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Today's Topics:
1. audio files (Lucio Otavio Bobrowiec)
2. LOGS ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
3. Glenn Hauser logs May 21-22 (Glenn Hauser)
4. Rwanda (Maurits Van Driessche)
5. Serbia International (Wolfgang Bueschel)
6. KOJE editor and homepage has changed (Tapio Kalmi)
7. personal news and logs 17-18 (Zacharias Liangas )
8. DX Listening Digest 8-061; World of Radio 1408 (Glenn Hauser)
9. The Voice of Greece celebrates its 70th Year of Broadcasting
(Marcelo Xavier Vieira)
10. QSL from AFRTS (Andrei)
11. Glenn Hauser logs May 19-21, 2008 (Glenn Hauser)
12. Relays this weekend via 9290 kHz (Tom Taylor)
13. HCDX logs between 2008-05-22 0000 UTC and 2008-05-23 0000 UTC
(Risto Kotalampi)
14. Egypt ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
15. Samoa Radio Sale Confirmed ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
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Message: 1
Date: Thu, 22 May 2008 07:33:49 -0300
From: "Lucio Otavio Bobrowiec" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: [HCDX] audio files
To: <[email protected]>, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
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Audio file of R. Yuara, 4717 ID by OM announcing 4715KHz, May-21, 0919utc.
117kbt, 30 seconds at
http://geocities.yahoo.com.br/eefibra/yuara4717khz0919utc210508b.mp3
Audio file of tentative R. Manantial,4991 May-20, 2333utc. 119kbt, 30 seconds
at:
http://geocities.yahoo.com.br/eefibra/manatial.tent.4991khz2333utc200508.mp3
Audio of Unid 4800 wich maybe was R. Virgen de Remedios 20-May, 2238utc. 118
kbt, 30 seconds at:
http://geocities.yahoo.com.br/eefibra/unid4800khz2238utc200508c.mp3
73's
Lucio Otavio Bobrowiec
Embu SP Brasil - Sony ICF SW40 - dipole 18m, 32m
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Message: 2
Date: Thu, 22 May 2008 10:53:11 +0100
From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: [HCDX] LOGS
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Shortwaveworld Shortwaveworld
Shortwaveworld" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Robert Wilkner"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, <[email protected]>,
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Indonesia, 9526, Voice of Indonesia, 0940-1000 Noted a female in Indonesian
comments
until 0944. At that time, music was presented. Signal dropped off the air
at 0945 however,
in the middle of music. Sat on this freq for a few minutes, but signal
never came back.
While VOI was on the air, its signal was fair. (Chuck Bolland, May 22,
2008)
Indonesia, 9680, RRI Jakarta, 0947-1000 At tune in, noted local type music.
Following
that, a male and female commence discussing current events in Indo language.
At 0956,
more local type music again. On the hour, ID given by female. Signal was
fair. (Chuck
Bolland, May 22, 2008)
NRD525
CLEWISTON, FLORIDA
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Message: 3
Date: Thu, 22 May 2008 07:54:50 -0700 (PDT)
From: Glenn Hauser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: [HCDX] Glenn Hauser logs May 21-22
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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** CAMBODIA [non]. As I was tuning 12130 for Hoa Mai via KWHR --- see VIETNAM
[non] --- I also noticed another broadcast on 12140 at 1246 May 21, in
Cambodian. Searches of the online A-08 skeds Aoki, Eibi and WRTH were
fruitless, altho RFA is on 12140 after 1400 in Vietnamese. Suspecting Radio
Free Asia, I checked their own schedule at
http://www.rfa.org/english/about/frequencies.html
and there it is:
Khmer (2 hours daily)
1230-1330 12140, 15525
2230-2330 7580, 13740
This is a recent change as of May 18, the 12140 site Tinian. Even better signal
May 22 at 1258 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CHINA [and non]. The 3-day mourning period is over, but still no sign of
Firedrake May 22, checking many of the usual spots; at 1256, found 14410 with
weak talk instead, most likely CNR-1 jamming against Sound of Hope; 9605 at
1315, CNR-1 jamming against BBC, no FD. I am suffering Firedrake Withdrawal ---
the SW bands are not the same without it all over the place (Glenn Hauser, OK,
DX LISTENING DIGERST)
** CUBA. 17705, May 21 at 2002 found open carrier instead of Venezuela relay,
off at 2003, back on at 2004:30 but nothing further heard next few minutes.
