Send Hard-Core-DX mailing list submissions to
[email protected]
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
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
You can reach the person managing the list at
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific
than "Re: Contents of Hard-Core-DX digest..."
---[Start Commercial]---------------------
World Radio TV Handbook 2007 is coming.
Order yours from
http://www.hard-core-dx.com/redirect2.php?id=wrth2007
---[End Commercial]-----------------------
________________________________________
Hard-Core-DX mailing list
[email protected]
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. Chile (ka4prf)
2. HAM Radio - Wireless Fun (sakthi vel)
3. QSL Received Last Week (10th September ? 15th September 2007)
(Mukesh Kumar)
4. QSL Report (J.D. Stephens)
5. RTE Ireland Logging (J.D. Stephens)
6. Re: Dxers Unlimited's mid week edition Sept 18 -19 2007
(Prof.Arnaldo Coro Antich)
7. RTE Ireland Log CORRECTION (J.D. Stephens)
8. Israel: Kol Israel con nuevos horarios, UTC + 2.
(JOSE MIGUEL ROMERO ROMERO)
9. 9520 Family Radio en espa?ol, 20:00-21:00 UTC, ?Nuevo?.
(JOSE MIGUEL ROMERO ROMERO)
10. HCDX logs between 2007-09-18 0000 UTC and 2007-09-19 0000 UTC
(Risto Kotalampi)
11. DX Listening Digest 7-113; WOR Extra 77 (Glenn Hauser)
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Message: 1
Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2007 10:31:47 +0100
From: "ka4prf" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: [HCDX] Chile
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Robert Wilkner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Logs
DSWCI Logs DSWCI Logs DSWCI" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
"Ivan_Lebedevsky"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, <[email protected]>,
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"
Chile, 6110, La Voz Crista, 1000-1030 With male in Portugues language comments
between instrumental martial type music and fanfare. At 1025 music type changes
to popular. ID as, " ...CVC transmite ..." at 1130. Signal was fair. (Chuck
Bolland, September 18, 2007)
Clewiston, Florida
NRD535D
------------------------------
Message: 2
Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2007 05:29:36 +0100 (BST)
From: sakthi vel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: [HCDX] HAM Radio - Wireless Fun
To: dx india <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1
Sitting in the warm and cosy comforts of their homes,
Amateur Radio Operators, simply called "hams", can
establish contacts with people in any part of the
globe effortlessly. This hobby is lots of fun and
offers something for everyone, says Florine Roche.
Spare a thought to recollect what is common among
Sonia Gandhi, King Hussain of Jordan, King Carlos of
Spain, late Rajiv Gandhi, Amitabh Bachchan, Kamal
Hassan, Kalpana Chawla and film Director Mansoor Ali
Khan? Apart from being famous personalities they
were/are all Amateur Radio Operators, simply called
?hams?. Amateur Radio is a community of like-minded
individuals using wireless communication to
communicate with other hams literally in any part of
the globe.
Generally it is believed that ham stands for three
pioneers of radio technology - Heinrich Rudolf Hertz,
Edwin Arstrong and Guglielmo Marconi. The other
definition of ham is ?help all mankind?. Being a ham
one can talk to an astronaut in space or to a
geologist on an expedition in the Antarctica, sitting
in the cozy comfort of your homes.
?All that is needed to become a ham is a transceiver
an antenna and of course oodles of interest?, remark
Rohit S Rao and his wife Sukanya, both active ham
buffs. On qualifying an examination conducted by
Ministry of communications, a licence is issued to
anyone above 12 years. Every licence-holder is given
a call sign and this call sign cannot be allotted to
any other person in the world.
?The best way reap maximum benefits from this ?king
of hobbies? is by joining a local club station. There
are millions of hams all over the world who are
obsessed with the hobby and have set up local club
stations,? asserts Ananth Pai, executive director of
Bharath Beedies Pvt Ltd., president of Mangalore
Amateur Radio Club (MARC) and governing council member
of Amateur Radio Society of India (ASRI).
The credit goes to Varadaraya Nayak, the first ham
from Mangalore, B Mahabala Hegde of Surathkal and
psychiatrist Mohammed Osman Pasha for spearheading the
Ham revolution in Mangalore, which led to the birth of
MARC in 1982. Today it comprises a few young and
enthusiastic members who are creating waves through
their pro-active activities in the Ham world. Age has
not diminished Hegde?s penchant for this hobby. ?It is
a great hobby for anybody and everybody that keeps the
body and mind agile,? he states.
