a8d4784...@getmailbird.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Manuel M?ndez Lugo, Spain Logs in Lugo Grundig Satellit 500, Sony ICF SW 7600 G, Tecsun PL-880, cable antenna, 8 meters ANGOLA, 4949.9, Radio Nacional de Angola, Mulenvos, Portuguese,?1935-1950, 01-04?comments. Very weak, best on LSB. 14321. (M?ndez) ANTARCTICA, 15476, LRA 36 Radio Nacional Arc?ngel San Gabriel, Base Esperanza, 2003-2050, 01-04, comments by male and female, Spanish, identification: "LRA 36", mentioned "Base Esperanza", nice program of Latin American songs, song "Amor de mis Amores" ?and others. Weak but improving at the end of my listening. 14321 to 24322. (M?ndez) AUSTRALIA, 4835, VL8A, Alice Springs, NT, 1825-1840, 01-04, pop music, English, comments, at 1830 "Good morning, ABC news". 24322. (M?ndez) BRAZIL 4885, Radio Clube do Par?, Bel?m, 0540-0620, 02-04, Brazilian songs. Good signal here in the early morning today. 34433. (M?ndez) 5970, Radio Itatiaia, Belo Horizone, 0610-0623, 02-04, Portuguese, comments. 13221. (M?ndez) 9725, Radio RB2 Curitiba, 0503-0625, 02-04, Religious, program "Com a Mae Aparecida, Santuario Nacional".?// 6040 RB2, 6135, Radio Aparecida, ?9630 Radio Aparecida, 9819.8 Radio 9 de Julho, 11855, Radio Aparecida and 11935 Radio RB2. 24322. (M?ndez) 15190, Radio Inconfidencia, Belo Horizonte, 1947-2003, 31-03, Portuguese, comments, identification: "Radio Inconfidencia". 24322. (M?ndez) CONGO, 6115, Radio Congo, Brazaville, 1805-1818*, 01-04, French, comments about Congo, identification: "Radio Congo". 23322. (M?ndez) ETHIOPIA, 6010, Radio Fana, Addis Ababa, 1745-1753, 01-04, Vernacular comments. 23322. (M?ndez) FINLAND, 25000, Time signal station Mikes, 1640-1655, 31-03, time signals, pulse with each second and silent at second 59. 14321. (M?ndez) GUATEMALA; 4055, Radio Verdad, Chiquimula, 0545-0557, 02-04, religious songs, English. 14321. (M?ndez) MADEIRA, 1530, Posto Emissor do Funchal, Poiso, 0527-0603, 02-04, Portuguese songs, identification: "Posto Emissor do Funchal", at 0600 news. 14321. (M?ndez) MALI 5995, Radio Mali, Bamako, 0502-060, 02-04, French, comments. 23222. (M?ndez) 9635, Radio Mali, Bamako, 1620-1645, 31-03, French and Vernacular, comments. 13321. (M?ndez) NIGERIA, 9690, Voice of Nigeria, Ikorodu, 1714-1730*, 31-03, Vernacular, comments, African songs. 24322. (M?ndez) UGANDA, 4976, Radio Uganda, Kampala, 1940-2040, 01-04, English, news and comments. 24322. (M?ndez) ------------------------------ Message: 2 Date: Thu, 2 Apr 2015 09:20:27 +0200 From: "Michael Bethge \(WWDXC\)" <m...@wwdxc.de> To: <rec-radio-i...@panix.com>, <hard-core-dx@hard-core-dx.com>, "Fernando Luiz de Souza" <py2nl....@gmail.com>, "Faustino Prado Moreira" <py2...@gmail.com>, "Wolfgang Bueschel" <bueschel...@t-online.de> Subject: [HCDX] WORLDWIDE DX CLUB Top News #1203 Message-ID: <0C7C90E8CDBF434AA483306C05648AA3@BETHGEZUHAUSE> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" The latest edition (2 April) of the WORLDWIDE DX CLUB "Top News", compiled by Wolfgang Bueschel, has been posted: http://topnews.wwdxc.de Best regards, Michael Bethge ************************************* WORLDWIDE DX CLUB Postfach 1214 D-61282 Bad Homburg GERMANY Fax: +49 6172 123117 E-Mail: m...@wwdxc.de Internet: http://www.wwdxc.de ************************************* ------------------------------ Message: 3 Date: Thu, 2 Apr 2015 11:27:33 +0200 From: "Wolfgang Bueschel_DF5SX" <buesch...@email.de> To: "HCDX" <hard-core-dx@hard-core-dx.com>, "DXLD" <d...@yahoogroups.com>, "egroups_mwdx" <m...@yahoogroups.com>, "egroups_mwoffsets" <mwoffs...@yahoogroups.com> Subject: [HCDX] Vakarel Bulgaria History petition. NO to the destruction of RPS "Vakarel", the symbol of Bulgarian Radio. Message-ID: <D89FDFAD99674DCA9D798F7A5D8DE53F@HNPC2> Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="UTF-8"; reply-type=original BULGARIA Petition. Sofia Vakaral history. <https://www.facebook.com/save.vakarel/info> Historical and technical information on the Vakarel transmitter. Radio transmitter station "Vakarel" is located 2 kms from village Vakarel (Ihtiman) and is situated at an altitude of 900 m. The station was designed and built by the German company Telefunken specialists after long research to find the best place for broadcast in the ranges of long and medium waves. Very best features of the terrain and location ensuring RPS "Vakarel" to 01.01.2015 one of the leading country and Europe places in quality local and international broadcasting. On November 17, 1937 were carried out the first experimental broadcasts, and on 8 December the same year the official Launching and began regular operation of the station. With the start of broadcasts of Vakarel in