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Today's Topics:
1. Malaysia (Charles B)
2. QSL from Radio Romania International (Mukesh Kumar)
3. QSL from KBS World Radio (Mukesh Kumar)
4. QSL from Radio Prague (Mukesh Kumar)
5. VOA Launches African Music Mix (Zacharias Liangas )
6. Brian Alexander logs June 8-9 ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
7. HCDX logs between 2007-06-09 0000 UTC and 2007-06-10 0000 UTC
(Risto Kotalampi)
8. Re: Dxers Unlimited script for June 9 -10 2007
(Prof. Arnaldo Coro Antich)
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Message: 1
Date: Sat, 9 Jun 2007 10:51:12 -0000
From: "Charles B" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: [HCDX] Malaysia
To: "Marie Lamb" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Anker Petersen"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Cumbre" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Gayle
Van Horn \(MT\)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
<[email protected]>, "wghauser" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Malaysia, 7295, RT Malaysia, 1036-1045 Noted mainly pop music with brief
comments
between tunes by a male. Believe I heard a female too, but can't be sure.
Signal was
threshold. (Chuck Bolland, June 9, 2007)
Clewiston, Florida
NRD545/USB
WR G305e/PD/DSB
Listened with both receivers using same antenna. Although the signal was
threshold with both receivers, I could hear it slightly better with the
WR G305e/PD today.
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Message: 2
Date: Sat, 9 Jun 2007 10:33:03 +0100 (BST)
From: Mukesh Kumar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: [HCDX] QSL from Radio Romania International
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1
Dear Friends,
Yesterday on 8th of June, I received a nice detailed
QSL verification card depicting The Council Tower in
Sibiu from Radio Romania International for my detailed
email reception report on 25th of March 2007 from
0300-0400 UTC on the frequency of 11895 kHz of their
English language broadcast. The envelope also
contained their frequency-list and sticker. Their web
and email addresses are as follows: -
Web: www.rri.ro
Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] & [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Regards & 73?s
Mukesh Kumar
The Cosmos Club
Muzaffarpur
INDIA.
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Message: 3
Date: Sat, 9 Jun 2007 10:56:50 +0100 (BST)
From: Mukesh Kumar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: [HCDX] QSL from KBS World Radio
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1
Dear Friends,
Today on 9th of June, I received a nice detailed QSL
verification card depicting B-boys of Korea from KBS
World Radio for my detailed email reception report on
22nd of May 2007 from 1600-1700 UTC on the frequency
of 9515 kHz of their English language broadcast. The
envelope also contained their frequency-list and
receiving log.
The card also stating as follows: -
A B-boy is a term for a person who?s devoted to
hip-hop culture and recently refers to a male who
practices breakdancing. Korean B-boys have gone to be
the world?s top level with a number of dancers
sweeping international B-boy battles. Their videotaped
performances are even being used as texts for European
B-boys.
Their web and email addresses are as follows: -
Web: http://world.kbs.co.kr/english
Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Regards & 73?s
Mukesh Kumar
The Cosmos Club
Muzaffarpur
INDIA.
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Message: 4
Date: Sat, 9 Jun 2007 11:51:41 +0100 (BST)
From: Mukesh Kumar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: [HCDX] QSL from Radio Prague
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Dear Friends,
Today on 9th of June, I received a nice detailed QSL
verification card depicting Petrin Observation Tower
from Radio Prague for my detailed email reception
report on 14th of May 2007 from 1430-1457 UTC on the
frequency of 13580 kHz of their Russian language
broadcast. The envelope also contained their
frequency-list.
The card also stating as follows: -
This observation tower is a distinctive feature of
Prague?s skyline and lovated on the peak of Petrin
hill (327m above sea level). Construction on the
tower, modeled on the Eiffel Tower in Paris, was
initiated by the Club of Czech Hikers in 1891. It is
60m tall.
Their web and email addresses are as follows: -
Web: www.radio.cz
Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Regards & 73?s
Mukesh Kumar
The Cosmos Club
Muzaffarpur
INDIA.
