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Today's Topics:
1. Escuchas/Escutas/Logs (Arnaldo)
2. Radio 9 de Julho (Manuel M?ndez)
3. Mon DX ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
4. Granite Pier - OCT 2008 - 51 countries in 5 hours
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5. Re: Granite Pier - OCT 2008 ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
6. Glenn Hauser logs November 9-10, 2008 (Glenn Hauser)
7. Spain and Portugal Survey (Giampiero Bernardini)
8. LOGs... (Adalberto - Barbacena - MG)
9. Logs for Al Muick 10 November (Albert Muick)
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Message: 1
Date: Mon, 10 Nov 2008 04:48:46 -0300
From: "Arnaldo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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ASCENSION
9525 Star Radio, Ascension, transmission for Liberia, 0720-0729, november
08, English,
talk by male, announcement by female, short music, s/off, 34333
(Arnaldo Slaen, Argentina)
9525 Cotton Tree News, Ascension, 0730-0740, November 08, English,
s/on, identification and announcement by female, news by same female,
34333/24332
(Arnaldo Slaen, Argentina)
BRAZIL
9820 Radio Nove de Julho, Sao Paulo, SP, 0743-0800, November 08, Portuguese,
back to air!!!!!!!!!!!!!, reported with the programme "Clube do Pasarinho";
many identifications as: "....a Nove de Julho, a Radio Catolica", 44444
(Arnaldo Slaen, Argentina)
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Message: 2
Date: Mon, 10 Nov 2008 09:20:53 +0100
From: Manuel M?ndez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: [HCDX] Radio 9 de Julho
To: Glenn Hauser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Manuel M?ndez
Lugo, Espa?a
QTH: Lugo
Grundig Satellit 500 y Sony ICF SW 7600G
Antena de cable, 8 metros
BRASIL, 9820, Radio 9 de Julho, 0759-0808, 10-11, portugu?s, locutor,
comentario religioso: "O Amor ao Espiritu Santo", identificaci?n a las 0800:
"Radio 9 de Julho AM 1600 kHz", canciones religiosas. 23322. (M?ndez)
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Message: 3
Date: Mon, 10 Nov 2008 10:54:52 -0000
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Peru, 6173.81, Tawantinsuyo, 1010-1030, With a very weak signal here,
noted a male in Spanish Language comments. Can't squeeze out any details
because the signal is so weak. I believe a second male is also speaking
during the period. This station has been heard by others recently, but this
is the first time I have been able to pull Tawantinsuyo in for more than a
year, if my memory is correct? Unfortunately, the signal never got any
better by 1030. (Chuck Bolland, November 10, 2008)
Bolivia, 6155.25, Radio Fides, 1029-1045 At tune in, noted two males
talking together. One mentioned "Boliviana" in a sentence. Who shares
6155 here? Is it Radio Exterior Espana or maybe China? Anyway,
that station is interferring with Radio Fides this morning. Normally the
interference can be notched out, but they are persistent today. The
programming on Fides at this time seems to be news with an assortment
of reports heard from individuals. Signal was fair. (Chuck Bolland,
November 10, 2008)
China, 7620, China National Radio Five, 1040-1055, Noted two
males in Chinese language converstation. Periodically a recorded
segment is inserted which sounds like a "pep talk" with fanfare
and the whole smear. Signal was good. (Chuck Bolland, November 10, 2008)
Clewiston, Florida
NRD545
GO DOLPHINS
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Message: 4
Date: Mon, 10 Nov 2008 10:09:58 -0500
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Subject: [HCDX] Granite Pier - OCT 2008 - 51 countries in 5 hours
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Granite Pier - OCT 2008 - 51 countries in 5 hours
from Mark Connelly, WA1ION <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
During October 2008, I went on two after-work local sunset period car
DXpeditions to Granite Pier in Rockport, MA. These ran from 2159 UTC
(8 OCT) to 0059 UTC (9 OCT) on the first outing and 2115-2315 UTC (29
OCT) on the second for a combined total DXing time of 5 hours.
Great propagation conditions and liberal use of SDR-IQ spectrum
capturing technology allowed a countries total of 51 for the two
sessions.
