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Today's Topics:
1. Glenn Hauser logs May 31-June 2, 2009 (Glenn Hauser)
2. Recent Loggings (Dave Valko)
3. Romanian logs + a few bonus logs from home (aurel chiochiu)
4. Logs from NH-USA, May 31-June 1 (Scott R. Barbour Jr.)
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Message: 1
Date: Tue, 2 Jun 2009 09:25:50 -0700 (PDT)
From: Glenn Hauser <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: [HCDX] Glenn Hauser logs May 31-June 2, 2009
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** ALGERIA [non]. 7295 // 9535, June 2 at 0537, RTA with Qur`an; later in the
hour sounded reverent but not Qur`an pe se. 7295 is 194 degrees from Issoudun,
FRANCE, and 9535 is 162 degrees during this hour. 9535 was slightly better, tho
with some flutter (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** ANGUILLA [and non]. How is the Caribbean Beacon 1610 relay via 11775 doing?
Did not check it May 31, and on June 1 the 11775 transmitter was off the air
again at 1326 check; just some ChiCom jamming audible. And reception was
generally quite poor across the bands, so that`s all I logged that day.
Caribbean Beacon still hasn`t fixed the double audio, not only The University
Network, but also local 1610 programming mixing in on 11775. June 2 at 1202,
DGS speaking, but could also hear a Carib-accented preacher with prayer,
greeting listeners. At 1222 PMS was speaking along with hum and a 1610
preacher. At 1402, as PMS was trying to explain something in Greek, distracting
hymn singing. It seems the mix is now slightly lower audio level than TUN
audio, but still totally unacceptable. Does PMS [n?e Barbie Bridges] ever tune
in her own SW broadcast in LA? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** AUSTRALIA. RA, 9580, June 2 at 1352, caught last few minutes of Australian
Bite, interviewing woman who has written new lyrix for Advance, Australia Fair,
acknowledging Aboriginal heritage, unlike the original, which was whites-only,
and the indigenous feel alienated. I thought they were going to play the whole
new version, but only a fragment of second stanza before program ended at 1357
for QSY announcements.
Looking for it on website, no alfabetical listing for Australian Bite! Instead,
it`s under T for The Australian Bite:
http://blogs.radioaustralia.net.au/australianbite/?p=350
An updated Aussie anthem?
National anthems are meant to inspire, be instantly recognisable, and even
bring a tear to the eye. But many in this country find Australia?s national
anthem, ?Advance Australia Fair? somehow lacking. One such person is former
member of the Seekers, and Australian singing legend, Judith Durham. Many of
the lines in our national anthem troubled her, so she?s written and recorded
some new ones with the help of some friends. Judith Durham speaks with Fran
Kelly.
You can read Judith Durham?s alternative lyrics on her website:
http://www.judithdurham.com/lyrics/advance_aust_fair_lyric.pdf
And the audio starts 15:45 into this, but you can`t advance the file unless you
download it first; they do play the first stanza of the new version at the
outset:
http://mpegmedia.abc.net.au/ra/podcast/australianbite/australianbite_20090530.mp3
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** CHINA. Firedrake check June 2 at T minus 1: audible but not good enough to
`enjoy`: at 1150 on 9000 better than 8400; at 1408 poor on both 15600 and 13970
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** FRANCE [non]. The RFI strike must still be underway, as instead of Spanish
on 13640, June 2 at 1214 via GUIANA FRENCH, there was music fill which I could
only describe as reggae with Brazilian lyrix about Africa, mentioning S?n?gal,
and with intermittent audio dropouts, even during an RFI Musique (?) ID at 1217
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** KOREA NORTH [and non]. 11710, VOK IS with KCBS relay, June 2 at 1200, and
also with SAH, QRM in Chinese. Per Aoki, RTI is also on 11710 until 1300, and
so is CNR1 jamming. How unco?rdinated! (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** MEXICO. 4800, XERTA presumed the station in Spanish, but with a big hum on
the carrier, also CODAR QRM, June 2 at 0529 (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** PHILIPPINES. IBB burning up 250 kW for nothing on 9760, open carrier June 2
at 1147, prior to VOA English at 1200, 21 degrees from Tinang (Glenn Hauser,
OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** RUSSIA. 12000, VOR Chinese via Khabarovsk, still distorted and atop RHC at
1209 June 2; with carrier only at 1400, about to go off, upclearing RHC (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. Heard some SSB on 6990, June 2 at 1415, so switched on BFO: axually
6989.5, MARS net. Strongest signal, calls always rendered fonetically, from
AAN5TNC in Little Rock AR, in highly struxured contact with much weaker AAN4EOC
in Chattanooga(?) TN. Not a single hit on either call in Google search or in
UDXF yg; I think the callsign format recently changed (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST) ###
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Message: 2
Date: Tue, 2 Jun 2009 14:21:36 -0400
From: "Dave Valko" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>, <[email protected]>, <[email protected]>,
<[email protected]>, <[email protected]>,
<[email protected]>, "Guy Atkins" <[email protected]>, "Nicolas
Eramo" <[email protected]>
Subject: [HCDX] Recent Loggings
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SUDAN Got a notice that the Persecution Project Foundation newsletter
"Africa Messenger" is now posted on their website in response to an inquiry
if they could verify my reception of R. Peace. E-mail to Pete Stover still
unanswered.
