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Today's Topics:
1. Glenn Hauser logs November 6, 2008 (Glenn Hauser)
2. Ultimas escuchas. (JOSE MIGUEL ROMERO ROMERO)
3. 7455 Radio Algeria, ex 5915, en paralelo por 5865.
(JOSE MIGUEL ROMERO ROMERO)
4. Relays via 9290 kHz (Tom Taylor)
5. Escuchas del 6 de Nov, parte II (JOSE MIGUEL ROMERO ROMERO)
6. EVE DX ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
7. Glenn Hauser logs November 6, 2008 part 2 (Glenn Hauser)
8. New MW QSL #2998 (Patrick Martin)
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Message: 1
Date: Thu, 6 Nov 2008 08:08:52 -0800 (PST)
From: Glenn Hauser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: [HCDX] Glenn Hauser logs November 6, 2008
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** AFGHANISTAN [and non]. The marker now to confirm whether Radio Solh via
Rampisham UK, 13830, is still playing exactly the same music day after day at
the same time is an abrupt cutoff of one piece at 1348, few seconds pause,
start another one with a hi-pitched soprano, as noted again Nov 6. But no
sticking or skipping (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CZECHIA [non]. R. Praga, Spanish on new 7420, UT Thu Nov 6 at 0021
mentioning Praga, fair with quite a bit of fading, but at the moment WBCQ not
on the 7415 air. This is a new relay via Ascension, 245 degrees to deep SAm;
alternate 15300 where nothing heard. RP is always behind getting its website up
to date, especially regarding relays, and early UT Nov 6 it still shows ex-7275
for this relay: http://www.radio.cz/en/frequencies
Maybe VTC and/or R. Prague are finally deciding to respect the 40m hamband in
the Western Hemisphere (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** INDONESIA. I finally missed a day checking whether VOI was still on 9526,
Nov 5, so unless I see someone else reporting it, I will have to suspend my
enumeration of the days it has lasted, but it has definitely exceeded three
weeks with two days off. It was there on Nov 6 at 1312 check, YL news in
English, with hum and flutter (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** JAPAN. Nikkei Radio, Tampa Hoso, 6055, Thu Nov 6 at 1319 with French lesson
presented in Japanese, conjugations of ``coucher``, ``s?arr?ter``. Prof has a
good Parisian accent except when it comes to ells. ``Ils`` sounds more like
``iru``. 1329 sign-off announcement in Japanese listing numerous JOZ-
callsigns, frequencies and kirowatu, with the Z apparently pronounced not zee
nor zed, but zeta (or zedu?), and off at 1330* (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** ROMANIA. RRI, 15105 and 17745, Nov 6 at 1336 with bio of Enescu and his
Romanian Rhapsody on piano, both with good reception in 13-14 English to WEu
and consequently NAm (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** RUSSIA [and non]. Tho DX Mix News, Bulgaria, says new 7335 via GUIANA FRENCH
is in use for VOR in English to NAm at 0200-0600, the first part is axually in
Russian, as checked Nov 6 at 0307. VG signal blowing away CHU.
11630 in Russian about US elexion, atop Qur`an from Kuwait, Nov 6 at 1307. VOR
Moscow is scheduled 1200-1500 at 100 degrees.
6075, R. Rossii, 6075 via Pet/Kam, has some enjoyable world music during the
final hour of the broadcast day until 1400, good for SWLing. Nov 6 at 1326 it
was banjo, or balalaika? Fair with some flutter. This frequency is scheduled 20
hours a day, 18-14 UT, 100 kW at 15 degrees. And to cap it off is the CW at
1400; see UNIDENTIFIED 6074.
13600, still with big buzz marring Russian transmission from unknown site, Nov
6 at 1348; also CW QRM on low side (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** THAILAND. R. Thailand, 7365, Nov 6 at 1315 big open carrier goes to HSK9
chimes, R. Thailand World Service ID in English, introducing Mandarin service;
very good and unjammed (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U K [non]. 6065 weak with ``BBC Radio English``, i.e. lessons for Chinese
speakers, Nov 6 at 1318. This transmission does not appear on the seemingly
exhaustive VTC schedule in DXLD 8-115, perhaps because VTC has nothiing to do
with this relay via KBS in S Korea, 1300-1530 at 290 degrees (Glenn Hauser, OK,
DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. Tho WWRB came up on 3270 a while ago for Brother Scare in the
evenings, I have not found it lately; for example, nothing there at 0230 Nov 6.
