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Today's Topics:
1. Re: Glenn Hauser logs December 26-28 (Paul)
2. Re: Glenn Hauser logs December 26-28 (Wolfgang Bueschel)
3. Re: Glenn Hauser logs December 26-28 (bclnews.it)
4. AIR 5015, Possibly XERTA 4800 (Dave Valko)
5. Dec 29 Logs ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
6. R. Arctica (Dave Valko)
7. Re: Dxers Unlimited's weekend edition for 29-30 December 2007
LAST EDITION OF 2007 HAPPY HOLIDAYS TO YOU ALL AMIGOS
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8. Re: Dec 28 Logs (Karou)
9. HCDX logs between 2007-12-29 0000 UTC and 2007-12-30 0000 UTC
(Risto Kotalampi)
10. Conference to Coordinate on Shortwave (Zacharias Liangas )
11. Shortwave coordination to continue with ABU meeting
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12. Muzzling FRCN Kaduna (Zacharias Liangas )
13. Al- Hurria radio Resumes Broadcast after 6 Months of being
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Message: 1
Date: Sat, 29 Dec 2007 18:45:50 +1300
From: "Paul" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: [HCDX] Glenn Hauser logs December 26-28
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Chad was always reported on 4904.5
Paul
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From: "Glenn Hauser" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Sent: Saturday, December 29, 2007 4:29 PM
Subject: [HCDX] Glenn Hauser logs December 26-28
** CHAD. I`ve heard it too, no doubt, RNT reactivated on 4905: best 60m
signal
by far outside NAm, Dec 26 at 0605-0620, mostly talk in uncertain language,
maybe part Arabic, part French, with bits of music. Nothing resembling an ID
heard. Mauritania might have competed if it were audible on 4845.
Furthermore
the `4905` signal was a smidgin below frequency as others have reported
minus
30-40 Hz or so; while I couldn`t be precise to two decimal places, I could
tell
it was off, using the YB-400 simply by zeroing the BFO on WWV, and then
stepping from 4905 up and down 1 kHz. The het at 4904 was noticeably lower
in
pitch than at 4906 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CUBA [non]. Tnx to a tip from Giampiero Bernardini, R. Rep?blica heard on
reactivated 6185 at 0240 check Dec 28 over DentroCuban Jamming Command. Must
be
a fairly recent change, and we can say goodbye to any chance of hearing R.
Educaci?n, M?xico during this bihour. RR started B-07 on 6100 at 02-04, and
was
there the last time I checked, having forced Vatican via Canada to move to
6040
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MAURITANIA. R. Mauritanie seems back up to full strength after missing a
few
weeks, or on but with low modulation per other reports. Dec 27 at 0625,
found
4845 with OM vocal chants predominantly at a single pitch, shifting
irregularly
up or down a note. 0631 announcement by YL and the chanter (or someone
else?)
speaking for a moment, then choral music. Roughly same level as Chad 4905.
However, Ndjamena is much further east than Nouakchott, by 31 degrees of
longitude, so propagation from 4845 should hold up about two hours longer
than
4905. Nouakchott is 16 degrees west long., which should really put it in the
UT
-1 timezone. It is further west than any part of Ireland, let alone
Portugal,
lines up with eastern Iceland (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. KAIJ remains off the air from 9480 and 5755. On Dec 27, GM George
McClintock told me that the owner of Two If By Sea, Mike Parker, has not
informed him of his intentions for KAIJ, but he is currently working on
higher
priority projects. He has not revealed to anyone when it will return to the
air.
George adds that it`s sad that KAIJ is off SW, since it was so successful in
Asia, getting a lot of mail for broadcasts in English, including from people
in
China well-educated in English, and was just starting to broadcast in
Mandarin.
George is not aware of any imminent sale of the station, despite rumors
about
this.
For the time being the webcast is still running, altho it may not be
updated.
WOR 1386 ran Thu Dec 27 at 1600 instead of the new 1388, or even last week`s
1387, but they have agreed to put the latest WOR on successive webcasts,
such
as Fri 1200 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. The heavy Cuban-style grind jamming is still going on 15710
whenever checked in the daytime, such as Dec 26 at 1504. And also before
1500
Dec 28. Surprised I am the only one reporting this. The question is, what
are
they jamming? A new clandestine, or a new daytime frequency for Radio
Rep?blica? Possibly those closer to Cuba in the skip zone would get more of
the
target, if there really is one, and less of the jamming (Glenn Hauser, OK,
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Message: 2
Date: Sat, 29 Dec 2007 12:43:26 +0100
From: "Wolfgang Bueschel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: [HCDX] Glenn Hauser logs December 26-28
To: "Paul" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Hard-Core-DX"
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Chad moved from 6165 to 4904.97 at nighttime recently. But new 100 kW tx
unit which has been inaugurated in December 2004 by TAIWAN has nothing to do
with old tx of 1990 to 1999 era, which was off frequency approx. 500 Hertz.
