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Today's Topics:
1. QSL from RADIO JOYSTICK (Andrei)
2. Glenn Hauser logs June 24-26 (Glenn Hauser)
3. DX Listening Digest 7-073; WOR 1364 (Glenn Hauser)
4. Re: Dxers Unlimited's mid week edition for 26-27 June
(Prof. Arnaldo Coro Antich)
5. HCDX logs between 2007-06-26 0000 UTC and 2007-06-27 0000 UTC
(Risto Kotalampi)
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Message: 1
Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2007 11:01:39 +0400
From: "Andrei" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: [HCDX] QSL from RADIO JOYSTICK
To: "'HCDX'" <[email protected]>
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RADIO JOYSTICK via Latvia, 9290 kHz.
Full data QSL-card in 28 days for English report and 1$.
Address: Postfach 10 08 12
D-45408 Muelheim an der Ruhr, Germany.
Andrei Skorodumov
Yaroslavl
Russia
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Message: 2
Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2007 10:06:36 -0700 (PDT)
From: Glenn Hauser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: [HCDX] Glenn Hauser logs June 24-26
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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** ALASKA. Several news stories June 24-25 about a big fire on ``a scenic
peninsula south of Anchorage``` --- hmm, what could that be? Kenai, maybe? Of
course. Once that is settled, it takes searching thru several stories to find
one giving any more detail. One we found was in of all places, Pravda.ru (which
BTW has cheesecake now), mentioning the town of Clam Gulch. That`s on the west
coast of the almost-island, along hiway 1, between Soldotna and Anchor Point.
Looks like the area is about 40 miles from A.P. and KNLS. Are they praying away
the fire at WCBC? Strangely enough, the Tahoe fire was bigger news in the Lower
48.
KNLS still in operation despite approaching wildfire: June 26 at 1300 on 9780
heard TS, KNLS IS, but mixing with China in Chinese. KNLS better in the clear
on // 9795, with IS running until 1302 switch to theme music and opening its
own Chinese broadcast (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** ASIA. Re R. Free Asia`s reluctance to specify transmitter sites on QSLs,
even tho their registrations are hardly any secret --- While I have no evidence
this is so, it occurs to me that one of many tactix a jammed service might
employ would be to switch transmitter sites around in case one would work
better than another under prevailing propagation conditions and/or to keep the
enemy confused. It could be that RFA would rather not specify a site, which
might not be true anyway for a particular reception, since this could tip their
hand, or later be proven lying about it (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CHAD. Dirty blob was parked about 7288, June 25 at 0454 check causing
multiple hets against 7290 broadcast, presumably BBC Portuguese via South
Africa (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CHINA [non]. Following Andy Reid`s complaints from Ontario of CRI via CUBA
9570 QRMing R. Australia on 9560, 9580 and 9590, I listened carefully to the
conclusion of Late Night Live, about eugenix, June 26 at 1250, when 9580 was
the only useful RA frequency, and could hear some ``scratching`` from the 9570
transmitter, which on its own frequency was somewhat undermodulated as usual.
The scratching was axually worse when off-tuned slightly to the hi side of 9580
rather than the lo side. I can see how this would be much worse further east,
where the Cuban signal is aimed (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** HUNGARY. So the final week of R. Budapest. English to North America, UT
daily: 0100-0130 6040 [inaudible in noise when I checked]
0230-0300 6195
Access to audio on demand and live streaming is not obvious from the main R.
