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Today's Topics:
1. DX Listening Digest 9-020; WOR 1450 (Glenn Hauser)
2. Abkhazia 9494.76 (Wolfgang Bueschel)
3. Glenn Hauser logs March 3-4, 2009 (Glenn Hauser)
4. Glenn Hauser logs March 4, 2009 (Glenn Hauser)
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Message: 1
Date: Tue, 3 Mar 2009 22:20:01 -0800 (PST)
From: Glenn Hauser <[email protected]>
To: Glenn Hauser <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: [HCDX] DX Listening Digest 9-020; WOR 1450
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
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DX Listening Digest 9-020 has now been posted at http://www.dxld.org
or http://www.w4uvh.net/dxlatest.txt or http://dxld.worldofradio.org
and now also without delay at http://www.w4uvh.net/dxld9020.txt
CONTENTS:
WOR 1450 / AFGHANISTAN / ANGUILLA / ANTIGUA / AUSTRALIA RA / AUSTRALIA VL8 /
BELARUS / BHUTAN / BIAFRA non / BOLIVIA / BRAZIL / CANADA +non RCI+ / CANADA
non WTOR / CANADA CHQB / CANADA CKCR / CANADA +non CBC/DTV / CHECHNYA non /
CHINA +non / CUBA +non / CZECHIA / DEUTSCHES REICH / ERITREA / ETHIOPIA /
EUROPE Pirates / GERMANY / GUATEMALA / GUINEA BISSAU +non / HUNGARY +non /
INDONESIA non / INTERNATIONAL VACUUM STO / IRAN / ITALY non / JAPAN / KOREA
NORTH non / KUWAIT +non / MALAYSIA/SARAWAK / MONACO non / MONGOLIA /
NETHERLANDS non / NEWFOUNDLAND / NEW ZEALAND / NORWAY / OKLAHOMA KEOR /
OKLAHOMA +non KUSH+ / PERU / ROMANIA / RUSSIA / SAUDI ARABIA / SUDAN non /
TURKEY non / UK BBCWS / UK Pirates / USA WBCQ/WOR / USA WWCR / USA WINB / USA
WHYL / USA WVVM/WFSM / USA Soleil / USA FCC/FM / USA WSPA / USA O'Hare /
ZIMBABWE non / UNIDENTIFIED 1610 / UNIDENTIFIED 1710 / UNIDENTIFIED non 3905 /
UNIDENTIFIED 4940 / UNIDENTIFIED 5107 / UNIDENTIFIED 6120 /
UNIDENTIFIED 9750 / UNIDENTIFIED 13415-13440 / UNIDENTIFIED 13620-13645 /
UNIDENTIFIED 17300 / TESTIMONIALS / PUBLICATIONS / WORLD OF HOROLOGY / RADIO
EQUIPMENT FORUM / DIGITAL BROADCASTING / POWERLINE COMMUNICATIONS / PROPAGATION
/ TIPS FOR RATIONAL LIVING
For restrixions and searchable 2008 contents archive see
http://www.worldofradio.com/dxldmid.html
NOTE: If you are a regular reader of DXLD, and a source of DX news but
have not been sending it directly to us, please consider yourself
obligated to do so. Thanks, Glenn
SHORTWAVE AIRINGS OF WORLD OF RADIO 1450
Wed 0600 WRMI 9955
Wed 1630 WRMI 9955
Thu 0630 WRMI 9955
Thu 1630 WRMI 9955
Fri 0200 WRMI 9955
Fri 1230 WRMI 9955
Fri 2030 IPAR/IRRS/NEXUS/IBA 7290
Fri 2129 WWCR1 15825 [or 2130]
Sat 0000 WBCQ 5110-CUSB Area 51 [irregular]
Sat 0900 IPAR/IRRS/NEXUS/IBA 9510 [except first Sat: March 7]
Sat 0900 WRMI 9955
Sat 1730 WWCR3 12160
Sun 0330 WWCR3 5070
Sun 0730 WWCR1 3215 [or 0630 as DST starts; rest are DST-shifted:]
Sun 0800 WRMI 9955
Sun 1515 WRMI 9955
Mon 0500 WRMI 9955
Mon 2200 WBCQ 7415 [confirmed March 2]
Tue 1100 WRMI 9955
Tue 1530 WRMI 9955
Wed 0500 WRMI 9955 [or new 1451]
Wed 1530 WRMI 9955 [or new 1451]
WBCQ is also airing new or archive editions of WOR M-F 2000 on 7415
[1900 UT from March 9 if continued]
Latest edition of this schedule version, including AM, FM, satellite
and webcasts with hotlinks to station sites and audio, is at:
http://www.worldofradio.com/radioskd.html or
http://schedule.worldofradio.org or http://sked.worldofradio.org
For updates see our Anomaly Alert page:
http://www.worldofradio.com/anomaly.html
WRN ON DEMAND:
http://new.wrn.org/listeners/stations/station.php?StationID=24
WORLD OF RADIO PODCASTS VIA WRN NOW AVAILABLE:
http://podcast.worldofradio.org or
http://www.wrn.org/listeners/stations/podcast.php
OUR ONDEMAND AUDIO:
http://www.worldofradio.com/audiomid.html
or http://wor.worldofradio.org
Regards, Glenn Hauser
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Message: 2
Date: Wed, 4 Mar 2009 10:59:11 +0100
From: "Wolfgang Bueschel" <[email protected]>
To: "HCDX" <[email protected]>, "DXLD" <[email protected]>
Subject: [HCDX] Abkhazia 9494.76
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GEORGIA [ABKHAZIA] 9494.76 Abkhaz State Radio Sukhumi at 0300-0915 UT
noted switch OFF at 09.16:10 UT today March 4th. Tiny weak S=1-2 signal in
western Europe though.
