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Today's Topics:
1. KKMO-1360 Seattle, WA DX Test, 1/13/08 - It's tonight folks!
(Jim Pogue)
2. Fw: logs tropen11/1-12/1 (Maurits Van Driessche)
3. About Perseus, SDR receiver (Giampiero Bernardini)
4. Glenn Hauser logs January 11-13 (Glenn Hauser)
5. Logs from NH-USA, week ending Jan 13th (Scott R. Barbour Jr.)
6. Burkina, Latvia & Mexico Logs ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
7. 6335 VO Kurdistan in English (Jari Savolainen)
8. KKMO-1360 DX Test (Terry Palmersheim, KC7LDP)
9. MW Logs on 7.1.8 (Zacharias Liangas )
10. LOGS ON 6.1 (Zacharias Liangas )
11. 9290 with Firedrake (Zacharias Liangas )
12. Re: Dxers Unlimited's radio hobby program script for 12-13
January 2008 (Prof.Arnaldo Coro Antich)
13. 9290 Firedrake (Zacharias Liangas )
14. 60 mb: New Perseus audio files (Nils Schiffhauer)
15. Papua New Guinea (Dave Valko)
16. HCDX logs between 2008-01-13 0000 UTC and 2008-01-14 0000 UTC
(Risto Kotalampi)
17. BTC 2007-2008 Mid-Season Report - Jan. 13, 2008 (Jim Pogue)
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Message: 1
Date: Sat, 12 Jan 2008 17:18:11 -0600
From: "Jim Pogue" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: [HCDX] KKMO-1360 Seattle, WA DX Test, 1/13/08 - It's tonight
folks!
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Don't forget the KKMO DX Test tonight (early Sunday morning). The indices
are a little high but hopefully the test will still get out well with the
Morse code and sweep tones. Here are the latest indices:
Issued: 2008 Jan 12 2103 UTC
Solar-terrestrial indices for 12 January follow.
Solar flux 76 and estimated mid-latitude A-Index 6.
The mid-latitude K-index at 2100 UTC on 12 January was 2 (17 nT).
And here are the quick and dirty details on the test. Full info is available
at http://www.dxtests.info/2007/11/kkmo-1360-khz-seattle-washington-dx.html
KKMO 1360 kHz Seattle, Washington DX Test
Date: Sunday morning (late Saturday night), Jan. 13, 2008.
Time: 12 - 12:15 a.m. Pacific Time, 0800 - 0815 UTC.
Modes of Operation: 5,000 watts using non-directional antenna pattern.
Programming: From 12:00-12:10 a.m. PST, programming will consist of 1,000 Hz
tone at 0 db. From 12:11-12:15 a.m. PST, programming will consists of
college football marching songs. The test will also include Morse code and
sweep tones.
Please be sure to report your success in hearing the test on any of the
various lists that cover DX Tests. 73s and good luck.
Jim Pogue KH2AR
IRCA/NRC Joint Broadcast Test Committee Coordinator
Memphis, Tennessee USA
QRZ.com/KH2AR
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Message: 2
Date: Sun, 13 Jan 2008 02:03:23 +0100
From: "Maurits Van Driessche" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: [HCDX] Fw: logs tropen11/1-12/1
To: "Hard-core" <[email protected]>
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3329.62khz Ondas d Huallaga,Huanuco Peru 11/1 2255utc Female talks + id
about the president fair 22222
3254.86khz RDif 6 de Agosto,Xapuri Brazil 11/1 2316utc Nice brazil mx.
and info weak 22222
3220khz HCJB,Quito Equador 12/1 0053utc About the parlement fair
22222
Gr.Maurits ,Belgium
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Message: 3
Date: Sun, 13 Jan 2008 02:50:27 +0100
From: "Giampiero Bernardini" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: [HCDX] About Perseus, SDR receiver
To: "CUMBRE-DX" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "DXLD"
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Ciao
I just posted some notes on http://radiodxinfo.blogspot.com/ about Perseus
SDR receiver. It's in Italian, but some links (at the end of the post)are in
English
Giampiero
Giampiero Bernardini
Milano, Italy
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Message: 4
Date: Sat, 12 Jan 2008 20:39:15 -0800 (PST)
From: Glenn Hauser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: [HCDX] Glenn Hauser logs January 11-13
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** AUSTRALIA [non]. Jan 12 at 2320 I found quite a het on 11550. Two stations
of roughly equal strength about 400 Hz apart and hard to separate; even the
SW-07 synch funxion couldn`t help. On other receivers and antennas I was able
to separate them sufficiently to determine that on 11550.0 was Spanish, no
doubt WEWN as scheduled, but mostly skipping over and rather weak; and on
11550.4 something in Indonesian.
