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Today's Topics:
1. Glenn Hauser logs June 26, 2009 (Glenn Hauser)
2. Re: Escuta em 7225 kHz (Glenn Hauser)
3. Radio Gloria International this Sunday (Tom Taylor)
4. LOG 26062009 (Jorge Freitas (Yahoo))
5. OT: CBC TV-3 NB into CT (Konnie Rychalsky)
6. Correction: OT: CBC "TV-5" NB into CT (Konnie Rychalsky)
7. June 26 sporadic E logs on VHF2 FM (aurel chiochiu)
8. Update: OT: CBC "TV-5" into CT (Konnie Rychalsky)
9. log (L?cio Ot?vio)
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Message: 1
Date: Fri, 26 Jun 2009 08:08:59 -0700 (PDT)
From: Glenn Hauser <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: [HCDX] Glenn Hauser logs June 26, 2009
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
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** CHINA. Firedrake check June 26: before 1300 barely audible on 9000; at 1305,
very poor on 14420, nothing on 13500, 13970 or any others of the usuals (Glenn
Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** GABON [and non]. I often hear a weak station in French on 9580, which has to
be the last SW frequency left from this country, Africa Number One; such as
June 26 at 0537, French talk, but no comparison to the signals from DW/Rwanda
on 9480, 250 kW at 295 degrees; or to CVC Zambia on 9430, 100 kW at 315
degrees. ANO is supposedly 250 kW at 350 degrees, 0500-2300 --- but
undermodulated. I really miss the big clear daytime signals they used to put
thru on 15475, even 17630 from the ailing transmitter, which they are
supposedly going to revive, unlike Pres. Bongo (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)
** OKLAHOMA. KJRH, channel 2, Tulsa, still going with Nightlight NAB video
about DTV, alternating Spanish/English, at 1351 UT June 26, the date it`s
supposed to conclude on this and many other stations, two weeks after the June
12 analog closedown (tho some keep going until July 12 or miscellaneous dates
between). I expect most of them will turn this off without any fanfare (or much
notice in their local markets), whenever they get around to it (Glenn Hauser,
OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** U S A. WWCR, 13845, strong Es-assisted open carrier, June 26 at 1306; really
open, no hum, crosstalk or squeal either. PMS audio finally came up circa 1320.
15825, WWCR was also inbooming with Tony Al?mo, whose ministry has continued
unabated during the M-F 13-14 hour despite his legal problems and presumed
incarceration pending trial which keeps getting put off, latest date being July
13. This rounds up news about the case: http://www.tonyalamonews.com/
Es opening not strong enough to bring in WWRB 18770 harmonic or anything on
channel 2, yet (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** VIETNAM [and non]. 9550 with two weak Asian stations mixing, a fast SAH,
maybe 10 Hz between them, June 26 at 1327. One is in Chinese, the other in
Vietnamese, but after 1330 only one of them remains. Was also hearing the same
before 1300. A radio war between Vietnam and China, Commies vs Commies? We know
they have had their differences.
Aoki listings confirm the two are broadcasting to each other on the same
frequency at the same time. CRI in Vietnamese at 11-17, 500 kW, 193 degrees
from Beijing site; and VOV in Chinese at 1100-1330, 1500-1700, 100 kW, 27
degrees from Hanoi-Sontay site. Depending on relative skip distances, one may
slide in over the other at certain locations, but in much of SE Asia, the
collision is bound to be huge. And this is nothing new (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX
LISTENING DIGEST)
UNIDENTIFIED. 11535, heard the day before in skirts of WEWN 11530, and WEWN
spur on 11540, checked again June 26 at 1250: sounds like Chinese, but not
positive it`s Mandarin, tho did hear ``wo-men`` mentioned by M talking,
occasional interjexions by W. 1255 to piano music, seems a hymn, 1256 W and
then M with brief announcement, off at 1257*.