The full report is too long to post on this list but may be found
online at:
<http://home.comcast.net/~markwa1ion/granite_pier_2008.htm>
The list of countries heard, with frequencies, appears below:
ALBANIA : 1214.9, 1394.62, 1457.6
ALGERIA : 549, 891, 981, 1422, 1550
ANGOLA : 1088, 1196.7
AZORES : 837
BELGIUM : 927, 1125
BELGIUM : 1125
BENIN : 1566
BERMUDA : 1160
BRAZIL : 720, 760, 840, 1140
BULGARIA : 1224
CANADA : many
CANARY ISLANDS : 576, 621, 720, 747, 837, 882, 1008, 1179
CEUTA : 1584
COLOMBIA : 1190.33
CROATIA : 1134
CUBA : 1180
CZECH REPUBLIC : 954
DJIBOUTI : 1431
EGYPT : 774, 864
FRANCE : 603, 711, 792, 837, 864, 945, 1206, 1242, 1377, 1404, 1467,
1494, 1557
GERMANY : 756, 828 (t), 873, 972, 1269, 1323, 1422
IRAN : 1278, 1332
IRELAND : 846, 981
ISRAEL : 1224 (t)
ITALY : 657, 900, 1062, 1575
KUWAIT : 1548
LIBYA : 675, 972, 1053.07, 1251, 1449
LUXEMBOURG : 1440
MADEIRA : 603
MAURITANIA : 783
MOLDOVA : 999, 1548
MOROCCO : 595 (t), 612, 936, 1188
NETHERLANDS : 675, 747
NIGERIA : 917
NORTHERN IRELAND : 1341
PORTUGAL : 594, 630, 666, 720
PUERTO RICO : 580, 630, 680
QATAR : 954
ROMANIA : 855, 909, 1332
SAUDI ARABIA : 594, 999, 1512, 1521
SLOVENIA : 918
SPAIN : 531, 558, 567, 576, 585, 603, 612, 621, 639, 648, 657, 684,
729, 738, 747, 756, 774, 792, 801, 837, 855, 864, 873, 882, 900, 918,
954, 963, 990, 999, 1053, 1071, 1080, 1098, 1107, 1107.13, 1116, 1125,
1134, 1143, 1152, 1161, 1179, 1197, 1215, 1224, 1287, 1296, 1305, 1314,
1359, 1413, 1485, 1584, 1602
ST. KITTS & NEVIS : 555, 820, 895
SWEDEN : 1179
SWITZERLAND : 765
TUNISIA : 630
UNITED ARAB EMIRATES : 1170, 1539, 1575
UNITED KINGDOM (ENGLAND) : 693, 882, 909, 1053, 1089, 1197, 1215,
1296, 1359, 1458, 1548, 1566
USA : many
VATICAN : 1530
VENEZUELA : 670, 720, 750, 900
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Message: 5
Date: Mon, 10 Nov 2008 10:57:03 -0500
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Minor correction - country count should be 50, somehow Belgium got in
there twice.
Mark Connelly, WA1ION
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Message: 6
Date: Mon, 10 Nov 2008 10:21:07 -0800 (PST)
From: Glenn Hauser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: [HCDX] Glenn Hauser logs November 9-10, 2008
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** BRAZIL. Those distorted spurs from RNA 11780 Bras?lia showed up again Nov 9
at 2300 as I was checking R. Rep?blica via Canad? on 11835. At 2233 I had
noticed slight interference on the hi side and now it had increased to the
point of being identifiable, in Brazilian Portuguese, roughly 11838-11839, then
confirmed as // 11780, and with a matching spur around 11721-11722, this one
also bothering another station in Portuguese on 11720.0 which is WYFR. ID in
passing as R. Nacional do Brasil, not ``Amaz?nia``. The spurs were so messy
that I could not pin down exact carrier frequencies for them. Could not hear
them one hour later. I had previously logged them after 0700 (Glenn Hauser, OK,
DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CANADA. CBCNQ, 9625, Nov 10 at 1318 in French, distorting on fundamental and
putting out modulation peak spike spurs up to 15 kHz away, more so on the hi
side. This was while YL was talking; somewhat less when OM started. Must be on
borderline, and this transmitter does this from time to time. Back off (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CUBA [non]. R. Rep?blica, 11835 via Sackville, CANADA, checked the second
day, Nov 9: *2159:30 and as I had the BFO on, it seems when they cut the
carrier on, at first it is weaker then steps up to full very strong power a
second or two later. 2200 sign-on as yesterday, complete with the false start
and repeat. Again no frequencies or schedule mentioned, right into different
program ``Ni el Tirano ni su Hermano``. Could not hear any jamming before c/on
nor in the first few minutes monitored. Recheck at 2233, 11835 had faded down
quite a bit but still no jamming audible. At 2300 still no jamming, but
bothered by RNA 11780`s distorted spur around 11838; see BRAZIL.
