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Today's Topics:
1. logs (Maurits Van Driessche)
2. logs (Lucio Otavio Bobrowiec)
3. Some tips (Giampiero Bernardini)
4. Re: Dxers Unlimited?s weekend edition for 1 -2 March 2007
(Prof. Arnaldo Coro Antich)
5. Ultimas escuchas (JOSE MIGUEL ROMERO ROMERO)
6. HCDX logs between 2008-03-01 0000 UTC and 2008-03-02 0000 UTC
(Risto Kotalampi)
7. March 1 Logs ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
8. Couple late night logs ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
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Message: 1
Date: Sat, 1 Mar 2008 11:21:29 +0100
From: "Maurits Van Driessche" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: [HCDX] logs
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Hard-core"
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Tropicalband
4955khz r.Cultural Amanta,Huanta PRU 1/3 0134utc Local news from Peru
fair 33222
4857.46khz r.La Hora ,Cusco PRU 1/3 0147utc Full id as "La Hora" +
mx. 33332
4790.08khz r.Viscion,Chiclayo PRU 1/3 0200utc Relig. px. with nice
songs + id good 33333
4779.98khz r.Cultural Coat?n,San S. GTM 1/3 0217utc ID and info 33333
4545.44khz r.Virgen de Remedios,Tupiza BOL 1/3 0231utc Weak songs
codar qrm 32222
3329.60khz Ondas d Huallaga,Hu?nuco PRU 1/3 0247utc male and female in
conversation weak but fair 22222
4865.05khz r.Logos ,Santa Cruz de La Sierra BOL 1/3 0001utc Nice mx. id
confirms via yahoo in brazil (thanks) 33333
Shortwave
5910.07khz Marfil Est?reo,Lomalinda CLM 29/2 2221utc Nice Clm.music
v. good 44444
5952.45khz Em Pio XII,Siglo Viente BOL 29/2 2237utc ID and local info
qrm splatter fair 33222
9720.03khz r.Victoria,Lima PRU 29/2 2253utc Holy speech from priest
good 34333
9624.86khz r.Fides ,La Paz BOL 1/3 ID weak 22222 0007utc
9515khz r.Novas de Paz,Curitiba B 1/3 0021utc About the president
fair 23332 0021utc
6035khz LV Guaviare,S.J.,Guaviare CLM 1/3 ID and typ. music good
34333 0109utc
5939.27khz r.Melodia,Arequipa PRU 1/3 Weak talks -2222 0121utc
6134.80khz r.Santa Cruz ,Santa Cruz BOL 1/3 0257utc ID and good mx.
33333
Gr. Maurits from Belgium
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Message: 2
Date: Sat, 1 Mar 2008 15:28:47 -0300
From: "Lucio Otavio Bobrowiec" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: [HCDX] logs
To: <[email protected]>
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9705KHz Niger-Voix du Sahel(tent.)-Niamey 02/29 French 1905-1917 long segments
male talks,1910 short music, male and female anmts.Weak 23322 (LOB-B).
4800KHz Mexico - XERTA(tent.) M?xico City 03/01 Spanish 0353 maybe local
music, 0356 male and female talks, 0413 music. Sounds like Spanish by
intonation and pattern speech, very weak 23322 (LOB-B).