MARC members meet every second Sunday of the month for
a t?O-୴?O and participate in Ham radio
expeditions or other activities of the club. ?Apart
from the pleasure part of it ham encourages the
experimental spirit as the hobby is everything to do
with electronics,? says Srikanth Bhat of Udupi, a Ham
aficionado. ?Youngsters should be encouraged to
indulge in this hobby to herald an electronic
revolution. Only Hams are encouraged to build, modify
and improve their own equipment in pursuit of radio
art,? asserts Ananth Pai.
Besides the pleasure and experiment benefits, Hams can
provide communications during cyclones, earthquakes
floods and other natural calamities when other means
of communications fall apart. It can be recalled here
that, during the invasion of Kuwait by Iraq, when the
civilian communication links were snapped, it was a
south Indian who conveyed message on Ham radio about
stranded Indians there.
MARC members have rendered a helping hand in many such
calamities like during the Orissa cyclone, Gujarat and
Maharashtra earthquakes and the Tsunami disaster. A
few months back they went to Lakshadeep and trained
locals in using Ham as Lakshadeep is prone to
calamities, often rendering other communications out
of gear. MARC has activated two remote islands IOTA
(Island on the Air), St. Mary?s Isles, Malpe near
Udupi and Sacrifice Rock, Kannur.
The educative role of Ham as a hobby cannot be
overlooked as it can introduce scientific activity
among children at a very young age and would help
create awareness about the importance of information
technology and communications. For many Ham
enthusiasts, the principal attraction to the hobby is
to build their own equipment, whether it is just a
simple antenna, or something as complex as a
transmitter, or an interface between their radio and a
computer.
Ham is purely a hobby and cannot be used for monetary
gains. Hams cannot broadcast to public. ?Hams are
cultural ambassadors who promote friendship and
bonhomie among people of different countries,? says
Chethan L Poojara, MARC secretary. So get hooked to
this king of hobbies and introduce your children also
to this fascinating hobby. It will open new vistas of
life to them.
Hams can establish contacts with astronauts as space
stations have Ham radio equipment and licensed Ham
astronauts take the time to make contacts with
amateurs on earth.
The most popular means by which Hams communicate with
each other is voice (radiotelephony or Morse code
(radiotelegraphy), the language of dots and dashes.
Grade II licence-holder is permitted to work only on a
telegraphy Morse code and will be allowed radio
telephony at higher grade.
The Morse Code of 5 words per minutes
sending-receiving will make eligible to get grade-II
and 12 words per minutes sending-receiving will get
grade-I.
In Ham lingo a male is always referred to as an old
man (OM) whereas a woman is called a young lady (YL),
irrespective of age.
Those interested in joining the expanding Ham family
can contact Chethan Poojara on mobile 99014 54719 or
Ananth Pai on email [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Jaisakthivel,
Chennai
///////////////////
Source: http://www.daijiworld.com/chan/exclusive_arch.asp?ex_id=673
///////////////////////
For Contact: Jaisakthivel,59,Annai Sathya Nagar,
Arumbakkam,Chennai-600106,India
Visit: www.dxersguide.blogspot.com
www.sarvadesavaanoli.blogspot.com
Join: www.groups.yahoo.com/group/sarvadesavanoli
Mobile: +91 98413 66086
///////////////////////
Download prohibited? No problem. CHAT from any browser, without download.
Go to http://in.messenger.yahoo.com/webmessengerpromo.php/
------------------------------
Message: 3
Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2007 10:26:19 +0100 (BST)
From: Mukesh Kumar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: [HCDX] QSL Received Last Week (10th September ? 15th
September 2007)
To: [email protected]
Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1
QSL Received Last Week (10th September ? 15th
September 2007)
Station: - Voice of Korea, Pyongyang
Date: - 22-07-2007
Frequency: - 15100 kHz
Time: - 0200-0300 UTC
Language: - English
Description: - Photograph of a Historical Building.
Station: - KTWR Guam
Date: - 11-08-2007
Frequency: - 9975 kHz
Time: - 1400-1430 UTC
Language: - English
Description: - Verified by Sterling Ottun. KTWE Trans
World Radio Guam
Station: - Voice of America
Date: - 23-08-2007
Frequency: - 15105 kHz
Time: - 1500 UTC
Language: - English
Description: - Shortwave Radio Transmitting antennas
at the International Broadcasting Bureau Transmitting
Station, in Delano, California.