No IDs discernible, but suspect it is one of the missionary stations aiming
into China on a new frequency. Doing better than expected against WEWN since
the latter had long pauses in live mass. The June 26 edition of Aoki still
doesn`t have it. And there are no clues in WRTH A-09 update, PWBR `2009`, HFCC
or EiBi either (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST) ###
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Message: 2
Date: Fri, 26 Jun 2009 08:44:52 -0700 (PDT)
From: Glenn Hauser <[email protected]>
To: "Antonio L. Garcia" <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected], [email protected],
[email protected]
Subject: Re: [HCDX] Escuta em 7225 kHz
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8
Come?ando ?s 1:14 tem IDs como ``Golos Rossii`` = Voz da R?ssia. ``Boshoi
Strane`` quer dizer ``grande pa?s`` ou alguma coisa tal.
73, Glenn Hauser
--- On Fri, 6/26/09, Antonio L. Garcia <[email protected]> wrote:
> From: Antonio L. Garcia <[email protected]>
> Subject: Re: Escuta em 7225 kHz
> To: "Glenn Hauser" <[email protected]>
> Date: Friday, June 26, 2009, 6:03 AM
> Estimado Glenn,
>
> Segue c?pia de escuta realizada em 26/06 entre 0026 e 0033
> UTC .
>
> Grato por sua ajuda.
>
> Garcia
>
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Glenn Hauser" <[email protected]>
> To: "Radioescutas" <[email protected]>;
> "Hard Core DX" <[email protected]>;
> "DX Clube do Paran?" <[email protected]>;
> "Antonio L. Garcia" <[email protected]>
> Sent: Thursday, June 25, 2009 10:34 PM
> Subject: Re: Escuta em 7225 kHz
>
> Yes, I`d like to hear the mp3. DXLD 9-043 had this:
>
> RUSIA, 7225, Voz de Rusia, 0140-0145, escuchada el 25 de
> mayo en ruso,
> ID ?Gosdka Rossii Radio?, ?program Cultura?,
> emisi?n musical, locutor
> con noticias, en paralelo por 7260 y 7285, SINPO 35433
>
> *Nuevo servicio?, frecuencia no listada ni en EiBi, Ni en
> Aoki, ni en
> WRTH (Jos? Miguel Romero, Burjasot (Valencia), Espa?a,
> dxldyg via DX
> LISTENING DIGEST)
>
> 7225 is our St. Petersburg, ex-7390 starting from
> May 20. 73! (Mikhail Timofeyev, Russia, ibid.)
>
> But I wish he had specified its transmission time span;
> Eibi indicates 0100-0200 only. Other listings before 0100
> show Armenia or Moscow site (gh)
>
> --- On Thu, 6/25/09, Antonio L. Garcia <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
> > Date: Thursday, June 25, 2009, 8:11 PM
> > Escuta n?o identificada
> > Jo?o Pessoa - PB - IC R1500/IC 706MKIIG
> > Antena 730-V1a (40/20/15/10 metros)
> >
> > 7225 0028-0033 26/06 - N?o identificada, em dado
> momento
> > ouve-se com perfei??o "Radio Baixoi Strame", ou algo
> que
> > se assemelhe, a grafia n?o deve ser essa. H? dias
> venho
> > tentando identifica-la sem sucesso. Nessa escuta
> espec?fica
> > consegui sinais espetaculares de at? 60 dB com um
> pouco de
> > QSB. Se algu?m se habilitar, eu tenho a grava??o em
> MP3.
> > Com falas de OMs muito semelhante a uma entrevista,
> com
> > identifica??o conforme acima, mas n?o encontro em
> lista
> > alguma. SINPO 55444
> >
> > Garcia
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Message: 3
Date: Fri, 26 Jun 2009 21:53:34 +0100
From: "Tom Taylor" <[email protected]>
To: "Tom Taylor" <[email protected]>
Subject: [HCDX] Radio Gloria International this Sunday
Message-ID: <5a258c14a794408c901e53b8ac2ec...@dellcb21k2j>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"
Radio Gloria International this Sunday
Date 28TH of June 2009,
Time 0900 to 1000 UTC
Channel 6140 KHz
The transmissions of Radio Gloria will be broadcast over
the transmitting station Wertachtal in Germany.