Budapest site, but via our DX PROGRAMS info we find it at
http://real1.radio.hu/nemzeti.htm
(Glenn Hauser, WORLD OF RADIO 1364, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** RUSSIA [and non]. Dramatic reading by M&W with slight accents, mentioning
Rasputin, very good signal I had not noticed before on 9515, but speech audio
emphasizing the lower frequencies, UT Mon June 25 at 0437 on 9515. Must be
Audio Book Club, from VOR. Yes, found // synchronized on 9860, and one
sesquisecond behind the others on weaker 13630. A.B.C. outro at 0458 and
wavelength announcements for European and Pacific services about to open, and
for NAm to resume at 0100. I sure thought the last was 13630, but maybe I was
sleepy, since 13635 is listed. Per http://www.ruvr.ru/main.php?lng=eng&w=129&p=
Frequencies at 0400-0500 are:
13775, 13635, 9860, 9435, 9515, 9880(till 31.7.07), 5900(from 1.8.07)
But whence? Three different countries, Germany, Vatican, DV Russia per HFCC:
9515 0200 0500 7-9,27 WER 250 300 1234567 250307 281007 D D VOR TRW
9860 0100 0458 7-9 SMG 250 295 1234567 250307 281007 D CVA VOR TRW
13635 0100 0500 1,2,6 P.K 250 65 1234567 250307 281007 D RUS VOR GFC
That Wertachtal is a winner (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
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Message: 3
Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2007 11:16:17 -0700 (PDT)
From: Glenn Hauser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: [HCDX] DX Listening Digest 7-073; WOR 1364
To: Glenn Hauser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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DX Listening Digest 7-073 has now been posted at
http://www.w4uvh.net/dxlatest.txt or http://dxld.worldofradio.org
and now also without delay at http://www.w4uvh.net/dxld7073.txt
CONTENTS:
WOR 1364 / ALASKA / ARGENTINA / ASIA non / AUSTRALIA RA / BAHRAIN / BELARUS
+non / BRAZIL / CANADA CFPL/RCI / CHAD / CHINA non / CUBA +non / ECUADOR /
ETHIOPIA non / EUROPE Pirate / GERMANY +non / HUNGARY / INDIA +non / INDONESIA
/ INTERNATIONAL INTERNET CRB / INTERNATIONAL VACUUM Jewish TV / ISRAEL /
JOHNSTON ISLAND ham / KALININGRAD / KOREA NORTH non / LAOS non / LIBYA non? /
MALAWI +non / MEXICO / MOROCCO / NIGERIA / NORTH AMERICA Pirate / NORWAY /
OKLAHOMA +non KFOR+ / PAPUA NEW GUINEA / POLAND +non / PORTUGAL / RUSSIA +non /
SERBIA +non / SLOVAKIA / SRI LANKA / SURINAME / TAIWAN / TURKMENISTAN / UKRAINE
/ UK BBCWS / UK BBCR4 / UK MSF / USA BBG / USA WDCD+ / USA KYW+ / USA WETA /
USA WFMR+ / USA WLS / USA KTRB / USA KNLX / USA WYZ235 / VENEZUELA / YEMEN /
ZANZIBAR / ZIMBABWE non / UNIDENTIFIED 1610 / UNIDENTIFIED 15650 / TESTIMONIALS
/ LANGUAGE LESSONS / PUBLICATIONS / CONVENTIONS & CONFERENCES / DIGITAL
BROADCASTING / POWERLINE COMMUNICATIONS / PROPAGATION
For restrixions and searchable 2007 contents archive see
http://www.worldofradio.com/dxldmid.html
NOTE: If you are a regular reader of DXLD, and a source of DX news but
have not been sending it directly to us, please consider yourself
obligated to do so. Thanks, Glenn
SHORTWAVE AIRINGS OF WORLD OF RADIO 1364: ** tentative
Wed 2200 WBCQ 7415
Wed 2300 WBCQ 18910-CLSB or 17495-CLSB
Thu 1430 WRMI 7385
Thu 1500 KAIJ 9480
Fri 0630 WRMI 9955**
Fri 1030 KAIJ 5755
Fri 1100 WRMI 9955**
Fri 2030 WWCR1 15825
Sat 1630 WWCR3 12160 [irregular]
Sat 2130 WRMI 9955
Sun 0230 WWCR3 5070
Sun 0630 WWCR1 3215
Sun 0800 WRMI 9955
Sun 1500 WRMI 7385
Mon 0300 WBCQ 9330-CLSB [reconfirmed June 25]
Mon 0415 WBCQ 7415 [time varies]
Mon 0530 WRMI 9955**
Mon 0930 WRMI 9955**
Tue 1030 WRMI 9955**
