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Today's Topics:
1. Ultimas escuchas (JOSE MIGUEL ROMERO ROMERO)
2. Haagstad Radio (David Onley)
3. Re: Dxers Unlimited?s mid week edition for 11-12 March 2008
(Prof. Arnaldo Coro Antich)
4. log (DXman)
5. WNTP DX test barely heard in OK (Glenn Hauser)
6. Logs from NH-USA, Mar 12-14 (Scott R. Barbour Jr.)
7. EMR Relay this Sunday (tom taylor)
8. HCDX logs between 2008-03-15 0000 UTC and 2008-03-16 0000 UTC
(Risto Kotalampi)
9. March 15-16 Logs ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
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Message: 1
Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2008 07:48:22 +0100 (CET)
From: JOSE MIGUEL ROMERO ROMERO <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: [HCDX] Ultimas escuchas
To: Frecuencia DX <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Saludos cordiales.
ARGELIA 6300 Radio Nacional Saharaui, 22:50-23:00, escuchada el 13 de marzo
en ?rabe con emisi?n de m?sica folkl?rica local con referencias al Sahara,
SINPO 45444.
6300 Radio Nacional saharaui, 23:00-23:10, escuchada el 13 de marzo en
espa?ol, locutor con presentaci?n, identificaci?n, tertulia sobre la situaci?n
de Marruecos, ?Literalmente en Marruecos la gente se muere de hambre...?,
referencias a ?La Memoria hist?rica?, SINPO 44343.
BRASIL 4885 Radio Clube do Para, 06:25-06:30, escuchada el 14 de marzo en
portugu?s a locutor con presentando tema musical, emisi?n de m?sica brasile?a,
SINPO 34333.
CHAD 4905 Radio N?Djamena, 06:30-06:33, escuchada el 14 de marzo en dialecto
africano a locutor con comentarios, SINPO 32232
CHINA 4750 PBS Qhinghai, 22:35-22:40, escuchada el 13 de marzo en idioma
chino a locutor y locutora con comentarios, SINPO 33342
4800 CNR 1, 22:43-22:45, escuchada el 13 de marzo a locutor y locutora en una
especia de lecci?n o curso de idiomas, frases muy repetitivas, SINPO 35443.
CUBA 5025 Radio Rebelde, 06:35-06:45, escuchada el 14 de marzo en espa?ol a
locutora presentando temas musicales, emisi?n de m?sica mel?dica, SINPO 45343
GHANA 4915 Ghana BC1, 06:33-06:35, escuchada el 14 de marzo con emisi?n de
m?sica afro, SINPO 24232
NIGERIA 4770 Radio Nigeria Kaduna, 22:40-22:43, escuchada el 13 de marzo con
emisi?n de m?sica pop mel?dica con coros, el nivel de audio muy bajo, SINPO
35443.
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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Message: 2
Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2008 16:02:05 +0100
From: David Onley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: [HCDX] Haagstad Radio
To: MW Circle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Haagstad Radio in Rijswijk NL continues to broadcast on 1485 despite losing
it's licence.
I'm not sure if they have permission to stay here with their Indian
programming until Radio Marina starts on the channel. But get it while you can.
I see R.Marina want to broadcast from Den Haag and a site in the north
of NL.
Dave
Pijnacker NL
http://home.caiway.nl/~matthew1/
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Message: 3
Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2008 18:37:04 -0500
From: "Prof. Arnaldo Coro Antich" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: [HCDX] Dxers Unlimited?s mid week edition for 11-12 March
2008
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], HCDX <[email protected]>, Gayle
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Radio Havana Cuba
Dxers Unlimited
Dxers Unlimited?s mid week edition for 11-12 March 2008
By Arnie Coro
Radio amateur CO2KK
Hi amigos radioaficionados ... with our now traditional salute, we are
saying hello to radio hobby enthusiasts around the world from sunny
Havana, Cuba. I am Arnie Coro, radio amateur CO2KK, inviting youth to
join me for about seventeen minutes of on the air and also on the web
time, plus the now regular option of reading the scripts of this program
by subscribing one of several Internet radio hobby mailing lists.