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Message: 5
Date: Sat, 9 Jun 2007 15:36:29 +0300
From: "Zacharias Liangas " <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: [HCDX] VOA Launches African Music Mix
To: Voyager <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Tasos Kagelis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
martin Schoech <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "[email protected]"
<[email protected]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED], <>
Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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VOA Launches African Music Mix
http://www.rwonline.com/pages/s.0105/t.6545.html
6.08.2007
The Voice of America launched African Music Mix, a stream of African
music, available to African listeners daily.
The show is broadcast daily and includes contents from a VOA archive
of 12,000 African songs. Voice officials called the service unique on the
continent.
The English to Africa Service broadcasts on shortwave, medium wave,
television, the Internet, 40 affiliates and two VOA 24-hour FM stations
in Ghana and Kenya.
?From N?dombolo to Benga to African hip-hop, African Music Mix offers
the best in African music by artists from East, West, North, South, and
Central Africa, as well as the islands,? the broadcast organization
stated.
http://zlgr.multiply.com (raidio monitoring site plus audio clips )
http://www.worldisround.com/articles/302315/ (Litohoro) 321199/Tinos
http://www.flickr.com/photos/zachgr pictures upload
.
on my main : www.geocities.com/zliangas
-tty-px.html : test of various TTY programs
-ethics.htm : greek ethics , days and institutions
-frape.htm: the greek way of cofee !!!
Zacharias Liangas , Thessaloniki Greece
greekdx @ otenet dot gr ---
Pesawat penerima: ICOM R75 , Lowe HF150 , Degen 1102,1103,108,
Tecsun PL200/550, Chibo c300/c979, Yupi 7000
Antenna: 16m hor, 2x16 m V invert, 1m australian loop
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Message: 6
Date: Sat, 9 Jun 2007 15:06:12 EDT
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [HCDX] Brian Alexander logs June 8-9
To: [email protected]
Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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**ISRAEL. 15777.78v, Galei Zahal, 2150-2220+, June 8, US pop
music by Back Street Boys & others. DJ chatter. Fair to good signal
but slowly drifting up to 15777.80 by 2220. Noted on 15777.74 at 2352
check. Weak // 6971.24v with an unstable, wobbly carrier. (Brian
Alexander, PA)
**NIGERIA. 9690, Voice of Nigeria, *0814-0900+, June 9, Abruptly
on with talk in listed Hausa. Local tribal music. Voice of Nigeria
theme music at 0857. Talk in listed Fulfulde at 0900. Poor to fair.
(Brian Alexander, PA)
**PERU. 6536.06, Radiodifusora LV del Rondero, Huancabamba,
0210-0224*, June 8, Peruvian folk music, Spanish talk. ID. Mentions
of Huancabamba. Sign off with National Anthem. Weak.
