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Today's Topics:
1. 13650 NO ID, ?rabe (JOSE MIGUEL ROMERO ROMERO)
2. Re: [Frecuencia DX] 13650 NO ID, ?rabe (JOSE MIGUEL ROMERO ROMERO)
3. Jan 30 Logs ([email protected])
4. Logs: clandestinas, piratas y NO ID?s. (JOSE MIGUEL ROMERO ROMERO)
5. Palestinian Hamas-Al-Aqsa TV to broadcast from Beirut
(JOSE MIGUEL ROMERO ROMERO)
6. Glenn Hauser logs January 30-31, 2009 (Glenn Hauser)
7. DTV STBs QRM SHORTWAVE (Glenn Hauser)
8. trans-oceanic logs + some Latin goodies (aurel chiochiu)
9. CORRECTION: trans-oceanic logs + some Latin goodies
(aurel chiochiu)
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Message: 1
Date: Sat, 31 Jan 2009 07:51:39 +0000 (GMT)
From: JOSE MIGUEL ROMERO ROMERO <[email protected]>
Subject: [HCDX] 13650 NO ID, ?rabe
To: Frecuencia DX <[email protected]>
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1
Saludos cordiales.
RUSIA 9840 Radio Rossii, Moskva-Taldom, 07:12-07:17, escuchada el 31 de enero
en ruso a locutora con comentarios, locutor en conversaci?n con invitado,
conversaci?n con risas, SINPO 45444.
9860 Radio Tatarstan, Samara, 07:18-07:25, escuchada el 31 de enero en ruso a
locutora con comentarios, este servicio est? anunciado de 0710 a 0720 en t?taro
y de 0720 a 0800 en ruso, locutor con comentarios, SINPO 34433.
13685 Radio Vlaanderen Int., St. Peterburg-Popovk, 07:41-07:45, escuchada el 31
de enero en holandes a locutor y locutora con comentarios, entrevista a
invitado, emisi?n musical, SINPO 55444
13650 NO ID, 07:30-07:40, escuchada el 31 de enero en idioma ?rabe a locutor y
locutora en conversaci?n telef?nica con invitados, saludo, no encuentro
frecuencia listada en EiBi ni en Aoki para esta frecuencia a esta hora,
fragmento musical, locutor leyendo poema acompa?ado por m?sica de guitarra, se
aprecia ligera interferencia de emisora en chino, alg?n servicio de CNR
interfiriendo al servicio en chino de VOA que emite de 0700 a 1100, m?sica
folkl?rica local, SINPO 44444
* Descarto VOIRI en ?rabe, la emisi?n no corresponde con el servicio en 13800
de 0530 a 1427. Sin embargo encuentro inactivo el servicio de Radio Cairo
listado de 0700 a 1100 por 15710.
Jos? Miguel Romero
Burjasot (Valencia)
Espa?a
Sangean ATS 909
Antena Radio Master A-108
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Message: 2
Date: Sat, 31 Jan 2009 08:14:20 +0000 (GMT)
From: JOSE MIGUEL ROMERO ROMERO <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [HCDX] [Frecuencia DX] 13650 NO ID, ?rabe
To: [email protected]
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1
?? Saludos cordiales, se trata de un nuevo servicio de R. Kuwait, en paralelo
por 11675 con servicio de 0300 a 0905 seg?n EiBi de vu.
JMR
--- El s?b, 31/1/09, JOSE MIGUEL ROMERO ROMERO <[email protected]>
escribi?:
De: JOSE MIGUEL ROMERO ROMERO <[email protected]>
Asunto: [Frecuencia DX] 13650 NO ID, ?rabe
Para: "Frecuencia DX" <[email protected]>
Fecha: s?bado, 31 enero, 2009 8:51
Saludos cordiales.
RUSIA 9840 Radio Rossii, Moskva-Taldom, 07:12-07:17, escuchada el 31 de enero
en ruso a locutora con comentarios, locutor en conversaci?n con invitado,
conversaci?n con risas, SINPO 45444.
9860 Radio Tatarstan, Samara, 07:18-07:25, escuchada el 31 de enero en ruso a
locutora con comentarios, este servicio est? anunciado de 0710 a 0720 en t?taro
y de 0720 a 0800 en ruso, locutor con comentarios, SINPO 34433.
13685 Radio Vlaanderen Int., St. Peterburg-Popovk, 07:41-07:45, escuchada el 31
de enero en holandes a locutor y locutora con comentarios, entrevista a
invitado, emisi?n musical, SINPO 55444
13650 NO ID, 07:30-07:40, escuchada el 31 de enero en idioma ?rabe a locutor y
locutora en conversaci?n telef?nica con invitados, saludo, no encuentro
frecuencia listada en EiBi ni en Aoki para esta frecuencia a esta hora,
fragmento musical, locutor leyendo poema acompa?ado por m?sica de guitarra, se
aprecia ligera interferencia de emisora en chino, alg?n servicio de CNR
interfiriendo al servicio en chino de VOA que emite de 0700 a 1100, m?sica
folkl?rica local, SINPO 44444
* Descarto VOIRI en ?rabe, la emisi?n no corresponde con el servicio en 13800
de 0530 a 1427. Sin embargo encuentro inactivo el servicio de Radio Cairo
listado de 0700 a 1100 por 15710.
Jos? Miguel Romero
Burjasot (Valencia)
Espa?a
Sangean ATS 909
Antena Radio Master A-108
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Message: 3
Date: Sat, 31 Jan 2009 10:22:55 EST
From: [email protected]
Subject: [HCDX] Jan 30 Logs
To: [email protected]
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** DJIBOUTI. 4780, Radio Djibouti, 2230-0159*, Jan 30-31, local
Horn of Africa style music. Arabic talk. Speech by man. Possible
religious recitations. Sign off with National Anthem . Fair to good
signal but occasional CODAR QRM. On late tonight. Usually signs
off at 2100. Back on the air at 0300 signing on with National Anthem.
Arabic talk. Qur`an at 0303. (Alexander-PA)
** EQUATORIAL GUINEA. 5005, Radio Nacional, Bata, 2215-2258*,
Jan 30, Spanish talk. Many Radio Nacional IDs. Afro-pop music.
