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Today's Topics:
1. Thur Log Asian Morning ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
2. Re: Thur Log Asian Morning: 6120, 6185 (Glenn Hauser)
3. Correction not China but Singapore ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
4. Glenn Hauser logs July 23-24, 2008 (Glenn Hauser)
5. All India Radio completes 81 years (sakthi vel)
6. Special SWCH Pirate xmsn. Aug. 1 (Alex Vranes, Jr.)
7. LOGS July 22 (Andrade Junior)
8. LOGS July 23 (Andrade Junior)
9. Special SWCH broadcast Aug. 1 (Alex Vranes, Jr.)
10. Re: Dxers Unlimited?s mid week edition 22-23 July 2008 VERY
GOOD E SKIP OPENINGS HAPPENING !!! (Prof. Arnaldo Coro Antich)
11. Re: [Yimber Gaviria Blog] Captaciones DX por Yimber Gaviria,
Colombia (Yimber Gaviria)
12. The end of short wave radio in the UK (Mike)
13. HCDX logs between 2008-07-24 0000 UTC and 2008-07-25 0000 UTC
(Risto Kotalampi)
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Message: 1
Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2008 11:35:11 +0100
From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: [HCDX] Thur Log Asian Morning
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Shortwaveworld Shortwaveworld
Shortwaveworld" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Robert Wilkner"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Logs DSWCI Logs DSWCI Logs DSWCI"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Ivan Worldx" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
<[email protected]>, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Anker Petersen"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Marie Lamb" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
"worlddx" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Chile, 6110, CVC, 1025-1035 Noted semi-classical music until about
1028 when a bunch of promos are presented which contained ID's as
"CVC" by a female. At 1031, back to music again with same motif. By
the way, everything was in Portuguese. Signal was fair. (Chuck Bolland,
July 24, 2008)
China, Fuzhou, 6115, Voice of Strait, 1034-1045 Noted typical EZL
Chinese music (not Firedrake) during period with comments from a
female between selections. AOKI says this broadcast is in Amoy. At 1039,
recorded promo presented. Signal was fair. (Chuck Bolland,
July 24, 2008)
Singapore, 6120, Radio Singapore International, 1043-1055 Noted a
female in .... comments until 1045 when a male continues. At 1049
a shift to promos briefly, but can't catch any place names. At 1051
music starts. At 1055 recorded musical ID as "...RSI..." After that, music
continues until the hour. Another ID at 1100 as, "Radio Singapore
International" with accent by a female. After the hour,
news presented by a female. Signal was good. (Chuck Bolland,
July 24, 2008) I thought Singapore was off the air for good?
China, 6185, Chian Huayi Broadcasting Corp.1106-1120 Noted a male in
Chinese/Amoy language comments. This station, according to
AOKI is located at Chengdu, China. The news lasted until 1110 when
bridge music noted with more comments. Signal was fair. (Chuck
Bolland, July 24, 2008)
Singapore, 6080, Radio Singapore International 1116-1130 Noted a
male and female in telephone conversation. Male was being interviewed. This
is mixing with HCJB a little which broadcasting music making copy of RSI
difficult now. At 1124, full ID in English my male as, "This is Radio
Signapore International." Signal was fair but lots of QRM here.(Chuck
Bolland, July 24, 2008)
Good Asian Morning here in Clewiston, Florida
NRD545
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Message: 2
Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2008 07:23:48 -0700 (PDT)
From: Glenn Hauser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: [HCDX] Thur Log Asian Morning: 6120, 6185
To: Robert Wilkner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Logs DSWCI Logs DSWCI Logs
DSWCI <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Ivan Worldx <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[email protected], [EMAIL PROTECTED],
[EMAIL PROTECTED], Anker Petersen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Marie Lamb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, worlddx <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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--- On Thu, 7/24/08, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Singapore, 6120, Radio Singapore International, 1043-1055
> Noted a
> female in .... comments until 1045 when a male continues.
> At 1049
> a shift to promos briefly, but can't catch any place
> names. At 1051
> music starts. At 1055 recorded musical ID as
> "...RSI..." After that, music
> continues until the hour. Another ID at 1100 as,
> "Radio Singapore
> International" with accent by a female. After the
> hour,
> news presented by a female. Signal was good. (Chuck
> Bolland,
> July 24, 2008) I thought Singapore was off the air for
> good?