Here is today's show first item...Another week of very little solar
activity reported by scientists, who continue to wait for the expected
increase in the number of sunspots from the new cycle. So far, the new
sunspots are just missing, and the daily solar microwave flux continues
to be at extremely low levels. Item two: Just a few days away from the
spring equinox here in the Northern Hemisphere, and already we are
seeing somewhat better propagation conditions especially just before
sunrise and just after sunset local time. Item three: Cuban radio
amateurs began the new training program during the weekend, at my local
club, the Plaza Radio Club we had a very nice meeting and the group of
newcomers to the hobby started to receive their lessons in electronics,
rules and regulations, radio wave propagation and communications
procedures. The training course is programmed to last until May and the
radio amateur operator's tests will take place in June.
The Radio Amateurs Academy as this program is known counts with
experienced certified instructors selected among the nation's first
class operators, the ones that are on the air with the CO, the Charlie
Oscar prefix. Cuba has four prefixes for its stations registered at the
ITU, that include CL, used or the beginner's license, the CM
intermediate class amateurs , CO used for the first class licensees and
the T4 prefix that is only assigned to special event stations.
More about our wonderful radio hobby here in Cuba and in the world after
a short break for station ID... I am Arnie Coro, radio amateur CO2KK in
Havana...stay with us amigos... I will be back in a few seconds...
......
Yes, you are listening to Radio Havana Cuba, and if the bad weather is
keeping you at home, it's good time to start tuning around for new
stations. Amateur radio operators that are stranded at home due to bad
weather enjoy working DX when there is no other choice but to wait until
the weather clears. And now there is yet another incentive to go on the
air... the new Clipperton Island DX expedition is on the air, with high
hopes of making a good showing as the just finished Ducie Island
expedition achieved.
Ham radio expeditions to put on the air remote places are a great
incentive for Dxers and the dream of any devoted Dxers is always fixed
at having the unique opportunity of taking part on one of the real
prominent DX expedition. I remember way back in 1965, when a group of
Cuban radio amateurs activated for the first time in many years the CO4,
the Charlie Oscar 4 prefix , by putting on the air a station at a remote
little island to the south east of the Isle of Youth, how a fascinating
experience it was for the team , despite the many mosquitoes and one
dangerous encounter with a big salt water alligator, a cayman, that
enjoyed swimming swiftly between the small little islands , something we
discovered many days after going out to swim at the beautiful deserted
beach...
We made a large number of two way radio contacts using CW and phone, but
at that time we had no digital modes equipment and taking to the Avalos
key location radioteletype equipment was not possible. Another nice way
of enjoying group activities is to take part of a station participating
on a ham radio contest, a very demanding activity that will require for
you to take a Monday and possibly Tuesday break after the contest weekend!!!
More than two and half million radio amateurs around the world enjoy
communicating using their own equipment and antennas, sometimes from the
most unique locations, like an Antarctic scientific expedition or the
cockpit of an airliner cruising at thirty seven thousand feet, something
that airline pilots that are also ham operators do more often than what
you may think, because as a very good friend of mine that seats on the
left hand seat of wide body jets likes to say... cruising at high
altitudes over the world's oceans can be really boring, due to the high
degree of automation of modern aircraft !!! Aeronautical mobile, from a
glider or a wide body jet is equally enjoyable and is one of the more
than 80 ways that people enjoy amateur radio!!!
......
Yes amigos, we do QSL, we do verify well written and documented
reception reports, something that is very easy to do, you will only need
to send us an e-mail to arnie at rhc dot cu that includes the date,
time, frequency, signal intensity and short description of the program
content at the time you were listening. Of course that you can add
whatever comments you may think will be useful to us, and that's the way
that Dxers Unlimited?s worldwide audience has helped to shape this show
so that it will be attractive to the most diverse audiences, from dyed
in the wool radio experimenters to the casual short wave listener that
has just bought a small portable radio...
You can also send your signal reports , comments and ideas on how to
improve our programs , as well as any radio hobby related questions VIA
AIR MAIL to Arnie Coro, Radio Havana Cuba, Havana, CUBA... and now here
is our next item of the mid week edition of Dxers Unlimited...