New unit erected in Dec 2004 and noted 7120(earlier vary 7125 in the
nineties too) daytime, and 6165 kHz nighttime, with excellent reports by Liz
Cameron, Gerry Dexter, Vlad Titarev and Finn Krone in late Dec 2004/Jan
2005.
73 wb
History from December 2004:
CHAD New SW TX's in Africa.
Radio Taiwan International announced recently that the head of their
French Service was in Africa to attend the inauguration of new SW txs in
two different countries. These new units, together with the associated
antenna systems, were installed in Burkina Faso & Chad with aid provided
by Taiwan.
Cf. <http://www.panosparis.org>
Chadians able to tune in to national radio again on Sept 2nd, after a
month of repairs, six technicians from Radio China Taiwan International
(RTI) were able to get Chad's national radio station, RNT, back on the air
at last, after a fault in its 100 kW SW tx that forced it to stop
broadcasting in Dec 2002.
Following a ceremony to mark the resumption of broadcasts, a technical
cooperation agreement was signed between the Chad authorities and the
delegation from Taiwan. The agreement plans exchanges between Chadian and
Taiwanese technicians as well as training sessions in Taiwan to enable
local engineers to maintain the newly-repaired tx.
(Bernd Trutenau-LTU, Cumbre Dec 1, 2004)
History, from August 2003:
CHAD Africa DX Report - Livinus Torty, with a special report on the
current radio scene in the African country of Chad.
THE RADIO SCENE IN CHAD: The country of Chad is situated in the heart of
the African continent. The total land mass of Chad is about one and a
quarter million square kilometers. Most of the northern areas of Chad are
desert.
The history of Chad goes back a long way and it was an important segment
of several large African empires on several earlier occasions. In the
1800s, European explorers and traders moved through the area and the
French gained access to the territory with a formal treaty that was signed
in 1897. Chad finally gained independence from France on August 11, 1960.
Chad has a population of nearly eight million inhabitants with roughly six
persons per square kilometer. The langs spoken in Chad include French &
Arabic as well as a host of vernacular langs. The capital city is
N'Djamena (n-JAH-men-a) and it is also the largest city in the nation with
a population of half a million.
The national radio of Chad is "Radiodiffusion Nationale Tchadienne", RNT,
with its headquarters in N'Djamena and it was established in November
1955. RNT is govt owned and it is the only body permitted to bc in Chad on
the SW and mediumwave bands.
Radiodiffusion Nationale bcs to the entire country of Chad on the SW freq
of 6165 kHz via its 100 kW tx located in Gredia, a suburb of the capital
city N'Djamena. RNT is also active in N'Djamena on the FM freq of 94.05
MHz.
RNT has also established four regional stns which bc occasionally on
mediumwave but are now more active on the FM band. These stns produce
local progrs in various langs for their audiences living in the various
regions. However, the regional stns also carry the major progrs from RNT
N'Djamena on relay, such as the national nx and other major features.
In 1999, the govt of Chad liberalized bcing on the FM band thereby making
it possible for groups and individuals to establish FM stns in Chad.
Today, besides the govt owned RNT FM stn, three local non-govt controlled
FM stns can be heard in N'Djamena.
Also heard in N'Djamena are the local downlink relays on FM from several
other countries. These FM relay stns include Cameroon Radio Television
(CRTV), Africa No.1 from Gabon, RFI Afrique from France, and the BBC
African Service. There are half a dozen other privately owned FM stns in
Chad, mostly in the south of the country.
Radio bcing is crucial for the dissemination of information in Chad. It is
the main source for nx and entertainment right throughout the country for
most people due to the fact that the national television stn in Chad,
"Teletchad", is available only in the capital city area.
As a finale to this DX report from Livinus Torty in Chad, we might mention
that it seems to be very difficult in obtaining a QSL from the SW stn in
their capital city. The AWR collection in Indianapolis contains not even
one QSL from Chad.