They have one more week until the end of July. This should have been in Malay,
with 6080 in English.
>
> China, 6185, Chian Huayi Broadcasting Corp.1106-1120 Noted
> a male in
> Chinese/Amoy language comments. This station, according to
> AOKI is located at Chengdu, China. The news lasted until
> 1110 when
> bridge music noted with more comments. Signal was fair.
> (Chuck
> Bolland, July 24, 2008)
! There are a lot of problems with listings of this. Aoki does say `Chian` but
that`s supposed to read `China` ---, and does put it in Chengdu along with
coordinates for that city. WRTH has it in Fuzhou, which is on the coast nowhere
near Chengdu in the southwest, and Fuzhou is where I always thought it was,
especially since it broadcasts in Amoy. WRTH frequency list under China shows
this 6185 as station 15) but in the following pages I can`t find any station
15) without a provincial prefix. And under Fujian province there are only 8
stations listed, not including this one. This is not made any easier by the
lack of station names in the referred numerical listings. PWBR also has it
definitely in Fuzhou.
73, Glenn Hauser
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Message: 3
Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2008 19:54:20 +0100
From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: [HCDX] Correction not China but Singapore
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Shortwaveworld Shortwaveworld
Shortwaveworld" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Robert Wilkner"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Logs DSWCI Logs DSWCI Logs DSWCI"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Ivan Worldx" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
<[email protected]>, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Anker Petersen"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Marie Lamb" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
"worlddx" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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correct the following:
China, 6185, Chian Huayi Broadcasting Corp.1106-1120 Noted a male in
Chinese/Amoy language comments. This station, according to
AOKI is located at Chengdu, China. The news lasted until 1110 when
bridge music noted with more comments. Signal was fair. (Chuck
Bolland, July 24, 2008
To read: Singapore, 6185, Radio Singapore International vice China Huayi
Broadcasting Corp,1106-1120
So China 6185 China Huayi Broadcasting Corp was NOT heard.
Thank you
Chuck Bolland, Clewiston Florida
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Message: 4
Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2008 14:01:34 -0700 (PDT)
From: Glenn Hauser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: [HCDX] Glenn Hauser logs July 23-24, 2008
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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** CHINA. Bandscanning for Firedrake, July 24 at 1257, found it not on 8000 as
a few days ago but instead on 8020, good signal // 7280, 11665, etc. At 1300
went to open carrier, during which no trace of Sound of Hope could be heard
here, 1305:30 resumed FD, but gone at 1323 recheck (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** CHINA. CRI`s Esperanto service coming in well on 11650, July 24 at 1328,
talking about, what else, La Pekinaj Olimpikoj, real Chinese clips with
voice-overs in Mandarin-accented Esperanto, k.t.p. Per Aoki, at 13-14 UT this
is Beijing site at 215 degrees. That`s close to directly off the back from
CNAm, which would be 35 degrees. Per EiBi, the // frequency is 9440 from
another site, unchecked. I noticed that there was less flutter-fading on 11650
than there was on Firedrake 11665. BTW, penultimate stress is mandatory in
Esperanto, but it sounded like ``Ol?mpikoj``, something which those influenced
by natural languages must always beware of (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** CHINA. 5955, July 24 at 1237, M&W interview in English, not // RA 6020, and
didn`t think to check CRI frequencies for //, but per Aoki:
5955 CHINA R INTER 1200-1257 1234567 English 500 95 Beijing CHN
11627E 3957N CRI a08
But that also lists from a slightly different Beijing site:
5955 CNR 8 1200-1300 1234567 Mongolian 100 15 Beijing 491 CHN
11625E 3955N CNR8 a08
Which seems extremely unlikely, that both would be operational; I did have some
co-channel QRM, tho 5950 WYFR was more of a problem (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** KOREA NORTH [non]. V. of the People, clandestine from S to N Korea, 6518
with talk in Korean // 6600. The latter had rapid pulse jamming but 6518 was
clear (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MEXICO. Since XEXQ told Juli?n Santiago that they are still on the air, I
looked for it again July 24 at 1243 when the noise level was lower than usual.