Refund (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** SPAIN [non]. Quick check of REE Co-Official Languages segment, May 22 at
1250 on 15170 via Costa Rica: opening in Basque, immediately into Castilian
news about Euskadi. O well, surely almost all Basques understand Spanish, so
why bother with their own peculiar language? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** TAIWAN. 15465 with strange stuff May 22 at 1252, very emotional drama in
oriental language with heaving sounds, musical accompaniment; 1255 outro and
just music; 1300 5-pip timesignal (all same pitch) and off immediately without
further announcement. Here`s what Aoki lists:
15465*R.TAIWAN INT. 1200-1300 1234567 Chinese 100 230 Paochung TWN 12018E 2343N
CBS2 a08
15465 R.TAIWAN INT. 1300-1400 1234567 Amoy 100 230 Paochung TWN 12018E 2343N
CBSD a08
Which means that it`s jammed until 1300, but not jammed when switching to Amoy
at 1300; however, that part was missing, anyway (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** U S A. Open carriers on 17530 and 17565, May 22 at 1352, the latter with a
SAH and over some co-channel station, music. These are Greenville warming up
for 1400 broadcasts in English, Spanish respectively, both signing-on at 1359.
This is typical for IBB Greenville, turning on transmitters with open carrier
10-15 minutes before programming. Is this really necessary, Chollie? Seems a
waste. And in this case blox something else. Probably the jumpy V. of Tibet via
Uzbekistan and/or Chicom jamming, landing on 17565 today (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. KVOH, 17775, not especially strong, Spanish religious talk, May 21 at
2019, but just strong enough to audiblize its parasitic spurs on 17920-17921
and weaker around 17630, plus/minus 145+ kHz. They all weakened by 2030 (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** VIETNAM [non]. 12130, May 21 at 1243, sounds like old woman screaming in the
field, not clearly enunciated, but presumably Vietnamese on the Wednesday-only
12-13 Hoa Mai transmission via KWHR Hawaii. 1258 announcement in rational
Vietnamese, 1259 KWHR ID and OCS past 1300 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** WESTERN SAHARA [non]. RN de la RASD, 6300, May 21 at 0640, strumming and
singing mentioning Sahara; fair with QRM from ute pulsing, and also SAH,
presumably RHC mixing product but RHC audio not a factor at the moment (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ###
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Message: 4
Date: Thu, 22 May 2008 19:54:59 +0200
From: "Maurits Van Driessche" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: [HCDX] Rwanda
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Hard-core"
<[email protected]>, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
"Glenn Hauser" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Radio Rwanda,Kigali 6055khz ,1751utc African music and vernacular talks
good reception!
Gr. Maurits Belgium
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Message: 5
Date: Thu, 22 May 2008 22:57:24 +0200
From: "Wolfgang Bueschel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: [HCDX] Serbia International
To: "HCDX" <[email protected]>, "DXLD"
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Thanks to tip of Paul Gager in Vienna.
6100 Bijeljina in German is back May 22 at 2000 UT, but not on \\ 7199.94 !
7200v from Stubline Serbia still missed in past four days too, even the noon
service at 1000 UT.
May you can check NoAM sce on 6185 kHz tonight ?
wb
Geez. What's the story on Bijeljina, Dragan Lekic-Subotica-Serbia?
(Glenn Hauser-OK-USA, dxld May 20)
6100 kHz 250 kW Bijeljina noted last on May 18th by Paul Gager in Vienna.
Also old Stubline v7199.94 kHz unit missed today May 21, at noon and now at
1630 UT too.
Only Bulgaria noted on even 7200.00 kHz co-channel.
(wb, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews May 21)
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Message: 6
Date: Sun, 18 May 2008 15:06:26 +0200
From: "Tapio Kalmi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: [HCDX] KOJE editor and homepage has changed
To: <[email protected]>
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Hi to all North American AM fans !
I have started as the new editor of KOJE list and North American News
Watch (NANW) in DX Clusive and Radiomaailma magazines. All information
is shared via internet as well and we have new web pages for this
purpose. Wellcome to the new KOJE Homepage at
http://www.tapiokalmi.net/dx/koje/
On these pages you will find three summaries of the mediumwave (AM)
radiostations which can be heard in the Nordic countries (Sweden, Norway
and Finland).
The names of these summaries are abbreviations from the finnish words
which are translated to english as follows:
Hawaiians which can be heard (KOH - kuultavissa olevat hawaijilaiset),
Yankees which can be heard (KOJE - kuultavissa olevat jenkit) and
Mexicans which can be heard (KOMEX - kuultavissa olevat meksikolaiset)
The translation here is as liberal as the originally chosen words which
come from the Finnish DX-slang. Word Yankee means here the whole North
America from California to Greenland and from Alaska to Florida,
including also Bermuda. The first of these lists was KOJE, so the pages
are named after that list.
The latest updated Excel sheet and list of updates are available today
18MAY2008.
If you have any comments or news to share, please feel free to send
email to me. Thank you for your help.