Monitored frequency change: 11835 had an ID but no mention of next frequency
and off at 2359. At 0000, 9785 came up, and right into ``Panorama Cultural``
program without ID. Signal on 9785 was also poor; shifting down 2 MHz did not
help. Again no jamming audible; RHC could be heard on 9820 but not a
powerhouse. 9600 had only some jamming, but RHC carrier may have been coming on
as I quit. Another check at 0130: 9785 not audible, maybe faded completely out
if really running until 0200. But I expect it held up in the target area.
I hypothesize that the lack of jamming this date could be attributed to
Hurricane Paloma (a beautiful dove descended upon Cuba --- do storm-namers
realize the irony?) which may have blown off jamming sites in eastern Cuba,
normally ``serving`` by single-hop skywave the more populated areas of western
Cuba, and beyond, like OK.
However, jamming was back in full force against R. Mart?, 11930, 13820, 15330
at 1434 check Nov 10. Another discrepancy: RHC 15360 was unmodulated, Nov 10
1325 in the skirts of much stronger 15360; yet its companion on 15120 was OK.
1402 recheck, 15360 was back in business (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** FRANCE [and non]. RFI, 17620, Nov 10 at 1330 with 14h30 timecheck, journal.
I see that RFI has this frequency tied up all the way from 08 to 20 UT, first
from Issoudun at 185 degrees, switching at 17 to Montsin?ry 75 degrees, both
serving exactly the same target, everywhere in Africa from Nigeria to the north
and west (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** GABON [non]. No sign of AN1 on 17630, Nov 10 at 1330, just its colliders, DW
in German with news of Goma, DR Congo; and at 1440 and 1505, CRI English also
in the clear. CRI is via Bamako, MALI; DW via Rampisham, UK. Too soon to
conclude that Moyabi has been driven off the frequency, even tho it was there
first, and not HFCC registered (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** INDONESIA. VOI timing back in whack on 9526, Nov 10 at 1314 in English,
ending newscast; 1423 recheck in Malay, presumed. All logs in this report,
1314-1550 UT Nov 10 were using internal rather than external longwire, due to
thunder (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** JAPAN [non]. NHKWNRJ, 17735, Nov 10 at 1504 news in Japanese about AIG,
running a few syllables behind 9535 direct. 17735 is 152 degrees via Issoudun,
FRANCE (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** NIGERIA. ``Sautu Nigeria, Lagos`` ID on 11770, at 1525 Nov 10, hilife music;
QRM from stronger Anguilla 11775. Another ID in Swahili before 1528* cutoff
during music. Time to shift to 9690 for 1530 Yoruba, not checked (Glenn Hauser,
OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** ROMANIA. RRI, 15105, Monday Nov 10 at 1326 in Listeners` Letterbox,
responding to reports from Jonathan Murphy, Ireland; 1331 I switched to //
17745 which was better, during folk song break from Moldova ``in eastern
Romania``, then answering Kraig Krist, Manassas VA for report on 7185; Li Ming
in China; and Albert Muick of Bradenton FL, a broadcast engineer with a
one-year contract in Kabul, Afghanistan; Dmitry Antonov, Krasnoyarsk; 1336
another Romanian folk tune, and 1340 next program, Romanian Hits with a
bilingual version of Dylan`s ``Blowin` in the Wind``, first verse in English,
then in Romanian.
Oh oh, I recognized all but one of the names on the mailbag, evidence as
posited by Andy Sennitt to justify RN cancelling English on SW to developed
countries, that the SWL community is really minuscule: you keep hearing from
the same few people on different stations` mailbags.
Ran across another RRI broadcast at 1500 on 15235, usual theme music, opening
Arabic, with list of kHz and MHz, website http://www.rri.ro --- strangely, the
letters in the URL were pronounced in English, but the dots had some Arabic
word. (I always add the http to make URLs hot even when not so spoken). This is
247 degrees from Tiganesti (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** SPAIN. I could hardly believe my ears: REE`s co-official language segment in
Basque, Nov 10 at 1350 on 17595, was really in Basque beyond the introduxion.
YL spoke Basque for two minutes but then back to Castilian OM for the rest of
the 5-minute show. Maybe one of these months they will work up to a full
program in Basque.