PAPUA NEW GUINEA All these channels/stns in // w/pres. EG nx by W at 0940;
3905, 3365, 3345, 3335, 3315, and 3260. Also had a few remote rpts. Don't
usually hear that many PNGs in //, and not at that odd time. (1 June)
INDONESIA 4749.96 RRI Makassar Fairly readable this morning around 1000.
Koran over ToH. (1 June)
NORTH KOREA 11770 V.O. Korea 1015 cnmtrys on, what else, their rights
to nuclear power and also post war economic reconstruction. ID at 1032.
Strong but seemed to be fading after 1030. Oddly on freq. (2 June)
INDONESIA 9680 RRI Jakarta 1034 studio M anncr tlk w/reporter by phone
w/ments of Jakarta, Indonesia, Guinea, and Africa. 1044 deadair as they
lost the feed from the reporter. Then a canned promo w/dialog, nice RRI ID
at 1046, then continued w/M reporter. Probably abt the Airbus AF 447
disappearance into the Atlantic. Full ID routine at 1059. Co-channel QRM
from EG stn, but couldn't ID who. (2 June)
MONGOLIA?? 12085 UNID. Tlk by W, then mx at 1057, and off. Too much
buzzing QRM to tell what lang. Was hoping for Mongolia. (2 June)
ANTARCTICA 15476 R. Nacional Arcangel San Gabriel (pres.) 1804, soft
LA mx as I type this. First time to get any kind of a signal here in a
while. Picking up possibly due to recent increased solar activity. (2
June)
73 Dave
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Message: 3
Date: Tue, 02 Jun 2009 19:06:21 -0400
From: aurel chiochiu <[email protected]>
To: [email protected], [email protected], [email protected],
[email protected], [email protected], [email protected],
[email protected], [email protected],
[email protected]
Cc: [email protected], [email protected], [email protected],
"Philippe ..." <[email protected]>, [email protected],
SOAD BENKIRANE <[email protected]>,
[email protected],
[email protected], [email protected],
[email protected], Jorge Garcia
<[email protected]>, [email protected],
[email protected], "Tudor M. Vedeanu" <[email protected]>,
[email protected], "olivier.tequi" <[email protected]>,
[email protected], [email protected], rakaille
rakaille <[email protected]>, [email protected], Perez
Ricardo
<[email protected]>
Subject: [HCDX] Romanian logs + a few bonus logs from home
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Warm greetings to all of you !
I must confess, DX-wise, the Romanian trip wasn't as good as it should have
been... Socially-wise, it wasn't too bad, though many people has completly
changed their lives since 12 years ago when we moved to Canada and some
mysteriously vanished... But still it was an interesting trip, nevertheless...
The houses out there are made of concrete walls, ceilings and roof meaning you
need to move outside to DX... My greatfather made a good job in choosing a
metal house for his flowers standing just outside the concrete balcony. Not
only this metal house was acting like an antenna, but when mixed with the
telescopic antenna of my Sangean althogether it brought armchair copy of
several fairly weak signals such as Morocco-9575 (well it was a pest during the
evenings, but during the mid-mornings it was quite weak). Evertyhing would have
been just fine for shortwave DXing, except there were some weird noises coming
from poorly insulated CATV leakage which got worse on the lower tropical band
or 48m band frequencies... So must of my "shortwave DXing" in fact was more
SWLing than DXing; the stronger signals had a better punch because they were
boosted, but the noises swamping the weaker ones were boosted too, so finally,
nothing worth of mention got heard.