I could detect a carrier a smidgen on the hi side of 6045, but no modulation
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. Looking for the unID African music on 5050, July 23 at 2255, WWRB was
already on the air with preacher. Supposedly scheduled from 0000, but
definitely after 2300; does it really start at 2200? That would be ``6 pm`` EDT
rather than CDT in their ambiguous schedule. The night before, WWRB was also
off the air before 0500 (Glenn Hauser, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A [and non]. It`s unusual to hear WRMI, especially when the DentroCuban
Jamming Command is grinding away on 9955, but July 24 at 1253, WRMI was about
equal level to the jamming with a speaker talking urgently about ``Cuba
Libre``. 1327 recheck, only jamming heard (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** U S A [and non]. Prompted by an erroneous log of VOA 9815 in Portuguese as
Botswana, I checked this transmission July 24 at 1823: VG signal so can`t be
Botswana but instead Greenville as currently scheduled. Sign-off lasted until
1831, and carrier stayed on until 1834:30. I had the BFO on to notify me when
it quit, and then I could also hear a just barely audible carrier on 9815.
That`s also VOA, in French via Madagascar, both to exactly the same West
African target areas. But if the VOA Greenville signal is making it there
during the first half of the hour, it must also be interfering with the VOA
Madagascar signal during the second half which of course starts promptly at
1830, if not a minute before with its own sign-on. In such a case, there should
be DCI (drop carrier immediately) and/or CS (crash-start). This is one of many
cases now where VOA sites serving the same target area unnecessarily change
abruptly, and steps are not taken to avoid
self-interference! Another example is 17530 where the first half of the
English hour is Greenville, the second half Thailand, also with a monitored
overlap.
BTW, 9815 has quite a convoluted VOA schedule at 1630-2130 per EiBi:
9815 1630-1730 USA Voice of America SWA EAf /BOT Swahili Botswana
9815 1730-1800 USA Voice of America P EAf /D-L Port. Lampertheim
9815 1800-1830 Mo-Fr USA Voice of America P WAf g Port. Greenville
9815 1830-1900 USA Voice of America F WAf /MDG French Madagascar
9815 1900-2030 USA Voice of America F CAf /BOT French Botswana
9815 2030-2100 SaSu USA Voice of America F WAf g French Greenville
9815 2030-2100 Mo-Fr USA Voice of America HA WAf /BOT Hausa Botswana
9815 2100-2130 Mo-Fr USA Voice of America F CAf /BOT French Botswana
A year ago, the 1730-1800-1830 Portuguese and the 2030-2100 Hausa were via
Morocco, but who needs that? Lampertheim and Greenville were simply plugged in
as substitutes, surely inferior ones to W Africa.
Furthermore at 1630-1700, 9815 now collides with BBC via Oman in Sinhala, which
makes one wonder how much co-channel QRM there be in those respective target
areas (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A [non]. One of the better, or I should say few signals above 15410,
July 24 at 1731 was on 15760, talk in a language with lots of o-umlauts, but
certainly not German, so is it Turkish? Yes! Eibi shows this as YFR via
Woofferton at 17-19. Still fair signal at 1816. BTW, CL, there is nothing wrong
with well-informed `list-logging` such as this for major broadcasters, where
you are never going to hear a local site ID anyway. However if later shown to
be mistaken, a correxion will certainly be forthcoming (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST) ###
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Message: 5
Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2008 09:49:39 +0530 (IST)
From: sakthi vel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: [HCDX] All India Radio completes 81 years
To: Jose Jacob India <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8
AIR (All India Radio) completed 81 years of operations on Wednesday. Once an
only player in the country; the pubcaster has had to, with time, face
competition with the arrival of private radio channels in the country.
When asked about how the private FM sector has affected AIR's position in the
country AIR's Deputy Director General - Programming, planning, policy,
development and commercial G Jayalal said, "AIR is still the number one player
in the county because of the kind of reach it has. All India Radio reaches
places where private FM players have not entered yet. Our signal reaches the
remotest areas in the country."
However, it gives the impression that nothing could dampen the spirits of AIR,
as the public broadcaster is now headed towards digitalisation of its content
alongwith revamping its website. Jayalal remarked, "Yes, it is true that we are
now digitalising our content. Apart from that we have also been working at
giving a facelift to our website for some months now."