73's from Helsinki
TaK
Tapio Kalmi
Liuskekuja 1 E 39
FI-00710 HELSINKI
FINLAND
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Message: 7
Date: Sun, 18 May 2008 20:14:43 +0300
From: "Zacharias Liangas " <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: [HCDX] personal news and logs 17-18
To: <>
Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Hello
You possibly wondered what happened with me missing for about 1 month
from the list. Except that last week of April was the Easter week , the next
week being to a visit to Alexandrupoli , I was struck by sciatica that
caused
me return a day earlier in Thessaloniki. For one week I was absent from
any activities except my work in the University and then trying to prepare
several things . In the weekends I was in Litohoron once again for recording
a `live show ` from the chorus of Litohoron together with a popular Greek
singer and the process of all of this was quite time consuming
You may read much abot my trip here
http://zlgr.multiply.com/journal/item/153
More photos from the trip can be found
http://zlgr.multiply.com/photos/album/68
and more about he happening in Litohoron here:
http://zlgr.multiply.com/photos/album/69
as multiply does not allow replies , please reply directly to me
Below are some new logs made this weekend , together with preparing
some of the above material
For the European DXers of these lists , this week is the Eurovision song
contest, Tuesday , Thursday and Saturday
And now the logs: (with help from last 3 BCDX newsletters )
SERBIA 7200 R Yugoslavija 1926 with the song `Lane moje' ,known from
the Eurovision song contest Under CRI Arabic prg. Both at S20 May 17th
7440 IBB Farsi service 1927 with pop song , ID by man then with talks and
discussions S9 45544 May 17th
7530 FN Korea R in Korean lang @1947 with talks > very clear in this
frequency At S9 45544 At 1957 with a ppop song . Unsure if on 2000 was
transmitting ID but Jayu Bakhon was referred on 2002 and then made a
reference to Olympics May 17th
CHINA 7620 CNR ? at 2007 with nice easy Chinese pop songs . quite good
signbal at <S6 with 34333 posibly oned of the best reception May 17th
EGYPT 9250 R Nile /Cairo 2012 with signal of S7 over a S3 noise
background with 10 db preamplifer but just only a carrier with sporadic
programming .ID at 2021 by woman bu t then seemed again a vacant carrier
May 17th
??6860 (odd freq ) on 2027 with news in Arabic , referring to Bush .
Possible IDs at 2030 then followed by Arabic songs May 17th
Pir 6875 Playback intl on 2054 with old rock songs . ID at 2055 as "Radio
Playback Intl the difference in Shortwaves" May 17th
9950 Open radio for North Korea 2103 talks by YL in between a fanfare S7
4333 May 17th
MALI?? 5995 Mali ? 2115 with talks by OM in a language seemed African .
S9 signal May 17th
AUSTRALIA 17820 CVC on 0550 and 0833 with indo program , but with
western pop song on 0833 . Marginal signal both times May 18th
? 6140 EMR at 1210 with possibly Tom Taylor being in the mike about
`journey into sound` 1215 with pop music May 18th
MSIA 7235 on 1437 with Malay oldies Just S2 May 18th
LATVIA 9290 Latvia today on 1502 with a pop song ands story for the
Latvian music Signal S7-9 , 44333 some sporadic Qrm from CW May 18th
Please read my aricle on SINPO at http://tinyurl.com/yt7qjd
________________________
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
http://www.myspace.com/310100806
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=770974854
http://del.icio.us/gr_geek1
........