On LW we had noise, most probably CATV related (CATV insulation has always been
very poor in Romania) all over, though on the second night when I got outside
of the house to DX, I found that some French signals along with Poland-225 were
cleanly audible on the very few clean spots I was able to find. However, I
wasn't able to confirm wherever the Turkish transmitters on 162 in Agri or on
180 kHz in Polati are still active or not.
For MW, I didn't had ANY antenna other than the Sangean barefoot and on the
botton-end of the dial the PK LW loop set to the highest frequency which was
somewhat better than the Sangean barefoot between 520 and 567 or 576 kHz,
afterwards it didn't make much of a difference. Many catches I expected would
be easy were either not heard at all or at a very threshold level. I was quite
disappointed with MW with maybe 1 or 2 pleasant surprises, but not that
pleasant overall. I had at least two weird signals on the X band which may have
been from a Greek or maybe a Dutch pirate, but the reception was too poor and
too hissy to stay with it ! In any event, I would like to thank George Maroti
for having given me a few pirate tips !
On FM, I tried to get in touch with Romania's top TV-FM DXer, but he didn't
seemed too interested in meeting me... This was quite disappointing, as on May
19, he got an astonishing opening shifting directions wildly and he got Morocco
on FM which must be at a douple-hop Es distance from Bucharest. His videos are
on YouTube, they are really appealing... I should do the same ! Otherwise, it
seems that Romania is getting more Es than North America... There are days when
some weak random Es on the botton of the FM band around 88.2-88.3 from Lebanon
are audible very often.
DXing from the airplane was more than disappointing, it was almost useless,
especially when we came back from the transition flight in Paris and the other
times I mostly got the public service broadcasters from several European
countries such as Hungary, Germany or Croatia and even Italy which are the most
powerful ones ! It seems that the telescopic antenna of my Sangean is beginning
to die... When I connect a short wire to the AM EXT ANT. terminal, the
reception is cutting down and doesn't comeback when I take it out unless I play
very hard with the antenna on both SW and FM (USW, really...). Doing that, I
was caught by the Air France stewarders which told me I didn't had the right to
use the radio during this part of the trip and they suspected my radio was
causing harmful interference. At least, I did enjoy a great movie and the music
on the Air France musical airchecks was appealing to my tastes.
What was really entertaining was the comeback to Montreal with the stronger
Latins and Caribbean BOOMING IN which is somewhat of an exceptionnal event for
late spring / early summer standards and, alas, no static scratches at all or
almost !...
Into the logs:
Romanian logs:
153 ROMANIA Antena Satelor, Bod - this was the strongest LW broadcaster
noted, though it didn't had enough punch to overcome the concrete structure at
the Drumul Taberei building and got audible out there. However, in a concrete
building in Baneasa we stayed in, it was quite good ! (Chiochiu-ROM)
162 FRANCE France Inter, Allouis MAY 17 0120 - apparent French talk very
threshold inside the concrete building. (Chiochiu-Drumul Taberii-ROM)
171 UKRAINE Radio Free Cecenia / Radio Campanie MAY 23 1315 - with Russian
dance music and talk between the musical items. Always IDing as "Radio
Campanie". Very good signal in null of TVI ! The only station heard on 171
everywhere as expected... (Chiochiu-Otopeni-ROM)
183 GERMANY Europe 1, Felsberg MAY 18 2050 - playing one of the latest groove
by Arianne Mofatt, a French Canadian singer (!) then more French talk about her
career. Fair-good outside the concrete building. (Chiochiu-Drumul Taberii-ROM)
207 UKRAINE MAY 20 1045 - Fair signal on the Sangean barefoot in the Cismigiu
park in the central-south part of Bucharest. (Chiochiu-Cismigiu-ROM).
225 POLAND Polski Radio 1, Solec Kujawski MAY 18 2054 - 80s Alternative rock
musical selections and Slavic talk in presumed Polish. Good above the CATV QRM.
See 183 for details about where this log was made. (Chiochiu-Drumul Taberei-ROM)
234 LUXEMBURG RTL, Beidweler / Junglister MAY 18 2106 - Slowly fading from
very poor to quite good. In French ! TVI QRM ! See 183 for further information
on where this log was made ! (Chiochiu-Drumul Taberei-ROM)
252 ALGERIA Alger Cha?ne 3 MAY 18 2110 - Two men discussing the Gaza conflict
(an old issue, I know and it gets even more silly when we are thinking about
the porcine flu !). Fair signal, some TVI, poor overall, but audible even on
the Sangean barefoot ! Probably my best LW DX catche during this Romanian trip
! See 183 for further information regarding where this log was made !