Is anyone hearing it? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. WRNO still running music tests on 7505, Nov 6 at 1316, very strong
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. After listening to R. Rossii on 6075 via Pet/Kam, Nov 6 at 1400,
I had the BFO on to catch the mysterious CW marker on 6074. After the final
timesignal from RR, pause a few seconds, and very weakly audible, starting
before the RR carrier went off, there it was, hard to copy but I could make out
CQ DE 8GAL K, with the CQ and 8GAL repeated.
8GAL is exactly the same ID I was hearing until last February, altho Ron Howard
in CA recorded it Oct 29 and listening to that clip, the ID was instead VZAI.
David E. Crawford told Ron that ``the callsigns are typical of Russian Army (4
random alfa/numeric characters), almost certainly unrelated to the SWBC
transmission``. I listened to Ron`s clip again, and yes, that was definitely:
``DE VZAI VZAI K`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 9640 with strong open carrier, Nov 6 at 1310; suspected
Greenville or something in N America, but only thing scheduled here is IBB
Thailand at 130 degrees, VOA in English per schedule in DXLD 8-115. No trace of
modulation, so perhaps this was it having lost feed. R. Thailand [q.v.] was
also inbooming on 7365 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
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Message: 2
Date: Thu, 6 Nov 2008 20:53:36 +0000 (GMT)
From: JOSE MIGUEL ROMERO ROMERO <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: [HCDX] Ultimas escuchas.
To: Frecuencia DX <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Saludos cordiales.
CHINA 9455 CNR 1, Lingshi 725, 20:27-20:31, escuchada el 6 de noviembre en
idioma chino, cu?a de identificaci?n, cu?as publicitarias producida por voces
de ni?os, se aprecia en colisi?n con otra emisora, probablemente Radio Free
Asia en idioma chino, ambas emisiones de 2000 a 2400 UTC, locutora con
comentarios, emisi?n en paralelo por 9655 y 9890, SINPO 33433
GUAYANA 9640 Radio Polonia, Montsinery, 20:37-20:41, escuchada el 6 de
noviembre en alem?n a locutora con comentarios, se aprecia en colisi?n con otra
emisora, parece en espa?ol, intuyo el servicio para Am?rica del norte de Radio
Exterior de Espa?a, segmento musical interpretado por piano, SINPO 43443
LIBIA 11965 Voice of ?frica, Sabrata, 19:42-19:47, escuchada el 6 de noviembre
en idioma hausa a locutor con comentarios e identificaci?n, cortos titulares
acompa?ado de m?sica de fondo, siempre la misma, muy pegadiza, varias
referencias a Obama, SINPO 45554.
TAILANDIA 9535 Radio Thailand, Udon Thani, 20:33-20:35, escuchada el 6 de
noviembre en ingl?s a locutor y locutora con noticias, SINPO 34333
T?NEZ 12005 RTV Tunisia, Sfax, 19:49-19:51, escuchada el 6 de noviembre en
?rabe a locutora en conversaci?n telef?nica con oyentes, SINPO 34433
SEYCHELLES 9410 BBC World Service, Mahe, 19:53-19:57, escuchada el 6 de
noviembre en ingl?s a locutora con noticias, no recuerdo haber captado a esta
emisora desde estas islas, la propagaci?n de hoy no es buena y me sorprende
captar esta emisora desde las Sheychelles, cu?a de identificaci?n, SINPO 44444
ZAMBIA 9420 CVC International, Lusaka, 19:58-20:02, escuchada el 6 de noviembre
en ingl?s a locutor con comentarios, desde las 20:00 UTC se aprecia en colisi?n
con otra emisora, no estoy seguro, pero puede tratarse de Radio Cairo en su
servicio en hausa, SINPO 33432
Jos? Miguel Romero
Burjasot (Valencia)
Espa?a
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Message: 3
Date: Thu, 6 Nov 2008 21:42:58 +0000 (GMT)
From: JOSE MIGUEL ROMERO ROMERO <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: [HCDX] 7455 Radio Algeria, ex 5915, en paralelo por 5865.