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: 8
Date: Sun, 18 May 2008 17:10:43 -0700 (PDT)
From: Glenn Hauser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: [HCDX] DX Listening Digest 8-061; World of Radio 1408
To: Glenn Hauser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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DX Listening Digest 8-061 has now been posted at
http://www.w4uvh.net/dxlatest.txt or http://dxld.worldofradio.org
and now also without delay at http://www.w4uvh.net/dxld8061.txt
CONTENTS:
WOR 1408 / AFGHANISTAN +non / ANGUILLA +non / AUSTRALIA HCJB / AUSTRALIA VOLMET
/ AUSTRAILA VL8T / AUSTRALIA Double V / BANGLADESH / BELARUS / BENIN / BRAZIL /
CHINA +non ham+ / CONGO DR +non / COSTA RICA +non / CROATIA non / CUBA +non /
CZECHIA / DJIBOUTI / ECUADOR +non / EGYPT / EQUATORIAL GUINEA / ETHIOPIA non /
FRANCE / GERMANY +non / HAWAII / INDIA / INDONESIA / INTERNATIONAL INTERNET
LiveNewsCam / IRAN non / ISRAEL / JAPAN +non / KOREA NORTH +non / LAOS +non /
LIBYA / LITHUANIA / MALAYSIA / MALI / MOLDOVA / MOROCCO +non / NETHERLANDS +non
/ NEW ZEALAND / NIGERIA +non / OKLAHOMA KOSU / OKLAHOMA KOMA+ / OKLAHOMA non
HollowFX / PAPUA NEW GUINEA / PERU / POLAND / ROMANIA / SAUDI ARABIA / SLOVAKIA
/ SOMALIA non / SPAIN / SUDAN non / SURINAME / SWEDEN / THAILAND / TIBET / UK
non BBCWS / USA +non VOA/Farda / USA WBCQ / USA WHRA/WHRI / USA WRMI/WRN / USA
WWCR / USA KVOH / USA WEWN / USA KOA / USA WMLK / USA WSRC / VATICAN / VENZUELA
non / ZAMBIA / ZIMBABWE
+non / UNIDENTIFIED 3175 / UNIDENTIFIED 6104 / UNIDENTIFIED 9840 /
UNIDENTIFIED 11635-11640 / UNIDENTIFIED 15540 / TINY TRAP / CONVENTIONS &
CONFERENCES / DIGITAL BROADCASTING / PROPAGATION
For restrixions and searchable 2008 contents archive see
http://www.worldofradio.com/dxldmid.html
For restrixions and searchable 2007 contents archive see
http://www.worldofradio.com/dxldmid7.html
NOTE: If you are a regular reader of DXLD, and a source of DX news but
have not been sending it directly to us, please consider yourself
obligated to do so. Thanks, Glenn
WORLD OF RADIO 1408 SUMMARY:
*Historic Samara SW site in Russia said to be closing down in a few
months; suffers from technical faults, carries many services
including Tatarstan Wave; see discussion in DXLD 8-059 via
http://worldofradio.org
*We have reconfirmed long-standing collision: VOR English to North
America via Moldova at 0300 on 9665, overridden by CRI via Brasil in
Spanish, undermodulated but stronger carrier
*Favorite frequency of ex-USSR pirates: 6660. One heard with Russian
religion going from LSB to USB at 1932
*R. PMR, Pridnestrovye, 6040, heard in May playing old show from
December; it all sounds alike
*R. Prague, Czechia, offering special 85th-anniversary QSL for reports
on May 18 only; some daytime English audible in North America: 1300
on 13580, 2000 on 11600; plus many more into evenings
*Low-power private German SW station, Radio 700, heard in Europe on
6005; schedule not clear
*REE Spain`s ``Co-Official Languages`` segment nominally 1240-1255 UT
M-F including 15170 via Costa Rica, in Catalan, Galician, Basque, but
the latter mostly in Castilian; times vary slightly
*REE Spain which has been colliding with Vatican, both in English at
2000 to Africa on 11625, moves to 11620 from May 15 --- now it
collides with All India Radio
*Briech, Morocco site no longer being heard, tho it continued to be
used in April by R. Marocaine after IBB left; via Nador site nominal
schedule is 09-15 15340, 15-22 15345; discussion in DXLD over beams
*R. Nigeria, Enugu, reactivated on 6024.95, popped into Australia at
2203
*R. Africa, Equatorial Guinea, which was active for 7 days in April,
returned to 15190 on May 8 only
*Don`t confuse with R. Pilipinas, 1730-1930 in Tagalog and English on
15190, heard in Sweden till 1745
*New service via TDP is Addis Dmits Radio, in Amharic to Ethiopia,
Sundays only 1600-1700 on 17875 via Samara site mentioned at start
*Southern Sudan Interactive Radio Instruction changed schedule in
English: M/W/F 1300-1330 12070, 15390, 15485 via South Africa, ex-
15325 which we were hearing; at 0630-0700 M/W/F on 15660 South
Africa, 15530 UAE, maybe not parallel; 0630-0700 M-F on 15760 UK,
11905 Rwanda; 0600-0630 M-F on 15750 South Africa, 15215 UAE
*Like Cairo`s General Arabic service on 6290, which is closing one UT
hour earlier due to DST, at 0200, R. Wadi El Nil, 9250 also closing
earlier at 2200. Probably opens earlier too at 1600
*R. Riyad, Saudi Arabia, French from 0800 on 17785 sometimes comes on
as early as 0750 with end of preceding English broadcast
*V. of Iraqi Kurdistan, 6335, still has English hour at 1600, news,
commentary, rap, heard in Bulgaria; also in non-English from sign-on
0340 to fadeout 0555
*Plans for RFE/RL to start 2 hours a day in Azeri for Iran, from FY
2009 in October; more unneeded overspecialization
*R. Solh, US Psyops to Afghanistan, seldom heard here now since A-08
change from 15265 to 17700 via UK, but audible May 13 playing exactly
same music as ever since last fall, including sticking CD at 1346-
1349
*Bangladesh Betar, 4750, not only extended later to 1710, but opening
earlier at 2359 UT
*Myanmar SW frequencies began coming back May 8-9 after cyclone, and
Defence Forces station in Taunggyi on 5770 kept operating; 5985 with
English from 1530 instead of 1430
*Following quake in China, Sichuan PBS minority service, Chengdu,
missing from 7225; but 6060 PBS-2 still heard, around 1400 in
California
*Changjiang Maritime Security Information Center No. 134, Wuhan,
Hupei, 8794-USB with river traffic info broadcasts at 00, 03, 06, 09,
14; plus news and weather at 0900
*CRI carries domestic China Drive program from Easy FM in Beijing, in
local mornings, such as 21-22 via Albania 7285, 5960
*Firedrake jamming check includes 14410 at 1417 vs Sound of Hope
*Shiokaze/Sea Breeze clandestine for North Korea went to 6005 to avoid
jamming, but there clashed with Echo of Hope on 6003. After Ron
Howard notified them, returned to 6020
*Schedule changes of other clandestines/religionists to North Korea
*Defunct Catholic Radio Network in Papua New Guinea taken over by R.