(Chiochiu-Drumul Taberei-ROM).
256 ROMANIA ??? MAY 20 1047 - unID NDB with a fair-good signal.
(Chiochiu-Cismigiu-ROM)
261 BULGARIA BNT Radio Horizont, Bakarel MAY 20 1046 - Fairly good signal
with English pops on the Sangean barefoot. Very slight QRM from an unID NDB on
256 kHz that was completly eliminated when tuned to 261 kHz in AM Narrow Mode,
262 kHz in AM Wide or either Narrow mode ! (Chiochiu-Cismigiu-ROM)
519 ROMANIA Baneasa MAY 31 1710 - semi-local NDB heard strongly at this time
and at other times and other QTHs too. (Chiochiu-Drumul Taberii-ROM)
531 ROMANIA Antena Satelor, Urziceni - semi-local // 153 ! (Chiochiu-ROM)
558 ROMANIA Radio Rom?nia Actualitati, Craiova (Oltenia) - semi-local that
was slightly stronger using the PK's Shielded Magnetic LW loop set to amplify
the highest frequency possible than on the Sangean ACS 818-CST barefoot !
(Chiochiu-ROM)
585 TUNISIA RTT, Gafsa MAY 18 2108 - Arabic music. Fair signal !
(Chiochiu-Drumul Taberii-ROM)
783 SPAIN Radio Rock and Gol, Barcelona MAY 18 2110 - Strong with Spanish
sports talk in null of Syria ! My best mediumwave DX catche during this
Romanian trip ! (Chiochiu-Drumul Taberii-ROM)
783 SYRIA ORT Wahad, Tartus MAY 18 2110 - Trad Arabic music in null of Spain
! Assumed to be this one, since I don't recall seeing any log of Mauritania-783
from eastern Europe (or Europe at all) and the null was too deep between this
and Spain leading to the conclusion of Syria-783. (Chiochiu-QC)
1521 SAUDI ARABIA BSKSA, Duba MAY 27 1821 - (very tent.) Very threshold with
man in apparent Arabic. My Sanyo MCD-S830 barefoot would had easily handeld
this one. (Chiochiu-Aviatiei-ROM)
9575 MOROCCO Medi Un, Nador MAY 20 1244 - playing an Arabic track by "Mohamed
Soad" and other nice stuff as well. Only poor-fair with a background hiss
because of a lack of gain on the Sangean's own telescopic antenna.
(Chiochiu-Otopeni-ROM) +MAY 21 1810 - HUGE later with a good signal using the
telescopic antenna attached to the metallic roof that is saving the flowers of
my greatfather from the rain ! +MAY 21 0500 - Fair-good the next morning until
close to noon ! Around noon, it is more appealing to a SW DXer rather than a
SWLer though. (Chiochiu-Drumul Taberii-ROM)
9580 GABON Africa Num?ro Un, Moyabi MAY 20 1246 - playing a wild mixture of
soukous and coup?-d?call? music. Poor-fair, only audible at this time, later
covered by an unID Chinese broadcaster. Background hiss evidenced by the poor
perfermoance of the Sangean ACS 818-CST receiver on its own telescopic antenna.
(Chiochiu-Otopeni-ROM)
17690 IRAN Radio Farda MAY 21 1030+ - playing rhythmic Arabic and occidental
vocals. Huge, like a major international broadcaster such as the BBC or
Deutsche Welle ! (Chiochiu-Drumul Taberii-ROM)
89.9 ROMANIA unID pirate MAY 20 1107 - Romanian pirate playing gypsy maneles
and even Arabic as well as Turkish dance-pop music. Good reception in Otopeni
at the only concretefree house we stayed in ! (Chiochiu-Otopeni-ROM)
I didn't note anything down, those are from my memory and from my tapes....
More were heard on both MW and SW. However, I tried as best as I could to list
anything we heard on LW ! I was buzzy preparing the gifts for my relatives, so
couldn't get the George Maroti invitation for tuning into Europirates,
especially those who broadcast in SSB... I have failed to get those ones !
