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It may be copied, distributed and/or modified under the conditions set down in the Design Science License published by Michael Stutz at http://dsl.org/copyleft/dsl.txt Today's Topics: 1. Re: Logs for Al Muick - January 14th (Mauno Ritola) 2. Glenn Hauser logs January 13-14, 2008 (Glenn Hauser) 3. Iran (Richard Brock) 4. RFA (ka4...@peoplepc.com) 5. very recent LW-MW-SW DX logs (aurel chiochiu) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2009 14:30:11 +0200 From: Mauno Ritola <mauno.rit...@gmail.com> Subject: Re: [HCDX] Logs for Al Muick - January 14th To: <hard-core-dx@hard-core-dx.com> Message-ID: <7b8499631c1f4143ab880d61f702f...@ibm> Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; reply-type=original I have an open carrier on a bit above 5005 kHz now at 1230, but it looks too strong for Nepal, maybe Eastern Europe? 73, Mauno ----- Original Message ----- From: "Albert Muick" <radioresearch_field_operati...@yahoo.com> To: <hard-core-dx@hard-core-dx.com> Sent: Wednesday, January 14, 2009 3:31 AM Subject: [HCDX] Logs for Al Muick - January 14th > QTH: Kabul, Afghanistan > RX: WinRadio G303e > ANT: 200m Longwire/Randomwire > ACC: Palstar MW-550P Mediumwave Preselector > > 5005 UNID. (NEPAL?) - dead carrier at 0110 on 14 Jan. No audio, but > signal at same signal level and fading rate as the AIR stations, which > lends > theory to Nepal. Anyone heard this lack of audio from Nepal on this freq? > I haven't seen them reported in a bit. They are the only folks scheduled > to > be on at this time. Overall good signals. > > 73s de Al > > > "We are grateful to The Washington Post, The New York Times, Time > magazine, and other great publications whose directors have attended > our meetings and respected their promise of discretion for almost > forty years. It would have been impossible for us to develop our plan > for the world if we had been subject to the bright lights of publicity > during those years. But the world is now more sophisticated and > prepared to march towards a world government. 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It may be copied, distributed > and/or modified under the conditions set down in the Design Science > License > published by Michael Stutz at > http://www.gnu.org/licenses/dsl.html ------------------------------ Message: 2 Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2009 09:05:06 -0800 (PST) From: Glenn Hauser <wghau...@yahoo.com> Subject: [HCDX] Glenn Hauser logs January 13-14, 2008 To: d...@yahoogroups.com Cc: s...@mailman.qth.net Message-ID: <925880.88108...@web51105.mail.re2.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii ** CHINA. Firedrake on both 8400 and 9000, Jan 14 at 1436, but this time much stronger on 8400, barely audible on 9000 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** ECUADOR. HCJB, 11960, Jan 13 at 1444:30 automated ID break between programs, with another Einstein quotation, 9:45 am timecheck, preceded by inattentive announcer claiming to be on ``11690, 21455 y 11690`` instead of 11960! Another mistake which has probably been ongoing for sesquiyears, besides having closed down 21455 last year. There is no break at this point every day of the week. I first noted this on January 9, but could hardly believe my ears so made a point of listening closely at next opportunity. Ditto Jan 14 at exactly same time, ad infinitum (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** IRAN. 9735, Jan 13 at 1423 open carrier, flutter; what could this be? Thailand 9725 was in, not always the case; and BBC Singapore 9740. On 9735 at 1428 piano music starts; 1430 chimes and ``Govorit Iran`` ID, and yes, this is // 9575 which I have been hearing regularly at this hour. Should have checked whether they are synchronized, as looked up later, I see that 9735 is Ahwaz, 250 kW at 26 degrees, while 9575 is Sirjan, 500 kW at 330 degrees. Sounded about the same here. 9735 also