(AWR Wavescan Aug 10, 2003, via dxld)
----- Original Message -----
From: "Paul" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Saturday, December 29, 2007 6:45 AM
Subject: Re: [HCDX] Glenn Hauser logs December 26-28
Chad was always reported on 4904.5
Paul
----- Original Message -----
From: "Glenn Hauser" Sent: Saturday, December 29, 2007 4:29 PM
Subject: [HCDX] Glenn Hauser logs December 26-28
** CHAD. I`ve heard it too, no doubt, RNT reactivated on 4905: best 60m
signalby far outside NAm, Dec 26 at 0605-0620, mostly talk in uncertain
language,
maybe part Arabic, part French, with bits of music. Nothing resembling an ID
heard. Mauritania might have competed if it were audible on 4845.
Furthermore the `4905` signal was a smidgin below frequency as others have
reported minus 30-40 Hz or so; while I couldn`t be precise to two decimal
places, I could tell it was off, using the YB-400 simply by zeroing the BFO
on WWV, and then stepping from 4905 up and down 1 kHz. The het at 4904 was
noticeably lower in pitch than at 4906.
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
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Date: Sat, 29 Dec 2007 15:26:24 +0100
From: "bclnews.it" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: [HCDX] Glenn Hauser logs December 26-28
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> Chad was always reported on 4904.5
Was... now is on 4904.96...7
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Message: 4
Date: Sat, 29 Dec 2007 09:48:54 -0500
From: "Dave Valko" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: [HCDX] AIR 5015, Possibly XERTA 4800
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INDIA 5015 AIR Delhi 1219 IS, then nice EG ID by W at 1220 sounding like
"This is the ?? channel of All India Radio, on ?? meters, 4,860 kilohertz.
We feature now the news summary from the post". Then into EG nx by W.
//4860. Fair. (29 Dec.)
MEXICO?? 4800 XERTA (pres.) 1102-1154 Apparently testing on the NF.
intermittent audio w/non-stop mx. Sounded like LA mx style at t/in, but
definitely MOR orch. mx at 1122. No anmnts. 1130 odd mx, then what sounded
like Herb Alpert at 1131. 1134-1136 "Jinglebell Rock". Longer deadair
1137-1141. Came back at 1151 and found poss. promo w/canned tlk by M anncr
ending w/what certainly sounded like XERTA. Poor audio quality and frequent
audio cut-outs were annoying. Decent strength but rumbling carrier seemed a
little distorted. Sounds like a UTE trying to broadcast. CODAR QRM. (29
Dec.)
Seemed like a good LA morning but unfortunately I got to the rx too late.
73 Dave
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Message: 5
Date: Sat, 29 Dec 2007 12:42:42 EST
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Subject: [HCDX] Dec 29 Logs
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**BOLIVIA. 5952.46, Radio Pio Doce, Siglo Veinte, 1015-1040, Dec 29,
Spanish talk. Bolivian music at 1036. "Pio Doce" jingle at 1037. Very
good. (Brian Alexander, PA)
**BOLIVIA. 6134.81, Radio Santa Cruz, 1000-1020, Dec 29, talk in
Quechua & Spanish. Ad string. Sounds of cows. Many mentions of
Santa Cruz. Bolivian music. Strong signal. (Brian Alexander, PA)
**BRAZIL. 6080.15, Radio Novas de Paz, Curitiba, 0845-0900, Dec 29,
Brazilian ballads. Portuguese talk. Fair, but some adjacent channel
splatter. // 9514.98-very weak. (Brian Alexander, PA)
**CHINA. 9810, CNR-2, China Business Radio, 1200-1210, Dec 29,
time pips at 1200 & English "This is China Business Radio" ID followed
by Chinese talk. Fair. weaker on // 6065, 6090, 7315, 7375.
(Brian Alexander, PA)
**ECUADOR. 4909.22, Radio Chaskis, Otavalo, 1131-1145, Dec 29,
Presumed with Spanish talk. Short music breaks. Poor in noise.