73's
Lucio Otavio Bobrowiec
Embu SP Brasil (23 39 S, 46 52 W)
Sony ICF SW40
dipole 18m, 32m
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Message: 3
Date: Fri, 29 Feb 2008 22:22:17 +0100
From: "Giampiero Bernardini" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: [HCDX] Some tips
To: "HCDX" <[email protected]>
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Some tips made in Bocca di Magra (La Spezia, North Italy) with Perseus and LFL
1010 Wellbrook:
6300 20.40 24/2 R.N. Saharui CLA via Algeria Songs, good
6973 2049 24/2 Galei Zahal Israel Reports, good
6985 2045 24/2 KOL Israel Talks in Russian, good
9500 2100 24/2 Radio Australia Australia News, EE, Fair
9535 2102 24/2 R. Thailand Thailand Talks like reports, Thai, very good
9550 2106 24/2 Voice of Vietnam Vietnam FF reports //9730 fair
9580 2209 24/2 Radio Africa n.1 Gabon FF talks and songs, fair
9675 2112 24/12 Cancao Nova Brazil Holy Rosary, fair
9705 2114 24/2 La Voix du Sahel Niger FF talks, songs, fair
9720 2130 24/2 AWR Guams.on, id, good
9730 2117 24/2 Voice of Vietnam Vietnam FF reports //9550
11880 2052 24/2 Radio Australia Australia Reports, EE, fair
11900 2055 24/2 Radio Free Asia Mariana Isl. Ch, jammed, poor
11930 2057 24/2 Radio Mart? CLA Songs, politics, SS, fair
SW Blog: http://radiodxsw.blogspot.com/
Ciao
Giampiero
Giampiero Bernardini
Milano
Italia
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Message: 4
Date: Sat, 01 Mar 2008 10:12:18 -0500
From: "Prof. Arnaldo Coro Antich" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: [HCDX] Dxers Unlimited?s weekend edition for 1 -2 March
2007
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], HCDX <[email protected]>,
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Radio Havana Cuba
Dxers Unlimited?s weekend edition for 1 ? 2 March 2008
By Arnie Coro, radio amateur CO2KK
Hi amigos radio aficionados around the world and orbiting Planet Earth?
welcome to the weekend edition of Dxers Unlimited, reaching you while
the Sun is in a very quiet state, zero sunspots, a blank Sun once again,
after a lonely solar cycle 23 sunspot vanished behind at the edge of the
solar disk... By the way, this sunspot group , number 983, forms part of
cycle 23, something that can be affirmed because of its very near the
solar Equator position. So once again we are entering into another
period of very, very low solar activity that belongs to the tail end of
cycle 23? Item two: for those of you located at latitudes above 40
degrees North, there are chances of geomagnetic disturbances caused by a
high speed solar wind, and it those disturbances do happen, AM medium
wave broadcast band Dxing enthusiasts will once again be able to pick
some really nice DX stations located South of your location?
Item three: Ionospheric oblique incidence sounders of the type known as
chirp sounders, have confirmed that during the extended periods of very
low solar activity, the nighttime maximum useable frequency has gone
down to around 5 megahertz, yes, you heard it right, 5 megahertz for
several hours, something that only happens during extremely low solar
activity ?
Item four: QSL on the air, QSL on the air to Dxers Unlimited?s listeners
that have sent e mail messages to arnie at rhc dot cu asking when we are
going to see better propagation conditions for the high frequency short
wave bands? AND THE ANSWER IS : probably , not before the end of 2008,
and if you discuss this topic with some solar experts, they will tell
you that the end of cycle 23 is extending much further than any of the
many forecasts made during the past two years? So, as the 2008 Northern
Hemisphere spring equinox approaches, we will definitely still be
experiencing very low solar activity and poor HF propagation conditions?
Stay tuned for more radio hobby related information, coming from Havana,
I am Arnie Coro, radio amateur CO2KK, back with you in a few seconds
amigos!!!
??
You are listening to Radio Havana Cuba, the name of the show is Dxers
Unlimited, and here is item five of today?s program? more information
about homebrew radios and tips about building them. For the past five or
six years, I have been involved in the development of amateur radio
transceivers, that is a ham radio station that is self contained in a
single package, with some circuits that are shared between the receive
and transmit functions. That?s a nice way of saving some components, and
these radios are different from transmitter ? receiver sets, that have
completely self contained receivers and transmitters in the same box.
Transceivers are of course more compact and they offer the advantage of
single knob tuning. If your set is a transmitter ? receiver, you will
have to deal with two tuning knobs, separate tuning for the
transmitter?s frequency and the receiver?s frequency? Well, the latest
version of my low cost, simple transceiver, is now well under way, with
many nice features that include a separate power supply. This new
version of the Super Islander single band amateur transceiver is capable
of running up to 50 Watts power input to the final amplifier stage,
something that I have found to be necessary during this extended period
of very low solar activity and poor propagation conditions.