heard 24 hours later, but much poorer (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** KURDISTAN [non]. Denge Mezopotamya, 11530 via Ukraine, 1449-1459:55* nothing but OM vocalist mixing singing and shouting, barely avoiding choking, with lite accompaniment or interludes by flute and other instruments. This is really exotic and a treat to hear; a Kurdish thing, I guess. But how are the audience to know that they have to retune to 7540? Unless he worked that info into his heartfelt performance (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ** SPAIN. REE, 17595, Wed Jan 14 with documentary on Cuban revolution including at 1518 a clip of the original R. Rebelde, saying it was operating on the 20 and 40 meter bands (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) UNIDENTIFIED. 8590-8615, OTH radar pulses, presumed, Jan 13 at 1420 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ### ------------------------------ Message: 3 Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2009 13:13:23 -0500 From: "Richard Brock" <radio...@access995.com> Subject: [HCDX] Iran To: <Hard-Core-DX@hard-core-dx.com> Message-ID: <003001c97673$cae9db10$fa184...@tombston85bbd1> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" January 14, 2009, presumed Iran according to the broadcast schedule posted on HCDX. 6120, 7160 KHZ @ 0130 UTC. Very weak with Middle Eastern Music. No ID but the frequencies and time match Sakthi Vel's posted English schedule of 10/21/08. Rich Brock Bridgewater, Pennsylvania USA ------------------------------ Message: 4 Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2009 01:39:03 -0000 From: <ka4...@peoplepc.com> Subject: [HCDX] RFA To: <ka4...@peoplepc.com> Cc: cumbr...@cs2.ralabs.com Message-ID: <000301c976b2$0f026040$8fcce...@hp98588948284> Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; reply-type=original Lithuania, (non) 9480, Radio Free Asia, (pres) 0100-0200 Noted NA type music a minute before 0100 then female in Uighur language comments. Late she's join by a male. News and commentary continues thru the hour. At about 0128 the signal begins to fade from a good signal on the hour to poor by 0128. Transmitter location, Sitkunai, Lithuania, based on AOKI datafile record for 9480 KHz. A very weak additional station was on this freq, but it had been there earlier before RFA came on the air at 0100. (Chuck Bolland, Janaury 15, 2009) Clewiston, Florida NRD545 ------------------------------ Message: 5 Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2009 21:46:34 -0500 From: aurel chiochiu <a...@videotron.ca> Subject: [HCDX] very recent LW-MW-SW DX logs To: nrci...@aol.com, latinm...@yahoogroups.com, playdx2...@yahoogroups.com, cumbr...@cs2.ralabs.com, condigl...@yahoogroups.com, baco...@aol.com, hard-core-dx@hard-core-dx.com, m...@yahoogroups.com Cc: pepe8...@hotmail.com, bro...@yahoo.com, markwa1...@aol.com, ve2...@yahoo.com, SOAD BENKIRANE <soadbenkir...@gmail.com>, suzanne.lachape...@csmb.qc.ca, venezuelanqslh...@yahoo.com, Perez Ricardo <canadac...@hotmail.com>, moy thierry <moythie...@free.fr>, ariane_5...@hotmail.com, "olivier.tequi" <olivier.te...@laposte.net>, minimarc...@hotmail.com, da_18gu...@hotmail.com, pklo...@bigpond.net.au, bourdeau_annemari...@hotmail.com, moreauplais...@hotmail.com, o_p_nimig...@yahoo.com Message-ID: <008001c976bb$7b0b2660$7101a...@b> Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset=iso-8859-1; reply-type=original Warm greetings to all of you ! I hope you are doing very well. The moon's eclipse which did hit the Earth on Sunday-Monday left me very tired, almost as if the chemotherapy was still in full swing, and didn't had the motivation to send in my latest logs. On the wee hours of Sunday mornings, after midnight, there was a flurry of decent Latin American activity in the 500s, the 600s and the botton part of the 700s. On 580, there were as much as 4 Latins fighting against WTAG in Worchester, MA. Radio Reloj got to