Time to break out my brand new copy of PWBR 2008. The only other station on
``11550`` at that time, besides WEWN, is shown as R. Australia in ``other``
language via Taiwan. Doesn`t help to look in the non-blue-edged pages in
country order, since this is too far off-topic for PWBR. A major world language
spoken by over a hundred megapeople, Indonesian, does not merit any individual
listings, just lumped in with ``other``.
HFCC? The public file, from which all RA Shepparton transmissions have been
censored, shows no such R. Australia on 11550, but it does show Indonesian at
2200-2330 on 9630 via CVC Darwin, which lets its registrations including RA
relays stand.
EiBi? Not listed there either.
Once you know it`s RA, this transmission can be found on page 408 of the 2008
WRTH, as 2200-2330 on 11550 via Taiwan.
Aoki? There it is, in the 11 January update with more details:
11550 R. AUSTRALIA 2200-2330 1234567 Indonesian 100 205 Tainan TWN 12038E2311
ABC b07
But Aoki misses WEWN on 11550! Which per WEWN website and DXLD 8-004, is on
11550 all the way from 1500 to 2400.
Anyhow, any doubts about the off-frequency one were resolved when I heard
11550.4 ID as R. Australia at 2328:30, shortly before going off (Glenn Hauser,
OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CUBA. RHC, 9550 in English, Sat Jan 12 at 2330 found CO2KK in
non-copyrighted propagation forecast, i.e. the end of the show, which wrapped
at 2331:30 after the traditional code outro. So if it`s 17 minutes or so long,
it would have started around 2314 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** LITHUANIA. R. Vilnius, 7325, English to North America, Jan 12 at 2340 had a
report on the Lithuanian language dictation test, apparently a major national
literacy event. I notice that the announcers almost omit the I in pronouncing
Vilnius, and also almost omit the U in Lithuania. At 2344 began first mailbag
of 2008y, mentioning that most of the reception reports lately had come from
Japan, and were quite similar to each other, concerning the NAm service on 7325
which was making it there despite the usual Chinese co-channel (which I was
also getting). One correspondent listened to the Lithuanian semihour at 2300
but not the English at 2330. The entire mailbag had some hauntingly familiar
music bed running, which was nice, but not necessary for SW intelligibility.
They also mentioned that RV can be listened to on the internet, something I had
yet to try, via http://www.lrt.lt But going there one sees little but
Lithuanian. Following the instruxions in English comes to a dead end, unless
you pretend you are getting a podcast of ``current affairs in English`` from
http://www.lrt.lt/prenumerata/podcast.php?chid=234933&secid=2&flt=7345
However, even at 0351 UT Sunday, the latest show available there was from
Friday January 11. That mp3 file displays as 35:14 long, but signed off
English at :28 minutes in, then filled with nice folk music, 30:00 into
Lithuanian, and then pop music.
At 2354 gave the English schedule as: NAm 2330 on 7325, 0030 on 9875, and
``next day`` to Europe at 0930 on 9710.
We`ve had conflicting info about whether the weekly KBC Radio broadcast via the
same Sitkunai site to NAm, UT Sundays 0100-0159, is now on 6255, or like the
2130-2230 broadcasts to Europe, on 6265. UT Jan 13 at 0150 I could detect a
weak carrier on 6255, not 6265, but would prefer to have more certain
confirmation from eastward. I wonder why RV on 7325 was making it so much
better (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** TURKEY. METEOR ITEM UNCLEAR; SLOW DOWN --- Dear VOT: I often listen to your
1330 UT broadcast on 12035, which comes in fairly well here in Oklahoma,
carrying on from its European target.
Today January 11 I caught ``Did You Know That`` at 1417. It`s certainly a nice
addition to your schedule, brief and interesting facts. Unfortunately, I was
not recording, and your programming is not available on demand (is it?), so I
only heard it once and have no way of rechecking it.
Here is what I thought I heard: The second largest meteor crater in the world
(after one in Alaska) is 3 km from the Iranian border and fell in 1982. A
website address was given to be able to see it, but it was impossible to copy.
Did you say Alaska really? The largest if not the best-known meteor crater is
in Arizona, a completely different state. I have been there several times.
Could such a large meteor have impacted in 1982 without everyone knowing about
it? It should have been an earth-shaking event!
I cite this uncertainty to point out that you are not communicating adequately.