Regular Pan-American DX logs from home:
555 ST KITTS ZIZ, Basseterre JUN 2 0305 - to good peak with a nice reggae
vocal. First time in June ! (Chiochiu-QC)
750 VENEZUELA YVKS, Caracas, DF JUN 2 0245 - with a talkshow regarding to
what extent Latin America has been touch by the economical slowdown. This
talkshow begun after YV baseball coverage. Huge, uneblievable, first time in
June ! Generally OVER WSB ! Generally, during the spring and summer months WSB
dominates and during the fall and winter months YVKS and WSB are received
equally... Apparent Cuba way under ! (Chiochiu-QC)
760 COLOMBIA HJAJ, RCN Cadena Bas?ca, Barranquilla JUN 2 0154 - promos for
"La Caravana Siete-Sesenta" inside the "Nocturna RCN" program. Fair under
nulled WJR... +JUN 2 0135 - to HUGE peak over residual WJR with commercial ads,
one of them being for Banco Popular with the "Est? es s? banco" slogan and a
coloquial conversation between one worker and one supporter of Banco Popular.
I've heard this one during the month of May on two occasions before, but it's
the first time I log HJAJ-760 during the off-season month of June... I guess
Se?or Conti must be right, the DX season never really dies ! (Chiochiu-QC)
Additionnal comments:
Aside from DXing a bit the last night in spite of being very tired after my
last trans-Atlantic flight, I fired on the Sanyo MCD-S830 rig to notice great
receptions of the above regular Pan-American targets and hints of good
high-latitude short-skip domestics, so conditions must have been good toward
all bearings !
During our trip, my father went to the garage and installed a Sony XFD AM
Stereo car radio made in 1979 we purchased from EBay. I wonder why, NOTHING is
audible on the entire FM broadcast band ! However, the performance of it on AM
or mediumwave is astonishing ! I get clear reception of CJWI-1610 which was
very hissy on our previous carradio and I can get as far south as Waterbury, VT
on 550 kHz (albeit weakly) and as far west as Ottawa not only on 580, but on
1310 kHz as well ! CJWI-1610 is particularly good because it plays my favorite
French Caribbean music ! However, the band ends at 1620 kHz, hence KJCC-1630 my
most likely source of nighttime mediumwave AM Stereo skip is impossible for us
to enjoy ! It has two filters: normal and wide, the normal one being quite
narrow and being good for DXing purpose, for picking up signals 10 or 20 kHz
from a local ! It does not receive splits, but what car radio does ?
I wonder if Radio Coro on 780 kHz is broadcasting in stereo or not. If someone
could null out WBBM AND CFDR to receive Coro using an AM Stereo rig, I would be
glad. On their stream, they are in stereo, but the separation between the right
and the left channels is slight.
Back to DXing, I'm rather surprised I got those late-season LAs, but the most
surprising of all findings is some fading noticed over the last two hours on
CIWW-1310, a fair-strength semi-local in Ottawa I'm listening right now as I
type this. It seems like the groundwave+skywave mix has begun to appear around
1600 EDT which means 2000 UTC, incredibly early for this time of the year ! The
last night I didn't had any batteries ready, but now as I've charged the
battery for my PK loop, I'm ready for another late-season run of longwave TAs
this evening !
I think this could make the Glenn Hauser propagation column, winter-like
propagation on LW and MW in the summer... I never heard groundwave+skywave
propagation mix on CIWW-1310 on a mid-afternoon sunny late spring day ! It's
the first time ! Also, I didn't expected anything when I randomnly tuned around
the last evening, so ANYTHING is possible ! That being said, now at 1800 EDT,
the signal has dropped to VERY DISTORTED for a full minute before coming back
as fair and listenable which means a huge component of it has to come my way by
skywave rather than groundwave or more precisely a groundwave+skywave mix with
the distortion being the effect of one canceling each other !
Last but not least, as good as my Sanyo MCD-S830 is, it is clear that this
receiver is slowly beginning to die. If I tune too fast, I get some scracthes
and I loose any contact with the dial, just a very slight hiss unless I hit
very hard the tuning button and then the stations reappear, so I have to be
very careful when tuning... Is this an alignment problem ? It dissapears
somewhat when I carry it... It is one of the reason I'm scared of bringing it
during long flights !
Before leaving my computer, if any of you are knowing a list of Latin American
stations broadcasting in AM Stereo, I would be glad to know them... Has anyone
received Mexican, Central or South American stations in the northeast (New
England, southern Canada, western NY, etc.) and under what reception
conditions... Is WICC-600 Bridgeport, CT still in AM Stereo ? What about
CKAT-600 in North Bay, ON ? Was CKEC-1320 ever in stereo ? What NA domestics
and LAms should I try to get in AM Stereo ? Has anyone on ABDX or elsewhere
DXed AM Stereo recently ? I see that I have no local broadcasting in AM Stereo,
though I have at least two oldies semi-locals and three ethnic ones that
include CJWI-1610 that would have sounded awesome in stereo ! Now, I think my
next DX bug would be to get an AM Stereo portable to listen at home ! When has
CJAD-800 dropped AM Stereo ? While they are mainly a talker, they play some
music on Saturday evenings and on the beginning of each talkshow that would!
have sounded great in AM Stereo ! Any chance CJAD-800 is still in stereo, but
my carradio does not really decode stereo well ?