As a public service broadcaster, AIR had always emphasised on broadcasting
socially relevant content; content that would spread evangelism. "Since we are
into public service we have to concentrate on serving the public. So while
primarily most of our channels have socially relevant content; we also have
channels like Rainbow that concentrates on music and entertaining listeners.
But even in channels like Rainbow we try to incorporate as much socially
relevant content as we can", added Jayalal. While AIR is trying to evolve with
new technology and content; it would be interesting to watch how in the coming
days, the radio from the public sector takes its fight ahead against the
private FM players.
http://www.radioandmusic.com/headlines/y2k8/july/23july/air.php
________________
Jaisakthivel, Chennai, India
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Message: 6
Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2008 11:59:09 -0700 (PDT)
From: "Alex Vranes, Jr." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: [HCDX] Special SWCH Pirate xmsn. Aug. 1
To: [email protected]
Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1
Per Dutch Pirate stn. Radio Lowland, there will be a special "Short Wave
Combination Holland" broadcast on air on August 1, on 6310 kHz.,?with power of
400-w.? Broadcast will start 0700 UTC, and run to at least 2400, possibly a
little bit later, as I asked the op if he/they could stay on a little bit later
for possible better chance for reception in North America, and he replied it is
possible.? Not sure if more than 1 stn. will be involved; the name of the
broadcast seems to indicate possibly?so.? Good chance for DX'ers in eastern N.
America who have never logged a European Pirate stn., or for those who have to
hear a new one.? This info first came from the alfalima website.
?
Alex Vranes, Jr.
Harpers Ferry, WV, U.S.A.
?
(An aside to Rich Brock: I was born/raised not too far from you in Midland, PA!)
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Message: 7
Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2008 14:25:35 -0700 (PDT)
From: Andrade Junior <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: [HCDX] LOGS July 22
To: [email protected]
Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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SUAZIL?NDIA 3200.0, 0310-0314, Trans World Radio, Manzini Jul 22 Locutora fala
em Ndebele, logo ap?s deu entrada ? uma sele??o musical, com bonitas can??es
que lembram a regi?o do Caribe. 35333 (CAJ).
MADAGASCAR 3215.2, 0255-0307, Adventist World Radio, Talata-Volondry Jul 22
Locutora fala em Malagasy, em seguida come?a uma s?rie de m?sicas regionais de
curta dura??o e com interrup??es fitas pela locutora. 35433 (CAJ).
SUAZIL?NDIA 3240, 0317-0345, Trans World Radio, Manzini Jul 22 Locutor fala em
Ndau, sempre com m?sicas alegres que lembram a Rumba. Monitorei at? ?s 0345,
para ter certeza da origem da transmiss?o, j? que nessa frequ?ncia a TWR opera
em dois hor?rios com diferentes dialetos. 25222(CAJ).
?FRICA DO SUL 3255.0, 0320-0325, BBC World Service, Meyerton Jul 22 Locutor em
ingles com notici?rio, not?cias sobre as Olimpiadas, e sobre prepara??es da
Copa do Mundo de futebol. 35322 (CAJ).
?FRICA DO SUL 3345.0, 0329-0344, Channel Africa, Meyerton Jul 22 Locutora em
ingles anuncia o nome da emissora 'C. Africa', curta m?sica orquestrada, escuta
muito dif?cil devido ru?dos e fading. 34222 (CAJ).
73's
Cleiber Andrde Junior
Conselheiro Lafaiete MG, Brazil.
RX's- ICOM IC-R71E/Kenwood R1000
Ant- Big LooP
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Message: 8
Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2008 18:30:01 -0700 (PDT)
From: Andrade Junior <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: [HCDX] LOGS July 23
To: [email protected]
Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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USA 7465.0, 0003-0014, WWCR 1 Nashville, TN Jul 23 Foram tocadas algumas
can??es no idioma ingles, logo ap?s os locutores homen/mulher, come?aram em
ingles, uma palestra sobre economia interna e investimentos no mercado
financeiro. 45444 (CAJ).
UCR?NIA 7440.0, 0015-0026, Radio Ukraine Int., Lviv Jul 23 Dois homens
conversam em ingles, ?s 0020, tocou a m?sica tema da emissora e uma mo?a em
ingles anunciou, 'Radio ukraine International', continuou com informa??es sobre
a emissora, imposs?vel de entender, pois o sinal era forte, mas o ?udio n?o
acompanhava ? portadora. 45342 (CAJ).