Speaking good English is not enough. You must SLOW DOWN. All your announcers
speak too rapidly. Whenever a Turkish word or term or name is mentioned, you
must not assume everyone outside Turkey (or rather, any non-Turkish speaker,
and that is most of your audience) will recognize it immediately.
It would not hurt even to spell out some names, as well as pronouncing them
very slowly and distinctly, even repeat them. Shortwave requires this, and even
when I listen to your live webcast instead, I often do not fully understand
what is being said.
Even your mailing address with Yenishehir, I am sure, would not be understood
by a new listener who has not already seen it in printed references such as the
World Radio TV Handbook. I`ll bet you have seen incredible misspellings of that
on your incoming mail (whatever still reaches you in spite of that.) (I insert
the h since I don`t have an s-cedilla).
While I enjoy Turkish music very much, you could play a little bit less of it
and take a little more time with the speech portions to make them more clearly
understood.
Since Did You Know That? is so brief, you could also easily post the entire
text of these features on your website, so anyone may read exactly what was
said, follow website links, etc.
I would appreciate a reply clarifying the location of the meteor crater in
Turkey and the other one mentioned; date, and web address to see it. You may
also feel free to respond to this on your Letterbox, altho I would appreciate
knowing in advance when this would be aired.
Thanks, Glenn Hauser, Enid, Oklahoma, USA (Jan 11 to VOT, via DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** U S A. Nice QSL certificate received 11 Jan 2008 from W5G, for special event
80m ham operation at Guthrie OK on 17 Nov 2007 for the Oklahoma Centennial.
Latest addition to my QSL gallery, #28, at http://www.worldofradio.com/QSL.html
Guthrie was the original state capital. The certificate tells some of that
story (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 5954.1, the unknown transmitter previously carrying R. Rep?blica,
was once again heard playing nonstop music, some of it with lyrix I think in
Spanish, Jan 12 at 2335. It was tough on the FRG-7 to pull it through between
Okeechobee on 5950 and Emirler on 5960, but on the YB-400 and DX-398 I
reconfirmed it was not on 5955 but the usual 5954.1, and thus no doubt the same
transmitter as always. After modulation was cut for a second or two, the
carrier went off at 2359:30.
Altho the off-frequency, as well as the weak signal here, suggests a minor,
possibly Latin American operation, the precision of the closedown time suggests
this is really being run by a major broadcast site, which will then retune the
transmitter to a proper frequency for another service, probably in the open.
While it was on, I tuned around the 6 and 7 MHz bands for possible parallels,
not expecting to find any, and I did not. The source of this remains an
intriguing mystery (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 7087-USB, Jan 13 at 0017 as I tuned by, had music in LSB!
Switching on BFO, found apparently a ham singing a solo in Spanish until 0019.
No ID heard nor anything further for the next few minutes, but watch this
frequency! Do all countries prohibit musical hamming, or mainly the USA? (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ###
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Message: 5
Date: Sun, 13 Jan 2008 02:36:16 -0800 (PST)
From: "Scott R. Barbour Jr." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: [HCDX] Logs from NH-USA, week ending Jan 13th
To: Cumbre DX <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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BOLIVIA, 3310, R.Mosoj Chaski, 1007-1021, Jan 9,
Spanish. OM at t/in w/ Quecha mx bit, various ancrs
and mx bits. Poor/fair. (Barbour-NH)
BOLIVIA, 4699.35, R.San Miguel, 1003-1018, Jan 10,
Spanish. OM and YL w/ mx and talk. Poor/fair.
(Barbour-NH)
PERU, 4746.97, R.Huanta 2000, 1034-1100, Jan 7,
Spanish. OM and YL w/ talks. Noisy by ToH w/ mx and
canned ID. Fair/poor. (Barbour-NH)
CHAD, 4905, RDT, 2109-2128, Jan 7, French. OM w/ talk
b/w brief vocal chorus bits. Martial/anthem mx at 2122
followed by Hilife mx until signal blown out by local
QRN at BoH. Fair. (Barbour-NH)
SINGAPORE, 6120, RSI, 1103-1116, Jan 7, listed Malay.
YL w/ news b/w mx bits, RSI IDs in passing. OM at
1111. Fluttery signal, poor-fair. (Barbour-NH)
SRI LANKA, 11905, presumed SLBC, 1408-1435, Jan 7,
vernacular/ tent.English. Ancr b/w Hindi-like mx
selections, tentative EG ID at 1430, back to ancr and
mx. Poor. (Barbour-NH)
Scott R. Barbour Jr. Intervale, NH-USA
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Message: 6
Date: Sun, 13 Jan 2008 11:18:30 EST
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Subject: [HCDX] Burkina, Latvia & Mexico Logs
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**BURKINA FASO. 7230, Radio Burkina, 0815-0900, Jan 13, Tentative.
