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Today's Topics:
1. Glenn Hauser logs August 5-6, 2012 (Glenn Hauser)
2. Shortwave Radio Logs from WDX6AA (Stewart MacKenzie)
3. Logs from NH-USA, August 2-6 (Scott R. Barbour Jr.)
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Message: 1
Date: Mon, 6 Aug 2012 09:38:19 -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 August 5-6, 2012
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** CHINA. Firedrake August 6, not full scans, just noticed:
15500, poor with flutter until 1340*
15610, poor with flutter at 1416 with ACI from 15615 WEWN, but not as bad as it
would have been on 15605 vs the WEWN 15606 spur
17570, JBA at 1418, mixing with V. of Tibet via MADAGASCAR, on this frequency
today instead of alternating 17560 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CUBA. 6125, August 6 at 0500, no signal from RHC English which is supposed
to start now; 0508 finally has reached open-carrier status, while the other
three are modulating on 6010, 6050, 6060. I don`t keep listening as that would
run into CO2KK. Just another night of SNAFU from RHC (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** EQUATORIAL GUINEA. 15190, August 6 at 0603, ``In the Sweet Bye `n` Bye``,
harmonious hymn with fiddle, good signal but lofi audio, 0605 into YL gospel
huxter. More music, please, from R. Africa! Was not hearing it in the previous
hour (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** INTERNATIONAL VACUUM [non]. 9410, August 6 at 0530, BBCWS via SOUTH AFRICA,
news headlines that Curiosity was about to have landed on Mars, my cue to turn
on CNN immediately, to witness the jubilation at JPL as the first low-res shots
appeared. As a funder and space exploration enthusiast, I too am jubilant,
altho somewhat less overtly (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** KUWAIT. 15540, Sunday August 5 at 1900, R. Kuwait opening `Pioneers &
Personalities of Kuwait`s Cultural Awakening`, i.e. the 24th episode about Emir
al-Sabah, at the time of the Iraqi invasion, support from Pres. Mubarak of
Egypt with whom he met on 7 August 1990 to thank him. Program must be about
three times as long as necessary due to musical interludes between each
sentence, but makes it more palatable for SWLs with ADD (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** MAURITANIA. 7245, August 6 at 0458, IGIM is on in very undermodulated
Arabish, consistently for Ramadan (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** NEW ZEALAND. 6170, Monday August 6 at 1329, RNZI playing music, as
fortnightly `Mailbox` has started early as usual; poor signal and even worse at
1333 about to outfade as Kevin Hand is starting his utility DX report; back to
the audio on demand via
http://www.rnzi.com/audio/mailbox2.mp3
Has lots of tips about information sources. Toward the end, Mike Bird in
Australia, ex-Media Network, discusses propagation, having taken over from
Adrian Sainsbury for this. Both of them are to return in two weeks. Opening
music occupying more than a quarter of the program is a nice pro-peace anthem,
``No More Fighting, No More Dying`` altho rather off-topic. Hmmm, no letters at
all in this ``mailbox`` either (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** PRIDNESTROVYE. 9665, Sunday August 5 at 2211, poor signal in Russian, must
be Radio PMR as scheduled. I was noticing that there haven`t been any logs of
this reaching my desk for many weeks and wondered if it had vanished without
notice. First checked it Friday August 3 at 2201, but that was too late, as
their broadcast week concludes at 2100 Fridays, resumes at 2100 UT Sundays.
Best chance for us to hear English is at 2230 Sun-Fri, unchecked. Lack of
reports must be due to absolutely boring programming and poor summer reception
over here, intended only for Europe (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** SUDAN [non]. 13765, August 6 at 0452, surprised to find good signal in
Arabic here. Since Vatican via MADAGASCAR is in English from 0500, wondered if
this too were Vatican, during the semihour when they used to relay V. of
Charity from Lebanon --- but no, soon IDs flew by for R. Dabanga, and yes, //
and synchronized with usual 15400.
HFCC shows VR via MDC starting at 0455, but they turned it on even earlier with
the wrong program feed! Then I also checked 11650 which is Dabanga via Vatican
itself and found this always weaker signal was way out of synch with
13765/15400, 26 seconds ahead of them, i.e. just enough time for MDC to be
getting a buffer-delayed internet feed, which would account for its substandard
audio quality (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** SUDAN SOUTH [non]. 15725, August 6 at 0517, V. of South Sudan Revolutionary
Radio, good in Arabish speech, better signal than usual. Not in English at this
time as alleged by Aoki. But 0551 recheck now a speech in English about South
Sudan and its problems, 0556 into spirited singing and talk in unknown
language, unseems Arabish.