USA 7415.0, 0026-0035, WBCQ Monticello, ME Jul 23 Um homen em ingles falava
sobre as elei??es Americanas, durante todo o tempo foi o mon?logo pol?tico do
locutor. 35333(CAJ).
USA 7385.0, 0036-0047, WHRI Cypress, Cypress Greek Jul 23 Mulher em ingles
transmite programa??o religiosa, relatava contos religiosos. Durante toda ?
escuta foi a vosz da locutora, com um tema orquestrado ao fundo. 35343 (CAJ).
USA 7365.0, 0047-0051, Radio Marti, Greenville Jul 23 Dois homens em espanhol
conversam sobre problemas pol?ticos e espionagem internacional via Internet.
Continuou uma discuss?o sobre diretos humanos. 45444 (CAJ).
USA 7315.0, 0059-01:09, WHRI World Harvest R.1, Cypress Greek Jul 23 Locutora
fala em ingles 'USA Radio News', logo ap?s outra mulher come?a uma prega??o
religiosa em nome de Jesus, com fundo musical orquestrado, uma maravilha de
sinal, com ?timo ?udio. 55555 (CAJ).
73's
Cleiber A. Jr.
Conselheiro Lafaiete MG, Brazil
RX - Kenwood R100
ANT - Big LooP
http://dxinfologs.blogspot.com/
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Message: 9
Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2008 13:48:37 -0700 (PDT)
From: "Alex Vranes, Jr." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: [HCDX] Special SWCH broadcast Aug. 1
To: [email protected]
Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1
Per Dutch Pirate stn. Radio Lowland, there will be a special "Short Wave
Combination Holland" broadcast on air on August 1, on 6310 kHz.,?with power of
400-w.? Broadcast will start 0700 UTC, and run to at least 2400, possibly a
little bit later, as I asked the op if he/they could stay on a little bit later
for possible better chance for reception in North America, and he replied it is
possible.? Not sure if more than 1 stn. will be involved; the name of the
broadcast seems to indicate possibly?so.? Good chance for DX'ers in eastern N.
America who have never logged a European Pirate stn., or for those who have to
hear a new one.? This info first came from the alfalima website.
?
Alex Vranes, Jr.
Harpers Ferry, WV, U.S.A.
?
(An aside to Rich Brock: I was born/raised not too far from you in Midland, PA!)
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Message: 10
Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2008 18:48:48 -0400
From: "Prof. Arnaldo Coro Antich" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: [HCDX] Dxers Unlimited?s mid week edition 22-23 July
2008 VERY GOOD E SKIP OPENINGS HAPPENING !!!
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], HCDX <[email protected]>, Gayle
Van Horn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Discussions of Antennas and Related
Topics <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Radio Havana Cuba
Dxers Unlimited
Dxers Unlimited?s midweek edition 22-23 July 2008
By Arnie Coro
Radio amateur CO2KK
Hi amigos radioaficionados, around the world and orbiting planet Earth?
ONCE AGAIN, with a zero sunspot count, and a very low solar flux of 66
units at 10.7 centimeters wavelength, I give you my welcome to the mid
week edition of Dxers Unlimited .I am Arnaldo, Arnie, Coro, radio
amateur CO2KK, your host here at this Radio Havana Cuba twice weekly
program, devoted entirely to the promotion and development of our
wonderful hobby , yours and mine: RADIO? a hobby we can enjoy in so many
different ways that they defy imagination? from having the unique
opportunity of helping, via amateur radio, to send an urgently required
pharmaceutical product, a medicine, to a remote place where a doctor
needs it to save the live of a patient by coordinating a flight via
amateur radio, to saving the lives of people stranded in a totally
flooded area , where the rescue helicopter was guided to also via an
amateur radio station?you can also have the pleasure of enjoying the
beautiful sight of a valley below a TV tower where you and another radio
amateur have climbed to install a new 2 meters band repeater for your
radio club, or perhaps you may , as it happens to me very often, be
fascinated by the beautiful music heard on the 60 meter Tropical
Broadcast Band coming from several African stations? Si amigos, yes my
friends, oui mes amis, radio is a really challenging hobby, where you
can relax following a circuit diagram and placing small electronic
components to circuit boards in your quest towards a new receiver, or
simply, as I did last evening , just sit down a desolder parts from an
old circuit board, just removed from an XT computer power supply, a
piece of electronic equipment that otherwise will go to the junk yard
and pollute the environment. So far , my list of the many ways we can
enjoy our radio hobby has grown up to 84 and for sure, there are many
more to be explored.