Sign off with National Anthem at 2255. Fair. (Alexander-PA)
** EURO-PIRATE. 6870.00, Radio Playback Int, 2220-2300+,
Jan 30, Tentative. Very weak with pop music. Just too weak to
catch an ID. (Alexander-PA)
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Message: 4
Date: Sat, 31 Jan 2009 17:34:19 +0000 (GMT)
From: JOSE MIGUEL ROMERO ROMERO <[email protected]>
Subject: [HCDX] Logs: clandestinas, piratas y NO ID?s.
To: Frecuencia DX <[email protected]>
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8
Saludos cordiales.
ALEMANIA 9680 Voice of Oromiya Independence, Juelich, 17:07-17:15, escuchada el
31 de enero en idioma oromo a locutor con noticias, referencias a ?Oromo,
Ogadenia, Sudan?, segmento musical, m?sica de sinton?a, se aprecia ruido
molesto, DRM??, referencia a ?orom?a?, SINPO 33443
ARMENIA 11560 Radio Free Chosun, Yerevan-Gavar, 12:00-12:07, escuchada el 31 de
enero en coreano, m?sica de sinton?a, locutora con comentarios, probablemente
con presentaci?n, locutor y locutora con comentarios con referencias a Obama,
el comienzo de la emisi?n corresponde con la emisi?n en Internet de la web de
la emisora: http://www.rfchosun.org/eng/#, aunque anuncian emisi?n del 16 de
enero, SINPO 44333.
IRAN 13740 VOIRI, Sirjan, 12:15-12:16, escuchada el 31 de enero en hebreo, se
observa una portadora muy fuerte y un nivel de audio muy bajo y mal modulado, a
pesar de la tremenda se?al y no sufrir interferencia la emisi?n es inaudible,
SINPO 55442
REINO UNIDO 11745 SW Radio ?frica, Rampisham, 17:20-17:24, escuchada el 31 de
enero en ingl?s con noticias, referencias a Zimbabwe y Mugabe, reportaje por
corresponsal, referencias a ?Presidente y Washington?, SINPO 45433.
SRI LANKA 11750 Sri Lanka BC, Colombo-Ekala, 16:37-16:41, escuchada el 31 de
enero en sinhala con emisi?n de m?sica folkl?rica local, locutor y locutora con
comentarios, servicio anunciado de lunes a s?bado de 1600 a 1900, SINPO 34343
11905 Sri Lanka BC, Colombo-Ekala, 12:10-12:12, escuchada el 31 de enero en
idioma tamil con emisi?n de m?sica folkl?rica local, m?sica muy similar a la
hind?, SINPO 32342.
TAIW?N 9820 Nippon no Kaze, Taipei, 17:01-17:05, escuchada el 31 de enero en
idioma coreano a locutora con comentarios, se aprecia emisi?n en colisi?n con
otra emisora, probablemente VOR en ?rabe v?a Dushanbe-Orzu en Tayikist?n, que
emite de 1700 a 1800, locutor con comentarios, SINPO 32442.
7195 NO ID, 16:50-16:59, escuchada el 31 de enero en idioma sin identificar,
probablemente en ruso a locutora con entrevista a invitado, probablemente alg?n
servicio de VOR ya que comienza m?sica de sinton?a y el servicio en ?rabe de
las 1700 a 1800 v?a Moskva, SINPO 34443.
9560 NO ID, 12:28-12:34, escuchada el 31 de enero en idioma asi?tico sin
identificar, probablemente chino o alg?n dialecto del pa?s, locutor y locutora
con comentarios en programa musical, m?sica pop mel?dica local, hay un servicio
de PBS Xinjiang en uighur anunciado para esta frecuencia listado de 1100 a
1200, me pregunto si se trata de la misma emisora con horario ampliado, SINPO
34433
PIRATA
6220 Mystery Radio, 16:20-16:35, escuchada el 31 de enero identific?ndose en
ingl?s, emisi?n de m?sica disco dance de los a?os 70 y 80, SINPO 43443
6870 Playback Int, 13:54-1402, escuchada el 31 de enero en ingl?s a locutor
presentando tema musical, m?sica pop rock de los a?os 70 u 80, pieza mel?dica
interpretada por piano, la se?al se va degradando hasta el punto de hacerse
inaudible, SINPO 34332
Jos? Miguel Romero
Burjasot (Valencia)
Espa?a
Sangean ATS 909
Antena Radio Master A-108
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Message: 5
Date: Sat, 31 Jan 2009 18:07:21 +0000 (GMT)
From: JOSE MIGUEL ROMERO ROMERO <[email protected]>
Subject: [HCDX] Palestinian Hamas-Al-Aqsa TV to broadcast from Beirut
To: DXLD <[email protected]>
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8
Palestinian Hamas-Al-Aqsa TV to broadcast from Beirut
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2009-01/31/content_10741847.htm
BEIRUT, Jan. 31 (Xinhua) -- Al-Aqsa TV run by the Palestinian Islamic
Resistance Movement (Hamas) will begin broadcasting from Beirut for one hour a
day to develop its capabilities outside Gaza, local Naharnet website reported
Saturday.
Hamas- Al-Aqsa TV station in Gaza was hit by Israeli troops during the
22-day Israeli war on Gaza, according to press reports that the building of the
TV station has been completely destroyed, but the station continued to
broadcast from a mobile TV unit.
The Hamas-run TV station was established few years ago, it has been accused
by Israel of inciting hate against Jews.
Earlier this month, the French authorities prohibited Hamas TV channel
Al-Aqsa from broadcasting to Europe, and the TV sources said they would start
broadcasting programs to Europe via a Eurobird European Telecom satellite
operated by Eutelast, a Paris based company functioning under French law.
The TV station was accused of triggering young Arab speakers in Europe to
attack their Jewish neighbors and reject European values.
Lebanese Shiite Hezbollah's Al-Manar TV was prohibited as well from
broadcasting in Europe by the French highest administrative court in 2005,
because of its anti-Semite programs.
