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Today's Topics:
1. Re: Some observations from Saint-Petersburg in Russia: 6027
(Mikhail Timofeyev)
2. Slovakia - reactivation of 1098kHz (Karel Honz?k)
3. Glenn Hauser logs February 17-19, 2009 (Glenn Hauser)
4. Escuchas, captada Radio Fana en 6890. (JOSE MIGUEL ROMERO ROMERO)
5. New MW QSL, Country #96 (Patrick Martin)
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Message: 1
Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2009 09:38:50 +0300
From: Mikhail Timofeyev <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [HCDX] Some observations from Saint-Petersburg in Russia:
6027
To: "Wolfgang Bueschel" <[email protected]>
Cc: HCDX <[email protected]>
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
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Thanks for this info. My first observation was on Dec 13
as follows:
6027.0 1202-1216 MLA RTM Kuala Lumpur (tent.). 13/12,
mostly Malay-like YL/OM talks with short musical pauses ?
poor, splashes from 6030 (CNR)
Will try to identify this spurs on the next week with
my "new" old soviet communication receiver called R-326
(of course, if the propagation at 1200-1300 UTC will
make it possible)...
R-326: http://www.cqham.ru/trx/r326.html
73!
Mikhail
?? ?????? 18 ??????? 2009 ?., 0:15:48:
WB> Aoki: 6025 RTM Kuala Lumpur 0400-1300 Malay 75 ND Kajang
WB> sign-off time fits ...
WB> ----- Original Message -----
WB> From: "Glenn Hauser" Sent: Tuesday, February 17, 2009 6:47 PM
WB> Subject: Re: [HCDX] Some observations from Saint-Petersburg in Russia: 6027
WB> --- On Sun, 2/15/09, Mikhail Timofeyev wrote:
>> Location: North-East part of the St.Petersburg city
>> Receiver: Sangean 909
>>
>> 6027.0v 1255- MLA RTM Kuala Lumpur (very tent.), 15/02,
>> Malay-like YL talk - weak under local noise and strong
>> splashes from 6030 (CNR), it seems their transmitter was off
>> at 1300 or 1301
>> 73!
>> Mikhail Timofeyev
WB> Surely Ron Howard would have heard this if it were Malaysia; searching the
WB> DXLD archive we find some logs last summer, topped by this in 8-074:
WB> 6035, PBS Yunnan, 1243, June 28, in Vietnamese, fair, both spurs also
WB> heard: 6027 (poor) and 6043 (fair), all clearly parallel. Thanks to
WB> Mauno Ritola of Finland for his help identifying these spurious
WB> signals (DXLD 8-072) (Ron Howard, Asilomar Beach, CA, Et?n E1, dxldyg
WB> via DX LISTENING DIGEST)
WB> But Malay is certainly nothing like Vietnamese (gh)
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Message: 2
Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2009 10:30:19 +0100
From: Karel Honz?k <[email protected]>
Subject: [HCDX] Slovakia - reactivation of 1098kHz
To: "Group MWDX" <[email protected]>, "MediumWave Circle"
<[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
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Slovakia left medium waves completely on February 1, 2009 but it is now
returning with a new transmitter:
Frequency: 1098kHz
Location: Slovak Radio building in Bratislava
Program:
0500-1700 UTC Radio Patria (for national minorities), power "up to 10kW"
1700-0500 UTC DRM tests (S4 Radio FM), power 1kW
The L-shaped horizontal wire antenna is installed on the roof of the
building.
The licence for these broadcasts is valid until December 31, 2009.
Karel Honzik, CZE
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Message: 3
Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2009 08:20:41 -0800 (PST)
From: Glenn Hauser <[email protected]>
Subject: [HCDX] Glenn Hauser logs February 17-19, 2009
To: [email protected]
Cc: [email protected]
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
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** CUBA. RHC, 12000, even more undermodulated than usual, Feb 18 right at end
of transmission when checked at 1458 with frequency lineup for 2100 broadcast,
and only meter bands for the 2400 transmission, which axually starts about an
hour earlier. At 1459 checked // 11760 to see if its modulation was OK, but
that was already off, perhaps being retuned to 11680 for Venezuelan relay.
1459:30 I returned to 12000, which was introducing `audio real` repeat of
morning broadcast, Despertar con Cuba, with B?rbara Betancourt starting it, but
by 1501 modulation cut off; carrier still on at 1509 final check (Glenn Hauser,
OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** IRAN. 13800, Feb 19 at 1412, nice Iranian music, but soon replaced by boring
discussion in Arabic about Islam, Iran. Then found much weaker // on 13790.
Yes, VIRI Arabic service until 1430 is scheduled on both, 13800 being Zahedan
at 289 degrees, 13790 Kamalabad at 178 degrees, per HFCC. PWBR `2009` shows the
latter as ``Tehran`` with a macron over the a. Kamalabad is the site right next
to Teheran, per map in WRTH; my Times Atlas of the World does not even have
Kamalabad in the index, having failed to realize that one day it would become a
world-famous SW transmitter site, however insignificant it may otherwise be.