The transmitter power will be 100 000 Watts, and we will
be using a non-directional antenna system (Quadrant antenna).
Good listening 73s Tom
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Message: 4
Date: Fri, 26 Jun 2009 23:13:33 -0000
From: "Jorge Freitas \(Yahoo\)" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>, <[email protected]>,
"Hard Core DX" <[email protected]>
Subject: [HCDX] LOG 26062009
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"
5930 2221 26/06 CYPRUS, R Cyprus, em Greek, desde Limassol, com 250 kW, OM e
YL conversam, parece uma entrevista no est?dio, tx apenas aos domingos,
sextas e s?bado segundo a Aoki, as 2343 UTC ID e logo ap?s mx instrumental
Cyprus e fim tx, 25332 (JJFS-B)
6030 2110 25/06 ALBANIA, R Tirana, em Albanian, desde Shijak, com 100 kW,
dois OMs conversam, parece uma entrevista, QRM de fundo n?o identificado,
poss?vel CNR 1, 33433 (JJFS-B)
9000 2025 26/06 CHINA, Firedrake chin?s em // com 8400 kHz, bom sinal
(JJFS-B)
9730 2106 26/06 VIETNAM, Voice of Vietnam, FF, desde Hanoi-Sontay, com 100
kW, YL apresenta nx com entrevistas gravadas e comentadas, moderada QRM da
DW em ingl?s em 9735 khz, 33433 (JJFS-B)
9745 2052 26/06 TAIWAN, Han Sheng V.o.Kuanghua, em mandarim, a EIBI n?o
informa cidade e nem potencia da tx, OM fala e men??o a Michael Jackson,
essa tx n?o ? relacionada na Aoky, e s? ? relacionada pela EIBI nessa ?nica
tx, as 2056 UTC pop mx de Taiwan em voz feminina, h? um coment?rio sobre
essa escuta pelo Jos? Miguel Romero em
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/domesticasytropicales/message/1415 , tamb?m
pelo colega Antonio L Garcia de Jo?o Pessoa em
http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg22251.html ,
45444 (JJFS-B)
9755 2047 26/06 VATICAN STATE, Vatican Radio, FF, desde Santa Maria di
Galeria, com 100 kW, OM e YL apresentam nx e a morte de Michael Jackson ? a
nx principal, 45444 (JJFS-B)
9780 2007 26/06 YEMEN, R Yemen, *tentativa*, em ?rabe, desde Sanaa, com 50
kW, OM fala, ocasionais interrup??es da portadora por segundos, sinal muito
fraco, com leves ru?dos e sem QRM. Durante as audi??es de falas entende-se
claramente o ?rabe, mas a fala n?o sofre com o radicalismo na pronuncia
conforme algumas emiss?es em ?rabe. Uma boa surpresa essa escuta, as 2015
UTC ouve-se curto trechos de mx ?rabe e OM volta a falar, as 2016 UTC uma mx
?rabe completa. O que achei interessante foram ?s interrup??es da tx, n?o
parecia ser um fen?meno da propaga??o e sim um problema do transmissor que
cortava a tx, sinal some as 2024 UTC, mas a portadora ainda era
identific?vel e as interrup??es continuavam, (JJFS-B)
9970 2033 26/06 BELGIUM, RTBF Int., FF, desde Wavre, com 250 kW,
transmitindo uma entrevista gravada, o assunto do OM e YL ? a morte de
Michel Jackson, hoje com um sinal quase local. Essa emissora costuma ter uma
programa??o musical muito boa, 45444 (JJFS-B)
10000 2028 26/06 BRASIL, Observat?rio Nacional, hora em espa?os de 10
segundos por voz feminina, sinal fraco, pouco ru?do (JJFS-B)
15130 1733 26/06 USA, Family Radio, *tentativa*, SS, desde Okeechobee, OM
conversa, escut?-se uma ou outra palavra em espanhol, sinal muito fraco,
leve ru?do, sem QRM, (JJFS-B)
15190 1648 26/06 EQUATORIAL GUINEA, R ?frica, EE, desde Bata, com 50 kW, mx
parecido um hino, as 1649 UTC OM e YL conversam, a portadora em m?ximo no
S-meter, com leve ru?do, sem QRM, mas com clara e baixa modula??o, as 1657