(Brian Alexander, PA)
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Message: 7
Date: Sat, 9 Jun 2007 23:05:02 +0000
From: Risto Kotalampi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: [HCDX] HCDX logs between 2007-06-09 0000 UTC and 2007-06-10
0000 UTC
To: [email protected]
Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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5920 Jun 9 1630-1640 SVK: Radio Slovakia int., Rimavska Sobota. // 6055 Khz
english prog SIO: 555. Vincent L. - Poitiers - F
5930 Jun 9 1635-1638 CZE: Radio Prague, Litomysl. ID" radio Prague" french
prog SIO: 555. Vincent L. - Poitiers - F
6055 Jun 9 1628-1630 SVK: Radio Slovekia International, Rimavska Sobota. ID"
you are listening to R?? Slovakia Int." SIO: 555. Vincent L. - Poitiers - F
6110 Jun 9 1220-1230 D: The Overcomer Ministry, Julich. Religious prog and
typical prog in english SIO: 455. Vincent L. - Poitiers - F
6155 Jun 9 1150-1200 AUS: Radio Austria, Moosbrun. ID"Osterreich 1" German
prog and domestic prog SIO: 455. Vincent L. - Poitiers - F
6175 Jun 9 1130-1140 F: Radio France International. ID" Meteo Marine" "RFI"
french prog SIO: 555. Vincent L. - Poitiers - F
6255 Jun 9 1850-1854 LTU: VOIRI, Sitkumai. ID" la voix de la republique
islamique de l'Iran " French prog SIO: 555. Vincent L. - Poitiers - F
13730 Jun 9 - AUT: Radio Austria, Moosbrun. // 6155 KHz
German prog and domestic prog SIO: 455. Vincent L. - Poitiers - F
17485 Jun 9 1638-1638 CZE: Radio Prague, Litomysl. // 5930 Khz French prog
SIO: 355. Vincent L. - Poitiers - F
17715 Jun 9 1205-1215 AUT: Radio Austria, Moosbrun. ID" Radio Austria"
German prog following by English news. It was the international prog SIO:
455. Vincent L. - Poitiers - F
Asia
9940 Jun 9 1856-1856 IRN: VOIRI, Sirjan. // 6255 KHz SIO: 555 very strong
signal on this frequency. Vincent L. - Poitiers - F
13755 Jun 9 1858-1858 IRN: VOIRI, Kamalabad. // 6255 KHz french prog SIO:
355. Vincent L. - Poitiers - F
15085 Jun 9 1855-1855 IRN: VOIRI, Kamalabad. // 6255 KHz french prog SIO:
344. Vincent L. - Poitiers - F
Oceania
9500 Jun 9 1905-1920 AUS: Radio Australia, Shepparton. ID" radio australia"
english prog SIO: 344. Vincent L. - Poitiers - F
Pirate
6305 Jun 9 0715-0730 G: Radio Merlin International. ID"RMI" and later "Radio
Merlin International" Music prog SIO:244. Vincent L. - Poitiers - F
For more information please email [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Message: 8
Date: Sat, 09 Jun 2007 22:14:45 -0400
From: "Prof. Arnaldo Coro Antich" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: [HCDX] Dxers Unlimited script for June 9 -10 2007
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [email protected],
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Radio Havana Cuba
Dxers Unlimited
Dxers Unlimited's weekend edition for June 9-10 2007
By Arnie Coro
radio amateur CO2KK
Hi amigos radioaficionados, welcome to the weekend edition of Dxers
Unlimited, your favorite radio hobby program. I am Arnaldo, Arnie, Coro
radio amateur CO2KK, your host here at this twice weekly radio hobby
show, dealing with all of the more than 80 different ways that you and I
enjoy this wonderful way of spending our spare time...RADIO... But some
times even more, when we take time away from rest to work on a new
project or participate, as I am doing during this weekend in a radio
amateur contest. This a very specialized ham radio competition , because
it is limited to the VHF, UHF and Microwave amateur bands, making it a
lot more difficult because propagation of the range of frequencies from
50 to 50,000 megaHertz is quite different from the way short wave
signals behave. The June, American Radio Relay League VHF QSO Party
Contest has seen Cuban radio amateurs participating in past editions,
and winning too, as at least in two occasions Cuban ham teams have won
the DX station first place position.
I spend the whole day Friday installing the three antennas for the
contest, the 6 meters HENTENNA, the two meters band 6 element YAGI and
the 70 centimeters 13 elements YAGI. I will also be using my vertical
phased array of three five eighths of a wavelength elements, because at
the same time the ARRL contest will be in progress, we run a VHF contest
on two meters FM mode, because this is the most popular band among Cuban
radio amateurs.
There is also going to be a CUBAN ROVER station that will be traveling
to different grid square locators , because each square counts as an
additional multiplier for the contest.
Si amigos, yes my friends, oui mes amis... radio amateur contests are a
lot of fun, but I warn you, they have two distinctive characteristics,
one is that once you participate in a ham radio contest, you will find
yourself getting ready for the next as soon as the last QSO is coming to
an end, and two, they are simply exhausting, so my advice is that you
ask for a Monday off work whenever you take part in a weekend long
contest !!!