Item two: Yes, it is absolutely true, the top quality microphones used
by cellphone manufacturers are ideal for amateur radio use. A broken
down, or an obsolete cellphone is a low cost source of two highly
valuable devices? a nice high quality electret microphone element, and
an also high quality optimized for voice communications earphone? So,
follow your friend ARNIE CORO?S advice and don?t let your friends throw
away the old analog cellphones before removing the microphone element
and the earphone capsule?
For your information, my amateur radio two meters band handie talkie, a
recycled unit itsefl, now has a much better microphone element than the
original one, thanks to that simple surgical electronic transplant
operation?The microphone from a Nokia analog cellphone has proven to
receive much better audio reports than those that I got with my factory
installed handy talkie built in microphone, an it took just about an
hour to extract the analog Nokia cellphone microphone element and then
install it on the old 1991 vintage YAESU FT 411 two meters band handie
talkie? Reports received on the local 145.190 Havana Metropolitan Area
repeater were very encouraging, with several of my friends telling me
that the Nokia microphone element from the cellphone was sounding much
better than the original element used by YAESU? And of course that as
soon as I am able to get a hold of another broken down cellphone I will
use it to replace the active element on an very old 6 meters band
transceiver that has received some not very nice audio quality reports
recently?
Item three: Radio hobby related questions keep coming in to inforhc at
enet dot cu on a daily basis, they add up, and now, again, I have a huge
backlog ? but don?t worry that I hope to be able to catch up with during
the upcoming long weekend here in Cuba? In the meantime , here is the
answer to a question sent in several different forms by listeners from
places from Italy, South Africa, Canada and Australia, and as near to
Cuba as the Jamaica, that by the way, is the third closest to Cuba
nation? The Bahamas Cayo Lobos, or Lobos Key that forms part of the
Bahamas archipelago is just 22 kilometers away from the northern coast
of Cuba across the Old Bahamas Channel, so Bahamas is our closest
neighbor?and Haiti is just 77 kilometers across the strait that
separates the island of La Hispaniola from Cuba. Jamaica is 140
kilometers south of Cuba, separated by the Strait of Colon, named to
honor Christopher Columbus? Si amigos, radio and geography go together
quite well, and my kids learned a lot of geography by locating the
countries where the stations that I talked to via amateur radio were
located. Well back to the question, that has appeared here a number of
times? it is about wideband receiving antennas that can be built and
installed by the average short wave listener that obviously is not a
radio engineer? So now, here is ASK ARNIE, the most popular section of
Dxers Unlimited, answering today, again, the question, which broadband
antenna design is the easiest to homebrew by the average short wave
listener?
Well I must say that the reply to this question has to be divided in two
parts: the first part is about the FAN BROADBAND ANTENNA, that is the
easiest of them all to homebrew, and the second part is about the
somewhat more complicated TTFD or Tilted Terminated Folded Dipole
Broadband antenna, so well researched by my good friend and topmost
antenna ??guru? Professor L.B. Cebik , radio amateur W4RNL, who sadly
passed a way a few weeks ago.
So, let?s start with the FAN DIPOLE , after a short break for station
ID? stay right on this frequency or world wide web connection , as Dxers
Unlimited?s mid week edition continues in a few seconds? I am Arnie Coro
in Havana?
?..
Si amigos, you are listening to Radio Havana Cuba?s radio hobby program?
Now , as promised here is information on how to assemble and install
your own fan dipole antenna, one of the easiest to build broadband
systems for short wave reception.
In actual practice, I have tested and experimented with three different
sizes of FAN ANTENNAS? one, designed to work from 3 to 10 megaHertz, but
also capable of good performance up to around 20 or 22 megaHertz,
another one of a much more practical size that works nicely from 6 to 18
megaHertz and a compact, much smaller version that was designed during
the peak of solar cycle 23 for optimum performance between 15 and 45
megaHertz. As you may realize , these antennas cover a typical three to
one frequency ratio, but they will still provide rather good reception
on higher frequencies. Antenna engineers will tell you that ideally, the
professional fan dipoles are designed to cover a two to one frequency
ratio, but in actual practice, and using a well designed antenna tuner,
the frequency range covered can be extended to a three to one ratio, as
explained earlier during the program?