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Message: 6
Date: Sat, 31 Jan 2009 10:36:59 -0800 (PST)
From: Glenn Hauser <[email protected]>
Subject: [HCDX] Glenn Hauser logs January 30-31, 2009
To: [email protected]
Cc: [email protected]
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1
** BIAFRA [non]. 15665, V. of Biafra International via WHRI, Friday Jan 30 at
2052 check, insufficient, echoing with backscatter about equal to backlobe, but
easily recognizable tones of The Orator, so reconfirmed. This is mainly in
English, not Ibo, despite DX Mix Bulgaria schedule, and surely not more than
weekly (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CHINA. Firedrake check Jan 31 at 1432: both 8400 and 9000, much stronger on
the former (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CUBA [non]. Paused for a moment on R. Mart?, 13820, since it was well atop
the DentroCuban Jamming Command, Sat Jan 31 at 1632 for program ``Sin Pedir
Permiso`` with Ernesto Betancourt. One of the guests interviewed by phone was
Gen. Fernando Ochoa Antich, from Venezuela, apparently now in the opposition.
Hmmm, could be a relative of Arnaldo Coro Antich of RHC thru his mother`s
family. This is all a protracted family dispute between the dentro- and
fuera-Cubans, which the US has been unfortunate enough to get pulled into
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** ECUADOR. HCJB, opening transmission on 12000, Jan 30 at 2059 and into
automated ID at 2059:30 in Spanish, claiming to be on 12000 to SAm, and 21455
to Europe, altho HCJB closed down 21455 almost a year ago. The lesson is: HCJB
should never make any real frequency changes or close down any transmitters
since they are unable or unwilling to update their announcements to match
reality --- what am I saying? HCJB isn`t about reality! (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** EGYPT. R. Cairo, 15080, Jan 31 at 1420 with ME music, Arabic mentions of
Qahira, somewhat distorted but not weak audio; considerable fading, for W
Africa (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** FRANCE. RFI English is still on SW, 15605, Sat Jan 31 at 1619 with story
about starting a local radio station in Tanzania, with UNESCO help;
American-accented narratrice Susan --- referred to it as a ``50-kHz
transmitter``; I assume she meant 50-watt! Segment was Africa Media, and at
1622 onward to The Week in France, which started with Gaza. 1627 sports. 1630
ID plus Paris 1730 timecheck, and headlines including new president in Somalia,
Madagascar, Iraq, Aussie Open. 1631 Network Europe, which saves RFI from having
to produce a full hour of programming itself; sufficient reception tho aimed
170 degrees from Issoudun across Africa. This is about as close as we get to a
North American service from RFI, which of course is not close at all, but
enough of that 500 kW wanders over here (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** GERMANY [non]. The avant-garde music show on DW`s Russian service,
Muzprosvet, has not yet been cancelled. Glad to hear it again Sat Jan 31 at
1530 on 11720, 76 degrees via Rampisham, but sufficient reception here, with
wide variety of quasi-musical sounds from didgeridoo, trumpet, jewsharp,
voices, etc. Lasted until 1559:30 but at 1558:30 a 3 Hz SAH started on the
frequency, which turned out to be Radio Free Asia in Uighur as introduced in
English at 1600. That`s via Tinian, and Aoki says jammed, but no jamming
audible.
I had tried several times without success to find a podcast of Muzprosvet on
DW`s complicated and unfriendly website. Here`s the program`s page:
http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,2144,268970,00.html
Afterwards, this time I found it in the third category on the long list of DW
Russian podcasts at
http://www.dw3d.de/dw/0,2142,4356,00.html
the exact link to this show audio being:
http://www.dw3d.de/popups/popup_multi_mediaplayer/0,,3736368_type_audio_struct_4356_format_WMedia,00.html
So I listened to it again with `perfect reception` (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** INDONESIA. RRI Fak2, 4790, the only Indo audible on 60m, with Makassar still
missing from 4750, Jan 31 as late as 1445 with continuous YL talking in
Indonesian; a bit of music around 1455 and gone, sign-off I suppose, but could
have just outfaded (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** JAPAN [non]. It`s the last Saturday of the month, Jan 31, so NHKWNRJ`s
English feature is a classic story instead of World Interactive --- 1412 on
11705 via Canada, tale about beheading, which I could easily do without, and so
I did; at least there was no pre-echo this time from Yamata direct (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** OKLAHOMA. KEOR, 1120, Catoosa/Sperry/Tulsa, active again with stale
unannounced oldies, Jan 30 at 1932 UT check. Still apparently testing pending
sale to start regular programming with announcements, even commercials (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. WWCR still with big harmonic problem: Jan 30 at 0723 check, VG signal
on 6430, S9+22 and splattering plus and minus 15 kHz approx., 6415-6445; unlike
some previous occasions, the fundamental also radiating on 3215, but only S9+19.
Also could hear second harmonix of 6 MHz frequencies: Jan 31 at 0622 on 11870,
DGS 2 x 5935 mixing with WEWN Spanish fundamental; 11780, Pastor Pete Peters 2
x 5890, weak and no Brasil on at the moment; these were weakly audible on the
FRG-7, but much stronger on the YB-400, i.e. the latter succumbing to receiver
overload from the fundamentals. 0626, the strong harmonic on 6430 from // 3215
was still going.
Checking WWCR-3 webcast, Sat Jan 31, the 1730 airing of WORLD OF RADIO did not
start until almost 1742, so on 12160 it may have been more than 5 minutes late.
If you don`t hear WOR at a scheduled time, don`t give up (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. I just remarked that VOA`s Hausa service inbooms off the back from
Greenville NC, 15185, M-F at 2030-2100 --- but not Jan 30 at 2050, when
something unID was JBA. Perhaps it was missing, or perhaps the skip zone was
too broad; at same time, WHRI 15665 was almost as weak from SC, which is not
unusual for it on 19m, while more distant WBCQ was incoming well on 15420, plus
aimed usward (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. Jan 30 at 1932 UT, exactly an hour after local mean noon, on caradio
heard weak but steady signal on 1200 with weather for ``The Alamo City``, so
must be WOAI San Antonio, residual skywave, as that`s a bit much for groundwave
at almost 500 miles on this high a frequency, even tho it combats higher and
higher solar angle southward (Glenn Hauser, Enid OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ###
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Message: 7
Date: Sat, 31 Jan 2009 10:41:48 -0800 (PST)
From: Glenn Hauser <[email protected]>
Subject: [HCDX] DTV STBs QRM SHORTWAVE
To: [email protected]
Cc: [email protected], [email protected]
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
In all the discussion of DTV converter boxes, I haven`t seen any mention of
this, possibly because no one else is interested both in direct OTA DTV
reception, AND shortwave DXing/listening??