entertainment level quality and YVQO Uni?n Radio in Puerto-La Cruz, in the Anzo?tegui state was, at times, fair and occasionally good with the only QRM being 1 or 2 domestics along with Cuban Radio Progreso (CMBC Guanabacoa back at what power level ? They were running 50 kW a few years ago along with CMBD Las Tunas running a medium-powered tx of 10 kW !). LW condx were abysmal until the last few nights when they were decent and, the last night, they got on par... I felt asleep listening to Morocco-171 which had a good signal and the other night, in spite of being fairly tired, I felt asleep listening to Iceland-189. I didn't tried too hard for MW TAs. Part of the reason is that I have a moderate amount of noises between 1000 and 1390 kHz, severely harming my mid-band reception which is where some of the easiest TAs are received such as Croatia-1134 and even France-1206... Another reason was that I was too excited with my still-brand new PK's Shielded Magnetic LW loop ! I just renewed for the NRC and I should receive soon the latest DX News publication. I'm glad, I did it ! This means, less Spanish repports, as I would need otherwise to make an effort to resend once again what I heard in Spanish...Grrrr! Into the logs now: Trans-Atlantic DX (all times UTC) 162 FRANCE France Inter, Allouis JAN 13 0515 - w/ nx regarding the Gaza conflict followed by an announcement for an upcoming item at 0530 UTC (07:30 AM local) and mention of France Inter. Good w/ some computer-like QRN. SINPO 45343 (Chiochiu-QC) 171 MOROCCO Medi Un, Nador JAN 14 0405 - tuned-in to a program which did consist of mostly back-to-back plaintive Arabic vocals with male comments in Arabic, then at 0500 had a short newscast in Arabic that was followed by a weather repport in French. Then a pop-dance number by Akon which was followed by a French newscast which mentioned an earthquake that did shake neighboring Algeria not a long time ago, known in French as "glissement de terrain", then international weather forecast for a few neighboring worlwide cities, most of them being in southern France (where the daytime groundwave signal of Medi Un does a good job covering those areas). Fair-good. SINPO 34343 w/ occasional QRM from a long tone popping up, was it a LowFER ? +JAN 15 0027 - booming in at a good level with a romantic male ra? vocal as I write this. The new computers do not produce QRM, but the older one do a lot. Maybe some of the computer-like growl sometimes noted on the lower half of the LW broadcast band is from an "oldschool" computer somewhere in my neck of the wood, perphaps just a few blocks from my house ? In any event, the powerlines-like noises are easily nulled and not too strong either, though quite annoying when I null out Morocco (Chiochiu-QC) 183 GERMANY Europe 1, Felsberg (Saarlouis) JAN 14 0528 - man announcer just sayed "Voil?!" at the end of a news item, as I tuned away back to Morocco-171. Fair w/ fading distortion which made for some unpleasant listening, SINPO 35222 ! Stronger when noted in passing at other times. (Chiochiu-QC) 189 ICELAND Rikisutvarpid, Gufuskalar JAN 12 0457 - w/ a haunting atmospheric Icelandic reagge vocal followed an IS (Interval Signal) or INSTRUMENTAL JINGLE, then man talk in Icelandic. Fair +JAN 14 0453 - woman in Icelandic, burried by possible Low-FER QRM (Chiochiu-QC) 198 UNITED KINGDOM BBC Radio 4, Droitwich JAN 13 0458 - Man talking in British Accented English heard at a rather threshold strength and mostly unreadable level under a poor-strenght beacon. SINPO 22512 (Chiochiu-QC) 216 FRANCE RMC Info, Romoules JAN 13 0428 - w/ "...sur RMC" heard at the end of a news item to which I didn't pay attention as I barely came-back to the DX shack as the ID was given. Briefly good. SINPO 42521, but soon completly lost to the NDB "pest" that is disturbing reception on this channel. The powerline-like noises are mostly an issue below 190 kHz. NEW ! First time ever that I caught TA audio on 216 kHz ! Seems like it's either powerlines-like noise or beacon QRM on longwave for me, at least parttime ! (Chiochiu-QC) 234 LUXEMBURG RTL, Beidweler JAN 13 0532 - Tentative reception w/ French talk that was difficult to follow in quite heavy beacon QRM, SINPO 22422. Only 2nd time here and the reception wasn't as good as on the 22nd of December of 2009. SINPO 22522 (Chiochiu-QC) 252 IRELAND RTE Radio One, Clarkestown / ALGERIA Alger Cha?ne 3, Tipaza JAN 13 0625 - Tentative reception with country vocal over weak French talk with receiver tuned to 253 kHz in AM Narrow Mode to dodge local UL NDB on 248 kHz. SINPO 22532. 2nd time here and best reception by far ! It appears that, once I dodge interference from UL, then 252 kHz (253 in my case) is the easiest LW channel above 200 kHz to get Trans-Atlantic audio. Algeria-252 is the only LW signal heard above 200 kHz on a regular basis, although never really strong ! Is RTE-252 carrying American country music or just light pops, jazz and Irish folk mx ? In any event, I seriously doubt Russia-252 would carry on such stuff and there are no repport of Russia-252 from North America, except maybe from the Pacific Northwest ! There are only 3 outlets worldwide operating right on 252 kHz ! (Chiochiu-QC) 4845 MAURITANIA Radio Mauritanie, Noukchott JAN 11 0038 - playing primitive tribal music w/ falsetto vocal. SINPO 35433. The easiest foreign tropical bands signal aside, of course, from Rebelde-5025 ! (Chiochiu-QC) Pan-American DX (all times UTC) 530 CUBA Radio Enciclopedia, unID QTH JAN 11 0608 - Instrumental middle-of-the-road music with announcements each 3 or 4 songs. Generally good with very slight interference mostly from nulled as much as possible CIAO (Toronto, ON). At this time, the announcement heard was "m?sica para meditar", then talk about the importance of music for Pithagore and other inhabitants of Ancient Greece. This announcement was made over a modified instrumental version of 50 Cent's smash rap hit "Candy Shop". The next song to follow at 0611 UTC was a Cuban jazz number, so this station does not only carry international instrumental middle-of-the-road stuff, but also at least a lil' bit of Cuban music along with some instrumental violin or piano-based Cuban music in spite of the presence of Radio M?sical Nacional. SINPO 43544. Also heard Sunday evening (JAN 11 EST / JAN 12 UTC) on the Sangean CST-818 / PK's Shielded Magnetic LW loop combo which does shows quite some gain on the botton of the AM broadcast band w/ almost, but not quite, the same level as the Sanyo MCD-S830 barefoot. (Chiochiu-QC) 550 VENEZUELA YVKE, Caracas, Distrito Federal JAN 12 0111 - Presumed w/ woman host during a talshow about an unclear topic "la noche, noche" "oportunidad" were among the very few words I could copy in heavy QRM from semi-local WEVD in Waterbury, VT. Unfortunatly, nulling WEVD also nulled Venezuela. Still WEVD has fair-strength and former CHLN had a jumpy groundwave+skywave good-strength (though looped NE from Montreal while YVKE loops SSE) and was still nullable from Montreal. The signal was fair to good though. YVKE-550 is the 3rd most regular YV in the Montreal area after YVKS-750 (the easiest one) and YVNM-780 (the 2nd easiest one). SINPO 42542 (Chiochiu-QC) 555 ST KITTS ZIZ, Basseterre JAN 11 0532 - relaying BBC World Service with "BBC news...". One of the items dealt with geopolitical events that did happen through the years, ie in 2004 as much as during 2007. Always difficult to clearly understand British English for a more or less fluent ENG speaker like me ! Poor-fair with very slight splash. SINPO 24543 +JAN 12 0135 - briefly at a poor, but listenable level w/ gospel music. SINPO 24522 (Chiochiu-QC) 560 CUBA Radio Rebelde, unID QTH JAN 11 0647 - w/ "Solo M?sica" program of lively Cuban tropical music (mostly hard-edged Cuban salsa using major chords) //600 and 710 (with WOR semi-nulled and very minor hash from semi-nulled WLW-700 along with some barely