UTC sinal come?a a desvanecer, as 1659 UTC men??es a "vida", "Deus", por OM,
OM e YL se alternam em suas prega??es. Voltando a frequ?ncia as 2003 UTC
ouve-se o sinal na mesma condi??o do in?cio, um hino religioso em voz
feminina e logo ap?s YL fala, (JJFS-B)
15785 1719 26/06 ISRAEL, Galei Zahal, em hebraico, desde Tel Aviv-Yavne, com
5 kW, sequ?ncia de mx instrumental, ocasional QRM de OTHR, sinal muito
fraco, leve ru?do, sinal some as 1730 UTC e fica apenas uma leve portadora,
(JJFS-B)
73
Jorge Freitas
SWL1023B
Skype jorge.freitas.fsa
Escutas (listening):
http://www.ipernity.com/doc/75006/home?t=74925&c=6&s=uploaded
Blog: http://www.ipernity.com/blog/75006
Feira de Santana Bahia - Brasil
12?? 15' 1.57" S 38?? 58' 40.30" W
Degen 1103
Antena Dipolo de 16 metros e balun 9:1 em toroide e entrela?ado
Dire??o Leste/Oeste
"De Certa forma, as pessoas s?o como esponjas; elas t?m a tend?ncia de
absorver o que est? ? sua volta. ? muito f?cil adotar, mesmo sem querer, as
atitudes, os padr?es e os tra?os de personalidade daqueles com quem temos
muito contato" Portanto procuremos sempre ser uma pessoa melhor a cada dia.
------------------------------
Message: 5
Date: Fri, 26 Jun 2009 20:39:13 -0400
From: Konnie Rychalsky <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>, <[email protected]>,
<[email protected]>
Subject: [HCDX] OT: CBC TV-3 NB into CT
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="Windows-1252"
RIGHT NOW : June 26, 2009; Friday Evening; 8:00 PM EDT
Pass this on (and let me know who's list is effected): Analog TV-5 CBC New
Brunswick being received into Southern CT right now, in color and sound (after
a day of TV-5 Boston). (Konnie Rychalsky, SW CT)
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Message: 6
Date: Fri, 26 Jun 2009 20:45:04 -0400
From: Konnie Rychalsky <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>, <[email protected]>,
<[email protected]>
Subject: [HCDX] Correction: OT: CBC "TV-5" NB into CT
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="Windows-1252"
SUBJECT LINE CORRECTED:
RIGHT NOW : June 26, 2009; Friday Evening; 8:00 PM EDT
Pass this on (and let me know who's list is effected): Analog TV-5 CBC New
Brunswick being received into Southern CT right now, in color and sound (after
a day of TV-5 Boston). (Konnie Rychalsky, SW CT)
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Message: 7
Date: Fri, 26 Jun 2009 23:21:27 -0400
From: aurel chiochiu <[email protected]>
To: [email protected], [email protected], [email protected],
[email protected], [email protected]
Cc: Jorge Medina <[email protected]>, Juan Carlos Lemieux
<[email protected]>, [email protected],
[email protected],
[email protected], SOAD BENKIRANE <[email protected]>,
Girard
Westerberg <[email protected]>, moy thierry
<[email protected]>,
[email protected], Mike Brooker <[email protected]>,
[email protected], [email protected], "Tudor M. Vedeanu"
<[email protected]>, Sylvain Naud <[email protected]>,
"olivier.tequi" <[email protected]>, [email protected],
[email protected], [email protected], Jorge
Garc?ffffeda <[email protected]>,
[email protected],
[email protected], [email protected],
[email protected]
Subject: [HCDX] June 26 sporadic E logs on VHF2 FM
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Warm greetings to all of you !
Some of you may wonder how a DXer who is DXing the long, medium and to a lesser
extent the shortwave bands all year round could be so excited with FM DXing...