Station: - Vatican Radio
Date: - 01-09-2007
Frequency: - 15560 kHz
Time: - 0200-0230 UTC
Language: - English
Description: - Radio Vaticana 1931-2006. Directional
antenna for MW at the S. Maria di Galeria Transmission
Centre.
Station: - Radio Slovakia International
Date: - 09-08-2007
Frequency: - 15460 kHz
Time: - 0700 UTC
Language: - English
Description: - Vlkolinec.
Station: - KBS World Radio
Date: - 03-09-2007
Frequency: - 1600-1700 kHz
Time: - 9515 UTC
Language: - English
Description: - The Seongsan Sunrise Peak. Jeju?s
volcanic islands and lava tubes have been added to the
World Natural Heritage list by UNESCO. It bears great
significance in that it?s the first time for a natural
site in Korea to be registered on the list. The Jeju
heritage site consists of Mt Halla, the Seongsan
Sunrise Peak, and the island?s lava tubes. UNESCO?s
list of world heritage sites is comprised of location
that are deemed to have outstanding value to all
mankind. The picture shows the Seongsan Sunrise Peak
and Mt Halla on Jeju Island.
Station: - Radio Sweden
Date: - 12-08-2007
Frequency: - 15735 kHz
Time: - 1230 UTC
Language: - English
Description: - linnaeus300.com.
Station: - Radio Romania International
Date: - 23-08-2007
Frequency: - 11895 kHz
Time: - 0300-0400 UTC
Language: - English
Description: - Homesteads at ASTRA Museum.
Station: - Radio Romania International
Date: - 04-07-2007
Frequency: - 11950 kHz
Time: - 1600 UTC
Language: - French
Description: - Homesteads at ASTRA Museum.
Station: - TRT Voice of Turkey
Date: - 10-08-2007
Frequency: - 9785 kHz (EMR)
Time: - 1830-1925 UTC
Language: - English
Description: - TRT Archives.
Station: - Radio Netherlands Wereldomroep
Date: - 14-08-2007
Frequency: - 9395 kHz (Tashkent)
Time: - 1530 UTC
Language: - English
Description: - Card Eight ? A Dutch Morning ? Spring
Busted Forth.
Station: - China Radio International
Date: - 31-07-2007
Frequency: - 7170 kHz
Time: - 1800 UTC
Language: - German
Description: - Beijing 2008 ? One World One Dream ?
Shunyi Olympic Rowing ? Canoeing Park.
Station: - Radio Taiwan International
Date: - 14-08-2007
Frequency: - 15515 kHz
Time: - 1600-1700 UTC
Language: - English
Description: - Taiwanese Puppets.
Station: - Voice of Russia
Date: - 23-08-2007
Frequency: - 15605 kHz
Time: - 1500-1530 UTC
Language: - Hindi
Description: - We Talked To The Whole World
Station: - NHK World Radio Japan
Date: - 27-07-2007
Frequency: - 11840 kHz (Sri Lanka)
Time: - 1400-1430 UTC
Language: - English
Description: - Verified by T. Sato. ?Fireworks and
Sakurajima Island? (Kagoshima City, Kagoshima
Prefecture).
Station: - NHK World Radio Japan
Date: - 23-08-2007
Frequency: - 15235 kHz (Yamata, Japan)
Time: - 0100-0130 UTC
Language: - English
Description: - Verified by T. Sato. ?The day of
autumn? (Asuka-mura, Nara Prefecture).
Station: - NHK World Radio Japan
Date: - 29-08-2007
Frequency: - 11780 kHz (Singapore)
Time: - 0130-0200 UTC
Language: - English
Description: - Verified by T. Sato. Verified by T.
Sato. ?Fireworks and Sakurajima Island? (Kagoshima
City, Kagoshima Prefecture).
Station: - NHK World Radio Japan
Date: - 21-08-2007
Frequency: - 11730 kHz (Yamata, Japan)
Time: - 1000-1030 UTC
Language: - English
Description: - Verified by T. Sato. Battledore Fair
(Taito-ku, Tokya).
Station: - NHK World Radio Japan
Date: - 26-07-2007
Frequency: - 15590 kHz
Time: - 0700-0730 UTC
Language: - Hindi
Description: - Himeji Castle.