noticeable local splatter) and stronger than those 2 probably higher-powered. The most reliable Rebelde MW frequency on Saturday night ! First time in 2008-2009 yet and better than during the past seasons... SINPO 44544 (Chiochiu-QC) 570 CUBA CMDC, Radio Reloj, Pil?n JAN 11 0559 - "A usted le gusta estar bien informado", time pip, "la h?ra, doce cincuenta y nueve" then RR morse code ID, followed by an interesting announcement regarding the All-Night status of Radio Reloj over clock ticks "Radio Reloj, lo acompa?ana en la madrugada, en esa h?ra de la noche durante la madrugada, Radio Reloj, la emisora que marca todo el tiempo se imagina en el aire (?disfrutando?) lo que caracteriza nuestra compa?a; a las 4 de la madruga comienza el (?Masuquino?)...en en lbarrio de la isla de la radio cubana..." them na continued with "Muy buenas noche..." as the signal faded under WSYR +JAN 11 0604 - peaked again at this time to an armchair copy level after a time pip and an ID -> w/ nx item regarding the Ecuadorian president Rafael Torres visit to Cuba ! Very good, armchair copy, over and under megapest WSYR Syracruse, NY with Coast-to-Coast that faded-up over Cuba with apparent proof of the resurrecion of Jesus Christ (even though I wonder why the man who loves woman, instead of rising from death are trapped into a female body and they continue to love woman, while reincarnating into a female - not only I'm skeptikal regarding resurrection, but I think resurrection violates the metaphysical laws), followed by an item about the struggling discovery of iced water over Mars. and no sign at all of the subdominant WMCA in New York City. SINPO 43544 The most reliable Radio Reloj outlet in the Montreal area and by a wide margin ! Of course, you don't need armchair level to ID this one with the high-pitched RR Morse Code IDs popping out of QRM every minute, but I find the content of their continuous newscast highly entertaining ! (Chiochiu-QC) 580 COLOMBIA HJHP, Radio Monter?a, Cali JAN 11 0548 - Tentative with vallenato music mixing with WTAG and 3 Latin Americans. Unless there is a new style of bachata music with accordeons I'm not aware of (Radio Monte Cristi was the 3rd strongest signal on 580 in semi-local CFRA Ottawa null behind WTAG and WKAQ and slightly atop YVMJ), the accordeon based trad LAm mx was coming from a different station. SINPO 22512, only up briefly. If I'm able to squeeze an ID out of this birdie, it would be my best South American DX ! (Chiochiu-QC) 580 DOMINICAN REPUBLIC HIAF, Radio Monte Cristi, Monte Cristi JAN 11 0548 - Strongly presumed w/ bachata music in mess. This was, over the last couple of years, the strongest Dominican in the Montreal area. With the assorted domestic and Latin American jumble on this channel, it sounded like a new kind of bachata with both synthesizer, mandolin-like guitar and...accordeon ! (Chiochiu-QC) 580 PUERTO RICO WKAQ, San Juan JAN 11 0528 - carrying a talkshow dealing w/ work-related health troubles hosted by a doctor. Woman listener called-in around 0534 UTC to talk about her problem that worsened during the course of 2007 and he needed the doctor's advice -> "yo quero la opini?n del medico". Break around 0545 UTC (45 minutes past midnight, EST) for a couple of commercial ads, IDs such as the fast one "WKAQ...noticias...del pueblo...a?o de sal?d...muy (?optimal?)...por WKAQ", which did make for a diffuclt copy in spite of the good reception, and morning show promo, then back to the same doctor-hosted talkshow. Another break was noted around 0530, but that one was mostly burried by WTAG and Monte Cristi. SINPO 42542, fadey signal over/under QRM. The second strongest signal after WTAG in CFRA's null which fortunatly drops power from 50 kW by day to 10 kW by night making their groundwave+skywave mix very easily nulled ! Over the past few year, this has been the easiest Puerto Rican for me in Montreal ! The MP3 file of the January 11 reception was posted over the