The answer is because it is rare and it's so unpredictable... If you get Es
from an area that is also getting Es from another one, then you're likely to
get double-hop Es and double-hop Es on FM *can* mean foreign DX which is a kind
of stuff I usually hunt on either longwave or mediumwave ! Even though Es was
heard from as far south as AL, nothing in Spanish from the Caribbean or Mexico
could be squeeze out of a rather choppy FM band ! Equipment used was the
Sangean ACS 818-CST with its own telescopic antenna which still works well on
FM even though on SW it's automatically disconnected and therefore rather deaf !
Right now at 2002 EDT (0002 UTC), the FM band seems to be open again with very
weak signals on 93.1 and stronger ones between 89.7 and 91.7 ! I just fired on
the Sangean rig as I wrote this and was surprised, too bad the Es opening is on
the verge of its end !
Into the logs now:
89.7 unID 6/26 2007 - someone playing R&B mixing with a very weak Christian
semi-local in Plattsburg, NY ! (BC-PQ)
90.7 unID around 1815 EDT 6/26 playing "In The Hands of God" lite rock gospel
track and useless network ID as "K-Love" which is the same network as the
Plattsburg, NY station on 89.7 ! Often excellent local-like signal ! (BC-PQ)
90.9 unID playing R&B gospel tracks... "Afternoon expressions on your smooth
jazz... From Alabama's university..." No idea who it might be, except that it
comes from Alabama just as 100,000 watter WMXS and it would be my third
Alabaman on FM if someone is willing to help me, as I googled it to no avail !
This would be AL#5, if someone helps me with an ID... (BC-PQ)
91.1 unID NPR broadcaster, better on 91.05 to avoid splatter from local CIRA
(Radio Ville Marie) on 91.3. (BC-PQ)
91.7 unID station with a beautiful sad-sounding chorale singing. (BC-PQ)
92.9 unID playing alternative rock music in a very difficult null of semi-local
WEZF in Burlington, VT around 1720 EDT shortly after getting the 101.1 unID.
(BC-PQ)
92.9 KGRC Hannibal, MO - innitially an unID 6/26 2020 EDT (2420 / 0020 UTC)
playing soothing, yet fairly rhythmic R&B and IDing as "Real 92.9"...
Definitively not previously logged WTUG... I found a spot in my bedroom where I
can point the telescopic antenna of my Sangean ACS 818-CST away from huge
semi-local pest WEZF in Burlington, VT ! Wikipedia points out to this station !
By the year 2000, the station had become "92.9 The River". KGRC currently plays
a Hot AC format, and is known as "Real 92.9". Since it plays a mix of hit music
such as a Hot Adult Contemporary, but adds hip-hop and Rhythmic Contemporary
product to its rotation at night like a Top 40 (CHR), thus it could be
considered an Adult Top 40. It also explains why I heard a nice smooth R&B
track released a few years ago ! (BC-PQ)
92.9 unID 6/26 2040 EDT in an almost perfect WEZF null heard one with classic
country and nonIDing as "Bass Country 92.9" with local ads. Good peaks, but
deep fadings and unstable, as if the E-skip opening is slowing down. (BC-PQ)
93.1 IDing as B93.1 with mention of Savannah and playing ONLY R&B... Maybe I
was misleading in the fairly few notes I took... I just wish I turned on my rig
earlier and find an agenda for taking notes instead of just taping randomly. At
1745 EDT (2145 UTC) heard here an ugly pop-punk song by Simpla Plan. Later,
slightly past 6PM EDT, heard a gospel music station here with a huge signal
strength and minor fadings though it eventually faded out as the opening ended
! (BC-PQ)
93.7 WFBC Greenville, SC 6/26 1704 - playing up-beat R&B and commercial
alt-punk music and IDing with the slogan "B93.7" with mentions of South
Carolina. Best on 93.75 MHz to reduce splatter from local CBC Radio Two on 93.5
MHz. "On The Air with Ryan Sicrest on B93.7" with a special tribute to MJ. Is
WFBC carrying Ryan Sicrest or have I mislogged this one ? I'm so excited, as I