Afro-pop style music. Hi-life music. Vernacular talk. Fair signal.
(Brian Alexander, PA)
**LATVIA. 9290, Latvia Today, Ulbroka, *1400-1500*, Jan 13, opening
English ID announcements with Radio SWH address. Music. Review of
local happenings during 2007. Weak signal. (Brian Alexander, PA)
**MEXICO. 9599.28, Radio UNAM, Mexico City, 0600-0620, Jan 13,
Spanish announcements at 0600 with several IDs. Classical music
at 0602. Fair to good. In the clear. Nothing on 9600 to cause
interference. Also heard at 1405-1415 with a very good to excellent
signal. (Brian Alexander, PA)
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Message: 7
Date: Sun, 13 Jan 2008 19:24:19 +0200
From: "Jari Savolainen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: [HCDX] 6335 VO Kurdistan in English
To: "CDX" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "DXLD" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
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13 Jan 2008 at 1607 UT noted a station in English
under very heavy digital noise on 6335. Seems like end
of news with ID "Voice of ....". Into non stop easy English
pop songs. Some brief announcements but mainly music.
At 1630 "News in brief". Only couple of items, mostly
mentioning Baghdad and Iraq. Back to music. Ending
English around 1657 with two ID's, which sounded like
"Voice of Kurdistan". After that into possibly Kurdish
with ID "Dengi Kurdistan". Still continues at 1725 as
writing this. A new name for VO Iraqi Kurdistan or maybe
a "Foreign Service" using VO Kurdistan name?
Jari Savolainen
Kuusankoski
Finland
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Message: 8
Date: Sun, 13 Jan 2008 08:24:56 -0000
From: "Terry Palmersheim, KC7LDP" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: [HCDX] KKMO-1360 DX Test
To: <[email protected]>
Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Heard the KKMO-1360 DX Test quite well here in Helena, MT over KOHU, Hermiston,
OR and KRKK, Rock Springs, WY. Test tones and ID's by man (not to give too much
away!) every few minutes.
Terry Palmersheim, KC7LDP
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Message: 9
Date: Sun, 13 Jan 2008 13:58:45 +0200
From: "Zacharias Liangas " <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: [HCDX] MW Logs on 7.1.8
To: <>
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Please look my new site at http://zliangas.blogspot.com/
the log: http://zlgr.multiply.com/journal/item/131/
SPAIN 1413 RNE 5 2257 talks in SP 2259 with a spanish song , S3 only on
2x16m //1502 (S5 with low power signal QRM from posibly russia R centr
with psalms - must be Christmas there ! )
SPAIN 1539 SER? 2309 talks interviews on SP . S1
FRANCE? 1467 TWR with IS and prg in EE S7 44444
Double + carriers of S0 found on 1400 and 1500 possibly from Brazil .
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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: 10
Date: Sun, 13 Jan 2008 13:58:45 +0200
From: "Zacharias Liangas " <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: [HCDX] LOGS ON 6.1
To: <>
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Please look my new site at http://zliangas.blogspot.com/
the log: http://zlgr.multiply.com/journal/item/131/
Tunisia 7190 RTT with arabic songs S9 6.1
BRAIZL 4915 Macapa? 0630 S7 6.1
?4905? 0633 talks in French! S5 6.1
BRAZIL 4885 Clube do Para 0634 S7 songs 6.1
PERU? 4790 R Vision 0635 S7 relatevely stable - stange muisc, ID la voz
de , alleluyah on a song 6.1
CHAD 4905 0512 songs S10 6.1
[Sudan] 5950 BBC dafur? YOurng lady with lighly pictherd voice , intervals
of Sudan type music her voice were quite trilling ON 0522 she was singing
, there were sevearl mentions of Sudan. On 8.1 on ca 0510 ID has been
heard. 7+8.1
MALAYSIA 9750 Suara malaysia 1320 YL talking lang seems Malay. Bad
audio , ID 1320 . from 130 QRMed by Japan 7.1
TAIWAN 9745 V Of han 1322 OM with talks in CC , Nice pop songs , co
QRM bahrain, on better USB 7.1
PHILIPINNES ? 9730 FEBC Hmong? 2303 a pop song in laguage between
Chinese and thai,talks in same language 45523 7.1
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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, 13 Jan 2008 14:50:05 +0200
From: "Zacharias Liangas " <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: [HCDX] 9290 with Firedrake
To: hard-core <[email protected]>
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1249 firredrake with Signal S 3 a
against whom??