(Brian Alexander, PA)
**PERU. 4834.93, Radio Maranon, Jaen, 1120-1131, Dec 29, Spanish
talk. ID at 1122. Short music breaks. Poor to fair signal with CODAR
QRM. (Brian Alexander, PA)
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Message: 6
Date: Sat, 29 Dec 2007 12:51:55 -0500
From: "Dave Valko" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: [HCDX] R. Arctica
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CLANDESTINE While looking for Europirates over the Christmas holiday, I was
hearing a station IDing as R. Arctica. First heard on Christmas Day on 6200
from 1227-1240 using a Web receiver in the UK. Checked on my own receiver
and was getting a signal there at 1244. The next day, 26 Dec., heard it at
home again on 6204.87 at 0731. Later at 0915, heard it on the UK Web
receiver. So apparently it can be heard both in Europe and N.A. The
programming defines it as more of a Clandestine than a pirate. They claim
the transmitter is near the Arctic Circle. Uses both EG and RS. Very
interesting anti-exploitation of the Arctic programming. Web site is
http://www.radioarctica.net.tc/ E-mail is [EMAIL PROTECTED]
73 Dave
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Message: 7
Date: Sat, 29 Dec 2007 08:52:01 -0500
From: "Prof.Arnaldo Coro Antich" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: [HCDX] Dxers Unlimited's weekend edition for 29-30
December 2007 LAST EDITION OF 2007 HAPPY HOLIDAYS TO YOU ALL AMIGOS
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AND NOW HERE IS THE SCRIPT OF THE LAST SHOW OF 2007...
Radio Havana Cuba
Dxers Unlimited last weekend edition for 2007
December 29-30 2007
By Arnie Coro
Radio amateur CO2KK
Hi amigos radioaficionados around the world and in space? this is the
year?s 2007 last Dxers Unlimited program, and I wish you HAPPY NEW
YEAR 2008 TO ALL !!!!
Welcome to the weekend edition of your favorite radio hobby program,
coming to you from sunny Havana, where our very specially mild winter
weather is providing us with beautiful days for going to the beach ,
swimming , sailing or just relaxing in the shade watching the blue sea
!!! I am Arnie Coro, radio amateur CO2KK, your friend here in Cuba, now
ready to read today?s menu: ITEM ONE
No sunspots in sight at this moment, putting an end of what may now be
surely described as the year of the solar minimum or as scientists like
to call it, the Year of the Quiet Sun? Amigos as 2007 comes to an end,
the very quiet Sun tells us that the chances of solar flares happening
during the next several days are practically zero,so the solar flux
levels are going to stay at extremely low levels down during the first
few days of 2008. ? ITEM TWO:TV DX winter season well in progress at
this moment, with sporadic E skip events happening all around North
America, the Caribbean Europe and Northern Africa. At least TWO recent
sporadic E opening sent the maximum useable frequency up past the two
meters amateur band , making reception of FM stations from more than one
thousand miles away possible even with portable radios and their
telescopic whip antennas? ITEM Three: Listeners questions continue to
come in via e-mail, postcards, letters and fax messages, a recent one
from India, really surprised me, as normally the show is not heard so
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this year end edition of Dxers Unlimited.Stay tuned for more radio hobby
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Si amigos , this is Radio Havana Cuba, and you can send your signal
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to Arnie Coro, Radio Havana Cuba, and we will send you our nice QSL card
for your collection of station?s verified .
And NOW , here is ASK ARNIE, THE most popular section of Dxers
Unlimited., QUESTION number sent by listener Marlon in Ireland: Marlon
collects old radio magazine, that he says, and I fully agree with him ,
have a wealth of radio hobby related know-how. Marlon wants to know more
about a regenerative receiver circuit he saw published by Radio
Communications magazine Technical Topics Section. Marlon tells me that
the actual detector circuit is a cascode formed with two triodes, and he
wants to know If I have tested this regenerative detector configuration.
Well amigo Marlon those old radio magazines often provide unique
opportunities for assembling circuits that show amazing performance,
exactly what will happen to you if you carefully duplicate the circuit
of the regenerative cascode detector receiver published by the British
Radio Communications magazine many years ago. I found out that the
control of regeneration with this circuit is amazingly smooth, and that
using a ECC88 dual triode, I was able to make if work nicely even on
the 6 meters or 50 megaHertz amateur band. Instead of using the so
called converters ahead of short wave receivers to pick up the higher
frequency bands, you may want to try this cascode regenerative with the
ECC88 VHF type dual triode . Well amigo Marlon, as you may realize a
converter is nothing but a complete front end of a radio receiver, it
usually includes a radio frequency amplifier stage, a mixer and a local
oscillator, while the cascode regenerative receiver operates right on
the frequency you are going to try to receive.You you can get away
without the radio frequency amplifier stage by using a well designed
front end filter, but adding a radio frequency amplifier to the cascode
detector will certainly improve its performance. Converters designed for
the VHF and UHF bands do need the RF stage, but VHF regenerative
detectors were usually built without the benefit of the RF amplifier
stage,and one could tell people in the neighborhood were listening,
because regenerative detectors radiate a signal on the same frequency
they are picking up, so you could always hear a swish swich sounding
signal when a nearby regenerative detector was tuning across the
frequency you were listening two. Also in the old days used the then
best available vacuum tubes that provided good gain and low noise were
used for the radio frequency amplifier stages, but common triodes
prevailed for the regenerative detector stages.. The really good
converters used a crystal controlled local injection oscillator. Even
today, adding a homebrew converter ahead of a regenerative detector
receiver cost receiver can provide outstanding results, s an antenna.