never heard South Carolina before on ANY broadcast band, not even on mediumwave
! Sometimes excellent on 93.75 ! Probably the same station noted at 1807 EDT
playing "Pray" by MC Hammer, if WFBC ! (BC-PQ)
93.9 WSEK Burnside, KY 6/26 1740 EDT and beyond - unID country station heard
very strongly during this 6/26 E-skip opening. NonIDing as K93 country and
giving the website of www.k93country.com for voting for the Top 20 of the
station which points out to WSEK which is obviously a new one for me ! This is
KY#2 on FM for me and #3 including nighttime mediumwave pest WHAS-840 ! Fairly
short Es... Girard, have you received some Montreal area stations if I'm
receiving at least one station out of Kentucky ? CKMF 94.3 ?nergie
quatrevingt-quatorze trois should make to your area ! (BC-PQ)
93.9 around 6/26 1808 EDT with "Tennessee 93.9" slogan, not sure if WSEK
broadcasting country music to nearby Tennessee or something else, as in spite
of occasionally huge signal, it had lots of fades around this time. (BC-PQ)
94.1 someone playing Usher's Yeah smash Hip-hop crossover hit splattering into
93.9, but couldn't get a clear copy on it due to CKMF on 94.3 MHz. The best
copy was on 94.00 but still very mushy and distorted with splatter from
local-like country & western music station on 93.9. I wish I had fewer AM-FM
locals, believe me ! Dear Phil Laruse, you're not the only one complaining !
(BC-PQ)
95.5 WIXV Savannah, GA - around 1730 EDT with nonID as I95 and mentions of
Savannah after a great R&B number the jock introduced an awful Papa Roach track
! A Google research makes it the sixth station logged during this
multidirectionnal opening !(BC-PQ)
98.1 WHZT Seneca, SC - ID around 1740 as "THE NEW HOT 98-1"... Google research
points to WHZT in Seneca, SC not too far from WIXV Savannah, GA and around the
same time... SC#2 making it the 7th station logged during this opening...
(BC-PQ)
101.1 someone playing Pink Floyd's "Another Brick In The Wall" around 1745 EDT
on 6/24, of course, shortly after logging WHZT on 98.1. In fact, I logged WHZT
by carefully reviewing the tape ! (BC-PQ)
102.1 WDRM Huntsville, AL 6/26 around 1745 - mention of a movie and mention of
the www.wdrm.com website between one light country number and a rhythmic
country one ! Huge, excellent and local-like at times ! AL# 4 considering
WEUP-1700 (back in December, 2005), WTUG-92.9 (back in June 16, 2001) and, of
course, WMXZ TODAY June 26 ! (BC-PQ)
103.3 WMXS Montgomery, AL 6/26 1800 - IDing as "Mongtomery's Weekend Music
Station" and playing oldies. Excellent local-like signal wipping out weak
semi-local CHAA 103.3 in Longueuil, PQ. New, AL#2 on FM ! AL#3 ever considerign
WEUP-1700 and WTUG-92.9 (with semi-local WEZF nulled out, of course) ! This is
the highest frequency where I have been able to ID an FM broadcaster via
sporadic E layer skip ! (BC-PQ)
Additionnal comments
While I have been constantly active on LW, MW and SW, I was surprised to see
that Gerard Westerberg in KY had a strong signal on his A2 video camera and
since I have CBFT-TV on A2 here in Montreal, I decided to try to see if there
is some skip on FM from the same area ! I was not disappointed ! 93.9 WSEK
K93Country had such a blockbuster signal, it knocked off my socks ! Thogh at
times it was splattered by someone on 94.1 playing Usher with "Yeah" that was
even more badly splatter by local CKMF on 94.3, and on 94.00 when 94.1 faded
down and 93.9 faded up, well this Kentuckyan killed the 94.1 signal, so I had
to choose between CKMF-94.3 QRM and WSEK-93.9 QRM which was not easy, so I gave
up... Phil Laruse, you are not alone complaining about the crowded status of
the FM band... There are only a handful more or less free channels here... On
AM, rumors that one of the co-owned CKAC-730 and CINF-690 clear channels will
collapse allowing for some interesting Pan-American DX, who !
knows...