Station: - AWR Asia/Pacific
Date: - 23-08-2007
Frequency: - 15225 kHz (Wertachtal, Germany)
Time: - 1500-1530 UTC
Language: - Nepali
Description: - Adventist World Radio, The Voice of
Hope www.awr.org.
Station: - AWR Asia/Pacific
Date: - 26-08-2007
Frequency: - 15435 kHz (Wertachtal, Germany)
Time: - 1230-1300 UTC
Language: - Bengali
Description: - Adventist World Radio, The Voice of
Hope www.awr.org.
Station: - AWR Asia/Pacific
Date: - 30-08-2007
Frequency: - 15510 kHz (Agat, Guam)
Time: - 0000-00301630 UTC
Language: - Burmese
Description: - Adventist World Radio, The Voice of
Hope www.awr.org.
Station: - AWR Asia/Pacific
Date: - 25-08-2007
Frequency: - 15520 kHz (Agat, Guam)
Time: - 0100-0200 UTC
Language: - Mandarin
Description: - Adventist World Radio, The Voice of
Hope www.awr.org.
Station: - AWR Asia/Pacific
Date: - 01-09-2007
Frequency: - 15445 kHz (Agat, Guam)
Time: - 0100-0200 UTC
Language: - Vietnamese
Description: - Adventist World Radio, The Voice of
Hope www.awr.org.
Station: - AWR Asia/Pacific
Date: - 30-08-2007
Frequency: - 15510 kHz (Agat, Guam)
Time: - 0030-0100 UTC
Language: - Karen
Description: - Adventist World Radio, The Voice of
Hope www.awr.org.
Receiver: - Grundig YB 400
Antenna: - Long Wire
Location: - 26N07 85E23
Regards & 73?s
Mukesh Kumar
THE COSMOS CLUB
MISCOT-3, R-8, RAMNA
MUZAFFARPUR ? 842002
BIHAR, INDIA
Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Flying to Bangalore or Bhopal? Search for tickets at
http://in.farechase.yahoo.com
------------------------------
Message: 4
Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2007 07:20:22 -0700 (PDT)
From: "J.D. Stephens" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: [HCDX] QSL Report
To: QSL Weekly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, HardCore DX
<[email protected]>, Cumbre DX <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
QSL Information Pages <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, IRCA
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1
QSL Received:
FRANCE: Radio France Info, Bordeaux - 1206. Really
nice f/d "Rotatable Antenna" cd, with site, in 24
days for a FF followup w/ IRC & CD recording. My
initial report sent to Radio France offices resulted
in a letter thanking me effusively for writing, but
telling me they don't have time to answer each letter
individually or verify reports. Followup sent to TDF,
Radio Business Unit, Shortwave Department, 10 Rus
d'Oradour sue Glane, 75732 Pais CEDEX 15, France.
(JDS-AL)
73,
J.D. Stephens
Hampton Cove, AL, USA
____________________________________________________________________________________
Pinpoint customers who are looking for what you sell.
http://searchmarketing.yahoo.com/
------------------------------
Message: 5
Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2007 08:14:04 -0700 (PDT)
From: "J.D. Stephens" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: [HCDX] RTE Ireland Logging
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], HardCore DX
<[email protected]>
Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1
RTE Ireland via Woooferton, UK (??) logged 15
September on 17860 from 1300 onward with the
All-Ireland Football finals. Signal fair on peaks,
with long, deep fades. None of the other four
frequencies heard, not even the other 16 meter
frequency. Were these all from the same transmitter
site? (JDS-AL, USA)
73,
J.D. Stephens
Hampton Cove, AL, USA
____________________________________________________________________________________
Building a website is a piece of cake. Yahoo! Small Business gives you all the
tools to get online.
http://smallbusiness.yahoo.com/webhosting
------------------------------
Message: 6
Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2007 11:17:19 -0400
From: "Prof.Arnaldo Coro Antich" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: [HCDX] Dxers Unlimited's mid week edition Sept 18 -19
2007
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [email protected],
[EMAIL PROTECTED], Sheldon Harvey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed
Dxers Unlimited
Dxers Unlimited's weekend edition for Sept 18-19 2007
By Arnie Coro
radio amateur CO2KK
Hi mis amigos radioaficionados around the world and in space !!! This is
the midweek edition of your favorite , listener oriented and technically
minded radio hobby program, coming to you via shortwave and also via
streaming audio on the World Wide Web from http://rhc.cu our new fast
track world wide web address, I am Arnie Coro, radio amateur CO2KK, your
friend in sunny, beautiful Havana, where we have enjoyed excellent
tropospheric ducting propagation on the VHF, UHF and Microwave bands...