VHF Converters are no longer required for all practical purposes, as
like I explained here recently, modern HF receivers are including an
extended tuning range up around 54 megaHertz and in some cases up to the
two meters amateur band. Amigo Marlon, the cascode regenerative detector
circuit receiver is not too difficult to homebrew, and the ECC88
followed by a dual triode audio section feeding a beam tetrode audio
output will provide room filling audio . The cascode regenerative with
the ECC88 dual VHF triode tube will make a nice low band VHF receiver ,
useful for monitoring 6 meters during the summer sporadic E season.
Remember to tune set the receiver to the calling frequency of your part
of the world? In the Americas it is 50.125, while in other regions world
it is 50.110. megaHertz where most of the activity on 6 meters is
concentrated around the world. You are listening to Radio Havana Cuba,
and this is our most popular section of the program ASK ARNIE, now with
QUESTION NUMBER TWO,it Came from Trinidad and Tobago, another
beautiful Caribbean nation that I have had the nice opportunity of
visiting and sharing time with many of the local enthusiastic radio
amateur operators. Llistener Mark , who tells me that he picks up our
9550 kiloHertz Caribbean edition, tells me in his e-mail that he wants
to know more about the Near Vertical Incidence Skywave antennas, that
are now so often mentioned in amateur radio publications. Well amigo
Mark, NVIS or Near Vertical Incidence Skywave antennas are becoming very
popular among radio amateur emergency networks, because they will
provide reliable communications at short distances on the 80, 60 and 40
meters bands, while using average power outputs of between 20 and 100
Watts. As you well know, when a tropical hurricane impacts upon one of
our island nations, electricity distribution networks are disconnected
by the power company for safety reasons, and you must operate using
batteries or a diesel or gasoline engine coupled to a generator. When
using battery power, you want to keep the power output as low as
possible, and this is why the NVIS mode is so effective. Here in Cuba we
have found that by installing a highly effective NVIS antenna, we can
keep communications going while the stations are running between 20 and
50 Watts, and when conditions are good, we can switch down to 10 Watts
and keep the emergency net operating. An effective NVIS antenna for the
80, 60 or 40 meters bands is not too difficult to design and install,
and one nice feature is that you won?t need tall masts to make it work
nicely. NVIS are also very useful at noisy locations, because they don?t
pick up signals at the lower take off angles. . Well amigo Mark, NVIS
systems are first of all low profile antennas, they are easy to install,
and above all, NVIS systems can be built very easily and at low cost by
anyone . My NVIS 40 meters band antenna is a nice example of what I am
talking about. Many Cuban amateur radio stations have built it and keep
it ready all the year round, but especially from June to the end of
November during the Atlantic and Caribbean Tropical Hurricane Season?
And for those of you who listen regularly to Dxers Unlimited let me add
that the number one most popular project,the one that received more
requests from listeners for its complete building instructions and
circuit diagrams was the AUSTRALIAN FUN MOORABIN
regenerative solid state receiver.
My prototype HULA HOOP magnetic antenna that is built using a toy HULA
HOOP , a length of TV type coaxial cable, and a receiving type variable
capacitor and takes less than a couple of hours to complete, was the
second most popular project requested to [EMAIL PROTECTED] via e-mail or to
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spaced variable capacitor with even a very slight change in frequency.
BUT, peaking the antenna tuning for maximum signal is quite easy to do,
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antenna, that helps a lot to reduce unwanted noise and cross modulation
problems caused by high powered stations that affect low priced
receivers so badly. As a matter of fact, using my HULA HOOP MAGNETIC
LOOP with a low cost digital receiver has proved to be a very
interesting experience, as the radio?s performance is enhanced
signficantly due to the extra selectivity at the front end provided by
the magnetic loop antenna system.