Now let me begin by describing the medium sized FAN DIPOLE, that
according to letters and e-mail messages received from Dxers Unlimited?s
listeners around the world, is the best compromise, the one most
feasible to homebrew and install? It is made of number 12 bare copper
antenna wire. You start by cutting six identical lengths of wire that
are 9 and a half meters long each? Each wire is attached at one end to a
high quality insulator, that you can even make yourself to save money
using high quality polyethilene plastic tubing. The FAN antenna is a
dipole, that has three wires on each side of the center insulator, that
is made from a heavy piece of polyethylene used as a kitchen cutting
board in its original application.
You will have to drill several holes to the polyethylene cutting board
in order to hold the six wires to it, and also to hold the antenna
feeder wires.
The wires forming each leg of the antenna spread out from the center
insulator so that at the end they are separated by one and a half meters
from each other ?.
The antenna feedline is connected to each of the wires forming the
dipole, and my advice is to use a very easy to homebrew air dielectric
one to one balun or balanced to unbalanced transformer that will
interconnect the antenna to a coaxial cable feedline.
The overall length of the actual antenna is about 20 meters, including
the required insulated cords that hold the antenna wires to the two
support structures.
The actual antenna length is 18 meters, so it will operate as a dipole
with broadband characteristics between 6 and 18 megaHertz, allowing very
nice reception of the international short wave broadcast bands starting
at 49 meters, and going up to 41, 31,25, 22, 19 and 16 meters? So you
end up with an antenna that works very well for receiving the seven most
used international short wave broadcast band? But that?s not all amigos
!!! There are more good things about this FAN DIPOLE? it will allow
amateur radio operators to use if on 40, 30, 20, 17 ,15, 12 and 10
meters too?again on the seven most active short wave ham bands?
And because the antenna works so nicely from 6 to 18 megaHertz it will
make a very worthwhile addition to your communications utilities
monitoring station too.
The SIX WIRE FAN DIPOLE, is also a nice looking antenna system, that can
be installed easily by just two persons? Please don?t attempt to install
this antenna all by yourself, because it will be rather difficult due to
the many wires involved?
Keep in mind that antenna work can be dangerous, so you must be
extremely careful when doing it, and never work alone on your antenna
installation projects, use all safety precautions and keep well away
from nearby power lines. Also, stop immediately at any signs of a nearby
thunderstorm?
I remember many years ago, when I heard a thunder clap several seconds
after receiving a big electrical shock from the antenna wire I was
holding in my hands while another person was pulling up the antenna .
By the way , the air core balanced to unbalanced wide band transformer
is made on a length of white PVC pipe of twelve millimeters diameter to
which three interlaced wires are wound for a total of twelve turns? This
makes a very nice high performance low loss BALUN, that will cost next
to nothing?
For cable runs no longer than 15 to 20 meters you can use RG58 or RG59
coaxial cable, but if the antenna is located more than 20 meters away
from the shack,, it is a much better option to use LOWER LOSS RG213 50
ohms coaxial cable?
One final comment about this general purpose broadband short wave
antenna system? I have even used it, with the help of an antenna tuner,
to operate on the 6 meters or 50 megaHertz amateur band, and made
contacts with stations several thousand miles away from Havana !!!
There is no magic involved in the overall length of this antenna or in
the separation of the wires at the ends? just plain good sound radio
engineering , confirmed by actual highly reliable practical results? Of
the three FAN DIPOLE designs , the one just described is certainly the
most popular one, although the smaller more compact version has also
received good comments from Dxers Unlimited?s listeners that have built
it because they had no other choice due to lack of enough space to
install the 18 meters long version of the FAN ANTENNA?
If you need any help , or want to clarify something about this antenna
design, just send an e mail to arnie at rhc dot cu and I will be very
happy to reply as soon as possible? The better antennas you have, the
more you will always enjoy our hobby amigos !!! Installing a new short
wave antenna will be a very rewarding project amigos !!!
??