Way out there, 93 million miles away, our nearest STAR, amigo SOL, is
now taking a break, and the actual sunspot count has gone down ZERO for
many, many days one after the other...No active sunspot regions in
sightand I expect a very low sunspot count and a diminishing solar
microwave energy flux to continue during the next seven to ten days...
More about HF, VHF, UHF and Microwave propagation later, at the end of
the program... Item two: Listeners letters provide instant feedback
about the show's content, new ideas, and very interesting radio hobby
related questions that keep yours truly really busy the whole week, and
be aware that Dxers Unlimited, Breakthrough the science show, and our
Spanish language daily science technology and the enviroment at Radio
Havana Cuba are not my only duties... I do spend a lot of time every
week teaching, and that amigos, is a very rewarding activity, as you do
learn a lot while preparing your lessons !!! Listeners from all around
the world write to Radio Havana Cuba's Dxers Unlimited and recently I
decided to make a poll of the show's most listened sections... As
expected ASK ARNIE was once again LA NUMERO UNO... the most popular
section of Dxers Unlimited , closely followed by our exclusive and not
copyrighted HF PLUS propagation update and forecasts that according to
the e-mail messages, postcards and letters, really helps you all to
catch nice DX sometimes, to optimize your band plans for a contest, or
to simply stay away from the radio and homebrew some more equipment when
propagation conditions take a turn for the worst !!! Item three: ASK
ARNIE, today will be answering two questions, then it will be followed
by TIPS and TECHNNIQUES, a Dxers Unlimited's section that is winning
listeners at a fast pace, and as always at the end of the program the
propagation information that today will be of a more general nature, and
for those of you that have asked, YES, I do have to work ALL SATURDAYS
amigos,so that the weekend edition will feature the most up to date HF
propagation forecast... !!! Stay tuned for more radio hobby related
information, coming to you , with love, from Havana...
I'll be back in a few seconds , after a short musical intercut
....
The name of the station is Radio Havana Cuba, we are on the air since
1961, providing to our listeners the best possible programs about Cuba
and the world amigos... Here is now ASK ARNIE for today... The first
radio hobby related question came from a country where Dxers Unlimited
has a massive audience, according to the e-mail messages, postacards and
letters that I receive here every week... Yes , its Canada, where the
short wave listening hobby seems to have many followers... The question
was sent by Dxers Unlimited's listener Mark, from Toronto... He ASKS
ARNIE... what is a TUNIPOLE antenna ... because he recently visited an
AM broadcast station, where the chief engineer told him that they had
recently changed their antenna system to a TUNIPOLE... Mark then adds
that he sees exactly the same tower that has been there for years...
Well amigo Mark, sure, the tower is the same, but the antenna system was
changed by the station's engineers to a very different configuration.
The TUNIPOLE is a commercial name for what is known in radio engineering
as a GROUNDED FOLDED MONOPOLE antenna... And the main reason the station
you visited changed their antenna configuration is that they almost
surely had to upgrade to a new solid state transmitter. The TUNIPOLE or
more properly speaking GROUNDED FOLDED MONOPOLE ANTENNA, provides
additional protection against lightnning that is badly needed by today's
third generation solid state transmitters... The traditional vacuum tube
power amplifier transmitters were much more tolerant to voltage spikes
generated by lightnning than their solid state equivalents of today... I
have seen a very nice second generation pulse duration modulation AM
broadcast transmitter go off the air with all its power modules dying
instantly after a the series fed antenna took a direct hit from
lightnning... YES, sure, solid state transmitters are the way to go, no
doubt, they save a lot of energy and replacement parts are available at
very low prices, but so far no one has found how to really protect them
from lightnning when they are connected to an insulated tower... So
amigo Mark, that's part one of my answer, now part two... the AM
broadcast station you visited will also benefit from converting their
series fed insulated base antenna to a GROUNDED FOLDED MONOPOLE ,
because from now on they can rent tower space to other users of the
radio frequency spectrum, a source of extra income to the station that
will help AM broadcasters to balance their budgets. It's no secret that
in many countries AM broadcasting stations are loosing audience to FM
stations, so by renting their grounded towers to cellphone operators,
for example, they can keep themselves on the air !!! A typical 100
meters high AM station tower makes an excellent support for cellphone
and other commercial communications systems that can then save money by
renting space on an existing site, rather than having to make a
completely new installation from scratch... Amigo Mark, radio is a very
complicated business, and tower space renting is becoming more and more
important at a worldwide scale, by the way, many high tower operators
graciously provide tower space for amateur radio repeaters in what could
best be described as a very good public relations act. Now question
number two.. it came from South Africa, where we are building up an
audience according to the correspondence department here... Listener
Mumbele from Cape Town, tells me that he is picking up ou 6000 kiloHertz
broadcast for just a few minutes every day, on what seems to be a very
short band opening... Mumbele wants to know if this has something to do
with what is known as GRAY LINE or TERMINATOR LINE propagation... Well
amigo Mumbele, I will have to take a look at the time of the day here in
Havana, and the time of the day in Cape Town that this is happening...