And now amigos, at the end of the program, here is Arnie Coro?s Dxers
Unlimited?s 2008 HF propagation forecas, yes you heard it right, this
is an advance of what should be happening next year on the HF
bands.?Expect low solar activity to continue during the first half of
2008, solar cycle 23 keeps fading away, but at the same time we should
start to see more high latitude and reverse magnetic polarity sunspots
that belong to the new cycle 24, overlaping with an eventual low
latitude sunspot belonging to cycle 23. During the second half of 2008,
HF propagation conditions will take a turn for the better and we will
all be able to once again enjoy nice DX that will be heard better and
better during 2009, 2010 and of course during the peak year of cycle 24,
expected to happen sometime between 2010 and 2012, something that is
difficult to predict right at this moment. Amigos HAPPY NEW YEAR 2008 TO
YOU ALL, and don?t forget to send your much appreciated comments, signal
reports and of course radio hobby related questions that help to keep
Dxers Unlimited alive for your enjoyment? Send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] or
VIA AIR MAIL to Arnie Coro, Radio Havana Cuba, Havana, Cuba. See you all
at the NEW YEARS EDITION OF DXERS UNLIMITED AMIGOS !
I AM YOUR FRIEND ARNIE CORO IN HAVANA WISHING
YOU ALL NOTHING BUT THE BEST,AMIGOS.
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Message: 8
Date: Sat, 29 Dec 2007 22:11:35 +0100
From: "Karou" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: [HCDX] Dec 28 Logs
To: <[email protected]>
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Could you confirm the frequency of 6370 for WWRB ?
A typo ?
Thanks
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>
> **U.S.A. 6370, WWRB, Manchester, TN, 0550-0605, Dec 28, English
> religious talk. Fair signal. 2nd harmonic of 3185. (Brian Alexander, PA)
>
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Message: 9
Date: Sat, 29 Dec 2007 23:05:01 +0000
From: Risto Kotalampi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: [HCDX] HCDX logs between 2007-12-29 0000 UTC and 2007-12-30
0000 UTC
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Message: 10
Date: Sun, 30 Dec 2007 00:28:21 +0200
From: "Zacharias Liangas " <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: [HCDX] Conference to Coordinate on Shortwave
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Conference to Coordinate on Shortwave
http://www.rwonline.com/pages/s.0100/t.10417.html
12.28.2007
A conference on global shortwave coordination will be held in Kuala Lumpur
to try to resolve potential interference problems likely to affect shortwave
transmissions.
According to the Asia-Pacific Broadcasting Union, the February conference
will be hosted by VT Communications on behalf of the High Frequency
Coordination Conference, the Arab States Broadcasting Union and the ABU.
A new database of frequency requirements for the shortwave radio
broadcasting season from March 30 to Oct. 26 will be on the agenda of the
conference.
"Delegates will try to resolve, by mutual coordination, many of the potential
interference problems likely to affect shortwave transmissions in the `A08?
joint global broadcasting schedule," the ABU reported. At present, "a single
global seasonal database of seasonal frequency requirements, compiled by
the High Frequency Coordination Conference secretariat, assists in the
coordination process."
Shortwave broadcasting, ABU noted, is unique in that the channels used by
international stations are not assigned, but coordinated for two seasons a
year. This system is designed for efficient and economical use of the
spectrum and improvement of reception. ________________________
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
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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: 11
Date: Sun, 30 Dec 2007 00:28:22 +0200
From: "Zacharias Liangas " <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: [HCDX] Shortwave coordination to continue with ABU meeting
To: <>
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Shortwave coordination to continue with ABU meeting
http://www.abu.org.my/public/dsp_page.cfm?articleid=3301&urlsectionid=10
61&specialsection=ART_FULL&pageid=247&PSID=3372
A key conference on global shortwave coordination will be held in Kuala
Lumpur on 4-8 February to try to resolve many of the potential interference
problems likely to affect shortwave transmissions.
The conference is hosted by United Kingdom-based VT Communications on
behalf of the High Frequency Coordination Conference (HFCC), the Arab
States Broadcasting Union (ASBU) and the ABU.
A completely new database of frequency requirements for the shortwave
radio broadcasting season from 30 March to 26 October 2008 will be on the
agenda of the Kuala Lumpur conference.