During most of the sporadic-E openings I experienced over the years, I ended up
logging an average of 4 stations per opening, so this 7 NEW STATIONS in a
single opening, although not much, is record-breaking for me... I must admit
that the fadey status of this otherwise huge opening has forced myself of going
constantly after new stations...
Its also the first opening where I IDed something above 100 MHz... Although
both 102.1 and 103.3 are from Alabama, this state is very difficult to hear on
mediumwave here, so FM DXing helps fullfilling the void of AM DXing...
I was surprised of not hearing anything from the Caribbean, maybe the Bahamas
if not Cuba... But I'm still very excited with the domestic FM DX nevertheless,
its better than the punk-rock French Canadian junk all over the Montreal area
FM band !
I have on tape a station in Columbus, OH but I don't recognize its frequency...
I hope to purchase soon a stereo cable... Most of the recordings are in stereo
! I can try using the mono cable, but it won't be as good...
Otherwise, I hope for a repeat as LW and MW DXing became rather dull with the
same stations appearing over and over such as Morocco-171 or Germany's French
language Europe Un on 183 kHz... I think Cuba would be difficult, though I
won't be too astonished though very excited if I could log Radio Ang?lo on 93.9
as this frequency is very clean here... Bahamas, Turks and Caicos, the Bermudes
and maybe Saint-Pierre-et-Miquelon would be my most likely sources of foreign
FM DX ! I heard nothing definitive out of Florida, though I have an Orlando
mention on tape but I don't know on which frequency I heard it, so it isn't
very helpful...
I think the reason for this opening might have been a huge amount of warm
weather being pushed out by severe T-storm, the first heatwave of the summer
which took end today as severe T-storm approached Vermont, midway between
Montreal and Columbus, OH which is the closest skip station I got...
Dear Phil Laruse, you may try and maybe you will be rewarded with some TA FM
skip. Northern Morocco, Spain, Portugal, western France, the UK and western
Norway are all within 2Es from your location... They use even frequencies as
well such as 92.4 or 92.6 which should be rewarding during prime conditions !
After all UK DXers are occasionally hearing something from accross the pond on
FM !
If anyone knows the identity of the AL station on 90.9, please let me know !
All this Es reminds me that back in the summer of 1988 a Swedish DXer caught
French Es on frequencies as high as 105.9 from Aventure FM in Paris... This
station was a kind of French BFPS, partly run by the French Army, partly by the
private organisation Bayard Presse... I had a tape with Aventure FM made in
Paris on October 6, 1988 but I deleted it after having got highly hyperactive
from the DPT and MMR shots back in late 1998 or early 1999 (I had the shots on
Tuesday, December 8, 1998 with the nurse called Lise Desjardins and deleted the
tape a few weeks later)... I'm looking for a full C60 unscoped aircheck of
Aventure FM... This is the ONLY thing that could surpass the excitment of any
sporadic-E opening; hearing the sound of Aventure FM once again ! Even a
double-hop FM opening toward Venezuela or Puerto Rico is nothing compared to an
Aventure FM aircheck... It is why I have an obsession with French radio and
know how the first private stations appeared in France... I t!
ry to DX to hear stations around the world that COULD be better than Aventure
FM, but it is impossible to get beyond Aventure FM in terms of quality !
Eventually, Aventure FM became MaXXimum and while MaXXimum is off the air
nowadays, it is well remembered and there are lots of airchecks from this
Techno-House station, the first station in Europe playing such music ! However,
before MaXXimum, Aventue FM was not only highly eclectic, throwing toward my
ears the best mix of zouk, ra?, kompas, French Variety, Californian pop-rock
like Hughes Louis And The News, 80s dance music like Mel & Kim or Rick Astley
or even Art of Noise, but they had psychopatic jocks that tried to change the
world very agressively and hyperactively and a jingle package of a complexity,
yet accessibility I never heard elsewhere... I posted messages on all the
French radio-related messageboards trying to locate airchecks of Aventure FM to
no avail... The only success I had was when a mysterious guy e-mai!