GRAY LINE or TERMINATOR LINE propagation happens when two points of the
Earth are touched roughly at the same time by the line that separates
day and night... and YES, it does enhance propagation a lot... As a
matter of fact, many radio amateurs used terminator line propagation in
a routine fashion to work DX... By the way amigo Mumbele, you may want
to give a try to our streaming audio from 05 to 07 UTC provided at
http://rhc.cu..
.....
This is the midweeke edition of Dxers Unlimited, coming to you from
Radio Havana Cuba, and let me reiterate that solar activity is at very ,
very low levels, and that is having a very negative impact on short wave
propagation conditions ... I think that according to the present state
of solar activity the probability of a large solar flare happening is
very , very low... Now here is our TIPS AND TECHNNIQUES section of the
show, one that is becoming really popular with all of you according to
the most recently received correspondence amigos... Several listeners
wrote telling me about their success with the homebrew microphones, and
that they were really pleased with the audio quality obtained from
them... Gary from Indiana , USA, says in his e-mail that he is now
collecting broken cellphones in order to be able to make several more of
the homebrew microphones for three of his other transceivers... He
tested a microphone element from a NOKIA cellphone that was damaged when
it was actually crushed by the tires of a car, that by miracle left the
microphone undamaged... Gary tells me that his two meters mobile FM
transceiver sounds much better now, and that what he actually did was to
remove the microphone capsule from his rig's mike and replace it with
the NOKIA cellphone microphone element, leaving everything else
untouched ... Si amigos, yes my friends, out mes amis, as you all know,
radio is hobby that can be enjoyed on a shoestring budget and that also
helps to keep the environment clean by recycling !!! Second part of TIPS
and TECHNNIQUES... when a radio receiver has not operated for a long
time... don't just plug it in to the AC power line... Bring it back to
life slowly , by using one of the two following techniques... Connect
the radio that was in long storage to a variable voltage transformer,
also known as a VARIAC, and set the transformer for 25 volts AC
output... keep the radio operating at that voltage for about 24 hours,
then go to 50 volts, and keep it there for 12 hours, step three is
taking the operating voltage to 75 volts AC and keeping it there for 6
hours... Then you run the radio from 100 volts and see what happens...
It is likely that it will make a nice comeback into useful life if there
are no damaged components... You can benefit by monitoring the AC power
line current that the radio is taking by means of a digital multimeter
set for AC current measurement... This step by step method has proven to
be very effective for me, and has helped to detect bad electrolytic
capacitors before they really go up in smoke... By the way, if you are
doing this procedure to an old vacuum tube radio, it is a very good idea
to do a total , comprehensive visual inspection of the receiver , clean
the dust and accumulated debris, and then proceed to replace ALL THE
ELECTROLYTIC and PAPER BYPASS CAPACITORS, before plugging in the radio
to the AC power line !!!
More recently built solid state receivers of the so called first
generation, dating back to some 35 to 40 years ago will usually come
back to useful life too, but replacing the electrolytic capacitors will
not be as easy as with the older vacuum tube receivers because of the
use of a very compact layout of the printed circuit boards...