During the week-long conference, delegates will try to resolve, by mutual
coordination, many of the potential interference problems likely to affect
shortwave transmissions in the "A08" joint global broadcasting schedule.
Presently, a single global seasonal database of seasonal frequency
requirements, compiled by the High Frequency Co-ordination Conference
secretariat, assists in the coordination process.
Shortwave broadcasting has a unique position in that the radio channels
used by international stations are not assigned, but regularly coordinated for
two seasons each year.
The coordination system is designed for efficient and economical use of the
shortwave spectrum and the improvement of reception of shortwave radio
broadcasting worldwide.
Friday 21 Dec 2007________________________
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: 12
Date: Sun, 30 Dec 2007 00:28:23 +0200
From: "Zacharias Liangas " <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: [HCDX] Muzzling FRCN Kaduna
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Muzzling FRCN Kaduna
http://allafrica.com/stories/printable/200712280029.html
Currently the management of Federal Radio Corporation of Nigeria(FRCN)
under its Director General, Mr. Ben Egbuna, has been restructuring the
corporation, based on the recommendations of the FRCN Reform
Implementation Committee that was set up in September last year.
The report of the committee had criticised the existing structure as suffering
"from some inherent weaknesses which tend to negate its mandate." These
weaknesses, it said, included (1) "weakening the corporate effectiveness of
the FRCN by stressing UNDUE AUTONOMY" of the zonal stations
(emphasis mine), (2) the incongruency between the three linguistic zones
and the country's new-fangled six territorial geo-political zones, (3) the
ineffectiveness of the professional departments in responding to problems
when they arise and (4) the overburdening of the director general with
responsibilities of the professional departments because the heads were
remove from the headquarters.
The solution the reform committee recommended essentially was to end the
autonomy of the zonal stations with headquarters in Enugu, Ibadan and
Kaduna and effectively curtail their reach. On the surface this looked
consistent with the mandate of the corporation which is to "Uplift the People
and Unite the Nation". In reality, however, the restructuring was the same
long running war that has been waged by the federal authorities against the
FRCN Kaduna for no worse crime than the fact that it has been the most
effective radio station in the country.
This war started in 1978 when the then military head of state, General
Olusegun Obasanjo, tried to end its autonomy and shortwave broadcast.
The move provoked a huge uproar. Group Captain Usman Jibrin, the
military governor of the host North-Central State, who led the resistance lost
his commission and his job. To ballance the equation, Chief Olu Adebanjo,
Obasanjo's minister of information who ostensibly initiated the idea also got
the boot.
Three years later the war took another guise under President Shehu
Shagari.This time an executive bill was sent to the National Assembly for the
establishment of a Medium Wave station for each of the existing 19 states.
The bill was apparently meant to kill two, actually three, birds with one
stone;
provide jobs for the boys of the ruling party, overwhelm the voices of the
opposition parties in the states they controlled and, of course, strangulate
the FRCN Kaduna. It was instructive that Shagari's adviser on information
was the self same Adebanjo who seemed to have started it all under
Obasanjo.
Once again the station's huge listeners rose as one against the bill and it
was subsequently shot down. Any one who thought that was the last to be
heard of the moves against the station had another think coming. In June
last year Leadership reported that the then director general, Chief Kevin
Ejiofor, instructed the station to stop broadcasting on short wave. The
director general later denied the charge. However, a memo he had sent to
his board of directors for restructuring the FRCN gave the game away. "The
span of control" he said in the memo, "is clearly unmanageable for the
Kaduna national station which superintends both the North-West and the
North-East geo-political zones."
The current attempt at restructuring the FRCN is clearly the latest in a long
line of attempts, first from Lagos and now from Abuja, to curb the reach and
the autonomy of FRCN Kaduna. This attempt is not only being carried out by
a director general who had come to his job through subterfuge, the attempt
itself is as illegal as it is unwise and costly.
When Mr. Eddie Iroh left the FRCN as director general soon after Obasanjo
started his second term, Iroh brought in Ejiofor, a pensioner he had recruited
as the executive director of FRCN Enugu, to act as the D.G. As a pensioner
it was difficult, if not impossible, to confirm him. As a result the then
minister
of Information, FRCN's parent ministry, Mr. Frank Nwekeh Jnr., appointed
KMPG, a major consultancy, to help recruit a new D.G. through
advertisement.