Yahoo! group LatinMWDX ! (Chiochiu-QC) 580 VENEZUELA YVMJ, Maracaibo, estado Zulia JAN 11 0554 - Tentative ! Briefly in at a weak level getting through a strong jumble of domestics and LAs with a beautifol woman llanera harp vocal. With WTIC-1080 obliterating 1070 with their ugly and awful hash, this one is the best bet for those wanting to log the Zulia state during non-auroral condx ! Mark Connelly sometimes hear "La Fe" popping over the WTAG/WKAQ/HIAF/RJR mess, right ? YVMJ-580 is probably the best South America on this quiet DX-friendly channel, much easier than HJHP which I only see once reported by him and tentatively to that ! (Chiochiu-QC) 600 CUBA CMKV, Radio Rebelde, Urbano Norris JAN 11 0658 - woman announcing that the last hour of Todo M?sica is about to begin. Huge signal, over/under WICC and semi-nulled CKAT. (Chiochiu-QC) 610 CUBA CMAN, Radio Rebelde, Bah?a La Honda JAN 11 0702 - noted with Todo M?sica very weak in the domestic mess audible in the CHNC-610 null, but unequivocally // to CMKV-600. SINPO 12511. This Bah?a de Honda rebroadcaster (repetidor) runs only 1 kW making it for some very challenging DX during normal non-auroral conditions ! (Chiochiu-QC) 640 VENEZUELA YVQO, Puerto-La Cruz, estado Anzo?tegui JAN 11 0619 - Noted with, at times, a fair signal that, occasionally, actually got good, but very mush and fadey with Radio Progreso and some very weak domestics such as WNNZ and semi-nulled CFZR or CFYR (I don't know the call letters of Mojo Radio, do not even know if they are still active). SINPO 33522 over/under Cuban Progreso. Spanish religious talk noted at 0116 about a precept ("precepte" in FF - "un proposito") that was "moralizador" which went on until about 0624 UTC, then paused for ads, then canned ID "...del pa?s, visi?n, Uni?n Radio...opini?n", then the ads followed-up for a few moments, until the religious program resumed ! (Chiochiu-QC) 640 CUBA CMBC, Radio Progreso, Guanabacoa JAN 11 0617 - after a segment of eclectic Cuban music that included salsa, pops and reagget?n, heard with an elaborated singed "la onda de la alegr?a" jingle at 0616 UTC, just before 0617 UTC. Fair over/under WNNZ/YVQO/others with no sign of Guadeloupe ! (Chiochiu-QC) 710 CUBA CMW, Radio Rebelde, La Julia et al. JAN 11 0645 - with Todo M?sica program. Very good despite some echo (is there a 2nd Cuban on 710 kHz ?) with WOR semi-nulled (that also cutted down on the 690 and 730 splatter) with the Sanyo's ferrite bar perpendicular to the SW/NE that still favor Cuba ! I think they jam Radio Mambi ! Very slight WLW-700 IBOC noted on 1 occasion, but not much. Are they cutting down their IBOC at night, so the hash was imaginery-level ? (Chiochiu-QC) 760 COLOMBIA HJAJ, RCN Cadena Bas?ca, Barranquilla, Atlantico JAN 14 0045 - with teletalk regarding the social security. Fair in a more or less deep WJR null ! Much better than during the wee hours of Sunay morning, when Latin American signals were almost inexistent above 710 kHz, but still not too good as the propagation seemed to favour Trans-Atlantics (at least on LW) rather than mediumwave Latins ! (Chiochiu-QC) 6010 unIDs JAN 11 0035 - 2 or 3 threshold Latins getting through growls and slight noises. Nothing readable ! I wonder if there is a third Latin on 6010 aside from Radio Mil and La Voz de t? Conciencia. Is HCJB Ecuador still there ? I think they are 2300-2400 (0000 UTC), but I seldom tune into shortwave, though when I do, I usually have a lot of fun doing so ! (Chiochiu-QC) North American domestic DX (all times EST) 580 WTAG Worchester, MA JAN 11 0115 - running Coast-to-Coast and // WSYR-570, atop the Latins ! (BC-QC) 1110 WCEC Lawrence, MA JAN 10 2755 - M anncr inviting his listeners to talk to own of his personal knowledges, since he is "una encicloped?a de la salsa" with brassy salsa music in the background, the introducing a Willie Colon track, someone my new Colombian friend really enjoys ! Legal ID in English at 1800 EST (2300 UTC), then into