led http://www.schoop.fr two jingles, including one promo from a tape,
but I don't know this guy and can't locate him... If I have one radio-related
hobby that is beyond DXing is airchecks collectionning... Most of my best
airchecks are DX recordings, but I have some stuff from Montreal area and
Bucharest radio stations 11 years ago back in 1998, some of them doesn't exist
anymore... I'm looking for Montreal area airchecks except CKOI 96.9 which is
too commercial for me from the 70s or 80s, French radio from the mid-to-late
80s (from France) and maybe some Hot 97 NYC airchecks... The number one in my
airchecks quest is Aventure FM of course... It used to broadcast on 105.9 MHz
in Paris back in 1988, also from Lyon on 95.7 MHz, Grenobles on 105.8 MHz and
Chamb?ry on 105.9 MHz just as in Paris. In 1989, CLT-UFA which were the owners
of Radio Luxemburg 208 and of Atlantic 252 asked the French FCC (CSA) for new
frequncies for their new network and they received them before transforming
Aventure FM into MaXXimum. So during the final months of Avent!
ure FM, back in 1989, it started to operate from Bordeaux on 88.4 and Reims on
90.5 MHz.
Before I leave, I will inform you that I chatted with three Venezuelan DXers in
Spanish using SKYPE and they inform me that they have succeded getting good TEP
FM reception making me wanting to take the Sangean with me during the next
Latin American trip I may plan... I have a phobia with shots and there are no
mandatory vaccines for Venezuela, so I should shot VICTORY ! TEP is like
sporadic E except it happens during mid-evenings when it is compltetly dark
outside and it involves tropical stations from the other side of the equator on
VHF1, VHF2 and sometimes VHF3 as well...
Time to prepare for a good night of sleep with some casual LW-MW-SW DXing
before that...
This report is brought to you by Bogdan Alexandru Chiochiu, DXing from
Pierrefonds (Montreal's West Island), PQ
May the good DX be with you !
Bogdan Chiochiu
Btw. I: We will perphaps order a brand new PK LW loop and I will give the one
that doesn't tune between 153 and 162 kHz to some friends from Morocco I
have... They won't have trouble tuning in to Medi Un on 171 kHz, as the
modulation is better on LW than on their webstream !
Btw. II: I would like to thank Sylvain Naud for having me inform that CHLT-630
has leaved mediumwave... They were marginal during the daytime and a real pest
at night... Now the final step would be to see CFCO-630 moving to FM ! Does
anyone knows when CFCO will be moving to FM ? Therefore, on the E/W there won't
be any nuisance and in WPRO-630 I will log either TAs or WLAP in Lexington, KY
as WHAS-840 in Lousville, KY is right now the only reliable station from this
state, as a reponse to my excellent short-haul FM DX catche on 93.9 this
afternoon !
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Message: 8
Date: Sat, 27 Jun 2009 00:26:56 -0400
From: Konnie Rychalsky <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>, <[email protected]>,
<[email protected]>
Subject: [HCDX] Update: OT: CBC "TV-5" into CT
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TV 5 Analog has closed down.
After reviewing the tape, what was thought to have been "New Brunswick" ended
up being twice as far: "New Foundland!!!" Stories mentioned in
Promo/commercial for News agreed with web page items; re: June 26, 2009; Friday
Evening; 8:00 PM EDT; Analog TV-5 (Konnie Rychalsky, SW CT)
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Message: 9
Date: Sat, 27 Jun 2009 01:40:32 -0300
From: L?cio Ot?vio <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>, <[email protected]>,
<[email protected]>, <[email protected]>,
<[email protected]>, <[email protected]>,
<[email protected]>, "Anker Petersen" <[email protected]>,
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4857, Peru, R. La Hora, Cusco. June 26, 27 Spanish 2336-0007 two male talks in
a sports program "lo partido...", 2048 ads "computadoras...", 0006 female
talks, short music, 0008 audio silent, 0009 presumed carrier off. Capable to
copy few words, 23533 (lob-B).
73's
L?cio Ot?vio Bobrowiec
Embu SP Brasil - Sony ICF SW40 - dipole 18m, 32m.
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