Subsequently KMPG shortlisted seven candidates as suitable for the job out
of the 93 that had applied. Nwekeh Jnr, then recommended two out of the
seven to the president to choose from. These were Mr. Jimmy Atte,
presently NTA's executive director of News, and Mr. Ben Egbuna. then
Voice of Nigeria's executive director of News. The president chose Egbuna.
In the memo seeking Obasanjo's approval Nwekeh Jnr. lied to his boss; he
said none of the corporation's executive directors applied. Three, Ademola
Elegbede, S.A. Shuaibu and Yusuf Nuhu did. Worse still Mr. Egbuna whom
he recommended along with Mr. Atte never applied and was therefore not
among the seven shortlisted by KMPG.
Chances were that the president never knew he was lied to by his minister
when he approved Egbuna whom Nwekeh Jnr. clearly preferred from the
tone of his memo which emphasized the fact that Egbuna was an alumnus
of the National Institute for Policy and Strategic Studies that the president
had midwifed in his first incarnation as military head of state.
Clearly Egbuna had come to his job with unclean hands. And the job itself,
as I've said, is as illegal as it is unwise and costly. It is illegal simply
because
it is being done without amending the existing law that established the
corporation. This law recognises only three zones along linguistic lines with
headquarters at Enugu, Ibadan and Kaduna. The law also gives them
autonomy within the overall control of the corporation's headquarters.
Under the subsisting arrangement, the three zones between them broadcast
in English and the three national languages of Hausa, Igbo and Yoruba, in
addition to about 20 minority languages. The idea was that listeners in these
languages that cover the vast majority of Nigerians can be informed and
entertained regardless of where they lived in the country.
Another major objective was to counter the propaganda of the main global
radio stations like the BBC, VOA, Deutch Welle, Radio France International
and Radio Moscow all of which broadcast in Hausa, the single largest
audience in the West African subregion.
And so contrary to the claim by the FRCN management, the new territorial
structure was more likely than not to defeat the corporation's objectives. This
is why is unwise. As for the extravagance of the exercise, this is obvious
from the fact that of the 32 FM stations to be established under it most of the
18 or so that are already operational have been far from cost effective. A
small fraction of the billions of Naira spent on them would have given the tax
payer more bang for his Naira if they had been spent on strengthening
FRCN Kaduna and on reviving those of Enugu and Ibadan that have since
collapsed.
The FRCN Kaduna started as a regional station, Radio Television Kaduna
(RTK), under Sir Ahmadu Bello, the Northern premier. It served Nigeria well
as an effective counter to Biafra's successful propaganda during our civil
war of 1967 to 1970. It apparently became a victim of its success when it
was taken over by the federal military authorities in 1971 following the
abolishing of the old National Broadcasting Corporation which could not
match Biafra's propaganda.
To ballance the regional equation the RTK's counterparts in Enugu and
Ibadan were also taken over. For some inexplicable reasons the authorities
in these regions failed to support their zonal station to the extent that
Kaduna did, invariably leading to their collapse. Since then in a series of
moves which clearly smack of a policy of beggar thy neighbour or dog in a
manger or both, those who seem envious of FRCN Kaduna's staying power
and success have tried to kill it instead of reviving the other zonal stations.
Because these moves are illegal, unwise and costly the FRCN management
should reverse itself. Otherwise the federal authorities should call it to
order.
________________________
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: 13
Date: Sun, 30 Dec 2007 00:28:21 +0200
From: "Zacharias Liangas " <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: [HCDX] Al- Hurria radio Resumes Broadcast after 6 Months of
being Off Air
To: <>
Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Al- Hurria radio Resumes Broadcast after 6 Months of being Off Air
http://english.wafa.ps/body.asp?id=176
RAMALLAH, December 28, 2007 (WAFA) - Privately-owned radio station Al-
Hurria ("Freedom") resumed broadcasting from the West Bank after being
forced off the air for six months by Hamas following the latter's coup in
Gaza.
The station said its programmes would also be broadcast in the Gaza Strip.
Several news media, including the Palestinian National Authority?s official
radio and TV stations, have been closed by Hamas since June.
Zacharias Liangas , Thessaloniki Greece
email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] web: www.geocities.com/zliangas
Pesawat penerima: ICOM R75 , Lowe HF150 , Degen 1102-3,Tecsun PL200 ,
Chibo C300/c979, Yupi 7000 ,
Antenna: 16m hor, 2x16 m V invert, 1m australian loop
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