SAUDI ARABIA 17805 No buzz today on this channel. BSKSA Riyadh heard buzz
free on all Arabic prayer channels at 9-10 UT slot 11935, 17615, 17805,
21495, and 21705 kHz. Also clean signals on 21670 Indonesian sce, 17785
French service.
73 wb
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Message: 3
Date: Wed, 4 Mar 2009 08:45:43 -0800 (PST)
From: Glenn Hauser <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: [HCDX] Glenn Hauser logs March 3-4, 2009
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
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** AUSTRALIA [and non]. Despite not hearing anything on 90 or 105 meters, since
I was getting Indonesia on 60 and 75 meters, March 4 at 1333 I tried 120 ---
and there it was, VL8K Katherine NT with YL news in Strine, peaking S9+8. Could
also detect carriers on 2310, slightly stronger than 2325. This was 35 minutes
after local sunrise.
Just for kix, I tuned to the other end of the dial at 1335, and found 16m also
propagating, with BBCWS English via Ascension on 17830, and DW Hausa via Rwanda
on 17800. Not a bad spread, 15+ MHz.
R. Australia on 31m, VG on 9580, G on 9590, and F on 9560, March 4 at 1357 as
Rural Reporter had just ended, into Roger Broadbent`s QSY announcement. But
9560 cut off before he could mention a single frequency! 9580 had it all, plus
a bit of Waltzing Matilda before that cut off a few sex after 1358. By then,
9590 which continues, but which he never mentions, had switched to a program
promo (Glenn Hauser, Enid OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CANADA. VOT via Sackville, 7325, was again audible with a good signal UT
March 4 at 0445 --- and it was in Turkish again, not English! Discussion
mentioning Dubrovnik.
I hear from RCI that they are downlinking the same satellite channel as usual
for the TRT relay at 0400 on 7325, so the Turx must have changed the uplink
from English to Turkish by mistake or deliberately without notification yet of
where to find English.
Also, Sackville was indeed off the air UT March 3 due to freezing rain causing
icing on power lines, antennas, leading to VSWR problems. Many other broadcasts
were interrupted or intermittent (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CANADA. CFRX, 6070, clear with hardly any QRM, March 4 at 0748 with the
late-night talk show on both CJAD and CFRB, Holder Tonight, Peter Anthony
Holder reporting on a john having been shot in Utah, since evidently there was
no guest in this hour per http://www.peteranthonyholder.com/wf-09-03-02.htm
At first I thought CVC Chile must have been off, but in fades I could still
hear traces of something else on 6070. Normally it`s at least an even mix or
CVC atop, useless collision (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CHINA. Firedrake fair on 9000 and 8400, March 4 at 1340 against Sound of
Hope, but not heard on 9300 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** COSTA RICA. REE Cariari, 5965, March 4 around 0730 was a big unmodulated
carrier, but still too much for Vatican co-channel to be readable; still such
at 0751 recheck, but at 0752 modulation cut on at normal level with only 8
minutes to go in the transmission (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CUBA. No, RHC is back on 6140 and colliding with Romanian folk music, March
4 at 0345 check during DXers Unlimited, nothing on 6180, where it was 23 hours
earlier. And still on 6140 this night at 0445 recheck. What next? Guess they
are trying to decide what to do, or 6180 was only a test. See what I mean about
this being a ``dynamic medium``?
Tip: in this era of overcrowded bands, and lots of stations using one frequency
for one hour at a time, or less, trying to stay on the same frequency for a
6-hour span, or more, is not really viable. Ya gotta hop around like the
competition, whack-a-mole-wise. Of course this requires a transmitter operation
staff who are on the ball, and good co?rdination with the studio. Never mind
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** INDONESIA. Local sunrise today March 4 in Enid was 1258, but a semi-hour
later at 1327 tune-in, island music audible on 3995, not too much QRhaM at the
bandedge; 1330 Indonesian announcement, 1333 back to music and weakening. No
doubt RRI Kendari, 5 kW non-direxional per Aoki. At 1344, RRI Fak2 was still in
on 4790 with Indo talk vs. CODAR.