To: Frecuencia DX <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Saludos cordiales.
FRANCIA 7455 Radio Algeria Holy Quran, Issoudon, 21:30-21:40, escuchada el 6 de
noviembre en idioma ?rabe a locutor con comentarios, a las 21:26 comienza canto
del Cor?n, emisi?n en paralelo por 5865, sin emisi?n en 5915, captada el pasado
2 de noviembre, no se aprecia emisi?n en 7175 ni en 7295, en paralelo por 5865,
SINPO 45544.
Jos? Miguel Romero
Burjasot (Valencia)
Espa?a
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Message: 4
Date: Thu, 6 Nov 2008 22:51:08 -0000
From: "Tom Taylor" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: [HCDX] Relays via 9290 kHz
To: "Tom Taylor" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Relays via 9290 kHz
November 8th
Radio Casablanca 12.00 -13.00UTC
Latvia Today 13.00 -14.00UTC
RWI 16.00 -17.00UTC
November 9th
RWI 07.00 -08.00UTC
Latvia Today 08.00 -09.00UTC
Baltic Radio 14.00 -15.00UTC
November 11th
RWI 09.00 -10.00UTC
Good listening 73s Tom
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Message: 5
Date: Thu, 6 Nov 2008 23:46:28 +0000 (GMT)
From: JOSE MIGUEL ROMERO ROMERO <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: [HCDX] Escuchas del 6 de Nov, parte II
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Saludos cordiales.
ALEMANIA 6190 Deutschlandfunk, Berlin-Britz, 22:08-22:10, escuchada el 6 de
noviembre en alem?n a locutor con noticias, locutor con posible cu?a de
identificaci?n, comentarios, SINPO 34343.
ARGELIA 6300 Radio Nacional Saharaui, Rabouni, 22:04-22:07, escuchada el 6 de
noviembre en idioma hasan?a??, locutor con comentarios con referencias a
?Saharui...Magreb?..?, SINPO 44333
ISRAEL 6973 Galei Zahal, Tel Aviv-Yavne, 21:55-22:02, escuchada el 6 de
noviembre en hebreo a locutor con comentarios, locutora con posible ID
?Kol?...Israel...?, noticias, referencias a Obama, SINPO 34343
CANADA 7335 CHU Ottawa, TS, 21:25, CW, Fonia en ingl?s, SIO 222
Jos? Miguel Romero
Burjasot (Valencia)
Espa?a
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Date: Fri, 7 Nov 2008 01:15:50 -0000
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Peru, 4857.44, Radio La Hora, 2346-0008 Noted a program of Spanish
comments from two males with mentions of "Peru" every once in awhile.
At 0003 canned ID with TC even. Signal was fair to poor and went off the
air at 0008. (Chuck Bolland, November 6 2008)
Peru, 4746.90, Radio Huanta Dos Mil, 2341-0015, At 2341 the signal was
at a fail level with Spanish language comments for the entire period. By
0015,
the signal had faded from a fair at 2341 level to threshold by 0015. (Chuck
Bolland, November 6, 2008)
Also heard between 2345 and 2359:
Radio Tarma on 4775 KHz - Fair.
Radio Maranon on 4835.48 - Poor
Guatemala, 4779.99, Radio Cultural Coatan, Pres, 0028-0035 With tune in,
noted local type music. At 0032 music stops and a male comments briefly.