Wed 0730 WRMI 9955**
WORLD OF RADIO, CONTINENT OF MEDIA, MUNDO RADIAL SCHEDULE:
Latest edition of this schedule version, including AM, FM, satellite
and webcasts with hotlinks to station sites and audio, is at:
http://www.worldofradio.com/radioskd.html
For updates see our Anomaly Alert page:
http://www.worldofradio.com/anomaly.html
WRN ON DEMAND:
http://new.wrn.org/listeners/stations/station.php?StationID=24
WORLD OF RADIO PODCASTS VIA WRN NOW AVAILABLE:
http://www.wrn.org/listeners/stations/podcast.php
OUR ONDEMAND AUDIO [also CONTINENT OF MEDIA, MUNDO RADIAL]
http://www.worldofradio.com/audiomid.html
or http://wor.worldofradio.org
Regards, Glenn Hauser
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Message: 4
Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2007 12:16:57 -0400
From: "Prof. Arnaldo Coro Antich" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: [HCDX] Dxers Unlimited's mid week edition for 26-27 June
To: [email protected], [EMAIL PROTECTED], "Gayle Van
Horn (MT)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED], Joe Lynch
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Radio Havana Cuba
Dxers Unlimited
Dxers Unlimited's midweek edition for 26-27 June 2007
By Arnie Coro
radio amateur CO2KK
Hi long time amigos radioaficionados and those who are listening for the
first time too... welcome to the midweek edition of Dxers Unlimited that
is certainly a very special one, as at the time you are listening to the
program, our nearest star the Sun has been inactive for a very long
period, with the daily sunspot count at ZERO for many consecutive
days... Now a new sunspot active region is slowly rotating into view,
and that will probably increase the solar flux above the extremely low
67 and 68 flux units that it has been hovering as of late. By the way,
any solar flux figure below 70 units , automatically sends the sunspot
count to ZERO .
Item two: Thank you amigos, to the many friends around the world that
have already sent birthday greetings..ahead of time, as I will be
celebrating my birthday Monday of next week. Some came in as early as
yesterday evening, as it seems that some of my good friends have very
well structured computerized data bases with their amigos birthdays
records !!!
Item three: Listening Friday evening on the AM medium wave broadcast
band to the recently upgraded Radio Reloj Pinar del Rio provincial
relay, operating on 790 kiloHertz and running 20 kiloWatts, its another
of the new solid state high technology transmitters that are replacing
the old power hungry vacuum tube broadcast equipment, in an effort by
Cuban broadcasting to make more efficient use of electricity by
replacing the obsolete transmitting plant as financial resources become
available. The new 20 kiloWatt 790 kiloHertz transmitter is located on
the outskirts of the city
of Pinar del Rio , about 100 miles west of Havana, and tests done by
RadioCuba engineers show that it has an overall conversion efficiency of
around 80 percent... that meaning that the new Radio Reloj relay will
save a lot of electricity while providing a much better service, because
it is also capable of modulating the carrier wave on positive peaks up
to 125 percent... A similar 10 kiloWatt transmitter was recently
installed by RadioCuba for the Radio Reloj City of Havana station on 950
kiloHertz, something that has improved the coverage of Radio Reloj in
three of the nation's western provinces.
More radio hobby related information coming to you in just a few seconds
as Dxers Unlimited's weekend edition continues...
...............