Our very popular technical topics section of the program now ranking
third among the most favorite ones... ASK ARNIE is still la numero UNO,
the most popular part of the show, closely followed by the HF and low
band VHF propagation update and forecast, and then in third place is
this one just starting now...
Technical topics that today will be discussing how radio amateur
operators are collecting broken down microwave ovens, to salvage their
high voltage power transformers. After several not too difficult to
implement modifications that include the removal of the magnetic shunt
devices, the typical microwave oven power transformer can be rather
easily modified to become the heart of a high power linear amplifier
power supply... The high voltage rectifier diodes salvaged also from
microwave ovens are ideal for the job, but you must look to other
sources in order to obtain the required high capacity high voltage
filter capacitors. By the way, handling microwave oven power
transformers is something that should only be done by persons that are
really experienced about the safety measures required, because the high
voltages involved can be lethal...
You will never want your hobby to be the way to death, so whenever
working with high voltages, please follow all the safety measures and
recommendations, because at voltages that can go as high as four
thousand volts, you will usually make just one single and certainly
fatal mistake. That is why high voltage power supplies that are
homebrewed must be built with all the recommended protection measures,
including safety interlocks and a crowbar assembly that short the output
to ground when the door of the power supply is opened...
......
This is Dxers Unlimited?s mid week edition coming to you from sunny
Havana, where there are now fifteen radio clubs, one at every
municipality of the City of Havana province... The Habana del Este Club
is one of the more enthusiastic of them all, closely followed by La Lisa
at the other end of the city and Cotorro at the extreme south east .
Each of the radio clubs has encouraged among its member that they
monitor what is known as an internal 2 meter frequency, that meaning a
simplex channel that all members of each municipal club know well and
keep a watch on them when they are at home or moving around with a handy
talkie...
The internal frequencies have proven to be an asset because they help to
develop local communications between radio amateurs that live in the
same area. The City of Havana province has a flagship long range
repeater, located at 500 feet above the street in downtown Havana, at
the rooftop of the 35 stories high Habana Libre hotel, The 145.190
repeater can be accessed using handy talkies from locations that
continue to amaze me. Of course that keeping the receiver of the
repeater in good shape and the diplexer of the antenna system tuned
properly helps to keep the sensitivity of the repeater station well
below half a microvolt, an outstanding figure even for professional
installations.
Many City of Havana radio amateurs have homebrewed a very simple
portable antenna for the two meters band FM transceivers of handy
talkies...something that help to access the long range repeater from
much farther away distances than the ones possible with the radio's
factory built antennas.
QSL on the air, si amigos, QSL on the air to the many RHC listeners that
have written to me asking for more information about Cuba's AM and FM
radio broadcasting stations...
So following the request, I will tell you today about one of the most
widely heard AM stations from Central Cuba. It is the Santa Clara Radio
Reloj station relay operating on 570 kilohertz running now a nice new 25
kilowatts solid state transmitter, after the old Tesla vacuum tube
technology that served there for many years was finally taken off the
air. Radio Reloj?s Santa Clara City relay station has a very nice 400
feet high antenna, with a very good ground system, and the reason that
this low frequency channel was selected for Radio Reloj?s relay serving
Villa Clara, Cienfuegos and Sancti Spiritus provinces was no other than
the mountainous characteristics of most of the service area, where lower
AM broadcast frequencies provide much better ground wave service than
stations operating on the part of the band
above 800 kilohertz or so...
And now amigos, as always at the end of the program, here is as always
and absolutely free, Arnie Coro?s HF plus low band VHF propagation
update and forecast... Solar activity is expected to continue at very
low levels, but the equal illumination of Planet Earth during the
equinox will improve short wave propagation during the next three to
five weeks amigos... So, enjoy it !!!