CODAR right on top of this station which is already poor. (Chuck Bolland,
November 7, 2008)
Bolivia, 5952.50, Radio Emisoras Pio XII, 0036-0045 Music followed with
Spanish comments from a male. After 10 minutes from him and second male
joins in with the comments. Signal was good. (Chuck Bolland, November 7,
2008)
India, 6045, All India Radio,(pres) 0045-0059 Noted a female in Steady
Nepali language comments until 0057. At that time a male comments briefly
and then the station goes down. Signal was good as far as strength was
concerned, but the amount of splatter made it difficult to catch any
details.
Chuck Bolland, November 7, 2008)
Bolivia, 6155.26, Radio Fides, 0111-0120 Although still active, signal is
pretty weak and down there. Noted a female and male in Spanish comments.
At 0114 music heard. Signal was poor. (Chuck Bolland, November 7, 2008)
Clewiston, Florida
NRD545
.
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Message: 7
Date: Thu, 6 Nov 2008 17:34:25 -0800 (PST)
From: Glenn Hauser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: [HCDX] Glenn Hauser logs November 6, 2008 part 2
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** ALBANIA. R. Tirana, 9345, Nov 6 at 2130 with open carrier, 2132 signing-on
Albanian sesquihour with usual low and somewhat distorted modulation. Fair to
good signal and no QRM. So I was too late to hear how English made it at 2100,
but should have been OK, also on 7510 and no WRNO on 7505 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** ANGUILLA [and non]. Not only does PMS, 6090 have a constant hum on her own
transmitter, but also that het from Nigeria(?), and at 2237 Nov 6, DRM bleeding
over from 6085. That`s supposed to end at 2200 per DRM skeds, 10 kW
non-direxional from Bayerischer Rundfunk, Ismaning (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** AUSTRALIA [non]. R. Australia via Taiwan, 11550, Nov 6 at 2220 in Indonesian
mixed with English, perhaps part of lessons; fair. Someone else recently
reported this as R. Cairo in Arabic and English, but that has moved to 6255,
which I also heard today; see EGYPT (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CANADA [and non]. CFRX has yet more competition for 6070, now that R.
Ruman?a Internacional is back in full business, as heard Nov 6 at 2235 with ID
in Spanish and folk music. CFRX was capable of making no more than a fast SAH
with RRI, now scheduled on 6070 only at 22-23, 300 kW, 247 degrees from
Tiganesti. It`s about the same fast SAH that off-frequency and undermodulated
CFRX sometimes makes with CVC Chile which now doesn`t open on 6070 until 0000
and then runs all-night (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CANADA [and non]. In A-08 HFCC, OTTAWA appeared 24 hours on 7335, so
broadcasters would at least know CHU existed, but in B-08 it`s deleted (and not
shown on 7850, probably will not be as considered utility), so altho CHU has
yet to make its long-planned QSY, the broadcasters have moved in on 7335, as if
CHU and its would-be listeners do not exist. Among others, there`s VOR with a
big signal via Guiana French to NAm at 0200-0600, but also WHRI is scheduled
three hours a day, 12-13 and 22-24. WHRI`s ``Daily Dose`` of gospel rock heard
at 2250 Nov 6, very strong. I reject this iatrogenic medicine (Glenn Hauser,
OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CUBA [and non]. Now it`s Vatican Radio getting hit by the DentroCuban
Jamming Command, which pulses and bubbles on 9600 most of the day, even when
RHC itself is on it; Nov 6 at 2204, Vatican Radio direct in Chinese was mixing
with the jamming. The Chicom themselves don`t bother to jam VR, despite their
differences over who owns the Catholic church in China, so, nevertheless, ---
Commies vs Catholix!
RNV via Cuba, 11670 was funxioning normally as I scanned the 25m band around
2210 UT Nov 6, but at 2211 an ear-splitting broadband series of whines broke
out, ranging from 11640 to 11725, overriding all broadcast signals in this
range, such as 11700 WYFR, 11690 DW/Rwanda, 11665 Japan/WYFR. As I tuned across
the 85 kHz I could hear not only multiple carriers heterodyning each other,
about 6 of them equally spaced per 10-kHz segment, but also the RNV audio in
Spanish over the entire range, so obviously the culprit was the Cuban
transmitter which went totally out of whack and ruined that portion of the
band. This lasted at least past 2230, altho I could not stand to monitor it
constantly. At 2243 recheck, 11670 was back in whack and the broadband whine
had ceased. I have caught similar outbreaks before from Cuban transmitters, POS.