a Belinda song (Mexican punk-rock singer in the vain of Avril Lavigne). (BC-QC) 1140 JAN 10 2306 unID reggae music briefly strong. Almost certainly a NA domestic, but who ? (BC-QC) Additional comments: my brand new Colombian friend I caught with at the college radio station just before the holiday may comeback tomorrow, unless he froze, because Montreal is experiencing what may be the worst coldfront of the history. Sunday, we will be having a temperature reaching -27 around noon. But he was really stock on my radio watching me, switching back and forth between WJR and RCN Barranquilla and, as we heard twice the HJ anthem, he told me the Colombian anthem was like an authentical piece of poetry ! Tonight, condx seem average on LW with Morocco-171 and Iceland-189 the strongest broadcasters and since with school approaching (I went yesturday to obtain my schedule), it is likely I won't be able to send in as many repports than I did during this holiday. As explained above, Montreal is going through an unbearable cold wave. I don't know if it's related to it, but the CATV Internet connection has worsened during the last couple of hours; the signal was very threshold and often totally lost to nothing using wireless WiFi, so we switched back to CATV which, fortunatly, doesn't disturb LW as much. Maybe some of the powerlines-like noises are from the beighborhood. If the radio isn't withing 1m of the NEW computer, there is no additional noise. With the OLD ONES, it's a different story, but currently there are no old computers in our house, just old radios ! Even with the CATV, the Internet connectivity varies from low to very low... Also, a NEW item. During the last couple of nights, I've been experiencing severe noises between 1000 and 1400 kHz mediumwave. Now, they vanished and the medium part of the dial is quiet once again with the ugly and really unbearable exception of IBOC on a few channels, BUT NOT ON 1070 ANYMORE ! So apparently WTIC-1080 has learned to avoid QRMing WBAL-1090 and WNCT-1070 (Greenville, NC - not heard here regularly, but probably destroyed in their own backyards) ! However, due to the abysmal conditions toward Latin America, I get no South Americans of any kind on 1070 kHz and the often unnulable CBA in Moncton, NB is off. However, the Euskadi Irratia TA on 1071 may or may not come over Montreal ! But, as I recheck this stuff at 2142 EST, the horrendous hash is back on 1070 obliterating a weak music station south of Montreal. I think that the hash was simply not propagating... I think I'm gonna write a FCC complaint for WTIC-1080 ! During the next couple of days, most of my free time, aside from DXing, Aventure FM researching, a possible girlfriend and worldwide movies (I enjoy international movies as much as international music) will be spent writing complaints to the FCC. I couldn't show my Colombian friend RCN Antena Dos on 650, because of the WFAN-660 IBOC and nulling out WFAN pretty much deals away with Colombia while favoring WSM in Nashville, TN ! I will onviously talk about WSM instead of Colombia in my complaint. Also, I'm looking forward expanding my very small QSL collections ! More on that later ! An important highlight of the last night's DX session was the presence of odd signals with data like noises popping in and out, while listening to Morocco-171 and Iceland-189. If these are Low-FER, then I've never heard any before last night. There are times, I'd almost like to learn morse in order to DX those challening and lower-powered beacons... According to information found on the Web, the Low-FER are fairly similar to the NDBs ! Is it right or is this information misleading ? If I had to highlight the whole holiday DXperience, then the PK's Shielded Magnetic LW loop could hardly be forgotten... One of my oldest DX dreams I had when I begun DXing back in 2000 was to pick up stations on broadcast bands NOT used in NA. Eventually I had limited success DXing Ecos del Torbes