Si amigos, wish you could join my modest birthday party next Monday
afternoon... I will be meeting with family and friends for the
celebration, with little Claudia, my youngest daughter now almost two
and a half years old, Teresita, my elder daughter , Arnie Jr. and Roxana
my wife having prepared a cake and ice cream
party !!! Now here is the next item of today's program: Just added a
Light Emitting Diodes home brew lamp to act as the back light of my
favorite 2 meters band FM transceiver that was constantly burning the
very difficult to replace incandescent pilot lamp that illuminates the
liquid crystal display. A white light emitting diode and a resistor did
the job that , according to LED manufacturers specifications won't need
to be replaced in a very long , long time. I also did a similar
incandescent light bulb replacement on my small portable, a Grundig
FR200 " Recycle Power"radio. On this radio I replaced the high intensity
miniature incandescent lamp dash emergency light with a cluster of three
high intensity white diodes, that give a lot of light and use less than
half the electricity that the incandescent bulb requires to operate.
Some time ago a long time Dxers Unlimited listeners sent me the photos
of his modified Grundig FR200 receiver , to which he had changed the
light bulb for three high intensity white Light Emitting Diodes with
great success, and I just followed upon this nice idea .
The other modification that he made consists on an electronic
band spread, that is a voltage variable silicon diode that was added to
the local oscillator tuned circuit on the short wave bands, making
tuning a lot easier than with the radio's original mechanical analog
tuning. He told me that he could set the analog dial to a specific
position on the blank calibration scale, and then tune the radio with
the varicap
diode. Another thing he did to this very special "emergency
radio" was to add a beat frequency oscillator, so that single side band
and CW stations could be picked up..The BFO is switched on and off by a
miniature switch located on the back of the radio, right next to a
second variable resistor to control the voltage to a second voltage
variable or varicap diode.
One of the really nice features of the Grundig FR200 is that it uses up
very little electricity to operate... as a matter of fact three standard
double A cells will last for quite some time if you use the radio for
casual listening.
Again, it's an excellent set to have around in case there is a power
failure, and even if your batteries go dead, the Grundig FR 200 has a
crank type Direct Current Generator that will charge a small nickel
metal hydride battery pack, and even if the pack is in bad shape, the
radio will keep working all the time that you are cranking the generator !!!
.......
Si amigos, despite doomsday predictions that the radio hobby will just
vanish due to the now everywhere Internet, it's just not happening, and
what a paradox, the Internet is actually helping the radio hobby in the
specific case of amateur radio.
Never before in the more than one hundred years of the existence of our
wonderful hobby we have seen so much valuable information been made
available freely... There are thousands and thousands of amateur radio
websites, and the amount of technical information that can be downloaded
is absolutely amazing... There are websites that require many , many ,
hours to just take a look at, like the super antenna site courtesy of
W4RNL , Dr. L.B. Cebik, that can be found at http://www.cebik.com....
There are sites devoted to specific
modes like the Dr. Oliver Phelp's digital communications mode website,
and there are also lots of sites devoted to radio wave propagation,
home brewing of radios, contests, antique radios... you name it, so
again, we are seeing a very interesting thing happening in front of our
eyes... the Internet, that was supposed to be the end of amateur radio
and the radio hobby in general, is actually now helping more and more
people enjoy the hobby in a much more plentiful and I must add also
inexpensive way !!! But be aware that some radio amateurs think
different as regards to making their websites freely available to anyone
, by demanding copyright privileges as if their websites were run as
commercial operation... but fortunately those are just a few exceptions
and the true amateur radio spirit of cooperation with anyone interested
in the promotion and development of the radio hobby seems to prevail in
at least a one hundred to one ratio in favor of freely available
technical information.
.....
Si amigos, yes my friends, thanks for joining me today on this mid weekk
edition of Dxers Unlimited... And now here is the very popular antenna
topics section of the show...
devoted today to a peculiar antenna system that is known
as " The DIPOLES NEST ", a very easy to home brew High end of the HF,
low band VHF and high Band VHF antenna.
A few weeks ago I quickly assembled a NEST OF DIPOLES, to solve a
friend's antenna problem... The system has
a dipole cut for 28.4 megaHertz on the 10 meters band, his favorite HF
band, another one cut for 50.3 megaHertz on 6 meters and yet another one
cut from 145.000 megaHertz on 2 meters.