Typical DentroCuban jamming pulses and with BFO on, bubbling, around 7865, cut
off at 2257* and back on at *2258; pulse rate of about 132 per minute; versus
absolutely nothing on this out-of-band frequency. Nor could it be a simple
harmonic; possibly a mixing product or just an inexplicable spur (Glenn Hauser,
OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** EGYPT [and non]. R. Cairo, 6255, Nov 6 at 2241 after Arab music, YL in
English with sign-off announcement. Her thick accent, extremely rapid pace, and
low modulation made it impossible to understand more than the gist and an
occasional word. Then into tone which lasted until 2245* These people are doing
just about everything wrong, preventing Radio Cairo from being even a
moderately successful service. She alone could solve one of the problems: slow
down and speak as clearly as you can! Your voice has to surmount great
obstacles to reach listeners many megameters away. You should take lessons from
your nearest neighbor on the dial, Radio PMR, 6240 which was loud AND clear,
also ending English at 2246, into French (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** EQUATORIAL GUINEA. No sign of 15190, R. Africa, Nov 6 at 2157, just
YFR/Ascension on 15195. Is its absence just for now or for a long time? (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** OKLAHOMA. New station on 1120, still playing same oldies music for testing,
but has added IDs; heard one immediately upon tune-in Nov 6 at 1844 UT: ``AM
1120, KEOR, Catoosa``. By 2100 it was mixing with skywave from KMOX with CBS
News bong, but KEOR dominating for a bit longer (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** U S A. WINB is apparently changing 13570v to 9265v at 2200 UT now, instead
of 2100, since before 2200 it was not to be heard on 9265, and at 2203 there it
was with some preacher (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. Haiti has not observed DST since 2006, according to
http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/timezone.html?n=709&syear=2000
But VOA still keeps shifting its three daily Kriyol broadcasts one hour
depending on when DST comes and goes in Washington! Obviously they are more
concerned with their own convenience than with the listeners, whom the shifts
can merely confuse, and consequently result in a loss of audience. Or could it
be that VOA/IBB are so out of touch with their audience that they don`t even
know DST no longer runs in Haiti?
Now we hear the evening broadcast at 2200 instead of 2100, on 13725 and
stronger // 15390, until closing at 2229. Both played the YDD sequence, and
carrier stayed on 15390 until 2232:30, wasting taxpayer kilowatts x 3 including
third frequency unchecked, 11895 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A [and non]. WRMI, 9955, 2206 UT Thu Nov 6 with Irish accent and
discussion of Irish vs EU laws, ergo it`s RTE again, via WRN, on WRMI relay, no
more Overnight AM, which a few weeks ago occupied the 21-24 UT period weekdays,
and if it had continued would now be 22-01 UT. At the beginning some
DentroCuban jamming bothered; at 2300 recheck another European English relay
was running, Radio Netherlands scheduled, and now no jamming audible, but a
continuous het had appeared from about 9954.8. It had some audio too but unable
to separate from WRMI. Most likely source is France via Taiwan, which was there
at least in A-08. After 0030 I checked the WRMI webcast and there was Israel
Radio again on SW in English. 0102 went into Rick Hash, Bible Pathway, readings
in English (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** ZAMBIA [and non]. The intolerable collision on 9420 goes on: Nov 6 at 2150,
about equal levels from V. of Greece in Greek, music, and 1Africa, CVC Zambia
in English; SAH of approximately 4 Hz between them (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST) ###
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Date: Thu, 6 Nov 2008 18:49:25 -0800
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Patrick Martin)
Subject: [HCDX] New MW QSL #2998
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED],
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1490 KBIS WA, Forks, rec ppc back in 7d. V/S: Steve Rhyner (No
title). Address: Box 450, Forks WA 98331. MW QSL: #2998. (PM-OR)
73,
Patrick
Patrick Martin
KGED QSL Manager
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