I'm having a buzz with AM Stereo lately... are there still some used receiver
on EBay that receives the X-Band as well... My biggest DX dissapointment is the
impossibility of tuning in to KJCC on 1630 kHz and like many other
disappointments, I'm sure I'll be able to make it a thing of the past one day !
This repport is brought to you by Bogdan Alexandru Chiochiu DXing from Otopeni,
10 km north of Bucharest (Chiochiu-Otopeni-ROM), Drumul Taberei in western
Bucharest (Chiochiu-Drumul Taberei-ROM), Cismigiu a park not too far from
downtown in central-southern Bucharest (Chiochiu-Cismigiu-ROM), near a friends
building in Aviatiei (Chiochiu-Aviatiei-ROM) and from home at 4190 Edward
Higgins Pierrefonds (Montreal's West Island), QC H8Y 3M9 using his Sangean CST
818-CST / PK's Shielded Magnetic LW loop combo for LW and MW as well as his
trusty Sanyo MCD-S830 rx barefoot only for MW
May the good DX be with you !
Bogdan Chiochiu
Btw.: Has anyone an idea why the car-radio Sony XFD we purchased from EBay does
not receive FM at all ? It was in good shape... Although while the seller was
able to talk to me on EBay and to answer my questions, I was sick with huge
fever that week and never managed to get in touch with him !
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Message: 4
Date: Tue, 2 Jun 2009 17:06:30 -0700 (PDT)
From: "Scott R. Barbour Jr." <[email protected]>
To: Cumbre DX <[email protected]>, DXLD <[email protected]>,
DXplorer <[email protected]>, HCDX
<[email protected]>, Gayle Van Horn
<[email protected]>,
NASWAyg <[email protected]>, Al Quaglieri
<[email protected]>, Mark Taylor <[email protected]>, Dave
Valko <[email protected]>
Subject: [HCDX] Logs from NH-USA, May 31-June 1
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6925U, PIRATE, tentative Long Range Radio, 0125-0135*, May 31. Continuos Warren
Zevon tunes; sound FX & (T) "Long Range Radio" ID at 0135; not 100% positive
as I was spacing out at the time; fair at best w/ drawn-out, f/up-down "whoosh"
QRM of sorts. (Barbour-NH)
6925U, PIRATE, Thinking Man Radio, *0135-0154, May 31, Open carrier after Long
Range Radio s/off; seamlessly into "Thinking Man Radio" ID at 0136; various pop
mx selections via REM, Blondie, Styx between short recordings of speeches by
Nixon & JFK; several IDs w/ contact info; [email protected]; fair at
best w/ same "whoosh" QRM heard previous; seamless transition between stations
leads me to believe LRR & TMR were via the same txmitter. (Barbour-NH)
9430, OMAN, presumed BBC A'Seela, 0211-0215*, June 1, listed Azeri. M ancr w/
nx items; soundbites; pulled the plug mid-sentence at 0215 sharp; fair.
(Barbour-NH)
9615, PHILIPPINES, R. Veritas Asia Palauig, 1105-1117, May 31, Mandarin. M ancr
w/ talk until instrumental mx & brief W ancr w/ talk over piano mx at 1115; M
ancr over choral mx thru t/out; fair at best in ECCS-LSB. (Barbour-NH)
9740, SINGAPORE, BBC Kranji, 1118, May 31, English. Nx re U.S. Supreme Court
nominee; BBC promo followed by various nx items; audible but too weak under
band QRN to detail. (Barbour-NH)
9745U, BAHRAIN, presumed R. Bahrain Abu Hayan, 0026-0059, May 31, Arabic. Call
to prayer-like chanting w/ pause at BoH; different style chants thru 0050 w/
pause at 0040; M & W ancr b/w percussion/wind instrument bits until blown out
by 9750-RFI via French Guiana crash-start at *0059; poor/weak; no ID noted.
(Barbour-NH)
Scott R. Barbour Jr. Intervale, N.H. USA
NRD-545, RX-350D, MLB1, 200'Bevs, 60m Dipole
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