V. of Indonesia back to normal on March 4 after five days of confusion, i.e.
using 11785 instead of 9525, languages at wrong times, or being totally
missing. At 1342 good signal on 9525.0 with songs, nothing on 11785; 1354
English ID, plugging streaming on website; 1402 closing English hour, IS,
opening Malay; recheck 1502 Malay ID, 1503 re-opening English with program
summary, but cut off around 1505* (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** JAPAN [and non]. 11705 via Sackville already on with open carrier at 1348
March 4, probably pre-melting ice on the antenna; see CANADA. This was
overriding NHK direct also on 11705 in Indonesian. Normally the NHK English
relay cuts on very close to *1400 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** KOREA NORTH [and non]. The two 75-meter clandestines from South to North
were audible March 4: at 1328, 3985 Echo of Hope with choral music, under noise
jamming; and at 1331, on 3912, V. of the People, Korean talk, and no jamming
audible (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** KOREA NORTH [non]. JSR still on 5985, March 4 at 1402 check with sad piano
music, mentioning Shiokaze, in Korean instead of English this Wednesday. No QRM
audible here (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** NETHERLANDS [non]. Rechecked 15280, RN via Saipan in Indonesian, March 3 for
two minutes at 2214, and did not hear any audio glitches, but did hear an
``Inilah Radio Nederland`` ID; still unusually good signal for a service beamed
oppositely from Enid (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** RUSSIA [and non]. 6075 is occupied by DW 24 hours a day from at least four
sites, sometimes more than one at a time, but by 0750 March 4 its German was
becoming overridden by Russian from R. Rossii, the latter transmitter
developing some motor-boating, interfering with itself as well as DW. Retune at
1316, R. Rossii strong and dominant with song in English, but hum and warble on
its own carrier, a shame. Its 30-degree beam from Pet-Kam carries on toward
North America (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** TURKEY [non]. VOT feeding wrong language to Sackville: see CANADA
** U S A [non]. VOA, 7575 via Tinian, March 4 at 1350 in English bothered by a
noise, sort of a cross between lite grind jamming and Saudi buzz, but not
enough to impair readability, in report from the Navajo Nation about
substandard living conditions there, having to haul water, hopes for stimulus
money, finally establishing one casino even tho it`s remote from population
centers, etc.
VOA English unlikely to be a jamming target and my suspicion is that this was a
transmitter defect, tsk. Should have monitored whether noise quit at exactly
same time as 1400 closing. If VOA really continues on 7575 from 1400 via
Thailand as scheduled, it had become inaudible. Exactly the same News Now
Navajo report was heard one hour later at 1450 on 9760 via Tinang, Philippines;
1455 USG editorial (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. WWRB always full of surprises. Bandscanning 90m at 0734 UT March 4, I
found Brother Scare on BOTH 3145 and 3185, slightly louder if not stronger on
the latter. 3145 had been running only at 0200-0500. At the moment he was
prophesying that your TV would be watching you, in the near future if not in
1984y. Listened only for a moment, so not sure if he also got into the current
silly ``your set-top-box is watching you`` scare (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 6780-6810, OTH radar pulses, presumed in this ever-changing
range, March 4 at 1322; just barely audible vs noise level. Also at 1325 on
5775-5860, a much wider spread so maybe two adjacent units. Are these I hear in
the morning on lower frequencies coming from China? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST) ###
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Message: 4
Date: Wed, 4 Mar 2009 17:40:20 -0800 (PST)
From: Glenn Hauser <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: [HCDX] Glenn Hauser logs March 4, 2009
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1
** BRAZIL [and non]. 11855, slightly wavering audible het from station in
Brazilian Portuguese soon conveniently mentioning Aparecida, just as I
expected. Initially it was about level with the collider, WYFR in Spanish, but
by 2307 F?mily Radio had increased to dominate. A pipeline from Brasil was
open, with huge RNA 11780 signal; 11815 RBC much weaker but in the clear;
Bandeirantes audible on 11925 but badly squeezed by HCJB on one side and
DentroCuban jamming pulses against nothing on the other; and 11765 good signal
with Deus ? Amor service (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CUBA. 17705, RHC with yet another engineering problem during French
broadcast at 2238 March 4: there was crackling on the audio, the modulation
cutting in and out, but also the signal strength was jumping up and down, altho
never cutting off completely. As if there were a loose connexion or a short
somewhere in the antenna system. I recall a similar instance on RHC months ago.
More than wiggling a patchcord will be required to fix this. You`re welcome,
from RHC`s volunteer monitor and technical advisor in Oclajoma.