and Radio Villa-La Sencilla on 60 meters, but until the 2008-2009 winter I didn't had the equipment necessary for LW DX. As I write this and as I'm also impress by the good performance of the Magnetic loop on the botton of MW when set to amplifiy the highest frequency (around 500 kHz, though with some gain on 530-585 kHz too), I may try to purchase such an antenna for MW purposes toward my birthday. If someone ever used a Magnetic loop for the tropical bands, especially the 90 and 60 meter bands, should that person be clever and let me know, it would be awesome ! I don't have the right setup for anything other than threshold and unusable audio out of the strongest Peruvian and Bolivian SW broadcasters and I have the curiosity needed to explore the tropical bands too, not only longwave, mediumwave, FM and the international bands ! Bogdan speaks: Last, but not least, I joined the NRC (National Radio Club) and should receive DX News later this week. I would like to congratulate Marc DeLorenzo for pointing out to me the correct address ! I'm sometimes ashamed that my DX activity goes up and down... I always seem to miss on the best condx... How would you rate the 2008-2009 DX season yet ? Very good for TAs (at least at times) and very poor for the LAs ! Seriously, I would like to see more CMEs... For me, hearing medium or lower-powered YVs is much more challenging that hearing powerhouses such as Spain-585 running 600 kW from Madrid ! I always count the YV states, since each state has its own broadcaster and each one of the 23 or 24 Venezuelan "estados" (depending on how you cont DF's Caracas area) are heard with varying degrees of regularity and I would dearly appreciate if Bruce Conti could gladly include "estado Zulia" or "Anzo?tegui state" on Popular Communications and elsewhere ! Since Colombia and Venezuela are the only SAs likely to make further inland, it's amuzing to try pin down more YVs with motivation, counting each new state from which a previously unheard area of Venezuela bunched at your receiver ! Counting YV states is like counting XE ones or USA ones, this is what's the point ! Until now, I logged Distrito Federal on 550, 670 (semi-regular many years ago before Rebelde-670 raised power and WFAN added IBOC), 750, 910, 1130 (strongly presumed) and 1200, Falc?n on 780, Anzo?tegui on 640 and 1080, Sucre on 1110 and 1500, Zulia on 1070 and Aragua on 570. So I have 12 or 13 YVs depending on how you feel of the presumed but not confirmed (YET!) Ideal YVRL logging on 1130 which is near Maiquet?a, not too far from the Caracas suburb from which YVRQ-910 is broadcasting, all in Distrito Federal ! I campaign to make IDXD -> VDXD (Venezuelan DX Diggest) during the next solar CME ! For NRCers who have not seen the Hard-Core DX repports, my Colombian friend was hypnotized as I switched back and forth between WJR and RCN Barranquilla on 760. He also told me that the HJ anthem was a well thought piece of poetry with lots of fancy words. He may comeback tomorrow, providing he can afford the current coldwave (c.f. no, not that dark-edged musical style of the 80s) ! This repport is brought to you by Bogdan Alexandru Chiochiu DXing from Pierrefonds (Montreal's West Island), PQ - QC, Canada DXing using the Sanyo MCD-S830 / ferrite bar antenna combo for MW DXing using the Sangean CST-818 / PK's Shielded Magnetic LW loop combo for LW DXing using the Sangean CST-818 / random wire combo for SW DXing using his body / his ears along with the auditive skills that came along for any useful purpose of the items underlined above May the good DX start showing with signal strengths that would convert a non-DXer into a DXer ! Bogdan Chiochiu Btw.: Have the bucks needed in order to become part of the NRC arrived at the Aurora, CO mailbox ? I'm sending this repport to IDXD as well, just in the case everything is already OK in doing so ! End of Hard-Core-DX Digest, Vol 73, Issue 18 ********************************************