See you all at the weekend edition of the program Saturday and Sunday
UTC days... and don?t forget to send your signal reports , comments
about the program and radio hobby related questions to arnie at rhc dot
cu. Or VIA AIR MAIL to Arnie Coro, Radio Havana Cuba, Havana, Cuba
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Message: 4
Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2008 23:45:03 -0400
From: DXman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: [HCDX] log
To: Hard-Core-Dx <[email protected]>
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20080315, 0013, 4828, Voice of Zimbabwe, Folk music.
20080315, 0018, 3396, Zimbabwe, Folk music.
20080315, 0050, 4010, Kyrgyz Radio, rus, QRM: ???????? ?? 4014
???., ??????? ???????? ?? ??????? ?????.
20080315, 0113, 5025, Radio Rebelde, spa, ??????, ????.
20080315, 0336, 3350, Radio Exterior de Espana, spa, QRM: CW.
Via Costa Rica., OM&YL talk.
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DXman
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Message: 5
Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2008 22:59:27 -0700 (PDT)
From: Glenn Hauser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: [HCDX] WNTP DX test barely heard in OK
To: [email protected]
Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1
** U S A [and non]. Tried for the postponed WNTP 990 Philadelphia DX test UT
March 15, using DX-398 in the yard. Fortunately it had stopped raining a few
hours earlier and things had dried off somewhat. First try around 0420 UT
yielded nothing, nor expected with day pattern toward SE.
Listened intently from 0450 to 0500 during the ND 12.5 kW portion. XET was not
much of a problem, close to a right angle, and no sign of CBW, which can boom
in when K-indices are low. SWPC says: The mid-latitude K-index at 0300 UTC on
15 March was 2 (18 nT). But aimed toward Philadelphia, there was still a pile
of QRM, multiple subaudible heterodynes from all the other stations, almost
like a graveyard. However, at 0451 I could hear an occasional tone, but never
copy any Morse code ID. At times the tones seemed evenly spaced like a
timesignal. Sweeps definitely heard peaking around 0454-0456. So I count this
only on the basis of assuming no other station would be transmitting such
material. Right at 0500 on came the Cuban National Anthem, from the SE,
presumably R. Guam?, Pinar del Rio, as mentioned by Arnie Coro in DXLD 8-031,
if that is the only Cuban on the frequency, but not noticed prior to that. No
IBOC from KTOK-1000 audible, which wipes out 990 here in the daytime.
No doubt those closer to Philly or with better equipment heard the WNTP test
more definitely than I did. Many tnx to Ren? Tetro for putting it on (Glenn
Hauser, Enid, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
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Message: 6
Date: Sat, 15 Mar 2008 04:29:52 -0700 (PDT)
From: "Scott R. Barbour Jr." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: [HCDX] Logs from NH-USA, Mar 12-14
To: Cumbre DX <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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3200, SWAZILAND, TWR, 0324-0330*, Mar 14, vernacular.
Choral mx; ancr w/ s/off annmt & IS; fair.
(Barbour-NH)
3335, PAPUA NEW GUINEA, R. East Sepik, 1115-1130, Mar
14, Tok Pisin. Ancr w/ presumed news & occasional EG
phrase; mx at 1125; more ancr from 1127 thru BoH
fade-out; poor w/ deep fades; peaks fair at best.
(Barbour-NH)
3345, PAPUA NEW GUINEA, R. Northern, 1119-1130, Mar
13, Tok Pisin. Ancr w/ talk & occasional EG phrase;
native mx at 1125 thru t/out; signal fading & choppy
by BoH; poor. (Barbour-NH)
4111.36v, BOLIVIA, presumed R. Virgen de los Remedios,
0021-0030, Mar 14, Spanish. Hints of SP talk at
imagination level; mx noted at 0027, very poor-noisy.
(Barbour-NH)
4905, CHAD, RNT, 2101-2121, Mar 12, French. Ancrs w/
presumed nx; talk re "Futbol Nacionale"; native mx at
t/out; fair-good. (Barbour-NH)
4905, CHAD, RNT, 0514-0532, Mar 13, French. Ancr b/w
indigenous mx selections; ID in passing; canned annmt
at 0530; fair. (Barbour-NH)
5980, MOROCCO, R. Marocaine, 0333-0359, Mar 12,
Arabic. Round-table discussion at t/in; ad string at
0039 followed by presumed AR pop mx request prg w/
touch-tone effects & phone number; fanfare at 0358
crushed at 0359 by 5975 RNW-Neth.Antillies s/on;
fair-good. (Barbour-NH)
5995, MALI, ORTM Bamako, *0559-0611, Mar 13, French.