Maria, but no progress in a year, still on FM only, SW 4960 off with
power supply damage
*WBCQ tried 15420 again May 13-14, once DW Arabic via Rwanda moved to
15445 at 17-21; but DW Russian via UK, UAE still on 15420 mixing with
WBCQ at 14-16; clear during World of Radio Wednesday at 2300-2330;
but not audible the next day on 15420 or 17495
*WSRC, 1480, Fair Bluff, North Carolina, put outstanding signal into
Pennsylvania on third harmonic 4440, April 3 at 0350-0555 with old
time radio, bluegrass music; anyone heard it since?
*Florida stations swap frequencies, calls and format: 1680 is now
WOKB, All New Smooth Sounds of Gospel instead of WLAA, Que Buena
which is now on 1600; notorious for not powering down at night, so
1680 could run 10 kW helping worldwide DX coverage
*Sporadic ELCOR transmitter tests from Costa Rica on 5954, heard again
Saturday May 10 until 2157 with Man? in Concert, same music as
always, probably started at 2100
*I will not waste time refuting Arnie Coro`s claim that it is
sufficient for RHC to notify ITU of its schedule, rather than
participate in HFCC to avoid collisions
*Next time the ungrateful SOBs at RHC accuse the US of ``genocide`` as
they do every day, every hour as a prime Commie talking point,
remember this, according to AP: the US is Cuba`s top food supplier,
despite the 45-year embargo; Congress passed a law in 2000y
authorizing sale of food to Cuba for cash
*We heard Radio Santa Cruz, Bolivia, 6134.8 UT Sunday on until about
0130 with Andean music, perhaps live event with applause; best bet
for this country in North American evenings
*Spring TV/FM DX season has been slow starting except along the Gulf
coast; Steven Wiseblood on South Padre Island heard Campeche, 620
miles away on 101.9; we finally had some sporadic E to TV channel 2
the afternoon of May 13
*Propagation outlook from Boulder May 13 ###
NEXT SHORTWAVE AIRINGS OF WORLD OF RADIO 1408
Mon 0300 WBCQ 9330-CLSB [irregular, time varies]
Mon 0415 WBCQ 7415 [time varies]
Tue 1100 WRMI 9955
Tue 1530 WRMI 9955
Wed 1130 WRMI 9955
Wed 2300 WBCQ 15420-CUSB
Latest edition of this schedule version, including AM, FM, satellite
and webcasts with hotlinks to station sites and audio, is at:
http://www.worldofradio.com/radioskd.html
For updates see our Anomaly Alert page:
http://www.worldofradio.com/anomaly.html
WRN ON DEMAND:
http://new.wrn.org/listeners/stations/station.php?StationID=24
WORLD OF RADIO PODCASTS VIA WRN NOW AVAILABLE:
http://www.wrn.org/listeners/stations/podcast.php
OUR ONDEMAND AUDIO:
http://www.worldofradio.com/audiomid.html
or http://wor.worldofradio.org
Regards, Glenn Hauser
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Message: 9
Date: Mon, 19 May 2008 20:17:30 +0000
From: Marcelo Xavier Vieira <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: [HCDX] The Voice of Greece celebrates its 70th Year of
Broadcasting
To: <[email protected]>
Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"
Hello,
Despite the fact that "The Voice of Greece" is no longer broadcasting in
Portuguese, and also ceased brodcasts to South America in Greek a couple of
years ago, it is, still, my favorite shortwave radio station. Last week I
received a message from one of its programs, called "O Tahydromos" (The
Mailman), which happens to be the program of contact with the listeners. The
message was about a special edition of that program, which will take place on
the 21st of May, starting at 11 hours and ending at 12 hours, Greek time, of
course (8 through 9 hours UTC). It will be a special broadcast and the
listeners will be able to take part live, provided they send their telephone
numbers to the program.