The Super Islander MARK THREE follows the modular construction technique
that has proven to be so successful in past projects, as one can test
the modules as they are built, and if you want to upgrade a module, it
is a very easy task to replace an old one and install the new upgraded
module. The Super Islander Mark Three is a very flexible design,
something that was necessary so that those who homebrew them may make
the best possible use of whatever electronic components they have at
hand. As a matter of fact, the Super Islander Mark Three can best be
described as the ultimate in modular construction flexibility, with the
design making possible for builders to change modules very easily and
test upgrades, while , in case something goes wrong, one can just go
back to the previous configuration of the transceiver. Maybe in the not
too distant future, a complete kit o the Super Islander Mark Three may
be made available by the Cuban Electronic Industry, which is now
producing high technology medical diagnostic equipment that is used not
only by the Cuban Public Health System, but that is also sold to many
countries around the world. The Cuban Electronic Industry has the know
how and equipment to produce high quality printed circuits, of the type
required for amateur radio equipment, so a transceiver kit produced here
in Cuba could be made available at much lower cost than a commercially
assembled one? In the meantime, we continue to test our designs, and I
can tell you that the results achieved so far with the receiver section
of the Super Islander Mark Three design are very encouraging.
Now here is item six: Our number one most popular section of the program
YOU have questions and Arnie answers them? I do receive lots of radio
hobby related questions every week that are sent to arnie at rhc. Dot cu
, or reach me via air mail postcards and letters sent to Arnie Coro,
Radio Havana Cuba, Havana, Cuba?Many are answered immediately from a
computer data base, while others require individual answers because of
their nature, like the one that came in on Wednesday of this week asking
about how one could tell if a transistor could be used as a radio
frequency amplifier at some specific band of frequencies. Well amigo
Oliver from Liverpool, England, as a very good friend of mine says, when
trying to find if a particular solid state device would work, or won?t
work as an amplifier at a specific band of frequencies you have to deal
with two options: one try to obtain the original manufacturers
information data, and if possible even their original test circuits, and
if that is not possible, then just go the long way around and assemble a
test jig, that will allow you to actually test the operation of the
device under conditions that are as identical as possible as how it will
operate when used by your design. Having access, for example, to a
sophisticated instrument known as a transistor curve tracer will
simplify your work, but there are some nice little tricks of the trade
that can be put to very good use? For example, I have a test jig that
uses a quarts crystal overtone oscillator circuit that can operate with
crystals of the third and fifth overtone types? A transistor that will
oscillate with the one hundred and ten megahertz fifth overtone crystal
will certainly be a good amplifier device on frequencies up to around 20
megahertz or so? And my test jig has a very simple power output meter
that serves as a very good indicator to show the actual gain of each
transistor under test at the specific frequency? It is then very easy to
choose the best devices for the most critical applications amigos !!!
There are many homebrew test instruments that will help you a lot
Oliver, like a grid dip meter, a simple signal generator, and of course,
a high quality digital millimeter that is nowadays an essential test
instrument that should be in every radio hobby enthusiast tool box!!!
?..