BTW, ``Rick Steves` Iran`` was an excellent hour-long travelog aired on OETA in
Oklahoma the night of Feb 18; but I can`t find it on the PBS website, so maybe
something not so new, or too new for them to have caught up with it. TV Guide
online shows it as a 2008 produxion, but airing now as ``new``. Worth
outseeking (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** SAUDI ARABIA. 15435, BSKSA Qur`aning with no buzz, Feb 18 at 1510, so
settled in for my morning fix, 1515 ID as from Mecca --- but don`t DF this in
order to align your prayers, as it`s really a bit off from Riyadh site! 1516,
the buzz became audible, and steadily grew past 1528 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** SLOVENIA. Tuning around 20m, still not finding K5D Desecheo again, but
landed on 14178 where S58SA was in contact with W6FDR, Feb 19 at 1430. Said he
was running 800 watts. Who`s this? QRZ.com has the answer: S58SA, Anton
Savernik, Ljubljanska Cesta 88, 1230 Domzale, Slovenia, with his portrait ---
and they will be relieved to know that there was no inappropriate content on
http://www.qrz.com/callsign/S58SA --- how do they definite ``inappropriate``,
anyway? Anything off-topic from ham radio? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** U S A. WEWN back on 9455 where it is supposed to be, Feb 18 at 0750 check
during the same show for women I heard before on 9390 by mistake, this one
about the dilemma of a Catholic marrying a Seventh Day Adventist in the
Philippines. Advice: anyone who would do that is not really a devoted Catholic
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. WRMI, 9955, fairly good signal with KBS World Radio wrapping up Tue
Feb 17 at 2157; cut off start of news capsule from WRN, ID, and 2200 sharp into
R. Rep?blica; still no jamming audible nor for at least 5 minutes, tho e.g.
9565 vs Mart? was grinding away. Did not hear any break in WRMI transmission or
change in strength as expected for switch from NW to S antenna (Glenn Hauser,
OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 5920v, WBOH, Feb 19 at 1350, giving FBN contact info in Spanish, with
usual het caused by its being off-frequency compared to Irkutsk, which manages
to transmit much closer to the correct frequency. Spanish is not shown on the
FBN schedule at this hour, which fails to mention what timezone is used, an
external broadcaster so inward-looking they think everyone goes by their own
local zone! http://www.fbnradio.com/new_page_copy(1).htm --- and what a weird
URL format. We must assume it`s EST/EDT, i.e. currently 8:30-9 am, when it`s
all in English, supposedly (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 5900, Feb 19 at 1350 open carrier, fair strength. At this hour,
per Aoki, the only thing scheduled is Vatican in Russian via Tashkent, 100 kW,
56 degrees. I wonder if it was one of their 20-minute programs, with the rest
of the semihour wasted, or lost feed (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 9810, Feb 19 at 0001, lite Cuban jamming audible against nothing.
Perhaps a new Radio Rep?blica transmission is starting up? Sackville poorly
audible with RCI on 9755 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ###
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Message: 4
Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2009 19:51:41 +0000 (GMT)
From: JOSE MIGUEL ROMERO ROMERO <[email protected]>
Subject: [HCDX] Escuchas, captada Radio Fana en 6890.
To: Frecuencia DX <[email protected]>
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1
Saludos cordiales.
COREA DEL NORTE 7570 Voice of Korea, Kujang, 19:41-19:45, escuchada el 19 de
febrero en espa?ol a locutor y locutora con reportaje sobre una fabrica,
identificaci?n, segmento musical, SINPO 34433
ETIOP?A 6890 Radio Fana, Addis Ababa, 19:31-19:37, escuchada el 19 de febrero
en oromo a locutor con comentarios, SINPO 24422
SUD?FRICA 3230 Family Radio, Meyerton, 19:24-19:26, escuchada el 19 de febrero
en ingl?s a locutor con programa religioso, SINPO 24442
3255 BBC, Meyerton, 19:22-19:24, escuchada el 19 de febrero en ingl?s a locutor
con comentarios, reportaje, SINPO 24432
3345 Channel Africa, Meyerton, 19:17-19:22, escuchada el 19 de febrero en
portugu?s a locutor con comentarios, m?sica interpretada por orquesta y mujer
interpretando lo que me parece un fado, SINPO 24432
TAYIKIST?N 4975 Voice of Rusia, Dushanbe-Yangiyul, 19:11-19:15, escuchada el 19
de febrero en ruso con emisi?n de m?sica pop local, locutor con comentarios,
SINPO 23442.
ZAMBIA 4965 CVC International, Lusaka, 19:06-19:10, escuchada el 19 de febrero
en ingl?s con emisi?n de m?sica pop internacional, se apreecia interferencia de
se?al digital, SINPO 23432
Jos? Miguel Romero
Burjasot (Valencia)
Espa?a
Sangean ATS 909
Antena Radio Master A-108
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Message: 5
Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2009 20:13:58 -0800
From: [email protected] (Patrick Martin)
Subject: [HCDX] New MW QSL, Country #96
To: [email protected], [email protected], [email protected],
[email protected], [email protected], [email protected],
[email protected], [email protected],
[email protected], [email protected]
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
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1575 UAE, Radio Farda, received QSL card via Radio Liberty in 3
weeks. 1201 Connecticut Avenue NW, Washington DC. 20036. No V/S. MW QSL:
3005, Country 96 (UAE). (PM-OR)
73,
Patrick
Patrick Martin
KGED QSL Manager
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