They (at least the Zenith DTT900/901 that I have), put out a continuous whine
on many shortwave bands. This is when they are supposedly OFF, in the `red-eye`
position; when they are blue-eyed, ON, they put out different hash on the SW
bands, which is as bad if not worse. The only solution is to unplug them when
not in use, since like so much electronic gear today, they are always ON or
standing-by, even when supposedly OFF.
This became worse when I installed a second unit on a TV set closer to my SW
rigs, but even when it is unplugged, the first one in another housepart still
QRMs SW. Fortunately, the Zeniths retain their programming even when unplugged
for several days, tho not sure if indefinitely. For example, Jan 31 around 1600
UT I noted the peaks of the whines showed approx. every 72 kHz between 15160
and 15660 kHz. All progress must be accompanied by regress (Glenn Hauser, OK,
DX LISTENING DIGEST)
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Message: 8
Date: Sat, 31 Jan 2009 16:24:20 -0500
From: aurel chiochiu <[email protected]>
Subject: [HCDX] trans-oceanic logs + some Latin goodies
To: [email protected], [email protected],
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Warm greetings to all of you !
I'm quite buzy, but not as much as I thought, as I did loose my work (the
Colombian person to whom I taught French has to leave for her native country
tomorrow at 6AM because some member of her family were trapped by some
"narcotraficos"), so instead of preparing pedagocial French-Spanish list of
obscure verbs and other kind of stuff, I have time, this afternoon, to send in
my latest logs. The TA condx on longwave and EVEN mediumwave has dramatically
improven over the past 2 days, probably the best I ever saw, since I own the
PK's Shielded Magnetic longwave loop and on MW they were also quite
spectacular, though much short-lived than on MW. The MW TA opening I attended
did last from about 0130 to 0200 UTC with almost readable audio on 603 (with
the same woman voice as on 585 !) and for a few seconds, I could dodge 621 from
the 620 WVMT megapest in Burlington, VT even though nulling out WVMT favors
Belgium instead of the much more commun Canary Islands. By the way, is RTBF La!
Premi?re from Wavre still on 621 kHz ? The only null on WVMT I can achieve
yet is ENE / WSW, not ESE (east-south-east), so nulling WVMT does not favor
much the fairly weak Canary Islands TA signal. Also unusual was that 621 was up
with man talk trying to break through semi-nulled WVMT-620 even when much more
commun Madrid-585 wasn't making the TA trip.
Tonight, I'll likely not have enough time for DXing, because of my lovely frail
girlfriend, but condx would likely get even better. So be on the lockout for
some spectacular high-latitude east-west conditions on both longwave
and...mediumwave, yes -> MW !
Pan-American DX was rather decent Thursday night and way below average the
other night, though late Monday night, the Bah?a de Honda 1 kW sneaked through
WIP-610 Philadelphia for the only noteworthy foreign LW-MW DX of that day.
Thursday night, what was unusual, was YVKE-550 which is the strongest most
commun Venezuelan in the Montreal area after YVKS-750 and YVNM-780 was good and
YVKS-750 was huge, but YVNM-780 was absent, so the opening was toward the
Caracas area of Distrito Federal with nothing out of Coro, yet Barranquilla-760
was noted in passing at a quite nice level strength.
Into the logs:
Trans-Atlantic DX
162 FRANCE France Inter, Allouis JAN 31 0610 - Woman in French noted at a
poor level, though not representative at all of the REST OF THE LOGS (see
below) ! (Chiochiu-QC)
171 MOROCCO Medi Un, Nador JAN 31 0130 - SINPO 24333 -> a Middle Eastern pop
tune, then a special request for the "Por Ella" salsa number of Victor Manuel
which was followed by "Tous les cris, les SOS" of Daniel Balavoine, someone who
sadly passed away while travelling for the Paris-Dakar contest in January of
1986. Seems like Morocco is the third spot after Russia and Japan for
non-English foreign music on the planet ! French Caribbean zouk is also VERY
popular in Morocco ! After the Daniel Balavoine recorded, heard ra? vocals
back-to-back ! Around 0230 UTC, they played an Amadou et Mariam track, so
Morocco seems highly devoted to World Music and foreign cultures ! Fair at this
time, but the best was yet to come ! +JAN 31 0415 - Spanish romantic ballad,
then Celine Dion, Robbie Williams, then Arabic rhythmic contemporary vocals.
Huge ! Peaking S6 out of S7 on the Sangean CST-818's reading meter ! Probably
my best-ever reception of Morocco-171 yet. SINPO 44544 (Chiochiu-QC!
)
177 GERMANY Deutschlandradio Kultur, Oranienburg, Zehlendorf
183 GERMANY Europe 1, Felsberg (Saarlouis) JAN 31 0520 - Excellent level,
almost local-like, with lengthy newscast. One of the items was about the strike
of workers in Guadeloupe. Terrific SINPO ! SINPO 54444 with barely noticeable
splatter from Iceland-189 ! Best ever reception of Europe 1 for me ! Of all the
4 French stations (France Inter, Europe 1, RMC Info and RTL), Europe 1 is
always the most reliable one, good enough even for a non-DXer to enjoy !
(Chiochiu-QC)
189 ICELAND RUV, Gufuskalar JAN 31 0615 - at this time, switched from
International pops to classical piano music, then later, as I felt asleep, I
was told Icelandic talk was coming out of the bedroom ! Very good !
(Chiochiu-QC)
198 ENGLAND BBC Radio 4, Droitwich JAN 31 0526 - British Accended English
talk splattering into the local 201 kHz beacon in AM Wide mode ! The signal
wasn't really strong though, just the Sangean CST-818 isn't too selective in AM
Wide Mode ! (Chiochiu-QC)
207 unID DEC 31 0510 - talk and music badly QRMed by beacons on nearby
frequencies. Nothing usable ! SIO 211 ! (Chiochiu-QC)
216 FRANCE RMC Info, Romoules JAN 31 0510 - French news noted in passing at a
nice level, over the beacon that is usually pestering this channel ! SIO 443
(Chiochiu-QC)
225 POLAND Polski Radio 1, Solec Kujawski JAN 31 0014 - first founding of the
evening, as I tuned to it, playing the "Lady In Red" smash hit of Chris de
Bourg followed by man with comments in Polish, as the Polish talk appeared, the
signal started to fade. As usual, the fadings on longwave are slow and deep,
deeper than the fadings observed with MW signals ! SIO 353 - fair-good, but not
quite good ! (Chiochiu-QC)
234 LUXEMBURG RTL, Beidweler JAN 31 0016 - female country-rock vocal
(Fleetwood Mak ?), then man in French. Poor and hetted by beacons from both
sides of the channel. SIO 222. Should be better tonight as the past night condx
on LW were spectacular especially toward Ireland and Algeria on 252 kHz and the
ionospheric conditions are improving really fast these times around !