You are listening to the mid week edition of Dxers Unlimited, and here
is now our next item?it?s about amateur radio operators here in Cuba now
ready to provide ,whenever needed, emergency communications for the
ongoing Atlantic and Caribbean Tropical Hurricane Season. The season
began on the first day of June. Among the many preparations made this
year were reinforcing some of our two meters band repeaters antenna
systems, so that they can be able to survive to more than 120 or even
150 miles per hour winds. Antennas installed atop high towers that are
located high up in mountains or high raise buildings are always
subjected to extreme forces that can destroy them precisely at the time
that they are most needed, and that?s why our radio clubs are involved
in the building and installation of very rugged antennas for the two
meters band repeaters that play such an important role handling
emergency communications?
And now amigos at the end of the show, here is Arnie Coro?s exclusive
and not copyrighted HF plus low band VHF propagation update and
forecast?Solar flux at base level of 66 units, zero sunspots, and a high
speed solar wind is expected to disrupt HF propagation at higher
latitudes for several days. Be ready for more really good sporadic E
openings on the 17, 15, 12 , 10 and 6 meters amateur bands?The nice
strong E skip signals are a very good solid reason to keep your ham
radio transceivers on and tuning around the many beacons that provide
information about band openings, especially on 10 and 6 meters ? If you
hear even just one single beacon, then it?s time to start calling CQ DX
and raise some activity on the band where the beacon is heard? Solar
flux still at very low levels and no signs of cycle 24 sunspots, ? See
you all at the weekend edition of Dxers Unlimited next Saturday and
Sunday amigos !!! And don?t forget to send me an e-mail with your signal
reports and comments about the program, plus any radio hobby related
questions that you may want to ask, as always I am at your service here
my friends !!!
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Message: 11
Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2008 02:51:01 -0700 (PDT)
From: Yimber Gaviria <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: [HCDX] [Yimber Gaviria Blog] Captaciones DX por Yimber
Gaviria, Colombia
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [email protected],
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--- On Thu, 7/24/08, Yimber Gaviria Blog <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
From: Yimber Gaviria Blog <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: [Yimber Gaviria Blog] Captaciones DX por Yimber Gaviria, Colombia
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Thursday, July 24, 2008, 12:24 AM
Las horas son en UTC.
Frecuencia en Khz.
Julio 23 del 2008.
1660 0353 La Nueva Sensacion, Venezuela, 0353- UT, 555, Segundo armonico
830x2.
la nueva sensacion...om con tc "son las 11 y 23 minutos 830 el poder en
amplitud modulada".
http://www.sensacion830.com/
sintonice ambas frecuencias, escuchen la grabacion en los 830 KHz AM y en la
frecuencia
del segundo armonico 830 x 2 =
1660 KHz AM.
via YV5FIH
receptor: Icom PCR-1000, Discone, en Global Tuners
73 de Yimber
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Publicado por Yimber Gaviria Blog para Yimber Gaviria Blog el 7/24/2008
12:13:00 AM
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Message: 12
Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2008 12:10:23 -0700 (PDT)
From: Mike <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: [HCDX] The end of short wave radio in the UK
To: [email protected]
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Dear group
A severe threat to your hobby of using shortwave is on its way to a
house near you!
BT (British Telecom) are supplying their customers with devices
called Home Plugs (power line adapters) that send TV/data around the
house using the mains wiring of that house.
To do this they use the frequency range of 3-30 Mhz.
You would have thought it very basic to understand that unshielded
wires will act as transmitting antennas for this frequency range.
Well this is exactly what it does.
Myself and other radio fans are already finding terrible QRM at
+30db in my case from a house over 100 feet from mine.
Don't let apathy ruin your hobby.
We are coming together on a new Yahoo group to organise petitions
and other actions to try and save our hobby.
Please feel free to join and add your valuable support.
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/UKQRM/
I am Mike from the UK who has a very unhelpful neighbour with BT
equipment giving me +30db of QRM from 3-30 Mhz.
This could happen to you!
All it takes is one of your neighbours to swap ISP and then you
could be sitting there with 100's ? of radio doing nothing.
To this end I urge you to consider joining our group that is
planning a fight back against this in the UK.
Unless we join forces we will lose our hobby.
http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/UKQRM/
And if you want to hear and see what the noise is like try this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S__UBDaL-aE
Regards and thanks for your time
Mike
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Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2008 23:05:01 +0000
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