NA; ancr w/ s/on annmts over "tinny" instrumental mx;
indigenous mx from 0602; poor-weak w/ 6000-Cuba
splatter. (Barbour-NH)
6055, RWANDA, R. Rwanda, 2055-2100*, Mar 12, French.
Afropops; ancr w/ s/off annmts & short techno mx bit
at 2100; poor; mixing w/ co-channel VOIRI.
(Barbour-NH)
7115, "SERBIA", Int'l Radio Serbia via Bijeljina,
0214-0229*, Mar 13, English. News re Serbian politics;
historic hotel in Belgrade; folk orchestra festival w/
selections played from the R. Belgrade archives;
contact info & IS at s/off; fair-good in ECCS-USB.
(Barbour-NH)
7295, "ALGERIA" R. Algeirs-Holy Quran via Issoudun,
0620-0634, Mar 13, Arabic. M & W ancr w/ talks over
mx; fair at best w/ annoying het tone. (Barbour-NH)
7360, VATICAN CITY, R. Vaticana, 0654-0700*, Mar 13,
English. Nx re African media & its relation to African
govt's & culture; prg credits; URL & IS at s/off;
fair. (Barbour-NH)
9524.9, INDONESIA, presumed VOI, 1142-1203, Mar 13,
Mandarin. Ancr w/ talk b/w ballads; ancr thru ToH w/
no discernible ID noted; poor-rough copy. (Barbour-NH)
9630, "KOREA (DPR)", presumed Korea Reform Radio via
Hu Wei, 1222-1230*, Mar 13, Korean. Ancr w/ talk until
mx bit at 1228; diff ancr w/ s/off annmts & filler mx
until 1230; fair. (Barbour-NH)
Scott R. Barbour Jr. Intervale,NH-USA
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Message: 7
Date: Sat, 15 Mar 2008 21:18:15 -0000
From: "tom taylor" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: [HCDX] EMR Relay this Sunday
To: <Undisclosed-Recipient:;>
Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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EMR Relay this Sunday
Date 16th of March 2008
Time 13.00 to 13.30 utc
Channel 6140 khz
1300 The Paul Graham oldie Programme
Good listening 73s Tom
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Message: 8
Date: Sat, 15 Mar 2008 23:05:05 +0000
From: Risto Kotalampi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: [HCDX] HCDX logs between 2008-03-15 0000 UTC and 2008-03-16
0000 UTC
To: [email protected]
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Message: 9
Date: Sat, 15 Mar 2008 22:14:22 EDT
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [HCDX] March 15-16 Logs
To: [email protected]
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**CANADA. 5835-Voice of Vietnam, 6345-China Radio Int, Sackville
leapfrogging spurs, 0130-0145+, March 16, Spur of 6175-Voice of
Vietnam leapfrogging over 6005-China Radio Int and landing on
5835. Spur of 6005-China Radio Int leapfrogging over 6175-Voice
of Vietnam and landing on 6345. 170 kHz intervals. Spurs weak
but readable. (Brian Alexander, PA)
**GUAM. 11690, AWR-Voice of Hope, *1530-1545, March 15, opening
English ID announcements & into religious programming. Very weak.
Lost in noise at 1545. Looking for Jordan but still off the air.
(Brian Alexander, PA)
**LITHUANIA. 6040 NF, The Mighty KBC, 0150-0200, March 16, pop
music, ID. Weak. Poor in noise plus QRM from Brazil on 6039.63.
(Brian Alexander, PA)
**U.S.A. 21695, WHRI, Cypress Creek, SC, 1445-1505+, March 15,
New frequency? Punch-up error? Spur? English religious programming.
ID at 1500. Weak but readable. // 9840. No sign of Libya.
(Brian Alexander, PA)
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