Europe begin to clearly hear emissions Sofia Radio broadcast wave of 352.9 m / 850 kHz with power 100000 watt. The antenna of this transmitter type Blaw-Knox, is a real technical marvel, not only the time, but today. It has a diamond shape, high is about 200 meters tall and weighs about 130 tons, it is reinforced with four massive steel guyed. Of this type in Bulgaria has one antenna - Stara Zagora - also built in 1936, but the Hungarian company Standard. In Europe there are only two antennas - one in England and Hungary. Transmitter's contemporary, the technician Ivan Pickles tells about the construction of Vakarelska transmitter: "In 1936 year on a high hill near the village began construction Vakarel ... Facing the big spindle diversity antenna, 214 meters high, which ultimately rested on a glass insulator stick with four strong steel ropes. Dug deep ditch, which takes special high-frequency cable to the studio in Sofia. The construction of the transmitter is held by the company-builder "Telefunken", but in construction attended many of our workers, technicians and engineers, including Eng. Martulkov, Eng. Pipev, Eng. Kolarov." Ing. Stanislav Martulkov gives a detailed description of the facility in 1938 in year-on BIAD: "The location of the new transmitter is selected after basic research - about 905 m. Above sea level, 37 kms from Sofia, about 2.5 kilometers before Vakarel ... alarm antenna for airplanes going through the revolving lights of a thousand watts, with a red light, built 15 meters high masts on both sides of the antenna." Eng. Gregory Uzunov describes antenna Vakarel "powerful transmitter antenna near the village Vakarel built by "Hein-Lehmann" Berlin is an iron mast structure with fish shape (wider in the middle of its tapered at the ends) with a height of 179 meters. At the top of the antenna is extended by a metal rod, which rises in height and 17 meters in such a way that the entire height of 196 meters. (In other calculations height was 199.82 m). Conductor current serving four flange beams, power antenna becomes the bottom of tubular wire." Eng. K.Todorov: "From its center are tensioned steel cables (93 th meter), four in number, in 60 mm thick, composed of 121 wires. The base of the mast is concrete block, heavy 48 tons and blocks which are nailed ropes are 67 tons apiece." In the words of eyewitnesses lies only a hint of the colossal work on the construction of a high-quality national transmitter. Work laid with love and professionalism, sent waves of RPS "Vakarel 'homes even English. The transmitter of Vakarel is not affected by any natural disaster - did not hurt nor earthquake or hurricane winds. During World War II survived the bombing because it serves as a reference to the Anglo-American airmen. After 1944, the national transmitter end Vakarel came to be called "Transmitter Hristo Botev". Due to lack of spare parts, the transmitter works with half power - 50 kW. In 1950, the General Directorate for broadcasting contract with Hungarian company "Standard" for the repair of "Transmitter Hristo Botev". On February 24, 1954 the facility was put into regular ekspoatatsiya with renewed power of 100 kW. In 1984 vavveden in eksploatatatsiya Bulgarian transmitter development of the Institute of heavy radio electronics (led by the famous engineer. Hristo Bachvarov) with power of 40 kW, reset by means of long waves with a frequency of 261 kHz, a frequency known to thousands of Bulgarians and foreigners. The transmitter works until 2001, when after one month break is replaced by a Russian type DSV-75 with power 75 kW, which is currently unavailable. This transmitter was delivered to RPS "cape", but was never installed there. RPS "Vakarel" is one of the 26 remaining operating transmitters of long waves in the world. Broadcast programs can be heard here very well throughout the country and in Europe, have a loyal following. (6. Januar 2015) NO to the destruction of RPS "Vakarel", the symbol of Bulgarian Radio. Radio transmission station "Vakarel" - 78 year old pride of Bulgaria, was stopped on 01.01.2015. Help save her from destruction ! <https:\\www.facebook.com/save.vakarel/info?tab=page_info> <https:\\www.facebook.com/save.vakarel> <https://www.facebook.com/notes/836355213074915/> <https://www.facebook.com/save.vakarel/photos_stream?ref=page_internal> Dear compatriots, On 1 January 2015 contrary to the interests of thousands of listeners and national security were stopped long wave transmitter 261 kHz in RPS "Vakarel" and medium-wave frequencies in Gallikos Kilkis, Samuel, Kardzhali, Republic and Targovishte. Despite these many listeners medium-wave frequencies were largely local coverage predvatelyat in