(Chiochiu-QC)
252 IRELAND RTE Radio One, Clarkestown JAN 31 0051 - playing an amazing
blues-rock English vocal that was fading over and under Algeria's French talk
at almost armchair level. SIO 423 ! Best on 253 kHz in AM Narrow Mode as
usually, though it could be separed from the pesky UL beacon on 248 kHz on 254
kHz in AM WIDE MODE ! (Chiochiu-QC)
252 ALGERIA Alger Cha?ne 3, Tipaza JAN 31 0110 - discussion program about the
best way to resolve the Gaza conflict. Fair-good, over / under Ireland best
ever reception of these guys ! First time readable ! SINPO 33523. Friday night
was probably my best yet for LW DX ! (Chiochiu-QC)
585 SPAIN Radio Nacional de Espa?a / Radio Uno Santa Cruz de Tenerife JAN 31
0146 - Man and woman in Spanish, fair and occasional words readable through
some quite heavy splatter from 580 and 590. SIO 321 ! (Chiochiu-QC)
594 or 595 unID JAN 31 0155 - empty audio noted almost midway between the 590
and 600 kHz American channels on the analog-dialed Sanyo MCD-S830. Any ideas ?
(Chiochiu-QC)
603 SPAIN Radio Nacional de Espa?a / Radio Cinco, La Sevilla et al JAN 31
0149 - Woman in Spanish, very poor and mushy cutting through the 600 splah and
clearly the same voice as on 585. Radio Uno (585 AM) and Radio Cinco (603 AM)
carry the same RNE network feed during the late night hours ! Spain #3 on MW !
NEW ! Wow ! Unfortunatly, the tape misfunctioned and when I tried to record it,
I only had the talk at a very slow and unreadable speed... Seems like the tape
recorder inside my boombox Sanyo MCD-S830 is beginning to be a lil' bit dusty !
I tried to record a few other things and the other times, the speed was
perfect... Anyway, SINPO 13512 - not too bad for a mediumwave TA ! (Chiochiu-QC)
621 CANARY ISLANDS Radio Nacional de Espa?a / Radio Uno JAN 31 0210 - Man in
Spanish strongly breaking through semi-nulled WVMT-620 semi-local at an almost
readable level. Tentative ! First time here, if them ! Around 0220 UTC, 621
faded out completly and nothing came back from accross the pond on MW, though
on LW, Morocco-171 was huge around 0415 UTC... Unfortunatly, 603 and 585
weren't up then (the TA opening officially ended around 0200 UTC), or I would
have //ed this one ! Is Canary Islands considered as a separate DX country or
more water separation between it and Spain is needed ? A simple barefoot
portable with USB filtering would have produced armchair audio here !
(Chiochiu-QC)
Pan-American DX
550 VENEZUELA YVKE, Caracas, Distrito Federal JAN 30 0140 and 0207 - Did tune
to this channel at both times, heard with a passionate speech by Hugo Chavez
about how bolivarianism is related to social justice. Good to very good, but
not quite excellent. Minor QRM from WEVD from Waterbury, VT. SINPO 33534 ! It's
the 5th time this season I log this Caraque?o ! Semi-regular ! (Chiochiu-QC)
600 CUBA CMKV, Radio Rebelde, Urbano Norris JAN 30 0405 - Good over WICC !
Probably the most reliable Rebelde MW frequency in the Montreal area, now that
CMBA-670 is heavy pestered by the ugly WFAN-660 IBOC hash ! Of course, you can
always use either shortwave (5025 kHz) and the Internet to catch them out !
(Chiochiu-QC)
610 CUBA CMAN, Radio Rebelde, Bah?a de Honda JAN 27 0430 - as I randomly
tuned around, heard their distinctive "Rebelde, La Habana" IS through WIP
Philadelphia. The only noteworthy catche from late Monday night, as during most
of the evening, all LW, MW and SW were severely hammered by a strong buzz which
dissapeared around local midnight allowing for this weak 1 kW Cuban to sneak
through the Philadelphia pest, in CHNC null ! Semi-regular here ! (Chiochiu-QC)
750 VENEZUELA YVKS, Caracas, Distrito Federal JAN 30 0150 - carrying the
"Librer?a Sonica" litt. program with reviews of novels and poems. According to
the announcements I caught, this is a remake of a program heard during the
daylight, those unavailable to overseas listeners ! Huge, SINPO 43533 ! At the
Saul Chernos, Coro on 780 is the most commun YV, but in the Montreal ares, the
biggest Venezuelan pest is YVKS-750 (RCR). (Chiochiu-QC)
760 COLOMBIA HJAJ, RCN Cadena Bas?ca, Barranquilla JAN 30 0135 - Spanish talk
noted in passing at a fair-good level, in a very deep WJR null. SIO 343 in WJR
null ! Didn't stay with it. I'm tired of this being the ONLY Colombian coming
through with any degreee of regularity ! A few weeks ago I tentaitvely logged
HJHP-580 in Cali which is probably the best bet for North American DXers
wanting to log a Todelar station. Todelar is the the third biggest Colombian
network after Caracol and RCN ! (Chiochiu-QC)
Additionnal comments: While I mostly collect tape recordings of my best
catches, I'm also a QSL hunter to a moderate degree and I'm still waiting for
the YVKS-750 and WOON-1240 QSL cards ! Right now, I only have 3 QSLs from
midwestern USA stations I received via sporadic-E on the FM Broadcast band
(ultrashortwave or "unde ultrascurte" in Romanian.
One of my project for the next F2 season is to try for OIRT and Japanese FM
broadcasters since their lower FM frequencies are more prone to F2 skip if the
solar activity will begin damaging life on Earth like the parapsychological
channels are predicting for 2012.
