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Today's Topics:
1. Logs for Thurs. Feb 5, 2009 (Bruce Barker)
2. Re: Escutas ([email protected])
3. Logs: 9830 Radio Dabanga. (JOSE MIGUEL ROMERO ROMERO)
4. Re: Escutas (Jari Savolainen)
5. Glenn Hauser logs March 5, 2009 (Glenn Hauser)
6. Radio and "YOUR COMPUTER" (Paul)
7. band scan Florida (Robert Wilkner)
8. Glenn Hauser logs March 5-6, 2009 (Glenn Hauser)
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Message: 1
Date: Thu, 5 Mar 2009 10:38:18 +0000 (UTC)
From: Bruce Barker <[email protected]>
To: NASWA <[email protected]>, [email protected],
[email protected], [email protected],
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[email protected], [email protected], [email protected],
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Subject: [HCDX] Logs for Thurs. Feb 5, 2009
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9575?? MOROCCO?? Radio Medi Un?? Feb 5, 2009?? 0743?? Up-tempo music followed
by nx headlines in FR? by? YL.? Lots of ads, station promos and then?only
long?talk.?? Solid signal with no fading.? (Barker-PA)
9690?? NIGERIA?? Voice of Nigeria?? Feb 5, 2009?? 0825?? News of Africa by OM
in listed Hausa.? At 0830? IS, ID and then long talk by om.? (Barker-PA)
9765?? NEW ZEALAND?? RNZI?? Feb. 5, 2009?? 0735?? Two om discussing the spread
of respiratory diseases throughout Pacific islands, particularly Papua New
Guinea.?? (Barker-PA)
Bruce Barker, Broomall, PA.? Equipment:? NRD 535D & Alpha Delta DX Sloper.
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Message: 2
Date: Thu, 5 Mar 2009 14:52:59 +0200
From: [email protected]
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Subject: Re: [HCDX] Escutas
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Lainaus Antonio Laurentino Garcia <[email protected]>:
> Escutas realizadas em Camboinha/Cabedelo-PB
>
> 1.575,0 2122-2127 28/2 OldieStar Radio - Presumida, Burg, GERMANY,
> idioma NO ID falas de OMs, por suposi??o, TX de boletim de not?cias
> 23332
This is DRM station nowadays I suppose.
Reijo Alapiha
Joensuu Finland
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> Antonio Laurentino Garcia
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Message: 3
Date: Thu, 5 Mar 2009 14:05:07 +0000 (GMT)
From: JOSE MIGUEL ROMERO ROMERO <[email protected]>
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Subject: [HCDX] Logs: 9830 Radio Dabanga.
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Saludos cordiales.
FRANCIA 5865 Radio Algerienne, Issoudun, 05:40-05:45, escuchada el 5 de marzo
en ?rabe, canto del Cor?n, locutor con comentarios, SINPO 35433
UCRANIA 5970 Ukranian Radio, Kyiv, 05:46-05:49, escuchada el 5 de marzo en
ucraniano a locutora con comentarios con referencias a la ?Literatura?, locutor
y locutora en conversaci?n telef?nica con invitada, SINPO 24432
Clandestinas
ALEMANIA 9830 Radio Dabanga, Wertachtal, 05:25-05:27, escuchada el 5 de marzo
en idioma ?rabe con final de emisi?n, locutor con comentarios, identificaci?n
?Radio Dabanga?, cu?a musical identificando a la emisora, SINPO 35443
Piratas
6220 Mystery Radio, 19:12-19:20, escuchada el 1 de marzo con emisi?n de m?sica
disco dance de los a?os 80, SINPO 35443
6295 Reflections Europe, 19:23-19:30, escuchada el 1 de marzo en ingl?s a
locutor con comentarios en programa religioso, anuncia frecuencias, SINPO 24332
6880 Playback Int., 19:05-19:12, escuchada el 1 de marzo en ingl?s a locutor
presentando temas musicales, emisi?n de m?sica pop rock, SINPO 34443
Jos? Miguel Romero
Burjasot (Valencia)
Espa?a
Sangean ATS 909
Antena Radio Master A-108
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Message: 4
Date: Thu, 5 Mar 2009 17:21:57 +0200
From: "Jari Savolainen" <[email protected]>
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Subject: Re: [HCDX] Escutas
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I'd guess VOR via Burg or R Farda.
Some idea of the language could help a lot.
www.emwg.info is a good reference.
Jari
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Lainaus Antonio Laurentino Garcia <[email protected]>:
> Escutas realizadas em Camboinha/Cabedelo-PB
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> 1.575,0 2122-2127 28/2 OldieStar Radio - Presumida, Burg, GERMANY,
> idioma NO ID falas de OMs, por suposi??o, TX de boletim de not?cias
> 23332
This is DRM station nowadays I suppose.