Vakarel had even internationally. Currently this site with historic and strategic importance is about to be liquidated following the fate of the majority of suspended radio in recent over 20 years. History of RPS "Vakarel" stretches back to back in 1934, when specialists from the company Telefunken visit Bulgaria in search of the most suitable location for broadcasting. After almost a year and demand measurements, they stop at the height above the Sofia village Vakarel. The location is ideal for a number of natural and geographical reasons. In fact it is the best in the country. In 1936 construction began on the first transmitter and in nearby 1937 already made the first tests. On 17 November 1937, the transmitter enters into operation. And from that moment began the creation of a legend, fought their way with her beautiful voice as hundreds of specialists, engineers and native genius of radiodeloto and millions of listeners. A national pride. Until this New Year's Eve, 78 long and turbulent years. The importance of the station is beyond doubt. Through its program of Bulgarian National Radio reach thousands of listeners outside other coating, whether or VHF television. Director General of BNR Mr. Radoslav Yankulov in a gust of inadequate and incompetent fatal modernism is going to war against the broadcasting of long and medium wave. According to his statements it is obsolete technology, rejected all over the world, too expensive for maintenance and generally meaningless. According to him, Bulgaria has 98% coverage of the country with the FM signal. He is even ready, in his words, a financial scheme by which to buy the poor listeners VHF radios. The truth, my dear compatriots, is much different. Bulgaria is a mountainous country and a considerable part of the population lives in the mountains. Despite the presence of several dozens of regional and national radio stations in VHF range, due to rough terrain their coverage of mountainous areas is very limited. These areas are served until recently by twenty regional and 7 national radio coverage of the SG and ST. These transmitters broadcast programs of Radio, plus news content was provided by the regional studios of Radio, giving listeners an interesting, diverse and relevant information for the region. Due to the nature of the spectrum reached their voice not only to the most remote corners of Bulgaria, but also to our compatriots abroad. Bulgarian speech was reaching tens of thousands from the western suburbs, the Bulgarians southern Romania, the thousands in Europe. According to experts in the industry to achieve too VHF coverage of 98% must be built between 800 and 1,000 new FM transmitter, most of them must be located in rugged terrain. Behind the promise of Mr. Yankulov hide millions of BGN deals for construction of road infrastructure, grid, microwave network and radio transmission network. And it will come to the Bulgarian taxpayer tens of times more expensive than the maintenance of all the destroyed and scrapped transmitters SG and ST will be the peak of stupidity and nekompetenstnostta, wastage of precious and needed resources. The cost would be astronomical. Then he is ready to gift VHF receivers of all poor listeners. If for example we put average supply wholesale price of about 30 lev for receiver and modest Suppose that in our country there are 100.000 people living in remote rural areas receive three million lev, the price of electricity for RPS "Vakarel" for 16 years. By what right Mr. Yankulov discriminates against those 100.000 Bulgarians in Bulgaria and thousands abroad? According to him, the whole civilized world refuses mass stops transmitters ST and SG. Therefore you in central Europe evening heard over 25 stations of the SG and 90 CB? For this reason you constantly modernize existing and build new facilities in the EU Member States? There are several reasons: 1) Huge coverage with lower costs The coverage area of a modern 100-kilowatt transmitter SG, suitably located and having a good quality antenna system is up to 2000 km. The annual cost of electricity would be about 127 546 lev. These are 17 cents per capita per year. The coverage area of this transmitter CB would be around 400 km. Costs 1000 VHF transmitter would be drastically higher. 2) high security communication channel The radio can not be easily stopped. This is extremely important in case of war, natural disasters and accidents. This is one of the main roles of the national radio - to reach all in such cases. In a statement Mr Yankulov expressed the view that it is best to listen to Radio on their mobile phones via the Internet. Due to its high complexity and multi-layered, his proposed transmission medium is the most vulnerable, insecure and chaotic. Radio is extremely safe, in case of disaster, accident or war, transfers can be organized by themselves transmitting stations protected studios, and from pre-recorded programs and others. 