I was trying hard to understand the English, to get a feel for where this
station is coming from politically, but unable to. I am beginning to wonder if
it`s really anti-South-Sudan, as the `revolutionary` bit could be construed as
pro-South, anti-north.
Some reports say the site is Tajikistan, which I continue to doubt. If it is,
that might mean it`s not on the side of the genocidal [north] Sudanese
government, and brokered thru usual channels which leads to various pro-Western
overt and clandestine broadcasts also from Orzu, e.g. Voice of Tibet (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** TAIWAN [non]. 7570, August 6 at 0458 checking RTI via WYFR just in time to
see whether it`s still in correct language, Spanish for the 04-05 hour: yes,
but with disclaimer that regular program has been suspended due to ``problemas
t?cnicos``, plus music fill.
I then tune in 5950, the frequency which goes from Chinese to English at 0500,
and on another receiver just before 0500, the music fill on 7570 starts to
match and then 7570 cuts off the air.
5950 has just finished Chinese talk, another apology? Music continues instead
of opening English; 0503-0504 dead air; 0504 YL says the ``60-minute English
program is canceled due to technical difficulties``, and more music fill, later
an OM ID; 0510 repeating the YL cancel notice. I suppose this is standby
material played from Okeechobee when they can`t get the feed from Taibei (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 12105, Aug 5 at 1857, WTWW-3 is still missing (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A [and non]. 9955, UT Monday August 6 at 0511, no signal detectable from
WRMI during scheduled WORLD OF RADIO broadcast, despite only lite pulse jamming
from Cuba. Off the air? Propagation has tended to be `long` lately with
weakened US signals, strengthened further ones, a nighttime generalization
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** VATICAN [and non]. 13765, August 6 at 0513 VR via MADAGASCAR in English now,
with signs of squeals on the transmission; see SUDAN [non] for mistaken
broadcast a few minutes earlier.
9645, August 6 at 0546, VR in Latin again has that motorboating noise on the
modulation, and also unstable frequency. One of the SMG transmitters is about
to blow? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 11776, August 6 at 1320, close to 1-kHz het upon ANGUILLA,
between B5 and C6 on the keyboard. Computers not on and never heard such before
in almost daily bandscans around this time. No modulation detectable. Maybe AIR
Goa in Tibetan off-frequency, and/or ChiCom jamming.
11751.5, August 6 at 1320, another new het, this one upon RHC 11750, slightly
above F#6 which is 1480 Hz. Of the 11750 stations, Brasil would be the one most
likely off-frequency (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
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Message: 2
Date: Mon, 6 Aug 2012 11:43:09 -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>, Prime Time Shortwave
<primetimeshortw...@yahoogroups.com>, SWL QTH <s...@mailman.qth.net>
Subject: [HCDX] Shortwave Radio Logs from WDX6AA
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>>>>>>
AUSTRALIA?? Radio Australia-Shepparton????? 21740? 2132 GMT? English? 444? Aug
5? Two OMs with comments on the Mars landing spacecraft.????? Mackenzie-CA..
CHILE?? CVC La Voz?? 17680? 2220 GMT? Spanish? 444? Aug 5? Band music with YL
singing. OM with comments 2223GMT.? Noisy frequency!!????? Mackenzie-CA..
COSTA RICA?? REE Relay??? 17850? 2203 GMT? Spanish? 444? Aug 5? Two YLs and OM
with comments.????? MacKenzie-CA..
CUBA?? Radio Havana Cuba? RHC?? 17750? 2210 GMT? Spanish? 444? Aug 5? Two OMs
with comments plus music in the background.? YL singing 2112 GMT.? YL with RHC
ID 2213 GMT.?? //17705[444].????? Mackenzie-CA..
FRENCH GUIANA??? Radio France Relay?? 21690? 2137 GMT? French? 333? Aug 5? Two
OMs with comments.? Very noist freq.???? MacKenzie-CA..
KUWAIT?? Radio Kuwait?? 17550?? 2225 GMT? Arabic? 444? Aug 5?? Arabic music
plus YL and OM with comments.????? Mackenzie-CA..
NEW ZEALAND?? RNZI?? 15720? 2242 GMT? English? 444? Aug 5? Two YLs in a
conversation.? Music heard often then they go back to their conversations.???