Reijo Alapiha
Joensuu Finland
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> Antonio Laurentino Garcia
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Message: 5
Date: Thu, 5 Mar 2009 08:46:07 -0800 (PST)
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** CHINA. 9450, March 5 at 1451, clear Russian broadcast but mentioning Chinese
names and bits of Chi music, ``Kitaya``, so no doubt CRI as scheduled, 37
degrees from Shijiazhuang, per Aoki, to E Russia and thence N America; it so
happens this jams Sound of Hope, Taiwan, which may have been barely audible
underneath, and probably sufficiently so not to pile on additional transmitters
disrupting CRI reception too (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CUBA. What`s RHC doing on 49m Wednesday night? At 0456 UT March 5, 6000 and
6140 in English with music, 6060 and 6180 in Spanish with IS and closing. 6180
back to the weak signal in Spanish, while two nights ago it bore the strong
signal in English instead of 6140. At 0650: English on 6000 > 6060 > 6140,
nothing on 6180. This is the `usual` situation, with 6180 back to carrying
Spanish, weak here, until sign-off around 0500. Need to recheck 6140 during the
0300 hour whether RHC English is still colliding with RRI Spanish (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** INDONESIA. VOI again on 9525.0, March 5 at 1355 in English, after 1400 in
Malay; good signal with sum hum.
4790, RRI Fak2, still audible with music vs CODAR at the late time of 1426
March 5, exactly one sesquihour after local sunrise. I wonder if the Fakfakians
are aware of how well their local radio station outgets, really putting their
place on the worldmap? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** KOREA NORTH [non]. 5985, still with Shiokaze, March 5 at 1422, but poor.
Trying to decide whether it was Korean or Japanese until 1424 definite
`kochirawa` YL Japanese ID, with persistent piano music underneath (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** RUSSIA. 6075, R. Rossii, still suffering from recently acquired warble on
carrier, March 5 until 1400* after 5-second-late timesignal, and no sign of
8GAL 6074 CW marker during next biminute (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** TINIAN. Since VOA English on 7575 had a strange noise on it the day before,
I checked again March 5 at 1357, fill music after editorial, this time with a
constant whine of one pitch; unseems het de elsewhere, as no carrier audible on
frequency immediately after its 1358* (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** TURKEY [and non]. VOT via Sackville, 7325, UT March 5 at 0430 quick check
was back in English during Letterbox, instead of Turkish as recently in error.
However, there seemed to be some co-channel QRM, which is not normally the
case, so I wonder if was mixing in the modulation. I had suggested to Sackville
that if they still can`t get English correctly on satellite feed, they could
put on the web feed as a backup.
12035, Thursday March 5 at 1402, Live from Turkey, airing caller (or callee)
Chris Lewis from England, on the VOT programming he lixe. Rather poor reception
so I will go back and get the one-day audio archive before it`s too late (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. 11715, very big carrier, S9+20, March 5 at 1448 but barely modulated
with catechisms repeated in English by robokids, including ``do not break
faith``, de KJES, New Mexico. Have not heard this for weeks in daily bandscans,
so the usual question rearises --- have they been missing, or was this just
availablized by some sporadic E over the Texas Panhandle, drastically
decreasing the funxional skip distance? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. WBCQ is not the only SSB station on 15420. March 5 at 1432 was
hearing 2-way conversation in slurry Spanish on 15419.5 or so --- at least
somewhere between 15419 and 15420 judging from weak het de another 15420.0
broadcaster. As usual, hard for me to understand, but some words or phrases
caught included ``kilogramos``, ``playa``, and ``este corrido para nosotros``,
all of which point to narcotraficantes; over at 1437 when one said, ``estamos
pendientes`` = QRX, standing by for further transmissions (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST) ###
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Message: 6
Date: Fri, 6 Mar 2009 10:06:44 +1300
From: "Paul" <[email protected]>
To: "Hard-Core-DX" <[email protected]>
Subject: [HCDX] Radio and "YOUR COMPUTER"
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Found this which may be of some interest to some ......
Radio and "YOUR COMPUTER"
One of the most frustrating problems about using computers with radios,
whether it be for controlling purposes or for decoding, is the amount of RFI
generated by these machines. Most of the time, the RFI generated is enough to
render certain bands useless and on other bands, it may drown out any weak
signals and distort or interfere with signals that you want. This is totally
unacceptable for working with digital modes and even for CW.