They are all fed using the single RG 58U 50 ohms coaxial cable that
my friend had at hand, and as expected, I used a first balun choke coil
for the two meters dipole, made by looping 6 turns of the cable on a 1.5
inch diameter PVC pipe coil form, followed by another air wound choke
coil of 6 inches diameter aiming at decoupling the radio frequency of
the 10 and 6 meters band from from flowing on the outside of the braid
of the coaxial cable.
The dipoles were made with number 8 PVC insulated copper wire, something
that required careful tuning of each dipole, because the dimensions of
antennas using insulated wires are different from the ones using bare
copper or aluminum wire.
Anyway, the three dipoles are kept separated from each other by small
lengths of polyethylene pipe, and in a second antenna, the separation
between the dipoles was achieved with lengths of the center insulator of
heavy duty RG17 coaxial cable, also an excellent HF, VHF and UHF
insulating material.
The procedure to set up the antenna involved using a good quality HF
standing wave ratio meter for tuning up the 10 meters band antenna first
, and a similar VHF instrument for setting up the 6 and 2 meters bands
dipoles in sequence. In this second version, as always, something new
came to my mind, and we decided to include yet another dipole, a fourth
one, tuned to the center of the aircraft VHF band...that for voice
communications spans from 118 to 136 megaHertz, so we cut the dipole for
127 megaHertz. This antenna was not adjusted for transmission, because
it will always be a receive only antenna as you may realize.
The four dipoles " Nest of Dipoles" HF, plus 3 VHF bands antenna works
very well on 10 meters, 6 meters, the aircraft band and the ham two
meters band.
Installing the two antennas was a rather easy job, as they are quite
compact... because the longest dipole, the one for 10 meters is just
about 5 meters or 16 feet long. Both antennas were installed as 45
degrees tilted dipoles, a compromise to achieve good pick up and
transmission of both vertical and horizontally polarized waves.
If you need to install these dipole nests at a distance longer than
about 20 meters or 60 feet from your radio equipment, then please
consider the need to change to more expensive and less loss coaxial
cable types, like the RG-213 or RG-8, in order to reduce the signal loss
typical of the RG58 type cables.
By the way , a similar dipoles 'nest' can be built for other frequency
ranges too... VHF-UHF radio amateurs can make
a nice nest for 6 meters, 2 meters and 70 centimeters, and ideal system
to carry on the backpack with one of the new ultracompact multi band
amateur radio transceivers like
the YAESU FT817 or the ICOM 706...These antennas are
lightweight, easy to repair on the field, and will cost you next to
nothing as compared with similar commercially built
versions...But again, I insist that you will need to invest quite
some time adjusting them for minimum standing wave ratio...
And now amigos, as always at the end of the show here is our exclusive
and not copyrighted HF plus low band VHF propagation update and
forecast... The latest forecast for the solar minimum is telling us that
it may be actually happening right now , but other scientists believe
that the tail end of solar cycle 23 will extend until the first half of
2008. The latest solar data are simply typical of minimum solar activity
with zero sunspot count, solar flux below 70 units and a very quiet
geomagnetic field...the expected average sunspot number for June is
expected to reach the rock bottom figure of 5... Expect also some really
amazing sporadic E skip openings during the next several days ,with
multiple hop E skip giving radio amateurs the unique opportunity of
working transcontinental DX between Africa, Europe and the Americas.
Don't forget to set aside a little of your valuable time to send me a
signal report and your comments about the program, send them to
[EMAIL PROTECTED], again [EMAIL PROTECTED] and VIA AIR MAIL, send mail to Arnie
Coro Radio Havana Cuba, Havana, Cuba . Hope to have you all listening
to our weekend edition next Saturday and Sunday UTC days amigos !!!
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Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2007 23:05:02 +0000
From: Risto Kotalampi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: [HCDX] HCDX logs between 2007-06-26 0000 UTC and 2007-06-27
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