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Antenna: 16m hor, 2x16 m V invert, 1m australian loop
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Message: 12
Date: Sun, 13 Jan 2008 08:35:01 -0500
From: "Prof.Arnaldo Coro Antich" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: [HCDX] Dxers Unlimited's radio hobby program script for
12-13 January 2008
To: [email protected], [EMAIL PROTECTED],
[EMAIL PROTECTED], Jeff Cohen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Richard Moseson
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Radio Havana Cuba
Dxers Unlimited
Dxers Unlimited's weekend edition for January 12-13 2008
By Arnie Coro
radio amateur CO2KK
Hi amigos radioaficionados around the world and those of you orbiting
the Earth and also enjoying amateur radio. I am Arnaldo, Arnie, Coro ,
radio amateur CO2KK, your host here at the weekend edition of Dxers
Unlimited, your favorite listener oriented and technically minded radio
hobby program. Si amigos, YES... we have just seen solar cycle 24's
start up, but so far it has been a very modest beginning, with the first
sunspot region at high solar latitude and reverse magnetic polarity
fading away quietly, without producing any solar flares. Now solar
scientists are once again scratching their heads as yet another reverse
magnetic polarity sunspot has appeared, but this time it has shown up
near the solar equator, the area supposed to be reserved for the
sunspots of the old cycle... Anyway, for us radio hobby enthusiasts, the
start up of a new solar cycle is always very good news, because it
signals the end of the extended period of extremely low solar activity
that has so badly affected short wave propagation during the
past two years... Item two: More about compact antennas for the short
wave bands, especially antennas that can be used by amateur radio
operators living in downtown areas, where space is at a premium and
there are many rules and regulations regarding the installation of any
type of antenna systems.
But very clever antenna designs are able to bypass some of those CCR's
rules, by disguissing the radiating systems as beautiful bird feeders,
flagpoles and even as fake power company overhead distribution lines.
Flagpoles , when made of high mechanical resistance plastic materials
can serve as the housing, or radome speaking in more proper engineering
terms, for very nice multi band vertical antenna systems. And don't
forget that an elevated bird feeder can provide support for two
antennas.... the support pole works as a HF bands vertical, typically
able to operate from 40 to 10 meters, and at the top of the antenna, by
means of proper decoupling you can install a 2 meters band or 70
centimeters band omnidirectional antenna to access distant repeaters
that can't be reached using the handie talkie's small compact rubber
covered antenna.
Last but not least, experiments with underground antennas have provided
a lot of valuable information about how they work, and be aware that an
underground antenna about a meter below the garden may work quite well
according to results obtained by amateur radio operators in Austria and
Germany.
Standby for more radio hobby related information, coming to you from
Havana, that will follow after a short break for station ID. I am Arnie
Coro in Havana.
......
You are listening to Radio Havana Cuba, the name of the show is Dxers
Unlimited, and here is item three of today's weekend program... for all
practical purposes the winter sporadic E season of the northern
hemisphere is coming to an end, but I
still see reports of E skip openings happening over Europe , especially
around the Mediterranean region... The spring-summer sporadic E DX
season will start at the end of April, and will last until August, with
the peak happening between the end of May and mid July. Sporadic E
clouds provide amazing DX on frequencies that can reach as high as 200
megaHertz, but more typically are in the range between 25 and 60
megaHertz. At frequencies higher than about 100 megaHertz, sporadic E DX
is not as frequently seen as events happening on the lower frequencies.
One interesting fact about sporadic E DX is that the ionization of those
clouds is so intense that very low power stations can be picked up with
amazingly strong signals at distances of up to two thousand kilometers
that correspond to the geometry of the sporadic E single hop propagation
path.
Item four: Homebrewing radio equipment was once practically the only way
that amateurs could own and operate a ham radio station... but nowadays,
the standard practice seems to be just to go to a store and buy a brand
new super sophisticated receiver or transceiver... or if the amateur is
on a shoestring budget , they just look around at hamfests for used
equipment in good shape, or that can be repaired. But now, the option of
homebrewing radio gear is winning back more and more supporters, and the
presence of some extremely nice kits with very well written and
illustrated instruction books is making possible for the more advanced
radio amateurs to assemble extremely nice transceivers that offer equal
or better performance than off the shelf equipment. Another option is
homebrewing from scratch, and that one is also winning more and more
enthusiastic hobbysts that enjoy such wonderful project as designing and
assembling ultra low power transmitters, like a recent microwatt power
tunnel diode transmitter that has already make possible two way contacts
on the 80 meters amateur band during peak propagation periods.