Amigos you are listening to the weekend edition of Dxers Unlimited, our
twice weekly radio hobby program, here is now item seven? An antenna
topic, that is today combined with Ask Arnie, as this second question to
be answered here today has to do with antennas. Listener Jennifer from
Arkansas , USA, tells me that she lives at a downtown location, where
the radio noise level is high. Arnie, she says in her e-mail, I can
easily tell the presence of several computers, which are turned off late
at night, as the noise level drops everyday like clockwork around
midnight? And Jennifer asks what type of antenna can be used to minimize
the noise coming from the computers. Well amiga Jennifer my advice is
for you to buy or homebrew a magnetic loop antenna, which according to
all the tests that I have done here provides the best option as regards
to canceling noise sources that come from a specific location. BUT, let
me warn you that if the computers generating the harmful radio
interference are located all around you, it is going to be very
difficult to cancel the noise. In any case, if you keep using your
radio?s telescopic whip, you will notice that the computer generated
noise is high, if you switch to an outdoor balanced dipole fed via a
balun and coaxial double shielded downlead, the noise will go down,
especially if you place the dipole so as to minimize the signal from the
noise source, but as I said earlier, a tunable magnetic loop that can be
turned around will provide the best possible cancellation of radio
frequency noise sources that originate in your immediate vicinity?
Professionally built, remotely tuned magnetic loops capable of operating
between 10 and 30 megahertz are available from several manufacturers,
similar magnetic loops for the frequency range 3 to 10 megahertz are
also available, but they are much more expensive and harder to find?
Home brewing a simple receive only magnetic loop is something that the
average radio hobby enthusiast can accomplish following the many
construction projects available from several Internet websites?After
some practice and experiments, I am sure amiga Jennifer that with a few
hand tools and thee help of a more experienced short wave listener or
radio amateur you can homebrew your magnetic loop and install it so that
your reception will improve. I have already sent you several photos and
drawings of magnetic loops, just to give you an idea about how they look
and how easily the receive only versions can be assembled using readily
available materials...
And now amigos, as always at the end of the program here is your
friend?s Arnie Coro CO2KK HF propagation update and forecast? Its freely
available for distribution , of course? Solar activity again at rock
bottom levels, some surprising and not expected Sporadic E events have
happened during the past week at a time that according to past records
they are much less frequent, so keep a good watch on frequencies above
20 megahertz for signs of short skip that indicate the presence of
Sporadic E clouds. Solar flux hovering around 70 units, no sunspots in
sight and the high speed solar wind hitting the Earth?s magnetosphere is
now slowing up, so the geomagnetic disturbance indicator is now moving
back to normal values. See you all at the midweek edition of Dxers
Unlimited, on the air Tuesday and Wednesday UTC days, and don?t forget
to send an e-mail with your reception report and any radio hobby
questions that you may want to ask to me? send mail to arnie at rhc dot
cu, or VIA AIR MAIL to Arnie Coro, Radio Havana Cuba, Havana, Cuba
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Message: 5
Date: Sat, 1 Mar 2008 21:51:15 +0100 (CET)
From: JOSE MIGUEL ROMERO ROMERO <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: [HCDX] Ultimas escuchas
To: Frecuencia DX <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Saludos cordiales.
DJIBOUTI 4780 Radio Djibouti, 19:57-20:01, escuchada el 1 de marzo en
dialecto africano sin identificar, locutora con entrevista a invitado, segmento
musical, locutor con cu?a, SINPO 34433.
ISRAEL 6973 Galei Zahal, 19:15-19:25, escuchada el 1 de marzo en hebreo a
locutor con comentarios en programa musical, temas de m?sica pop mel?dica
hebrea, SINPO 45544.
UGANDA 4976 Radio Uganda, 20:03-20:10, escuchada el 1 de marzo en ingl?s a
locutora con comentarios presentando tema musical, pieza de extra?a m?sica
instrumental, locutor con cu?a ?..program...thi?s ..Uganda..?, m?sica de
tambores con ritmo africano, SINPO 34433.
Pirata:
6325 NO ID, 19:53-19:57, escuchada el 1 de marzo, emisi?n de m?sica pop,
SINPO 22242
Spy Numbers.
4880 ULX 2, 20:02, S-3
5980 CW NO ID, 19:43, S-3.
6900 USB E03, ingl?s, emisi?n de n?meros, 19:26 UTC, S-3
Jos? Miguel Romero
Burjasot (Valencia)
Sangean ATS 909
Antena Radio Master A-108
YAESU FRG-7700
WRTH 2008, Passport 2008, Klingenfuss 2007-2008.