3) Extremely low cost and simplicity of terminal equipment National Radio is a public service. It must serve the people of them and for them. Although urbanization of Bulgarian cities, thousands of our fellow citizens live in isolated and remote areas where food is retrieved with a daily struggle with the ground for her gifts. Despite the proven return to rural life, most of these listeners are elderly and low-income. But almost all have a suitable receiver. In our country there are still thousands of fully operable tube and transistor radios. Despite the claims of Mr. Yankulov last repeated on 19.01.2015 in the morning of BNT1 that broadcasts CB of RPS "Vidin" of mediumwave 576 kHz reach all listeners in the country, this is not true. The transmitter is located in a very inappropriate place for broadcasting. Moreover purchased 400 kilowatt transmitter Thompson is poor and causes a number of problems in the operation, which requires to work with 200 kilowatts of power. Despite this power coverage area and signal quality are far from sufficient for the country. We are all aware of the financial, organizational and resource difficulties for the state national media. Abbreviation of regional programs is understandable. But the exclusion of only a transmitter having a capacity for national coverage is not. We appeal to all of you from the ordinary listener, to the members of the parliamentary committee on culture and media! Let us not allow mercantile tear everything built to destroy the little left of a once proud our national radio. Let us save RPS "Vakarel" and turn it into the main transmitter broadcasting center of Bulgaria. We call for: 1) Purchase of the State of RPS "Vakarel"; 2) Purchase and installation of a new transmitter SG from a reputable supplier (eg. Transradio, Gates or Nautel) with capacity of 50 kW in the estimated annual cost of electricity by 63 773 lev or 9 cents per capita per year; 3) Purchase and installation of new CB transmitter from a reputable supplier (eg. Transradio, Gates or Nautel) to power 100 kilowatts, at an estimated annual cost of electricity from 127,546 lev or 17 cents per capita per year; 4) preserving old Dvublokov transmitter DSV-75 as a reserve power, proven in the toughest conditions. 5) Construction of new diplexer that will allow simultaneous operation of two transmitters with existing antenna system; 6) Restoration of broadcasting program "Horizon" Radio station SG and ST for the country and abroad. 7) Construction of the area of one of the residential buildings in the station of a modern museum of Bulgarian radiodelo an information center and a library. The museum is open for organized visits of Bulgarian and foreign citizens, students from technical schools and universities. A good example of suitable transmitters are Nautel NX50 / NX100, Transradio TRAM50 / TRAM100, and Gates Flexdivia 3DX50 / 3DX100. These actions would provide not only 100% coverage for much less money than those needed to build a grand network of VHF transmitters, but also a safe, inexpensive and proven method to reach foreign audiences from countries like Ukraine, Turkey, Egypt, Italy, Austria, Czech Republic, Germany, Serbia, Albania, Belarus and others. All this can be achieved with the vote of confidence of German experts, chosen height of the village Vakarel as the best option for broadcasting in the country, with the vote of confidence of the Bulgarian State again be the master and guardian of a legendary station. Only in this way Bulgaria's voice can be heard again from all its podannitsi home and away. <http://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.peticiq.com%2Fsavevakarel&h=cAQFjshBT> ------------------------------ Message: 4 Date: Thu, 2 Apr 2015 17:11:02 +0000 From: Ivo Observer <ivo.obser...@gmail.com> To: "'Abu Sayed'" <sayed.raya...@yahoo.com>, "'Alexander Beryozkin'" <dx...@nrec.spb.ru>, "'Alexander Dementiev'" <alek...@mail.ru>, "'Alexander Zurman'" <joochi2...@yandex.ru>, "'Alexey Zinevich'" <zas-2...@mail.ru>, "'Alokesh Gupta'" <alokeshgu...@hotmail.com>, "'Anatoly Klepov'" <ru...@yandex.ru>, "'Andreas Tschauder'" <andreastschau...@t-online.de>, "'Andreas Volk'" <andr...@volk-muenchen.de>, "'Andrei Skorodumov'" <skorodumov.and...@gmail.com>, "'Anker Petersen'" <anker.peter...@mail.dk>, "'Arnulf Piontek'" <pae...@web.de>, "'BCLNEWS'" <bclsiciliac...@inwind.it>, "'Bengh Ericson'" <bengt.eric...@telia.com>, "'Bernd Trutenau'" <btrute...