Homebrewing radios requires some unique skills like learning how to read
and interpret circuit diagrams, how to solder, and also how to design
and make printed circuits, but I must add that some of my nicest
homebrew projects were made using point to point wiring techniques and
they work very well. The two best examples of such homebrew projects are
my REGENERODYNE R-7 receiver project, and the SUPER ISLANDER, a double
sideband and CW transceiver that has become very popular among Cuban
radio amateurs. Both use point to point wiring, and in the case of some
of the Mark II and III versions of the Super Islander's the VFO is now
built on a high quality fibreglass circuit board with excellent results.
Si amigos , yes my friends, oui mes amis, homebrewing radios, or
assembling nice radio kits is one of the many aspects of our hobby that
provides double enjoyment... first you have a nice time when building
the equipment, and then when using it, the unique experience of
listening to or communicating with a radio that you have built is
something ... well , unique !!!
.....
QSL on the air , QSL on the air, to the many Radio Havana Cuba listeners
that have sent New Year's good wishes to us... Muchas gracias amigos,
and yes, we have sent out lots of pocket calendars for 2008 to a long
list of regular RHC listeners that send reports to us ... Now here is
item five: -
Digital amateur radio communications is on the rise, due to a number of
very interesting and coincidental factors. First of all, there are more
computers available now than ever before, and the fact is that older
machines can handle amateur radio digital modes very well, maybe not all
of them , but some of the more popular ones can be operated using
semi-retired laptop or desktop machines that may not be fit to handle
today's super sophisticated graphics and other new software. Using the
LINUX operating system on Pentium I and II machines, it is possible to
operate using PSK31, the most popular keyboard to keyboard
communications mode . PSK31 is so efficient that it works under rather
poor HF propagation conditions and while running low power, and that has
made it very attractive to a generation of new amateurs that are also
very good typists, because they grew up with computers from elementary
and junior high school days... Watching PSK31 contacts on the popular
twenty meters band frequency of 14.070 you can see that many of the
operators are really good at typing and can make some very nice two way
QSO's using that mode while running between 10 and a maximum of 50
Watts, with the typical station operating at around 25 Watts and with a
modest antenna, like a quarter wave vertical or a half wave wire dipole.
As I said a while ago, the evolution of amateur radio into the digital
world is a really interesting phenomena to watch, including the
development of ultra sophisticated digital communications modes that are
the brainchild of a radio amateur that also happens to be a Nobel Prize
laureate !!!
More about the advanced digital modes in an upcomind edition of Dxers
Unlimited, so if you have an old computer that is still operational and
you can't find a job for it, keep it ready to install LINUX and a
digital modes software package that works very well with several LINUX
operating system distributions...
.....
From Havana, this is Dxers Unlimited, our station's radio hobby
program... and now here is item six ... playing with my little Grundig
FR-200 recycle power radio recently, I decided to add two modifications
that have proven to be an excellent addition to this small analog
portable receiver that has its own electric generator so that it can be
kept running even when you can't charge the batteries from the power
line. The crank up generator works very well and I was able to modify
the circuit so that it will recharge the three double AA batteries
instead of recharging a small battery pack . By spending about 10
minutes cranking power to the batteries, the radio works for more than
one hour. The other modification consisted of stuffing in a beat
frequency oscillator and a bandspread circuit.
So now I can pick up 40 meter band amateur radio stations that operate
on CW Morse radio telegraphy and single side band voice, something that
was impossible with the original FR200 recycle power radio. And, a
reminder, about two years ago, I was able to replace the incandescent
light bulb of the radio's flash light with a cluster of three white
light emitting diodes, that as expected produce a much better light
output while using about half the electricity from the batteries.
Fitting the BFO on off switch and BFO frequency control was not too a
too difficult job, but finding the right place for the electrical
bandspread was more of a challenge. I believe that Grundig now under the
name of ETON is selling a similar radio as the old FR200 with the light
emitting high intensity flash light already, but that the receiver still
lacks a better bandspread than the one available on the original model.
By the way, by changing just one transistor on the FR200 I increased its
sensitivity a lot, but this is a modification I won't recommend to
beginners as it can be described as state of the art electronics
microsurgery !!!
...