TIP NUMBER THREE for today... If you want to use a loudspeaker instead
of headphones for listening to CW Morse Code signals, use a small
speaker, one between two and three inches will be ideal, and then follow
Arnie Coro's advice and paint the paper loudspeaker cone with nailpolish
to raise its low frequency resonance.. The modified small louspeaker
will operate as a mechanical audio filter or sorts that has proven to be
very effective and of course will cost you practically nothing.. There
is yet another nice way of optimizing a small louspeaker for CW Morse
Code reception , that I will leave it for an upcoming program... in the
meantime try this one and tell me how it worked for you... send mail to
[EMAIL PROTECTED], or send me an AIR MAIL postcard to Arnie Coro, Radio
Havana Cuba, Havana, Cuba...
....
Si amigos, Dxers Unlimited comes to you twice weekly, on Tuesdays and
Wednesdays UTC day we have the mid week edition and on Saturdays and
Sundays UTC days we provide you with our weekend edition... They are two
completely different shows, especially written usually on the same day
they go on the air for the first time... Now as always at the end of the
show here is our HF plus VHF, UHF and Microwaves propagation update and
forecast... Solar activity is VERY LOW, and very probably it will
continue at extremely low levels for the next seven to 10 days...
Sunspot numbers of ZERO or near ZERO are expected during this period,
and the microwave solar flux should bottom at figures around 65 to 70
units for the rest of this solar rotation. . Hope to have you joining me
for the weekend edition of Dxers Unlimited next Saturday and Sunday, and
please don't forget that your e-mail messages, postcards and letters do
help to make this radio hobby program better for YOU AMIGOS !!! Send
them to [EMAIL PROTECTED] or VIA AIR MAIL TO: Arnie Coro, Radio Havana Cuba,
Havana, Cuba
------------------------------
Message: 7
Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2007 09:06:53 -0700 (PDT)
From: "J.D. Stephens" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: [HCDX] RTE Ireland Log CORRECTION
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [email protected]
Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1
CORRECTION - date in logging below should be September
16th.
My apologies.
J.D. Stephens
--- "J.D. Stephens" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2007 08:14:04 -0700 (PDT)
> From: "J.D. Stephens" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: RTE Ireland Logging
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], HardCore DX
> <[email protected]>
> CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> RTE Ireland via Woooferton, UK (??) logged 15
> September on 17860 from 1300 onward with the
> All-Ireland Football finals. Signal fair on peaks,
> with long, deep fades. None of the other four
> frequencies heard, not even the other 16 meter
> frequency. Were these all from the same transmitter
> site? (JDS-AL, USA)
>
> 73,
>
> J.D. Stephens
> Hampton Cove, AL, USA
____________________________________________________________________________________
Moody friends. Drama queens. Your life? Nope! - their life, your story. Play
Sims Stories at Yahoo! Games.
http://sims.yahoo.com/
------------------------------
Message: 8
Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2007 20:33:30 +0200 (CEST)
From: JOSE MIGUEL ROMERO ROMERO <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: [HCDX] Israel: Kol Israel con nuevos horarios, UTC + 2.
To: Frecuencia DX <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1
Saludos cordiales.
ISRAEL 9345 Kol Israel, 17:45-18:00, captada el 18 de septiembre en idioma
judeo-espa?ol, Ladino. Sinton?a, locutora con presentaci?n, bolet?n de
noticias, se aprecia de forma espor?dica una se?al rtty, parte meteorol?gico,
segmento musical, poemas cantados en ladino, emisi?n en paralelo por 11590 y
15760, a las 17:55 cesa emisi?n en 15760, se mantiene en 9345 y 11590, SINPO
44444.
ISRAEL 9345 Kol Israel, 18:15-18:30, captada el 18 de septiembre en idioma
espa?ol, tonos horarios, sinton?a , locutor Leo Sitgman con presentaci?n,
locutora con bolet?n de noticias, noticias nacionales e internacionales,
pron?stico del tiempo, se despide hasta ma?ana a las 20:15, hora local, 18:15
UTC, emisi?n en paralelo por 11590 y 13675, SINPO 44444.
* El servicio en rumano fue de 17:30 a 17:45, por las frecuencias de 9345,
11590 y 15760, el servicio en franc?s fue de 18:00 a 18:15 por las frecuencias
9345, 11590 y 13675. El servicio en ingl?s comienza a las 18:30 por 9345, 11590
y 13675.
73 Jos? Miguel Romero.
Burjasot (Valencia)
Espa?a
Sangean ATS 909
Radio Master A-108
---------------------------------
?Descubre una nueva forma de obtener respuestas a tus preguntas!