@delfi.lt>, "'BK99'" <jak...@bk.ru>, "'Bob Padula'" <bobpad...@mydesk.net.au>, "'Boris Chastoedov'" <chastoe...@inbox.ru>, "'Dan Ferguson'" <shortw...@zerobeat.org>, "'Dario Gabrielli'" <dario.gabriell...@gmail.com>, "'Dave Valko'" <djva...@verizon.net>, "'Dino Bloise'" <dblo...@hotmail.com>, "'Dmitry Mezin'" <dm6...@gmail.com>, "'Dmitry Puzanov'" <k...@inbox.ru>, "'DX Listening Digest'" <d...@yahoogroups.com>, "'Gayle Van Horn'" <w4...@frontier.com>, "'Georgi Bancov'" <georgi.ban...@gmail.com>, "'Georgi Tamahkyarov'" <gttamahkya...@abv.bg>, "'Glenn Hauser'" <wghau...@yahoo.com>, "'Global Radio DX Club'" <gr...@yahoo.co.in>, "'Hard-Core-DX'" <hard-core-dx@hard-core-dx.com>, "'Ian Cattermole'" <cattermole...@gmail.com>, "'Igor D'" <igo...@zba.tr.ukrtel.net>, "'Jaisakthivel '" <ardicdxc...@yahoo.co.in>, "'JJE'" <jje642...@yahoo.com>, "'Jonathan Short'" <2883...@163.com>, "'Jorge Garcia'" <garcia.jorgegar...@gmail.com>, "'Konstantin Aseev'" <kos...@kursknet.ru>, "'Konstantin Gusev'" <gu...@itep.ru>, "'Lim Kwet Hian'" <akwet_2...@yahoo.com>, "'Mauno Ritola'" <mauno.rit...@gmail.com>, "'MIDXB'" <rusmi...@mtu-net.ru>, "'Mikhail Timofeyev'" <timofe...@sp.ru>, "'Noel Green'" <noel.gr...@dswci.org>, "'Paul Ormandy'" <zl...@orcon.net.nz>, "'Radio Kurier'" <h...@addx.de>, "'Sei-ichi Hasegawa'" <h.seii...@yahoo.com>, "'Sergej Rogov'" <sergej...@googlemail.com>, "'Sergey Shohin'" <50sd...@rambler.ru>, "'Sergey Vinokurov'" <vnk...@rambler.ru>, "'Shukhrat Rakhmatullaev'" <uzbe...@gmail.com>, "'Siniy Voron'" <siniyvo...@hotmail.com>, "'T. Patterson'" <t...@mozcom.com>, "'Takahito Akabayashi'" <tak_akabaya...@yahoo.co.jp>, "'Valery Sheptukhin'" <ra3...@mail.ru>, "'Vasily Gulyaev'" <dx-voya...@yandex.ru>, "'Victor Goonetilleke'" <victorg4s...@yahoo.com>, "'Vladimir Lisin'" <lis3...@yandex.ru>, "'Vladimir Sitnikov'" <sigma...@mail.ru>, "'Wolfgang Bueschel'" <buesche...@web.de>, "'Z Liagas'" <zlia...@ath.forthnet.gr> Subject: [HCDX] Unscheduled frequency 17550 of VIRI/IRIB in Arabic Message-ID: <CANVtGkAaFcx=-v_uatgdpwdyj0v_8-ed6sj1pggbv9a3uph...@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 IRAN Unscheduled frequency of VIRI/IRIB in Arabic: 1420-1620 on 17550 KAM 500 kW / 259 deg to NEAf, scheduled till 1420 // frequency 9420 SIR 500 kW / 185 deg to NEAf, co-ch CNR 13 Uyghur http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2015/04/unscheduled-frequency-17550-of-viriirib.html -- 73! Ivo Ivanov *QTH*: Sofia, Bulgaria *Equipment*: Sony ICF-2001D 30 m. long wire *Web: *http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/ ------------------------------ Message: 5 Date: Thu, 2 Apr 2015 17:24:11 +0000 From: Ivo Observer <ivo.obser...@gmail.com> To: "'Abu Sayed'" <sayed.raya...@yahoo.com>, "'Alexander Beryozkin'" <dx...@nrec.spb.ru>, "'Alexander Dementiev'" <alek...@mail.ru>, "'Alexander Zurman'" <joochi2...@yandex.ru>, "'Alexey Zinevich'" <zas-2...@mail.ru>, "'Alokesh Gupta'" <alokeshgu...@hotmail.com>, "'Anatoly Klepov'" <ru...@yandex.ru>, "'Andreas Tschauder'" <andreastschau...@t-online.de>, "'Andreas Volk'" <andr...@volk-muenchen.de>, "'Andrei Skorodumov'" <skorodumov.and...@gmail.com>, "'Anker Petersen'" <anker.peter...@mail.dk>, "'Arnulf Piontek'" <pae...@web.de>, "'BCLNEWS'" <bclsiciliac...@inwind.it>, "'Bengh Ericson'" <bengt.eric...@telia.com>, "'Bernd Trutenau'" <btrute...@delfi.lt>, "'BK99'" <jak...@bk.ru>, "'Bob Padula'" <bobpad...@mydesk.net.au>, "'Boris Chastoedov'" <chastoe...@inbox.ru>, "'Dan Ferguson'" <shortw...@zerobeat.org>, "'Dario Gabrielli'" <dario.gabriell...@gmail.com>, "'Dave Valko'" <djva...@verizon.net>, "'Dino Bloise'" <dblo...@hotmail.com>, "'Dmitry Mezin'" <dm6...@gmail.com>, "'Dmitry Puzanov'" <k...@inbox.ru>, "'DX Listening Digest'" <d...@yahoogroups.com>, "'Gayle Van Horn'" <w4...@frontier.com>, "'Georgi Bancov'" <georgi.ban...@gmail.com>, "'Georgi Tamahkyarov'" <gttamahkya...@abv.bg>, "'Glenn Hauser'" <wghau...@yahoo.com>, "'Global Radio DX Club'" <gr...@yahoo.co.in>, "'Hard-Core-DX'" <hard-core-dx@hard-core-dx.com>, "'Ian Cattermole'" <cattermole...@gmail.com>, "'Igor D'" <igo...@zba.tr.ukrtel.net>, "'Jaisakthivel '" <ardicdxc...@yahoo.co.in>, "'JJE'" <jje642...@yahoo.com>, "'Jonathan Short'" <2883...@163.com>, "'Jorge Garcia'" <garcia.jorgegar...@gmail.com>, "'Konstantin Aseev'" <kos...@kursknet.ru>, "'Konstantin Gusev'" <gu...@itep.ru>, "'Lim Kwet Hian'" <akwet_2...@yahoo.com>, "'Mauno Ritola'" <mauno.rit...@gmail.com>, "'MIDXB'" <rusmi...@mtu-net.ru>, "'Mikhail Timofeyev'" <timofe...@sp.ru>, "'Noel Green'" <noel.gr...@dswci.org>, "'Paul Ormandy'" <zl...@orcon.net.nz>, "'Radio Kurier'" <h...@addx.de>, "'Sei-ichi Hasegawa'" <h.seii...@yahoo.com>, "'Sergej Rogov'" <sergej...