Be on the lookout for T49C, that's a special callsign, with the T4
prefix that Cuban radio amateur stations use during contests.
Also, please look for CO2KK, as I will also be taking part in the
contest !!!
Now stay tuned , a quick station ID follows, and Dxers Unlimited's
weekend edition for June 9 and 10 will continue in a few seconds
I am Arnie Coro in Havana
.........
The name of program is Dxers Unlimited, you are listening to Radio
Havana Cuba and here is our next topic of today's program.
Setting up a ham radio contest station is a lot of fun, and it can be as
easy as just using your regular home station " just as it is" or as
sophisticated as creating a VHF, UHF and Microwave ROVER station using
a special 4 wheel drive vehicle , like an SUV in order to be able to
climb to mountaintop locations where your contest station will be able
to reach really far away stations via ground wave, thanks to the high
altitude where you have gone with your vehicle.
A ROVER station operation during the June ARRL VHF QSO Party Contest is
much looked by other contest stations, because a ROVER can move from one
GRID LOCATOR or GRID SQUARE to another and according to the rules of the
contest, each GRID SQUARE counts as a new multiplier. In other words,
each time you work a ROVER station that is located at a new GRID, your
total contest score is multiplied.
T49C, Cuba's top level entry for this year's VHF contest will be moving
to several GRID SQUARES during the contest, giving participants the
unique opportunity not only of obtaining a new multiplier for the
contest score, but also in many cases, adding a new GRID for the many
awards like the VUCC that starts with the first 100 grid squares and has
stickers and endorsements for additional squares that you can work.
Wall paper, as radio amateurs call the diplomas given for obtaining the
awards are a way that you can show to your visitors the results of your
many hours of chasing DX signals amigos ! . A ham radio shack with a lot
of wall paper, that is a lot of diplomas is always a nice looking room,
as the wallpaper seems to blend nicely with the radios !
And talking about contests and ROVER stations, let me add that a top
notch ROVER is not only excellent for working a VHF-UHF and Microwave
ham radio contest, but is also a very useful mobile unit whenever there
is need to deploy a highly effective station during a natural or man
made disaster.
As a matter of fact, as a very good friend of mine that is a full time
ham radio contests fan likes to say, each contest is not only a lot of
fun for the participants but also an excellent training exercise to
develop the communications skills that may help to save lives during an
emergency .
For example, a ROVER station equipped with radios for working on the 6
meters, 2 meters and 70 centimeters band, and a set of omnidirectional
antennas, as well as another set of high gain
directional antennas, can be deployed to a good location and used as a
relay for a command post , relaying traffic between handheld radios and
the ROVER, that then can in turn reroute the traffic on another band to
the disaster command post.
One of the reasons, and as a matter of fact , one of the main reasons
why so valuable radio frequency spectrum space is still allocated to the
amateur radio service is precisely its unique characteristic of
providing emergency communications links under the most difficult
circumstances and when many other systems fail due to excessive traffic,
like in the case of cellular telephones, or due to the loss of big
towers where antennas are installed.
When disasters strike, amateur radio operators know what to do, and many
of us have specially prepared emergency kits self contained into boxes
that are easy to transport, and where you can find everything needed to
deal with the emergency, from radios, batteries , antennas, cables,
plugs , spare microphones and tools , to drinking water and some food
rations to take care of the operators vital needs for a period of no
less than 48 hours... My advice is that in true amateur radio spirit,
all ham operators should prepare an emergency operations kit, and keep
it ready with periodically renewed batteries , and you can even add a
solar panel or a crank up generator to recharge the batteries.