The e-mail is [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Unfortunately, nothing to say about special QSLs...
If you don't know how to listen to the station, you may find times and
frequencies here:
http://mt-shortwave.blogspot.com/2008/03/voice-of-greece-a08-multilingual.html
_____________________________
Marcelo Xavier Vieira
Itamb? - PR - Brasil
+ 55 44 3231 2170
Novo telefone/New number/???? ??????? ????????? +55 44 88229322
msn: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Confira v?deos com not?cias do NY Times, gols direto do Lance, videocassetadas
e muito mais no MSN Video!
http://video.msn.com/?mkt=pt-br
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Message: 10
Date: Tue, 20 May 2008 18:40:35 +0400
From: "Andrei" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: [HCDX] QSL from AFRTS
To: "'HCDX'" <[email protected]>
Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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AFRTS via Diego Garcia , 4319 kHz.
Full data QSL-card in 27 days for e-mail report with audio clip.
Address:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Andrei Skorodumov
Yaroslavl
Russia
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Message: 11
Date: Tue, 20 May 2008 19:36:39 -0700 (PDT)
From: Glenn Hauser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: [HCDX] Glenn Hauser logs May 19-21, 2008
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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** BRAZIL. I scan the 60 mb just about every night around 0600, and never heard
anything on 4755 until May 20, besides CODAR, of course. At 0621 music, and
talk definitely in Brazilian Portuguese, so my first thought that PMA might
finally have come back was quickly dashed; a bit early for them anyway, 1721
local. It was also very slightly on the low side, but I would not say as low as
4754.90. Presumed R. Imaculada Concei??o as others have been reporting.
Apparently all-night now, and I wonder if that is a recent expansion in hours
accounting for its new audibility? However, it sounded more like a commercial
station to me than a religionist. Nothing else from Brazil found on 60m except
a trace of 4915; 4790 Per? however was stronger than usual.
** BRAZIL. As byproduct of looking for International Radio Serbia on 6185, I
had to deal with the splatter from RHC on 6180, May 21 at 0004; 6180 itself had
heavy SAH and QRM from Amazonian service, as usual. This was // clear 11780,
but when I rechecked at 0021, 11780 was no longer to be heard, just bleedover
from DentroCuban jamming against Radio Mart? on 11775 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** CANADA. CHU still missing from 7335, May 20 at 1306 but audible on 14670. At
2105, 7335 was back on. Raymond Pelletier of NRC told me they were fixing some
tech problems, and that all transmitters would be upgraded this summer (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CHINA [and non]. In second day of three-day quake mourning period, still no
Firedrake jamming to be heard May 20, but instead CNR-1 program feed, in some
cases offset with echoes to make it more annoying. At 1306, such jamming on
7445, 6110; on 9930 at 1411, about equal mix of CNR1 and Sound of Hope via
KWHR; one was dominating on the FRG-7 with longwire, the other on YB-400 with
internal random wire. Same programming but not sure if // on 9450 from Taiwan
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CUBA [and non]. RHC 13760, May 19 at 1437 had a subaudible heterodyne of
about 6 Hz. Per EiBi and Aoki, the only possibility is VOK in French to Europe,
tho Aoki lacks the 11-15 UT RHC broadcast on 13760, where it has been for some
months; and HFCC of course lacks both N Korea and Cuba! (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** JAPAN. NHKWRJ, 11985, fair at 1320 May 20 with Today`s Angle, i.e. one
dekaminute into the 1310-1340 transmission. This is due west from Yamata, same
as the 1400-1430 English broadcast recently reported (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** KOREA NORTH. KCBS, which has been varying down to 11678-11677, May 20 at
1418 was more like 11679.8, judging from the het Korean talk was making with a
11680 station, and BFO confirmed nothing on the lower frequencies. Aoki
suggests 11680 should be RFA Vietnamese via Sri Lanka, or VOT in Turkish (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** KOREA NORTH [and non]. 9940, May 20 at 1312 in Korean plus rapid pulsing
jammer with pitch varying slightly. This would be North Korea Reform Radio,
daily at 1300-1330 via Taiwan, per Aoki. I notice that John Wilkins in CO
reported it exactly one week earlier, but no mention of any jamming.