1443 Monday Nov 10 on 15385, came across some strange Spanish; soon realized it
was the weekly Judeo-Espa?ol semi-hour, a.k.a. Sephardic, a.k.a. Ladino, a
token of Spain`s regret for what was done to the Jews. ``Espa?a Hoy`` report
titled but subjects also related to Israel, etc. 1450 to classical guitar music
and 1454 sign-off with schedule, and I`m pretty sure she said 15385 was on 16
meters, a mistake since this transmission used to be on 16m a few hours later.
This is still too close for comfort to the super-signal from Habana on 15370,
making splatter and desensitization. Modulation cut at 1455 before the fanfare
theme music had finished, unlike the carrier which stayed on long enough to
have accommodated its conclusion. The three Sephardic broadcasts on Monday/UT
Tuesday are on one frequency each, so 15385 was not // much stronger REE in
Castilian on 17595, but at 1502 I noticed 15385 was back on and now // 17595.
I also checked 17755, the REE frequency to Africa, to see if it had broken away
for separate programming during the 15 UT hour, (see previous discussion of the
DX program on Sundays) but inaudible in the skirts of WYFR 17760.
The Judeo-Espa?ol sked for B-08 is per
http://telefonica.net/web2/radioescuchadx/reeb08.pdf
Monday 1425-1455 15385 to ME
Tuesday 0115-0145 11780 to SAm
Tuesday 0415-0445 9690 to NAm
Yet the old A-08 sked was still announced, on 11795 and 9650 instead,
respectively. Strangely enough, the 1425 transmission is missing from HFCC, and
what about Bras?lia on 11780?
I was going to check the audio file to confirm the frequencies announced, but
the large archive accessible at `programas` via
http://www.rtve.es/programas/sefardi which converts to a huge complicated URL,
covers January 2007 to September 2008 only, so they delay a month or more in
uploading (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** SUDAN [non]. Miraya FM, via IRRS via Slovakia, 15650, is still getting
overridden by co-channel ERA Greece, at 1503 check Nov 10, but making a fast
SAH (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** TAIWAN [non]. 15430, Mezhdunarodnaya Radio Taivana, good signal opening
Russian at 1400 Nov 10. This is via Issoudun, France, and had not noticed it
before. The W in Taiwan was pronounced as an English (or Chinese!) W, not as a
V, even tho it is spelt in Russian with a B (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** THAILAND. Asian signal holding up longest on 49m was 6140, VOA at 21 degrees
from Udorn, Spe-cial Eng-lish news at 1550 Nov 10, one second behind much
better // 9760 Tinang, PHILIPPINES. 6140 is in use only at 15-16 (Glenn Hauser,
OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. WRMI, 9955, coming in quite well UT Mon Nov 10 at 0622 during World
Baseball Today, a weekly program; must be on NW antenna? Some jamming audible
underneath as well as continuous distracting music bed in program. The rest of
this quarter hour was about scores from Latin American games; the host needs to
brush up his Spanish if he is going to mention so many player, team and place
names from there. Outro plugged several other programs on WRMI, including WORLD
OF RADIO; tnx (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. WYFR Portuguese, 15210, Nov 10 at 1402 playing jazzed-up version of
Onward, Christian Soldiers on Hammond organ, something we are never going to
hear on WHR (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A [and non]. AFN, Saddlebunch Keys FL, 12133.5-USB battered by three-way
QRM, Nov 10 at 1406: cut CW numbers, i.e., spy letters presumably CUBA on
12134.0; CODAR sweeping past every second; and an AM broadcaster on 12130 with
continuous praise music, presumably T8WH PALAU, which however is supposed to
turn 12130 over to IBB SRI LANKA at 1400! Perhaps AFN should consider a QSY to
a quieter region of the outofband (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ###
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Message: 7
Date: Mon, 10 Nov 2008 19:44:32 +0100
From: "Giampiero Bernardini" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: [HCDX] Spain and Portugal Survey
To: "MWC-lista" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: Bdxc-News <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Hard-Core-Dx
<[email protected]>, Skywavesmw
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, DXClubeParana
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If you are interested in Spain & Portugal on MW you can see the Survey made
in BOC 13 (Bocca di Magra, La Spezia, Italy) with Dario Monferini, Jordi
Brunet and me at: http://radio-dx.blogspot.com/
Here you can find local programme times.
Ciao
Giampiero
Giampiero Bernardini
Milano, Italy
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Message: 8
Date: Tue, 11 Nov 2008 00:08:19 -0300
From: "Adalberto - Barbacena - MG" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: [HCDX] LOGs...