Si amigos , yes my friends, oui mes amis... the Tropical Hurricane
Season of the Atlantic Ocean from North of Equator up, the Caribbean Sea
and the Gulf of Mexico is now in progress and this is certainly a good
time for those of you living in areas that may be struck by a tropical
storm or a hurricane to have your amateur stations ready , in case there
is the need to use it, and remember that trying to organize an emergency
station when the storm is just a few hours a way is not the best thing
to do, and I warn you that if you leave your preparations for the last
minute, when you reach the place where your station is required to
operate, something important will always be missing... Believe it, It
has happened to me a couple of times, and that's why I decided to
prepare the EMERGENCY RADIO BOX, with a complete list of everything that
the experience drawn from the last SIX, yes you heard it right, the last
SIX hurricanes have clearly shown that are essential to assure that the
emergency station will be able to work properly, and that the operator
will have drinking water and a basic food supply for at least 48 hours
after deployment.
..............
Si amigos , yes my friends, oui mes Amis in Canada and the Caribbean
that speak French, but also are able to listen to Dxers Unlimited in
English... here is now the most popular section of the show... ASK
ARNIE... with answers to your radio hobby related questions... Today's
question is coming from several Caribbean islands and South East Mexico
, more precisely from the Yucatan Peninsula, areas that are frequently
affected by tropical storms and hurricanes... Dxers Unlimited's
listeners from Jamaica, Turk and Caicos, Barbados and Dominica, as well
as from Merida and Cancun want to know if there is a specific type of
antenna for the 40 meters amateur band that has a high degree of
survivability when the wind is blowing more than 100 or 120 miles per
hour.... because they all have seen their 40 meter wire dipoles break
down in the middle of the storms...
Well amigos, there are good news for you all, we have been working on a
prototype of a 40 meters band antenna that may be able to survive when
the wind is blowing constantly to around 100 miles per hour and gusting
up to 150 miles per hour. It is a short antenna, using the inverted L
configuration, and it is installed using short masts, of not more than 4
or 5 meters above the ground. In some cases one end of the antenna can
be tied to the roof of a building, and the other end to a short , rugged
and very well guyed mast. This antenna uses a small loading coil and is
fed with 50 ohms coaxial cable. Antenna modeling software show that its
gain is about minus 2 decibels or maybe minus 3 decibels below a full
size 20 meters or 66 feet long half wave 40 meters dipole, the type of
antenna that due to its long length and the fact that it is fed at the
center with a coaxial cable downlead tends to break down as soon as the
wind speed exceeds 70 or 80 miles per hour... Our new EMERGENCY INVERTED
L OR, as we have named it EMIL antenna, is easy to build, can be kept
ready to be installed in your emergency station box, or as I am going to
do at my home QTH next weekend, after this weekend VHF contest of
course... you can install one permanently at your home station and have
it always ready for action, and also test it under actual operating
conditions and compare its performance with the regular half wave 40
meters band dipole.
For those of you that may be asking now, why use 40 meters for handling
communications emergencies at a local or semi-local level, the answer
is because a unique propagation mode, known as NVIS, or Near Vertical
Incidence Skywave , provides excellent coverage of a large area without
having to install the station at a hill top or high rise building , as
required when using VHF and UHF frequencies.
And now amigos, ready to copy... as always at the end of the program
when I am here in Havana, here is Arnie Coro's Dxers Unlimited's
propagation update and forecast....
Sunspot numbers for May 31 through June 6 were 11, 41, 45, 58, 58, 63
and 47 with a mean of 46.1. The 10.7 cm. microwave solar flux was
74.6, 79.4, 83.2, 87, 85.7, 88.8, and 87.1, with a mean of 83.7.
Estimated planetary A indices were 4, 6, 7, 10, 8, 3 and 2 with a mean
of 5.7. Estimated mid-latitude A indices were 2, 5, 5, 7, 8, 2 and 2,
with a mean of 4.4. Sporadic E openings are expected to happen
frequently during the next two weeks, and hopefully during this VHF
contest weekend... Don't forget to send me your signal reports and
comments about the program , as well as any radio hobby related
questions you may have... send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] of VIA AIR MAIL to
Arnie Coro, Radio Havana Cuba, Havana, Cuba...
End of Hard-Core-DX Digest, Vol 54, Issue 10
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