Continues: http://www.amateurradio.co.nz/rfi/rfi.htm
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Message: 7
Date: Thu, 05 Mar 2009 18:57:58 -0500
From: Robert Wilkner <[email protected]>
To: undisclosed-recipients:;
Subject: [HCDX] band scan Florida
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March 5 2009
Robert Wilkner
Pompano Beach, Florida
Drake R 8 NRD 535D
Tropical Stations on at 2300 to 2350
3309.98 Bolivia R Mosoj Chaski, Cochabamba
3329.53 Peru, Ondas del Huallaga, Hu?nuco
4451.26v Bolivia Radio Santa Ana, Santa Ana de Yacuma
4699.42 Bolivia Radio San Miguel, Riberalta,
4716.19 Bolivia Radio Yura, Yura
4799.7 Guatemala, Radio Buenas Nuevas, San Sebasti?n, Huehuetenango
4857.39 Peru Radio La Hora Cusco
5120.2 Peru, Ondas del Suroriente, Quillabamba
5460.20 Peru Radio Bolivar Cd. Bolivar This one seems on infrequently!
Logged with D L in Pensacola, Florida. Thanks tips to other Florida dxers
73s
de Bob
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Message: 8
Date: Thu, 5 Mar 2009 17:09:01 -0800 (PST)
From: Glenn Hauser <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: [HCDX] Glenn Hauser logs March 5-6, 2009
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** CUBA [and non]. Like the day before, RHC 17705 again with serious technical
problems, during Portuguese March 5 at 2225, both modulation and carrier levels
jumping up and down, but not cutting off completely, such as a bad connexion,
antenna wires shorting out, blowing in the wind, or the like.
The 9.8+ MHz area is a hot bed of dentro- and fuera-Cubans. In most cases RHC
and R. Mart? manage to stay further apart, but at 0018 March 6, 9825 had RM
over jamming, while RHC`s Mesa Redonda service was causing adjacent
interference from 9820. Those in Latin America with modest receivers should
have trouble separating them. Then on 9810 another batch of jamming, but no
trace of R. Rep?blica along with it, which started recently in the 23-04 UT
period, surely via Sackville. I wonder if it is still there, since RCI English
was a big signal on 9755, much stronger on the meter than the jamming on 9810
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** FRANCE [non]. 17630, RFI via Guiana French, March 5 at *2058:50 and into
pr?lude music vamp, not the expected Marseillaise-like IS which I guess is
long-abandoned --- no, WRTH 2009 says they still use it; 2100, 4-second-late
timesignal, time check as 10 pm in Par?s, and opening in Spanish with news
headlines concerning Cuba, Ra?l blowing off Fidel loyalists such as P?rez Roque
who has confessed the error of his ways(?!); Venezuela; W?shington. Still going
with normal talk programming later in the semi-hour, altho Dragan Lekic, Serbia
had observed earlier in the day that RFI was running music fill because of
another strike. 17630 had heavy interference from the dirty, distorted KVOH
spur on 17631: much more about that under U S A (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** GERMANY [non]. Despite DW`s best efforts to dispense with its SW audience N
America, we still hear them in unexpected ways. UT March 6 at 0026 I came upon
quite a good signal on 15595, with DW ID and jingle, quiz aimed at S Asian
listeners, 0027 DW Asian news. Eveyone had a S Asian accent! Has DW banned
American- and British-accented announcers from this service? It`s another
service via the ubiquitous Petropavlovsk/Kamchatka site in FE Russia, 250 kW at
247 degrees toward CIRAF zones 44 and 45, which are eastern China and Japan,
not S Asia at all! What a mess. If DW is customizing per target zone, they
should be using people with Chinese and Japanese accents (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
** GREECE [non]. Once again March 5 like the day before, on 9420 could only
hear CVC Zambia, at 2053 with gospel rap, and neither of them at 2220 recheck,
tho Greece was OK on 7450, and weaker 7475. What has become of the VOG 9420
transmission, which had been colliding with CVC for months, and reported as
such every single day to Athens by monitor John Babbis in Maryland? VOG
traditionally registers a number of ``wooden`` frequencies they don`t really
use (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** SYRIA. Following several reports of R. Damascus reactivated on 12085, I was
hearing something there March 9 at 2103, a fair signal but heavy flutter and,
of course, very low modulation. Could make out a woman talking, I think,
alternating with a bit of music at 2104. If modulation had been decent, should
have been readable nonetheless. The other frequency, 9330 was completely
inaudible at this time, when English is scheduled, not even a carrier despite
the absence of WBCQ (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. I was glad to confirm at 2011 UT Thursday March 5 on 7415 that WBCQ
was playing the newest WORLD OF RADIO, 1450; fair reception over all-daylight
path. Hope they also played it 24 hours earlier as it was ready by then, as the
only later broadcast on 7415 has been reduced to Mondays at 2200, the UT Friday
0030 having been canceled. And from next week the M-F strip of WORs will be in
even brighter sunlight at 1900-1930. Should be good for areas close-in to
Monticello who find 7415 fading out after sunset. 7415 signal had improved
somewhat at 2052 during anti-Semitic show --- oops, only anti-Zionist, as
Herald of Truth claims while railing against the Jews.