@googlemail.com>, "'Sergey Shohin'" <50sd...@rambler.ru>, "'Sergey Vinokurov'" <vnk...@rambler.ru>, "'Shukhrat Rakhmatullaev'" <uzbe...@gmail.com>, "'Siniy Voron'" <siniyvo...@hotmail.com>, "'T. Patterson'" <t...@mozcom.com>, "'Takahito Akabayashi'" <tak_akabaya...@yahoo.co.jp>, "'Valery Sheptukhin'" <ra3...@mail.ru>, "'Vasily Gulyaev'" <dx-voya...@yandex.ru>, "'Victor Goonetilleke'" <victorg4s...@yahoo.com>, "'Vladimir Lisin'" <lis3...@yandex.ru>, "'Vladimir Sitnikov'" <sigma...@mail.ru>, "'Wolfgang Bueschel'" <buesche...@web.de>, "'Z Liagas'" <zlia...@ath.forthnet.gr> Subject: [HCDX] Reception of Voice of Mongolia due to absence of Voice of Korea, part 2 Message-ID: <CANVtGkArDMD-cFHAnC09AebCEFWz5OHVd=_nce=qzo0csyc...@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 MONGOLIA Reception of Voice of Mongolia due to absence of Voice of Korea: 1500-1530 on 12014.9 U-B 250 kW / 116 deg to EaAs Japanese 1500-1557 on 12015.0 KUJ 200 kW / 325 deg to EaEu Russian, at 1530 was back http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/2015/04/reception-of-voice-of-mongolia-due-to_2.html -- 73! Ivo Ivanov *QTH*: Sofia, Bulgaria *Equipment*: Sony ICF-2001D 30 m. long wire *Web: *http://swldxbulgaria.blogspot.com/ ------------------------------ Message: 6 Date: Fri, 03 Apr 2015 11:31:16 +1300 From: Paul <format...@xtra.co.nz> To: Hard-Core-DX <Hard-Core-DX@hard-core-dx.com> Subject: Re: [HCDX] Radio Canada International to return to air Message-ID: <551dc334.4020...@xtra.co.nz> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Sounds like an April Fool joke to me. Another good one http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/04/01/falklands_syndrome_fukushima_meltdown_to_cause_10000_chernobyls_in_south_atlantic/ On 2/04/2015 5:00 a.m., R. Colin Newell wrote: > In a strange turnaround, the Stephen Harper liberal government > in Canada has approved the return to air of Radio Canada International. > > Funding has been restored and a rebuild of the Sackville transmission site > will commence immediately. > > We contacted Ian McFarland at his cosy retirement townhouse in Tofino, > Canada > where he commented, "If they expect me to come out of retirement to run this > operation, well I am good and ready.... I still have some good years left > in me..." > > CBC President and general operations manager Celine Dion was not available > for comment... > ------------------------------ Message: 7 Date: Thu, 2 Apr 2015 16:26:12 -0700 From: Glenn Hauser <wghau...@yahoo.com> To: d...@yahoogroups.com Cc: s...@mailman.qth.net Subject: [HCDX] Glenn Hauser logs April 1-2, 2015 (and a March 29) Message-ID: <1428017172.68405.yahoomailba...@web161302.mail.bf1.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 ** AUSTRALIA. 17840, April 1 at 0535, R. Australia at VG level here after local ``midnite``, and the OSOB; with some hum which turns out to be just from the phoner clip at the moment, goes away showing how clear the signal is. Also good on // 15240, poor on 15415, in accordance with different azimuths. May 17840 keep up like this! It`s the one at 21-09 on 70 degree azimuth aimed right at us, like 9580 at 09-21; just needs agreeable propagation (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** AUSTRALIA. 11590, April 2 at 1325, 1330, 1337, 1406, 1458 chex, no signal from RBA, where it`s supposed to be now with English after 1445 to S Asia. I tuned in at 1325 expecting to hear their hymn medley pr?lude. What happened to it? (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1767, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** AUSTRIA. 6155, April 1 at 0538, ?1 is still playing some lite classical wake-up music which makes it onto the token 75-minute SW broadcast, now shifted one UT hour earlier, so a little more darkness on path and a little better reception, soon to be lost as we progress further into summer. Only poor signal not enough to enjoy, plus a LAH presumably from Fides, Bolivia, always off-frequency to hi side. Yet the Moosbrunn SW transmitters are run for many foreign clients, following in the footsteps of Uzbekistan, dissing its own broadcasts (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BANGLADESH. 15505, April 1 at 1359, BB open carrier, poor with flutter: time for less than one complete IS before mistimesignal intervenes ending at 1359:33.5 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BRAZIL. 4885, April 2 at 0540, music audible under CODAR and local storm noise, so R. Clube do Par? is active for a change (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** BRAZIL. 11710 & 11745 & 11815, April 2 at 0513, crackling spurs from 11780.1v RNA/RNB, the closer ones stronger (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** CHINA [and non]. 