12060, second harmonic of DentroCuban Jamming Command with pulses at the rate
of about 126 per minute or slightly over 2 times per second, against nothing,
at 2301 March 4. Initially I thought it was OTH radar, but too narrowband, and
then the pulse rate clocked in. Collateral damage from jammers against Radio
Mart? on 6030. These also appear on 3x = 18090 in a ham band when propagation
is favorable. Fortunately there were no innocent bystanding broadcasters on
12060 at the moment. There is very little usage of 12060 anyway, and nothing to
or from the Western Hemisphere. This may not be coincidental (Glenn Hauser, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** GERMANY [non]. Chinese on 11830, March 4 at 2308, with heavy echo. This is
DW at 2300-2350, 250 kW, 263 degrees via Petropavlovsk-Kamchtsky, Far East
Russia, the same site that also easily gets VOR and RR into North America when
aiming usward.
In this case, the long path goes across the Indian Ocean, near Bouvet in the
South Atlantic, across South America entering at Porto Alegre, hitting North
America around the LA/TX bayou border. Pet-Kam is not that far away from Enid,
only some 4800 statute miles, about the same distance as Bras?lia in the other
direxion. Therefore the long path measures 25000 minus 4800 = 20200 miles, and
subtracting 4800 again, is 15400 miles longer than the short path. Therefore
the echo delay is 15,400 divided by the speed of radio, 186,000 miles per
second, .083 second or one twelfth of a second, in roundish figures. These are
always much shorter than synchronous satellite delays, where the minimum
up-and-down path is much longer (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** GREECE [and non]. Instead of the terrible collision on 9420 between VOG and
CVC Zambia, March 4 at 2151 I found CVC all by itself, not a trace of QRM.
Usual gospel-huxtering in English, for the younger crowd including some revival
in Cape Town charging 20 rand admission. Kept listening until CVC finally
turned off at 2203* revealing nothing else on frequency. Meanwhile, before 2200
I checked 7450 and 7475 and found only fair signals there, presumably Greece as
usual. Rechecking 9420 at 2304, ERA was back on the air. I wonder if they were
monitoring CVC for themselves, or trying out another frequency while it was on?
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** NETHERLANDS [non]. RNW Indonesian service via Saipan, 15280 at 22-23 is
still suffering from severe but intermittent audio problems. March 4 at 2215 it
seemed OK, but at 2218 started sticking and looping. This is not to be confused
with reduplication of words as normal Indonesian pluralization! I taped 3
minutes of it at 2223-2226 and sent it to RN, also messing up some barrel organ
music and ID. It was still breaking up after that.
Lots of things could cause this, but I suspect it could be solar transit outage
interfering with the digital satellite feed, as it`s the season, the same thing
messing up CNN and other cable TV channels as received in OK around local noon.
Is Saipan aiming its downlink dish into the sunrise? There may well be more
than one satellite hop involved in this feed, not necessarily the most direct
route, as we have learned before about IBB (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** SAIPAN. 12090, good signal but rolling fades at 2244 March 4 with Vietnamese
songs, brief announcement and another song which had a more religious tinge to
it, then talk in Vietnamese, but including this English phrase at 2248: ``the
other woman in your marriage``. Hmm. 2258 wrapping up with website, postal
address in Manila, and a bit of echo, long path? Just before 2300* YL with
English ID as ``The international service of FEBC, KFBS from Saipan, Mariana
Islands, in the Pacific``. It`s the Vietnamese service at 2230-2300 aimed
westward (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. On a caradio MW bandscan from a hot spot in a store parking lot in
west Enid, March 4 at 2020 UT, I found a gaping hole on 690, KGGF Coffeyville,
Kansas, off the air! I could make out two extremely weak signals instead and a
trace of a SAH. Assuming it was not a remnant of some local mix, nor skywave in
axion this early, I guess the prime suspect by groundwave would be KTSM,
ex-KHEY in El Paso, 10 kW, and with a lobe almost in this direxion. The
somewhat closer stations in CO, TX, AR and MO are quite low-powered. I can
normally hear a bit of Midland, TX, KCRS on 550, underneath dominant KFRM in
KS. But Midland is closer, and path from El Paso would cross a good swath of
lower ground conductivity in NM. But what became of KGGF? Anyhow, it was back
at next check 2136. Next time would they please notify me when they are going
to be off, so I can see what I can get on a defacto fence beverage (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** VATICAN [and non]. 9600, March 4 at 2312 under powerful RHC in Spanish,
could hear weak talk in English making SAH of about 3 Hz; 2314 much more
readable Vatican Radio IS, and 2315 into Vietnamese. So VR is still
broadcasting an otherwise secret and unscheduled 3-minute English service at
2312 when it turns on this transmitter early (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST) ###
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