The show replacing the UT Friday 0030 airing of WOR on 7415 is ``Altogether
Now``. I listened to the first few minutes March 6. It`s a guy whose name I
could not catch, but who identifies himself as a former human rights judge and
lawyer who will be interviewing people, but this time was monologuing about how
easy it still is to travel to Europe, frugally, starting with London. Evidently
he conceives his audience on this international SW station to be Americans.
Also noted WBCQ on 15420 with the anapestic preacher from Fence Lake NM, at
2055. Much better signal here on reduced carrier + USB, but LSB not completely
suppressed, and carrier was a smidgin off frequency, so close that I couldn`t
decide whether it was high or low (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A [and non]. Another afternoon of KVOH providing us eight frequencies
for the price of one! Possibly assisted by sporadic E, but which did not reach
VHF, 17775 was inbooming at 2035 March 5, S9+20. Except I first ran across it
on 17487 in an upward bandscan, as that`s normally where I start monitoring the
16m band, 17485 being the lowest intentional frequency.
In the next few minutes I tuned around to many other multiples of 144 kHz away
from the fundamental and found KVOH on most of them, not necessarily in the
order reached, using the FRG-7 and E-W longwire:
17055 (-5 x 144): not audible
17199 (-4 x 144): S9
17343 (-3 x 144): S9+10
17487 (-2 x 144): S9+10
17631 (-1 x 144): S9+15
17919 (+1 x 144): S9+15
18063 (+2 x 144): S9+ 5 peaks
18207 (+3 x 144): barely audible
18351 (+4 x 144): not audible
These are all approximately the centers of the big filthy distorted FMy blobs,
worst when KVOH was playing peppy Mexican music with a heavy beat, which was
most of the time, apparently with a live DJ, with a local L.A. timecheck at
2039, ID as La Voz de Restauraci?n [no la], even giving phone number,
apparently for requests.
I was sorely tempted to phone and tell him about his seven extra frequencies,
but figured I would be taken as a kook, or he would simply not understand what
I was talking about. Nor would it do any good to try to reach their chief
engineer, since they obviously do not have one, at least one who is competent,
since these spurs have been heard repeatedly here for years and duly reported
in DXLD. The transmitter is surely a piece of crap, which ought to be
overhauled or dumped. Now which other gospel huxter did the original owner,
High Adventure, get it from? Was it HCJB?
I knew the major victim of this would be R. France Internationale, which has a
Spanish semihour at 2100 on 17630 --- see FRANCE [non]. So I was standing by
when at *2058:50 the French Guiana carrier cut on. It`s a big signal too, 250
kW at 295 degrees, targeting CIRAF zones 7S,8S,10,11S,12N, i.e. the southern
half of the eastern 2/3 of the conterminous USA, including Enid; Mexico,
Central America, Caribbean, and NW S America, while KVOH`s official targets on
their 100 degree beam with 50 kW are all of zones 10, 11 and 12, i.e. Mexico,
Central America, Caribbean and more of NW S America.
But RFI 17630 was not big enough to blot out the KVOH spur centered only 1 kHz
away; it was still bothering when I side-tuned as far down as I could on the
DX-398`s bandwidth and still hear RFI, 17627.
Why hasn`t RFI raised hell about this with KVOH, FCC, ITU, HFCC? Why hasn`t FCC
fined them on its own initiative? Why haven`t aeronautical interests on 17921
complained, where the spur could be a threat to safety? Ditto maritime
interests impacted by 17199 and 17343? Possibly because no one gives a damn
about this but yours truly. Why haven`t hams done so about 18063? Answer to the
latter: because it`s 5 kHz away from the edge of the so-called 17-meter band
starting at 18068! And who cares what happens below there? Anyone who knows how
to reach relevant powers that be is free to forward my observations.
Searching my DXLD archive on 17919, 17921, 17629, 17631, for the spur
frequencies have varied slightly over time, I get hits on the following issues:
5-014, 5-078, 7-020, 7-024, 7-064, 8-063, 8-114, 8-118, 8-123.
At 2124 recheck on 17921, the DJ claimed to be broadcasting on only one
frequency, ``17.775``. When I rerechecked an hour later at 2225, none of these
were heard, as 17775 itself had apparently closed down in the meantime, altho
authorized to run until 0100, silencing its phalanx of spurs. Until next time
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ###
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