And now amigos, as always, your comments about this program are invited
... and most welcome.. send them to [EMAIL PROTECTED] or VIA AIR MAIL to
Arnie Coro , Radio Havana Cuba, Havana, Cuba... Ready to copy, here is
our exclusive and not copyrighted HF plus low band VHF propagation
update and forecast... Solar flux again at rock bottom levels, sunspot
count is ZERO, again for the past three days a totally blank solar disk,
and the daytime maximum useable frequencies are barely making it up to
21 megaHertz at the peak times. Nightime propagation , in contrast, is
excellent on our hemisphere , from the long wave broadcast band all the
way up to around six or seven megaHertz, so enjoy low frequency DX
before cycle 24's sunspots begin to spoil it !!! See you all at the mid
week edition of the program next Tuesday and Wednesday UTC days amigos !!!
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Message: 13
Date: Sun, 13 Jan 2008 16:08:25 +0200
From: "Zacharias Liangas " <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: [HCDX] 9290 Firedrake
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9290 Firedrake has been heard from 1250 with signal S3 and continues
past 1300 .and goes past 1400 co QRMing with EMR/LT
Liangas 13.1.8
Jamming against whom? ________________________
http://zliangas.blogspot.com (radio tech , gadgets, grk ethics)
http://zlgr.multiply.com (radio monitoring site plus audio clips ) MAIN SITE
http://www.worldisround.com/articles/302315/ (Litohoro) 321199/Tinos
http://www.flickr.com/photos/zachgr pictures upload
http://www.geocities.com/zliangas
........
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: 14
Date: Sun, 13 Jan 2008 17:10:25 +0100
From: "Nils Schiffhauer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: [HCDX] 60 mb: New Perseus audio files
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Hallo - please find some eleven new audio files at 4share (see below,
password: a-dx).
They stem from a 400 kHz portion as of tonight, and they all are demodulated
with Perseus' SAM decoder, mostly "AGC OFF". Listening in the tropical bands
for nearly 40 years, I hardly can remember such an excellent intelligibility
of so differently modulated DX station. Standing ovations to Nico!
The stations are:
4.770: NBC Kaduna, local ID in E, "nine o'clock", slowly in E, very low
modulation
4.780: Cultura Caotan, GTM: weak, low modulation, but clear ID
4.800: AIR Hyderabad: ID during a short pause of co-channel CNR1, rarely
hear better
4.800: CNR1: better than in my hotel room in Xi'an
4.910: AIR Jaipur, ID clearly intelligible for everyone (that's rare!)
4.920: PBS Xizang, ID 2 x also in E. Nevery heard better.
4.930: Turkmen Radio, ID, LSB with carrier
4.940: AIR Gawahati, ID, rarely better
4.965: AIR Shimla, "Hallo, Akashvani Kashmir Shimla he he"
5.040: Fujian PBS with 10 kW and ID in C; also on 4.900 kHz?
5.050: Voice of Straits, ID in C: "Haixia zhi Sheng Guangbo Diantai"
File names should be self-explanatory. If you click "Time", the new files
are automatically seen in the beginning.
Your comments are highly welcomed!
73 Nils, DK8OK
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Empf?nger: Perseus & SDR-14
Antenne: 42 m lange Windom von DX-Wire, ca. 8 m hoch & DX-One
Ort: Burgdorf, bei Hannover
Reinh?ren: http://www.4shared.com/dir/5128695/9f289e7a/sharing.html
Password: a-dx
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Message: 15
Date: Sun, 13 Jan 2008 17:37:59 -0500
From: "Dave Valko" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: [HCDX] Papua New Guinea
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PAPUA NEW GUINEA 3345 R. Northern 1117 Lively Island and Pop mx.
Including a remake of Abbas "I Have a Dream" W anncr pgm host after just
about every song. 1256 end of Island song, then same W anncr w/ID and
closing anmnt w/freq and morning s/on time. Little ToH tinkly melody at
1258. Still going at 1304, but OC at 1306 check. (Valko 12 Jan.)
PAPUA NEW GUINEA 3290 R. Central 1156 "The Lady in Red" by Chris DeBurgh.
W anncr w/very short closing anmnt including an ID, then instru. NA from
1158-1159. Carrier still on at 1255 check. (Valko 12 Jan.)
PAPUA NEW GUINEA 3334.97 R. East Sepik 1233 end of Rock-like song, then M
anncr w/tlk 1234-1236, and possible live remote. 1238 back to mx. Remote
cont. at 1239 w/tlk by child and M. 1245 studio M anncr after island song.