19000, April 2 at 1338, JBA signal here, matching the Thursday 13-14 HFCC and Aoki schedules for RFA Tibetan via KUWAIT, and thus surely jammed (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** EGYPT. 13850, April 2 at 0514, VG signal level, from R. Cairo to North America, but presumed Arabic is suptorted; and splatter up to 20 kHz above and below (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** HAWAII [and non]. 15000, April 1 at 1308, WWVH is very good such that the YL voice announcements are slightly overmodulated/distorted, while only a trace of WWV underneath. But there is a third station with second tix of a different pitch, and they are not a semi-second out of synch. BPM China would be most likely if they are now on time (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** INTERNATIONAL INTERNET & VACUUM. As I mentioned before, we have been relying on the Smithsonian Channel (Suddenlink cable 328 in Enid), for CBS Sunday Morning, once we discovered it was being repeated there Sunday afternoons, Monday mornings, and at least one more time during the week; since there is too much else going on at 1300-1430 UT original airtime. We would never have known about this except checking out the S.C. schedule, as it was never mentioned on CBS itself. Osgood would do a different opening (?) and closing, and the final Nature Segment would always play much longer on S.C. than CBS itself ? close to 2 minutes instead of maybe a semiminute, as disposable filler to round out the time. So on March 29 we skipped the CBS airing, and were all set for it on S.C. at 1800 UT --- but NOT --- something else was on, and searching its schedule, all the CBSSM airings are gone, without notice. On CBS website it does appear most or all of the SM segments may be viewed individually, but it`s a pain to have to mess with it. At least the ``extended`` nature segment, at least this week, ran about another minute even longer than on TV. CBS is part owner of S.C., so obvious how this came about, but why quit? Most of the CBS commercials had been replaced by Smithsonian promos. The bottom line rules (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** KURDISTAN [non]. 11510, April 2 at 0511, poor signal with heavy flutter, presumed Denge Kurdistane with Kurdish music on A-15 channel ex-9400. Registered as PRIDNESTROVYE site 03-19, but at least part of it later is Bulgaria. Same type of heavy flutter on 9700, ROMANIA in French, tho K index at 03 was only 1 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** NEW ZEALAND. 11725, April 2 at 0513, no signal from RNZI, so must be another Thursday maintenance period; propagation OK, as Australia is in (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** OKLAHOMA. 90.1, April 2 at 2036 UT, KUCO Edmond with tristation ID including 95.9 Woodward now as ``KCSC`` which was the original call on 90.1, now preserved for posterity on ex-KZCU; presumably started April 1 when not checked (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** OKLAHOMA. Why do you not allow your countless viewers outside storm areas to continue watching CBS? You`ve been interrupting Letterman. Yet on 9.2 you are still showing hours-old news/weather!!!!!! Useless. And what about KSBI? You were supposedly going to put CBS on there, but it isn`t. In tornado season, at least, any evening likely to be stormy, just put CBS on one of the extra channels and be done with it --- without weather interruptions. If we need the wx, we`re smart enough to watch the main channel (Glenn Hauser, Enid, contact form to News9 = KWTV OKC, 0357 UT April 1, via DXLD) Glenn, CBS programming is now available on KSBI, Cox Channel 7 or 707 or 52.1 over the air. Thank you, (Jen Billings, Executive Producer, KWTV News9, 0426 UT, e-mail reply to gh, via DXLD) Yes, but not until 11:00, after missing the first half of Letterman. You have all these extra channels (and could create more, like 9.3 or 52.2) so please just put CBS on one of them when there is any weather which will disrupt 9.1) (Glenn, reply, ibid.) I understand... I asked for the programming to be flipped over earlier. I apologize my engineers were slow to react. I promise we'll work to be better. Thanks for watching... (Jen Billings, 0502 UT April 1, ibid.) See also INTERNATIONAL INTERNET & VACUUM: Smithsonian/CBS ** OKLAHOMA [and non]. We habitually watch NHK TV News at the only time available, via OETA OKLA 13.2 subchannel, M-F 1600-1630 UT. Previous time references indicated it was one or two hours delayed, but April 2 at 1600 the anchor opens saying it`s 7 pm Thursday in Tokyo! That was 1000 UT, entirely too long to delay a world news program. Is no later one available, as 5 am CDT would not have much of an audience here? By now it`s 1 am in Tokyo (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ROMANIA. 