Fortunately, DPRK jamming tends to be rather sporadic (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** NEW ZEALAND. RNZI still on 13840 AM, May 21 at 0019 with news reports, no
QRM audible, tho the quake jarred China into occupying this frequency where it
causes QRM in the Pacific and surely Asia. We have been wondering if RNZI would
move as a result. 15715-15720-15725 DRM also in with strong buzz (Glenn Hauser,
OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** NORTHERN MARIANA ISLANDS. Ah, almost a month from Solstice now and we are
getting late-nite HF openings. May 20 at 0609 heard Chinese on 17880, fair with
heavy fading, M&W interview, only station on 16m band, // 15680 but the latter
running about 1 second behind. These are Radio Free Asia, 17880 via Saipan at
310 degrees, and 15680 via Tinian at 296 degrees. No jamming audible, but Aoki
says they are jammed as you would expect. I expect the higher-latitude jamming
from China was not propagating as this seemed to be a rather localized opening
from the NMI (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** OKLAHOMA. Silly me, thinking XERF 1570 might still reach here on skywave as
late as 1252 UT May 20. Nostalgia music in English, ``Let`s Call the Whole
Thing Off``, linguistic pronunciation debate; 1254 ``The More Icey You, the
More I Want Choo``, 1257 DJ announcement in English, ``Mandy``. 1259 ID as
KZLI, Catoosa-Tulsa`` and dominating frequency (Glenn Hauser, Enid, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** SERBIA [non]. International Radio Serbia is gone again from the Bijeljina
transmitter in Bosnia-Herzegovina. On May 19 and 20, Wolfgang B?schel and other
European monitors were no longer hearing the European service on 6100, just the
low-power Stubline unit on 7200v. So is 6185 to North America also off?
Yes, no IRS, checking here UT May 21 at 0003, just XEPPM on 6185 with Mexican
music, 0023 Spanish talk. Also with huge splatter from Cuba 6180. Too, see UK
for discussion of suggested move to 6190, 6195.
An hour later at 0105 I clicked on their website at
http://glassrbije.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=blogcategory&id=36&Itemid=156
and English stream came on right away. Since they don`t have enough sense to
use a clear SW frequency when it`s working, I`m glad I did listen to
crystal-clear webcast, embedded autolaunching WM player, so why do they prompt
a real player download?? Because I had been wondering about the Eurovision Song
Contest, this year from Belgrade. Some of the features were about that; it
started today with semifinals, and the finale will be May 24. Nevertheless, IRS
seems to be partial to the Serbian entry! Not a good time to lose their main SW
capacity again.
I was looking for any word about suspending frequencies, of course not, and
finally found the transmission schedule
http://glassrbije.org/E/index.php?option=com_content&task=blogcategory&id=21&Itemid=34
which is the same one as before including 6100 and 6185. Closing announcement
at 0125 claimed we could hear them at the same time tomorrow 6100 and 7240 ---
but this transmission has never been on those frequencies! Geez. What`s the
story on Bijeljina, Dragan Lekic? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** THAILAND. R. Thailand World Service, nice chime IS and English ID on 11625,
May 20 at 1415, mentioning studios in Bangkok, transmitter in Udon Thani,
introducing Mandarin, and no jamming! This is the best I`ve heard them in a
long time, as the entire English broadcasts just don`t make it here, whether
aimed at NAm or not. 11625 is supposed to shift from 54 to 30 degrees at 1315
as languages change from Japanese to Chinese. 30 is better for us (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U K [non]. BBCWS via Ascension to Africa, 21470, unexpectedly good, S9+10,
May 20 at 1327, only signal on 13m band, report on how India thrives on chaos,
in Global Business. Maybe was getting help on the last hop from some sporadic E
(WWCR 15825 also up), and by 1405 had declined to fadey S6-S9.
Checking for SERBIA 6185, May 21 at 0004, also went to the two frequencies I
had suggested for them to get away from the QRM, 6190, and 6195. 6190 was still
vacant, but very weak signal on 6195, which by 0025 I could tell was in
English. Can`t be anything but BBCWS via Singapore, scheduled 22-01, sort of
grayline well before sunset here. If BBC would not mind, it could still be used
by IRS to NAm, further away from the mess on 6180 and certainly much less of a
collision than with the Mex on 6185 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. WWRB, Morrison/Manchester TN, [NOT: McCaysville GA/Copper Hill TN ---
that was WGTG, gone for years!] 3185 still audible with Brother Scare as late
as 1259 UT May 20, just as Dave Frantz broke in for a legal ID, then more B.S.
So I guess they kept going past 1300, but did not keep listening to find out.