To: <[email protected]>, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
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4.845 kHz 2337 10/11 R. Maurit?nia - transmitindo com 100 kW, desde
Nouakchott na Maurit?nia, em ?rabe. Apresentou o ID em franc?s. 23232, AMA
4.865 kHz 2340 10/11 R. Alvorada, transmitindo com 5 kW desde Londrina no
Paran?, PP, Prega??o sobre os santos e o ID da emissora. 45454, AMA.
4.895 kHz 2345 10/11 R. Novo Tempo, transmitindo com 5 kW, desde Campo
Grande no Mato Grosso do Sul, PP, Vinheta da emissora, 23222, AMA
4.935 kHz 2350 10/11 R. Capixaba, transmitindo desde Vit?ria, no Esp?rito
Santo, PP, ..."nossa igraja Deus ? amor ... 34333, AMA
4.965 KhZ 2358 11/11 R. Alvorada, transmitindo com 7,5 kW, desde
Parintins no Amazona, PP, ...Radio Alvorada..., 23222, AMA
5.955 kHz 0005 11/11 R. Gazeta, transmitindo com 10 kW de S.Paulo, PP,
...oito nove zero...., 43433, AMA
5.980 KhZ 0009 11/11 R. Guaruj?, transmitindo com 10 kW
desdeFlorian?polis, PP, ...Radio Guaruj? AM..., 54544, AMA
6.060 KhZ 0012 11/11 Super R?dio Deus ? Amor, tx c/ 10 kW, de Curitiba,
PR, "...super r?dio Deus ? amor...( antiga Tupi de Curitiba), 23232, AMA
9.625 kHz 2144 10/11 KSDA-AWR GUAM , transmiss?o 100 kW, de Agat em Guam,
EE, prega??o religiosa, encerrou ?s 2200 UTC, 43433, AMA
Adalberto Marques de Azevedo
Barbacena - MG - Brasil
Grid Locator: GG88cs
Latitude: 21? - 13'- 21" - Sul
Longitude: 43? - 47'- 13" - West.
Receptor: Sangean ATS909
Antena : Long Wire para OT com Balum 9:1.
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Message: 9
Date: Tue, 11 Nov 2008 06:28:34 +0430
From: "Albert Muick" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: [HCDX] Logs for Al Muick 10 November
To: <[email protected]>
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QTH: Kabul Afghanistan
RX: WinRadio G303e
ANT: 100m longwire
ACC: Palstar MW-550P mediumwave preselector
1143 TAJIKISTAN, Russian Intl.R. relay heard at 19.40 on 10 Nov with S4
sigs and steady level. Some nice RU rock and pop mx made for a half an hour
or so of enjoyable listening. Listed as 150kW
4940 SAO TOME E PRINCIPE, (tent.) VoA w/African/Latin-style mx heard at
20.05 on 10 Nov. Didn't really hear any announcements. It was mostly
straight mx. OM talk heard at 20.32 in poss. Hausa (fits sked), poss. nx.
Sao Tome relay ststion is the only thing sked'ed on this freq at this time
per HFCC, although pattern doesn't really fit typical VoA, and SAm seems too
far to consider in the realm of the possible. Fair to poor sigs with a
fluttery fade. Seems to jive with 100kW and a 30 degree beam...
5915 SLOVAKIA, SRI heard at 20.45 on 10 Nov in FR w/some kick-ass Slovak
hard rock. Yeah, anything rock or heavy metal causes me to pause on freq.
I refuse to grow up! LOL Excellent sigs into Kabul at this time. Too bad
it's 01.20 in the AM here...
I will be doing some antenna remodeling here in the coming days and have
ordered the company servicing the generator to ground it as well. I was
inspecting it the other day and there is no earthing from the genset to the
ground. I will also be preparing a proper house ground pit
(salt/charcoal/water/3m copper rod) and we'll see if this all improves the
noise level.
Hope everyone concerned has a great Memorial/Armistice/Remembrance Day!
73 de Al
"We feel that our cause is just and holy; we protest solemnly in the
face of mankind that we desire peace at any sacrifice save that of
honor and independence; we ask no conquest, no aggrandizement, no
concession of any kind from the States with which we were lately
confederated; all we ask is to be let alone; that those who never
held power over us shall not now attempt our subjugation by arms."
- President Jefferson Davis, Confederate States of America, April
29th, 1861
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