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Entra en Yahoo! Respuestas.
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Message: 6
Date: Sat, 1 Mar 2008 23:05:01 +0000
From: Risto Kotalampi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: [HCDX] HCDX logs between 2008-03-01 0000 UTC and 2008-03-02
0000 UTC
To: [email protected]
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Message: 7
Date: Sat, 1 Mar 2008 19:58:08 EST
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [HCDX] March 1 Logs
To: [email protected]
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**BRAZIL. 6039.60, Radio Clube Paranaense, Curitiba, 0830-0900,
March 1, Portuguese talk. Tentative. Slightly off nom 6040. Poor to
fair in noisy conditions. (Brian Alexander, PA)
**CONGO DR. via SOUTH AFRICA. 9635, Radio Okapi, via Meyerton,
*0400-0420, March 1, French & vernacular talk. "Okapi" jingles.
Fair. (Brian Alexander, PA)
**DJIBOUTI. 4780, Radio Djibouti, 0304-0330, March 1, audible after
Guatemala?s Radio Coatan signs off on 4779.97 at 0304. Djibouti
heard with Koran. Arabic talk at 0311. Horn of Africa music at 0325.
Poor. Weak with CODAR QRM, but improved to a fair level by 0325.
(Brian Alexander, PA)
**GUATEMALA. 4799.79, Radio Buenas Nuevas, 0400-0430*,
March 1, religious talk in local language. Local religious music.
Spanish closing ID announcements at 0428. Poor to fair with weak
het from presumed Mexico on 4800. No CODAR for a change!
(Brian Alexander, PA)
**HONDURAS. 3250.05, Radio Luz y Vida, San Luis, 0345-0355*,
March 1, Spanish religious talk. Spanish religious music. Closing
ID announcements at 0353 followed by National Anthem. Poor.
Weak in noisy conditions. (Brian Alexander, PA)
**MEXICO. 9599.26, Radio UNAM, Mexico City, 2250-2315, March 1,
classical music. IDs at 2301, 2302 & into Spanish talk. Fair signal
but QRM from Vatican Radio 9600 at their 2314 sign on. Must use
ECSS-LSB to avoid Vatican Radio at that time. (Brian Alexander, PA)
**************Ideas to please picky eaters. Watch video on AOL Living.
(http://living.aol.com/video/how-to-please-your-picky-eater/rachel-campos-duffy/
2050827?NCID=aolcmp00300000002598)
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Message: 8
Date: Sun, 2 Mar 2008 03:39:23 -0000
From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: [HCDX] Couple late night logs
To: "Shortwaveworld Shortwaveworld Shortwaveworld"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Robert
Wilkner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Logs DSWCI Logs DSWCI Logs DSWCI"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Ivan_Lebedevsky" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
<[email protected]>, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
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Swaziland, 3240, Trans World Radio, Swaziland, 0257-0315, Noted chimes prior
to the hour with an ID in English by a male every 20 seconds or so, "This is
Trans World Radio, Swaziland". On the hour programming begins in possibly
Swahili language comments. Then Hilife music starts too. Signal was fair.
(Chuck Bolland, March 2, 2008)
South Africa, 3320, Radio Sondergrense, 0311-0320, At tune in, heard steady
music under QRM. Music continues even under the QRM, while the signal stays
at a fair level. (Chuck
Bolland, March 2, 2008)
Costa Rica (non), 3350, Radio Exterior Espana, 0320-0330, Noted a male and
female in
Spanish language news and commentary about Spain. Signal was good. (Chuck
Bolland,
March 2, 2008)
Clewiston, Florida
R-390A. I am finding the R-390A to be an excellent DX machine eventhough it
doesn't have all of the bells and whistles that other receivers may have. I
stuck a
Timewave DSP-599zx at the hot end(AF) of the R-390A which gave me some
control over the audio and this has renewed my pleasure using the R-390A.
Try http://www.orchidcitysoftware.com/IMAGE59,HTML for free database
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