1247 M anncr w/phone caller. Phone callers audio was much stronger than M
anncrs. Reggae song at1259. Diff. M at 1300. 1301-1302 studio M anncr
w/prob. closing anmnt w/ment of broadcast. 1302-1303 short instru. NA, then
NBC nat. nx by M. Went off at 1305:43*. Fair but a lot of CHU slop-over
QRM. (Valko 12 Jan.)
73 Dave
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Message: 16
Date: Sun, 13 Jan 2008 23:05:02 +0000
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Message: 17
Date: Sun, 13 Jan 2008 17:37:51 -0600
From: "Jim Pogue" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: [HCDX] BTC 2007-2008 Mid-Season Report - Jan. 13, 2008
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BTC 2007-2008 Mid-Season Report - Jan. 13, 2008
We are currently at approximately the mid-point of the 2007-2008
medium wave DX season, and it seems like a good time to give you an interim
report on the work of your Broadcast Test Committee.
As you can probably guess, many hours of work goes into contacting
stations, scheduling and arranging tests, and making sure all the loose ends
get tied up after the test actually runs.
So far this season, the committee has contacted roughly 188
different stations in the United States and Canada with requests for DX
tests. The majority of these stations were approached by sending a request
package to a specific individual there, and included a detailed letter, a
brochure about our hobby, a couple of maps showing the coverage success of
some previous tests, copies of the two stories that ran in the local press
about the WLPO test and an SASE. The list of stations, compiled by committee
member J.D. Stephens, was taken primarily from club bulletins reporting
individuals who were good verifiers or who had otherwise demonstrated a
friendly attitude toward DXers.
From these nearly 200 stations contacted, we received positive
responses from 11 stations. Admittedly, not a particularly great return
rate, but as most of us know, we are up against a lot of challenges in
trying to get stations to test in the current broadcasting environment. In
any case, we are very thankful to those stations who have agreed to test for
us.
One of the goals I set when I took over the position as BTC
Coordinator was to use current technology as much as possible to improve the
delivery of information to DXers. Committee member Brandon Jordan already
had the highly successful and useful DXTests.info Web site up and running,
and we have continued to use it to deliver timely and accurate information
on tests.
Another of our committee members and a decorated veteran of the
CPC/BTC arena, J.D. Stephens, has broken new ground with the BTC Podcast.
J.D. has done seven of these very informative presentations so far, all in
an extremely professional and entertaining manner.
Looking ahead to the rest of the season, I am preparing request
packages for about another 40 stations. Additionally, a couple of our
committee members are working on direct contacts with stations in hopes of
scheduling tests by them in the near future. And we are still trying to nail
down dates and times with a few other stations who have agreed in principle
to test. We'll announce details on all these just as soon as we are able to
firm them up.
This brings me to a couple of requests I'd like to make of you in
the DX community. First, "cold call" requests for DX tests is just one part
of this process. Although we have "official" members of our committee, I
like to think of everyone who listens for the tests as potential ex officio
members.
So, if you work at a station, if you have a friend or acquaintance
who works at a station in your area, or would just like an excuse to meet
your local chief engineer or station manager, why not approach them about
the possibility of a test? Since station engineering personnel are often
hams, if you are also a ham, this may be an area of common interest where
your paths cross.
If you make an initial contact with a station and they seem
interested, please pass the info along to me. I'll be happy to make an
official contact with the station and send them a request package.
Second, as you can probably imagine, mailing out requests to
stations is a somewhat costly enterprise. Each package requires about $1 in
postage plus the cost of the stamp for the SASE. In addition to this is the
cost of the envelopes used, and paper for printing letters and other items.
Contributions of stamps or cash to aid in this work would be very
helpful. I'll be happy to send a receipt to anyone who needs one, and will
make a full accounting of all contributions and expenditures in my end of
the season report. Thanks in advance for any such financial assistance you
can provide.
The DX test season is now roughly half over. Although we currently
only have one additional test on the calendar, please rest assured that your
committee is still hard at work. But with numbers comes strength. If you can
help get the ball rolling on a test from a station in your area, we
gratefully welcome your help.
In conclusion, I send my sincere thanks to fellow committee members:
J.D. Stephens, Brandon Jordan, Joe Miller, Paul Walker and our newest member
Saul Chernos. They each bring special talents and capabilities to our
efforts, and I am very honored to work with all of them.
Please consider doing your part to open the doors for a test from a
station in your area. Working together, I believe we can get many more tests
on the calendar, stations in our logbooks and QSLs in our collections.
Thanks and 73s,
Jim Pogue/KH2AR
IRCA/NRC Joint BTC Coordinator
P.O. Box 3777
Memphis, TN 38173-0777
PH: (901) 828-0152
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