13740, Wednesday April 1 at 1344 as I tune across this AM frequency, startled to hear a ``CQ`` in Morse code amid music and announcement in Russian, poor. Aoki shows this is RRI from Tiganeshti during this semihour only, so was this a DX program? Or like in English merely a mailbag. BTW, in Russian, there is no C or Q as we know them (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SPAIN. 17855, April 2 at 2033, REE is still missing from what had been its strongest frequency, on 290-degree N American beam, but audible on 17715 poor, 15490 fair, 15450 poor. Maybe it`ll be back if they get a fourth transmitter operational again. Supposedly some of the several units are back in Spain after a visit to America for repairs --- still find it hard to believe they shipped the entire transmitters back and forth rather than components such as exciters (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1767, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SUDAN [and non] 11650, April 1 at 0538, R. Dabanga, poor via VATICAN with tone jammer; // 13800 via MADAGASCAR is JBA, can`t tell if there is a tone jammer too. 11650, April 2 at 0512, R. Dabanga poor with tone jammer atop it; 13800, April 2 at 0515, R. Dabanga fair signal but with double-tone jamming, the hi whiner and the low audible heterodyne (Glenn Hauser, OK, WORLD OF RADIO 1767, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** TIBET [and non]. 4820, April 1 at 1246, poor signal with het on hi side, 1248 could be in Chinese. 4920, April 1 at 1248, poor broadcast signal. Both these could be Lhasa, the latter in Tibetan; or both could be AIR INDIA, Kolkata and Chennai respectively, all scheduled on air at this time, as the two giant neighbors cannot or will not agree to use non-conflicting 60mb frequencies. The 4820+ het could be India, which typically wanders off-frequency (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** TIBET [non]. 15525, April 1 at 1406, presumed V. of Tibet via MADAGASCAR, poor-fair, and as expected, jumps to 15530 at 1407:04 to avoid Chicom jamming; but none heard here before or after on either frequency. So no change in this from B-14 to A-15. No OOB CNR1 jammers found propagating before 1400 in a 12-18 MHz scan (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** U S A. WORLD OF RADIO 1766 monitoring: confirmed Wednesday April 1 at 1315 on WRMI 9955, sufficient, no jamming, but usual RTTY on hi side to avoid. Also confirmed Wednesday April 1 at 2100 on webcast of WBCQ; a few minutes later can detect a JBA carrier on 7490v. Also confirmed UT Thursday April 2 at 0350 on WRMI 9955, good signal, as 1767 is not yet ready. Also presumed one more repeat on 9955, April 2 at 1230 as 1767 is still not ready. WORLD OF RADIO 1767 monitoring: finished and uploaded by 2118 UT April 2, so first SW airing will be Friday 2130: Fri 2130 WRMI 15770 & 7570 Sat 0630 HLR 7265-CUSB Hamburger Lokalradio [time shift for DST] Sat 1000 WRMI 5850 Sat 1530 HLR 7265-CUSB Hamburger Lokalradio [time shift for DST] Sat 1930v WA0RCR 1860-AM Sat 2130 Global 24 9525 via BULGARIA [last week; but unconfirmed for this week; time/frequency may change] Sun 0315v WA0RCR 1860-AM Sun 2300 WRMI 11580 Mon 0300v WBCQ 5110v Area 51 [SW not on air last week but webcast] Tue 1100 WRMI 9955 Wed 0630 HLR 7265-CUSB Hamburger Lokalradio Wed 1315 WRMI 9955 Wed 1430 HLR 7265-CUSB Hamburger Lokalradio Wed 2100 WBCQ 7490v Thu 0330 WRMI 9955 [or 1768 if ready in time] (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. 11425-SSB, April 1 at 1350, intermittent music, singing and 2-way contacts, very poor here, again at 1358, and meanwhile several similar signals below this frequency. Presumably Indonesian QSO pirates, as also heard here last Oct 22 & 23 as in DXLD 14-44, originally reported by Dan Sheedy in DXLD 14-43 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. 13562-CW, approx., April 2 at 0517, vs heavy CODAR I detect a CW beacon at the verge of inaudibility. Slow ID but copying each character is difficult as I listen over and over for almost ten minutes. Stops or fades out by 0526. Closest I can make out is V1RGM/B, but at least one of those is likely to be wrong, as I find no similar call in the HIFER references, nor is it a valid ham call. Amazing number of unrelated hits on the web, however, for V1RGM. Ideas? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) This report dispatched at 2326 UT April 2 End of Hard-Core-DX Digest, Vol 148, Issue 4 ********************************************