I wonder if regular summer sporadic E layer skip from Yukon or Alaska to
Fareast Russia on OIRT-FM (65.80-74.00 MHz) would be possible, but I doubt
someone ever tried it, otherwise I would have found references on the web which
is not the case yet.
Well, I'm get ready to attend the metamorphosis to the shape of the innocence
of my girlfriend, but I WILL FIND SOME TIME FOR DXing AS WELL, since condx on
LW and low-band MW seems almost spectacular ! I can't believe I could follow
the Gaza conflict coverage over Algeria-252 - it's the first time I have
armchair copy of this North African broadcasted which has eluded me before I
even had the really astonishing PK's Magnetic Shieled longwave loop (see
below)... I would like to thank once again Paul Karlestand in Canberra,
Austrlia for having built this loop with so much devotion... Before that, I
could only get Latin American and the occasional European MW broadcasters on
the regular AM broadcast band using the Sanyo MCD-S830 barefoot, now I can
enjoy all kind of broadcast DX from all over Europe and North Africa on
longwave ! I'm thinking seriously of getting a similar loop for MW that will
only amplify the wanted frequency on the fairly prone to overload Sangean
CST-818 ! !
What kind of MW loop would bring the best TA MW audio at my Montreal area QTH
using the Sangean CST-818 (since I don't have money yet for a Drake R8B) ? I'm
thinking of an antenna able to surpass the Sanyo MCD-S830 barefoot performance,
especially in the 800-1000s where this receiver is rather deaf, since on the
low-end and high-end it is a serious and lovely DX machine ! If you look
carefully through my logs, you will see most of my foreign MW DX is done
between 530 and 780 kHz. Yet, if I want to log the YV "estado" of T?chira on
860 kHz (YVOL, Mundial Ocho-Sesenta, in San Cristobal), I need something to dig
this birdie out of the receiver threshold sensitivity noisefloor that I get in
the CJBC null (Toronto) ! Also, can anyone confirm Ecos del Torbes, YVOD, is
still active on 780 kHz ? I would be gladly happy to log something other than
Coro on this nice channel ! Is their SW transmitter on 4980 kHz still broken ?
I haven't heard them since at least 2002, if not 2001 ! Th!
e last time I reported YVOC-4980 (the call letters are slightly differ
ent on SW) was during the fall of 2001... Thanks a lot for your help ! Sorry
for so many questions, but it's been a long time since I've last DXed with so
much joy... The PK's Shielded Magnetic LW loop is partly the cause of so much
enthousiasm for a hobby I only enjoyed randomly over the course of the last
couple of years !
This repport is brought to you by Bogdan Chiochiu, DXing from Pierrefonds
(Montreal's West Island), Quebec, Canada using the Sanyo MCD-S830 / internal
ferrite bar antenna combo and the Sangean CST-818 / PK's Magnetic Shielded
longwave loop along with his ears and his heart, since DXing without your heart
is DXing without enjoying the program content of those unique distant signals !
May the good DX be with you !
Bogdan Chiochiu
Btw.: During the upcoming days, as time permits, I will make available more of
my files to the ABDX crew !
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Message: 9
Date: Sat, 31 Jan 2009 16:44:57 -0500
From: aurel chiochiu <[email protected]>
Subject: [HCDX] CORRECTION: trans-oceanic logs + some Latin goodies
To: [email protected], [email protected],
[email protected], [email protected]
Cc: [email protected]
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----- Original Message -----
From: Bogdan chiochiu
To: [email protected]
Sent: Saturday, January 31, 2009 4:28 PM
Subject: trans-oceanic logs + some Latin goodies
Warm greetings to all of you !
I'm quite buzy, but not as much as I thought, as I did loose my work (the
Colombian person to whom I taught French has to leave for her native country
tomorrow at 6AM because some member of her family were trapped by some
"narcotraficos"), so instead of preparing pedagocial French-Spanish list of
obscure verbs and other kind of stuff, I have time, this afternoon, to send in
my latest logs. The TA condx on longwave and EVEN mediumwave has dramatically
improven over the past 2 days, probably the best I ever saw, since I own the
PK's Shielded Magnetic longwave loop and on MW they were also quite
spectacular, though much short-lived than on MW. The MW TA opening I attended
did last from about 0130 to 0200 UTC with almost readable audio on 603 (with
the same woman voice as on 585 !) and for a few seconds, I could dodge 621 from
the 620 WVMT megapest in Burlington, VT even though nulling out WVMT favors
Belgium instead of the much more commun Canary Islands. By the way, is RTBF La!
Premi?re from Wavre still on 621 kHz ? The only null on WVMT I can achieve
yet is ENE / WSW, not ESE (east-south-east), so nulling WVMT does not favor
much the fairly weak Canary Islands TA signal. Also unusual was that 621 was up
with man talk trying to break through semi-nulled WVMT-620 even when much more
commun Madrid-585 wasn't making the TA trip.
Tonight, I'll likely not have enough time for DXing, because of my lovely frail
girlfriend, but condx would likely get even better. So be on the lockout for
some spectacular high-latitude east-west conditions on both longwave
and...mediumwave, yes -> MW !
Pan-American DX was rather decent Thursday night and way below average the
other night, though late Monday night, the Bah?a de Honda 1 kW sneaked through
WIP-610 Philadelphia for the only noteworthy foreign LW-MW DX of that day.
Thursday night, what was unusual, was YVKE-550 which is the strongest most
commun Venezuelan in the Montreal area after YVKS-750 and YVNM-780 was good and
YVKS-750 was huge, but YVNM-780 was absent, so the opening was toward the
Caracas area of Distrito Federal with nothing out of Coro, yet Barranquilla-760
was noted in passing at a quite nice level strength.
Into the logs:
Trans-Atlantic DX
162 FRANCE France Inter, Allouis JAN 31 0610 - Woman in French noted at a
poor level, though not representative at all of the REST OF THE LOGS (see
below) ! (Chiochiu-QC)
171 MOROCCO Medi Un, Nador JAN 31 0130 - SINPO 24333 -> a Middle Eastern pop
tune, then a special request for the "Por Ella" salsa number of Victor Manuel
which was followed by "Tous les cris, les SOS" of Daniel Balavoine, someone who
sadly passed away while travelling for the Paris-Dakar contest in January of
1986. Seems like Morocco is the third spot after Russia and Japan for
non-English foreign music on the planet ! French Caribbean zouk is also VERY
popular in Morocco ! After the Daniel Balavoine recorded, heard ra? vocals
back-to-back ! Around 0230 UTC, they played an Amadou et Mariam track, so
Morocco seems highly devoted to World Music and foreign cultures ! Fair at this
time, but the best was yet to come ! +JAN 31 0415 - Spanish romantic ballad,
then Celine Dion, Robbie Williams, then Arabic rhythmic contemporary vocals.