MacKenzie-CA..
SPAIN?? REE?? 21510? 2143 GMT? Spanish? 4333? Aug 5? YL with comments, mention
espana often.? Music in the background.? YL singing 2150GMT.? YL and OM? with
comments.? IS 2156 GMT and suddenly off the air at 2157 GMT.???? 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
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Message: 3
Date: Mon, 6 Aug 2012 20:59:53 -0700 (PDT)
From: "Scott R. Barbour Jr." <srbjr...@yahoo.com>
To: "cumbre...@yahoogroups.com" <cumbre...@yahoogroups.com>,
"d...@yahoogroups.com" <d...@yahoogroups.com>,
"dxplo...@yahoogroups.com" <dxplo...@yahoogroups.com>,
"hard-core-dx@hard-core-dx.com" <hard-core-dx@hard-core-dx.com>,
"na...@yahoogroups.com" <na...@yahoogroups.com>
Cc: "djva...@verizon.net" <djva...@verizon.net>,
"handlersmail-na...@yahoo.com" <handlersmail-na...@yahoo.com>,
"markok...@gmail.com" <markok...@gmail.com>
Subject: [HCDX] Logs from NH-USA, August 2-6
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3955 GERMANY presumed R. 700/"Well 370 Koenigswusterhausen" Kall 0310-0355 Aug
6 GG; Announcer w/ talk & pop mx selections, including The Eagles, Neil Young &
Lionel Richie; into relay of presumed Well 370 at 0340 w/ wind instrument
flourish (clarinet?); M & W announcers w/ banter; pop mx tune at 0345; another
clarinet bit at 0347 w/ more M & W announcers; again at 0351 into presumed
listener phone-call; another clarinet bit at 0355 & snippet of Lou Reed's "Take
a Walk on the Wild Side" then back to scheduled? Radio 700 at 0355; poor w/ no
discernible ID noted for either program; Well 370 Koenigswusterhausen is
scheduled via Radio 700 relay from *0340-0355* beginning August 5th through
August 12th; tnx Wolfgang Bueschel tip. (Barbour-NH)
3995 GERMANY HCJB Weenermoor 0249-0310 Aug 6 GG/RR; M announcer w/ talk into
choral mx at 0250; ID over mx at 0300 into W announcer w/
Russian service; choral music & talk; fair in ECCS-LSB. (Barbour-NH)
6055 JAPAN R. Nikkei Tokyo-Nagara 0940-0954 Aug 5 JJ; Non-descript mx at t/in;
v. brief W announcer at 0945 over mx; M & W announcers from 0948; fair;
//9595-poor. (Barbour-NH)
6140 SINGAPORE presumed NHK/R. Japan Kranji Aug 5; M & W announcer w/
discussion in listed Indo between a few ballads & pop mx selections; "Goodbye"
at 1028 & filler mx until pulled the plug at 1030 w/ no discernible ID noted;
fair in ECCS-USB. (Barbour-NH)
11500 TAJIKISTAN V. of Russia Dushanbe 1200-1210 Aug 6 EE; T/in to s/on
announcement in progress w/ sked & ID; M announcer w/ nx headlines; "Welcome to
another edition of In Focus" at 1205; fair though just enough band noise to
prevent prg details. (Barbour-NH)
11665 MALAYSIA RTM/Wai FM Kajang 1220-1240 Aug 6; M announcer w/ Malay talk;
tentative "Wai FM" jingle at 1223 into ballad; more talk & pop mx; Kor'an-like
vocals from 1233 thru t/out; weak but surprisingly readable in ECCS-USB; my
best reception of this station to date. (Barbour-NH)
11980 UAE presumed R. Damal Dhabbaya 2028-2103 Aug 5; Continuos Kor'an-like
vocals, straight thru ToH; fair. (Barbour-NH)
15340 AUSTRALIA HCJB Kununurra 1226-1237 Aug 2; W announcer in listed Indo; URL
& HCJB-Oz contact info in EE at 1229; bit of IS at 1230 into listed Rawang;
brief talk & choral music; poor-fair in ECCS-USB. (Barbour-NH)
15645 ARMENIA R. Free North Korea Yerevan 1334-*1400 Aug 5 KK; M & W announcers
in discussion w/ occasional mx bit; v. poor & barely audible at s/off.
(Barbour-NH)
Scott R. Barbour Jr. Intervale, N.H. USA
NRD-545, MLB-1, 200' Beverages, 60m dipole
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