The FCC has now posted an updated A-08 schedule as of 6 May, with a 2 instead
of a 1 at the end of the URL:
http://www.fcc.gov/ib/sand/neg/hf_web/A08FCC02.TXT
Its very first entry shows 3185 as 00-13 at 340 degrees. It also still shows
9385 at 13-23 at 340 degrees, but B.S. was still going there until abrupt
cutoff in mid-word at 2355* May 20, so it seems FCC schedules are regarded as
only approximate by some private US SW stations. After 0000 May 21, we found
WWRB with B.S. on 5745, 6890 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. WRMI, 9955, May 21 at 0015 with religious talk in Spanish, apparently
without jamming, or maybe weak jamming underneath, could not quite decide.
Altho I thought it was some private preacher, per April 1 schedule grid this
would be R. Vaticano. But it still has not been updated to move the 22-23 shows
to 01-03, and add the new UFO show from OKC at 21-24 weekdays (Glenn Hauser,
OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** VATICAN. 11740 in Italian at 0612 May 20, so it can`t be ITALY! Except
extraterratorially speaking. Yes, soon mentioned Vatican, as scheduled, at 263
degrees; however, on Sundays only from 0600 it`s Latin at 55 degrees. This was
fair, but much better than Habana on 11760 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST) See also USA, WRMI
UNIDENTIFIED. A ham in Weatherford TX, K5BG, reported a broadcast spur on 1809
kHz, seemingly from Lubbock area, any help on DFing or IDing it? I checked May
19 at 0635 and was barely able to hear a mushy distorted spur on 1809,
Readability 0, and only on a longwire antenna so no DF possible. And again May
20 at 0642 past 0700. Mostly a mushy unreadable signal, rarely fading up a bit
with some music or talk, hampered by occasional lightning crashes from Kansas
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ###
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Message: 12
Date: Thu, 22 May 2008 23:05:14 +0100
From: "Tom Taylor" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: [HCDX] Relays this weekend via 9290 kHz
To: "Tom Taylor" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Relays this weekend via 9290 kHz
May 24th
Radio City 09.00 -10.00UTC and on 945AM 19.00 -20.00UTC www.radionord.lv
Latvia Today 10.00 -11.00UTC
Radio Casablanca 11.00 -12.00UTC
May 25th
Latvia Today 15.00 -16.00UTC
Good listening 73s Tom
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Message: 13
Date: Thu, 22 May 2008 23:05:03 +0000
From: Risto Kotalampi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: [HCDX] HCDX logs between 2008-05-22 0000 UTC and 2008-05-23
0000 UTC
To: [email protected]
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Message: 14
Date: Fri, 23 May 2008 02:06:56 +0100
From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: [HCDX] Egypt
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Shortwaveworld Shortwaveworld
Shortwaveworld" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Robert Wilkner"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, <[email protected]>,
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Anker Petersen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
"Logs DSWCI Logs DSWCI Logs DSWCI" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Egypt, 9360, Radio Cairo, 0145-0200+ Actually I was listening to this prior
to 0145, but
what caught my attention was at 0145, I heard time ticks(5), then the
programming switched
to Spanish. Prior to that, the language was Arabic or something simular.
An ID was
heard at 0145 in English and followed in Spanish by a female. Checked 07270
where I heard a parallel transmission. All hard copy references say the
Spanish transmission begins at 0045 vice 0145. At 0159 a silent period is
noted. At 0200 time ticks again and female
returns in Spanish. Signal was fair. (Chuck Bolland, May 23, 2008)
Note: Lately while driving, I have been trying to keep my truck under 55
mph on major highways. I have actually noticed my MPG getting better since
then.
http://www.orchidcitysoftware.com/IMAGE59.HTML
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Message: 15
Date: Fri, 23 May 2008 17:08:05 +1200
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [HCDX] Samoa Radio Sale Confirmed
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Samoa FM Sale
Samoa Quality Broadcasters have completed purchase of 89.1 FM Apia,
the former SBC Radio 1 outlet. CEO is Ms Faiesea Matafeo, also the
current CEO of SBC and she will be joined by seven other existing SBC
staff. Redundancy payments are being made to others.
The station will continue the 60 year old tradition of quality
broadcasting established by forerunner 2AP in 1948, and serve Samoa
in both English and Samoan languages.
SQB have also purchased Televise Samoa from the SBC, and will be
operating from the same premises at Mulinu'u on the harbor front in
Apia.
The existing SBC1 and SBC2 AM transmitters [540 and 747] are not part
of the sale deal and will come under control of the Ministry of
Communications for use in emergencies and other times of national
interest.
Further information on operations of the national AM service will be
available shortly.
The full background to the sale can be found at the 'Samoan Radio
Sale' article at www.radioheritage.net, along with exclusive photos
of the existing SBC studio and transmission facilities in Apia.
David Ricquish
Radio Heritage Foundation
www.radioheritage.net
End of Hard-Core-DX Digest, Vol 65, Issue 24
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