Huge ! Peaking S6 out of S7 on the Sangean CST-818's reading meter ! Probably
my best-ever reception of Morocco-171 yet. SINPO 44544 (Chiochiu-QC!
)
177 GERMANY Deutschlandradio Kultur, Oranienburg, Zehlendorf JAN 30 0359 -
noted with time pips as I tuned around. Poor-fair ! Second time here, relog !
(Chiochiu-QC)
183 GERMANY Europe 1, Felsberg (Saarlouis) JAN 31 0520 - Excellent level,
almost local-like, with lengthy newscast. One of the items was about the strike
of workers in Guadeloupe. Terrific SINPO ! SINPO 54444 with barely noticeable
splatter from Iceland-189 ! Best ever reception of Europe 1 for me ! Of all the
4 French stations (France Inter, Europe 1, RMC Info and RTL), Europe 1 is
always the most reliable one, good enough even for a non-DXer to enjoy !
(Chiochiu-QC)
189 ICELAND RUV, Gufuskalar JAN 31 0615 - at this time, switched from
International pops to classical piano music, then later, as I felt asleep, I
was told Icelandic talk was coming out of the bedroom ! Very good !
(Chiochiu-QC)
198 ENGLAND BBC Radio 4, Droitwich JAN 31 0526 - British Accended English
talk splattering into the local 201 kHz beacon in AM Wide mode ! The signal
wasn't really strong though, just the Sangean CST-818 isn't too selective in AM
Wide Mode ! (Chiochiu-QC)
207 unID DEC 31 0510 - talk and music badly QRMed by beacons on nearby
frequencies. Nothing usable ! SIO 211 ! (Chiochiu-QC)
216 FRANCE RMC Info, Romoules JAN 31 0510 - French news noted in passing at a
nice level, over the beacon that is usually pestering this channel ! SIO 443
(Chiochiu-QC)
225 POLAND Polski Radio 1, Solec Kujawski JAN 31 0014 - first founding of the
evening, as I tuned to it, playing the "Lady In Red" smash hit of Chris de
Bourg followed by man with comments in Polish, as the Polish talk appeared, the
signal started to fade. As usual, the fadings on longwave are slow and deep,
deeper than the fadings observed with MW signals ! SIO 353 - fair-good, but not
quite good ! (Chiochiu-QC)
234 LUXEMBURG RTL, Beidweler JAN 31 0016 - female country-rock vocal
(Fleetwood Mak ?), then man in French. Poor and hetted by beacons from both
sides of the channel. SIO 222. Should be better tonight as the past night condx
on LW were spectacular especially toward Ireland and Algeria on 252 kHz and the
ionospheric conditions are improving really fast these times around !
(Chiochiu-QC)
252 IRELAND RTE Radio One, Clarkestown JAN 31 0051 - playing an amazing
blues-rock English vocal that was fading over and under Algeria's French talk
at almost armchair level. SIO 423 ! Best on 253 kHz in AM Narrow Mode as
usually, though it could be separed from the pesky UL beacon on 248 kHz on 254
kHz in AM WIDE MODE ! (Chiochiu-QC)
252 ALGERIA Alger Cha?ne 3, Tipaza JAN 31 0110 - discussion program about the
best way to resolve the Gaza conflict. Fair-good, over / under Ireland best
ever reception of these guys ! First time readable ! SINPO 33523. Friday night
was probably my best yet for LW DX ! (Chiochiu-QC)
585 SPAIN Radio Nacional de Espa?a / Radio Uno Santa Cruz de Tenerife JAN 31
0146 - Man and woman in Spanish, fair and occasional words readable through
some quite heavy splatter from 580 and 590. SIO 321 ! (Chiochiu-QC)
594 or 595 unID JAN 31 0155 - empty audio noted almost midway between the 590
and 600 kHz American channels on the analog-dialed Sanyo MCD-S830. Any ideas ?
(Chiochiu-QC)
603 SPAIN Radio Nacional de Espa?a / Radio Cinco, La Sevilla et al JAN 31
0149 - Woman in Spanish, very poor and mushy cutting through the 600 splah and
clearly the same voice as on 585. Radio Uno (585 AM) and Radio Cinco (603 AM)
carry the same RNE network feed during the late night hours ! Spain #3 on MW !
NEW ! Wow ! Unfortunatly, the tape misfunctioned and when I tried to record it,
I only had the talk at a very slow and unreadable speed... Seems like the tape
recorder inside my boombox Sanyo MCD-S830 is beginning to be a lil' bit dusty !
I tried to record a few other things and the other times, the speed was
perfect... Anyway, SINPO 13512 - not too bad for a mediumwave TA ! (Chiochiu-QC)
621 CANARY ISLANDS Radio Nacional de Espa?a / Radio Uno JAN 31 0210 - Man in
Spanish strongly breaking through semi-nulled WVMT-620 semi-local at an almost
readable level. Tentative ! First time here, if them ! Around 0220 UTC, 621
faded out completly and nothing came back from accross the pond on MW, though
on LW, Morocco-171 was huge around 0415 UTC... Unfortunatly, 603 and 585
weren't up then (the TA opening officially ended around 0200 UTC), or I would
have //ed this one ! Is Canary Islands considered as a separate DX country or
more water separation between it and Spain is needed ? A simple barefoot
portable with USB filtering would have produced armchair audio here !
(Chiochiu-QC)
Pan-American DX
550 VENEZUELA YVKE, Caracas, Distrito Federal JAN 30 0140 and 0207 - Did tune
to this channel at both times, heard with a passionate speech by Hugo Chavez
about how bolivarianism is related to social justice. Good to very good, but
not quite excellent. Minor QRM from WEVD from Waterbury, VT. SINPO 33534 ! It's
the 5th time this season I log this Caraque?o ! Semi-regular ! (Chiochiu-QC)
600 CUBA CMKV, Radio Rebelde, Urbano Norris JAN 30 0405 - Good over WICC !
Probably the most reliable Rebelde MW frequency in the Montreal area, now that
CMBA-670 is heavy pestered by the ugly WFAN-660 IBOC hash ! Of course, you can
always use either shortwave (5025 kHz) and the Internet to catch them out !