Entra en Yahoo! Respuestas.
------------------------------
Message: 9
Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2007 22:27:54 +0200 (CEST)
From: JOSE MIGUEL ROMERO ROMERO <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: [HCDX] 9520 Family Radio en espa?ol, 20:00-21:00 UTC,
?Nuevo?.
To: Frecuencia DX <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1
ALEMANIA. Hoy 18 de septiembre estoy escuchando en 9520 a Family Radio en
espa?ol, seg?n el DX MIX NEWS 486 da un nuevo servicio de Family Radio v?a
Nauen de 20:00 a 21:00 en ingl?s, quiz?s una emisi?n accidental o cambio de
servicio.
73 Jos? Miguel Romero.
Burjasot (Valencia)
Espa?a
---------------------------------
?Descubre una nueva forma de obtener respuestas a tus preguntas!
Entra en Yahoo! Respuestas.
------------------------------
Message: 10
Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2007 23:05:02 +0000
From: Risto Kotalampi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: [HCDX] HCDX logs between 2007-09-18 0000 UTC and 2007-09-19
0000 UTC
To: [email protected]
Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Hard-Core-DX.com logs from 2007-09-18 0000 UTC to 2007-09-19 0000 UTC
---------------------------------------------------------------------
Please visit http://log.hard-core-dx.com/ for the real time logs
and to submit your logs to the HCDX Online Log.
For more information please email [EMAIL PROTECTED]
-----------------------------------------------------
------------------------------
Message: 11
Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2007 22:20:20 -0700 (PDT)
From: Glenn Hauser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: [HCDX] DX Listening Digest 7-113; WOR Extra 77
To: Glenn Hauser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1
DX Listening Digest 7-113 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/dxld7113.txt
CONTENTS:
WOR Extra 77 / AFRICA / ALASKA / ALBANIA / ANTARCTICA / ARGENTINA / BIAFRA non
/ BOLIVIA / BRAZIL / CANADA RCI / CANADA CBX/CBH / CHAD / CHINA +non / CUBA /
DOMINICAN REPUBLIC / ETHIOPIA non / EUROPE Pirates / FALKLAND ISLANDS non /
FRANCE non DRM / GABON / GERMANY +non / GREECE / INDIA / INDONESIA /
INTERNATIONAL WATERS non Communicator / IRAN +non / IRELAND non / ISRAEL /
JORDAN / KASHMIR / KOREA NORTH non / KUWAIT / LAOS non / LATVIA / MALAYSIA /
MALI / MEXICO / MONACO / MOROCCO / MYANMAR / NETHERLANDS +non / NETHERLANDS
ANTILLES / NEW ZEALAND / NIGER / NIGERIA / NORTH AMERICA +non Pirates /
OKLAHOMA KOCB / OKLAHOMA OETA / PAKISTAN / PERU / RUSSIA / SAINT BRANDON ham /
SCOTLAND non / SEYCHELLES non S07 / SIKKIM / SOMALIA / SUDAN non / UGANDA /
UKRAINE / UK BBC / USA VOA / USA +non AFN / USA non RFE/RL / USA FCC / USA non
CVC / USA WHRI / USA WCBS-FM / USA PI / USA TIS / USA WLBA / USA WSLA / USA
KOFI / USA TV power / VANUATU / VENEZUELA / ZAMBIA non / ZIMBABWE /
UNIDENTIFIED 4600 / UNIDENTIFIED 7175 / UNIDENTIFIED 12055 / UNIDENTIFIED 15260
/ DIGITAL BROADCASTING / 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 Extra 77
Wed 2200 WBCQ 7415 [first airing of each edition]
Wed 2300 WBCQ 18910-CLSB or 17495-CLSB
Thu 0600 WRMI 9955
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 0800 WRMI 9955
Sat 1630 WWCR3 12160
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 [irregular; not 9/10/07]
Mon 0415 WBCQ 7415 [time varies to 0500]
Mon 0830 WRMI 9955
Tue 1030 WRMI 9955
Tue 1530 WRMI 7385
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
____________________________________________________________________________________
Boardwalk for $500? In 2007? Ha! Play Monopoly Here and Now (it's updated for
today's economy) at Yahoo! Games.
http://get.games.yahoo.com/proddesc?gamekey=monopolyherenow
End of Hard-Core-DX Digest, Vol 57, Issue 19
********************************************