(Chiochiu-QC)
610 CUBA CMAN, Radio Rebelde, Bah?a de Honda JAN 27 0430 - as I randomly
tuned around, heard their distinctive "Rebelde, La Habana" IS through WIP
Philadelphia. The only noteworthy catche from late Monday night, as during most
of the evening, all LW, MW and SW were severely hammered by a strong buzz which
dissapeared around local midnight allowing for this weak 1 kW Cuban to sneak
through the Philadelphia pest, in CHNC null ! Semi-regular here ! (Chiochiu-QC)
750 VENEZUELA YVKS, Caracas, Distrito Federal JAN 30 0150 - carrying the
"Librer?a Sonica" litt. program with reviews of novels and poems. According to
the announcements I caught, this is a remake of a program heard during the
daylight, those unavailable to overseas listeners ! Huge, SINPO 43533 ! At the
Saul Chernos, Coro on 780 is the most commun YV, but in the Montreal ares, the
biggest Venezuelan pest is YVKS-750 (RCR). (Chiochiu-QC)
760 COLOMBIA HJAJ, RCN Cadena Bas?ca, Barranquilla JAN 30 0135 - Spanish talk
noted in passing at a fair-good level, in a very deep WJR null. SIO 343 in WJR
null ! Didn't stay with it. I'm tired of this being the ONLY Colombian coming
through with any degreee of regularity ! A few weeks ago I tentaitvely logged
HJHP-580 in Cali which is probably the best bet for North American DXers
wanting to log a Todelar station. Todelar is the the third biggest Colombian
network after Caracol and RCN ! (Chiochiu-QC)
Additionnal comments: While I mostly collect tape recordings of my best
catches, I'm also a QSL hunter to a moderate degree and I'm still waiting for
the YVKS-750 and WOON-1240 QSL cards ! Right now, I only have 3 QSLs from
midwestern USA stations I received via sporadic-E on the FM Broadcast band
(ultrashortwave or "unde ultrascurte" in Romanian.
One of my project for the next F2 season is to try for OIRT and Japanese FM
broadcasters since their lower FM frequencies are more prone to F2 skip if the
solar activity will begin damaging life on Earth like the parapsychological
channels are predicting for 2012.
I wonder if regular summer sporadic E layer skip from Yukon or Alaska to
Fareast Russia on OIRT-FM (65.80-74.00 MHz) would be possible, but I doubt
someone ever tried it, otherwise I would have found references on the web which
is not the case yet.
Well, I'm get ready to attend the metamorphosis to the shape of the innocence
of my girlfriend, but I WILL FIND SOME TIME FOR DXing AS WELL, since condx on
LW and low-band MW seems almost spectacular ! I can't believe I could follow
the Gaza conflict coverage over Algeria-252 - it's the first time I have
armchair copy of this North African broadcasted which has eluded me before I
even had the really astonishing PK's Magnetic Shieled longwave loop (see
below)... I would like to thank once again Paul Karlestand in Canberra,
Austrlia for having built this loop with so much devotion... Before that, I
could only get Latin American and the occasional European MW broadcasters on
the regular AM broadcast band using the Sanyo MCD-S830 barefoot, now I can
enjoy all kind of broadcast DX from all over Europe and North Africa on
longwave ! I'm thinking seriously of getting a similar loop for MW that will
only amplify the wanted frequency on the fairly prone to overload Sangean
CST-818 ! !
What kind of MW loop would bring the best TA MW audio at my Montreal area QTH
using the Sangean CST-818 (since I don't have money yet for a Drake R8B) ? I'm
thinking of an antenna able to surpass the Sanyo MCD-S830 barefoot performance,
especially in the 800-1000s where this receiver is rather deaf, since on the
low-end and high-end it is a serious and lovely DX machine ! If you look
carefully through my logs, you will see most of my foreign MW DX is done
between 530 and 780 kHz. Yet, if I want to log the YV "estado" of T?chira on
860 kHz (YVOL, Mundial Ocho-Sesenta, in San Cristobal), I need something to dig
this birdie out of the receiver threshold sensitivity noisefloor that I get in
the CJBC null (Toronto) ! Also, can anyone confirm Ecos del Torbes, YVOD, is
still active on 780 kHz ? I would be gladly happy to log something other than
Coro on this nice channel ! Is their SW transmitter on 4980 kHz still broken ?
I haven't heard them since at least 2002, if not 2001 ! Th!
e last time I reported YVOC-4980 (the call letters are slightly differ
ent on SW) was during the fall of 2001... Thanks a lot for your help ! Sorry
for so many questions, but it's been a long time since I've last DXed with so
much joy... The PK's Shielded Magnetic LW loop is partly the cause of so much
enthousiasm for a hobby I only enjoyed randomly over the course of the last
couple of years !
This repport is brought to you by Bogdan Chiochiu, DXing from Pierrefonds
(Montreal's West Island), Quebec, Canada using the Sanyo MCD-S830 / internal
ferrite bar antenna combo and the Sangean CST-818 / PK's Magnetic Shielded
longwave loop along with his ears and his heart, since DXing without your heart
is DXing without enjoying the program content of those unique distant signals !
May the good DX be with you !
Bogdan Chiochiu
Btw. I: During the upcoming days, as time permits, I will make available more
of my files to the ABDX crew !
Btw. II: I only labelled this repport as "...Latin goodies" because of the
presence of the MORE OR LESS regular Latin signals on 550 and 610 kHz, but,
please, do take the relative value of its meaning... During an aurora, a goodie
would be something like Dos Mil on 1500 kHz (YVRZ, Cumana, estado Sucre),
Once-Treinta Ideal on 1130 kHz (Maiquet?a, Distrito Federal) or maybe YVSX
Radio Cristal on 610 kHZ (Barquisimeto, estado Lara) if Cuba-610 isn't too
strong. Hearing Cuba on 610 kHz with only 1 kW during NON-auroral conditions
is, at least for me, a Latin "goodie" ! What are your thoughts concerning this
issue ?
End of Hard-Core-DX Digest, Vol 74, Issue 1
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